WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) – Russell Begaye was sworn in Tuesday as president of the Navajo Nation.

Begaye easily beat former two-term President Joe Shirley Jr. in a special election last month to win the post on the country’s largest American Indian reservation.

Begaye and Jonathan Nez, the vice president-elect, will serve a shorter term than usual. That’s because the presidential contest was postponed by more than five months as legal challenges played out in court.

Begaye has said economic development will be one of his top priorities in office.