Soloho "Wind Warrior" Salawa was born in Phoenix, Arizona and spent time both on and off Native land while young. He was fascinated with mechanized flight and scratched out a living doing air shows. While doing air shows he took the name Soloho, Hopi for "the sound made by a bird's wing during flight," or "whistling arrow" as Salawa explains it. When the Navajo Nation formed, Salawa moved there and traded his crop-duster-turned-stunt-plane for a beat-up Lightning. Salawa led the defense along the southwest bored against Mexican smugglers and pirate bands as the Navajo Nation attempted to seal its borders of efforts to "subjugate or destroy the People with its poisoning drink". Salawa took his responsibilities as a protector very seriously and was a deeply committed warrior. During combat h