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Harassment investigation clears Navajo president and stokes new wave of political upheaval
1 week ago

Harassment investigation clears Navajo president and stokes new wave of political upheaval

Associated Press  

SANTA FE, N.M. — Political turmoil erupted within one of the largest Native American tribes in the U.S. as the attorney general for the Navajo Nation announced that an investigation had cleared the tribal president of sexual harassment allegations by the vice president. The tribe has been mired in political upheaval since April, when Navajo Vice President Richelle Montoya publicly …

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Navajo Nation Takes a Step Towards Electrification with Powerline Installation
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Navajo Nation Takes a Step Towards Electrification with Powerline Installation

Associated Press  

After a five-year wait, several Navajo families on the vast reservation will soon have access to electricity thanks to a push from the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority. The project, called Light Up Navajo, has successfully connected 170 homes to the grid, with the remaining 10,400 homes expected to be connected within 26 years with federal funding. The project highlights the …

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How does abortion translate? Ballot measures are a challenge for interpreters
2 months ago

How does abortion translate? Ballot measures are a challenge for interpreters

The Independent  

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Navajo Nation imposes stricter tribal law on transporting uranium across its land
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Navajo Nation imposes stricter tribal law on transporting uranium across its land

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Navajo Nation has approved …

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Navajo Nation adopts changes to tribal law regulating the transportation of uranium across its land
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Navajo Nation adopts changes to tribal law regulating the transportation of uranium across its land

Associated Press  

The Navajo Nation has approved emergency legislation meant to strengthen a tribal law that regulates the transportation of radioactive material across the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. Instead, they declared the tribe’s general opposition to moving ore across tribal lands and adopted regulations to protect human health and the environment by requiring notification and financial assurance, among other …

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Long after tragic mysteries are solved, families of Native American victims are kept in the dark
10 months ago

Long after tragic mysteries are solved, families of Native American victims are kept in the dark

The Independent  

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Navajo Nation charges 2 tribal members with illegally growing marijuana as part of complex case
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Navajo Nation charges 2 tribal members with illegally growing marijuana as part of complex case

Associated Press  

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Authorities on the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. have charged two tribal members with illegally growing marijuana on the Navajo Nation, marking just the latest development in a years-long case that also has involved allegations of forced labor. Tribal prosecutors announced the charges Thursday, claiming that Navajo businessman Dineh Benally and farmer Farley BlueEyes …

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New Mexico regulators revoke the licenses of 2 marijuana grow operations and levies $2M in fines
11 months, 3 weeks ago

New Mexico regulators revoke the licenses of 2 marijuana grow operations and levies $2M in fines

Associated Press  

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico marijuana regulators on Tuesday revoked the licenses of two growing operations in a rural county for numerous violations and have levied a $1 million fine against each business. One of the businesses — Native American Agricultural Development Co. — is connected to a Navajo businessman whose cannabis farming operations in northwestern New Mexico were raided …

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Inside the god-fearing and conspiratorial worldviews of Donald Day Jr
1 year ago

Inside the god-fearing and conspiratorial worldviews of Donald Day Jr

ABC  

To many of his neighbours in Heber-Overgaard, a rural community of around 3,000 people in Arizona's Navajo County, Donald Day Jr was a peculiar recluse who advertised rotary phones and used goods on Facebook Marketplace. "He was quite far-right … he wasn't anybody I wanted to meet," Heber-Overgaard resident Phillip Williams told ABC Investigations after Mr Day was arrested last …

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US commits more lawyers to address Native American disappearances and killings
1 year, 5 months ago

US commits more lawyers to address Native American disappearances and killings

Associated Press  

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday announced it will be funneling more resources toward addressing the alarming rate of disappearances and killings among Native Americans. “The Justice Department will continue to accelerate our efforts, in partnership with tribes, to keep their communities safe and pursue justice for American Indian and Alaska Native families,” Garland said in …

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Opinion: Trump faces a powerful precedent in the Jan. 6 investigation — a Navajo leader’s conviction for conspiracy
1 year, 6 months ago

Opinion: Trump faces a powerful precedent in the Jan. 6 investigation — a Navajo leader’s conviction for conspiracy

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Ken Ballen has spent more than three decades as a federal prosecutor, counsel to three congressional investigations and president of a nonprofit organization countering extremism. MacDonald, the head of the Navajo Nation, incited a riot to overthrow his democratically elected tribal government in July 1989 and was convicted and sentenced to more than 14 years in federal prison. …

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Supreme Court ruling complicates Navajo Nation’s fight for more water
1 year, 6 months ago

Supreme Court ruling complicates Navajo Nation’s fight for more water

Associated Press  

SALT LAKE CITY — On some parts of the Navajo Nation, where roughly a third of the people lack reliable access to clean water, people have to drive for miles on red dirt roads to lug water home. Two decades after the Navajo Nation sued the federal government to force them to act, their frustrating, meandering journey through the federal …

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Native American tribes say Supreme Court challenge was never just about foster kids
1 year, 6 months ago

Native American tribes say Supreme Court challenge was never just about foster kids

Associated Press  

Native American nations say the Supreme Court’s rejection of a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act has reaffirmed their power to withstand threats from state governments. The conservative Goldwater Institute had invoked “the Constitution’s nearly absolute prohibition on race-based differential treatment” in its brief, saying that the act “imposes a racial category, not a political classification” on adoptees, unconstitutionally …

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Hundreds of tribal members, mostly Navajo, living on Phoenix streets amid fake sober home crackdown
1 year, 6 months ago

Hundreds of tribal members, mostly Navajo, living on Phoenix streets amid fake sober home crackdown

The Independent  

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Supreme Court divided on adoption law that keeps Native American kids in tribal homes
2 years, 1 month ago

Supreme Court divided on adoption law that keeps Native American kids in tribal homes

LA Times  

Four of the Supreme Court’s conservatives were skeptical of the race-based preferences in the Indian Child Welfare Act, saying they sometimes prevent adoptions that might be in the best interest of the child. Supreme Court justices sounded sharply split Wednesday on whether to strike down a federal child custody law that seeks to keep Native American children with tribal families. …

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Navajo sign water rights settlement with Utah and feds
2 years, 6 months ago

Navajo sign water rights settlement with Utah and feds

Associated Press  

MONUMENT VALLEY, Utah — Federal officials signed an agreement with leaders of the Navajo Nation on Friday that provides funding for clean drinking water infrastructure for reservation residents and resolves questions about longstanding Navajo claims to water rights in the drought-stricken U.S. West. The signing formalizes the Utah Navajo Water Rights Settlement, which became law in 2020 as part of …

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The ancient symbol that was hijacked by evil
3 years, 4 months ago

The ancient symbol that was hijacked by evil

BBC  

The ancient symbol that was hijacked by evil Alamy The KiMo Theatre in New Mexico, USA, is adorned with traditional Navajo emblems How an auspicious sacred sign was twisted to become the graphic embodiment of hate and intolerance. There are few more potent symbols with alternative meanings than the swastika in its many iterations – Steven Heller US art director …

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