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Soft medium, hard truths - National Endowment for the Arts recognizes a Navajo quilter
1 week, 2 days ago

Soft medium, hard truths - National Endowment for the Arts recognizes a Navajo quilter

NPR  

Soft medium, hard truths - National Endowment for the Arts recognizes a Navajo quilter A Navajo woman who has spent 50 years sewing has now been honored with an NEA award for her unique quilts. ADAM BURKE, BYLINE: Before they became tools of artistic liberation, needle and thread were sources of pain and suffering for Susan Hudson and her family, …

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AP PHOTOS: Emptiness sculpts everything from daily life to politics on Arizona's Navajo Nation
1 month, 3 weeks ago

AP PHOTOS: Emptiness sculpts everything from daily life to politics on Arizona's Navajo Nation

The Independent  

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Navajo Nation: As it gets hotter, 13,000 families in this pocket of America live without electricity
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Navajo Nation: As it gets hotter, 13,000 families in this pocket of America live without electricity

CNN  

Tohatchi, New Mexico CNN — Katherine Benally sat between two open windows in her small home and looked out over a sun-baked field in the Chuska Mountain foothills of the vast Navajo Nation. “The weather,” she said, “it wasn’t that hot.” But that’s all changed: The Navajo Nation last year declared an extreme heat emergency as temperatures hit well above …

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For Indigenous people, solar eclipse often about reverence and tradition, not revelry
1 year, 2 months ago

For Indigenous people, solar eclipse often about reverence and tradition, not revelry

The Independent  

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Mary Colter: The forgotten architect of the US Southwest
1 year, 9 months ago

Mary Colter: The forgotten architect of the US Southwest

BBC  

Mary Colter: The forgotten architect of the US Southwest Santi Rodriguez/Alamy Mary Colter: The woman who shaped the US Southwest The pioneering architect celebrated Indigenous design and culture at a time when most Americans had little or no concept of how Native Americans lived. Though white, Colter was a lifelong student of Native American art and architecture, and her "vision" …

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Buu Nygren sworn in as next Navajo Nation president
1 year, 11 months ago

Buu Nygren sworn in as next Navajo Nation president

Associated Press  

FORT DEFIANCE, Ariz. — Buu Nygren was sworn in Tuesday as the next president of the vast Navajo Nation, a job that will test his ability to make good on promises to deliver water, electricity and broadband to tens of thousands of residents who don’t have it. Julian Begay, a 36-year-old school board member and farm board president in Many …

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Buu Nygren uses familiar platform to win Navajo presidency
2 years, 1 month ago

Buu Nygren uses familiar platform to win Navajo presidency

Associated Press  

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Buu Nygren entered the Navajo presidential race with a platform echoed by generations of candidates: deliver basic needs on the vast reservation where most roads are unpaved and thousands of families don’t have running water or electricity. Nygren ousted incumbent President Jonathan Nez, who guided the tribe during a pandemic and signed off on a plan for …

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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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US: Oil, gas leases on hold around New Mexico’s Chaco park
3 years, 1 month ago

US: Oil, gas leases on hold around New Mexico’s Chaco park

Associated Press  

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New oil and gas leasing within 10 miles of Chaco Culture National Historical Park will be prohibited for the next two years as officials consider a proposal to withdraw federal land in the area from development for a 20-year period, the U.S. Department of Interior said Monday. The announcement came as environmentalists, some Native American tribes and …

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The Times podcast: How Native Americans became a vaccine success story
3 years, 3 months ago

The Times podcast: How Native Americans became a vaccine success story

LA Times  

Kathleen Adams, head public-health nurse at the Fort Belknap reservation in Montana, carries coolers to her car on her way to vaccinate a community member. The pandemic has exacerbated longstanding health inequities, and a deep-rooted distrust in the federal government made tribal leaders fearful that members would reject the government-endorsed vaccines. Native Americans now have the highest vaccination rates of …

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Navajo Nation forecasts ‘community immunity’: 120,000 jabs given
3 years, 9 months ago

Navajo Nation forecasts ‘community immunity’: 120,000 jabs given

Al Jazeera  

The Navajo Nation continues its vaccine drive with over 120,000 doses administered on Friday, moving closer to becoming the first area in the United States to give the first jab to its entire population. Dr Loretta Christensen, chief medical officer of the Navajo Area Indian Health Services, told Al Jazeera during a Thursday press conference that NAIHS held a meeting …

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Power plant stacks that loomed over Arizona come down
4 years ago

Power plant stacks that loomed over Arizona come down

Associated Press  

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Three towering concrete stacks that were the most visual reminders of a coal-fired power plant that operated for decades along the Arizona-Utah state line came down Friday. “I have mixed emotions because I’ve spent most of my life as a constructor, and now I’m wearing a different hat in the demolition mode,” said Gary Barras, a project …

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They know the sick. On Navajo Nation, contact tracers work to control coronavirus on vast lands
4 years ago

They know the sick. On Navajo Nation, contact tracers work to control coronavirus on vast lands

LA Times  

The man on the other end of the speakerphone gasped and let out a thick, phlegm-clogged cough before responding to Marlene Montoya’s question. “Me and my oldest boy are in bad shape.” Montoya, a COVID-19 contact tracer here on the Navajo Nation in northwestern New Mexico, leaned close to the phone and spoke in a low, soothing tone to the …

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