HERE AT SHIPROCK CHAPTER… NAVAJO MEDICINE MAN HENRY BARBER (Shiprock Prez) Chili Yazzie, I look up to you as hero. (Navajo Council Delegate) Russell (Begaye), I look up to you as leader. First we are Navajo. OUr thots are Navajo…the speaking, the thinking. It starts with our prayers. It’s about life. That is what makes […]
HERE AT SHIPROCK CHAPTER SHIPROCK CHAPTER PREZ DUANE “CHILI” YAZZIE Agenda item 8-C: Request for Navajo Attorney General Harrison Tsosie for Opinion on Navajo Council Delegates charges with violations. Money is scary and overpowering. And when someone misuses funds, it’s going to be known and in the future you will be caught. I survived it […]
ANNOUNCEMENTS: ROSE FASTHORSE NOFCHISSEY Community educators have started a new community school that is founded on hands-on Navajo emersion teachings. This is Shiprock’s first Navajo emersion school and the first one on the New Mexico side of the Navajo Reservation. SHIPROCK CHAPTER VICE PRESIDENT TOMMIE YAZZIE The first order of business is a report from […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, I’m here at the Shiprock, N.M., Chapter and the meeting has been called to order. It is now 4:30 pm SHIPROCK COMMUNITY MEMBER FANNIE ETCITTY I want only local people to speak and vote, not just anybody. Respect us. We don’t word to get out that we allow non-chapter members to vote. The […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, I produced a YouTube video on Navajo Nation Shiprock, N.M., Chapter President Duane “Chili” Yazzie challenging Speaker Johnny Naize and the Navajo Council during their Naa’bik’iyati Committee at the Navajo Council chamber in Window Rock, Ariz., on Dec. 27, 2013. In response, Speaker Naize and the Council called on the tribal police to […]
BHP Billiton announced, “Navajo mine sale completed” Dec. 30, 2013, in a one-page press release that BHP emailed out late this afternoon. New Mexico BHP Coal President Pat Risner stated in his press release, “BHP Billiton is pleased that the Four Corners Power Plant owners, the Navajo Nation and NTEC have agreed to move forward […]
COUNCIL VOTE AT 4:04 PM IS 17 IN FAVOR, 5 OPPOSED
HERE AT NAVAJO CONCIL SPECIAL SESSION WHERE ONLY ITEM IS LEGISLATION 0367-13. DELEGATE LORENZO CURLEY This is also an amendment to an amendment which is against our rules. DELEGATE DAMON II I’m not politicking and I want that on record. DELEGATE MEL BEGAY I raised this question when amendment proposed by Delegate Begaye about why […]
HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL SPECIAL SESSION WHERE THERE IS A MANEUVER BY DELEGATE CHARLES DAMON II TO REMOVE AN AMENDMENT BY DELEGATE RUSSELL BEGAYE THAT WOULD HAVE THE COUNCIL FOLLOW NAVAJO LAW THAT MANDATES THE COUNCIL TO WAIVE TRIBAL SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY WITH A SUPER MAJORITY VOTE. DELEGATE BEGAYE MADE THE AMENDMENT ON DEC. 23, 2013, […]
Motion by Delegates Kenneth Maryboy and Joshua Butler for Council to accept its one-item agenda. VOTE IS 16 IN FAVOR, 4 OPPOSED Council voting to recall Legislation 0367-13 because the Council had tabled it on Dec. 23, 2013, for work session and then special Council session. VOTE AT 3:23 PM TO RECALL LEGISLATION 0367-13: 16 […]
