Archives
Junk Food Tax returns!
Greetings Relatives/Frens, I’m here at the Navajo Council Health, Education & Human Service Committee, where the committe is about to debate Legislation 03200-13 Amending Ttle 24 of the Navajo Nation Code by enactying the Health Dine’ Nation Acty of 2013. DEBBIE CAYENDITO how this legislaitn started, group of us, grassroots, got together to move things […]
Fixing the Navajo Council & its committees’ quorum problems?
Greetings Relatives/Frens, The Navajo Nation Council’s Resources & Development Committee is meeting tomorrow and on their agenda is legislation 0294-13, which amends a section of Title 2 of the Navajo Nation Code that regulates the Council and its standing committees. The Council has final authority over legislation 0294-13 and since 0294 impacts all the committee, […]
Naabi loses quorum
At 5:55 pm, Speaker Naize announces that “we” got 13 signatures for a Special Council Session on Oct. 16 and so the Council will be meeting. Speaker makes his announcement after one of the delegates comments that Naabi has lost a quorum of 13 members. Staff check conferences rooms and when no more delegates are […]
Naabi Committee adds $4.1 m for NTEC & Energy Policy
Navajo Council Naa’biki’yati Committee convened at 11:30 am. Navajo prayer by Delegate Jonathan Hale. SPEAKER JOHNNY NAIZE announces that memo went out for everyone to wear pink in support of Breast Cancer Awareness. He jokingly tells Delegates and staff that are not wearing pink to leave. DELEGATE LORENZO CURLEY Navajo Hopi Land Commission actually got […]
Federal shut-down shuts-down Navajo Transit System
GREETINGS RELATIVES/FRENS, I’ve been busy gathering as much information as possible on the direct impact of the government shut-down on the Navajo Nation and posting it. The most recent direct impact is from the Navajo Nation Transition System, which is the ONLY public transportation on the vast and very rural Navajo Reservation. I received it […]
Federal government shut-down: No impact on Navajo Parks
Greeting Relatives/Frens, The federal government shut-down is not impacting Navajo Nation Parks, unlike National Parks which are closed – except to corporate oil & gas drilling. Anyway, here is press release from Navajo Parks & Recreation: Navajo Nation Tribal Parks Not Affected by Federal Government Shut Down WINDOW ROCK, AZ. – Navajo Nation parks are […]
Government Shut-Down & Navajo Nation Health
Greetings Frens/Relatives, The following is an Oct. 1, 2013, press release from Navajo Area Indian Health Office in St. Michaels, Ariz. I also posted a link to a Native News Network news stories on a press release from the Indian Health Service in Washington, D.C. And I also posted a Oct. 1, 2013, statement from […]
Escalade, $220 m. Bond, Permanent Trust Fund
Greeting Relatives/Frens, It appears that the Navajo Nation Council are on a fast track to get to about $32 million out of the Permanent Trust Fund. The $32 m. is the interest earned from the PTF principal, which stands at about $1.4 billion. But under Navajo law, the PTF principal can only be touched through […]
