Here at Navajo Nation Energy Summit at Twin Arrows Casino. Navajo Division of Natural Resources Division Director Fred White gave welcome address. Navajo Nation Attorney General Harrison Tsosie is now speaking. He opened his remarks with Navajo history. “Therefore we are called the Holy Surface People,” he says. “Fundamental law remains unchanged.” I talked about […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, I finally had a chance to look over this week’s SCHEDULED MEETINGS for the Navajo Council’s standing committee and Speaker Johnny Naize approved tWO special meetings for the Resources & Development Commmitee, which has Delegate Katherine Benally as its chairperson, Delegate Roscoe Smith as its vice chairperson and Delegates George Apachito, Leonard Tsosie, […]
HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL WHERE I’M HEARING MORE AND MORE ANXIETY FROM COUNCIL DELEGATES WHO ARE FINDING IT HARD TO EMPOWER THE NAVAJO PEOPLE. DELEGATE LORENZO CURLEY are we putting policy to people? or are we allowing people to create a right? The right for People to govern is already recognized in other parts of […]
HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL WHERE COUNCIL DEBATING LEGISLATION 0369-12 WHICH IS FOR COUNCIL TO AUTHORIZE REFERENDUM FOR NAVAJO PEOPLE TO ONCE AGAIN BE GOVERNING BODY OF NAVAJO NATION INSTEAD OF COUNCIL. NDOJ DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL BOBROFF The language addresses a long time struggle for the Navajo people to have their inherent right over their lands […]
HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL WHERE COUNCIL IN DEBATE OVER LEGISLATION THAT ASKS COUNCIL TO AUTHORIZE REFERENDUM FOR PEOPLE TO VOTE ON AMENDING TITLE 2 BY REMOVING COUNCIL AS GOVERNING BODY AND RETURN THAT POWER TO THE NAVAJO PEOPLE. THERE ALSO ARE FINDINGS IN THE LEGISLATION FROM NAVAJO NATION HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION THAT RECOGNIZES THAT THE […]
HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL WINTER SESSION DAY 3. DELEGATE EDMUND YAZZIE IS STILL SPEAKER PRO TEMP. DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE Need correction from Office of the Speaker’s Public Information Office. The Council did not vote down the legislation for the Council to remove Delegate Johnny Naize as speaker. The legislation received insufficient votes. And a majority […]
HERE AT ILLEGAL “INFORMATION MEETING” OF NAVAJO NATION COUNCIL THAT SPEAKER JOHNNY NAIZE CALLED YESTERDAY, JAN. 28, 2014, FOR TODAY, JAN. 29., 2014, AT 8 A.M. AT THE QUALITY INN IN WINDOW ROCK, ARIZ. THE DELEGATES THAT WERE HERE WHEN I ARRIVED WERE DWIGHT WITHERSPOON, KATHERINE BENALLY, DAVID TOM, GEORGE APACHITO, LEONARD PETE AND RUSSELL […]
Relatives/Frens/Humans, I just received word from a very very reliable source that Speaker Johnny Naize, via his chief of staff Jarvis Williams, has called Navajo Council delegates to an “informal meeting” to discuss upcoming Council winter session legislation at the Quality Inn in Window Rock, Ariz., at 8 a.m. tomorrow, Jan. 29, 2014. The last […]
The 12 Delegates that voted to Remove Speaker Naize were: LoRenzo Bates Nelson BeGaye Russell Begaye Joshua Butler Lorenzo Curley Jonathan Nez Leonard Pete Walter Phelps Alton Shepherd Duane Tsinigine Leonard Tsosie Dwight Witherspoon The 11 Delegates voting against Removal of Speaker Naize were: George Apachito Elmer Begay Mel Begay Katherine Benally Charles Damon II […]
The Council starts voting before the IT person can prepare Delayed Vote and so the Council votes. VOTE AT 12:57 12 IN FAVOR, 11 OPPOSED Council needed 2/3 votes or 16 YES votes to remove Speaker Naize
