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FLOTUS to highlight Biden-Harris administration’s Commitment to Indian Country, 4.22.21

PRESS RELEASE – Today, Thursday, April 22, the First Lady will begin her two-day visit to the Navajo Nation. She will highlight the Administration’s commitment to standing with the Navajo Nation and all of Indian Country.  Upon arrival to the Navajo Nation’s capital city, she will greet with Navajo Nation government leaders. Dr. Biden and […]

Schedule of First Lady Jill Biden’s Visit to Dine’tah, 4.22.21

PRESS RELEASE – Navajo Nation to welcome First Lady Jill Biden WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer, along with members of the 24th Navajo Nation Council and Navajo Nation Chief Justice JoAnn B. Jayne, will welcome the First Lady of the United States, Dr. Jill Biden, to […]

Navajo Council 5-Day Spring Session Convenes 10 am (MST) 4.19.21

Greetings Relatives/Humans/Frens, It’s now 2 p.m., April 19, and the Navajo Council continues its Question & Answer of the State of the Navajo Nation Address by President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer. The following Attachment is the Navajo Council approved Five-Day Spring Session: APPROVED AGENDA OF THE 24th NAVAJO NATION COUNCIL SPRING SESSION […]

Navajo Council calls Day-Long Work Session on Spending American Rescue Plan funds, 10 am, 3.29.21

Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans,Once again Prez Nez & VP Lizer think they have the Best Plan to spend the Navajo Nation’s allocation of the 2021 American Rescue Plan, which is the second federal COVID-19 relief aid dollars. And so Nez-Lizer informed the Navajo Council in a March 25 letter to work with their Chief of Staff Paulsen […]

List of $24M worth of Heavy Equipment that is Headed to 110 chapters, 3.23.21

The Navajo Nation Council approved a $24 million appropriation from the Navajo Nation Shihasin Fund on Jan. 20, 2021, for heavy equipment. President Nez signed off on the $25 million appropriation Jan. 30, 2021. The list of heavy equipment requested by and purchased for the 110 chapters is in Navajo Council resolution CJA-01-21, which I […]

Health, Ed & Human Services 9 AM, 2.17.21 mtg still on hold.

Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, Hope you are all Safe & Healthy and Continue to be Safe & Healthy. The Navajo Nation Council’s Health, Education & Human Services Committee was scheduled to hold a 9 am Work Session today, 2.17.21, on several issues involving the Indian Health Service “water mission”; a meeting between Dept of Dine’ Education and […]

Navajo Council seeks Prez Nez & NM Governor support for Indian Managed Care Entity, 1.11.21

January 11, 2021PRESS RELEASE – Navajo Nation Indian Managed Care Entity discussions await OPVP and NM Governor involvementWINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Thursday morning, members of the 24th Navajo Nation Council met telephonically with New Mexico state officials to discuss the Navajo Nation’s efforts to establish an Indian Managed Care Entity (IMCE). The effort is a […]

Prez Nez line-item vetoes $175.3M in CARES money for housing, wifi, solar power, trash services, payroll, housing, financial staff support, 8.16.20

The budget line-item vetoes of $175.3 million in desperately needed and overdue COVID-19 financial help from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act by Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer shows they have EGOS bigger then their Hearts and Common sense. According to the U.S. Treasury website, the “CARES […]

Dineh Chamber of Commerce disappointed with President Nez, 6.4.20

DINEH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE URGES NAVAJO LEADERSHIP TO ENFORCE NAVAJO PREFERENCE LAWS AND BUY-NAVAJO POLICIES IN THE EXPEDITURE OF $600MM DESPITE STATEMENTS THAT NAVAJO CARES ACT PROJECTS ARE TOO BIG FOR NAVAJO BUSINESSES NAVAJO MOUNTAIN, Utah – Officers of the Dineh Chamber of Commerce urge Navajo Nation Leadership to legislate policy that mandates use of […]

Navajo Council Naabik’iyati meeting with Prez Nez & NTEC, 6.15.20

Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, If everything goes as scheduled according to the Naabik’iyati proposed agenda, the two meetings today should be very revealing. The first meeting is with the Navajo Nation’s three branch chiefs: President Jonathan Nez, Speaker Seth Damon and Chief Justice JoAnn Jayne. The meeting is focused on proposed Navajo Council legislation 0116-20, which Council […]