Update on Impoundments & Potential Evictions: Calls for Support.Community members are organizing for unity, justice, and protection of traditional lifeways, livestock, and continued existence on their ancestral homelands. Community member, Gerald Blackrock, wants to ensure the solidarity networks and outside world understand, “This is not about a conflict between Dineh and Hopi people. This is […]
PRESS RELEASE – Navajo Nation enforces the Vocational Rehabilitation and Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities Act WINDOW ROCK (11-18-2014) – Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly signed an executive order on Monday that immediately ensures access to all community services across the Navajo Reservation for people with disabilities. Navajo Council Delegate Danny Simpson, who represents the […]
The Navajo Nation Council is having a special session on Nov. 26, 2014, to finish up legislation from their Fall session, which was Oct. 20 to 24, 2014, and from their two-day special session on Nov. 16 and 17, 2014, which was called to finish up 19 items from their five-day Fall session. Council Speaker […]
PRESS RELEASE – Navajo Nation Council donating turkeys to Navajo Nation senior centers WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (11-18-2014) – The Navajo Nation Council is donating Thanksgiving holiday turkeys to 82 senior centers across the Navajo Nation to support elderly programs that work and care for Diné senior citizens. The Navajo Nation Office of the Speaker is […]
The Navajo Council’s Law & Order Committee is now on Legislation 0289-14, an Act relating to Law & Order, Naabik’iyati, and the Navajo Nation Council; amending Language fluency requirements of the election code at Title 11, section 8(A)(4) (Office of the President/Vice President), section 8(B)(8) (Office of Council Delegate), 8(D)(1)(f), section 8(D0(2)(c) (Land Board), and […]
Former Navajo Election Board of Supervisors Vice Chairperson Tom M. White Jr. said today, Nov. 12, that the former Election Board will be meeting tomorrow, Nov. 13, at 9 a.m. at the Quality Inn & Restaurant Business Complex conference room in Window Rock, Ariz. Tom informed me about the former Election Board’s meeting after the […]
The Naabik’iyati committee is now on Navajo Council Delegate Leonard Tsosie’s legislation to over-ride President Shelly’s veto of CO-47-14CO-47-14, NAABIK’IYATI COMMITTEE MEMBER/COUNCIL DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE this was long discussion, past midnight. vote occured and it was passed and became CO-47-14 and submitted to President Shelly, who vetoed it. as you all recall, CO-47-14, was to […]
The Navajo Council’s Naabik’iyati Committee has reconvened at 12:01 p.m. The Naabik’iyati Committee is the Council’s top committee and consists of the members of the Council’s other four committees. Fannie Silversmith, 81, of Lupton, Ariz., was the elder that fell from the top step of the Navajo Council gallery to the entrance floor of the […]
Navajo Council Naabik’iyati Committee Chairperson LoRenzo Bates announced at 11:15 a.m. that the committee had a quorum but he has not officially called the meeting to order. It is now 11:19 a.m. There are still a few seats in the Council chamber gallery, which is filled with Navajo citizens. I’m assuming that most of them, […]
Proposed Navajo Nation Council legislation to over-ride Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly’s veto of the Council’s amendments to the tribal election law regarding the Navajo language fluency qualification to be a presidential candidate goes before the Council’s top committee today, Nov. 12. The proposed over-ride legislation is 0309-14, which is titled “An Action Relating To […]
