Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, The following information and photos were emailed to me by a concerned citizen of the Navajo Nation. Lukachukai is a small remote community on the Navajo Nation. Buffalo Pass goes through the Chuska Mountains, which has breath-taking beauty. Many families use the mountains near Lukachukai as summer camps to take care of their […]
(5) Farmington Public Meeting – Tell U.S. Bureau of Land Management to STOP illegal fracking. FRACK FREE NEW MEXICO – Friends — we’re about to get fracked to hell without your help. Already New Mexico has made national headlines for the nation’s biggest methane plume. Meanwhile, more than 100 “exploratory” wells in the Mancos Shale […]
Young Navajos Stage 200-Mile ‘Journey for Existence’ – ICTMN.com. INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY – Organizers are calling out for community support in the form of walking, hosting or helping to garner basic materials. This first journey will end at Tsoodził (Mount Taylor), their southern sacred mountain. Three more walks are scheduled for spring, summer and fall […]
HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL NAABIK’IYATI COMMITTEE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER IN WINDOW ROCK WHERE NAABI IS IN A HEATED DEBATE ABOUT REMOVING FROM ITS AGENDA LEGISLATION 0220-14, RATIFICATION OF THE NAVAJO OIL & GAS COMPANY CHARTER. NAABI COMMITTEE MEMBER DELEGATE ALTON SHEPHERD I would ask Delegate Edmund Yazzie to amend his amendment for removal of […]
RDC now on LEGISLATION 0165-14: An Action Relating to Resouces and Development Committee and Budget and Finance Committee; Recommending and Approving Amendments to Resolution BFJY-73-01, The Groundwater Pollution Control Program Special Revenue Account Fund Management Plan to Reflect the Increase in the Class II Injection Permit Fee RDC CHAIRPERSON KATHERINE BENALLY This is about a […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL ON LEGISLATION 0352-130352-13, which is the approval of amendments to the Navajo Oil and Gas Company’s federal charter of incorporation and directing the Navajo Washington DC office to petition the Interior Secretary to issue “instated” federal charter of incorporation for Navajo Oil and Gas Company. DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE Not recall because this before […]
HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL SPRING SESSION DAY 1. BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS MADE THEIR REPORT AND NOW COUNCIL DELEGATES COMMENTING ON AND ASKING QUESTIONS ON BIA REPORT. DELEGATE KATHERINE BENALLY resources and development committee is concerned about BIA approving fiber optic right-of-way going through Navajo land. That BIA action is illegal. And any leasing needs […]
A fellow journalist, Kathy Helms wrote the following news article, which deserves the public’s attention regarding the destructive practice of fracking. According to Navajo Nation Council Delegate Leonard Tsosie, who represents the eastern portion of the Navajo Nation, which is in New Mexico, fracking is already occuring near Navajo Reservation lands that are next to […]
NAVAJO COUNCIL STILL DEBATING WHAT AGENDA ITEM TO ADDRESS FIRST. DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE Our rules calls for Council to take up legislation that requires 2/3 vote. SPEAKER NAIZE Second to Delegate Witherspoon amendment. DELEGATE LORENZO BATES if such an amendment was to be made it should have been done when Council agenda being adopted and […]
Naabi continues debating proposed Energy Policy after tabling motion fails because Speaker Pro Temp Mel Begay ruled that Energy Policy would continue to Council even if Naabi tabled. DELEGATE LORENZO BATES only way, tribe can tell federal government to go away is to own project 100 percent. DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE how do change in law […]
