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Navajo Council Summer Session begins 10 am, 7.20.20

Navajo Council Speaker Seth Damon issued the following memo to the Public: “This memorandum shall serve as official notification of the Spring Council Session scheduled for Monday, July 20, 2020 at 10:00 AM in Window Rock, AZ via Teleconference. In light of the national emergency regarding COVID-19, the Summer Council Session will be held via […]

Marathon Q&A with Navajo Prez & VP

Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye and Vice President Jonathan Nez gave the State of the Nation Address, which was fairly simple. COUNCIL DELEGATE SETH DAMON motion to accept State of Nation Address without a question and answer. Delegate Walter Phelps seconded Damon’s motion. COUNCIL DELEGATE LEONARD TSOSIE says there are 10 delegates that have questions […]

Shelly-Jim administration supports Navajo small businesses

HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL WINTER SESSION, ONE DAY. VICE PREZ JIM FINISHED STATE OF NATION ADDRESS AND COUNCIL STARTED ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT HIS REPORT. JIM ANSWERED SOME QUESTIONS BUT AFTER COUNCIL SAID HE WAS ANSWERING THEIR QUESIONS, JIM ASKED CHIEF OF STAFF MITCHELL AND DIVISION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR DAMON TO HELP HIM ANSWER QUESTIONS. […]

Private sector is key to jobs on Navajo Reservation

HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL WINTER SESSION, FIRST DAY. VICE PREZ JIM PRESENTED STATE OF NATION ADDRESS AND COUNCIL BEGAN ASKING QUESTIONS. VICE PREZ HAS BEEN ANSWERING BUT THEN HE ASKED CHIEF OF STAFF ARBIN MITCHELL AND DIVISION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR DAMON TO HELP HIM ANSWER QUESTIONS. DELEGATE BATES COUNCIL approved renovation of two buildings […]

President Obama’s Promise Zones

HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL’S WINTER SESSION DAY 1. VICE PREZ JIM FINISHED STATE OF NATION ADDRESS AND NOW DELEGATES ARE ASKING QUESTIONS. DELEGATE PHELPS Jan. 9 announcement that Choctaw Nation was among five tribes designated as Promise Zone. There are other finalists that cud have qualified, including Oglala and Fort Belnap. There is real activity […]

Headstart needs to be addressed by Prez Shelly and Vice Prez Jim

HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL WINTER SESSION, FIRST DAY. VICE PREZ JIM FINISHED STATE OF NATION ADDRESS, WHICH OPENS FOR QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL. DELEGATE EDMUND YAZZIE We need to make Local Governance Centers accountable. I have five chapters that are asking for Decentralization Project to be located in Dilkon which has Department of Transportation Office. But […]

Nothing is being done for former Bennett Freeze

HERE AT NAVAJO COUNCIL WINTER SESSION, FIRST DAY. VICE PRESIDENT REX LEE JIM PRESENTED STATE OF NATION ADDRESS AND IS NOW FINISHED. AND NOW COUNCIL BEGINS QUESTIONS. DELEGATE TSINIGINE The money that is the Reserves need to be used to construct five badly needed chapter houses. If new Navajo Nation Department of Health is created, […]

President Shelly and Vice President Jim State of Nation address

Navajo Council finished adopting Winter Session agenda and now the Council goes to reports. The first report is the State of Nation Address which President Shelly usually presents. But Vice President Rex Lee Jim is making report. CLICK ON State of Nation Address to read State of Nation Address. VICE PRESIDENT REX LEE JIM Navajo […]