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Colleen Lucero shares Hopi Harvey girl project. Oct 8, 2024. FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Hopivewat Learning Center director Colleen Lucero was surprised when she first heard her grandmother was a famed Harvey girl, she said at a talk she gave at the Museum of Northern Arizona Sept. 15 titled “Undercurrents: The Hopi Experience of Working for the ...
Around the Rez: Week of Oct. 16 | News | nhonews.com
1 day ago · Western Navajo Fair Oct. 17-20. The grand finale of the Navajo Nation fairs, located in Tuba City, Arizona. Oct. 18-19: Cultural Nights with Hopi Sinom Corn Dancers, Danza Azteca Mexica, Black Mountain Bird Singers & Dancers, Cecillion Traditional Zuni Dancers, and Joe Tohonnie Jr. and the White Mountain Apache Crown Dancers Oct. 19-20: Social song and dance.
Nygren calls for tribal vice president's resignation amid political ...
17 hours ago · Buu Nygren announces his win for the Navajo Nation president as he reads tabulated votes from chapter houses across the reservation at his campaign’s watch party at the Navajo Nation fairgrounds in Window Rock, Ariz., on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022 (Photo/William C. Weaver/Associated Press). Buu Nygren announces his win for the Navajo Nation president as he reads tabulated votes from chapter ...
Tackling the Navajo language barrier | News | nhonews.com
1 day ago · Featured. Tackling the Navajo language barrier. Officials from northern Arizona work on translating the November ballot into Navajo, a traditionally oral language. Voters will be able to hear this translation, instead of reading it. By Jen Fifield Votebeat. Oct 15, 2024. 15 mins ago.
Navajo Nation Attorney General continues investigation into …
1 day ago · WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch recently released a statement emphasizing the Nation's commitment to addressing allegations of sexual harassment with transparency and impartiality, following a report by …
EPA decides on cleanup plans for 7 abandoned uranium mines
1 day ago · The seven abandoned mine sites for which cleanup plans have been decided are Mariano Lake, Mac 1 & 2, Black Jack 1 & 2, and Ruby 1 & 3 mine sites. These cleanups will be conducted as removal actions under EPA’s Superfund authorities. From 1944 to 1986, nearly 30 million tons of uranium ore were extracted from Navajo lands under leases with ...
Hopi tribe receives 6M, Navajo receives 7M in last round of BIA …
Oct 1, 2024 · WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior announced a $71 million investment from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to electrify homes in 13 tribal communities across Indian Country Sept. 26, helping to close the Tribal access-to-electricity gap. The Hopi Utilities Corporation will ...
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Oct 1, 2024 · TUBA CITY, Ariz. — The grand marshals for the Western Navajo Fair, taking place Oct. 17-20 in Tuba City, have been announced.
Navajo Nation Council unanimously supports continued …
Sep 16, 2024 · WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation Council unanimously approved emergency Legislation No. 0206-24 Sept. 16, which if approved by Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, will secure a 6-month Continuing Resolution to avoid employee layoffs and continue critical government operations beyond the end of the current fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30.
Final COVID restrictions lifted on Navajo Nation
May 9, 2023 · On May 6, Nygren signed an order that lifted the last of the COVID-19 restrictions that mandated masks be worn in schools, healthcare facilities and assisted-living homes. (Photo/NNOP) WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Navajo Nation President Buu Van Nygren was not coy about his intention to lift the COVID-19 mask mandates on the Navajo Nation once elected.