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Posted May 16, 2022, 11:51 am
Shondiin Silversmith
/Arizona Mirror
Light Up Navajo III, a mutual aid project that extends service to Navajo homes without electricity - and where local Navajo utility crews work alongside other utility companies - is working to provide utilities a lot of people take for granted.... Read more»
Posted Apr 12, 2022, 7:36 am
Shondiin Silversmith
/Arizona Mirror
The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority is working with utility crews from across the U.S. to extend power lines and bring electricity to the approximately 15,000 families on the Navajo Nation who live without as part of the Light Up Navajo III initiative. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 12, 2022, 6:54 am
Fiona L.Q. Flaherty
/Cronkite News
The Navajo Nation is trying to restore the land using Indigenous knowledge and long-held traditions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address a climate that’s relentlessly heating up and drying out the planet.... Read more»
Posted Apr 11, 2022, 9:14 am
Patrick Lohmann
/SourceNM
A Navajo Nation lawmaker recently introduced legislation to recognize gay and lesbian marriages on the Navajo Nation, potentially legalizing same-sex marriage in one of the nation’s last, biggest holdouts.... Read more»
Posted Apr 8, 2022, 9:55 am
Shondiin Silversmith
/Arizona Mirror
Indigenous people living on tribal land were the group most likely to be undercounted in the 2020 Census, a significant impact because the data is used in determining federal, state, and local resource allocation, funding distributions, and policy decisions.... Read more»
Posted Mar 14, 2022, 7:51 am
Nancy Marie Spears
/Gaylord News
Oklahoma is in a power struggle with its 39 tribes over criminal jurisdiction and whether Native American reservations in the state still exist, but legal experts say Arizona and other Western states settled most of those issues years ago.... Read more»
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Posted Mar 11, 2022, 10:32 am
Jacob Fischler
/Arizona Mirror
President Joe Biden intends to nominate Roselyn Tso - a member of the Navajo Nation - to lead the Indian Health Service, responsible for overseeing federal health care for nearly 250,000 Native American people in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.... Read more»
Posted Mar 1, 2022, 7:35 am
Reagan Priest
/Cronkite News
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act filed by a white Texas couple that was almost denied the chance to adopt a Native American boy who was set to be placed with a Navajo family. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 11, 2022, 8:48 am
Shondiin Silversmith
/Arizona Mirror
The Direct Relief Program - operated by the Navajo & Hopi COVID-19 Relief Fund - is available to those living on the Navajo and Hopi Nations who are currently sick with COVID-19 and are isolated or have been exposed to a confirmed case of COVID and are currently quarantining.... Read more»
Posted Feb 7, 2022, 7:32 am
Emily Sacia
/Cronkite News
A federal appeals court ruled that a Navajo man who held his girlfriend while he assaulted her cannot also be convicted of kidnapping, saying such an expansion of kidnapping would lead to a “steroidal version” of assault laws. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 27, 2022, 5:08 am
Emma VandenEinde
/Cronkite News
The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project, which is more than a decade old but isn’t expected to be finished until 2029, plans to divert more than 37,000 acre feet of water from the San Juan Basin to help provide clean water to 250,000 Native Americans.... Read more»
Posted Jan 26, 2022, 4:56 pm
Arlyssa Becenti
/Arizona Mirror
Sen. Sinema's recent vote to maintain the Senate filibuster, blocked other Democrats from passing the Freedom to Vote Act and The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.... Read more»
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Posted Jan 25, 2022, 6:16 am
Shondiin Silversmith
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona Democrat Rep. Tom O’Halleran is expressing concern over details of the federal plan to distribute free COVID tests, saying it is not well designed for tribal and rural and communities and the execution will leave behind some who live in underserved communities.... Read more»
Posted Jan 20, 2022, 11:36 am
Shondiin Silversmith
/Arizona Mirror
The Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund, a grassroots non-profit organization that focuses on providing essential items to the Navajo and Hopi people who are directly impacted by the pandemic is a major lifeline in moving resources to the communities they serve.... Read more»
Posted Jan 17, 2022, 6:31 am
Camila Pedrosa
/Cronkite News
The federal government’s effort to fund expanded broadband infrastructure in Indian Country overlooked a fundamental issue, advocates say - many tribes did not have the broadband access needed to apply for the funding that would let them improve broadband access.... Read more»
Posted Jan 14, 2022, 1:42 pm
Shondiin Silversmith
/Arizona Mirror
Since the start of the year, the Navajo Nation has reported more than 2,000 new COVID-19 cases, with as many as 405 cases on Jan. 13. In response, the tribe is updating public health orders aimed at curbing the spread of the illness.... Read more»