Navajos in Torreon Seek Self Help Amid Hardship
A Torreon Navajo community struggles with aging homes, scarce water and electricity, and limited funds. Chapter leaders like Dave Rice and Rico say progress is slow after decades of requests to Window Rock. They pursued coal mining for heating, then halted by reclamation costs, as residents await basic services and upgrades.
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Torreon
Dave Rice
Window Rock
Navajo Housing Authority
Rico
Ramah Fair Highlights Powwow Rodeo and Queen Contest
Visitors enjoyed a weekend Ramah Navajo Fair with events including a grand entry led by Jerry Harjo, flag racing by Jodd Wood, and Shelby Atcitty’s hair braiding before the powwow. The program also featured a carnival and live music.
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Jerry Harjo
Jodd E. Wood
Shelby Atcitty
Vivian Chavez
Navajo election case moves toward amended complaints and votes
District Judge Allen Sloan orders Wauneka and others versus Begay and others into court with deadlines for amended complaints and replies. Parties weigh temporary restraining order and transfer requests while referendum on council size faces absentee voting and rising registered voters.
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Rock
Allen Sloan
Sloan
Tsosie
Brown
IGRC
Window Rock
Gallup youths gain first Summer Youth Grant program
Zarana Sanghan reports six Gallup youths aged 12 to 18 participated in the first Summer Youth Grant Program by the Small Business Development Center. Each received 200 to start a venture with a mentor. Participants tested ideas from airbrush art on skateboards to selling puppies and snow cones, learning about marketing, location, and delayed gratification.
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Gallup
Nathan van Hardesveldt
Los Alamos
Espajiola
Elsie Sanchez
Sanchez
Joseph Hibbard
Center
van Hardesveldt
Tal
Enrique Herrera
Amanda Herrera
Cozy Balok
Gorman
Hibbard
Civil Air Patrol Squadron
Child molester sentenced to five years in prison
Robert Tsethlakai, 33, was sentenced by Judge Joseph Arite to five years in prison for molesting a child under 13 in 1999 and for criminal sexual conduct with a minor. He earlier received three years for bribery of a witness and two one-year terms for habitual offender status, all to run consecutively with three years suspended. He must register under Megan's Law and faces two years of parole after release with three years of probation.
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Grants
Robert Tsethlakai
Joseph Arite
Thirteenth Judicial District Court
Arite
Dure Shieuniary
E Fame
Tsethlakai
Tsethilakal Twas Behiericaa
Wauneka Becomes a Legend Inducted into Hall of Fame
The article recalls Annie Dodge Wauneka, praised as the Navajo tribe’s Legendary Mother, with 17 others set for induction Oct 7 in Seneca Falls, New York, into the U S National Women’s Hall of Fame. It details her life from the first Navajo tribal council member in 1951 to combatting tuberculosis and her lasting impact.
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Seneca Falls
N.Y
Annie Dodge Wauneka
U.S
National Women’s Hall of Fame
Navajo Office of Women and Families of the Human Resources
Wauneka
Henry
Chee Dodge
Orlanda Sante Odes
Jill Tietjen
University of Colorado-Boulder
Tietjen
Denver
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S.J. Ludescher
NHA
Bureau of Land Management
Navajo Nation
Ramah Fair
Michael Fagan
Jim Maniaci
Diné
Eral Levon Henry
Navajo Nation Council
Begay
Suboeneee
Crownpoint
Shiprock
Tuba
Northern’ ‘Agency
Chapter
Council
Tuba City
Zarana Sanghan
Red Rock Screen Printing
Tom Purdom
Mariana Lake
Standing Rock
Leona
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