Hale pushes Navajo local empowerment plan aims to decentralize government
Navajo President Albert Hale urged chapter officials at a conference to back his local empowerment act returning decision making to 110 chapters. He warned a referendum if the Navajo Nation Council balks, arguing governance should be native to local communities and that Window Rock bureaucracy harms responsiveness.
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Tsaile
Ariz
Albert Hale
Hale
Navajo Nation Council
U.S
Window Rock
William Lee
Shiprock
N.M
Navajo Museum Opens But Doors Remain Locked and Unpaid
Window Rock Arizona officials warn the Navajo Nation Cultural Museum and Library on the New Mexico border is unfinished. The foundation funding the project owes Arviso Oakland 1.3 million and Norwest bank about 2 million. A volunteer worker staged a lunch fund drive, calling it an ambitious attempt to raise funds.
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Window Rock
Ariz
New Mexico-Arizona
Vajo
Davis
Arviso Oakland
Norwest Bank
Atcitty
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Navajo Nation Cultural Museum and Library
Greyhills students set for UN conference in NYC
Greyhills Academy High School to send four or five Navajo youth to the United Nations International School conference in New York City on March 7 to 8. The event, themed Children of the World Struggles of a Generation, gathers about 500 students for lectures and a final forum.
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Tuba. City
Ariz
Greyhills
Academy High School
United Nations International School
New York City
Steven Benally
Ence
General Assembly
The
United Nations
United States
Hawaii
Chicago
New York
Tuba City
Benally
Albert Hale
Hale
Kelsey Begaye
Mariano Lake School piloting health program
Mariano Lake Boarding School hosts a day long seminar by Department of Health and Human Services educators on introducing the RISTRA health education curriculum. The program spans kindergarten to eighth grade with topics from hand washing to disease prevention and mental health.
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Cert Lyon
Albuquerque
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Curicul
Vuker
Mariano Lake
Department of Health and Human Services
Ristra
Cheri Lyon
HHS
Albuquerque Service Unit
Mexico
Lyon
Trees and coyotes on Navajo Nation forest tree hunt
Diner Bureau reports from Window Rock, Arizona, on Santa season tree hunting. Navajo Nation Forestry issues $30 permits to cut Christmas trees with simple requirements and a fluorescent tag, offering a cheaper option than grocery store trees. The writer recalls childhood fears of coyotes and praises forest paths as an economical alternative.
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Kristen Davenport
Bureau
Window Rock
Ariz
Navajo Nation Forestry Department
McDonald's
Accident injures prisoner during transport near Window Rock
A Navajo Department of Law Enforcement prisoner transport overturned lightly injuring one inmate while two others and the driver were unharmed. Prisoners Andy Yazzie 35 of Gallup Tsosie Brown 54 of Indian Wells and Stanley Battese 59 of Many Farms were being moved from Ganado to Window Rock when collision with a horse caused the incident at SR 264 milepost 467.8 west of St Michaels. The injured prisoner received medical aid and was returned to custody.
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Window Rock
Navajo Department of Law Enforcement
Leonard G. Butler
Charles Joshley
Andy Yazzie
Gallup
Tsosie Brown
Indian Wells
Arizona
Stanley Battese
Ariz
Ganado
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Thomas Atcitty
Nyc
Mary Wicoff
Westamn Bureau
Andy Porter
Bistra
Lyons
BIA
Malcolm Bowekaty
Zuni-Ramah
Ed Yazzie
Kristen Davenpo
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