Isolated Torreon residents seek help from scattered agencies
In Torreon, a Navajo community of about 4000 near the reservation edge, residents say they are ignored by multiple bureaucracies. They cite delays in fire protection health care and schools, noting matching funds are scarce and emergency services are slow or nonexistent. A new Navajo Nation officer was assigned nearby but response remains insufficient.
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Torreon
S.J. Ludescher
East
Betty Platero
Chapter Land Board
Leo Charley
Navajo Reservation
Rio Arriba
Sandoval
McKinley Counties
Charley
Navajo Nation
Ojo Encino
Ivan Tsosie
Cuba
Murder with pipe leads to charges in New Mexico
Tony Arviso, 39, of Huerfano Chapter, a federal murder suspect, faces charges over a July 22 death on the Navajo reservation near San Juan County. Authorities say he threw a steel pipe through the window of a pickup, striking Delbert Woody of Bloomfield, who died at San Juan County Medical Center.
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Albuquerque
Tony Arviso
Huerfano
Delbert Woody
Bloomfield
Arviso
Woody
Carson Trading Post
San Juan Coun
FBI
Alviso
Ndfather
Patrick Pierce
Pierce
Ramus
Carson
San Juan County Medical Center
U.S
William Deaton
Deaton
la Posada
Thoreau man indicted on child abuse
Paul Morgan, 36, of Thoreau, was indicted by the Cibola County grand jury on six charges after a fight with the mother of a 6-year-old boy observed by the child. The counts include child abuse third degree, property damage and aggravated battery among others. The incident occurred April 21 and involved a 1991 pickup.
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Grants
Thoreau
Paul Morgan
Cibola County Grand Jury
Morgan
Lionel Benally
Benally
Della Hebah
Hebah
Lee Thoreau
Exclusion hearing for Navajo resister on Hopi land delayed
The ongoing exclusion hearing for Kee Shay, a Navajo relocation resister on Hopi partitioned lands, has been postponed indefinitely due to the prosecutor Scott Canty’s ill mother. Hopi spokesman Eugene Kaye says hearings are “up in the air” as Canty leaves Hopiland to care for his mother.
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Kykotsmovi
Ariz
Scott Canty
Hopiland
Eugene Kaye
Kee Shay
Shay
Navajo artist lends 15-foot eagle sculpture to Zah Museum
Navajo artist David Draper lends Free Bird an eagle sculpture for a year at the Peterson Zah Museum and Library. The piece blends traditional and contemporary styles in wood metal and recycled engine parts. Draper honors grandparents and notes his aim to preserve Navajo culture while engaging youth.
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Rock
David D. ‘Draper i
Peterson Zah Museum
Florence Damon
Draper
Asanyi Lake
Navajo
N.M
Edward
United States
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Uhem Robert Deal
United Mine Workers
Ellis Tanner Trading Co
P&m Coal
Seton
Tom Purdom
Catherine Coolwind
Feher
Congress
Navao Legal
Reed Tso
Mick Harrison
Zah Museum
Jim Maniaci
Diné
Navajo Nation Museum
Window Rock
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