Rain Blessing Way Ceremony Aims to Bring Wet Season
Navajo Nation members hold a Rain Blessing Way near Borrego Pass with Medicine Men and Native American Church participants. District 20 Land Board member urges rain as Crownpoint area grows drier, noting loss of winter snowfall. Public welcome. event 3 1/2 miles east of Crownpoint on Little Water Spring Road starting 9 p.m. Saturday and continuing through Sunday breakfast.
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Crownpoint
Navajo Nation
Borrego Pass
District 20
Land Board
Herbert Enrico
Enrico
Little Water Spring Road
Enviro
Farmington Rancher Walks 95 Miles for Tribes
Justin Yazzie, a 56 year old Farmington rancher, walks along New Mexico Highway 371 starting Tuesday. He travels about 95 miles to advocate for himself and other tribal ranchers amid a new ranching award process.
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Justin Yazzie
Farmington
Yazzie
New Mexico
Acion Gardnar
Justin
Yazzle
Crownpoint
Family injured in I 40 rollover near Grants
An Acoma family suffered major injuries after a Tuesday night I-40 rollover near the 86.8 mile marker. Jeremy Mariano, 21, drove a 2000 Honda Civic eastbound. Natasha Mariano, 23, and their 1-year-old daughter Layla were ejected and airlifted to UNM Medical Center. Gertrude Medina, 84, of Grants, driving a 2004 Ford Focus, was lightly involved and uninjured. responders then transported the mother and child to Cibola General Hospital.
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Grants
Acoma
University of _New Mexico Medical Center
New Mexico
Rick ‘Doty
Jeremy
Mariano
Natasha
Layla
Chavez
Doty
Natastia Marjano
Gertrude Medina
Grants Fire ‘and Rescue
Mount Taylor
Cibola General Hospital
Path to healing Yazzie says UN declaration fills gaps
President Obama backed the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, saying it could help heal Indian Country. Donald Laverdure of Interior called the declaration morally and politically powerful though not legally binding, as activists push for concrete action.
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Rock
Obama
U.N
United” “States
Donald “del” Laverdure
Indian “Affairs
U.S. Department of the Interior
Thoreau woman charged with child abuse after bar pickup
A Thoreau mother, cited for drunken driving, faced child abuse and related charges after driving away from a bar with an open beer can and an unrestrained infant in the back seat. Deputy Merlin Penally observed a blue Ford pickup leaving the bar near New Mexico 122 and the I 40 overpass Friday afternoon. a man yelled for the driver to stop as the vehicle crossed the highway.
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Prewitt
McKinley County
Merlin Penally
New Mexico Highway 122
N.M. 122
Benilly
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Navajo Technical College Extension
Anthony Howard
Sve
Howard
Gallup
Farmington Rancher
Duane ‘Chili
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