Fire crews ready, caution urged with any burning
Since June 4, four wildfires have been quelled on the Navajo Nation by the Bureau of Indian Affairs Fire and Aviation Management.
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Business
‘Batteries are pricey’: Light Up Navajo delivers electricity for matron
Using light from a kerosene or oil lamp late at night, Elizabeth B. Begay makes intricate dreamcatcher earrings and other handmade jewelry.
Politics
Council backs a Diné to fill Pinto’s seat
The Navajo Nation Council unanimously approved an emergency bill requesting New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham to select a Navajo to replace the late Sen. John Pinto.
Popular Right Now
Kirtland senior wins first-ever state mat championship
At every practice this season, Jarryd Pollard left puddles of sweat across the mats in the wrestling room.
Opinions & Columns
Letters: With NGS, mine closures, new casino is an option
In 2013, the Navajo Generating Station owners and the Navajo Nation agreed to extend the lease to year 2044 and the agreement was not signed by the plant manager at Salt River Project.
50 Years Ago
50 Years Ago: Tuba City gives low-key response to dog warning
Bureau of Indian Affairs officials have already begun warning Tuba City residents that they will be facing a dog crisis this year.
Sports
‘An amazing feeling’: 3 Diné cowboys win Ariz. state high-school championships
Matthew Tuni and Leegene Barlow spent most of the regular season atop the season standings in their respective events in the Arizona High School Rodeo Association.
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EVENTS
Community
Basketball camp instills values beyond the court
The AZ Pride Basketball Camp that was held here last week is a sneaky way to teach values that will carry them not just through sports but through life.
People
‘A voice and a platform’: A Diné teen’s powerful poems are getting noticed
Some urban Natives say they don’t fit in anywhere. Kinsale Hueston has the opposite problem.
Education
‘I be in the Army’: St. Michaels Head Start promotes kids to kindergarten
He had just finished with his preschool promotion that was held last Thursday for 40 kids at the Department of Diné Education building.
From the Wires
New Mexico mural focuses on missing Native American women
Navajo Nation signs agreement for second phase of buyback program
Sealaska Heritage announces participation in genetics study
Man sentenced to 20 years for Pine Ridge Reservation killing
Student's article on campus building names sparked change
Families of missing indigenous women march in Oklahoma
Idaho officials open salmon season in northern Idaho
'Redmen' water tank in Utah triggers new debate over name
Exchange: Shoshone artist's work inspires tribal activism
Newly released documents detail EPA's concerns over PolyMet
Pine Bluff casino OK'd, licenses denied in Pope County
Eastern Shoshone Tribe files lawsuit against opioid makers
Flathead tribes offer $10K reward for info on missing woman
Federal court hears arguments in pipeline protest bill suit
5 high schoolers selected as National Student Poets
Gov. Evers re-forms Wisconsin pardons board Walker dropped
Oklahoma base set for migrant site was WWII internment camp
Trail between Little Rock, Hot Springs proposed for 2022
FBI: Remains found on Spirit Lake Reservation identified
Man killed, another injured in Glacier park rollover crash
Arts
Putting on the war paint: Featured artist brings deep ties to area, grandfather
To influence the children who encircled him on Saturday morning to ask him more questions about his na’ashó’ii dich’ízhii painting and his work, Daniel Josley smeared his face with blue paint as though it were war paint.
Culture
‘Girlfriend for a weekend’: Horse gentling workshop proves mustangs’ value
If horses had fingers, says Leland Grass, “they would rule the earth.”
Music
The thing I love’: Navajo sound-mixer/studio engineer living the dream
By the time Sam Orion Morris was in high school band, he knew that music was his passion. “This is the thing I love,” he said to himself at that time.
