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Alchesay girls end state-title drought
With the way the seedings came out in the Arizona 2A state bracket, not much was expected from the Alchesay girls’ basketball team.
Politics
Damon: NTEC needs to be more transparent
In the past two weeks, the Office of the Navajo Nation Speaker has worked double-time to organize over 12 full-day work sessions, town halls and countless presentations from experts, many technical in nature, for the Navajo Nation Council on the potential impacts of closure or acquisition of Navajo Generating Station and the Peabody Kayenta Mine.
Opinions & Columns
Letters: Is Council trying to frighten president?
In the Navajo Times letter titled, “President disrespected by Council,” by Mervyn Tilden (Feb. 7, 2019), he reports on how some of the Navajo Nation Council delegates voted against a state of the nation address from the new president due to lateness.
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50 Years Ago: Counties close offices to force Diné to pay taxes
Even the Arizona attorney general says what Apache and Navajo counties are doing is illegal but the counties are planning to go ahead and do it anyway.
Sports
Poor shooting dooms Newcomb in title game
The Newcomb boys’ basketball team clawed their way past tall, quick, physical and mentally tough opponents throughout the 2018-19 season.
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Community
ICWA changed history, now court says it’s unconstitutional
Ambrose Ashley, Diné, vividly remembers the night more than six decades ago he and his seven brothers 2 to 11 years old were placed in foster homes.
Education
Stories and science
Diné schools partner with NASA for culturally based science curriculum
Arts
Former participant now runs art competition
In 1997 contemporary Diné painter Peterson Yazzie won the high school art contest held by Northland Pioneer College, which earned him a scholarship to the school and eventually led him to become a teacher. Now the two-dimensional art instructor and faculty member helps run the same annual art competition at the college.
Culture
Diné join Gwich’in in fight against oil & gas in Arctic
On Dec. 22, 2017, President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and tucked inside was an authorization for oil and gas development within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Music
Music as medicine: Flutist’s music is his prayer of gratitude
When he was a child growing up in Gray Mountain, Arizona, Jonah Littlesunday’s grandmother Bessie Singer used to listen to cassette tapes of world-renowned flutist R. Carlos Nakai while she did her weaving.
