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Rosanna Jumbo-Fitch, the former Chinle Chapter president, has been selected to receive Northern Arizona University’s 2026 Dr. Cliff Harkins Distinguished Citizen of the Year Award. NAU lists Jumbo-Fitch among its 2026 alumni award recipients.

Jake Skeets, the Navajo Nation poet laureate from Vanderwagen, New Mexico, has been awarded a $50,000 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets to support the Saad Prize and related public programming.

Crisosto Apache, Colorado’s poet laureate and a Mescalero Apache, Chiricahua Apache and Diné poet, is also among the 22 poets selected for a $50,000 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets.

Loren Anthony walked the Ceremonial night parade in Gallup on Thursday, greeted the crowd as grand marshal, then got in a vehicle with his family and drove through the night to Burbank, California, to be on a Warner Bros. Studios set by 7 a.m. Friday.

Former Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch has joined Miller Nash LLP, where she advises tribal governments and enterprises from the firm’s Seattle office.