50 Years Ago: Nakai: Your votes for a new nursing home
In 1966 ago, when Raymond Nakai was running for re-election, he made Navajo voters a promise: Give me another four years and I will give you a nursing home on the Navajo Reservation.
Read MoreAuthor: Bill Donovan
Barstow honors code talkers who lived in city
For more than five decades, the small city of Barstow, California, was the home of the largest group of Navajo Code Talkers outside of the Navajo Reservation.
Read More
Transition going smoothly – so far
The Navajo Nation Council and president’s office is in discussions on how to handle the transition from the Begaye-Nez administration to the Nez-Lizer administration.
Read More50 Years Ago: Council considers constitution vote
No one ever thought it would happen, but this week 50 years ago the Navajo Tribal Council actually decided to give the Navajo people a chance to weigh in on what was one of the most controversial subjects of the past 30 years on the Navajo Reservation – should the tribe have a constitution?
Read More
50 Years Ago: Controversy in the NAC
By 1968, the Native American Church claimed to have a membership of more than 30,000 on the Navajo Reservation and more than 110,000 throughout Indian Country, so the front-page article in the Navajo Times in mid-November attracted a lot of attention.
Read MoreWeather & Road Conditions
Window Rock Weather
Fair
32.0 F (0.0 C)
Dewpoint: 12.0 F (-11.1 C)
Humidity: 43%
Wind: calm
Pressure: 30.37
Dewpoint: 12.0 F (-11.1 C)
Humidity: 43%
Wind: calm
Pressure: 30.37
Highway 264,
I-40, WB @ Winslow