Author: Donovan Quintero

A federal compliance process at the center of the Navajo Nation’s pandemic recovery spending continues to face scrutiny as the tribe races to meet looming deadlines to use its remaining American Rescue Plan Act funds.

Educators, advocates and tribal leaders sharply criticized New Mexico’s Public Education Department on Friday for excluding Indigenous voices from its latest plan to address the landmark Yazzie-Martinez ruling, saying the proposal remains superficial, underfunded and unendorsed by Native nations.

Community members and visitors attended the opening of the new St. Michaels Chapter House on Nov. 14.

A confidential audit memorandum delivered to the Navajo Nation Council and the Office of Ethics and Rules on Nov. 18 has become a pivotal warning about the government’s long-standing structural weaknesses that now threaten the Nation’s ability to manage the last of its American Rescue Plan Act dollars before time runs out.

Navajo Nation District Court Judge Malcom Begay has ruled that Speaker Crystalyne Curley can proceed with her lawsuit challenging President Buu Nygren’s attempt to fire Controller Sean McCabe, install an interim controller and enforce line-item vetoes that cut into the Legislative Branch budget.