Author: Donovan Quintero

Days of monsoon storms have broken apart highways, covered tribal routes with water and mud and forced evacuations in Chinle.

When rain fell on the day of the sheep butchering competition, Jonathan Francisco told his niece what he believed the rain meant.

Bernadine Beyale searches for missing people whose cases cross tribal, county and state lines. The people she looks for never notice those lines, she said. Their families do.

The Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency remains opposed to a proposed in situ uranium recovery operation at Church Rock and Crownpoint, its executive director said, as New Mexico challenges the project’s license renewal.

Three members of the same family, including a juvenile, died after being swept away by floodwaters early Wednesday in the Two Grey Hills area as heavy rains caused flooding in parts of the Navajo Nation.