Author: Donovan Quintero

A day after a Navajo Nation District Court judge granted President Buu Nygren’s temporary restraining order blocking Speaker Crystalyne Curley’s removal legislation, the Navajo Nation Council met in a special session to approve separate funding measures for the Legislative and Executive branches.

A construction firm with 51% Navajo ownership is challenging the Navajo Nation’s handling of a housing project at the same time the tribe has released its latest update to the Business Opportunity Source List, the directory governing which Navajo-owned companies qualify for contracting preference under tribal law.

Thanksgiving for President Buu Nygren may not be a time of thankfulness if a Navajo Nation District Court judge denies his motion to halt legislation that seeks to remove him. The effort is being led by his former Arizona State University classmate.

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.