Author: Krista Allen

The 25th Navajo Nation Council renewed its push to account for $24 million linked to Executive Branch contracts with ZenniHome during the controller’s report at the Spring Session last week, and President Buu Nygren’s office responded Wednesday with a Facebook post saying no money has gone missing and accusing Speaker Crystalyne Curley of advancing a misleading narrative ahead of her run for the presidency.

Buu Nygren says he delivered 90 percent of what he promised Navajo Nation voters in 2022. Now he wants four more years.

A New Mexico couple who ran an Albuquerque wholesale jewelry company pleaded guilty in federal court April 20 to importing jewelry from Vietnam and selling it to American buyers as authentic Navajo and Native American handmade work, capping an undercover operation in which agents bought thousands of dollars of the counterfeit pieces at North Carolina trade shows.

Crystalyne Curley, the first woman elected to lead the Navajo Nation Council, is running for president of the Navajo Nation.

As her term nears its end, Speaker Crystalyne Curley says the clearest measure of her time in office is the work still waiting to be done.