Area Briefs | Due to declining risk, tribe rescinds restrictions
As positive cases and hospitalization rates decline, the Southern Ute Indian Tribal Council rescinded the tribe’s COVID-19 restrictions, effective Tuesday, March 1.
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Letters | Watch your Hardship money
I hereby place my Diné people on notice about the friendly notice being sent out to you by the local car dealers to buy a new vehicle or even a used one. Beware they are just after your Hardship money — every penny of it.
Read MoreObituaries for March 3, 2022
This week: Malia R. Gilchrist, Dorothy Bitsilly, Travis S. Todacheene, Melvin Harvey, Leita Gordon, Aurelia J. Tsosie, and Alice H. Loan.
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Native News | Longtime leader of Native American Wanapum band dead at 66
Rex Buck Jr., 66, died Feb. 11 at his ancestral village of P’na at Priest Rapids on the Columbia River in Grant County, Washington, according to an obituary distributed by the Grant County Public Utility District on Monday. No cause of death was listed.
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Capital Briefs | Tribes to receive $1.7 billion from infrastructure law for water rights settlements
Following a trip to the Gila River Indian Community with members of the Arizona congressional delegation Tuesday, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the plan to fulfill settlements of Indian water rights claims.
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Dewpoint: 17.1 F (-8.3 C)
Humidity: 22%
Wind: North at 4.6 MPH (4 KT)
Pressure: 30.22
Highway 264,
I-40, WB @ Winslow