Business

The Agathla Peak area in Kayenta is home to a number of families, various plants and animals such as nímasiichilí and gah – and a solar thermal energy plant that is 100 percent owned by Diné.

While the Navajo Nation Council was debating the merits of hemp production last year, a coalition of private and public entities was quietly doing it.

The National Indian Gaming Commission released its figures for 2018, which show that Indian gaming nationwide brought in a total of $33.7 billion, an increase of 4.1 percent over the previous year.

Nicole Kee McCarty was one of 15 certified operations specialists who ran the 2,250-megawatt Navajo Generating Station. Now, she is being retrained to be an information technology business analyst at Salt River Project in Phoenix.

There are Navajo doctors, lawyers, architects and engineers. Not plenty, certainly, not enough, perhaps, but they are there. One thing Shannah Smith has yet to meet is a Navajo real estate agent.