Opinion

Driving into Shiprock, you see burnt, graffiti, boarded, private, commercial, and tribal buildings – all abandoned.

What does the recent tribal election mean? First of all, it is simple. The Navajo people were neither pleased nor supportive of the Navajo Nation leadership on the executive and legislative sides this past four years.

The hammer hit hard with the Navajo Nation Council, where the people voted in 2/3 (16) new Council delegates. Add to that change nine Council women and a woman vice president.

President Jonathan Nez’s initiative to provide the Navajo Nation’s Missing & Murdered Diné Women & Relatives (MMIW/MMIR) guidelines mirrors a mask for Halloween, and that is what it is a mask.
It has taken the Navajo Nation president a year and a half to assist Navajo families of MMIW/MMIR. An entire year and half!

In the Navajo Times article, “Recount certification likely to take place,” Donovan Quintero explains issues within the voting system from the current 2022 Navajo Nation presidential election.