Politics

Alexander Chambers says the Navajo Nation does not need more authority to build its economy. It needs a president who can move faster.

Former Navajo Nation Vice President Myron Lizer is running for the tribe’s highest office, saying the Navajo Nation needs “economic sovereignty” to create jobs, build infrastructure and replace declining federal support.

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

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

Attorney Justin Jones drove to the Navajo Election Administration office in Shiprock on Thursday morning with his son, daughter, nephew and two sisters, filed to run for Navajo Nation president on the first day of the filing period, and by evening stood before a packed parking lot in Farmington arguing that a government he says is crippled by corruption, infighting and bureaucracy must be reclaimed by the people it was built to serve.