Politics

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.

The polls have closed across the Navajo Nation, except for nine communities in Apache County.