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Navajo lawmakers have placed the tribe's president on administrative leave, pending an investigation into allegations of ethical, civil or criminal involvement with two companies that had been operating on the reservation.
The Supreme Court has ruled against the Navajo Nation for a second time in its battle with the federal government over whether the tribe should have gotten more money for coal on its land.
Navajo lawmakers have passed a measure requiring employers on the reservation to provide a place for working mothers to breast feed.
Both environmentalists who have been fighting a proposed coal-fired power plant on the Navajo Nation and supporters of the project expected it: an air permit for the plant.
The Navajo Nation has temporarily averted having its Internet services shut down, a tribal official said Monday.
An indictment of Sudan's president for war crimes in Darfur would be "disastrous" for the region and could affect humanitarian organizations working there, a Sudanese government spokesman said Saturday.
The thousands of Navajo Nation residents who rely on the Internet to work, study and communicate across their 27,000-square-mile reservation will be out of luck Monday, if their service provider shuts access as planned.
The Navajo Nation Council on Tuesday approved legislation that would establish a tribal Superfund law, allowing the tribe to clean up contaminated sites across its sprawling reservation.
The pavement stops abruptly here, giving way to a sandy, washboard road that takes residents to a place where tires keep roofs from blowing away and electricity and running water are scarce.
When competitors head off for the weeklong Miss Navajo Nation pageant, they bring along their evening gowns, jewelry, high heels, public speaking skills — and butcher knives.
Ronnie Tallman says that when he joined the Marines, he never expected a spiritual transformation that would put his newfound Navajo tribal beliefs in conflict with his military duties.
For the first time, a woman has been chosen as one of two candidates facing off for the presidency of the Navajo Nation, whose reservation is the largest in the country.
Enviros to Navajos: Go green or get lost | Washington Examiner Despite the fact that Navajo Nation president Joe Shirley Jr. won an international award for environmentalism, he's a thorn in the side for environmentalists.
Reacting to zealous environmental advocates determined to trod upon tribal sovereignty, the Hopi and Navajo Nations symbolically booted the Sierra Club and other enviros off the reservation.
It appears that the families of the two teens found in Wakpala is shrouded in mystery.
Native Americans Defend Bald Eagle DecapitationDarrell Pino is a Navajo Indian who applied to receive the eagle legally through the repository. The eagle was already dead when it was used in a religious ritual.
US Cherokees vote to expel descendants of slavesNative American Cherokees voted to expel descendants of black slaves from their tribe nation in a special election that has prompted charges of racism, according to returns made public early Sunday.
Couple fighting Navajo Nation to keep adopted childrenA Salt Lake couple will soon go to the Utah Supreme Court to fight to keep the children they adopted a year and a half ago. The children's biological mother was Navajo, and the tribe is attempting to get them back under the Indian Child Welfare Act.
Alice Nez Horseherder, a Navajo sheep herder her entire life, lives in Hard Rock, Arizona in the the Black Mesa Region.
Recession Hits Navajo Families HardThe economic meltdown has affected the sons of the soil most in the United States.
Acclaimed author Tony Hillerman dies at 83 PHOENIX – Tony Hillerman, author of the acclaimed Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels and creator of two of the unlikeliest of literary heroes — Navajo police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee — died Sunday of pulmonary failure.
Canaries in the Uranium MineThe nuclear energy solution to global warming has a skeleton in its closet.
The Artist Behind the Iconic 'Running Immigrants' ImageJohn Hood, a Navajo and Vietnam vet, has created many works in his job as a Caltrans graphic artist. But the picture of an immigrant family running has resonated far beyond his office cubicle.
Independent - March 31, 2008: Message: No uranium miningFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Indian leaders, scientists, local business interests and the superintendent of the Grand Canyon warned Friday of dire consequences if uranium mining is allowed to proceed near the national park, while mining advocates minimized any likely problems.
As Uranium Firms Eye N.M., Navajos Are Wary - washingtonpost.comAMBROSIA LAKE, N.M. -- Twenty years after uranium mining ceased in New Mexico amid plummeting prices for the ore, global warming and the soaring cost of oil are renewing interest in nuclear power -- and in the state's uranium belt.
Navajos won't allow uranium mining, President tells subcommittee | The Energy NetNAVAJO PRESIDENT JOE SHIRLEY, JR., TELLS CONGRESSIONAL SUBCOMMITTEE NATION WILL NOT WATCH ANOTHER GENERATION HARMED BY URANIUM MINING
The Cold War Threat to the Navajo - New York TimesIt is alarming that the nuclear power industry is talking about resuming uranium mining near a Navajo reservation.
The Cold War Threat to the NavajoIt is alarming that the nuclear power industry is talking about resuming uranium mining near a Navajo reservation.
Supes want Canyon Country off-limits to uranium miningArizona: Coconino County Board of Supervisors request the federal government to prevent uranium mining on federal lands in county.
Navajos intend to sue over proposed coal-fired power plantThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been notified by one of the nation's largest tribes that it intends to sue over the agency's lack of action on an air permit application for a proposed coal-fired power plant.
The Watch Online - Uranium Cuts a Tragic Path Through the Navajo Nation By Amy R. Levek Three coyotes run through the sagebrush, stopping briefly to check us out.
At OpEdNews: Bullying prosecutorial Tactics on Navajo Accused of Battery Met with This is a very important article. I know both Chad Redhouse and his wife, Bret Holaday Redhouse, who has vanished and moved back to Florida, even left a notarized letter with the Court to that effect.
Still no toxic cleanup plan for Navajos - Los Angeles TimesWASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency plans to resume long-stalled testing for toxics on the Navajo reservation unleashed by abandoned Cold War uranium mines, but it and four other federal agencies have yet to come up with overall cleanup and health plans, their repre …
Gallup Independent - Groups air uranium concerns; Seek moratorium on new uranium development in regionWINDOW ROCK — Representatives of grassroots groups and nongovernmental organizations from New Mexico and Arizona told members of Congress last week that they want a federal moratorium on new uranium development in the region until the widespread environmental and public health …
Independent - November 15, 2007: Udall: Navajo 'cancer-free' before uraniumWINDOW ROCK — The good news is that Navajo cancer rates are below the national average. The bad news is that there essentially was no cancer on the Navajo Nation before uranium mining, Rep. Tom Udall said.
Over 50 years of exposure but still no comprehensive health studies on Navajo - Kathy HelmsWINDOW ROCK - No health studies, no problem. A burgeoning list of cancers, heart, respiratory and kidney diseases, as well as birth defects among Navajos exposed to radiation are easily dismissed by the federal government for lack of scientific data.
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