Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley has announced she’ll run for tribal president. She’s the most high-profile candidate to challenge President Buu Nygren, who’s running for a second term in this year’s election. Curley was first elected to the Navajo Council in 2022 to represent the Tachee/Blue Gap, Many Farms, Nazlini, Tselani/Cottonwood, Low Mountain communities in the central portion of the Navajo Nation. The next year she was elected council speaker.