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Slideshow | Fall session opens with advocacy, debate
WINDOW ROCK Delegates attend the opening day of the Navajo Nation Council’s fall session at the Council Chamber Monday evening, Oct. 19. The session is scheduled through Friday, Oct. 23. Items on the posted approved agenda include executive appointments, a two-year extension for spending Síhasin funds on chapter projects and a proposed referendum asking voters whether to raise delegates’ annual salaries from $25,000 to $70,000. © 2026 Navajo Times Publishing Co. Inc.
Navajo presidential hopefuls debate economic development, AI policies
CROWNPOINT, NEW MEXICO: Candidate Justin Jones answers a question during the presidential forum Wednesday evening, July 8, 2026, at NTU Wellness Center in Crownpoint.
Slideshow | Miss Navajo Nation contestants compete in traditional skills
Naa’ahóóhai | 78th Annual Navajo Nation Fair Three contestants in the 74th Annual Miss Navajo Nation Pageant competed in sheep butchering and traditional foods Monday, Sept. 7, at the Navajo Nation Fairgrounds. © 2026 Navajo Times Publishing Co. Inc. Rochelle Francisco of Valley Store, Ariz., Tonana Ben of Chilchinbeto, Ariz., and JoAnni Begay of Pinedale, N.M., began Monday morning with the sheep-butchering competition.
Slideshow | Miss Navajo Nation contestants compete in traditional skills
WINDOW ROCK Naa’ahóóhai | 78th Annual Navajo Nation Fair Three contestants in the 74th Annual Miss Navajo Nation Pageant competed in sheep butchering and traditional foods Monday, Sept. 7, at the Navajo Nation Fairgrounds. © 2026 Navajo Times Publishing Co. Inc. Rochelle Francisco of Valley Store, Ariz., Tonana Ben of Chilchinbeto, Ariz., and JoAnni Begay of Pinedale, N.M., began Monday morning with the sheep-butchering competition.
Slideshow | Nihi Na’ach’ąąhí Á’té
WINDOW ROCK Participants turned their attention to local plants Sept. 2 during the Nihi Na’ach’ąąhí Á’té, or We Are Painters, Watercolor Workshop Series at the Navajo Nation Museum Trailhead. The free, all-ages workshop brought participants outdoors to observe plants before putting what they saw on paper. The session included a short hike from the trailhead to a sandstone area near the museum, where participants worked with watercolor supplies provided by the Navajo Nation Museum.
Slideshow | Navajo Nation Music Fest makes its fair debut
WINDOW ROCK The inaugural Navajo Nation Music Fest brought Diné blues and hip-hop artists together Wednesday night, Sept. 9, as a new addition to the 78th Annual Navajo Nation Fair. Presented by the Navajo Nation Division of Transportation, the free concert featured the Levi Platero Band, Nataanii Means, Destroykasmin, Purpose and DJ T-Rawk near the Dean C. Jackson Memorial Arena.
Pete returns home to Shiprock
SHIPROCK Days after being waived by the Dallas Cowboys, Shiyazh Pete returned to Shiprock High School, where fans lined up Sept. 3 for autographs and photographs with the former Chieftain. Pete, a 2021 Shiprock graduate, met with fans during the Chieftains’ home football game against Crownpoint. Children and adults waited as Pete signed footballs, shirts, jerseys and a Navajo Nation flag. One fan wore a Dallas Cowboys jersey bearing Pete’s name and No. 75. © 2026 Navajo Times Publishing Co. Inc.
Slideshow | Fair takes shape
WINDOW ROCK Preparations for the 78th Annual Navajo Nation Fair were already taking shape Wednesday, Sept. 2, in Window Rock, nearly a week before the fair begins Sept. 8. Frazier Shows carnival rides, including the Century Wheel and Ring of Fire, stood on the fairgrounds beneath storm clouds as crews continued setting up the midway. Rainwater left by recent storms reflected the rides and evening sky.
Slideshow | Rock the Canyon
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Native American Tribes Secured Their Rights To Colorado River Water
Above photo: A man fills his water tank at a well a few miles from the Hopi village of Mishongnovi, on the tribe’s northern Arizona reservation. Four States Are Stalling the Deal. A deal to bring Colorado River water to Native American communities in northern Arizona, where a third of homes lack running water, is being blocked by neighboring states, caught up in a broader battle over how to divide the dwindling river.
Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal.
A deal to bring Colorado River water to Native American communities in northern Arizona, where a third of homes lack running water, is being blocked by neighboring states, caught up in a broader battle over how to divide the dwindling river.
A death sentence: Native Americans shut out of the nation's liver transplant system
Native Americans are far less likely than other racial groups to gain a spot on the national liver transplant list, despite having the highest rate of death from liver disease, according to an analysis of four years of transplant data by The Markup and The Washington Post. Compared with their total number of deaths from liver disease, White people gain a spot on the transplant list almost three times more often than Native Americans, the data shows.
Devastation on reservations
In August, Yaiva, the Hopi citizen, was shattered to learn that a third brother had been found dead a week before his 38th birthday. Though the family again declined an autopsy, Yaiva said, he again suspected that years of alcoholism had taken its toll. Near the end, yellowed skin and a bloated body had put the often silent, slow-moving disease on sickly display. "I feel bad for my mom," he said.
When liver disease hits tragically close to home
Lee Yaiva said every time he went home to the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona, he found that alcoholism had claimed another victim. In July 2022, it was one of his brothers, then in his early 30s. A month later, a second brother died at 29. [In the photo above, Lee Yaiva shows a photo on his phone of his late brothers.] Yaiva said both brothers were aware their drinking had taken a toll on their livers. The family declined an autopsy in the first death.
Devastation on reservations
The Markup investigates why, despite being more likely to die of liver disease, Native Ameri…
FRACKING AQUIFERS 10
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save A gas well near the home of Mario Atencio in Counselor, N.M., on Sept. 2, 2023. Atencio, a leader in the local Navajo Nation Chapter, is now part of the coalition of tribes and environmental organizations that in May sued New Mexico alleging that the state had failed to protect its residents from the harms of fracking.
MINING ROYALTIES 2
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Save FILE — Pinyon Plain Mine, uranium mine less than 10 miles from the southern rim of the Grand Canyon, near Flagstaff, Ariz., on April 18, 2022. The Biden administration wants Congress to update an 1872 mining law to require mining companies to pay fees to take metals from public lands.
ABORTION NETWORKS 5
Jennifer Lim, communications and media director, share information on Indigenous Women Rising during the Gathering of Nations event in Albuquerque, on April 27, 2023. With access to abortion becoming more restricted, aid networks that support abortion rights have rushed to adapt, seeking new ways to help women travel across state lines and distributing abortion pills. (Sharon Chischilly/The New York Times)
Best Of: Sports photos
The Daily Lobo photographers have been hard at work all year taking great photos to bring high quality sports coverage to our readers. Here are two photographers’ favorite sports photos from this year. Mackenzie’s picks Photo 1 This was one of the best sports photos that I captured during a football game this year.
Native company demonstrates drones for delivering essentials to remote locations
Navajo Nation officials weigh tech options to increase access to health care and medicine A MissionGo worker prepares a drone before the demonstration at the Navajo Veteran Memorial Park on Jan. 22 in Window Rock, Arizona. (Sharon Chischilly for Source NM) Sharon Chischilly for Source NM Deliveries are challenging on remote parts of the Navajo Nation because of the lack of road infrastructure and transportation.
Indigenous Peoples' Day in photos
Across New Mexico, people from tribal communities gathered yesterday to celebrate everything Native. Indigenous Peoples’ Day is every second Monday of October in the state. “Having all of these people joined together to reclaim a holiday that was that was based off of genocide and rape … it’s a very healing feeling, seeing everyone come together,” Jaycie Begay said. Begay (Diné, Santa Clara and Northern Ute) joined the Red Nation rally and march in Old Town Albuquerque.
Lost Lives, Lost Culture: The Forgotten History of Indigenous Boarding Schools (Published 2021) Original
DURANGO, Colo. — The last day Dzabahe remembers praying in the way of her ancestors was on the morning in the 1950s when she was taken to the boarding school. At first light, she grabbed a small pouch and ran out into the desert to a spot facing the rising sun to sprinkle the taa dih’deen — or corn pollen — to the four directions, offering honor for the new day. Within hours of arriving at the school, she was told not to speak her own Navajo language.
Black Lives Matter holds vigil for Breonna Taylor at UNM
As hundreds of candles illuminated the duck pond, people sang happy birthday across the University of New Mexico main campus Friday evening. Black Lives Matter Albuquerque, the local chapter of the global organization of the same name, held a vigil to honor and celebrate Breonna Taylor’s 27th birthday — along with other lives lost to police brutality — on June 5 at UNM’s duck pond in Albuquerque.
Dispatch: COVID-19 on the Navajo Nation
The Navajo Nation awoke to a blanket of snow March 19 as the third case of the novel coronavirus, known as Diko Ntsaaígíí- Náhást’éíts’áadah in the Navajo language, emerged on the Navajo homeland. The three cases, 46-year-old, 40-year-old and 62-year-old, shared one thing in common: they’re all from the community of Chilchinbito, Arizona.
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