KAYENTA, AZ – Nationally, October is nationally recognized as Domestic Violence Awareness Month and the Tohdenasshai Shelter Home is hosting several activities thorughout the month.  The activities are to honor survivors and to commemorate victims who have died as a result of domestic violence, and to recognize individuals who work to end domestic violence.
Students from [...]

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KAYENTA, Ariz. —  Kayenta Chapter now has the authority to exercise local governance using the Five Management System Policies and Procedures, which means that the chapter will control its own accounting, procurement, record keeping, personnel, and property management.As well, the chapter has the capacity to administer business sites, enforcing community taxes that will be used [...]

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Project Kickoff Meeting
August 27, 2010 9:00 a.m. MDST
Location: Township Commission Room
Agenda1 Introductions
2 Design Presentation – Review Building Function Based on Program Elements
Community Participation
3 General Plan and Specification Review
Site & Utility Services
Building
Program Book
4 Department of Corrections as Owner and Point of Contact
5 Executive Discussion on Selected CMAR Contractor
6 Coordination with Site and Utility Agencies
Township
BIA Transportation
NTUA
Frontier
7 Confirm [...]

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KAYENTA, AZ – On August 23, 2010, new Town Manager Hygi (pronounced “Hew-gii”)  Waetermans, Farm Board President Ben Edwards, and Community Development Coordinator Malcolm Benally took a survey of over 300 acres of farm land about 3-miles west of town.  The farmlands, older than the town itself, are currently being developed and relevelled so that a community garden can [...]

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KAYENTA, AZ – Kayenta Intermediate School (KIS) Grades 3rd to 5th have made the “No Child Left Behind” status of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for the 2009 and 2010 School Years.  This amazing academic achievement is due to the hard work by the staff at Kayenta Intermediate School, as well as the students and parents. 
The [...]

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WASHINGTON DC – In an effort to obtain answers and congressional support for the construction of a new Dennehotso Boarding School, Council Delegate Katherine Benally and her constituents traveled to the nation’s capitol to lobby congressional leaders from the state of Arizona.
Benally’s delegation, which consisted of elders, school board members, parents, concerned community members and [...]

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Speaker Morgan announces 2010 Spring Session agenda
Full copy of agenda available online at www.navajonationcouncil.org
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Honorable Speaker Lawrence T. Morgan has announced the agenda for the 2010 Spring Session of the Navajo Nation Council. The week-long session begins April 19 at the Navajo Nation Council Chamber.
The session will begin with the State [...]

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SANTA FE, N.M. – Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr., says if Navajos can remember the lessons of their grandparents, they can avoid many of the problems associated with severe weather emergencies that tend to occur year after year.
“Growing up, I don’t remember any talk about emergencies,” he told some 300 participants at the 2010 [...]

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WASHINGTON – Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli announced today that the Justice Department’s grant-making components have created a streamlined approach for American Indian and Alaska Native tribal communities to apply for Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 funding opportunities.  The Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation (CTAS) will serve as a single solicitation for existing tribal government-specific grant programs administered [...]

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WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today made public its plan of action, submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), to improve consultation and coordination between the Justice Department and tribal nations, as directed by President Barack Obama’s Memorandum on Tribal Consultation.  The Presidential Memorandum, signed on Nov. 5, 2009, at the White House [...]

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