Pictured: The new airport runway under construction with Kayenta in background.
KAYENTA-It’s been several months since the renovation of the airport began. The $6.8 million project has had its ups and downs but has made steady progress for the last few weeks. However, the last few days the contractors have begun the most important portion [...]

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Nearly $100 Million Provided for Indian Country Initiatives in 2008
WASHINGTON – U.S. Associate Attorney General Kevin J. O’Connor today announced more than $50 million in additional grant funds from the Justice Department to help tribal communities, bringing the total to nearly $100 million awarded to tribal communities in 2008. These awards include funds for tribal [...]

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PHOENIX – United States Attorney Diane J. Humetewa, together with the U.S. Attorneys from New Mexico, Utah and Colorado are in Albuquerque, New Mexico this week participating in the 16th Annual Four Corners Indian Country Conference.  This year’s conference, entitled Serving Crime Victims: Embracing Our Differences, boasts over 300 representatives from victim and social services, [...]

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KINGMAN, Ariz.  – The Arizona Game and Fish Department is offering a reward of up to $4,000 for information leading to the arrest of the individuals responsible for the poaching of two bull elk.
The two elk were poached in Game Management Unit 10, north of Ash Fork, on Sept. 24. After killing the elk, the [...]

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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. ­ Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley, Jr., today
delivered to the Navajo Election Administration six file boxes filled with
hundreds of initiative petitions containing the signatures of thousands of
Navajo voters who want to see the Navajo Nation Council reduced to 24
delegates and the President empowered with budgetary line item veto
authority to help reduce unnecessary [...]

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School demonstrated exemplary work in promoting the revitalization, restoration of Native culture and language in their school
SEATTLE – The Honorable Speaker Lawrence T. Morgan attended the 39th Annual National Indian Education Association’s (NIEA) Convention and its Tribal Leader’s Summit on Indian Education, where he presented a plaque and framed Navajo Nation Council poster to the Rough Rock [...]

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Navajo lobbies Washington, first tribe to strategize $2 billion authorization
WASHINGTON – The Public Safety Committee of the 21st Navajo Nation Council has an important mission, to lobby for full funding for Indian Country. Recently, the committee conducted an important lobbying effort for the appropriation of a $2 billion authorization bill that was first approved by the U.S. Senate on [...]

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KAYENTA- The Kayenta Community Skatepark and truancy were central issues of discussion on Wednesday, October 22 at a meeting at the Kayenta Unified School District (KUSD) Administration Building. The meeting was in regards to recent reports of absent students skating in the park during school hours and ditching so they can skate at the park. 
Representatives [...]

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PHOENIX – Dorothy Mae Endfield, 50, of Cibecue, Ariz. and an employee at the White Mountain Apache Tribe’s Cibecue Commercial Center, pleaded guilty today to Embezzlement From a Tribal Organization before U.S. District Judge Earl H. Carroll.
Endfield admitted that while she was an assistant store manager for the Commercial Center, she stole approximately $33,600 from [...]

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Navajo Nation Healthy Start Act of 2008 passes unanimously
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The 21st Navajo Nation Council concluded its 2008 Fall Session today, and voted on four pieces of legislation.
 
The Council voted unanimously, with a vote of 64-0, in favor of the Navajo Nation Healthy Start Act of 2008.  The act was sponsored by Alice W. Benally [...]

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