Navajo Nation

It's been an interesting few weeks since Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren suddenly fired the tribe's controller. The Navajo Nation Council contends Nygren's recent behavior has been "unlawful."

Senate Republicans confirmed William Kirkland among more than 100 Trump nominees along party lines — while Democrats, including Arizona Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego, voted against it a week into the government shutdown.

The conference in White Mesa, Utah, focused on abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation and the operating uranium mill near the Ute Mountain Ute community in White Mesa.

The project, which would bring fresh water to over 200,000 people, was authorized under the Obama Administration in 2009. The federal government is contributing $2.2 billion to the project.

Residents of Westwater, a small Navajo subdivision in Utah, set their sights on water in the early 2000s. Now, after years of effort, their dream is turning into a reality.

Last week, Our Living Lands highlighted the challenge of living without electricity. Now, hear from Navajo families who are getting power for the first time through a life-changing mutual aid program.

In The Paranormal Ranger, author Stanley Milford, Jr. shares his encounters with the supernatural and intertwines them with the Navajo creation stories that have shaped his cultural identity. As he reveals the chilling details, he steps into a space that is both expected and taboo, daring to shed light on mysteries that most would leave untouched.

The Navajo, Hopi, and San Juan Southern Paiute tribes are one step closer to being guaranteed access to some water in the Upper and Lower Colorado River Basin and funding for water infrastructure projects.

A new Netflix film follows the Chuska Warriors, a high school basketball team from a town on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. A Shiprock-based designer created the team’s basketball uniforms, which reclaim Native American imagery.

Federal law requires counties with high concentrations of Native speakers to provide translations of the ballot. But what they leave out can be as important as what they put in.