Navajo Nation

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.

Former President of the Navajo Nation Jonathan Nez is running for Congress in Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District, challenging the incumbent Republican Eli Crane.

The reopening of a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon has the Navajo Nation, and now Arizona's attorney general, questioning its safety.

The agency announced it is launching a new alert system similar to Amber Alerts for missing children. California and some other states have already adopted alerts for missing Indigenous persons.

In 2012, the Navajo Nation passed the Radioactive and Related Substances Equipment, Vehicles, Persons, and Materials Transportation Act, banning the transport of uranium on the reservation.

The goal is to make voter registration easier and more accurate. But the new addresses have had other benefits, like faster emergency response times and better mail service.