PHOENIX — Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley testified before the Arizona State Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Feb. 13 in support of Arizona Sen. Theresa Hatathlie’s Senate Bill 1655, which aims to strengthen regulations and penalties for operators of residential healthcare facilities who engage in fraudulent activities that have victimized tribal members from various communities.
ALBUQUERQUE, NM — The sponsor of a proposal to create a trust fund that would’ve given tribes in New Mexico millions of dollars to build education programs said Feb. 14 that he is pulling the bill from the Senate, meaning it is effectively dead.
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Lester Yazzie was selected Feb. 14 as the interm Council Delegate for District 6 (Baahaali, Chilchiltah, Manuelito, Red Rock, Rock Springs, Tsayatoh), replacing former Council Delegate Seth Damon who reisnged Jan. 22 to take a position as the deputy secretary of the New Mexico Indian Affairs Department.
SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico legislators would create a unique educational endowment of at least $50 million to help Native American communities create their own student programs, including efforts to teach and preserve Indigenous languages, under a proposal endorsed Feb. 8 by the state House.
GRAND CANYON — Despite the early January startup of uranium mining within the new Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukevi National Monument, Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren and Coconino County Supervisor Lena Fowler stand firm in their opposition to it.