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Buu Nygren, Jasmine Nygren and Richelle Montoya celebrate Nygren defeating incumbent Jonathan Nez as the Navajo Nation president at the Navajo Fairgrounds in Window Rock, Arizona, Nov. 8, 2022. (Photo/Buu Nygren campaign)

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Window Rock, Ariz. — Buu Nygren has ousted Jonathan Nez as president of the Navajo Nation, a position that wields influence nationally because of the size of the tribe's reservation in the U.S. Southwest and its huge population.

By Felicia Fonseca, Associated Press November 9, 2022