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1 month ago | 
navajotimes.com | Krista Allen
TÓNANEESDIZÍThe Pentagon on Wednesday restored webpages that highlighted the wartime contributions of the Navajo Code Talkers and other Native American veterans following backlash from tribes. The removal was part of a broader effort to eliminate military content promoting diversity, equity inclusion. This action followed President Donald Trump’s executive order that ended federal DEI programs.
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1 month ago | 
navajotimes.com | Krista Allen
DADEESTŁIN HÓTSAA – Their goal is to share food and help communities in the region, said Victor J. Flores, the executive director of La Planta based in Tijeras, New Mexico.“We want to get into the communities and be there,” Flores said. La Planta, the Physicians Committee and former President Jonathan Nez and Phefelia Nez of Nez Consulting are organizing several plant-based food distribution events in the region.
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1 month ago | 
navajotimes.com | Krista Allen
FLAGSTAFFThis slideshow requires JavaScript. A winter storm swept across northern Arizona on Friday, bringing heavy snowfall that caused a major traffic backup of over 15 miles on Interstate 40 westbound between Flagstaff and Williams. U.S. Route 89 north of Flagstaff also experienced significant congestion, with multiple vehicles sliding off the icy roadway and motorists parked along the route. According to the National Weather Service, the storm moved east out of the state by Saturday.
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2 months ago | 
navajotimes.com | Krista Allen
DÁ’DEESTŁ’IN HÓTSAAFormer Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch is the Coconino County Attorney’s Office’s new civil deputy attorney. Branch, who served as the 11th and 13th attorney general of the Navajo Nation, is Bįįh Bitoodnii and born for Naakaii Dine’é. She was raised on her family’s ranch south of Tsiizizii. “We are thrilled to welcome Ethel Branch as a new civil deputy attorney for Coconino County,” said Coconino County Attorney Ammon Barker.
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2 months ago | 
navajotimes.com | Krista Allen
DADEESTŁIN HÓTSAACrystalyne Curley is fighting to maintain her role as the 25th Navajo Nation Council speaker. The Council delegates will decide whether to reelect her today, Jan. 27, when the Council convenes for the first day of the Winter Session, which will test her leadership over the past two years. “It’s just been work, work, work,” Curley said in an interview with the Navajo Times. “I do enjoy it.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
navajotimes.com | Krista Allen
WINDOW ROCKWhile vice-presidential candidate and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz spoke at a Native Americans for Harris-Walz campaign rally at the Navajo Nation Veterans Memorial Park, the Donald Trump campaign held a Zoom webinar with Navajo Republicans that included former Navajo Nation President Myron Lizer and Navajo Nation Council lobbyist Carlyle Begay, who discussed Walz’s visit to Diné Bikéyah.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
navajotimes.com | Krista Allen
JÁDÍ, Ariz. – Leilah Young believes her family’s successful Diné-owned business is backed by her late grandmother’s spirit. Her family’s business, Dixie’s Lower Antelope Canyon Tours, has been in operation for more than a decade. On May 14, Young and her mother, Dixie Ellis, and their staff members they call family, celebrated their 10th anniversary of operating tours in Lower Antelope Canyon. “Ten years is a huge deal for us,” said Young, the CEO of Dixie’s Lower Antelope Canyon Tours.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
navajotimes.com | Krista Allen
NAATSIS’ÁÁN, Ariz. – Carl Greymountain Jr., 14, pulled up to a local well to fill an empty tote tank in the back of his family’s old Dodge Ram Laramie SLT. His sisters, Nikita and Adrien, 8, hopped out of the truck and helped with a hose. Their brother, Martinez, other siblings, and a niece pulled up in a newer Dodge Ram 2300. “We’re the Greymountain family,” said Nikita, who, along with Martinez, cares for their siblings. Nikita and Martinez are the eldest of the Greymountain children.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
navajotimes.com | Krista Allen
TSÉBIGHÁHOODZÁNÍThe Jack Ahasteen Comics will no longer be printed in the Navajo Times. The Times’s longtime editorial cartoonist, Jack Ahasteen, is separating from the Navajo Times Publishing Co. Inc., a sudden change at the largest Native American newspaper in the country. Ahasteen, hailing from Teesto, Arizona, has been a creative force for the Navajo Times for an impressive 52 years. His final work, “Treaty Day,” was featured in the May 30 edition of the Navajo Times.
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
navajotimes.com | Krista Allen
SEDONA, Ariz. Navajo Nation Police Chief Daryl Noon has resigned, but it was “forced.”Noon resigned on Thursday, June 6, 2024, according to Delegate Eugenia Charles-Newton, the Law and Order Committee chair, who was informed by Michael Anderson, the Division of Public Safety executive director. Charles-Newton said she was caught off guard. “It was a big surprise,” she said, adding that she was informed that President Buu Nygren’s staff forced Noon to resign.
