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Yesterday | Gallup Independent

Berating hate: Navajo officials, Grants PD meet about hate crimes

In an historic, first-ever meeting Wednesday between Navajo Nation officials, including Vice President Ben Shelly, and Grants Police, both sides expressed a sincere desire to find those responsible for the beatings of several Navajo men in Grants, and to begin some sort of public education effort about race relations.

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Thu Jul 09, 2009

Gallup Independent

Former Navajo copa s murder trial opens

Former Navajo Police Officer Harrison Largo, 46, stands trial for first-degree murder this week.

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Wed Jul 08, 2009

KOB-TV

NM to train court, medical care interpreters

New Mexico hopes to train more interpreters for courts and medical care providers under online language programs that will start this fall.

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Tue Jul 07, 2009

SantaFeNewMexican.com

Plan for San Juan River diversion released

Up to 37,764 acre-feet of water a year will be diverted from the San Juan River to provide water for Navajo, Jicarilla-Apache and the city of Gallup under a plan released today by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

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Sun Jul 05, 2009

Farmington Daily Times

History Makers Hall of Fame inducted

A female pioneer, a construction worker who helped build the Cedar Hill bridge and the current director of the San Juan Better Business Bureau are among the five individuals honored Saturday for their historic contributions to the area.

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Fri Jul 03, 2009

Arizona Republic

Navajos to decide on first-ever ballot initiatives

Navajo voters have never had much of a say in how their modern government was shaped.

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KOB-TV

70-mile pipeline planned for southeast NM

Holly Corp. plans a $40 million, 70-mile pipeline connecting Navajo Refinery between Lovington and Hobbs to new crude oil markets.

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Sun Jun 28, 2009

Farmington Daily Times

Road work update: Farmington resurfaces roads galore

The city will resurface and repave almost three dozen streets this summer, along with some other major road construction projects.

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

KOB-TV

Grant to bring renewable energy to Navajo homes

A company owned by American Indians has been awarded more than $500,000 to bring electricity from solar power to Navajo Nation homes that now lack electricity.

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Ruidoso News

Four maidens come of age

Four Mescalero Apache maidens will celebrate their coming of age ceremony over the July 4th holiday weekend, one of the tribe's major events of the year and a chance for the public to glimpse a moment of important tribal tradition.

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Wed Jun 24, 2009

Farmington Daily Times

AG unsure on possible appeal to sex offender ruling

The attorney general's office is unsure if it will appeal a recent Court of Appeals ruling that excuses sex offenders living within the boundaries of tribal lands from registering on the state's sex offender registry.

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Mon Jun 22, 2009

SantaFeNewMexican.com

N.H. politician sorry for portal haggling 48 years ago

A New Hampshire politician says he's felt guilty for 48 years for getting a Native American vendor to drop her price for a bolo tie by 25 cents.

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Sat Jun 20, 2009

Ruidoso News

A coming of age for Geronimo

Harlynn Marian Geronimo, daughter of Mario and Kate Hernandez of Mescal-ero, and Cody Martinez, Sr.

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Thu Jun 18, 2009

Farmington Daily Times

As Clint John litigation ends, community leaders seek to improve relationships

As the verdict of a federal court jury begins to settle the dust of the three-year debate surrounding the fatal police shooting of Clint John, community leaders agree that it's time to move forward and reconcile differences.

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Tue Jun 16, 2009

Farmington Daily Times

Federal trail to commemorate Long Walk' divides tribes

In a culture that teaches not to revisit suffering, a proposal to memorialize routes that Navajo and Mescalero Apache Indians marched as they were forced from their homelands has stirred up painful memories.

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Sun Jun 14, 2009

Las Cruces Sun-News

EPA to rebuild uranium-contaminated Navajo homes

The federal government plans to spend up to $3 million a year to demolish and rebuild uranium-contaminated structures across the Navajo Nation, where Cold War-era mining of the radioactive substance left a legacy of disease and death.

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SantaFeNewMexican.com

For many Navajo, painful history best left in past

Navajos are still divided over the idea of designating a historic trail commemorating the Long Walk, a series of routes thousands of their ancestors were forced to take from their homeland to Bosque Redondo in 1864, many dying or taken as slaves along the way.

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Fri Jun 12, 2009

Farmington Daily Times

Eastern Navajo chapters celebrate arts and crafts

The remote location of the Torreon/Star Lake Chapter on the Navajo Nation is not expected to deter visitors this weekend to the sixth Eastern Navajo Arts & Crafts Festival.

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Wed Jun 10, 2009

Farmington Daily Times

Troy Turner:Reaching for the light

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

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Mon Jun 08, 2009

The Navajo Times

Police Blotter: Store worker injured in attack

Norman Silargo, 47, of Standing Rock, N.M., learned that first-hand May 23 when he and a fellow worker at the Crownpoint Mustang Store had to cope with four men who rushed into the store about 4:30 a.m. and proceeded to beat him up and steal merchandise.

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