Navajo News

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.