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11/10/2011 Navajo Times: Funds available for Freeze families, panel says
11/10/2011 Navajo Times: Funds available for Freeze families, panel says By Bill Donovan, Special to the Times. WINDOW ROCK: The Navajo-Hopi Land Commission reports that it has nearly $4 million available to start helping Navajo families in the former Bennett Freeze area. “This is the latest funding for the recovery of the area,” the NHLC office stated in a recent report to the Navajo Nation Council. The money is from an escrow account. For 30 years, 1966 to 1996, Navajo families in the Bennett Freeze area were prohibited from making improvements to their homes because of federal restrictions put in place at the behest of the Hopi Tribe, which claimed prior rights to the land.... Read More
Posted in government accountability, trust fund
Tagged Bennett Freeze, forgotten people, government accountability, Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, Navajo Nation Council, Navajo Nation Gaming Enerprise, Navajo Times, Navajo-Hopi Land Commission, prohibited, Raymond Maxx, rehabilitation trust funds
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10/17/2011 Navajo Times: Changes aim to protect cash from spending
10/17/2011 Navajo Times: Changes aim to protect cash from spending By Marley Shebala: There’s nearly $45 million in the tribe’s Undesignated Unreserved Fund but it may not be there for long if the Navajo Nation Council approves amendments to the Appropriations Act next week. Twelve members of the Nabik’yati’ Committee voted Tuesday to give the amendments a do-pass recommendation, making its passage a good bet during the Council’s fall session next week. The amendments, sponsored by Lorenzo Curley (Houck/Klagetoh/Nahata Dziil/Tse si’ani/Wide Ruins) would expand Ð instead of waiving – rules limiting the Council’s ability to spend the money, most of which is a one-time cash infusion from settlement of a lawsuit against Peabody Energy.... Read More
10/14/2011 Gallup Independent: Law firm selected as special prosecutor
10/14/2011 Law firm selected as special prosecutor By Kathy Helms, Dine Bureau, Gallup Independent: WINDOW ROCK – The law firm that successfully prosecuted former Navajo Nation Chairman Peter MacDonald and other tribal officials 20 years ago has been named to succeed Alan Balaran as the Nation’s special prosecutor. Deputy Attorney General Dana Bobroff announced Thursday that the Special Division of Window Rock District Court appointed the nationally prominent Rothstein Law Firm to continue the investigations into Navajo Nation Council delegates’ use of discretionary funds, alleged crimes by tribal officials involved in contracts or payments to OnSat Network Communications and BCDS Manufacturing, the tribal ranch program and other matters assigned to the Special Division.... Read More
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Tagged Alan Balaran, BCDS Manufactoring, Gallup Independent, government accountability, Kathy Helms, Louis Denetsosie, Navajo Nation, Navajo Nation Chairman Peter MacDonald, Navajo Nation Council, OnSat Network Communications, Rothstein Law Firm, US News & World Report
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10/13/2011 Gallup Independent: Tribe: Public lands threatened by copper, uranium mining
10/13/2011 Tribe: Public lands threatened by copper, uranium mining By Kathy Helms, Dine Bureau, Gallup Independent: WINDOW ROCK – Representatives of the San Carlos Apache Tribe received support Tuesday from Navajo Nation Council delegates in their opposition to a bill which would allow a subsidiary of foreign mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton to acquire more than 2,400 acres in Tonto National Forest for a massive underground copper mine. U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz.-1, is sponsor of H.R. 1904: Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2011. The land exchange would require Congress to lift a decades old mining ban within the 760 acres of federal lands known as Oak Flat, which were set aside from mining in 1955 by executive order of the Eisenhower administration.... Read More
Posted in Climate Change, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Water
Tagged BHP Billiton, copper mining, Dook'o'oosliid, Forests and Public Lands, Gallup Independent, Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon Trust, Havasupai, Hualapai, injury to water, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Jicarilla, Kathy Helms, Navajo Nation, Navajo Nation Council, Rio Tinto, San Carlos Apache, San Francisco Peaks, Sen. John McCain, Subcommittee on National Parks, Tonto Ntional Forest, U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar, uranium contamination, uranium mining, White Mountain Apache, Zuni
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10/12/2011 Gallup Independent: Hopi opposes groundwater use at Arizona Snowbowl
10/12/2011 Hopi opposes groundwater use at Arizona Snowbowl By Kathy Helms, Dine Bureau,Gallup Independent: WINDOW ROCK – A Navajo Nation Council resolution supporting the use of groundwater to make artificial snow at the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort on the San Francisco Peaks near Flagstaff is under fire by the Hopi Tribe. “The Hopi Tribal Council does not join or support a recently proposed Navajo Nation Council resolution recommending the use of groundwater for snow-making on Nuvatukyaovi,” the Hopi name for the sacred mountain, Hopi stated Tuesday in a press release. Hopi believe the only water appropriate for Nuvatukyaovi is natural water as provided by rain and snow. “There can be no exceptions,” they said.... Read More
Posted in Climate Change, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Water
Tagged Arizona Snowbowl, artificial snow, Dook'o'ooosliid, Gallup Independent, Hopi religion, Hopi Tribe, Kathy Helms, Navajo Nation Council, Nuvatukyaovi Navajo Nation, ski resort, Walter Phelps
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10/11/2011 Gallup Independent: Navajo hopes to regulate uranium ore transport
10/11/2011 Navajo hopes to regulate uranium ore transport By Kathy Helms Gallup Independent, Dine Bureau: WINDOW ROCK – A resolution opposing the transport of uranium ore and product across the Navajo Nation, with the exception of hauling legacy waste to a disposal facility outside Navajo Indian Country, has been approved by the Law and Order Committee and is making its way to the Navajo Nation Council. The resolution sponsored by Delegate Duane Tsinigine of Bodaway/Gap would amend the Navajo Nation Code to regulate the activity of non-Navajos on publicly granted rights of way across Navajo land. “This is mainly regarding the health and welfare of the Navajo Nation, bottom line. It’s a protection act,” Tsinigine said.... Read More
Posted in cancer, Climate Change, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, Navajo Environmental Protection Agency, Nuclear power, radioactive waste, uranium mining, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Environmental Protection Agency Superfund
Tagged EPA, Gallup Independent, Kathy Helms, Navajo Nation, Navajo Nation Council, Navajo Nation DOJ, public health, uranium mining Navajo Nation EPA, uranium transport, uranium transport ban, US EPA, White Mesa mill
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10/10/2011 Navajo Times: Court orders protects documents, Balaran ends job: ‘going fishing’
10/10/2011 Navajo Times: Court orders protects documents, Balaran ends job: ‘going fishing’ By Bill Donovan, Special to the Times: Alan Balaran, who stepped down as special prosecutor on Friday, stirred up a hornet’s nest with his court filings over concerns for financial documents housed in Administration Building No. 1. It’s an issue that seemingly didn’t want to die even after Window Rock District Court Judge Carol Perry ruled in a hearing on Sept. 26 that no documents could be removed from the building. Last Friday, Perry issued a formal order saying no documents could be taken out of the building or destroyed without the court’s permission.... Read More
10/7/2011 Navajo Nation Council – Office of the Speaker FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Speaker attempting to solve issues stemming from line item vetoes:
10/7/2011 Navajo Nation Council – Office of the Speaker FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Speaker attempting to solve issues stemming from line item vetoes: WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – A week and half after President Ben Shelly line item vetoed portions of the FY2012 Tribal Operating Budget, the Speaker is left with the task of solving the problems that have ensued as a result of Shelly’s contradictory action. In addition to the line item vetoing of funding for the Little Folks Day Care Program, five Navajo Area Agency on Aging offices, the Navajo Green Commission, the Resources Committee, and the Legislative District Assistants for the 24 Council Delegates, the President vetoed personal travel and operating supplies from both the Office of the Speaker and the Office of Legislative Services.... Read More
Naabik’iyati’ Committee of the Navajo Nation Council passes legislation requesting President Obama to suspend the U.S. Forest Service Permit for Snowbowl
10/5/2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Naabik’iyati’ Committee of the Navajo Nation Council passes legislation requesting President Obama to suspend the U.S. Forest Service Permit for Snowbowl: Gorman, on behalf of Navajo human rights, presents the legislation with Hon. Jonathan Nez: ST. MICHAELS, Ariz.—On the day Navajo Nation human rights officials were en route to host a public hearing in Flagstaff about the San Francisco Peaks, one Navajo human rights official remained at the Navajo Nation’s capital to present a United Nations report about “The Peaks” to the Naabik’iyati’ Committee at the Navajo Nation Council Chambers.... Read More
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Tagged human rights, Hunited Nations Human Rights Council, James Anaya, Naabik'i'iyati', Navajo Nation, Navajo Nation Council, Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission, President Obama, Snowbowl, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, US Forest Servive, wastewater
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10/3/2011 Gallup Independent: Judge allows month to name special prosecutor
10/3/2011 Judge allows month to name special prosecutor By Kathy Helms, Dine Bureau, Gallup Independent: WINDOW ROCK – Just minutes before Navajo Nation Special Prosecutor Alan Balaran’s contract was set to expire Friday, District Court Judge Carol Perry issued a month-long stay of proceedings to allow time for the appointment of a new special prosecutor and completion of the transition. Perry issued the “sua sponte” order at 4:55 p.m., in consideration of “the imminent departure” of Balaran, whose contract expired at 5 p.m. following the Special Division’s decision not to renew it. ... Read More