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11/19/2011 Navajo Times: Top doc Diné medical doctor hired to develop 10-year wellness plan
11/19/2011 Navajo Times: Top doc Diné medical doctor hired to develop 10-year wellness plan By Bill Donovan, Special to the Times: The Navajo Nation once again has a top doctor. Dr. Gayle Diné Chacon reported for duty as the medical adviser and chief medical officer to the Division of Health, where she will help the tribe develop long-term strategies to restore the people to good health. She will provide guidance to President Ben Shelly as he seeks to fulfill a campaign promise to develop a 10-year wellness plan to alleviate some of the most chronic problems on the reservation, including diabetes and alcoholism, and make everyone healthier.... Read More
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Tagged Bill Donovan, Division of Health, Dr. Gayle dine' Chacon, Navajo Times, wellness
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11/14/2011 Navajo Times: 5-year uranium cleanup only the beginning
11/14/2011 Navajo Times: 5-year uranium cleanup only the beginning By Alastair Lee Bitsoi” Farmington – More than 100 people gathered here Tuesday (Nov. 
to hear updates from federal officials on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s five-year multi-agency plan to address the health and environmental impacts of uranium development on the Navajo Nation. Called the Navajo Uranium Contamination Stakeholder Workshop, it is a three-day summit held to update tribal officials and impacted Navajo community members on the progress of the plan, which is nearing completion.... Read More
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Tagged 5-year plan, abandoned uranium mines, Alastair Lee Bitsoi, ASTDR, Indian Health Service, Navajo Nation, Navajo Times, Navajo Uranium Contamination Stakeholder workshop, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, public health, Superfund, uranium contamination, uranium mining, US DOE, US EPA
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Journal of Folklore Research An International Journal of Folklore and Ethnomusicology-Bitter Water: Diné Oral Histories of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
Journal of Folklore Research An International Journal of Folklore and Ethnomusicology – Bitter Water: Diné Oral Histories of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute Edited by Malcolm D. Benally. 2011. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 102 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8165-2898-1 (soft cover). Reviewed by Charlotte Frisbie, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville: [Review length: 1732 words • Review posted on November 9, 2011] This extremely important volume makes numerous contributions: for the first time, it presents in both Navajo and English, oral histories or personal narratives of four women from the Black Mesa area, Arizona, women living within and near the HPL or Hopi Partitioned Land area who were/are directly involved in activism opposing the 1974 so-called Navajo Hopi Land Settlement Act, or PL 93-531.... Read More
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
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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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10/27/2011 Navajo Times: Bogus bonuses – 2 Tuba City officials removed for scamming illegal bonuses
10/27/2011 Navajo Times: Bogus bonuses – 2 Tuba City officials removed for scamming illegal bonuses By Bill Donovan, Special to the Times: Two officials for Toh Nanees Dizi Chapter has been removed from office in the investigation into five officials accused of illegally paying themselves bonuses totaling over $80,000. Jimmy Holgate, who served on the chapter governing council, was removed on Tuesday when he failed to show up for a hearing before the Office of Hearings and Appeals. The hearing included witnesses who had traveled all of the way from Tucson. As a result of the default judgment, Holgate will have to reimburse the chapter $7,644 and cannot run for public office for five years.... Read More
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
10/20/2011 Navajo Times: Former MacDonald prosecutors replace Balaran
10/20/2011 Navajo Times: Former MacDonald prosecutors replace Balaran By Bill Donovan, Special to the Times: The Special Division of the Window Rock District Court has decided to go with experience in replacing Alan Balaran as special prosecutor. The division last week approved hiring Santa Fe law firm of Rothstein, Donatelli, Hughes, Dahlstrom & Schoenburg as the new special prosecutor. “The Rothstein law firm, led by attorneys Eric Dahlstrom and Richard Hughes, will continue the investigations into alleged misuse of discretionary funds by high ranking officials of the Navajo Nation,” a press release from the attorney general’s office stated.... Read More
10/13/2011 Navajo Times: Sierra Club blasts feds for ‘rubber-stamping’ mine permits
10/13/2011 Navajo Times: Sierra Club blasts feds for ‘rubber-stamping’ mine permits By Cindy Yurth, Tséyi’ Bureau: A Sierra Club spokesman Tuesday blasted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of Surface Mining for “rubber-stamping” two permits for Peabody Western Coal Co.’s Kayenta Mine, saying they had not seriously considered the impacts on the environment and the community. The US EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board this week finalized a water discharge permit for the mine over the objections of the Sierra Club, the Navajo Nation and the Hopi Tribe, which claimed in an appeal that wastewater from the mine contains heavy metals that could end up in drinking and irrigation water.... Read More
Posted in Climate Change, coal mining, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Navajo Generating Station, Peabody Coal Company, Water
Tagged Andy Bessler, FONSI, government accountability, groundwater reclamation bond, Hopi Tribe, hydrology, injury to water, Kayenta mine, Navajo Nation, Navajo Times, Office of Surface Mining, Peabody Western Coal Company, Sierra Club, US EPA Environmental Appeals Board
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9/29/2011 Navajo Times: A Helping Hand: Ministry builds hogans to help elderly, family in need
Vision Ministry of America volunteers Jonathan Yazzie, right, and Marvin Begaye, work on putting the finishing touches on the roof of the hogan Sept. 22 in Lukachukai, Ariz: 9/29/2011 Navajo Times: A Helping Hand: Ministry builds hogans to help elderly, family in need By Alastair Lee Bitsoi: To help address the housing shortage on the Navajo Nation, Vision Ministry of America has decided to build hogans for those in need.
With the help of 28 volunteers from Tennessee and Texas, the ministry coordinated a mission to construct three hogans at a total cost of $9,000 in the communities of Cove, Lukachukai and Red Valley. Vision Ministry is based in Azle, Texas, outside Fort Worth, and is supported through a network of individuals and an association of churches.... Read More
10/20/2011 Navajo Times: Delegates say lawyer went too far with reform bill