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Tag Archives: President Ben Shelly
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
Confused Signals Come from President Shelly on FY2012 Budget – President’s Shelly’s vetoes target green initiatives, resource development, young people and the elderly
9/23/2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Confused Signals Come from President Shelly on FY2012 Budget – President’s Shelly’s vetoes target green initiatives, resource development, young people and the elderly: WINDOW ROCK: The Navajo Nation Council voiced anger at Navajo President Shelly’s line-item vetoes of portions of the FY2012 Tribal Operating Budget on Friday. Among the cuts in the $556.6 million budget included $111 thousand for the Little Folks Day Care Program, $161 thousand for five Navajo Area Agency on Aging offices in Shiprock, Chinle, Tuba City, Fort Defiance and Crownpoint, $352 thousand from the Navajo Green Commission, $130 thousand from the Resources Committee, and $838 thousand for legislative district staff for the 24 Council Delegates.... Read More
8/21/2011 Att’y letter to UN CERD & Right to Water and Free Assembly
James Zion Letter to Patrick Thorn Berry UN CERD Committee Member“>JAMES W. ZION, Attorney at Law, Admitted in the Navajo Nation, Connecticut and the United States Supreme Court, 3808 Ladera Drive N.W., Albuquerque, NM 87120, (505) 839-9549, August 21,2011 TO: Professor Patrick Thornberry CMG, Professor of International Law, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, UNITED KINGDOM ST5 5BG ... Read More
Posted in drought, government accountability, injury to water quality, Water, Water and Sanitation
Tagged access to water, Big Mountain, Black Mesa, CERD, Ed Becenti, exclusion, forgotten people, free assembly, free speech, Hopi lands, Hopi Tribe, Indian Civil Rights Act, James W. Zion, Marsha Monestersky, Navajo Nation, Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute, non-governmental organization, potable water, President Ben Shelly, Professor Thornberry, State of Public Health Emergency, United Nations, uranium mining, uranium waste, water hauling
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8/2/2011 Forgotten People HPL residents request Safe Drinking Water
Re: Forgotten People and Hopi Partition Land (HPL) residents request for Safe Drinking Water Delivery on top of Black Mesa, in Black Mesa, Cactus Valley, Big Mountain, Star Mountain, Jeddito Island and throughout HPL: From: Caroline Tohannie, Board of Director, Norris Nez, Board of Director, Lucy Knorr, Sec’y/Treasurer, Rena Babbitt Lane, Pauline Whitesinger, Leonard Benally, Carlos Begay, Sr., Hopi Partition Land, Navajo Nation, AZ: Via Email To: Ed Becenti: rezztone@yahoo.com For: President Ben Shelly, The Navajo Nation Venue: Forest Lake Chapter Town Hall Meeting Dated: August 2, 2011: Dear President Shelly: We are blessed that last night as the Board of Directors met to discuss how Hopi Partition Land residents can get access to safe drinking water, Pauline Whitesinger, an elderly matriarch from Big Mountain joined Caroline Tohannie, Rena Babbitt Lane, Carlos W. Begay, Sr. and Leonard Benally to compel the Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly to work with Ed Becenti, Forgotten People’s Window Rock liaison, Forgotten People, the US Environmental Protection Agency, Navajo Department of Water Resources to include safe drinking water delivery on HPL to the US EPA Navajo Nation Pilot Project Feasibility Study and compel the Hopi Tribe to sign off so the Navajo Nation can implement their fiduciary trust responsibility and provide HPL residents with access to safe drinking water and impassable dirt road repair.... Read More
Posted in Climate Change, drought, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Water, Water and Sanitation, water rights
Tagged access to water, Big Mountain, Black Mesa, fidiciary trust responsibility, forgotten people, Hopi Partition Land, HPL, Navajo Nation, President Ben Shelly, right to water
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8/1/2011 US EPA News Release: EPA enters into agreement with Chevron to investigate soil contamination at uranium mine on the Navajo Reservation
8/1/2011 US EPA News Release: EPA enters into agreement with Chevron to investigate soil contamination at uranium mine on the Navajo Reservation: Contact Information: Margot Perez-Sullivan, (415) 947-4149, perezsullivan.margot@epa.gov: SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached an agreement with Chevron USA Inc. to investigate radium-contaminated soil at the Mariano Lake Mine site, a former uranium mine located on the Navajo Nation near Gallup, New Mexico. The agreement is the latest result of an ongoing effort by EPA and Navajo Nation to address contamination from the legacy of uranium mining in the Navajo Nation.... Read More
Posted in cancer, government accountability, injury to water quality, Nuclear power, radioactive waste, uranium mining, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Environmental Protection Agency Superfund, Water
Tagged Chevron USA Inc., harmful legacy, Jared Blumenfeld, legacy, Mariano Lake mine, President Ben Shelly, uraniuim milling, uranium contamination, US Environmental Protection Agency
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7/7/2011 Navajo Times Census: Navajo enrollment tops 300,000
7/7/2011 Navajo Times: Census: Navajo enrollment tops 300,000 By Bill Donovan Special to the Times: WINDOW ROCK: It’s official. There are more than 300,000 enrolled members of the Navajo Nation. The tribe’s census office last week pegged tribal enrollment at 300,048, said Sherrick Roanhorse, chief of staff for President Ben Shelly. Tribal officials have been saying for most of the past decade that the tribe’s enrollment has been in the area of 300,000. This still doesn’t give the Navajos bragging rights as the largest Indian nation in the United States, however. That remains with the Cherokee. In August 2010, the Cherokee Nation gave its enrollment as 288,749, not including the Eastern Band, which accounted for another 13,000 plus members, for a total of about 302,000.... Read More
Posted in government accountability
Tagged census, Cherokee Nation, Navajo Times, President Ben Shelly, Sherrick Roanhorse
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7/29/2011 Gallup Independent: ‘Brazzenness’ Navajo officials charged with misusing millions
7/29/2011 Gallup Independent: ‘Brazzenness’ Navajo officials charged with misusing millions By Kathy Helms, Dine Bureau: WINDOW ROCK – A lawsuit charging current and former top-level officials of the Navajo Nation – including former President Joe Shirley Jr. – with breach of fiduciary responsibility was filed Thursday with Window Rock District Court by Special Prosecutor Alan L. Balaran. The complaint alleges the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal and state grant and contract funds and the associated loss or drastic curtailing of programs vital to children, the elderly, and the indigent. “I filed a complaint against almost every delegate – except for the three or four that settled – against the ex-president, against the current and former attorneys general, against the controller and against the speaker,” Balaran said late Thursday. He also requested that those still in office “be removed from their jobs, do a full accounting, give up their salaries for those times that they were stealing from the people, and return everything.”... Read More
Posted in government accountability
Tagged Attorney General Harrison Tsosie, Attorney General Louis Denetsosie, conspiracy, Controller Mark Grant, discretionary funds, ethic violations, fidiciary responsibility, forgery, fraud, government corruption, Navajo Nation Council, President Ben Shelly, Speaker Lawrence T. Morgan, theft, vice President Rex Lee Jim
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7/1/2011 Gallup Independent: Navajo energy vision ‘a beginning,’ But is it short-sighted? First in a two-part series
7/1/2011 Gallup Independent: Navajo energy vision ‘a beginning,’ But is it short-sighted? First in a two-part series By Kathy Helms, Dine Bureau: GALLUP – The Navajo Nation’s draft energy policy, or “vision statement,” does not dwell on past mistakes. The forward-looking document focuses on a balanced, multi-pronged approach to shape the Nation’s energy future, according to President Ben Shelly’s energy team, which presented the draft Wednesday evening at a public meeting in Gallup. While audience members hailed the policy was “a beginning” and commended the team for its hard work, they also were quick to point out where the policy appeared to be short-sighted. For starters, the grassroots Navajo people were not consulted, according to Teddy Nez of Churchrock. “Also, as a matrilineal society, it’s shocking that there’s no women” on the Energy Advisory Committee, Nikki Alex of Dilkon, an independent researcher and policy analyst, said. The committee is made up of division directors and program managers from within the Executive Branch.... Read More