Daily Archives: July 11, 2014

Navajo Council Sacred Sites Subcommittee addresses French auction of Night Way sacred objects

Navajo Council Naabik’iyati Committee Subcommittee on Sacred Sites finished conference call meeting called by UN President of General Assembly and now the Subcommittee is discussing the conference call and other meetings with other indigenous nations that they will be meeting with during their attendance at World Conference of Indigenous Peoples in New York City from […]

Navajo Nation speaking at UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples

Here at Navajo Council Naabik’iyati Committee Subcommittee on Sacred Sites at the north conference room of the Council chambers in Window Rock, Ariz. DELEGATE JONATHAN HALE regarding NN recognition of Rights of Indigenous People, want US involvement and do for all indigenous nations in north America. We are involving. President Obama visited Standing Rock rez. […]

Navajo Nation – President Obama needs to attend World Conference on Indigenous Peoples

Here at Navajo Council Naabik’iyati Committee Subcommittee on Sacred Sites at the north conference room of the Council chambers in Window Rock, Ariz. UNITED STATES we received documents recently and we are going thru process of text and because next consultation so quickly we wanted feedback and throughts before finalize guidance to negotiators in New […]

US draft of UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights lacks teeth to combat Violence Against Indigenous Women

Here at Navajo Council Naabik’iyati Committee’s Subcommittee on Sacred Sites, which is meeting in the north conference room of the Council chamber in Window Rock, Ariz. The Subcommittee is on a conference call with the US Department of State “pertaining to strategic plans and collaborated recommendations from Navajo Nation delegation to meeting called by the […]

Naabik’iyati Committee Subcommittee on Sacred Sites

here at Naabik’iyati Committee Subcommittee on Sacred Sites Leonard Gorman, members of elected body, Jonathan Hale, Dwight Witherspoon, Elmer Begay. Navajo Nation has been involved in development of document and made recommendations regarding rights of indigenous women, protection of sacred sites. Paragraph 26 touches on sacred sites and other paragraphs touch on implementation – US […]