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Effective 7.13.20, Going to NM with Out of State license means 14-quarantine days

Yá’át’ééh abíní Relatives/Frens/Humans! When I tuned into the Navajo Nation Council Naabik’iyati Committee State Task Force teleconference meeting yesterday, 7.10.20, Friday, the meeting had already started and State Task Force members, who are Council delegates, were informing someone that New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan-Grisham’s amended public health order July 10, 2020, was unfair to the […]

COVID-19 kills 41 Dine’ relatives; 1,042 positive cases 4.16.20

6:19 pm PRESS RELEASE – 121 new cases of COVID-19 and three more deaths reported WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — The total number of positive tests for COVID-19 has reached 1,042 for the Navajo Nation as of Thursday – an increase of 121 positive cases since Wednesday, according to the Navajo Department of Health and Navajo […]

COVID-19 has taken 38 of our Relatives; 921 positive cases 4.15.20

6:21 pm PRESS RELEASE Navajo Nation Health Command Operations Center confirms 83 new cases of COVID-19, total now to 921 WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation Health Command Operations Center (HCOC) has now confirmed an overall total of 921 cases of Dikos Ntsaaígíí-19 (COVID-19) as of Wednesday, Apr. 15. The cases include 823 cases […]

Navajo Nation COVID-19 Update: 5 more deaths; 92 cases in bordertowns. 4.14.20

5:59 pm PRESS RELEASE – Navajo Nation HCOC confirms 746 positive COVID-19 cases on Nation, 92 positive bordertown cases WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation Health Command Operations Center (HCOC) has now confirmed an overall total of 838 cases of Dikos Ntsaaígíí-19 (COVID-19) as of Tuesday, Apr. 14. The cases include 746 cases located […]

Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission hosting public hearings on treatment of Navajo citizens by border town police

www.nnhrc.navajo-nsn.gov/docs/TNCBLE-PublicHearings_updated.pdf. The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission is hosting public hearings on the treatment of Navajo citizens by law enforcement in border towns. In 2008, the NNHRC hosted several public hearings that examined race relations between Navajo and non-Navajo citizens. The Commission found that there is a serious lack of understanding of Navajo culture by […]