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Making public buildings on Navajo Reservation accessible to the disabled

PRESS RELEASE – Navajo Nation enforces the Vocational Rehabilitation and Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities Act WINDOW ROCK (11-18-2014) – Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly signed an executive order on Monday that immediately ensures access to all community services across the Navajo Reservation for people with disabilities. Navajo Council Delegate Danny Simpson, who represents the […]

Proposed Navajo Guardianship Act TABLED

HERE AT NAABIK’IYATI COMMITTEE. DEBATING LEGISLATION 0100-14, PROPOSED GUARDIANSHIP ACT OF 2014. DELEGATE DANNY SIMPSON I agree that a work session is needed and so if Naabi tables, i wud not take to Council next week during spring session. DELEGATE JONATHAN HALE I want date from Delegates Tsosie and Curley for work session because when […]

Proposed law would give back all freedom to disabled

Naabik’iyati Committee now on Legislation 0100-14, approving Navajo Nation Guardianship Act of 2014. DELEGATE JONATHAN HALE what these amendments do is bring back family into choices, not just corporations and adds clarity to process, instead of going straight to caregiver but bring in family. AMENDMENT – (WE several pages and so I’ll have to get […]

Navajo Council standing committee info

The Navajo Council’s Health, Education and Human Services Committee is scheduled to meet today, April 16, 2014, at 10 a.m. at the Navajo Council chambers north conference room in Window Rock, Ariz. The Council’s top committee, the Naabik’iyati Committee, is scheduled to meet on Thursday, April 17, 2014, at 10 a.m. at the Council chambers. […]