Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, I’ve run into a bump on the road, folks and so I’m not sure how long I’ll be blogging, taking photos, and video taping. I came into the Navajo Council chambers this morning to blog about the Council work session on Delegate LoRenzo Bates’ Legislation 0367-13, which relates to the tribal government take […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens/Human, I didn’t make it out to Twin Arrows Casino & Resort for the Navajo Council’s Budget & Finance Committee meeting and then the Naa’bik’iyati Committee today. And apparently I didn’t miss anything because the B&F never got a quorum so there was no debate or action taken on Legislation 0367-13, which is all […]
SHIPROCK CHAPTER PRESIDENT DUANE “CHILI” YAZZIE: In this purchase of BHP Navajo Coal Mine, there is also a plan to use the Navajo Nation Permanent Trust Fund to buy BHP mine. And so remember, the Navajo people, us, have to approve that first. FEMALE COMMUNITY MEMBER: We should wait for correct language before voting. But […]
Debate begins over Shiprock Chapter President Duane “Chili” Yazzie’s proposed resolution for the Shiprock Chapter to Object to the Navajo Council’s approval of a waiver of liabilities for BHP in the purchase of BHP’s coal mine. SHIPROCK COMMUNITY MEMBER, SAMMY: A lot of people probably already think that the mine is already purchase. I’m concerned […]
Shiprock President Duane “Chili” Yazzie is reading his legislation:”Stating an Objection to the Navajo Nation Council Approval to Grant BHP Mine’s a Waiver of All Liability in the BHP Navajo Mine Purchase by the Navajo Nation.” WHEREAS: The Shiprock Chapter of the Navajo Nation acts on this resolution pursuant to the authority conferred to the […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens, It took most of the day but I finally finished Part 4, which is Navajo Environmental Protection Agency director Stephen Etsitty speaking at the Navajo Generating Station Forum at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff on Nov. 20, 2013. The transcript of Etsitty’s presentation, plus questions from audience members, especially Hopi and Navajo community […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens, I tried posting my latest video, “US EPA talks Pollution Reduction at NGS,” but it was too large. US EPA talks Pollution Reduction at NGS is an interivew I did with Colleen W. McKaughan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Associate Director for the Air Division, on Nov. 12, 2013, at LeChee, Ariz., Chapter, […]
Greeting Relatives/Frens, I was doing a quick check of emails before heading to Navajo Council’s Budget and Finance Committee and I just had to share this press release from Gordon Bronitsky, who is a private entrepeneur that solicites Indigenous people to travel to Europe for cultural exchange. It appears that Bronitsky got Navajo Nation President […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens, I’ve been working on videos and voice recordings of the Status of Navajo Women, Gender Violence and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples forum, which was held Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 at the Fort Defiance, Ariz., Chapter. Today I attended Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly’s Uranium Task Force meeting to present a draft […]
Greetings Relatives/Frens, The agreement to buy BHP Billiton Navajo Coal Mine was signed today, Oct. 31, 2013, which is also Halloween, by Navajo Transitional Energy Company, LLC, and BHP Billiton, That’s according to a BHP press release that I am posting with a web address. According to a press release from Shiprock, N.M., Chapter President […]
