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Legislation to create Dine’ Uranium Remediation Advisory Commission goes before Navajo Council’s Naabik’iyati Committee on March 12 & Council on March 13

Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, Tomorrow, March 12, will be a busy day. The Navajo Nation Council’s Naabik’iyati Committee is meeting at the Navajo Council chambers in Window Rock, Ariz., starting at 10 a.m. and the Navajo Nation Government Development Commission and Office is having a Listening Session on Navajo Nation Government Reform at the Fort Defiance, Ariz., […]

Navajo Council Naabi now on legislation for Council to select speaker on Jan. 26

Navajo Council’s Naabik’iyati Committee votes 20 in favor, 0 opposed on Legislation 0017-15 Relating To Naabik’iyati’ Committee And Navajo Nation Council; Recommending Changes In The Arizona Liquor Law Statutes To The Arizona State Legislature. Naabi now on Legislation 0005-15 An Action Relating To NAABIK’ IYATI’ And The Navajo Nation Council; Confirming _____________________As Speaker Of The […]

Navajo Council Naabi Committee on amendments to Arizona liquor laws & liquor board

Navajo Council’s Naabik’iyati Committee meeting. A couple of Delegates, including Leonard Tsosie, asked Naabi to move up Legislation (g), (h), (i) up to the front of the agenda. Delegate Filfred said that the members of Naabi spent most of the morning meeting with Navajo Election Administration Director Edison Wauneka. Filfred makes a motion for NEA […]

Navajo Council Naabik’iyati Committee meeting on 9 pieces of legislation

Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans, I’m here at the Navajo Nation Council’s Naabik’iyati Committee meeting in the Navajo Nation Council in Window Rock, Ariz. According to the Naabi Committee proposed agenda, Naabi was scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. At about 11:25 a.m., the meeting was postponed to 1 p.m. It is now 1:28 p.m. and Speaker Pro […]

Naabik’iyati Committee debating $60 million bond for jails

Navajo Council’s Naabik’iyati Committee debating Legislation 0394-14 An Action Relating to Resources and Development; Budget and Finance; and Naa’bik’iyati’ Committees and Navajo Nation Council; Authorizing the Issuance in One or More Series of Navajo Nation General Obligation Bonds in the Aggregate Principal Amount of Up To Sixty Million Dollars $60,000,000) and in the Form of […]

Naabik’iyati Committee supports federal, state funding for Rocky Mountain Fever and Meth, Suicide, Domestic Violence prevention

The Navajo Council’s Naabik’iyati Committee, without debate, approves Legislation No. 0380-14: Relating to Health, Education and Human Services Committee and Naabik’iyati’ Committee; Urging the Arizona Federal Congressional Delegation and Arizona Senators and Representatives to Recognize and Acknowledge the Serious Threat that Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF) Poses to Public Health on the Navajo Nation and […]

Naabik’iyati Committee approves Navajo Nation-New Mexico Gaming Compact

After Naabik’iyati Committee adopts its agenda, the Committee begins deliberations on its first Legislation, 0396-14: Relating to Naabik’iyati’; Approving a Term Sheet for an Amendment to the Tribal State Gaming Compact between the Navajo Nation and the State of New Mexico (Sponsor: Honorable LoRenzo Bates) NAVAJO NATION GAMING CEO DERRITH WATCHMAN 9 percent for first […]

Naabik’iyati Committee on proposed New Mexico-Navajo Nation 2015 Gaming Compact

After Naabik’iyati Committee adopts its agenda, the Committee begins deliberations on its first Legislation, 0396-14: Relating to Naabik’iyati’; Approving a Term Sheet for an Amendment to the Tribal State Gaming Compact between the Navajo Nation and the State of New Mexico (Sponsor: Honorable LoRenzo Bates)

Naabik’iyati Committee removes proposed Fort Wingate, NM, Land Division Act from its agenda today

Here at Navajo Council’s Naabik’iyati Committee, where the committee continues to adopt their proposed agenda. Committee member/Delegate Dwight Witherspoon motions to Delete Legislation No. 0122-140122-14: Relating to Resources and Development and Naabik’iyati’ Committees; Accepting the Fort Wingate Taskforce Memorandum Supporting H.R. 3822 The “Fort Wingate Land Division Act of 2014”; and 2 Documenting the Navajo […]

Proposed Navajo Council legislation to Pardon Navajo Election Board added to Naabik’iyati Committee

Here at Navajo Council Naabik’iyati Committee, where Committee member/Delegate Leonard Tsosie asked to have his legislation added to today’s Naabi agenda. Tsosie’s legislation is, 0391-14 An Action Relating to Naa’bik’iyati’ and Navajo Nation Council; Pardoning Navajo Board of Election Supervisors From Any Violations of Law in the Performance of Their Work in Presiding Over the […]