Navajo Nation

On Tribal Lands, Digital Divide Brings New Form Of Isolation

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Internet Access, Navajo Nation, Native American, Native Americans, Tribal Land, The Navajo Nation, Breakdown, Internet, Navajo, Fcc, Federal Communications Commission, Broadband Access, Wireless, Navajo Indians Internet Access, Technology News

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. -- Like many college students, Wilhelmina Tsosie must go online to complete her assignments. But unlike the vast majority of Americ...

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The Next Disneyland?

AP | FELICIA FONSECA | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Grand Canyon Navajo, Video, Navajo Nation, Navajo Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon Development, East Rim Grand Canyon, Bodaway Gap, Green News

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Generations of Navajo families have grazed livestock on a remote but spectacular mesa that overlooks the confluence of the Colorad...

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Democratic Shift: Arizona Turns to New Leadership in Historic Congressional Campaign

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Labor, Navajo Nation, Latino Voters, Ann Kirkpatrick, United Steelworkers of America, Wenona Benally Baldenegro, Paul Gosar, Native America, Arizona, Democrats, Benally Baldenegro, Politics News

With a 9-point Democratic voter edge in the newly redrawn District 1, an alliance of resurgent Arizona Democratic Party leaders and Latino and Native American groups has placed Wenona Benally Baldenegro's historic Congressional campaign into the national spotlight.

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Navajo To Urban Outfitters: Stop Ripping Off Our Name

AP | FELICIA FONSECA | Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Branding, Video, Navajo Nation, Navajo, Urban Outfitters, Trademark Infringement, Hipster Clothing, Business News

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- The Navajo Nation has sued Urban Outfitters Inc. months after the tribe sent a cease and desist letter to the clothing retailer de...

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Better Late Than Never: A Conversation With Buffy Sainte-Marie

Mike Ragogna | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Joe Cocker, John Trudell, Navajo Nation, American Indians, Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Jennifer Warnes, Cree, Entertainment News

"I found out a couple years ago that I'm actually dyslexic in music ... it does explain why I can write for an orchestra but then I can't read it back the next day. It's like trying to write with my left hand. It can be done but it doesn't make any sense for me."

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Banned for Life From Facebook, Man Finds a Home on Google Plus (Video)

Dan McDermott | Posted 01.15.2012

My special guest on this edition of Google Plus Week is Adam Guerbuez, the Montreal marketer who got sued for $873 million by Facebook and lost.

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A Code Talker's 'Journey to War and Back'

Dorian de Wind | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Clarence Wolf Guts., u.s. Marines, World War II, Navajo-Nation, Code Talkers, Chester Nez., Native Americans, Windtalkers, Impact News

A little more than a year ago, I wrote an article about a subject that I found fascinating: "The World War II Navajo Code Talkers." It started with a...

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Urban Outfitters Removes 'Navajo' From Its Product Descriptions

The Huffington Post | Erin Clements | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Jezebel, Urban Outfitters Controversy, Navajo Nation, Urban Outfitters, Navajo, Style News

Last week, we reported that Urban Outfitters was taking heat for featuring the word "Navajo" in its product descriptions. In an open letter to the ...

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Navajos Seek Exemption For Grand Canyon Flights

AP | By FELICIA FONSECA | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Global Pulse, Grand Canyon, Navajo Nation, Navajos Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon Tourism, Travel News

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- An American Indian tribe whose reservation borders the Grand Canyon wants to boost its economy by giving tourists an aerial view o...

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'Green News Report' - October 4, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Epa, Nigeria, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green Belt Movement, Green News Report, Pollution, Solar Decathlon, Coal, Radiation, Engineering, Military, Radioactivity, Oil Spill, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Solar Power, Global Warming, Bp, Energy, Lobbying, Nuclear Energy, Environmentalism, Shell Oil, Texas, Energy Efficiency, Koch Brothers, Dept of Energy, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Koch Industries, Sustainability, Logging, Natural Gas, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Solyndra, China, Salmon, Navajo Nation, Shipping, Forests, Salmonella, Factory Farming, Mining, Uranium, James Hansen, Tuvalu, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Koch Indu...

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Street Art Campaign Protests Coal Mining In Navajo Nation

Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Brooklyn Street Art, Navajo Nation, Unemployment, Jetsonorama, 350.Org, Slidepollajax, Flagstaff, Arizona, Flagstaff-Arizona, Coal Mining, Coal, Home News

Brooklyn Street Art reports: Street Artist Jetsonorama has a new campaign in Flagstaff, Arizona and on the Navajo Nation reservation using his photogr...

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Eat Your Heart Out On Record-breaking Taco

AP | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Navajo Nation, Navajo Taco, Bill Lee, Weird New Mexico, World' Largest Navajo Taco, Gallup New Mexico, Gallup Mckinley County Chamber of Commerce, Weird News News

GALLUP, N.M. -- Residents in Gallup have set what is being billed as the record for the world's largest Navajo taco, using 150 pieces of fry bread and...

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Navajo Nation Strugging With Reservation Dogs

AP | By JERI CLAUSING | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Navajo Nation, Feral Dogs, Vicious Dogs, Rez Dog, Navajo Nation Animal Care, Kayenta, Reservation Dogs, Navajo Nation Vets, Loose Dogs, Denver News

GALLUP, N.M. -- The 55-year-old man was found lying on the side of the road on the Navajo Nation, a pack of dogs mauling him relentlessly. Emergency w...

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Arizona's New Democrats: Wenona's Historic Bid Inspires Bipartisan Campaign Against Radical Tea Party Rep. Gosar

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Grand Canyon, Navajo Nation, Congress, Independents, Rep. Paul Ryan, Rep. Paul Gosar, Wenona Benally Baldenegro, President Obama, Epa, Rural America, Arizona, Democrats, Health Care, Tea Party, Republicans, Politics News

In one of the largest Congressional districts in the nation, stretching across the rural heartland of eastern Arizona from the Four Corners region to ...

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Swastika Case Another Race Issue For Four Corners Town

AP | TIM KORTE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Four Corners, Navajo Nation, Swastika, Farmington New Mexico, Denver News

FARMINGTON, N.M. — Three friends had just finished their shifts at a McDonald's when prosecutors say they carried out a gruesome attack on a cus...

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Uranium Mine At Navajo Aquifer Can Go Forward After Court Ruling

AP | SUE MAJOR HOLMES | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Navajo Nation, New Mexico Environmental Law Center, New Mexico, Leach Mining, Navajo Aquifer, Uranium, Denver News

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A company says the U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the last legal challenge to its license to mine uranium at an aquifer that...

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Voices From the Inside: Prison News Is Back

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Navajo Nation, Publishing, California, Maximum Security Prison, San Quentin Prison, Prison, San Quentin, Johnny Cash, Newspaper, San Quentin News, San Francisco, Entertainment News

Prisoners make of life behind bars what they can. While for many of them the outside is no longer theirs to experience, there are ways for them to connect to it -- ways like the San Quentin News.

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Black Cross Movement Calls Out Dangerous Navajo Coal Mines (Photos)

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Navajo Nation, Black Cross Alliance, Massey, Msha, Office of Surface Mining, Peabody, Coal, Coal Mining, Strip Mining, Kayenta, Dinetah, Green News

As the Labor Department made an unprecedented move yesterday to file a court injunction to shut down a hazardous Massey Energy coal mine in eastern Ke...

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Green News Report: November 2, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Jobs, 2010 Elections, Clean Energy, Fda, Green News Report, Water Crisis, Pipeline, Offshore Drilling, Rising Sea Level, Tea Baggers, Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, Genetically Modified Food, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Disney, Global Warming Deniers, Gulf of Mexico, Tea Party, Bp, Yemen, Gmos, Van Jones, Terrorism, BRAD BLOG, California Prop 23, Mrsa, Green News, Climate Legislation, BP Oil Spill, Ethanol, Salmon, Navajo Nation, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., United Nations, Convention on Biological Diversity, Natural Capitalism, Global Warming, Rfk Jr, Mining, Halliburton, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Steppin' ...

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HuffPost's Greatest Person Of The Day: Dr. Patricia Nez Henderson, Native American Health Advocate

The Huffington Post | Dominique Fenton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Navajo Nation, American Indians, Health, Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Native Americans, Slideshow, Tobacco, South Dakota, History of the Black Hills in Indian Country, Slidepollajax, Lakota, Video, Impact News

Every day on HuffPost, we're highlighting one 'Greatest Person' -- an exceptional individual who is confronting the country's economic and political c...

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Where to Get Your Kicks on Route 66: Gallup, New Mexico

Karen Tina Harrison | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Route 66, Vintage Shopping, Native Americans, Navajo Nation, New Mexico, Road Trips, Southwest, Travel News

Gallup, New Mexico is fantastically funky. A slice of Americana rarely seen nowadays, it has barely changed since Route 66's mid-century heyday.

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Navajo Nation Vote To Reduce Size Of Tribal Council

AP | FELICIA FONSECA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joe Shirley Jr., Tribal Council, Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, Line Item Veto, Denver News

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Navajos voted Tuesday to drastically reduce the size of the Tribal Council and give their president a line-item veto in the f...

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Coal Power Plant: EPA To Reconsider Navajo Nation's Permit

The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Navajo Nation, Colorado, Desert Rock, New Mexico, Environmental Protection Agency, Coal-Fired Plants, Nm, Shiprock, Denver News

Opponents of coal-fired power plants around the country were buoyed by a decision Friday to send the proposed 1,500-megawatt Desert Rock facility near...

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Taking Peyote in a Navajo Tipi Ceremony

Karin Luisa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Navajo Nation, Tipi, Mexico, Peyote, Guadalajara, Marakame, Shamanism, Tepic, Huichol, Csikszentmihalyi, World News

The participants were engrossed, believing in the bowl, the spirit of Peyote, the words of the chief as he now admonished us to learn how to pray.

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Looking Backwards in Order to Move Forward

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainability, Green Economy, Navajo Nation, Green Energy, Green News

The Navajo Nation, currently saddled with a 44% unemployment rate, has become the first Native American tribe to pass green jobs legislation.

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