Proclaimed a model for bringing pandemic numbers down in a region

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. - Tribal parks are reopening. Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez made it official in a signing ceremony at Window Rock Navajo Tribal Park July 6.

Resolution No. CJN-36-21 allows Navajo Nation parks to reopen at 50 percent capacity with safety protocols in place. It also includes provisions for schools to reopen under a required safety plan.

Council Delegate Carl Slater (Lukachukai, Rock Point, Rough Rock, Round Rock, Tsaile-Wheatfields) sponsored Resolution No. CJN-36-26, which was passed by the 24th Navajo Nation Council on June 25. That resolution rescinded a number of COVID-19-related...

New policy goes into effect for 2021/2022 school year

MCKINLEY COUNTY — A new tobacco-free policy at Gallup McKinley County Schools is getting recognized by the New Mexico Department of Health Tobacco Use Prevention and Control program.

The GMCS Board of Education voted June 14 to adopt a comprehensive, tobacco-free school policy, joining 14 other school districts across the state in using 24/7 campaign guidelines.

David Tompkins, TUPAC Community Health Initiatives Manager said seeing Gallup McKinley County Schools adopt the 100 percent tobacco-free policy is a huge win for the campaign.

“Lives are on the other side of this work, and we are thankful for the district’s...

FARMINGTON —Navajo Nation leaders met with U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., at the Navajo Agricultural Products Industry  Headquarters to hear issues regarding the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project and the proposed Chaco Protection Act.

NAPI officials welcomed members of the 24th Navajo Nation Council, Sen. Luján, his constituents, Navajo Nation Vice President Myron Lizer, and Navajo Nation Washington Office Executive Director Santee Lewis on July 1, before discussing the shortcomings on the operations and maintenance of NIIP.

NIIP was established to irrigate 110,630 acres of farmland on NAPI in 1962. It is federally owned, operated, and maintained by NAPI through Public Law...

Week ending Friday, July 2, 2021

Record Heat

The punishing heat wave that has baked much of western Canada up to the Arctic and down to the northwestern U.S. is being made more intense by hotter temperatures at night in areas that normally cool down after sunset. Experts say that this is making nights much warmer than the normal daytime temperatures. Simon Donner of the University of British Columbia said the hot nights are like a fingerprint of climate change. “This is exactly a specific sort of prediction that scientists have been making — that we would have warmer nights,” said Donner. The “heat dome” has caused hundreds of deaths and set an all-time heat record for...