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Tlingit artist creates stamp for U.S. Postal Service

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Stamp unveiled as part of Forever Stamps series

The U.S. Postal Service has tapped Rico Lanáat’ Worl, a Tlingit/Athabascan artist based in Juneau, Alaska to create a Northwest Coast art stamp for distribution in 2021.

The design of the stamp, titled “Raven Story” by Rico Lanáat’ Worl, was unveiled the week of...

Winslow, Ariz. elects first Native mayor

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Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer congratulate Roberta Wilcox Cano, a member of the Navajo Nation, and the very first Native American to be elected to serve as the Mayor for the City of Winslow, Ariz. — located near the southern part of the Navajo Nation.

“We congratulate Mayor-elect Cano and her team for the successful campaign they organized and for making history by becoming the first Native American to be elected for this position,” Nez said. “Our administration looks forward to building a great partnership with her office in the years to come. I wish her the very best and I will be praying for her continued success.”

Mayor-elect Cano is...

McKinley, San Juan counties added to RECA

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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Updates to Congressional lobbying efforts by the Navajo Nation to amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act were delivered to the 24th Navajo Nation Council during its Nov. 17 special meeting.

“This is an issue of life. This is an issue that requires, and does deserve, everyone’s utmost attention in Congress,” Matt Sandgren, founder and principal of Innovative Policy, the Navajo Nation’s RECA lobbying firm in Washington, D. C. said. Sandgren was joined by Innovative Policy staff Melanie Bowen and Ron Dean during the report to the committee.

Without the amendment, the RECA will expire in July 2022 in spite of widespread continued negative effects...

NMDOH to introduce COVID-19 saliva tests

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SANTA FE — The New Mexico Department of Health, evolving with the demands of COVID-19, will begin administering an FDA-approved COVID test that involves swabbing the mouth to collect a saliva sample. The department started offering the test in Albuquerque at Balloon Fiesta Park Nov. 23.

NMDOH is collaborating with Curative, a research company in California that has created the first oral fluid test in the U. S. The saliva samples have been demonstrated to be at least as accurate as the more traditional nasopharyngeal test swab.

The tests will be self-collected — meaning they do not require a trained health care worker to administer — but trained personnel will be present when...

Governor Lujan Grisham announces pre-Thanksgiving special session

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State relief for business, unemployed, more

SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced her plan to call the New Mexico Legislature into special session Nov. 24, to take up a relief package for New Mexicans who have been affected by the economic devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The governor’s priorities for the session – sometimes referred to as the governor’s “call” – include direct unemployment assistance, supplementing the payments to New Mexicans whose employment has been impacted by the economic fallout of the pandemic; grants to New Mexico businesses, making meaningful funding assistance as accessible as possible for business-owners whose operations...

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