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"This is national native news. I'm Antonia Gonzalez, a federal commission held a hearing this week in northern Arizona as part of a national effort to address missing and murdered indigenous people. Arizona public radio's Ryan Hinch's reports. The not invisible act commission met near Flagstaff for the third in a series of hearings throughout the U.S. members were appointed by the departments of the interior and justice. They heard emotional testimony from family members of missing and murdered indigenous people, along with tribal law enforcement and victim and family service providers. Navajo Nation council delegate amber Kane is bakra is a member of the commission. What I want to see from the commission is federal partners either recognize that they play a part in this or to provide that funding to the nations can do that work themselves. The commission heard recommendations for how to better coordinate responses to missing persons cases and provide better communication and funding for family and victim assistance on tribal lands. Those who testified also called for more accountability of public officials in solving missing persons and murder cases. The 2019 not invisible act was sponsored by then representative Deb haaland, who now serves as interior secretary, the commission will develop recommendations and submit a report to Holland, attorney general Merrick Garland, and Congress. For national native news, I'm Ryan Heinz, and Flagstaff. More minds are being proposed and the western U.S. to provide medals for the expected growth in electric vehicles, also for large storage batteries for power generation and other high-tech products aimed at reducing climate change. The nez perce tribe is worried about one of those mines proposed for central Idaho. Chuck Korn Bach of station Wu WM reports. Perpetua resources wants to develop an open pit gold and antimony mine at a former mining site near a fork of the salmon river, antimony is used in solar panels, and is expected to have a big future in battery storage units near solar and wind farms, perpetua spokesperson, McKinsey Lion, says what her company calls the stibnite project, would be a source of metals now often brought in from overseas. The most important thing we can do is bring mineral production home because when it is home, they are impacts that we can control here. We can regulate moderate and have oversight of. But environmental groups are raising concerns about the stibnite proposal, so is the nez perce tribe as the tribe has treaty reserved rights and natural resources, cultural resources, and sacred sites in the area, Shannon Wheeler is tribal, vice chairman. Good morning to everyone. I appreciate you being here. Wheeler recently met with about 50 members of the society of environmental journalists to talk about his concerns with the stibnite project. The main one being the fate of endangered salmon that returned from the Pacific Ocean to Idaho waters to spawn. Generally there are 5 year old fish that are coming back to that area and so it's truly important that we keep that water as clean and cold and as fresh as possible for them because they have a gauntlet to go through they have dams, reservoirs, predation. Perpetua hopes to be granted a mining permit in the next year or so, and open the stibnite mine within four years. I'm chuck krumbach. The federation of sovereign Indian nations is calling for cultural sensitivity training in all areas of sports after an ESPN broadcaster mocked an indigenous hockey player's name anchor John Anderson compared Zach white cloud's name to toilet paper Monday night, then later apologized to the golden knights player, First Nations leaders applauded the apology but said the training is needed. White cloud accepted the apology telling reporters he's proud of his culture and that this is something the anchor and others can learn from. I'm Antonia
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"This is national native news. I'm Jill freitas from KMA and anchorage, Alaska, filling in for Antonio Gonzalez. A bill in the Washington legislature seeks to make it easier for people who commit crimes on Native American reservations to face justice. Steve Jackson reports. The bill had a hearing in the Senate law and justice committee this week. So in a tribal prosecutor Melissa simonson says, in many cases, it can be very difficult to get those charged with a crime committed on a reservation back to face trial if they flee. In the judicial system, if a tribal court issues a warrant for serious crimes, assaults against children, domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and that individual leaves the reservation. There is no access to justice, the warrant can not be collected upon by any Washington state law enforcement officer. This measure would allow a tribal prosecutor to go to the state attorney general's office or the local prosecutor's office to seek a warrant. Some who testified spoke of current agreements between tribes and individual counties to bring people to justice. Russell Brown of the Washington association of prosecuting attorneys expressed some concerns with the way the bill is currently written. He said that there might be a better way to achieve the goal with less complexity. Each tribe within Washington could enter into an agreement with the governor of Washington. There wouldn't need to be simple agreements between all the counties, for example, you wouldn't need 39 counties agreeing with 29 tribes. You would have one state compact that the tribes could agree and enter into. The bill originally passed the house on March 1st. For national native news, I'm Steve Jackson reporting from Spokane. A Guatemalan indigenous environmental activist says there was an attempt on his life this week as a bus run into the car in which he was driving on a highway in northern Guatemala. As Maria Martin reports, Bernardo could all show has been criminalized for many years as a result of his work trying to save a Guatemalan river. 51 year old Bernardo calcio is a mayak Chi teacher union activist and environmental leader in the northern Guatemalan province of Alta verapaz. He was released from prison last year after serving four years on charges Amnesty International says her spurious and retaliatory. The human rights organization has declared a quote prisoner of conscience, saying he's been criminalized for his work opposing a hydroelectric project of the cahaba river, which the kick shima considers sacred. Reported on a Facebook video that his car had been deliberately hit from behind. After he'd left court for a mandatory appearance in the city of goban. Gal complained of back and chest pain, standing alongside his almost totally destroyed vehicle. He says he fears for his life and is asking Guatemalan authorities to investigate the incident. But some analysts doubt that Bernardo cultural would get justice from the same system that's worked to criminalize him and other Guatemalan indigenous activists for years. For national native news. Former president of the Navajo Nation Ben Shelley passed away from a long-term illness on Wednesday at the age of 75. Shelley served as a member of the Navajo Nation council for more than a decade beginning in the early 1990s before being elected as vice president in 2007. He went on to becoming president of the tribe through 2015. He also served as a county commissioner. Shelley is being remembered for his longtime leadership and is credited for establishing the Navajo transitional energy company, which was created to achieve greater sovereignty over the tribe's natural resources. A private service is being held, but the tribe is working on a public memorial. Flags in the Navajo Nation
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"This is native America calling I'm Andy Murphy sitting in for Sean spruce. People from across Navajo Nation and the globe honored former Navajo president Peterson saw over the weekend. Za walked on last week at the age of 35, and world leaders and ordinary citizens alike remembered him as a thoughtful, bold leader whose contributions continued to live on. His granddaughter crystalline curly said her grandfather will be remembered as someone who spread hope throughout the whole Navajo Nation. Curly is the Navajo Nation council speaker and the first female speaker. President Biden and his wife Jill Biden sent a message saying za never last never lost sight of his purpose to stand up for the dignity and respect of the Navajo people. We'll get a few more perspectives today on Peterson the person and the inspirational leader. You can join our conversation too, just dial one 809 9 6 two 8 four 8 that's also one 809 9 native. Now joining us from Flagstaff, Arizona is Robert Joe. He is the managing partner with towerhouse group and a partner with tribal carbon. He is dene. Welcome to native America calling Robert. Yes, good morning. Good morning. So what was your relationship like with Peterson za? Well, growing up I knew who he was. He was my uncle. And I know about his political career, but I never really worked with him one on one and tell 11 years ago somehow we ended up getting together and started working on the various projects that he had an interest in and that I was working on and so that's been our relationship and I've been driving them around, picking them up, going places, driving all over the country, meeting so many people, so many tribes. And so many different type of companies in the past 11 years. Yeah. What kind of person was he? Humble. Very humble. Very loving. I would say unconditional love
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"This is national native news. I'm Antonia Gonzalez. The Alaska native community of tiona is pushing back on its inclusion in a local planning group that makes decisions about land management, but which they say formed without their input. Riley bored with K DLL reports. Is a remote predominantly native community on the west side of Alaska's cook inlet across the water from the state's population centers of anchorage and the kenai Peninsula. While the community falls under the purview of the kenai Peninsula borough, its culturally and geographically distant from the boroughs of their communities. That's one of the reasons residents are objecting to their inclusion in a new planning commission based on the other side of the inlet and the predominantly non native community of nikitsky. When somebody talks about that few of people determining that they'll have a huge voice and land planning for 3 million acres on the other side of the inlet this seems inappropriate. That's Steven, CEO of the ionic native corporation. He says the planning commission does not represent the residents of ionic and was formed without its knowledge by residents in the kiske, who wanted more of a voice in land management and permitting decisions. Proponents described ionic as quote nici's backyard, where its residents hunt and vacation. Says that notion is offensive. The villagers from Taiwan and some of our shareholders, they were highly offended by that because they don't see it as a vacation land. They see it as a land where they do their subsistence living and where they've been living for hundreds of years. It's not a vacation land in their eyes. It's their home. Some members of the boroughs governing body were sympathetic to tayo and concerns, but ultimately the assembly was split on whether to remove the community from the planning commission's boundaries. The assembly will reconsider the plan at a meeting tomorrow, where viscosity says ionic residents are planning to turn out and testify. Dozens of ionic residents and several native entities have already submitted letters in support. For national native news, I'm Riley bored. Doctor boo nygren has passed his first 30 days as president of the Navajo Nation, one of the largest tribes in the United States, president nigran says he's already fulfilled one of his campaign promises by lifting COVID-19 restrictions, fully opening the Navajo Nation. The tribe was still under COVID-19 mandates when he took office in January. We lift the mask mandate because I felt like it was about time, all the surrounding communities have reopened all the surrounding cities have reopened and we just precautionary and made it optional for people to wear a mask. Migrants says he's met with the governors of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, the Navajo Nation is located in the three states. He's also met with U.S. lawmakers and made his first official visit to Washington, D.C., where he attended President Biden's State of the Union. Those helping him lead the Navajo Nation in his administration are a number of Navajo women, including his vice president, veterans affairs director and chief legal counsel. Vice president Rochelle Montoya made history in January becoming the first Navajo woman to serve in the position. I think it's just my belief in just making sure the best people are in place and at this moment in time those types of people are in those positions. The Navajo Nation council this year also inaugurated a historic number of women, 9 of 24 delegates. Migrants says he's working closely with the council to address many of the issues facing the tribe from making sure federal COVID-19 recovery funds are spent to tackling infrastructure needs. I'm Antonia Gonzalez.
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"Welcome to native America calling, I'm Sean spruce. Are you a good tipper? Are you a good tipper only if the person you're tipping earns it? There's some science to tipping from the customer's perspective, but it's a gray area and a lot of circumstances. There are entire online forums filled with questions and advice about who to tip and how much. And how did the custom of tipping start? Today, we'll get the views of the employers and employees in the tipping scene. And we'll take your calls about how you approach tipping. That's all right after the news. This is national native news. I'm Antonia Gonzalez. The 160th anniversary of the bear river massacre was recently marked with an event at the site of the attack in Idaho. The northwestern band of the shoshone nation plans to build a cultural interpretive center at the site, Amy van tatenhove reports. Over 150 years ago, the United States Army attacked and killed as many as 500 shoshone men, women, and children in northern cash valley Idaho. The attack resulted in one of the largest slaughters of Native Americans in U.S. history. The site of the attack along the bear river or whoo to agua had been used for hundreds of years as a place for trade, cultural exchange and socialization by the shoshone nation. Darren Perry, former chairman of the northwestern band of the shoshone nation, spoke at an event honoring the victims of the attack. He shared that the site has remained a priority for the shoshone, despite the tragedy that unfolded at the hands of the U.S. Army. When something terrible happens, at a place where human lives are lost, that place always seems to take on a new meaning. The 14.6 acres of the world trade centers. The beaches of Normandy, a homemade memorial at the site of the road where a fatal traffic accident occurred. In partnership with local universities and ecological consultants, the shoshone nation has ambitious plans to honor victims of the massacre and to share shoshone culture with an interpretive center. Brian Andrews, an environmental engineer on the project. Does the partnership is hoping to encourage outdoor recreation and appreciation of the site with a system of walking trails, a waterway for canoes and paddleboards and interpretive signage throughout. When you come here, when it's ultimately done, we'll have trees and things along that cornfield, what we'd like you to do is to go back in time. For national native news, I'm Mimi fantino. On Tuesday, tribal leaders gathered at the capitol in Salt Lake City to advocate for the protection of the federal Indian child welfare act to keep native children with native families at the state level in Utah. Representatives from some of Utah's 8 tribal nations encourage state lawmakers to support House Bill 40 to codify ICWA. During a press conference Navajo Nation council delegate eugenia Charles Newton expressed her appreciation for the Bill, saying as an elected official, it's rare to see a state want to work with the Native Americans to protect the family unit. To see a state inner child work hand in hand to preserve the right for our U test citizens to know who they are, where they come from and to have a connection to their people.
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"This is national native news. I'm Antonia Gonzalez. The Navajo Nation has lifted a long-standing COVID-19 mask mandate as Arizona public radio's Ryan Hinch's reports early in the pandemic, the reservation was one of the most heavily impacted areas in the country. Under the order masks will no longer be required in public indoor spaces throughout all of the reservations 110 chapters. It makes face coverings optional except for in schools, nursing homes and healthcare facilities, and for those who may have COVID or who've been exposed. The mask mandate has been in effect for almost three years, and the Navajo Nation is among the last areas in the country to lift its requirement. Navajo president boo nygren says lifting the mandate would help the tribe return to normal business and help boost the economy on the reservation that struggles with unemployment. Former Navajo president Jonathan nez, who lost reelection to nigrin in November, has questioned the decision to lift the restrictions. He says the relatively low rate of recent infections on the reservation was mostly due to the mask mandate. He's also calling on the administration to be more transparent with COVID data. At one point in 2020, the Navajo Nation had the highest per CAPiTA rate of COVID infections in the country. For national native news, I'm Ryan Heinz and Flagstaff, Arizona. Meanwhile, history was made Monday in the Navajo Nation council the tribe's legislative branch as crystalline curly was elected speaker of the council. This is the first time a Navajo woman will serve as speaker. Curly is a former miss Navajo who advocated for elders, has higher education degrees and says she understands many of the challenges Navajo people face, growing up with no electricity and no running water. After being sworn in, she thanked her fellow delegates. It's an honor to be serving you as your new speaker. Go go the VA global and thank you for mentoring and giving me advice throughout all these years. I know I know some of you for many years. This is also the first time that there are 9 Navajo women serving on the 24 member council. Additionally, Rochelle Montoya made history this month, taking office as the first woman to serve as vice president of the Navajo Nation. California tribal leaders and state lawmakers will gather at the capitol in Sacramento on Wednesday night to celebrate Native American assembly member James Ramos being appointed chair of the assembly rules committee, the recent appointment marks the first time a California Native American will serve as chair of the committee, Ramos became the first California Native American elected to the state legislature in 2018 and was named chair of the rules committee last month. He's been a strong advocate for Native American issues, including work to address missing and murdered indigenous people. Ramos was instrumental in the creation of the feather alert, a notification tool, which was rolled out in January to help law enforcement quickly notify the public about missing native people. The rules committee has primary jurisdiction over matters relating to business of the assembly, the rules chair also serves as chair of the joint committee on projects covering both houses. Ramos held the first meeting as rules chair last week. Wednesday's celebration will be live streamed from the capitol rotunda. The Cape Cod times reports, former chairman of the mass P wampanoag tribe, Cedric Cromwell, has been ordered to pay $250,000 in restitution to the tribe along with an owner of an architecture firm this follows bribery convictions last year in connection to the Massachusetts tribe's plan to build a resort casino. According to court records, the two men are responsible for legal expenses incurred by the tribe and were ordered to repay jointly. In May Cromwell and firm owner David de Quattro were convicted by a federal jury and were sentenced in November. I'm Antonia Gonzalez.
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"Andy Murphy, and welcome to the menu on native America calling. In this hour, we'll learn as much as we can about the USDA's indigenous food sovereignty initiative. Chinampas or floating gardens in Mexico, a new indigenous multimedia cookbook by the eye collective and methane pollution from natural gas stoves. Yes, those are the stoves in our kitchens. It's our regular feature show focused on indigenous food and food sovereignty news and stories, and we're back right after national native news. Stay with us. This is national native news. I'm Antonia Gonzalez. The Navajo Nation council is considering a bill to expand helium extraction on areas of the reservation in New Mexico and Arizona. Arizona public radio's Ryan Heinz reports, leaders are eager to create revenue and jobs after recent coal mining losses. The bill would approve agreements for two projects, north of Gallup, New Mexico, and one west of tin Li, Arizona, proposed by the tribally owned Navajo Nation oil and gas company. Navajo council speaker Seth Damon is its sponsor and says the projects would generate jobs, economic development, and much needed annual revenue. The tribe lost tens of millions of dollars in 2019 after the closure of the coal fired Navajo generating station and nearby can to mine that supplied it. During recent discussions about the helium production Bill, council delegate amber canis Bach karate, however, called for further dialog on the possible public health impacts of extraction. The Navajo Nation has produced helium for decades, along with oil and gas, but company executives say there are dozens more possible sites that could eventually generate a $1 billion for the tribe and royalties for local chapters in youth scholarships. The nearby holbrook basin in eastern Arizona is thought to have some of the largest reserves of the element in the U.S. and has even been called the Saudi Arabia of helium, but environmental groups and some residents have raised concerns about how extraction methods could impact the environment and water resources. For national native news, I'm Ryan Heinz and Flagstaff. The Australian government has struck a deal with the copyright holders of the Aboriginal flag to ensure free public use of the design following years of negotiations. Adam Evans from the national indigenous radio service has more..
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"This is national native news. I'm surely Jihad in for Antonia Gonzalez. Sue saint Marie tribal chairperson air and payment says he expects to be removed from office any day. His comments come on his own personal social media page. That after the tribe's board of directors, this week's censured him, alleging harassment and intimidation of employees, malicious public attacks, and violating tribal rules of professional conduct. The soon news reports payment was urging the board to address a citation from the U.S. commerce department for co mingling funds and for poor fiscal management. Recently, the board created a new commercial entity with authority to make tribal economic development decisions. Payment calls the action by the board to censure him corrupt. He served as chairperson since 2014 and recently won reelection by a wide margin. He's also the recording secretary for the National Congress of American Indians. Leaders of the Navajo Nation have finalized a second wave of COVID-19 hardship assistance payments for tribal members. As Arizona public radio's Ryan heintz reports, they hope it will help alleviate some effects of the pandemic, which has hit the tribe, especially hard. Navajo president Jonathan nez this week signed the resolution recently approved by the Navajo Nation council. It devotes nearly $560 million that was allocated to the tribe from the federal American rescue plan to provide $2000 payments to enrolled adult tribal members in $600 for minors. It's designed to help with expenses like mortgage and rent, as well as groceries, fuel, utilities, firewood, and other essentials. Many tribal members and families have endured significant hardship during the pandemic, including homelessness, grief and financial trouble at one point in the spring of 2020, the Navajo Nation had the highest per CAPiTA rate of new COVID-19 infections in the U.S. it's the second wave of hardship assistance payments for the tribe in the middle of December 7500 checks remained unclaimed by tribal members who signed up for the program. They expired at the end of the year. In all the Navajo Nation received more than $2 billion from the American rescue plan, which president Joe Biden signed into law last march. Navajo leaders have also approved a separate measure to provide additional payments of $300 for tribal member 60 years and older. For national native news, I'm Ryan heintz and Flagstaff. And historic first in Seattle, Deborah Juarez has become the first Native American named as Seattle's city council president. She was selected this week by a unanimous vote of the city council members. Juarez is a member of the blackfeet nation. As city council president, she sets the agenda. And assigns legislation to committees. She represents district 5 covering north Seattle, and she first made history when she was initially elected in 2015, becoming the first Native American to serve in the Seattle city council. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, a series of community meetings is being planned to determine how best to address the city's legacy related to Indian boarding schools. The conversations are mainly focusing on the cemetery used by the Albuquerque Indian school which opened in 1881 and closed a century later in 1982. The building no longer exists, city and tribal leaders don't know if any human remains are still buried at the cemetery site, which is currently maintained by the city parks department. Scrutiny of the site increased following the discovery of human remains on the grounds of former residential schools in Canada. U.S. interior secretary Deb haaland herself a citizen of the laguna Pueblo in New Mexico has ordered investigations of all U.S. Indian boarding schools. Following the revelations in Canada. For.
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"The monitor. There are people have suffered brutally. But these women are determined to ensure that history does not define their future. Meet 5 rising stars of Navajo Nation. Two environmental activists a voting rights crusader getting voters to the polls on horseback. And to elected officials, one as the youngest member of the Arizona state legislature, and the other as one of three women on a 24 member Navajo Nation council. These Navajo women are all part of a rising tide of activists on a nation's largest reservation, making a mark on everything from energy policy to the democratic process. Recent events highlight the need for such work, a conversion of soaring pandemic deaths, dwindling energy revenues, and rising unemployment has beset the Navajo over the past year. Uniting these women and their struggles is another factor. The dominant presence of women in Navajo society were taking charge is rooted in a matrilineal culture. The 5 female leaders recently met with the monitor to talk about their journeys and visions for new beginnings within the Navajo reservation. A land larger than West Virginia, that extends across three southwestern states and is home to 170,000 tribal members. It's that sense of taking care of the family that role of what the Navajo woman is. And transforming it into leadership and community wide positions says Arizona state representative Jasmine Blackwater nigran. There's definitely a sense that women are becoming stronger and more powerful voices..
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"Join our discussion as well. The number is one 809 9 6 two 8 four 8. That's one 809 9 native. Now, before the break, we were speaking with Jacqueline de Leon, staff attorney for the Native American rights fund, and also delegate key Allan brigade junior, a Navajo Nation council delegate, representing 5 chapters of the Navajo Nation. Delicate baguette, I'm going to let you finish your thought that you were speaking on before we had to go to break. Again, while I was before we going on break, I was talking about the parts of a translations of this particular issue to the regulatory Navajo people. And I think it's very important that the purpose, what is redistributing what is independent commission, what is the purpose of this census issue and how it really affects us as an individual as a Native American, those are very important issues, but how to effectively communicate this information directly to our tribal members is very key. And I think that some of the reason why we lose interest in some areas because a lot of these information are just disseminated on radios or social media or even broadband. That's a bigger issue that we have on the Navajo Nation broadband. We lack of our self service and Internet access. So everything goes down the line that if there's no infrastructure, modern infrastructure, there's just limited because you just actually have to go a door to door, having that many novel people across the 27,000 square mile is a big challenge. So again, with the navigation going having to be in part of state of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah and with that love and counties. I mean, you talk about trying to coordinate with each of the local county government and the state deal three commissions redistrict commissions of the state really is a big challenge..
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"This is Native American calling, and I'm Alyssa London. State officials are busy setting the boundaries that will affect how voters are represented for the next ten years. Tribal leaders and voting rights advocates are expressing concerns about some of those efforts. You can join our discussion as well. The number is one 809 9 6 two 8 four 8. That's one 809 9 native. And before the break, we were speaking with Jacqueline de Leon, she's a staff attorney for the Native American rights fund, and she is this little Pueblo and she was sharing with us about some of the states that they are particularly focused on that are the most likely to have redistricting issues that will affect the Native American community. But we also want to bring into the conversation, an individual from Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is key Allen bigge junior. He's a Navajo council. Navajo Nation council delegate, representing 5 chapters of the Navajo Nation. Welcome to Native American Colleen delegate. Good morning, now. This is doll get killed. Let me get junior calling in from the city of Albuquerque in New Mexico. My name is Raquel and McGee junior council delegate of the year 2014 council. I let you just introduce myself a hundred and. Represent 5 chapters, the community from the central part of the annihilation lumen chapter, blue gap chapter, telekon, which happened, and I was leaning and many farms chapter. Those are the 5 chapters that I represent to the 24th National Council. And everyone. Thank you. Thank you for that introduction. Can you share with us how redistricting is impacting the chapters that you represent? Well, the, a lot of areas, the most important issues and discussion that we're continuing to address as the accessing of the voting location of the having the voting rights issues that we address to the commissioners believe last Wednesday, the president of Navajo Nation council, where the president of Navajo Nation, the speaker of the nomination council myself made a public comment to the redistrict comets we've stressed about the boundary where they're trying to span some of the district line further west of the state of Arizona. I believe currently its into territory of representative gozar is area about what we continue to stress is that we need to be have access and have the power of the inauguration be able to be combined with other neighboring tribe, which is the hopi in tribes, the San Carlos and the white mountain Apache and several areas within the Grand Canyon. They have a supai and wild tribe..
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"The state of Arizona. Are there things that the state could have done to have helped in the Navajo Nation deal with the pandemic better? Yes. The one of the things that from the very beginning that we've asked the state was to close down the state highway, we. Wanted to close off any type of contact. Anyone traveling back and forth, but what I noticed the first couple of weeks when the shutdowns happened on the Navajo Nation and around us was we still had a lot of outsiders driving through the nation. And that was one big reason why we know that people were still traveling through the nation looking for bathroom restaurants to eat at. And so there are still that. And then after about maybe three months our people started traveling, of course, our essential workers were the only people allowed to travel to grocery stores. And then straight, of course, grocery stores were not closed. IHS did a really good job. I think that they did a really good job in closing down and release focusing on helping our people. And of course, it wasn't perfect. Again, this is a lot of for a lot of us. This is our first pandemic. And it was really, really scary. To the point where we were constantly on the conference call as 24th Navajo Nation council and our incident command our emergency management system our police IHS and we turn about every rock over trying to understand and getting the education. So we learned a lot. And we're continuing to learn, right? So just the state that I wish that's what we really pushed for. And that seems as a sovereign nation. That's something I think that as an indigenous America that we need to look at those systems and how we can protect our people in the future..
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"Had elders tell me, you know, this is a wake-up call for all of us as indigenous people that we are losing our language we're losing our way of life. And this is a wake-up call to all of us, not just as Navajo people, but as indigenous people who are here to speak from other earth and nature. So that, but we're still battling. We have we're happy with the vaccine. But we're also respectful for our people who choose not to get vaccinated. So, but the good news is the death rate has gone down tremendously from day to day. But we are still combating with our people who have the lack of basic infrastructure like water, power and healthy. So again, we see this theme of the elements or the wrong elements in this case all coming together to create this perfect storm. In your experience, what systems have worked for and have a whole nation, what hasn't worked so far? Yes. What has worked is the amazing thing that I found was, you know, not just in leadership, but our people and including other tribes and our allies who have activated the volunteerism. And this is, you know, people really as we say that people really went down to kinship and to the grassroots level who reached out to Navajo Nation and our people bringing at the beginning when there was a lot of unknowns when there was a lot of we don't know what this is capable of how it's traveling. We know the basics, but in the midst of all of that our people, you know, from Salt Lake City Utah and the surrounding and Phoenix and Albuquerque and all over the United States and across the globe, people have been donating sanitizers as you're aware on Navajo, even where I live in than a hostel. And Cayenne to we have to travel about two hours either way to get and by the time our people get to stores, all the sanitizers, everything we're sold out, people have to spend the night before travel really, really early to get basics to and including like vitamin C, zinc, stuff like that. So that I would say has worked and now we have learned from it our chapters. And also our chapter leadership has really stepped up. And traveling in their own vehicles, just going all over the place. And then the delivery system in a lot of places, I can speak for my communities of toad than a hotel in Kan to where you know our volunteers were where we're doing no contact delivery, no contact pickup. And really that restored so much hope in a lot of us. So what hasn't really helped is the frustration with sometimes our Navajo leadership, even as myself, you know, we get a lot of it with stores potentially in chili and our people didn't have access to it. And also, you know, lessons learned and president and 24th Navajo Nation council. It took us a while to actually start using the funds that took over 5 months. So that was a really disturbing, but we've learned from that and with the arpu funds we are moving forward now and really strategically moving. So that's lessons learned and looking in hindsight..
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"That's also one 800 9 9 native. And we are here with Eric Henson. Research fellow at the Harvard project on American Indian economic development. So Eric, who made this formula that the treasury is using to divide arpa funds among our federally recognized tribes. How is it created? And how are tribes involved in the creation of that formula for tribes? Sure. So under the arc of legislation, the derivation of the formula to distribute the money was left largely to the US Treasury, which was sold to the case also the year before under the cares act. In treasury held a number of webinars and meetings to get in for it and took it in the comments from some tribe. But in some sense, you know, I think a number of people felt like, well, those consultations were good, but you end up with an hour and you've got a thousand people online. You just don't have enough time for real back and forth in conversation about the different means that Charles might have and how different allocation methodologies might address those needs a little bit better. And so I think the Treasury Department ultimate 21 was something that was in a sense data ready, employment numbers are collected by an IRS being filed quarterly payroll tax forms. And because it's less than 600 tribes, you're going to go get information from about enrollment numbers. That's a doable task for the most part. And so some of the things you might want to run to like some socioeconomic outcomes and one, I don't have perfect data collected tribe by tribe. And so my guess is that it seemed like the ease of data and what was available carried the day in terms of the ultimate allocation of decided. All right, got it. So I'd like to bring in another guest, joining us from wind rock, Arizona, is Seth Damon. He is the speaker of the Navajo Nation council. Welcome to Native American colleague Seth. Thank you very much, miss Murphy for allowing me to be a part of this discussion today. And everyone out there in India country. All right, thank you so much for joining us. Speaker Damon. So you're hearing the discussion so far, Eric is talking about how this formula from the treasury divided funds among tribes and he actually said that it looks like Navajo Nation, even though got the biggest share of arpa funds at 2 billion. Is maybe maybe that's not enough compared to other tribes. I mean, what do you think of the amount of money that Navajo Nation gots from arpa just based on this formula? Thank you very much again for allowing us. To be on this call you think is a Henson for his views coming from the hardware project. And thank you for the open discussion that will have a year to date. I think one of the speaking on behalf of the Navajo Nation council, one of the biggest things that we can say is that the $2.1 billion as allocated in the nation and we just want to first of all say thank you to everyone in the federal government, not only in the past administration in the past Congress, but also the administration to as well and these current elected congressional leaders, not only representing the nava nation, but collectively that supported the Indian country, whether that be both sides of the aisle and trying to make sure that we can go ahead and move forward and trying to build infrastructure. And we regroup what we've lost and as you know, the nation has a huge amount of COVID-19 cases and we sustained a huge amount of loss of amongst our people and I think that that's most important thing that looking forward to those trying to make sure that, you know, we got the care funds last year, 715 million that really tried to identify that we need to stop COVID-19 and now we're moving forward and with this 2.1 billion in trying to recuperate what we've lost. And I know we can't do whatever we have to do in the lives of lives, but we can do to make sure that we're building that infrastructure for our next 7 generations that we do have had and we should have had many years ago in order for us to have those essential needs and services to our people. Our funds as you can see, it just clearly identified in the title itself. It's the road to recovery. And what we're trying to do is build that infrastructure, build that capacity of water, power lines that we really don't have right now in building the 35,000 needs of new additional homes across the Navajo Nation that's needed for our people in order for us to go ahead and help the guidance. So meeting the quality of life leading that group of American lives, you know, in order for us to go ahead and have that decent value of understanding what a basic human rights are. So again, it might not be a total amount of what we need as we've known will probably need ten times more than what is needed in order to have a coal of full complete infrastructure build out across the nation and bring it down with a nation, but we're thankful that this is the right step to Congress is finally recognizing what we need to do and it's unfortunate that it took a chase like COVID in order for us to really be recognized. So again, thank you for this discussion. All right. We're Navajo Nation leaders at the consultation meetings back in March back when federal state tribal leaders were invited to talk about how all these funds were going to be divided and that was back in when this formula was starting to take form. We're Navajo Nation leaders at those consultation meetings. Oh, yes. We were part of the discussion and it was a couple of different consultations meetings that were taking place when we knew that batching margin in April and even into early main when they were trying to come up with recommendations not only taking into what the configuration was from the cares act from last year, but also taking into the new formula base as was explained by mister Henderson there on the three variables, but there was the certain recommendations as work considered, but as noted it was up to the treasury's ultimate guidance in order for them to really state. Okay, this is what the best possible outsource for the best possible recommendation that they could come forward with. But I have to think our honorable president Johnson has his team numbers on my not only speakers offers here too as well collaboratively working together in trying to work together with the treasury, but also working together with all the other federally recognized signs and trying to get their piece of the 5 Q as well as we know it is in Indian countries. It doesn't depend on population, it just depends on the rule that access of capital. And I think that's something that really was in trying to make sure that we all need to get something out there immediately. And I think that the reason why the consideration was taken, but we were there sitting at the table on those meetings and I think for actually leaving some of the charge and changes. And making sure that we should go ahead and have that better, the best possible outcome for any country. All right. So that's one perspective from a tribal leader. If you're a tribal leader, how are you using our book funds? Give us a call and join our conversation. We're at one 800 9 9 6 two 8 four 8 also if you're a citizen of a tribe, give us a call, tell us what you think about how your tribe is planning to spend a couple of $1 million that they recently got from the arpa funds. Again, that's one 809 9 6 two 8 four 8. I'd like to go back to Eric Henson over at the Harvard project on American Indian economic development. Eric so Seth demon speaker speaker Damon was talking about, you know, there were maybe some other considerations when it came to creating this formula. What were some of those other considerations that maybe didn't make it into the XYZ of this formula? Right. That's a great question. I think Navajo is a good example because as we were both mentioning, there's been underinvestment in rural America in general and Indian country, rural Indian country in particular. And so you've had a couple of looks at this from say the U.S. commission on civil rights, one back in O three and then one, it's a very end of 2018. It's laid out in the numerator. We just tremendous generations of under investment that keeps poor rural places from catching up to where the rest of the country sits and calls all sorts of socioeconomic outcomes. There's underinvestment and sort of this hard infrastructure like water ensue and broadband and electrification, but there's also typically a hundred investment in education and all facilities, policing resources, the list goes on and on. It's kind of nearly every single aspect where federal spending intersects with tribal affairs, you find that there's an under investment on the part of the federal government. And so $2 billion sounds like a lot of money to virtually everyone. But if you're trying to catch up from decades and decades of under investment, there's still likely to fall quite short if you've got as large a land base as a place like that. So it's great. It's an excellent start. Speaker game and mentioned his thanks to Congress of the previous administration of the current administration Congress in both years last year and this year. And that's well placed, but we all ought to collectively try to stay in front of Congress and whoever's in the executive office and remind them that it's going to take a lot more than $20 billion spread around Indian country to really marine drives up to where the average American sits in terms of all sorts of health and education and employment and opportunities and all of those outcomes that we certainly want for all of our Indian people. Yeah. So this was the biggest single federal allocation of money for tribes in all of history. What precedent does this set for any future allocations from the federal government directly to tribes? Well, I guess I hope that I hope we're on a pattern. Do two major legislative acts a year part start to make a pattern. I hope so. I hope that, you know, the recognition of the tribes is independent sovereign governments. And now that that's sort of being recognized with substantial dollars, I hope that Congress in the future doesn't forget this time period and go back to more or less trading tries like they're subdivisions of the states within which they happen to. You know, I'm chickasaw. So our tribe sits entirely within the next year boundaries of Oklahoma. It's wrong policy to treat chickasaw, citizens as just oklahomas. And if there's a transportation bill or an infrastructure bill or whatever to go, well, Oklahoma is going to get a share. So that will automatically necessarily take care of chickasaw lands as well. And I think we need to make sure that we don't get forgotten again. We're sort of the forgotten silence minority for so long. These are two major legislative acts that put real dollars into Indian country and you need to keep that trend alive. All right, so I'd like to bring in another tribal leader. Joining us from Edgar town Massachusetts is Cheryl Andrews Maltese Maltese. She is the chairwoman of the wampanoag tribe of gay head. Welcome to native America.
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"navajo nation council" Discussed on Native America Calling
"This is national native news. I'm Antonia Gonzalez. Memorial arrangements have started for Earl old person longtime chief and chairman of the blackfeet tribe in Montana on Tuesday a procession on the blackfeet nation brought him to tribal offices where reviewing was held. Wednesday he'll be escorted to the high school where helene state until Friday Thursday and Friday services are planned, old person passed away last week after battling cancer. He was elected to the blackfeet tribal business council in 1952 and served for more than 60 years, serving as chairman for more than 50 in 1978, he was bestowed hereditary chief. He's being remembered for his leadership and importance to the blackfeet people in both the U.S. and Canada. Earl old person was 92 years old. Elders and young people from across Alaska are taking part in learning, sharing and connecting on a virtual platform this week at the 38th annual first alaskans Institutes elders and youth conference. The event features speakers, language circles, cultural sessions and networking opportunities. This is the second year the conference is being held online due to COVID-19 health and safety concerns. Valerie Davidson is on the board of trustees for first alaskans institute and is a healthcare leader in Alaska. She urged attendees to take COVID-19 seriously talking about its impact on the Alaska native community asking people to continue to take precautions wearing masks, washing hands and being mindful of others. Our ancestors sacrificed everything for us. Everything because they love us so much and we all need each other to make it. I need you, we need each other. And so Guiana for taking all of those extra measures to keep each other safe. The better we are, the sooner we'll be able to get through this. And as my mom says, my grandma used to say, I'm telling you this because I care about you. I'm telling you this because I love you. Because sometimes the hard things need to be said and sometimes the hard things need to be heard. The state is also asking people to take precautions to help slow the spread of COVID-19 as cases in Alaska continue to be high. Meanwhile, the Alaska federation of natives announced its annual convention will be virtual. The AFM convention is held days after the elders in youth conference, AFM says the virtual event will be held for two days in December due to health and safety concerns. The AFM board postpone the annual convention in October to follow COVID-19 trends on Friday, AFM announced the virtual platform, saying current information shows continuing high rates of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths, particularly in anchorage where the convention was to be held. The Navajo Nation council passed legislation Tuesday, which prohibits the use of commercial tobacco products indoors and in public places. Health advocates have worked for years on public education on tobacco use and have been urging the tribe to approve a smoke free Bill. The air is life act was approved by a vote of 20 to three. The speaker needs to certify it, the navy president will then have ten days to either veto or approve it. The U.S. Senate committee on Indian affairs is hosting a roundtable Wednesday on economic development, chairman of the committee, senator Brian shots will lead the discussion, tribal leaders and native financial experts from across the country will join federal representatives. The roundtable will focus on leveraging federal financing to invest in native communities and economic development. Cherokee nation principal chief chuck hoskin junior on Tuesday signed into law in early childhood education act, the legislation approved by the council earlier this month invests up to $40 million to replace 8 existing head start centers and upgrade others on the Cherokee nation in Oklahoma. I'm Antonia Gonzalez. National native news is produced by colonic broadcast corporation with funding by the corporation for public broadcasting. Support by the Sanofi chambers law firm, championing tribal sovereignty and defending Native American rights since 1976, with offices in Washington, D.C., New Mexico. California and Alaska. Support by AARP the native urban elder needs assessment survey will provide data to improve urban Indian elder health equity. Elders are underrepresented in data, and you can help info and survey at UIA coalition dot org. Native voice one the Native American radio network. This is native America calling, I'm Andy Murphy. Hunting gray whales is a sacred act and a tradition the maca tribe kept going for generations. But with one brief exception, the tribe has not hunted whales for the last 100 years. Now, the tribe is the closest they've been in decades to resuming this cultural practice. Over harvesting by commercial whalers initially prompted the tribe to voluntarily stop hunting whales in the 1920s. And then after the whale populations recovered, the tribe resumed hunting in 1999. But legal challenges halted whale hunting again after 1999. So today, tribal leaders are hopeful the national marine fishery service will make an exception for the tribe in the marine mammal protection act to harvest one to two gray whales every year for the next decade. A federal judge this month recommended that exception go forward. Wildlife conservation groups continue to oppose whale hunting. So this hour we'll hear from the macaw tribe about the significance of whale hunting and we'd like to hear from you. How has your cultural relationship with a certain animals changed over time because of overhunting by outsiders? Give us a call at one 809 9 6 two 8 four 8 that's also one 800 9 9 native. And joining us from Nia bay, Washington is Timothy green, chairman of the macaw tribe, welcome to native.
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"navajo nation council" Discussed on Native America Calling
"The national native news antonio gonzalez the us senate has confirmed lauren. King to be. Us district court judge for western washington. King will become the first native american federal judge in washington. State's history here's us. Senator patty murray from washington on c. span. Speaking on the senate floor. Miss king is an immensely talented and experienced practitioner of the law. Who i had the honour of recommending to the president for this position and i am proud to be advocating for her confirmation here today. Miss king currently chairs foster garvey's native american law practice group and has served as a pro. Tem appellate judge for the northwest intertribal court system since twenty thirteen. She has served as a commissioner on the washington state gambling commission and taught federal indian law at seattle university school of law king. A citizen of the muskogee nation will become the fourth native american federal judge currently in the country and sixth in history. So it's not just important. Essential that our federal judges understand the unique histories and perspectives of native people and the legal principles that protect and preserve native american standing under federal law. I believe this is a perspective that matters and one that has been missing for far too long with her experience in the northwest intertribal court system and representing tribes in private practice. Miss king has a deep understanding of these principles and the legal issues that tribes in washington state face. The senate voted to confirm king fifty five to forty four on tuesday. Also on tuesday. President biden announced his intent to nominate shelly low as chair of the national endowment for the humanities a citizen of the navajo nation. She's currently a member of the national council on the humanities and advisory board for the endowment her career and higher education includes positions at yell harvard. The university of arizona and has served in various leadership roles. The national endowment for the humanities supports research and learning and history literature philosophy and other areas the navajo nation council has passed legislation requiring all government employees across the reservation to be fully vaccinated against kevin nineteen as arizona. Public radio's ryan hinds reports. The legislation also presses schools and all navajo owned businesses to adopt similar vaccine requirements the council's bill mandates all workers within the tribes legislative executive and judicial branches along with employees of local chapters to receive all their shots by later this month workers who aren't fully vaccinated will be required to present proof of a negative cova test every two weeks. Violations of the bills requirements could be followed with disciplinary measures. The legislation was passed by the council. In a late. August special session it was then sent to navajo nation president jonathan nez who neither signed nor vetoed it allowing the bill to go into effect. According to his office the council's legislation reaffirms executive order. He had previously issued that also required all tribal employees to get vaccinated by the end of september within the navajo executive branch at least eighty five percent of employees have so far been fully vaccinated for national native news. I'm ryan shifts in flagstaff. The us senate committee on indian affairs is holding legislative hearing wednesday on indian water right settlement bills. Witnesses include tribal leaders from the shoshoni pie. Tribes of the duck valley reservation and the fort belknap indian community witnesses from the interior department. Are the assistant secretary for indian affairs and regional director with the bureau of reclamation..
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"navajo nation council" Discussed on This Land
"To take the placement because we were told from day one we would not be adopting him and i kind of agreed with that but having had such a rough time through our first placement i thought a baby three months would be a nice way to get our feet wet again so we took the policeman. Jennifer was right. The baby was so much easier other than a difficult bedtime last night. He's spoiled us. he's been easy to love. he's a precious one. A big part of that is that he's a baby not a three year old. But i find that much easier to do as an emotional lover in court. Documents discharge is referred to by his initials. Alm we'll call him antonio it's hard to verify jennifer's blog because in texas child welfare cases are confidential. It's one of the things. That's really frustrating about this lawsuit. So much hinges on the details of the underlying custody cases but those details are locked away in a black box and as a reporter. All i wanted for months was to open it. But we do know from the blog that the bracken's knew why they couldn't adopt antonio his ethnicity and the laws of this land at one time meant to protect but likely antiquated at this point will likely prevent us from adopting him. We won't get our hopes up. That lodge jennifer mentioned was the indian child. Welfare act in. Tokyo is american. His mom is navajo and his dad is cherokee equa as i mentioned before was created to stop the systemic removal of native children from their families and tribes. The law is a little complicated because it does more than one thing. I think of it like a set of guardrails equa is there to make sure needed. Kids get through foster care and adoption safely. I it requires child welfare agencies to make active efforts to reunify the child with their parents second. The law allows tribes to advocate in cases that involved their children or move the case to tribal court. And lastly if a child can't be reunified with their parents equis that's outplacement preferences for where child should go next. The preferences go like this. I are members of the child's family than members of their tribe and then other native homes which means the bread qian's should come after all those other options and that's the part of the law they don't like because it puts them last in line. Jennifer tried not to get her hopes up but then she got attached. It's sad really. The law is going to take him from the only family. He knows for over half of his life by the time he goes home. If it's going to this way that now is the time to do it. Now when he likes to cut night now when he's gaining his independence but always stays close now is the time to bond with him and we are doing it but it should be someone else but he's stuck in the system so we wait we wait and wait and wait and sometimes this is what foster care is. He's loved and safe with us until the day he goes home to be clear. The system jennifer was waiting on here. Wasn't equa it was foster care. That's because in tony. Does parents had a year to work on their case plan. So during that year antonio wasn't available to be adopted by anyone. I talked to a social worker at the agency that licensed the bracken's. She told me fostering can be a and tedious process. But it is also very defined. This is jalen smiley from ck. Family services though when we are providing information To families in the early stages of the process. We're definitely stressing that. This is not a traditional adoption experience. Because we don't know what's going to happen with that case or what relatives will come forward so we can never make a promise that on the day that a child is placed with a family that they will remain with that family forever in the majority of child welfare cases. The foster child is not adopted by the foster family at the end of that year. And honi does. Mom and dad lost their parental rights. Two months later navajo nation. Found a home a navajos couple living on the reservation. New mexico wanted to adopt antonio this placement complied with equa that summer. The bracken's qian's drove to paso so antonio could meet them according to navajo nation. The couple was really excited about the adoption. They even had a baby shower but two days before the trip. The brat qian's went to court we intervened. He has been with us over a year and he was not yet to. We felt it was in baby brothers. Best interest to stay right where he was the place where he knew he belonged since he could not speak for himself. We spoke for him. Jennifer and chad breaking did not think antonio should go and live with a family. He had only met for a few hours just because they were navajo. They said the culture he might gain didn't outweigh the trauma of taking him from their home. But here's what i struggle with. How can the bracken's way the value of navajo culture we might most americans. They don't know much about it. A yacht a show on as toll. Hopefully sean this is amber cannons boccardi delegate on the navajo nation council. So as i began the conversation introduced myself. I recognized by family ties. It's introduce yourself by clans. And then you know how you were instantly related to one another most child welfare policy in this country is structured around the idea of a nuclear family as in mom dad and their kids but navajo families because they are integrated into those clans are different when you see like a tree and the roots how they interconnect intertwine and are there to support one another. That's the fan restructured not one or two individuals. It's just whole system. Ray it's system navajo. Nation is not just the people it's a place a place where the navajos have lived since the beginning of time. Your songs and prayers that we've seen are mountains because that is where our umbilical cord.
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Oglala Sioux community leaders take COVID-19 vaccine to build trust
"This is national native news. I'm antonio gonzalez. The oglala sioux tribe in south dakota has started cove in nineteen vaccines for healthcare workers with both pfizer and moderna. As lee strube injure reports tribal leaders are carefully. Managing the number of vaccine doses. They receive alicia. Musso is vice president of the tribe. She says they're asking frontline workers what they want to do that. We are polling to make sure people wanna take it or not to say you have these infrastructures asking if they want to musso says tracking vaccines for healthcare. Workers helps the tribe advocate for the exact number of doses. They need during this first phase. Musso says they're also working to boost confidence in the medina and pfizer vaccines. They're asking other respected members of the community to set an example. By taking the vaccine. We do have different influences in our community leaders in that way and those of us who even though we have these political positions who may have less risk factors and want to you know in our own way Culturally allow people to take that who are higher risk. The tribes medical task force will continue to roll out. Its covid vaccine. Plan unleashed droop injure in rapid city. A long running water right settlement between the navajo nation. The state of utah and the federal government has become law as ryan hinds reports as part of the sweeping covid nineteen government spending bill signed by the president. The navajo utah. Water rights settlement act among several bills included in the two point three trillion dollar package it ends decades of negotiations between tribal federal and state officials and affirms tribes right to more than twenty six and a half billion gallons of water a year from. Utah's colorado river basin apportionment. The legislation also settles all current and future water claims made by the navajo nation in utah and allocates two hundred and twenty million dollars to water infrastructure on the portion of the reservation located in the state navajo nation president. Jonathan nez calls the settlement historic in says it'll increase access to drinking water for many navajo families. The president's office says more than forty percent of navajo nation households in utah lack running water or adequate sanitation according to the navajo water project. One in three residents on the reservation lack a sink or toilet in their homes. The settlement act was approved by the navajo nation council in two thousand sixteen and introduced in congress by a bipartisan group of lawmakers from arizona utah and new mexico last year for national native news. I'm ryan hinds in flagstaff. The little shell tribe of chippewa indians in montana was federally recognized. One year ago the tribes working on opening its own health clinic next year as yellowstone public. Radio's caitlyn nicholas. Reports tribal health director molly. Wetland says the tribal launch a healthcare system to provide medical dental behavioral traditional care to tribal members at their own clinic in great falls. We've been a landless. Try reservation let's tribe and so to have something of our own and to be able to provide. Our members carry is really important to the little shell tribal health. Clinic will likely open late. Summer of twenty twenty one but wetland says work tribes first healthcare facility is well underway. He just completed demolition of the building that we purchase. And we're in the design phase. And we're getting ready to start with remodel. Wetland says the team will offer a holistic approach to healthcare as an example. She says she is working closely with little shells. Housing director heath lefranc boys to ensure patients aren't struggling with homelessness as healthcare and housing are closely connected to our primary care team all focused on sort of understanding each of our customers and their own unique story and values and influences an effort to kind of engage them in their care and support long-term behavior change and help our tribal members be successful. I'm caitlyn nicholas and damien antonio
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Navajo Nation calls for investigation into Fort Hood deaths
"The Navajo Nation wants answers from the U. S military after one of its members died at Fort Hood, The Navajo Nation Council continues to mourn the loss of private Carlton She a 25 year old soldier from Pine Hill, New Mexico, Investigators have four Hood say chief died Wednesday, five days after he collapsed following a physical training exercise. She was the 28 soldier from Fort Hood to die this way. Here on the council says it is deeply disturbed by the string of desk and they're calling on national leaders to get involved. Just last week, the Army announced leadership changes at Fort Hood as an investigation widens into the death of specialists. Vanessa again.