Buu Nygren

The move came after tribes across the country objected to the removal of their histories. Defense Department officials said the Navajo Code Talker material was erroneously erased after part of a broader sweep of information that promoted diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI.

Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch announced that an investigation has cleared the Navajo president of sexual harassment allegations by the vice president. Even as results of the investigation were announced Monday, Branch was removed from office by tribal lawmakers.

Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren says Navajo Vice President Richelle Montoya no longer represents his administration. The move was announced Tuesday during a news conference.

Gov. Katie Hobbs said Friday that she intervened this week after talking with Navajo President Buu Nygren. The tribal president says Energy Fuels reneged on a verbal promise to give the tribe and others advance notice of shipments.

Tribal President Buu Nygren on Tuesday ordered Navajo police to set up roadblocks on federal highways and turn back any trucks carrying uranium.

Navajo officials are celebrating the signing of legislation outlining a proposed water rights settlement that will ensure supply from the Colorado River and other sources for three Native American tribes and more security for drought-stricken Arizona.

The tribe has one of the largest single outstanding claims in the Colorado River basin, and Thursday's vote marks one of many approvals needed to finalize a deal that has been years in the making.

The 1990 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act is set to expire in June. Now, Congress — and Utah’s delegation — is grappling over whether to expand or merely extend the program.

Some Republican members of Congress are criticizing the Biden administration's recent move to withdraw hundreds of square miles of federal land in New Mexico from oil and gas development.

The court found that the federal government isn't responsible for securing that water for the 170,000 tribal members who live there.

States that draw water from the river — Arizona, Nevada and Colorado — and water districts in California had urged the court to decide for them, and that's what the justices did in a 5-4 ruling.

Zah served as the tribal chairman in the 1980s and later was elected as its first president in 1990 after the government was restructured into three branches to prevent power from being concentrated in the chairman's office.