Navajo Nation

The SAVE America Act would require voters to prove their citizenship in person to register to vote. But tribal leaders say it would create barriers to voting for Indigenous populations. KNAU speaks with Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley about the proposal.

Monument Valley’s long film history continues as the Navajo Nation and Utah sign a new agreement to expand production while supporting jobs and Indigenous storytelling.

The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected an attempt by Arizona Republicans to nullify a nearly million-acre national monument near the Grand Canyon.

In this month’s Canyon Commentary, author Scott Thybony takes us into the remote Lukachukai Mountains on the Navajo Nation to explore a 1,500-year-old ruin with rock art that features hundreds of mysterious painted handprints.

A Navajo Nation Council committee has unanimously approved legislation opposing the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote.

Tribal leaders testified before a Senate committee in support of a landmark agreement that would provide Colorado River water to the Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe and San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe.

Navajo poet, author, medicine man and former Navajo Nation Vice President Rex Lee Jim died last week at age 63. In a 2019 interview, Lee discusses translating the Diné language and worldview.

The FBI says 8-year-old Maleeka "Mollie" Boone, who was found dead on the Navajo Nation in January, may have been hit by a large vehicle like a pickup truck.

Throughout his career, Rex Lee Jim served as a medicine man, teacher, author, diplomat and Navajo Nation vice president. He died Tuesday in Albuquerque at the age of 63.

A man charged in a Navajo woman’s 2021 disappearance has pleaded guilty to robbery, a case emblematic of the crisis of killings and disappearances in Native communities.