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Veronica Yellowhair stands above illegally dumped trash on her grandfather's property Wednesday on Old Red Lake Road in Fort Defiance. Yellowhair says that they had cleaned up the trash before.

Sick of illegal dumping

Old Red Lake Road residents complain of indiscriminate trash dumps

Illegal dumping is a problem across the Navajo Nation, but residents of Old Red Lake Road say they are being overwhelmed by other people's trash and they want it to stop.

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By Jan-Mikael Patterson
Navajo Times


Cash for chapters, speaker's office
uses fiscal '10 funds

Money-wise farmers say, 'Don't count your chickens before they hatch.' And critics are saying the Navajo Nation Council could follow similar advice. Cash-strapped elected officials have decided to spend money before they get it. | By Jason Begay »

iconAppeal certain in reform ruling

Questions of reducing membership of council, granting line-item veto, must go before voters, hearing officer says.

iconTribe to Toyei renters: Time's up!

Navajo Nation officials said this week that families still living in asbestos-ridden housing at Toyei, Ariz., have to move out and they have to do it now.

iconPolice Blotter: James pleads guilty to stealing $300,000

Evelyn James, 54, of Tuba City, was a tribal council member of the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe of Arizona.


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iconFeds explain feather, peyote rules to NAC assemblage

Federal fish and wildlife officials told members of the Native American Church meeting here last weekend that the feds are not targeting them for possession of illegal eagle feathers.

iconCentral Fair moves to Piñon

For the first time in its 24-year history, the Central Navajo Fair will not be held in Chinle.

iconJackson departing WR schools with little controversy

Thomas Jackson's office walls are bare, the bookshelves clean and his desk smooth, almost spit-shined.

icon4th code talker passes away

President Joe Shirley Jr. on Wednesday conveyed his condolences to the family of the fourth Navajo Code Talker to pass away within five weeks, according to a press release from the president's office.

iconNavajo confirmed as top attorney for Interior Department

Hilary Tompkins, Navajo from Ramah Chapter, has been confirmed for the top legal position of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

iconResearchers: Preserve code talker legacy

The recent deaths of three Navajo code talkers should serve as a wake-up call to preserve their legacy, said two people who have been chronicling the code talkers' lives for decades.

iconRez facing nursing shortage

Within the next few years, more than half of the nurses across the country are expected to retire leaving a massive nursing shortage nationwide.

iconTour de Rez

Young cyclists learn while traveling around Diné Bikéyah on the Tour de Rez

iconNot Guilty: Verdict doesn't settle questions in Clint John shooting death

A federal jury has acquitted a Farmington police officer in the shooting death of Navajo Clint John.

iconNavajo Times Publisher to Win Zenger Award from UA School of Journalism, Arizona Newspapers Foundation

The University of Arizona School of Journalism and the Arizona Newspapers Foundation have named Tom Arviso Jr. the 2009 winner of the John Peter and Anna Catherine Zenger Award.

iconAnalog vs. digital? For much of the rez, it may not matter

The deadline for U.S. television broadcasters to go digital is Saturday, June 13, but many Navajos who now get their TV signal from a roof or rabbit ears antenna may still get reception after that, despite all the talk of converter boxes.

iconGoodbye to Forest Lake hero

Few people knew of code talker Willie Kescoli Begay's storied past.