Navajo Nation Speaker Crystalyne Curley sat inside the Navajo Nation Council Chamber and listened as her council delegate colleagues explained why paring down the five standing committees to one was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 25th Navajo Nation Council has made history Monday, electing Council Delegate Crystalyne Curley as the first female speaker, a ...

Nine women were elected to serve on the Navajo Nation Council last month, along with the first female vice president, giving women a stronger voice in tribal leadership. With 24 Navajo Nation Council ...

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) – While compiling a lengthy list of Sandoval County veterans – from the Civil War through Vietnam – retired Army colonel and amateur historian David C’de Baca made an intriguing find: ...

About 30 years ago, doctors in an Indian Health Service clinic in Tuba City, Arizona, told Jamescita Peshlakai that her health would be at risk if she continued her pregnancy. Peshlakai, who is a ...

One of 10 children, Minnie King was born April 4, 1912, in Talladega County, Alabama. With so many mouths to feed, money was scarce in the King household and Minnie knew obtaining a higher education ...

“You’re going to be a strong lady like me.” These are the words that Amy Begay repeated to a young woman during a recent ceremony. While she spoke, Begay pulled a baton over the young woman’s muscles ...

This story was originally published by The 19th and is republished here by permission. For Native American women, the gender pay gap reflects the systems that have oppressed them for centuries. The ...

THE NEXT presidential election in America will feature neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump. Rather, it will involve the candidates vying to be president of the Navajo Nation: 15 of them are competing ...

LGBTQ rights activists are renewing their push for a repeal of the Navajo Nation's same-sex marriage ban. While the United States Supreme Court declared marriage equality the law of the land, it does ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Navajo Nation Speaker Crystalyne Curley sat inside the Navajo Nation Council Chamber and listened as her council delegate colleagues explained why ...