Navajo Nation
Federally recognized tribe in the Southwest United States
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| 2025 | Crystalyne Curley was re-elected as the Navajo Nation Council speaker for another 2-year term. |
| 2024 | Ranisha Chrislyn Begay is crowned Miss Navajo Nation, the most recent title holder as of the provided information. |
| 2024 | Navajo Prep won the Class AAA Girls Basketball state championship. |
| December 30 2024 | Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren signed legislation declaring the Navajo language the official language of the Navajo Nation, with the goal of promoting intergenerational language preservation and making Navajo 'cool again'. |
| 2023 | Crystalyne Curley was elected as the first Female speaker of the Navajo Nation Council. |
| 2023 | Approximately one-third of Navajo reservation residents (around 58,000 people) do not have running water in their homes, highlighting ongoing water access challenges. |
| 2023 | The San Juan Generating Station's water reservoir was sold to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and renamed the Frank Chee Willetto Reservoir to provide a reliable and sustainable water supply to Navajo homes and businesses. |
| 2023 | A second bill to address same-sex marriage was introduced and passed its initial readings in the Navajo Nation legislative process. |
| June 22 2023 | US Supreme Court rules in Arizona v. Navajo Nation that the federal government has no obligation to ensure water access for the Navajo Nation, despite the 1868 treaty reserving necessary water for the reservation. |
| January 23 2023 | Otto Tso from Tuba City becomes Speaker of the Navajo Nation Council. |
| January 10 2023 | The delegates of the 25th Navajo Nation Council took the oath of office, marking the formal start of their legislative term. |
| January 10 2023 | Buu Nygren is inaugurated as President of the Navajo Nation, with Richelle Montoya as Vice President. |
| 2022 | The Navajo Nation Department of Health implemented comprehensive COVID-19 voting safety guidelines, including mask wearing, hand washing, physical distancing, vaccination recommendations, and special voting accommodations for disabled or symptomatic voters like curbside voting, mail-in ballots, and ballot drop-off options. |
| 2022 | Indian Health Service (IHS) reported successful vaccination of more than half of Navajo children aged 5 to 11 during the COVID-19 pandemic, marking a significant milestone in the Navajo Nation's vaccination efforts. |
| 2022 | Pinyon Plain Mine is reopened near the Baii Nwaavio Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, raising concerns about potential water source contamination for the Havasupai people. |
| 2022 | AMC television series 'Dark Winds' premiered, based on the Navajo police novels by Tony Hillerman. |
| 2022 | A bill was introduced to repeal the same-sex marriage ban and recognize same-sex unions in the Navajo Nation. |
| December 2022 | Documentation of Navajo Nation Code amendments concludes in December 2022. |
| December 9 2022 | COVID-19 pandemic status update for Navajo Nation: 79,516 total confirmed cases, 1,968 total deaths reported. Vaccination coverage shows under 70.5% of population completed primary vaccination series, with only 17.4% considered up to date. |
| November 16 2022 | Honorable Otto Tso from Tuba City was sworn in as Speaker of the Navajo Nation Council, succeeding Seth Damon and serving until January 10, 2023. |
| November 4 2022 | Seth Damon becomes Speaker of the Navajo Nation Council. |
| 2021 | Navajo Prep won the Class AAA Girls Basketball state championship. |
| 2021 | The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Navajo Nation could compel the government to ensure its water access. |
| October 2021 | The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights agrees to hear a case filed by the Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining, accusing the United States government of violating the human rights of Navajo Nation members. |
| October 1 2021 | NTEC assumed full operations at Navajo Mine, becoming the first tribally owned coal mining company to operate a coal mine on tribal land. |
| August 2021 | School reverted back to its previous color scheme of red, white, and blue for the 2021-2022 school year. |
| April 26 2021 | The Navajo Health Command Operations Center shared reopening guidelines for tour businesses. |
| March 22 2021 | The Navajo Nation reached a milestone with approximately 191,000 COVID-19 vaccines administered, fully vaccinating 76,571 people. For the first time in over six months, no new COVID-19 positive cases and no recent deaths were reported, though the 7-day average remained at 9 cases per day. |
| March 12 2021 | The American Rescue Plan was signed into law, allocating $31 billion to Native American Tribes. The Navajo Nation proposed a distribution formula dividing funds based on population (40%), land base (20%), number of employees (20%), and COVID-19 impacts (20%). |
| March 11 2021 | The Navajo Nation eased COVID-19 restrictions, lowering the health status from 'red' to 'orange', with new health orders to take effect on March 15, 2021. |
| January 2021 | The Navajo Nation experienced a second wave of COVID-19, with daily new cases approximately twice as high as the first wave. From mid-November 2020 to mid-January 2021, the seven-day average of new cases exceeded the peak of the first wave in May 2020. |
| January 28 2021 | The total number of COVID-19 deaths in the Navajo Nation surpassed 1,000. |
| January 25 2021 | The Navajo Department of Health identified 53 communities with uncontrolled COVID-19 spread from January 8-21, 2021. This led to the implementation of extended Stay-At-Home orders, daily curfews, restrictions on essential business operational hours, and prohibitions against gatherings with individuals from outside one's household. |
| 2020 | Proposed lease payments were set to increase to $9 million per year, with additional compensation payments starting at $10 million and escalating to $34 million. |
| 2020 | DED created two grant programs: the Navajo Business Economic Relief Grant and the Navajo Artisans Economic Relief Grant to support struggling small businesses and artisans. |
| 2020 | DED distributed approximately $17,500,000 through 3,144 artisan grants and $11,000,000 through 1,192 business grants. |
| 2020 | Navajo Nation Council distributed $60,000,000 from the CARES Act fund to its Division of Economic Development (DED). |
| 2020 | Navajo Nation reaches a water rights settlement with Utah. |
| 2020 | Arizona Public Service (APS) announced plans to close the Four Corners Generating Station, which would render both the Navajo Mine and its associated railroad obsolete. |
| 2020 | Ireland donated to the Navajo and Hopi Nations during the Covid-19 pandemic through a GoFundMe campaign that raised over $4 Million, with tens of thousands of dollars coming from Irish donors. |
| 2020 | The number of Navajo tribal members increased to 399,494, surpassing the Cherokee Nation as the largest tribal group by enrollment. |
| December 18 2020 | The three smokestacks of the Navajo Generating Station were demolished, marking a significant step in the plant's decommissioning process. |
| December 14 2020 | Navajo Nation received its first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. |
| December 12 2020 | COVID-19 statistics updated: 19,420 positive cases, 719 deaths, and 10,359 recoveries recorded. |
| November 20 2020 | COVID-19 statistics reported for Navajo Nation: 14,441 positive cases, 623 deaths, and 8,045 recoveries. |
| September 25 2020 | A 57-hour weekend lockdown was implemented to restrict movement of individuals on the Navajo Nation, running from September 25 to September 28. |
| August 14 2020 | The Navajo Nation reported 9,394 positive COVID-19 cases, 478 deaths, and nearly 7,000 recoveries. |
| August 13 2020 | The Navajo Department of Health established a Navajo Nation reopening plan, declaring the nation at 'Orange Status' with businesses allowed to operate at 25% maximum occupancy and implementing various COVID-19 restrictions. |
| July 22 2020 | The sixth executive order was issued to extend the 'declaration of a state emergency due to the COVID-19 virus on the Navajo Nation', prolonging the emergency status from July 27, 2020, to August 16, 2020. During this period, government offices and related entities on the Navajo Nation remained closed. |
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