Fort Defiance News

A beloved nun from a parish in the Navajo Nation in Fort Defiance, Arizona was murdered in her convent Halloween night.

Sister Magdalena has returned home - empty now in the absence of a roommate who had worked so hard to empower people on the Navajo Indian Reservation.

15. It began with a woman calling in saying that a pregnant woman had been stabbed.

Ed Scott, 48, Roann, died Oct. 9, 2009, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Tippecanoe County.

Many will remember, and a few may have been saved by, the Navajo Code Talkers of WWII.

It all began about 11:13 a.m. on Sept. 13 at the home of Claudina Yazzie's parents in the Navajo Housing Authority complex in Jeddito, Ariz.

TOP: Henry Yabah's older sister Annie Douglas hugs her long-lost brother's arm during their reunion Saturday in Pretty Rock, N.M. Douglas had not seen her brother since they were separated more than 70 years ago.

The oil painting depicts a Navajo warrior, his face clenched in determination. He is defiantly holding up a bow, riding a white horse.

But it can't and that's why the Navajo Election Administration is trying to convince the Navajo Nation Supreme Court to reverse its decision requiring an election on council reduction within the next six months.

After a brief tour of Fort Defiance and Window Rock, U.S. Interior Assistant Secretary Larry Echo Hawk, left, and U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar held a press conference with President Joe Shirley Jr.

The annual convocation of the Navajoland Area Mission adopted overwhelmingly an amended resolution to defer the election of an interim bishop until September.

From "Matthew Davies" Date Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:07:47 -0400 >Episcopal News Service >June 14, 2009 NAVAJOLAND: Convocation delegates approve plan for September episcopal election >By Pat McCaughan [Episcopal News Service] Delegates to the 33rd annual Convocation of the Episcopal Church in Navajoland June 12-14 overwhelmingly approved creation of a ...

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has nominated the Rev. Canon David E. Bailey, canon to the ordinary and deployment officer for the Diocese of Utah, to be the next Bishop of Navajoland.

The projects are part of a $500 million infusion into the resource-strapped IHS announced Friday by the service's new director, former University of Arizona medical school professor Yvette Roubideaux, in a telephone press conference from Washington, D.C. "I'm really grateful to President Obama for allocating these critical resources to Indian ...

The Arizona Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle Division, conducts a roadblock April 29 at the port of entry in Tse Bonito, N.M. Officials were stopping diesel-powered vehicles and checking for illegal fuel.

The community of Ganado, Ariz., was challenged on Thursday to consider how its children should be cared for and to consider ways residents can support each other in preventing child abuse.