Lukachukai News

The son of the late Navajo Code Talker Willard V. Oliver, Sgt. Major Virgil Oliver, salutes his father one last time Saturday in Lukachukai, Ariz.

On Monday, the Ethics and Rules Committee subpoenaed all the discretionary fund records of the council's 88 delegates.

Navajo Code Talker Willard Varnell Oliver, 88, of Lukachukai, Ariz., died Wednesday.

Eva Smiley, legislative aid to the Resources Committee, hides from the photographer behind documents that list numerous checks written to her daughter and father at the legislative branch offices on Sept.

Morgan said he called for the audit in response to the Navajo Times article " Trio received thousands in council aid, " which was published on Sept.

As many as 25 disbursements, totaling $15,800, were made to the same individual in one year, despite a rule passed by the council in 2007 that prohibits tribal members from receiving assistance more than once a year, the records show.

The Office of Youth Development is set to lose one of its major grants at the end of the month, a loss that could affect thousands of students living on and around the Navajo Nation.

A teary-eyed newly crowned Miss Navajo Tashina Nelson, 19, from Round Rock, Ariz., speaks to the crowd Saturday night at the Dean C. Jackson Memorial Arena in Window Rock.

A man has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison in connection with a rollover accident that killed a member of the Navajo Nation Indian Tribe.

At 10:24 p.m. tribal police were called about a two-vehicle accident about five miles south of State Route 264 on Standing Chimney Road.

A man has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison in connection with a rollover accident that killed a member of the Navajo Nation Indian Tribe.

Bessie Gorman explains to the Central Fair Board why she didn't sign off on a land withdrawal for the Central Navajo Fair Tuesday evening at a packed fair board meeting.

Fred Harvey, an 87-year-old roadman, or high priest, on the Navajo reservation at Lukachukai, Ariz., led a peyote ceremony.

A teenager from Arizona has drowned at a state park in southeastern Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says 19-year-old Dion Roy of Lukachukai, Ariz., apparently tried to swim across Lake Carlton at Robbers Cave State Park when he went underwater and did not resurface.

Those who say life is short have never attended a peyote ceremony. This thought occurred to me just after midnight on July 23, 2006.