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Medical Officials Serving Navajo Make Urgent Plea: Stay Home

Medical Officials Serving Navajo Make Urgent Plea: Stay Home

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Medical professionals serving the Navajo Nation made an urgent plea to residents Thursday to stay home as coronavirus cases rise, testing the limits of health care on the vast reservation. “If we don’t stop COVID, we will run out of beds, we will run out of […]

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Navajo Nation Reports 104 New COVID-19 Cases, 3 More Deaths

Navajo Nation Reports 104 New COVID-19 Cases, 3 More Deaths

WINDOW ROCK, ARIZ. (AP) — The Navajo Nation is reporting 104 new COVID-19 cases and three additional deaths. Tribal health officials also said Tuesday night that the Navajo Department of Health has identified 75 75 communities with uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus. The Navajo Nation now has had 16,711 total cases […]

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Navajo Nation Lawmakers Consider Extending Junk Food Tax

Navajo Nation Lawmakers Consider Extending Junk Food Tax

FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — Lawmakers on the Navajo Nation are considering a bill to extend a 2% sales tax on unhealthy food and beverages sold on the reservation. The bill sponsored by Delegate Amber Kanazbah Crotty is making its way through Navajo Nation Council committees, the Daily Times in Farmington reported. […]

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Navajo Nation finds 177 more COVID-19 cases, 5 new deaths

Navajo Nation finds 177 more COVID-19 cases, 5 new deaths

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation is reporting more than 170 new COVID-19 cases and five additional deaths. Navajo health officials announced Sunday a new tally of 177 newly confirmed virus cases, bringing the total to 16,427, including 27 delayed unreported cases. The death toll from COVID-19 on […]

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Navajo Homes Getting Electricity With CARES Act Funding

Navajo Homes Getting Electricity With CARES Act Funding

SAN JUAN COUNTY, Utah (AP) — Chastity De Guzman and her four children have lived in a home on the Navajo Nation without power since 2015. She said they had been on a waiting list for over two years when a crew finally showed up in September to connect their […]

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121 cases, 7 deaths added to COVID tallies for Navajo Nation

121 cases, 7 deaths added to COVID tallies for Navajo Nation

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — The Navajo Nation has reported an additional 121 known COVID-19 cases and seven more deaths, increasing its totals to 15,374 cases and 638 deaths. The number of infections is thought to be far higher because many people have not been tested, and studies suggest people […]

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More than 240k Navajos apply for tribal virus relief funding

More than 240k Navajos apply for tribal virus relief funding

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — About three-quarters of Navajos enrolled with the tribe have applied for financial assistance due to the coronavirus pandemic. The deadline to file an application is Monday. Already, more than 240,000 Navajos have applied. The Navajo Nation has about $90 million available for hardship assistance. The […]

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Navajo Nation reports peak high of 383 new COVID-19 cases

Navajo Nation reports peak high of 383 new COVID-19 cases

WINDOW ROCK, ARIZ. (AP) — The Navajo Nation is reporting 383 more confirmed cases of COVID-19, an all-time high for the vast reservation. Tribal health officials on Sunday announced the latest daily figure of new cases as well as five more coronavirus-related deaths. The total number of known cases now stands […]

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Satellite or weather balloon crashes in eastern Arizona

Satellite or weather balloon crashes in eastern Arizona

PHOENIX (AP) — Navajo Nation officials in eastern Arizona are trying to determine if a satellite or a high-altitude weather balloon crash-landed in a remote area of the reservation. Tully Begay, vice president of the tribe’s Dennehotso Chapter, told The Arizona Republic that the object landed about 1,200 feet from […]

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Native American votes helped secure Biden’s win in Arizona

Native American votes helped secure Biden’s win in Arizona

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Voting rights advocates had long argued that if Native Americans and other minority groups were mobilized, they could be decisive in a tight race. This year proved that. Voter turnout on swaths of tribal land in Arizona surged compared with the 2016 presidential election, helping Joe Biden to […]

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