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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — With the number of COVID-19 cases growing on the Navajo Indian Reservation, Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Mryon Lizer signed a new Public Health Emergency Order, extending the 57-hour weekend curfew for two additional weekends in the month of April. The order also requires essential businesses to close down during weekend curfews due to community spread of COVID-19.
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Coronavirus cases across the Navajo Nation have reached 1,042 confirmed, with 41 deaths, according to numbers supplied by the Navajo Department of Health and Navajo Area Indian Health Service, in coordination with the Navajo Epidemiology Center on Thursday evening.
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WASHINGTON — In an exchange of words on Twitter Thursday, Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D–N.Y.) and Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary Tara Sweeney sparred over $8 billion that Congress designated for American Indian tribes in the CARES Act.
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — The president of Navajo Nation on Thursday joined a growing number of tribal leaders voicing opposition to a decision that allows Alaskan Native Corporations (ANCs) to receive a portion of the $8 billion set aside for tribes in the recent COVID-19 relief package.
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SANTA FE, N.M. — The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA) has hired Kim Peone, a tribal citizen of the Colville Confederated Tribes of Washington, to serve as its executive director.
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Published April 16, 2020
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TUCSON, Ariz. — Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, will host a live streamed roundtable with Native American leaders this Friday, April 17, at 1:00 p.m. - EDT on the Trump administration’s botched response to the coronavirus pandemic in Indian Country.
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Five more Navajo Nation residents have died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus as of Wednesday, April 15, Navajo Nation officials say. The death toll now stands at 38.
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WASHINGTON — A group of tribal chairmen from the Great Plains region has called for Alaska Native Tara Sweeney to be removed from her post as the Department of Interior’s Assistant Secretary - Indian Affairs, saying she “has lost the confidence of Indian tribes.”
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