Nine women were elected to serve on the Navajo Nation Council last month, along with the first female vice president, giving women a stronger voice in tribal leadership. With 24 Navajo Nation Council ...

The 25th Navajo Nation Council has made history Monday, electing Council Delegate Crystalyne Curley as the first female speaker, a post she will hold for the next two years. Curley, a former Miss ...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Jill Biden spent the first day of a trip to the Navajo Nation listening to female tribal leaders whom she referred to as her “sister warriors,” on the needs and priorities of the ...

On the Navajo Nation, women are even more vulnerable to the virus, as a result of poor health care, poverty, trauma and high rates of illnesses like diabetes. Navajo women not only hold high-exposure ...

Women have long been front and center when it comes to making things happen on the Navajo Nation. But never has that role been so apparent — or so perilous — as during the pandemic. Ever since the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — About a quarter of ...

Albuquerque, New Mexico — About a quarter of Navajo women and some infants who were part of a federally funded study on uranium exposure had high levels of the radioactive metal in their systems, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Jill Biden spent ...

This story was reported by Searchlight New Mexico, a non-partisan, nonprofit news organization dedicated to investigative reporting in New Mexico, and shared with USA TODAY. SHIPROCK, N.M. — Sitting ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) — Jill Biden spent ...