SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren and Navajo Nation First Lady Jasmine Blackwater-Nygren were invited to a private audience with the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. On Thursday, the President and First Lady...

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren told 200 Navajo residents that his team is looking for properties to increase the Navajo impact and influence in their adopted urban communities. Speaking at the sixth Navajo Nation Resource Fair at the Utah...

SHIPROCK, N.M. – Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren offered the Fallen Warriors Committee here his support to erect a memorial monument in the Navajo capital to fallen Navajo police officers and first responders.  Retired Shiprock Senior Police Officer James Hale and...

WASHINGTON – Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren and Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley explained to NASA today how culturally significant the moon is to Navajo and other Indigenous people. Today’s meeting between the Navajo Nation and NASA Administrator...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Following a meeting with the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission last week, Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren met the great-great-great granddaughter of a Navajo leader who inspired him as a boy. “I’ve always looked up to your great-great-great...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren today signed legislation to pay Navajo first responders and essential employees $3,535,733 for hundreds of hours of accrued annual leave they were about to lose. Annual leave built up for essential employees from...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Despite the early January startup of uranium mining within the new Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukevi National Monument, Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren and Coconino County Supervisor Lena Fowler stand firm in their opposition to it. That was the...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren today signed emergency legislation for $5,997,317 to replenish 110 Navajo communities’ emergency response fund accounts. President Nygren requested the special council session on Wednesday so chapters would be...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren told the Navajo Nation Council that reopening of the tribal government in the first months of his presidency resulted in a rebound of business across the reservation and $142 million in tribal taxes. “The...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren said Thursday that new federal VA clinics being established on the Navajo Nation will save Navajo and Native veterans money, mileage and time to get the care they’ve been asking for. On Monday, Jan. 22, Northern...

Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren has asked NASA and the federal Transportation Dept. to consult with the Navajo Nation before sending human remains to the moon next year.

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren told the House Committee on Veterans Affairs that the lack of adequate Veterans Administration health care on the Navajo Nation is not reflective of the continuous contributions the Navajo people have provided...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren today issued a statement that calls upon the federal government to protect tribes from the harmful effects of new uranium mining. “I join our neighboring tribes and the many non-Native organizations to implore...

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation Washington Office received notification Friday the Nation received $88,739,540 through the expanded State Small Business Credit Initiative as part of the American Rescue Plan Act. The Nation will use the funding to implement...

0n December 21, 2023, I issued a letter to the U.S. Department of Transportation and the National Aeronautics and Space. I expressed my objections about a scheduled Jan. 8, 2024, space launch to the moon by United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur rocket that will...