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 The Navajo Nation has sought ways to participate in the carbon offset program since 2018. The program is designed to reduce some of the negative impacts related to excess amounts of carbon released into the atmosphere.

“You’re doing this out of the goodness of your heart and sense of duty, a sense of, ‘How can we help Navajo people with some of the things that is very difficult to do on their own?’” President Nygren said.

Today, while we continue to heal from her loss, we are also here to celebrate the person she was and the love she felt and gave to her children Carla and Brandon, to her mother and father, to family and friends.

The Navajo Nation has issued a community alert to advise motorists of widespread hazardous road conditions, deep puddles and impassable muddy dirt roads throughout the Navajo Nation.

President Nygren went to the To’Hajiilee Community School in To’Hajiilee, New Mexico, and to the Native American Community Academy in Albuquerque, where he spoke to high school students at both schools. He shared his personal story. After asking the Navajo students what their clans were, he learned what wanted to do when they graduate from high school.

President Shelly served as a member of the Navajo Nation Council from 1991 to 2007 representing the community of Thoreau, N.M., before being elected as Vice President of the Navajo Nation from 2007 to 2011, and eventually becoming the President from 2011 to 2015. He also served as County Commissioner for McKinley County for eight years.

The packed agenda included the posting of the colors by the Diné Sáanii Siláołtsooíi Color Guard and the National Anthem sung in Navajo by young Kyle McCurtain. Following an introduction by Miss Navajo Nation Valentina Clitso, Navajo Nation First Lady Jasmine Blackwater-Nygren provided the welcome address.

For the first time in recent memory, the president of the Navajo Nation invited and met with the board and leadership of the Navajo Arts and Crafts Enterprise in the president’s office.

Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren today set goals to improve employment and housing policies for people with disabilities.

For the first time in memory, a Navajo Nation vice president and council speaker joined a twice-monthly meeting of division directors at the same time.

President Buu Nygren sent a message on Thursday that he is serious about developing the right kinds of energy projects on the Navajo Nation.

This was an opportunity for leaders throughout Indian Country to submit their federal appropriation requests for Fiscal Year 2024. Most of the funding requests were to address historic federal underfunding of unmet needs in housing, health care and public safety.

The President proclaimed March 10, 2023, Lillian Lujan Day, a day of recognition and remembrance of Women’s Army Corps Sergeant E-5 Lillian L. Lujan, who passed away on Monday, March 6. She was 104.

“The Navajo Nation lost one of its iconic leaders last night, Dr. Peterson Zah,” President Nygren said. “He was the first president of the Navajo Nation and he was a good champion even in Washington, D.C., in the 90s and the 80s.”

President Zah, who was the first Navajo president and the last chairman of the Navajo Tribal Council, passed away at the Fort Defiance Hospital this evening with his family by his side. He was 85.