Statements and Memoranda
Navajo President Buu Nygren, Speaker Crystalyne Curley praise U.S. Senate reauthorization of Radiation Exposure Compensation Act
WASHINGTON – Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren today applauded the U.S. Senate’s reauthorization of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Reauthorization Act, SB 3853. He said the 69-30 vote marks a significant milestone that will help Navajo families. "We are so...
Navajo Nation Department of Health issues Public Health Advisory for first Hantavirus case of 2024
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation Department of Health has reported the first Hantavirus case of 2024 in San Juan County, N.M., and has issued a public health advisory. In coordination with the Navajo Epidemiology Center and Indian Health Service, the advisory...
Navajo President Buu Nygren, First Lady Jasmine Blackwater-Nygren honored with visit to First Presidency of the LDS Church
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...
Navajo President Buu Nygren tells Resource Fair participants he wants to provide tribal services, increase their urban influence
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...
Navajo President Buu Nygren commits to help Fallen Warrior Committee erect monument to honor police officers, first responders who died in the line
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...
Navajo President Buu Nygren, Navajo Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley
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...
Navajo President Buu Nygren meets Dr. Jennifer Denetdale, Chief Manuelito’s great-great-great granddaughter
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...
Navajo President Buu Nygren signs $3.5 million bill to ensure essential workers, first responders paid for accrued leave
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...
Navajo President Buu Nygren, Coconino Supervisor Lena Fowler oppose new uranium mining, transportation across Navajo Nation Navajo
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...
President Nygren, Council approve $6 million to replenish chapters’ emergency funds, Emergency Management Department
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...