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The money is allocated to tribes based on a formula, and goes to their tribally-designated housing entities (TDHEs). The biggest allocation for 2016 is to the country's largest tribe, the Navajo Nation. The Arizona-based Navajo will receive $86.4 million in IHBG money for fiscal 2016.
By 1933, more than 100 chapters operated across the territory. The chapters served as liaisons between the Navajo and the federal government, and also acted as precincts for the elections of tribal council delegates. But the chapters had no official authority within the structure of the Navajo Nation government. [5]
Navajo Nation Chapters [1] [2] [3] District Chapter name Chapter name (Navajo) Chapter name (English literal translation) Agency Population (2010 Census) Land area (acres) 1 Coppermine: Béésh Haagééd "Digging out Metal" Tuba City / Western 590 240,000 1 LeChee: Łichíiʼii (name of extinct burgundy-colored medicinal plant) Tuba City ...
Former Navajo Council delegate Katherine Benally [left] speaking to her constituency after the defeat of the proposed Navajo-Hopi Little Colorado River Water Rights Settlement Act. The Navajo Business Council was created in 1922 by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior in order to certify mineral leases on the Navajo reservation.
The Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. is a nonprofit organization founded in 1952 to represent the interests of the 21 tribes with lands in Arizona. [3] Many States have government offices to work with tribes with lands in their state. For example, the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council works with the 11 tribes with lands in Minnesota.
Arizona state Senator Theresa Hatathlie, who is Diné/Navajo, told the outlet she received a report from a Navajo woman who reported that she and seven other Indigenous people were detained at a ...
Two months after the NAACP issued a formal travel advisory for Florida, two major Black organizations are moving their conferences elsewhere, and advocates hope the momentum will carry over to ...
Navajo Nation Council Chamber (Navajo: Béésh bąąh dah si'ání) is the center of government for the Navajo Nation.The landmark building, in Window Rock, Arizona, is significant for its association with the 1930s New Deal, and its change in federal policy for relations with Native Americans, as established in the Indian Reorganization Act.