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Chapter officials operating out of a Chapter House register voters who may then vote to elect Delegates for the Navajo Nation Council or the President of the Navajo Nation. The following table contains chapter names, chapter names in Navajo, a rough literal English translation, population, and land area estimates.
Becenti (Navajo: Tłʼóoʼditsin) is a census-designated place (CDP) in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States, on the Navajo Nation. As of the 2020 census , it had a population of 294. [ 3 ]
Chief Becenti, a local Navajo headman, is one of the first documented leaders of the area. He resided north of Crownpoint, where later in the 1930s a small community would be named after him, called Becenti Lake. In June 1965, Crownpoint was recognized as a local chapter government sub-unit of the Navajo Nation government. There are a total of ...
Tom B. Becenti, tribal judge and chapter official from Eastern Navajo Agency. WWII veteran. He is known to have helped develop the Navajo Tribal Court System while preserving traditional Navajo Fundamental Law. [47] Peter MacDonald, Navajo Tribal chairman convicted for cause (1971–1983, 1987–1989)
The Navajo Nation Council (Navajo: Béésh bąąh dah siʼání) is the Legislative Branch of the Navajo Nation government. The council meets four times per year, with additional special sessions, at the Navajo Nation Council Chamber, which is in Window Rock, Arizona.
Ryneldi Becenti was the first Native American to play in the WNBA, paving the way for generations of Diné women.
There is a tribal school, Pine Hill Schools, operated by the Ramah Navajo School Board and associated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). Additionally the Gallup-McKinley County Schools is the local school district; the proximity of the nearest schools in Cibola County were so far, 50 miles (80 km) away, that Cibola and McKinley counties agreed to have students sent to McKinley County ...
[8] [17] [23] [4] As a child, Abeita often lived in Becenti Chapter, near Crownpoint, with his grandmother, [14] and helped raise sheep in Canyon de Chelly. [2] By 1955, Abeita moved to Salt Lake City to attend a school on a placement. There he lived with a foster family, who were Mormon, and he has since identified as a Mormon himself. [17] [14]