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The Navajo Nation Vice-president shall serve no more than two terms. [1] In 2010, Ben Shelly became the first vice president to be elected president of the Navajo Nation. [2] In 2022, Richelle Montoya was the first woman to be elected into the Executive Branch of the Navajo Nation. [3]
Lizer is half Navajo through his father's side and half Comanche through his mother's side; [18] he is of the Naałání (Comanche People Clan) born for Tó’áhání (Near The Water Clan), his maternal grandfather's clan is Naałání (Comanche People Clan), and paternal grandfather's clan is Tł’ááshchí’í (Red Cheek People).
The 2022 Navajo Nation presidential election took place on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, to elect the president and vice president of the Navajo Nation. The primary election was held on August 2. Incumbent president Jonathan Nez ran for reelection with attorney Chad Abeyta as his running mate.
The 56-year-old actor traveled to the Navajo Nation on Saturday, Oct. 12, to participate in Walk to the Polls, a civic campaign to boost voter turnout among young Indigenous people in the 2024 ...
The Navajo Nation makes up the largest tribe in Arizona, with about 131,000 members, according to the US Census. The presence of both parties at Saturday’s parade underscored the electoral ...
President Biden said the decision will allow Peltier, an 80-year-old Native American activist, to fulfill the remainder of his sentence from home.
The Navajo Nation is served by various print media operations. The Navajo Times used to be published as the Navajo Times Today. Created by the Navajo Nation Council in 1959, it has been privatized. It continues to be the newspaper of record for the Navajo Nation. The Navajo Times is the largest Native American-owned newspaper company in the ...
Jonathan Nez (born May 26, 1975) [1] [2] is a Navajo politician who served as the 9th President of the Navajo Nation from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as Vice President and as a Navajo Nation Council delegate. [3] [4] [5] Earlier in his career, Nez served as a council delegate representing Tsah Bii' Kin, Navajo Mountain, Shonto, and