Uranium Ore Truck Collision Endangered Navajos near Shonto on Navajo Nation, May 6, 2026

Uranium Ore Truck Collision Endangered Navajos near Shonto on Navajo Nation, May 2026

Uranium ore haul truck struck by car endangered Navajos near Shonto, Arizona on the Navajo Nation. Photo courtesy Navajo Police Dept.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, May 6, 2026

A uranium ore haul truck traveling from a uranium mine in the Havasupai's homeland in the Grand Canyon, to a mill site in the White Mesa Ute's community in Utah, was struck by a vehicle in the northwestern Navajo Nation on May 6, 2026. The collision  exposes the danger from the radioactive haul trucks covered only with tarps.

The trucks travel from Energy Fuels Pinyon Plain uranium mine in the Grand Canyon in Havasupai ancestral land, through Flagstaff, and across Navajo and Hopi lands before reaching Energy Fuels mill site on Ute ancestral land in southeastern Utah. 

The Birth of the Environmental Justice Movement, Dine' CARE, Dilkon, Navajo Nation, 1990

A tribute to those who came together on the Navajo Nation in 1990 and created the solidarity movement to protect the water, air and land, today's environmental justice movement. They came from the fishing rights struggle in the northwest, and the Seminoles came from Florida. Hopi Thomas Banyacya was there, and Jim Main from Gros Ventre in Montana, they came from Mohawk lands, and the border, and it was a beginning. They came from near and far -- Havasupai, Zuni Pueblo and Pine Ridge, and gave birth to the movement that has spanned the past 35 years. (Photo Gros Ventre Jim Main, Chief Johnny Jackson from Columbia River, and Hopi Thomas Banyacya.)

After Exposing the Navajo Nation's Selling Aboriginal Land Claims, John Redhouse was Censored by Navajo Times

After exposing the Navajo Nation's selling its aboriginal land claims, John Redhouse was censored by Navajo Times

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 15, 2025

WINDOW ROCK, Arizona -- When John Redhouse, Dine', wrote about the Navajo Nation extinguishing Navajo aboriginal land claims for 86 cents an acre -- it ended his time as a columnist at Navajo Times. It was a bold move to expose it in 1981.

Dr. Jennifer Denetdale, Dine' historian, said she discovered Redhouse's column during her research for her PhD. Her comments came as Redhouse launched his new book on bordertown racism and the torture murder of Navajos in Farmington, New Mexico.

Alert: Radioactive Uranium Trucks on the Navajo Nation Today

Radioactive Uranium Trucks on Navajo Nation

A banner on the deadly haul route today, Wednesday, as two radioactive uranium transport trucks pass by Dine' homes in Tuba City on the Navajo Nation. Dine' families said they had no warning and the Navajo government sold them out.

Radioactive uranium trucks loaded at Energy Fuels Pinyon Plain uranium mine in the Grand Canyon ready on Tuesday. Courtesy photo for Censored News.

Two radioactive uranium trucks passed through Tuba City on the Navajo Nation at between 11 a.m. and noon today, covered only with tarps, headed to the mill in the White Mesa Ute community in Utah. 

Breaking News update:

Navajo Nation Council committees said the Navajo Council was never consulted and never approved the secret agreement with Energy Fuels for uranium transport, which was carried out by Navajo President Buu Nygren and the tribe's attorneys.

Navajo Nation is 'Back Peddling' by Allowing Uranium Transport through Dine' Communities and More Dumping on Utes

Navajo Nation is 'Back Peddling' by Allowing Uranium Transport through Dine' Communities and More Dumping on Utes

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Feb. 8, 2025
Translated into French by Christine Prat

TUBA CITY -- Leona Morgan, Dine' co-founder of Haul No!, said the Navajo Nation is now "back peddling" by allowing radioactive uranium waste to be transported through Dine' communities. This radioactive transport from the Grand Canyon means even more deadly waste for another Native community -- the White Mesa Ute community in Utah.

Speaking at a community forum in Tuba City on Saturday, Leona said there has been little or no information along the haul route. The Navajo government expects the Dine' Chapters on the route to each have an emergency preparedness plan. Leona asked if the Dine' communities are aware of this and whether the Navajo Chapters are certified to deal with radioactive emergencies.

'Remembering 1974: The Racism in Farmington Never Ended' Live on Saturday

'Remembering 1974: The Racism in Farmington Never Ended'

by Brenda Norrell, Censored News

Watch on YouTube

Live: Chili Yazzie thanked everyone for coming today to honor the victims and their families of Dine' tortured and murdered in the bordertown of Farmington, New Mexico.

Lunch is being served, as the live broadcast ends. Workshops are planned for the afternoon, and tents are set up outside as healing centers, at the Totah Theater in downtown Farmington, now, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024.

The Keeswood family, the Sun Eagle Singers, is now singing an honor song, "for everyone to heal today."

Remembering and honoring Dodge Benally, 34, John Earl Harvey, 39, and David Ignacio, 52, tortured and murdered by white teenagers in the Chokecherry Massacres in 1974.

Diné Youth at World Water Week in Sweden 2024

Tó Nizhóní Ání, Sacred Water Speaks, traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, for World Water Week 2024. 

 

Diné Youth at World Water Week in Sweden 2024

Black Mesa youth travel to Stockholm, Sweden, for World Water Week to share the need to protect our water in the face of false solutions and climate change.

 

by Adrian Herder, Media/Community Organizer, Censored News

adrian@tonizhoniani.org

FLAGSTAFF, Arizona – On Friday, August 23, 2024, members of Tó Nizhóní Ání traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, for World Water Week 2024, an international leading conference on global water issues organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute.

Earlier this year, Tó Nizhóní Ání was invited to attend World Water Week 2024 and asked to be on a panel on Green Colonialism. The Sámi national youth organization, Sáminuorra, organized this panel. Given this panel's Indigenous youth focus, Tó Nizhóní Ání took this opportunity to fund raise and send a delegation of Diné (Navajo) youth from the Black Mesa region to represent and speak on this topic.

Partnering with the Israeli Weapons Maker: University of Arizona and Navajo Nation

Photo: A rally was held on Thursday in support of Palestine at the University of Arizona after an earlier rally was canceled when the university president spoke out against it. Defense for Children said today that 1,873 Palestinian children have been killed in Israeli airstrikes and shelling in the Gaza Strip since October 7. More than 4,600 children are injured as hospitals run out of fuel, electricity, and medical supplies.

Partnering with the Israeli Weapons Maker: University of Arizona and Navajo Nation

Photo: Rally for Palestine in downtown Tucson, Monday, Oct. 17, 2023 KOVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt72UoX72UE

The University of Arizona president spoke out against support for Palestine and a rally was canceled. The university brags about its partnership with Raytheon Missile in Tucson, which provides weapons to Israel.

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News

TUCSON, Arizona -- A Pro-Palestinian rally was canceled after the University of Arizona's president spoke out against it. The university in Tucson brags about its partnership with local Raytheon Missiles, now named RTX Corp., a provider of weapons to Israel. The university not only partners with the weapons maker, but it has a manufacturing plant on the Navajo Nation, where commercial crops are grown.

Raytheon's missile plant on the Navajo Nation was so censored by Indian Country Today, when I was a staff reporter there, that the editors told me not to even research it.

It all happened this way.

Navajo Government Joining Australian Company to Devastate Hualapai Sacred Land for Lithium Mine

Hualapai Walk for the Sacred Opposing Lithium Mine

Navajo Government Joining Australian Company to Devastate Hualapai Sacred Land for Lithium Mine

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

December 10, 2022

The Navajo Nation's "energy transition office" plans to operate the lithium mine that will devastate Hualapai's sacred spring used for healing since time immemorial. In a deal with the Australian company, Vern Lund, the CEO of the Navajo office in Farmington, N.M., would join the lithium company's board.

The lithium mine will deplete and poison the water on Hualapai sacred ancestral land in northwest Arizona. Hualapai elders point out their sacred plants and the animals will be poisoned.

"It will destroy what is important to our people," said Ivan Bender, Hualapai caretaker at the sacred spring Ha'Kamwe. "Every living thing needs clean water."

Already, Navajo Transitional Energy Company has invested Dine' money in a Texas company mining rare metals, and operates the Navajo Mine, three coal mines in Wyoming and Montana. It owns a percentage of the coal-fired Four Corners Power Plant on the Navajo Nation, among the worst polluters in the world.

Arizona Lithium, a subsidiary of Hawkstone Mining in Australia, said that the Navajo Transitional Energy Company will take over the operational development of Big Sandy, managing everything from permitting requirements to a definitive feasibility study and mine construction, under the terms of the deal.

Hualapai said carving an open pit mine into the earth would devastate the aquifer that feeds Ha’Kamwe, a sacred spring that the Hualapai people have used medicinally since time immemorial.

Greenwashing -- Biden, Haaland and the Navajo Nation's Runaway Train: Oil, Gas, Coal and Lithium

 

Ha ‘Kamwe is a hot spring sacred to the Hualapai Tribe in Northern Arizona. An Australian company is threatening the spring with a proposed lithium mining project.

The Green Hoax -- Biden, Haaland and the Navajo Government's Runaway Train: Oil, Gas, Coal and Lithium

Brenda Norrell

Censored News 

While President Biden and Interior Sec. Deb Haaland push for more oil and gas wells and fracking in the Greater Chaco region -- the Navajo Government's "Navajo Transitional Energy Company" is pushing coal mines, and now plans to join an Australian company to devastate the sacred land of the Hualapai with lithium mining. 

Lithium, in demand for electric vehicle batteries, is part of the fake green solutions to climate change.

Flying under the banner of energy transition, the Biden administration and Navajo Nation are pushing the most polluting and devastating drilling and mining on earth.

The Climate Trace map revealed at the U.N. Climate Summit in Egypt shows the San Juan, N.M., oil and gas fields, and Navajo power plants and coal mines, are among those polluting the world's air, emitting greenhouse gases causing global warming, and poisoning the air and causing respiratory illnesses.

The Navajo government's energy transition team is operating four coal mines and a power plant, and invested in a Texas company mining rare earth minerals.

Poisonous Green: Navajo Nation freight rail scam follows atomic bomb industry heading energy transition for Four Corners

Photo Courtesy Shiprock Chapter, Navajo Nation

The freight rail proposal presented in Shiprock on the Navajo Nation, on Tuesday, comes after the atomic bomb industry headed the new energy transition session in Farmington, New Mexico. The United States "clean energy economy" is on track to continue the use of the Four Corners as a sacrifice zone. -- Censored News

Four Corners Freight Rail Study Team Public Info Meeting

By Joseph Hernandez

Censored News

Sept. 14, 2022

NAVAJO NATION, SHIPROCK, New Mexico -- First, It was a good turnout in Shiprock and I want to thank everyone who provided public comments at this 3 hour public info meeting to inform the County, State, Federal and even our own Navajo officials that building a Freight rail is not heavily supported from people who live in the path of this proposed heavy load railroad. 

For this initial process San Juan County is the lead agency who was awarded a $2 million grant for a feasibility study. In yesterday's presentation there were no Navajo Nation officials to explain the MOU, memorandum of understanding, that was signed in February of 2020 by Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez, Navajo Nation Vice President Myron Lizer and Navajo Nation Attorney General Doreen N. McPaul. What was mentioned is that this “team” will be looking at designs, railroad alignment and right of way access. 

Big Mountain's John Benally Passes to Spirit World

John Benally at home in Big Mountain. Photo by Brenda Norrell.

Big Mountain's John Benally Passes to Spirit World

In memory of John Benally, Dineh, life long resister of relocation on Big Mountain, we share John's words during an interview after the Sundance was bulldozed in 2001. Our sincere condolences to John's family, may his life and perseverance as a resister  be an inspiration to all who struggle. -- Brenda, Censored News.

“We have suffered enough. “The only way to resolve this is to give Navajo back their original land.” -- John Benally

By Brenda Norrell

Censored News

BIG MOUNTAIN (2001) -- John Benally sits without food for himself or his dogs near the bulldozed Sundance grounds.

“The only way to resolve this is to give Navajo back their original land.”

John said, too, it is time for Navajos to return to farming. “If we are farmers, we can help people. Opening a mine, you think that is the answer? Forget it, only a few people will work. I know people who have died of black lung.”

Mining on Black Mesa is destroying the air for the plants, animals and people. “This whole relocation should be investigated,” he said of Peabody Coal's mine on Black Mesa.

“We have suffered enough,” said John Benally. “The only way to resolve this is to give Navajo back their original land.”

John said, too, it is time for Navajos to return to farming. “If we are farmers, we can help people. Opening a mine, you think that is the answer? Forget it, only a few people will work. I know people who have died of black lung.”

Mining on Black Mesa is destroying the air for the plants, animals and people. “This whole relocation should be investigated,” he said.

“We are being neglected by the Navajo government and the Hopi government. I really support the idea of the study. Our kids do not like education because of the relocation effect.

“I do not get food stamps or anything. Its too much harassment to fill out the forms and get food stamps. The interviewer can interrogate you. They should make it easier.”

John said he worked for Peabody Coal Company, just down the dirt road on Black Mesa, for seven years. Now he receives nothing back from the taxes he paid.

“Throughout the year we are harassed, our livestock is impounded and we are intimidated by the Hopi Rangers. The police are monitoring us and we are slandered many times when they say we are trespassers. The Hopi Rangers and Hopi monitors are the trespassers.

“They desecrated our ceremonial Sundance grounds where all people come and pray from the Four Directions.”

Read the full interviews with John and his brother Leonard Benally at Censored News. Big Mountain relocation resister Leonard Benally passed to the Spirit World in 2013. https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/10/big-mountain-warrior-leonard-benally.html

Earl Tulley of Blue Gap said, "John Benally, Nakai Dine'e of Big Mountain journeyed on. He was one of many icons of the Big Mountain resistance to forced relocation by the U.S. government and Peabody Coal Company.

"My clan daddy and comrade. He threw his body under BIA police tire during one of many impoundments.

Condolences to his family and the Big Mountain People. He will be remembered. The work will continue."

Copyright Brenda Norrell, Censored News

Sacred Water: Nikki Tulley journeys home to Blue Gap

Take a beautiful water journey with Nikki Tulley, back home to Blue Gap, on the Navajo Nation. Nikki, a PhD student in hydrology, shares her thoughts on sacred water, believing in one's self, and the power of the land, water, home and family.

Nikki with her father, Earl Tulley, cofounder of Dine' Citizens Against Ruining our Environment,
and longtime human rights champion. Nikki visits with nieces and nephews as she reflects on her journey from her home in Blue Gap to the University of Arizona.

https://research.arizona.edu/stories/navajo-hydrologist-aims-safeguard-resources-her-people

National Sacrifice Zone: Dine' Protest as Navajo Council Continues Era of Neglect and Abuse of Dine'

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The banner 'National Sacrifice Zone' outside the Navajo Nation Council on Monday, as Council began its spring session.

Navajo council delegates are among the co-opted players in this roulette of cash, greed and genocide.

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

April 19, 2022

NAVAJO NATION CAPITOL -- National Sacrifice Zone, the banner reads, outside the Navajo Nation Council, as the Council begins its spring session. The sacrifice zone is the Navajo Nation. The Four Corners region and Black Mesa, and all of the Navajo Nation, have been the United States' sacrifice zone.

Dine' -- and their land, water, and air -- were poisoned by the U.S. government and its corporations, for uranium mining during the Cold War, and coal-fired power plants to produce electricity for distant cities in the Southwest.

Uranium mining, coal mining, coal-fired power plants, fracking, and oil and gas wells, have left behind strewn radioactive debris from uranium mining, scarred land cut and gouged by mining, poisoned water from dumping and runoff, dried up springs from Peabody Coal's mining, and a long genocidal trail of cancer and respiratory disease.

The U.S. Sacrifice Zone continues in the Four Corners region.

Navajo council delegates are among the co-opted players in this roulette of cash, greed and genocide.

Dine' from Black Mesa outside the Navajo Nation Council on Monday, in solidarity with Dine' opposing new helium mining, planned by the Council, on sacred Beautiful Mountain at Sanostee. -- Censored News.

"We came all the way from Black Mesa. We just want our council delegates to do their jobs."

That is the voice of Dine' outside the Navajo Nation Council chambers on Monday. On Black Mesa, Dine' said they have no running water, are using outhouses, and their roads are in bad condition.

During the protest outside the Navajo Council on Monday, Dine' urged real solutions to climate change, and a halt to the dependence on fossil fuels, mining and extraction.

Dine' outside the council chambers on Monday included Dine' hemp farmers who said their voices are not being heard. Dine' hemp farmers said their story, of what they went through after a Navajo police raid, is not being heard.

Dine' farmers brought this message: "Navajo hemp growers are not criminals or drug dealers. Most were elderly," said one Dine', referring to the Navajo police raid on Dine' hemp farmers.

Navajo elderly were refused entry to the springs session of the Navajo Nation Council today. Dine' protesters opposed new helium mining on the sacred Beautiful Mountain. While Navajos are in need of water and help to haul water, the Navajo Council plans to give a half-million-dollar gift to a private Christian school. Dine' lined up outside the tribal finance building in desperate need of funds. The Navajo government received $2.1 billion in federal virus relief funds from ARPA, but the Navajo government has failed to distribute those. Now, 1,741 Navajos have died of COVID-19.

Outside the Navajo Nation Council Chambers in Window Rock, Dine' are opposing new helium mining on sacred Beautiful Mountain at Sanostee.

Dine' are speaking out for real solutions to climate change and voicing urgency for support for sexual assault victims and new efforts in search for missing and murdered Dine'.

“We stand for protecting our precious Mother Earth; we do not want Mother Earth to be destroyed with more pollution from emissions and the potential of destroying the water supply," Dine' organizers of today's march and protest said in a written statement.

An elderly Dine', shown above, was turned away at the door of the Navajo Nation Council spring session today.

During her live coverage, Dine'/Zuni  reporter Marley Shebala, was also turned away at the Council door, and told she "was not on the list." Shebala has been a reporter in the Navajo capitol for 40 years.

The Council's spring session began today. The agenda includes a half-million-dollar gift to a private Christian school.

(Photo above) Reporting live outside the Navajo Finance building, reporter Marley Shebala shows Dine' lined up in need of assistance.

The Navajo government received the American Rescue Plan Act, federal virus relief funds, nearly a year ago, but has not distributed the $2.1 billion in funds.

Now, 1,741 Dine' have died from the COVID-19. Many Dine' are in need of help hauling water and are not receiving help getting water from the Navajo government.

Navajo Council plans half million for private Christian school

The Navajo Nation Council plans to give a half-million dollars to a private Christian school. It will be discussed this week during the Council's spring session.

Dine'/Zuni Pueblo reporter Marley Shebala questions what Native children are being taught at the school. Shebala writes, "When I attended Rehoboth, I was told that my Dine’ and Zuni ceremonies/prayers were devil worship."

During the pandemic, in August of 2020, the Navajo Council gave $24 million of its federal virus relief funds, from the CARES Act, to its casinos. The Council secretly planned to buy the bankrupt Remington Arms for $300 million during the pandemic, for the second time, in June of 2020, but it was purchased by others for far less.

Now, in April of 2022, reporter Marley Shebala reports on the Navajo Council's plan to fund Rehoboth, east of Gallup, New Mexico. Shebala questions what is the position of Rehoboth on teaching the Dine' traditions and ceremonies.

The spread of the coronavirus has come in waves on the Navajo Nation over the past two years. The coronavirus spread began at gatherings of the Nazarene Christian Church on the Navajo Nation.

Shebala writes: "I attended Rehoboth & I saw how my friends were taught to be ashamed of their parents if they were not Christians or if they were traditional Dine’. Rehoboth was a Christian Boarding School. Why hasn’t the Navajo Council called for an Investigation of Rehoboth, instead of handing over more of our Funds. AND Rehoboth Christian School charges Tuition Fees & Other Fees."

"WHAT IS REHOBOTH'S POSITION ON DINE’ TEACHINGS, CEREMONIES, PRAYERS, ART, MATH, HERBS, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, DINE’ TRADITIONAL CLOTHING. When I attended Rehoboth, I was told that my Dine’ and Zuni ceremonies/prayers were devil worship," Shebala writes.

Read Shebala's column at:

http://www.dineresourcesandinfocenter.org/why-does-navajo-govt-fund-rehoboth-christian-school-instead-of-calling-for-investigation-of-this-boarding-school-4-14-22/

Below, Navajo Council resolution:

TODAY: Watch Marley Shebala's live coverage, and recorded videos:

https://www.facebook.com/marley.shebala

Screenshots by Censored News from Marley Shebala's video coverage that is underway.

Listen to Dine' voices on the video coverage of reporter Marley Shebala. Navajo elderly and Shebala, Dine'/Zuni Pueblo, a reporter here for 40 years, were denied entry into the Council on Monday by the Navajo Nation Council.

Watch Shebala's video here: 

https://www.facebook.com/marley.shebala/videos/511992007145333

About the author

Brenda Norrell has been a news reporter in Indian country for 40 years. She began at the Navajo Times during the 18 years that she lived on the Navajo Nation. She was a correspondent for Associated Press and USA Today, covering the Navajo Nation and federal courts. After serving as a longtime staff reporter for Indian Country Today, she was censored and fired in 2006. Norrell created Censored News to reveal what was being censored in Indian country. She traveled with the Zapatistas and to Bolivia for live coverage. Today Censored News is a collective, with 21 million views. Now in its 15th year, it has no ads, grants, salaries or revenues.
Norrell has a master's degree in international health, focused on water, nutrition and infectious diseases. Since 2006, she has been blacklisted by the media as a news reporter.

Copyright Brenda Norrell, Censored News

Read more at Navajo Times

Navajo Times journalist Rima Krisst reports -- "With $1.07 billion in American Rescue Plan Act funds idle because the Navajo Nation Council and president’s office are divided over how to spend it, members of the Dzil Yijiin Regional Council marched on the first day of spring session Monday to express concern. Marcus Tulley, president of the regional council, said the protest was to demand Navajo Nation leaders to 'do their job' and approve ARPA spending."

“The people that are suffering are the chapter people,” said Tulley. “They need to stop playing games with these funds and sit down together and iron things out.” The Dzil Yijiin region includes Hardrock, Black Mesa, Forest Lake, Pinon, Whippoorwill, Blue Gap and Low Mountain chapters.

Read the article at Navajo Times.

https://navajotimes.com/reznews/leaders-urged-to-do-their-job-allocate-arpa-money/  

Navajo Nation reports uncontrolled spread in 36 communities, as coronavirus spreads through schools

Bitahnii Wilson at K'e Native Action is among the Dine' volunteers who raises his own funds and delivers life-saving water and food. This week, after receiving calls for help from fellow Dine', Bitahnni delivered food and water to elderly. The Navajo Nation government received $2.5 billion in federal virus relief funds -- from the CARES Act and the American Rescue Plan -- but the Navajo government has not allocated or distributed the majority of the relief funds.

Navajo Nation reports uncontrolled spread in 36 communities, as coronavirus spreads through schools

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
September 1, 2021

The Navajo Nation said there is uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus in 36 communities on the nation in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. The State of New Mexico, which provides a daily list, shows the virus spread is increasing in Navajo area schools in San Juan County schools in Bloomfield, Farmington and Aztec, New Mexico.

Navajo Nation receives $1.8 billion from U.S. American Rescue Plan Act

Navajo's future will be brighter and we will continue to coordinate with county, state and federal officials to monitor the evolving impacts of the coronavirus," said Speaker Seth Damon of the 24th Navajo Nation Council.

By Navajo Nation Office
of the President and the Vice President
and Navajo Nation Office of the Speaker

Navajo Nation receives initial $1.8 billion
allocation through the American Rescue Plan Act

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation received notice on Friday from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, acknowledging receipt of "complete and accurate" information and documentation that was submitted by the Navajo Nation Washington Office on May 21, which was used to calculate the allocation of funding through the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds program authorized by the American Rescue Plan Act that provides $20 billion for tribes to help recover from the devastating impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Following the notice, the Navajo Nation received its initial funding allocation totaling $1,861,554,458.43.

Secret Navajo Nation deal to buy Remington Arms included $10 million incentive

Documents expose secret negotiations within Navajo Nation, and how contracted consultants stood to make $10 million on Remington Arms purchase

By Brenda Norrell

Copyright Censored News

A consultant company received $150,000 per month from the Navajo Nation, during secret negotiations for the purchase of bankrupt Remington Arms last year, according to documents obtained by Censored News.

If the deal had gone through, the consultant firm would have received up to $10 million.

The details are in documents which are now part of a criminal investigation by the Navajo Nation, and obtained by Censored News.

As the coronavirus spread and claimed hundreds of Dine' lives during the spring of 2020, secret negotiations were underway within the Navajo Budget and Finance Committee to purchase Remington Arms for $300 million.

Navajo Nation Cease and Desist Order to Agile Technologies: Halt Unauthorized COVID-19 Tests

Photo: First Lady Jill Biden speaks in the Navajo Capitol at Window Rock, Arizona.  Agile Technologies says it was contracted to provide COVID-19 services during Biden's visit in April. The Navajo Nation says the contract, and methods, were never authorized. Photo credit Office of Navajo President.

Navajo Nation issues cease and desist order to company administering unauthorized COVID-19 tests, as new questions arise over the secret negotiations to purchase Remington Arms

Article by Brenda Norrell

Censored News

WINDOW ROCK, Arizona -- The Navajo Nation sent the following cease and desist order to Agile Technologies, which is administering unauthorized types of coronavirus tests to Navajos.

Navajo Attorney General Doreen McPaul states a sole source contract from the Navajo Nation was unauthorized and has expired.

Agile Technologies is not a health care provider, but has continued to operate illegally on the Navajo Nation, after the unauthorized contract expired on Dec. 30, 2020.

Agile is administering rapid antigen and antibody tests, which are not approved by the CDC.

Agile has rented space at the Navajo Shopping Center and has continued to administer these unauthorized COVID-19 tests. It is misleading the public into believing it is operating on behalf of the Navajo Nation, according to the cease and desist order.

Unauthorized coronavirus test used on Navajo Nation, info used in marketing campaign

Unauthorized COVID-19 tests were administered to Navajos and the  information was used in an online marketing campaign. The Navajo Nation Council says the contract was not authorized. Unapproved types of antigen and antibody rapid virus tests were administered to Navajos. The company's services were used during First Lady Biden's recent visit. The services included disinfecting 10 tribal buildings, and distributing "bipolar ionization necklaces," and bracelets to monitor body functions.

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

Updated May 21, 2021

Unauthorized rapid coronavirus tests were  administered to Navajos. The information,  which includes COVID-19 services during First Lady Jill Biden's visit, was used in an online marketing campaign.

Meanwhile, the Navajo Nation Council said the $3 million contract was not authorized to Agile Technologies, a software technology company. The Navajo Nation issued a cease and desist order to the company on May 7.

UK coronavirus variant on Navajo Nation, patient had been vaccinated

In the western Navajo Nation, a Dine' elderly patient was hospitalized with the UK variant of the coronavirus, more than one month after being vaccinated.

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

The UK variant of the coronavirus has been identified on the Navajo Nation, Navajo President Jonathan Nez said in a statement today, March 30, 2021.

The Dine' patient had been vaccinated for the coronavirus. The patient received the COVID-19 vaccine more than one month before testing positive for the virus variant.

The elderly patient in the western Navajo Nation was hospitalized and is now at home recovering.

In an interview, Nez said that the Dine' who had the virus was a man in his 80s living in the western area of the Navajo Nation.