Navajo Reporter Marley Shebala Released from Jail after Violent Arrest by Navajo Police

Marley Shebala, Dine'/Zuni Pueblo News reporter was violently arrested by Navajo police serving a home eviction, after she filed an ethics complaint against Navajo President Buu Nygren. Marley's screams during the painful arrest can be heard on her livestream, which shows a locksmith entering her home, and her daughter handcuffed. She was jailed for more than 18 hours and released. -- Censored News

Navajo Reporter Marley Shebala Released from Jail after Violent Arrest by Navajo Police

Update Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025

After being violently arrested and jailed by Navajo police, Navajo reporter Marley Shebala livestreamed Tuesday morning. The Navajo Council led the walk "Protect the Peoples' Money," following the Navajo President's budget actions.
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By Marley Shebala, Censored News, Oct. 20, 2025

Greetings Relatives/Frens/Humans,

AHE’HEE, Much Appreciation and Gratitude for all the Prayers. I truly believe in prayer.

Navajo Reporter Marley Shebala Violently Arrested by Navajo Police, After Filing Ethics Complaint on Navajo President

Navajo reporter Marley Shebala livestreamed as Navajo police violently arrested her. Shown here is her daughter in handcuffs, with Navajo police in her home, and an Apache Country Sheriff's officer in the door. https://www.facebook.com/marley.shebala/videos/1124006053182031

Navajo Reporter Marley Shebala Violently Arrested by Navajo Police, After Filing Ethics Complaint on Navajo President

Navajo reporter Marley Shebala is live this morning, livestreaming as the Navajo Nation Council leads the walk, 'Protect the Peoples' Money, in the Navajo capitol of Window Rock. Oct. 21, 2025

Update Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025

After being violently arrested and jailed by Navajo police, Navajo reporter Marley Shebala livestreamed this morning. The Navajo Navajo Council led the walk "Protect the Peoples' Money," following the Navajo President's budget actions.
https://www.facebook.com/marley.shebala

Marley Shebala was released from jail after her violent arrest by Navajo police. Read her statement in today's Censored News

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/10/navajo-reporter-marley-shebala-released.html

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, October 16, 2025

WINDOW ROCK, Navajo Nation -- Navajo Police were sent today to evict Marley Shebala, Dine' Zuni Pueblo reporter, from her home. Marley, 73, screamed in pain as she was arrested by police. Marley had filed an ethics complaint against Navajo President Buu Nygren, and was reporting on the ongoing corruption in the Navajo tribal government.

"I am 73 years old, and they have me handcuffed in my home with my daughter, our Navajo police, to serve and protect" Marley says, as she continues to livestream. Navajo police used a locksmith to enter her home, before the violent arrest.

"I am not standing up, I'm not doing anything for you guys, if you want me to go you can drag me," she said, and then screamed in pain, "My arm! my arm!" Marley continued to scream from the pain during the violent arrest by Navajo police.

Marley Shebala

Marley had just filed an ethics complaint against Navajo President Buu Nygren, and was reporting on the current chaos and corruption in the Navajo Nation government. She has spent her life as a reporter in her homeland, the Navajo Nation.

Marley's livestream shows the Navajo police serving her a home eviction document. Marley said she had no advance notice, there was no hearing, and her attorney had been disbarred.

Standing Rock: The Enduring Power of the Human Spirit, and Grassroots Radio

Standing Rock: The Enduring Power of the Human Spirit and Grassroots Radio

Today we honor grassroots radio as a marker in history, and the Native youths and brave women, the Water Protectors of Standing Rock

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 16, 2025

The day was August 22, 2016, and the place was Standing Rock. Govinda arrived from the west, and Michelle Cook arrived from Arizona. Govinda, in a borrowed van, and Michelle, with a ragged tent, together produced the first sounds of Standing Rock Spirit Resistance Radio.

Amazingly, the first broadcasts are still preserved, and we share three women's interviews, and the Tlingit Water Song, live from those first broadcasts. From the barrio house, with surveillance circling, I saved those live broadcasts, and shared those with radio stations around the world. They played on radio stations coast to coast, and in other countries.

Today, we honor the beginning, the enduring power of the human spirit and the enduring power of grassroots radio, with the voices of Native youths and women.

Naelyn and Baase Pike, Apache, Oak Flat https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2016/08/oak-flat-resistance-live-standing-rock.html

Debra White Plume, Oglala Lakota https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2016/09/listen-lakota-debra-white-plume-red.html 

Dr. Michelle Cook, Dine', https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2016/08/dine-michelle-cook-on-standing-rock.html 

Tlingit Water Song, with messages from Oceti Sakowin Camp https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2016/08/listen-standing-rock-resistance-radio_24.html

'Sing a Song to the Earth' Havasupai Share Healing Words, as Ute March Against Uranium Mill

Dianna Uqualla, Havasupai, and Petuuche Gilbert, Acoma Pueblo, at Ute Spiritual Walk and Protest.
Photo by Tim Peterson

Ute lead the Spiritual Walk and Protest to the Energy Fuels uranium mill. Photo Tim Peterson, Censored News

'Sing a Song for the Earth' Havasupai Share Healing Words, as Ute March Against Uranium Mill

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 9, 2025

WHITE MESA UTE, Utah -- This sickness travels by truck from the Grand Canyon uranium mine to here, and when the winds blow, this sickness blows east to Colorado. When the rains come, it spills into the San Juan River and flows down the Colorado River.

It is the uranium mill in the White Mesa Ute community.

It is a slow sickness and it means death.

"Sing a Song to the Earth," says Dianna Uqualla, Havasupai medicine woman, during  the White Mesa Ute Community Spiritual Walk and Protest on Saturday.

"Our elders always said, 'Sing a song to the Earth.'

"Everything upon this earth is living. So we always have to remember that. So anywhere and everywhere we go, you know, our elders always said, "Sing a song to the earth."