Navajo Reporter Marley Shebala Violently Arrested by Navajo Police, After Filing Ethics Complaint on Navajo President
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| 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
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, October 16, 2025WINDOW 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.
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| 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.
Our kaianerekowa great peace provides that you don’t fight until you die. You fight until you win. This is the conversation we have been having about drug abuse and suicide rising up in indigenous and mainstream communities. In our case tobacco and now vape and cannabis dispensaries are being set up in our communities because the colony of Canada has made a law, the Indian Act, and now to sell drugs. Colonial law which forbids the development of self-sustaining indigenous economies on our unceded land to care for ourselves. The people and the land are being polluted. The tobacco trade made a few rich. Now other drugs are coming into our ccommunities. It is disrupting our children, babies, people, causing break-ins, crime, violence, suicides, children being removed, and no jobs. We are surprised how big the addictions are throughout our land. 
