Navajo communities along the 174-mile stretch of the uranium haul route on Diné lands say the tribe and mining company are failing to share crucial safety info
The case has seemingly few clues and the family has little means to return man's remains to their Navajo homeland in New Mexico.
Protestors gathered in the Navajo capital to raise awareness of what they said were threats to their freedoms.
Navajo Nation citizens have reportedly been targeted by US Immigration officials as part of Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda.
Curley was first elected speaker two years ago as a freshman council member. She was the first woman elected to the post.
At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday,
The Navajo Nation has reached a settlement with a mining company that clears the way for transportation of uranium ore across the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. The agreement announced Wednesday settles a dispute over trucking ore from a mining operation just south of the Grand Canyon to a mill site in Utah.
The Navajo Nation and Energy Fuels Inc., the owner of the White Mesa Mill in Blanding, have reached an agreement for the future transport of uranium ore across the reservation into Utah.
Social media reports of Navajo citizens being detained by ICE prompted Navajo leaders to explore ways to protect their people.
Arizona state Senator Theresa Hatathlie, who is Diné/Navajo, told the outlet she received a report from a Navajo woman who reported that she and seven other Indigenous people were detained at a work site in Scottsdale, Arizona, and questioned for hours without their phones or any other way to contact their families or other officials.
An official with the Navajo Nation says it appears once again Native Americans are being victimized in cases of mistaken identity as the Trump administration moves to crack down on alleged illegal migrants.