Students at Diné College leave the Ned Hatathlie Center at the school’s Tsailie, Arizona, campus. (Photo courtesy Diné College) Navajo students interested in studying the fundamentals of Navajo Nation law can now do so closer to home, as Diné College and Arizona State University are joining forces to offer a new Bachelor of Arts in […]
Married Welsh couple Ann and Bernard McDonagh failed to pay bills at five restaurants South Wales Police Ann and Bernard McDonagh. A married couple from Wales have been jailed after a series of dine and dash offenses. Ann McDonagh, 39, and Bernard McDonagh, 41, from Sandfields, Port Talbot, U.K., have been sentenced following “several incidents […]
Liberty Center, located just off Interstate 75 in Liberty Township, offers indoor and outdoor shopping, daily events, entertainment, restaurants, office space and apartment living. Arianna Verasmende typically starts her day walking her four-year-old Bassett hound, Cooper, through her neighborhood. Afterward, she might grab a drink at Starbucks before scrambling off to work at a shared […]
In a historic move in the advancement of legal education, the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University has announced a groundbreaking set of partnerships with the Navajo Nation and Diné College. These collaborations establish the world’s first tribally affiliated legal education by packaging four comprehensive law degrees uniquely tailored to meet the evolving legal needs of the […]
PFAS, the “forever chemicals” that have been raising health concerns across the country, are not just a problem in drinking water. As these chemicals leach out of failing septic systems and landfills and wash off airport runways and farm fields, they can end up in streams that ultimately discharge into ocean ecosystems where fish, dolphins, […]
Dr. Charles Roessel, President of Diné College, has been named the 2023-2024 Tribal College President Honoree of the Year by the American Indian College Fund, which recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the tribal college movement. According to a statement of the Fund, growing up on the Navajo Reservation, Roessel was deeply influenced […]
Mar. 9—In her years of training Navajo Nation educators, Jennifer Denetdale noticed a persistent problem. A Diné professor and chair of the University of New Mexico’s American Studies Department, Denetdale found there was “no such thing” as a textbook designed for Navajo Government courses. Though the course is widely taken by Diné students — it’s […]
A celebration of life for beloved Diné activist Klee Benally is being held at 2 pm on January 6 at the Orpheum Theatre in Kinłání, Occupied Territories (Flagstaff, Ariz.). Benally walked on on Saturday, December 31, at a Phoenix hospital. His cause of death has not been disclosed. He was 48 years old. Benally was […]