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Justice and history came to Harvard on Saturday morning the Navajo Supreme Court sat in a special session at the Harvard Law School (HLS) to hear the case of the Navajo Nation v. Russell Means...
...issue in the case is whether the Navajo Nation has criminal jurisdiction over Means, an American Indian who is Sioux but who has lived for a decade on a Navajo reservation with his half-Navajo wife...
...Navajo tribal court is the largest tribal court system in the United States with 17 justices handling over 90,000 cases annually in seven districts that span the enormous 27,000-square-mile Navajo reservation in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah...
Hermila Sanchez wanted a house that she could find in the dark. Muted pastels were the predominant colors in her hometown of South Gate, 10 miles south of Los Angeles, where the dusty heat further blanches the stucco residences to uniformity. But Home Depot's Navajo White and Swiss Coffee were not for Sanchez. And so, for her very first home, the accountant chose blue. Not a dainty cornflower or staid navy but the kind of blue that makes your eyes sting on a bright...
With the land in question a checkerboard ownership of Navajo, other private landholders and the U.S. government, the ultimate fate of the mine may depend on who wins jurisdiction in court. Regardless, the Navajo syllables To eii be iina at e (Water is life) have become fighting words in Crownpoint...