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Navajo Nation President Buu NygrenFebruary 12, 2026Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren's Weekly Radio Address (in Diné Bizaad)Thursday, February 12, 20261. Introduction2. Upcoming HolidaysValentine's Day on February 14: celebrating love, friendship, and the people who make your heart smilePresidents Day: honoring leaders who shaped our nation3. Local AnnouncementsNavajo Nation Police recruitment drive February 14 in Crownpoint, NM; physical and written tests requiredContact Officer Drake at 928-660-1551 for more informationMissing person: Sequoia Cleveland, 17, last seen Monday, February 9, 2026 in Thoreau, NMContact 505-786-2050 if you have any informationLocated: Aaron Lyle K...
2026-02-1220 minNavajo Nation President Buu NygrenJanuary 15, 2026Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren's Weekly Radio Address (in Diné Bizaad)Thursday, January 15, 20261. Introduction2. Upcoming HolidaysJanuary 19 is Martin Luther King Jr. DayHonoring a leader who challenged injustice with courage, compassion, and hopeDr. King reminded us that progress is possible when we choose love over hate and action over silenceA day of remembrance and responsibility: to listen deeply, stand up peacefully, and build a more just future3. Local AnnouncementsMissing person: Olivia Joe, 41, last seen Saturday, December 27, 2025 in Tohajilee, NM. Contact 505...
2026-01-1520 minNavajo Nation President Buu NygrenNovember 13, 2025Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren's Weekly Radio Address (in Diné Bizaad)Thursday, November 13, 20251. Introduction2. Upcoming Holidays and Appreciation DayWorld Diabetes Day on Friday, November 14American Indian and Alaska Native adults are three times more likely to have Type 2 diabetesHigher rates linked to limited access to electricity, grocery stores, and processed food dietsSmall steps toward fresh foods and blood sugar awareness make a difference3. Local AnnouncementsMissing person: Aaron Mark Bradley, 67, last seen September 6, 2025 at Shonto MarketMissing person: Darrell Don Domingo, 60, l...
2025-11-1320 minNavajo Nation President Buu NygrenOctober 30, 2025Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren's Weekly Radio Address (in Diné Bizaad)Thursday, October 30, 20251. Introduction2. Upcoming Holidays and Appreciation DayHappy Halloween safety reminders: look both ways, inspect candy, use bright/reflective costumesOPVP Trunk or Treat at Veteran's Park in Window Rock from 3-6 PMHaunted house and treats at the eventDriver awareness for pedestrian safety3. Local AnnouncementsMissing person: Aaron Mark Bradley, 67, last contact September 6 at Shonto MarketLocated: Peyton, Paige, and Pamela Tsosie have been found and are safe
2025-10-3020 min
Tangible Remnants10th Anniversary Celebration of HOPE CrewIn May 2025, Nakita was the emcee for a livestream celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's HOPE Crew program. HOPE Crew, which stands for Hands-On Preservation Experience, was one of the first and largest efforts to expand the preservation industry in the country. Since 2014, it has trained more than 802 young people and veterans, engaged over 3,000 volunteers in historic preservation trades, and completed nearly 200 projects in cities, parks, and communities across America. These projects include sites such as Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana to Nina Simone's Childhood Home in Tryon, N.C., and E...
2025-07-2154 minNavajo Nation President Buu NygrenMay 22, 2025Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren's Weekly Radio Address (in Diné Bizaad)Thursday, May 22, 20251. Introduction2. Upcoming Holidays and Appreciation DayMemorial Day on Monday to honor fallen soldiersNational moment of remembrance at 3 p.m. local time3. Local AnnouncementsMissing person: Elaine Deloris Begay, 39, last seen November 1, 2024 in Shonto, AZLocated: Nina Babbitt and Eric Joe have been found and are safe4. AccomplishmentsLight Up Navajo VI: 77 homes energized in Fort Defiance, Chinle, Shiprock, and Tuba CityEmily's Law signed b...
2025-05-2220 minNavajo Nation President Buu NygrenApril 24, 2025Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren's Weekly Radio Address (in Diné Bizaad)Thursday, April 24, 2025 IntroductionPresident Nygren discusses working with delegates and focus on unity between branches of governmentExplanation about submitting written State of the Nation report to Navajo Nation CouncilMeeting with the office’s of U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan and Martin Heinrich and Representatives Eli Crane and Theresa Ledger Fernandez Local AnnouncementsMissing person: Marcia Cook, 38, last seen in April 2023 in Whippoorwill, AZLocated: Hope Aloysius has been found and is safe AccomplishmentsEconomic development...
2025-04-2420 minNavajo Nation President Buu NygrenJanuary 16, 2025Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren's Weekly Radio Address (in Diné Bizaad)
Thursday, January 16, 2025
1. Introduction
2. Local Announcements
Missing person: Gary Barney, 53, last seen December 28 in Vanderwagon, NM
Update: Elvira Shay has been located and is safe
3. State of the Navajo Nation
Economic Development:
ARPA Small Business Artisan Relief: $6.3M to 541 businesses
Small Business Credit Initiative: $26M initial funding
Hospitality achievements:
Shonto Hotel opening soon ($17M investment, 30 jobs)
Shiprock Pinnacle Hotel progress ($22M, 40 jobs)
Goulding's Lodge acquisition ($7M a...
2025-01-1620 minNavajo Nation President Buu NygrenNovember 7, 2024Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren's Weekly Radio Address (in Diné Bizaad)
Thursday, November 7, 2024
1. Introduction
USA has a new President-elect and Vice President-elect
Congratulations extended to President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect Vance
Congratulations to US Rep. Eli Crane on second term
Recognition of Jonathan Nez and Sharon Clahchischilliage's congressional campaigns
2. Upcoming Holidays or Appreciation Days
Veterans Day on Monday, November 11th - honoring Native American service members
Native Americans enlist at five times the national average
Navajo Veterans Administration continues efforts for veteran housing and care
2024-11-0720 minNavajo Nation President Buu NygrenApril 18, 2024 - State of the Navajo Nation AddressNavajo Nation President Buu Nygren's Weekly Radio Address
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Special State of the Navajo Nation Address Edition
Introduction
Appreciation: Light Up Navajo & NTUA
Office of the Navajo Tax Commission and Revenues
Closing on the acquisition of Goulding's Lodge properties
Shonto La Quinta Hotel construction to be completed this summer
Northern Arizona Veterans Administration Health Care and Navajo Nation partnership bring primary VA healthcare to Chinle, Kayenta, and more
Progress in processing Veterans payments
Navajo Veterinary Management Program gets new Navajo Nation Veterinarian after 2 years
Partnership with Congresswoman Theresa Leger Fernandez...
2024-04-1820 min
Art Dealer Diaries PodcastShonto Begay (Diné): Artist & Educator - Epi. 276, Host Dr Mark SubletteShonto Begay joined me today for a special podcast right before Christmas. I've had Shonto on before. In fact, he was my guest on the second podcast I had ever done. I've known Shonto for over 20 years and have been collecting his art as well as selling it. You know, he just is unique. He's unique in so many forms and fashions. It's almost hard to describe.Shonto shared some of the things that are, you know, very deep and moving to him and how he creates. He speaks on the trauma that he had to go...
2024-01-0358 min
Heart to Heart with the Earth009. 9 Things keeping me heart to heart with the Earth.Sharing this episode, fresh out of the hospital. It's a compilation of poetry, good news, rituals and resources for grounding during these devastating times.
Here are the links:
The Run4Salmon Instagram post: The excellent news from the Winnemem Wintu Tribe of Mt. Shasta.
The film: One Word Sawalmem.
My altar for Día de los Muertos. (Instagram post)
The Path to support Grandmother Flordemayo and Unci Rita.
The video on 12 Foods to Prevent Breast Cancer by Dr. Kristi Funk.
Free resource: Calling in a Better Winter – a gentle guide (and calming coloring book) for the reluct...
2023-11-0322 min
Native CirclesLorinda Martinez and "Running with Changing Woman"Listen to our conversation with author Lorinda Martinez, getting to know her and her new book Running with Changing Woman (2023) that she wrote especially for young adults. Lorinda works with youth as an educator, and Running with Changing Woman is her first novel that tells the coming-of-age story of a Diné young woman named Samantha who prepares for the Diné womanhood ceremony, Kinaaldá. We discuss the significance of Diné girls and women and Lorinda's contributions to Native American children and youth literature, which is a gift for all readers. Lorinda is Lók’aa’ Dine’é (the Reed People Clan) born for Tác...
2023-10-1854 min
Root AwarenessTHE RIVER RUNS THROUGH US“Despite all the challenges and the climate grief you may be experiencing, stay true to who you are and remember where you come from, and keep moving forward as best as you can.” ~ Colleen CooleyIndividual and ecological grief are two separate streams flowing into the same interconnected waters in which many humans are now swimming. In Chapter 10, The River Runs Through Us, I share a time of deep connection with the beautiful landscape of the Green River in the Southwest, as well as the first time as an adul...
2023-08-0854 min
American Art CollectiveEp. 145 - First Look: Western Art Collector's January IssueOn today's First Look we get the scoop on January's Western Art Collector Magazine! Editor Michael Clawson talks with us about artist Shonto Begay, what it takes to make the Million Dollar Club, Doug Hyde, cotemporary art in the west and so much more!
2022-12-1526 min
EBPL Podcast from the East Brunswick Public Library73 Words in the 732: S2Ep1: Shonto Olander, "Great Oak"Season 2 of "73 Words in the 732" kicks off with Shonto Olander of East Brunswick and his short story, “Great Oak”.
2022-06-0202 min
#beyondFLGEpisode 008: Colleen Cooley, MAFor this episode, Mos Def and Talib Kweli (aka Cody and Dan) are going #beyondFLG with Colleen Cooley (@ccoolio2). Typically our introductions have included statements about the current working roles and responsibilities of the individual with a focus on achievement. However, Colleen demonstrated a different model of introductions that we’d like to honor. Pay close attention to how she introduces herself with a focus on her personal history and heritage.
For now, let us say that Colleen grew up splitting time between Shonto, Blue Gap, and Flagstaff, AZ. She grew a meaningful connection with the lands, plants, animals, and wa...
2021-07-271h 12
Art Dealer Diaries PodcastArt Dealer Diaries: Podcast Highlights (Part 2) Epi. 155 - Host Dr. Mark SubletteThree years and 150+ podcasts later I figured it was time for a small break. Until new episodes return this Fall, I'll be posting compilations of some of my favorite Art Dealer Diaries moments.Part two features (in order) Navajo artist, educator and author Shonto Begay, producer of Woodstock John Morris, Executive Editor of True West Magazine Bob Boze Bell, master silversmith Tim Yazzie, owner of Toadlena Trading Post Mark Winter, and plein air painter and author Kevin Macpherson.
2021-07-071h 09
Art Dealer Diaries PodcastShonto Begay: Navajo Artist, Educator, and Author - Epi. 148, Host Dr. Mark SubletteI had Navajo artist Shonto Begay on for his second episode of Art Dealer Diaries.I love Shonto because he's not only a wonderful artist that I've collected for a long time in my own home, but also because he's a truly mystical individual. Shonto has this innate ability to channel the earth and his heritage into his work, and then infuse his own creative sensibilities, producing these elaborate, colorful scenes and stories.This is the first interview I've actually had in person in over a year. We're both vaccinated so it was really wonderful...
2021-04-141h 16
Hitchhike2. Old Wilderness (Shonto Begay)From the Hudson Valley to the Berkshires with painter Shonto Begay. Creator and host: Andrew Fedorov Music and recording assistance: Pranav Nayak, Nick Brownell, Sagar Kumar, Reza Sayeed, and Knute Armstrong. Cover art: Gerard d’Albon and Matt Gu
2020-12-0100 min
Art Dealer Diaries PodcastJan Musial: Native American Art Dealer - Epi.66, Host Dr. Mark SubletteJan Musial sits down with host Dr. Mark Sublette to discuss his love of Native American Art and how he became a dealer in the Indian art trade. Jan goes into depth about how being married to a Navajo woman changed his perspective on the art he had been collecting and selling. Jan worked as an LA County firefighter before transiting into Indian Arts. Jan explains his relationship with some of the best known Navajo painters including Harrison Begay, Shonto Begay, Gerald Nailor, Beatien Yazz and Ha-So-De.
2019-09-1850 min
Art Dealer Diaries PodcastShonto Begay: Native American Artist - Epi. 2, Host Dr. Mark SubletteShonto Begay shares his experiences of being a Native American growing up on the Navajo Nation and the art he has produced over the last thirty years. From Santa Fe, to Tucson to Berkely, Shonto has had a distinguished career with multiple one-man museum shows. His artwork is in the permanent collection of the Heard Museum, Tucson Museum of Art, and Museum of Northern Arizona to mention just a few. This episode is sponsored by Medicine Man Gallery and The Charles Bloom Murder Mystery Series.
2018-05-2153 min