Open Range Native American Outreach

@creed_humphrey & @jwinchester41 explore what their heritage means to them for American Indian Heritage Month!

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Behind The Lens: The Journey Documenting Navajo Code Talkers Japanese photographer Kenji Kawano is working on a project nearly 5 decades in the making: preserving the legacy of Navajo Nation Code Talkers.

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Tribal Triumph | Full Measure A U.S. Supreme Court decision you may not have heard about has upended the criminal justice system in Oklahoma. It effectively said a historical glitch in pr...

This Sunday, June 27th! Call 785-851-7288 or 913-302-7877 for more information.

Social distancing on the Navajo Nation be like:

National Navajo Code Talkers Day to become official state holiday Governor Doug Ducey has signed legislation making National Code Talkers Day a state holiday.

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NASA is naming the rocks and soil on Mars in the Navajo language NASA is naming landmarks and geological features on Mars in the Navajo language.

Shout out and good luck this sunday to Kansas City's Longsnapper James Wi******er (Choctaw) whose team looks to repeat as Superbowl Champions!!

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There is still time to help with this years Navajo Christmas. We are not taking any teams to the Reservation this year because of the virus. The Pastor of the church we base out of in Chinle Arizona has performed 55 funerals since March. Jim Yates will be taking toys and food out there soon. If you would like to help you can send a check to
Action Missions
PO Box 402 OSCEOLA. MO 64776.
Thank you and God Bless.

This year because of the covid restrictions on the Navajo Reservation, we will not be taking a team there. We will still collect toys and Jim Yates with Action Missions will take them out there for the Pastors to distribute. We will have a table at Open Range Fellowship and Jim will collect them the 1st or second week of December.

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Navajo Elders: Alone, Without Food, in Despair On a recent visit to the Navajo Nation, I sat with my parents in their garage while KTNN, a local Navajo radio station, played in the background. I listened to the beat of Navajo traditional two-step music and skip dance songs, thinking about the time in elementary school that my late grandmother st...

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Savanna’s Act and Not Invisible Act signed into law to help address the missing and murdered Indigenous women crisis

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer commend the signing of the Savanna’s Act and the Not invisible Act into law on Saturday by President Donald Trump, which will help to address the missing and murdered Indigenous women epidemic that continues across the United States. Indigenous women face a murder rate ten times higher than the national average, with 84-percent experiencing some form of violence in their lifetime.

Among other provisions, the Savanna’s Act creates new guidelines for responding to cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women and creates incentives for its implementation. The Not Invisible Act creates an advisory committee on violent crime, which will consist of tribal leaders, law enforcement, federal partners, service providers, and survivors that will be tasked with issuing recommendations to the U.S. Department of the Interior and Department of Justice.

“Today is a historic day for all tribes across the country. We recognize and thank Congresswomen Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) and Sharice Davids (D-KS), Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), other members of Congress, tribal leaders, and grassroot advocates who fought long and hard to push these important measures over the finish line to help bring an end to the ongoing losses of life, trauma, and devastation caused by the missing persons crisis across our country. We have many members of the Navajo Nation who are very compassionate and dedicated to helping families who have missing loved ones. We look forward to seeing the benefits that these two bills will have,” said President Nez.

Savanna’s Act is named in honor of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, a member of the Spirit Lake Tribe, who vanished from her apartment in Fargo, North Dakota, while 8 months pregnant. Eight days after she disappeared, her body was found wrapped in plastic in the Red River, her baby cut from her womb.

The legislation that Congresswoman Deb Haaland (D-NM) and others reintroduced in the House last May empowers tribal governments with the resources and information necessary to respond to cases of missing or murdered Native Americans and increase their data collection. It also increases coordination and communication among federal, state, and tribal officials.

President Nez and Vice President Lizer sent a letter to the House this Spring in support of Savanna’s Act, stating, “On the Navajo Nation, disastrous outcomes occur from failed communications across multiple jurisdictions when coordinating efforts to address reports of missing or murdered indigenous persons.”

“We certainly thank the members of the House and Senate and President Trump for supporting these new laws that will help many tribes and families in Indian Country. We have heard many stories and firsthand accounts of our people who have gone missing and/or have been murdered and many families continue to suffer from the resulting trauma and heartache. I am hopeful that these new provisions will lead to justice, closure, and healing for many of our people,” stated Vice President Lizer.

Savanna’s Act authorizes best practices in conducting searches for missing persons on and off tribal land, establishes standards on the collection, reporting, and analysis of data and information on missing persons and unidentified human remains, and requires the culturally appropriate identification and handling of human remains identified as belonging to American Indians. It also provides guidance on which law enforcement agency is responsible for inputting information into databases, how agencies can improve response rates and provide culturally appropriate victim services.

Lastly, Savanna’s Act adds two new purpose areas to two existing grant programs administered by the Justice Department, specifically, allowing grantees to use funds to implement policies, protocols, and training for law enforcement regarding cases of missing or murdered Native Americans, and to compile and report data to the Attorney General.

It is unknown how many Native women go missing each year due to the lack of adequate data systems and coordination within law enforcement agencies. In 2018, the Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI) completed a landmark survey, reporting 5,712 missing Alaska Native and American Indian women and girls, only 116 of whom were registered in the Department of Justice database.

Looking Beyond the
Agnes Laughter was born in a traditional Navajo Hogan in 1932 with no running water or electricity about 50 miles northwest of Canyon de Chelly. She was only 16 when Native Americans were given the right to vote in AZ in 1948. By 1970, Agnes was 38 years old and living a traditional lifestyle of herding sheep in Chilchinbeto when AZ banned the literacy test required to vote.

In 1976, AZ law allowed voters to bring someone to help in voting. Agnes started participating in the voting process using her thumbprint as her form of identification. After years of exercising her right to vote, AZ passed its voter ID law in 2004.

In 2006, Agnes showed up at the polls and was humiliated when she was denied the chance to vote. She was unable to get any of the required forms of identification because she had no birth certificate, utility bill, property tax statement, bank statement, vehicle registration or vehicle insurance. It took several attempts for Agnes to get an AZ identification card after AZ MVD initially rejected her delayed Navajo birth certificate as an acceptable document for the ID.

Not only did Agnes get an ID, she contested the AZ voter identification requirements in litigation filed in the US District Court of AZ. Her case became part of the lawsuit that was settled in 2008 when the Department of Justice expanded the list of documents that may serve as tribal identification that Native Americans could use at the polls.

Agnes was awarded the Frank Harrison and Harry Austin Citizenship Award in recognition for strengthening the voting rights for the Native Americans of Arizona.

Agnes speaks only Navajo and didn’t attend school, but that didn’t stop this wonderful hero from fighting for her rights.

Chris Long Foundation donates $100,000 to Navajo Water Project Hometown H20, a program of the Chris Long Foundation’s Waterboys initiative, announced Wednesday that it has donated $100,000 to DigDeep’s Navajo Water Project. The project helps provide water access to

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Tim Tebow Foundation delivers care packages to Diné families - Navajo Times On Monday, the former NFL player and Florida Gator star delivered a semi-trailer load of care packages to be distributed to vulnerable members of the Navajo people at Rehoboth Christian School.

Navajo Nation coronavirus rate higher than 48 states: records Navajo Nation coronavirus rates are higher than all states except New York and New Jersey.

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The Coronavirus Has Hit Navajo Nation Hard -- Here’s How You Can Help COVID-19 is sweeping through one of America’s poorest and most at-risk communities.

Self-reported positive case of COVID-19 on Haskell Indian Nations University Campus — statement from the university below.

Open Range Native American Outreach and Action Missions at Crossroads church in Northen Mohave Desert.

The team is now in Chinle Az. Going to the first church tonight.