Without a just transition, the Navajo Generating Station closure will have harmful consequences.
Navajo Nation
The relocation of polling sites near the Navajo Nation months before midterm elections raises concerns of future voter suppression.
San Juan County’s Navajo population has lived for decades with a minority white government. This election could change that.
This issue is bound by the idea that the ecological crises are inseparable from the problem of human domination. Our feature story describes a coastal town in Southern California that is asking whether it can, or should, retreat inland from rising seas. Also in this issue: The Navajo Nation's renewed police force, prisoner strikes, conspiracy theories in Arizona and a tribute to the life and work of Ed Marston, one of High Country News' longtime visionaries.
Community health programs are thriving in Haiti, Montana and the Navajo Nation.
The decision tips the ailing Navajo Generating Station closer to its planned closure.
Conflict in the West constantly remakes itself. This issue looks at new iterations of those fights: A water battle over rural wells in Washington, Cliven Bundy’s victory rally for Freedom and Property, and the struggle of Navajo Nation residents to prevent more oil and gas exploration in historically important lands.
Members of the Navajo Nation are not ‘conquered subjects.’
Navajo council rejects plans for Escalade’s tram, shops, restaurants.
Esther Belin is trying to shape a uniquely Navajo way of writing.
To build a sustained community, the Navajo Nation experiments with entrepreneurs.
A pediatrician reflects on his work in Navajo Nation.
When the plant closes, the Navajo people will suffer.
Lessons from the fossil fuel boom and bust in New Mexico, rock snot stream ecology, water delivery in rural Navajo communities and more.
New research from dust experts, non-native goats in the La Sal Mountains, new drone laws, Navajo Nation presidential election and more.
The latest in a fraught relationship between Navajo and Hopi in northern Arizona.
Drill rigs pop up near Navajo communities, Chaco Canyon and the iconic Black Place.
As California kicks its coal habit, economies across the West feel ripple effects. The Navajo Nation digs into its coal economy, geoduck fishermen in the Pacific Northwest take a new tack, and more.
Fighting for the environment is just part of this Navajo's cultural identity.
A stunning fossil site is found in Montana, but will it ever be studied by scientists? Plus Navajo activist Klee Benally, edible invasives, environmental lawsuits, photographs from a Hotshot on the line, debate over grizzly numbers in Greater Yellowstone and more.
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