Nine women were elected to serve on the Navajo Nation Council last month, along with the first female vice president, giving women a stronger voice in tribal leadership. With 24 Navajo Nation Council ...

Breaking barriers is something two women in the Navajo Nation know plenty about; for the first time in Navajo Nation history, there is a female vice president and female speaker of the council. The ...

Navajo Nation Speaker Crystalyne Curley sat inside the Navajo Nation Council Chamber and listened as her council delegate colleagues explained why paring down the five standing committees to one was ...

For Native American women, the gender pay gap reflects the systems that have oppressed them for centuries. The colonization that stripped them of power, the violence now plaguing them and the economic ...

NAVAJO NATION (KRQE) – Organizers from the Dine Skate Garden Project and GRLSWIRL are working together to host the first women-run sporting event on the Navajo Nation Reservation. Featuring girls from ...

Elections in the Navajo Nation were held recently, and Crystalyne Curley won the race for council speaker. She is the first woman to lead the legislative branch of the Navajo Nation, and she joins an ...

One of 10 children, Minnie King was born April 4, 1912, in Talladega County, Alabama. With so many mouths to feed, money was scarce in the King household and Minnie knew obtaining a higher education ...

This story was originally published by The 19th and is republished here by permission. For Native American women, the gender pay gap reflects the systems that have oppressed them for centuries. The ...

LGBTQ rights activists are renewing their push for a repeal of the Navajo Nation's same-sex marriage ban. While the United States Supreme Court declared marriage equality the law of the land, it does ...

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Navajo Nation Speaker Crystalyne Curley sat inside the Navajo Nation Council Chamber and listened as her council delegate colleagues explained why ...