The planes were the only way to get food to hundreds of Navajos who were starving after snowstorms in Arizona and New Mexico.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Buu Nygren has ousted Jonathan Nez as president of the Navajo Nation, a position that wields influence nationally because of the size of the tribe's reservation in the U.S.

One hundred sixty years ago this month, the first large group of emaciated Navajos began trekking eastward from their homeland to a new reservation. It became known as the Long Walk. Escorted by the U ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Navajos voted Tuesday to loosen language requirements for their top leaders, eliminating the need for them to be fluent in Navajo and giving voters more discretion in who can ...

PHOENIX — After five weeks of intensive training, 16 men and women from the Navajo Nation graduated toward careers as ironworkers Friday thanks to a partnership between the tribe and a trade union.

The Navajos are no vanishing tribe. Second in numbers only to the Cherokees, they have increased tenfold in the last 150 years, now number 50,000 (total of U. S. Indian population: 351,000). They live ...