Watershed intern reflects on Summer 2026 efforts
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Internship, News, Watershed
Watershed intern reflects on Summer 2026 efforts FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – On Wednesday, August 19, 2026, the Tó Nizhóní Ání (TNA) ...
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Watershed partners assess 2026 Warpath Valley restoration efforts
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Internship, News, Watershed
Watershed partners assess 2026 Warpath Valley restoration efforts BLACK MESA, Ariz. - On Friday, August 14, 2026, Tó Nizhóní Ání ...
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Celebrating Black Mesa’s Potato
By Makaius Marks | | Food Sovereignty, News
Celebrating Black Mesa's Potato Today is National Potato Day. Across the country, that means only a few potatoes, but across ...
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TNA responds to MOU between Arizona, the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe on coal community transition
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Just Transition, News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 11, 2026 Contact: Nicole Horseherder, Tó Nizhóní Ání, 928-240 0762, nicole@tonizhoniani.org Adrian Herder, Tó Nizhóní Ání, ...
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Navajo BIA officials invited to see watershed efforts in Hardrock
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Food Sovereignty, News, Watershed
Navajo BIA officials invited to see watershed efforts in Hardrock HARDROCK, Ariz. – On Tuesday, August 4, 2026, the Tó Nizhóní Ání (TNA) watershed restoration and food sovereignty crew members invited representatives from the Navajo BIA office ...
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Plant project interns reflect on summer 2026 efforts
By Raeanna Johnson | | Internship, News, Plant Project
Plant project interns reflect on summer 2026 efforts FLAGSTAFF, AZ - On Friday, July 31, 2026, the Dził Yíjiin Nanise' (Black ...
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Groups formally oppose pumped storage proposal targeting Black Mesa
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Pumped Storage Hydropower
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 27, 2026 Contact: Adrian Herder, Tó Nizhóní Ání, (928) 380 3914, adrian@tonizhoniani.org Robyn Jackson, Diné C.A.R.E., (505) ...
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Plant Project interns facilitate a community interview in Hardrock
By Raeanna Johnson | | Internship, News, Plant Project
Plant Project interns facilitate a community interview in Hardrock Artrisha Charley, Kaya Dickson, Raeanna Johnson, 2026 DYN Summer Interns, Tó Nizhóní Ání ...
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Oljato grazing permittees push back against proposed hydropower project
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Pumped Storage Hydropower
Oljato grazing permittees push back against proposed hydropower project OLJATO, UTAH - On Monday, July 13, 2026, Tó Nizhóní Ání community ...
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Watershed crew engages communities from Black Mesa to Nazlini
By Leanna Cox | | Internship, News, Watershed
Watershed crew engages communities from Black Mesa to Nazlini by Leanna Cox, Watershed Summer Intern This watershed restoration session, Tó Nizhóní Ání (TNA) ...
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First storm of the season hits Warpath Valley
By Leanna Cox | | Internship, News, Watershed
First storm of the season hits Warpath Valley by Leanna Cox, Watershed Summer Intern After three days of building in ...
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Watershed crew builds road crossing in Warpath Valley
By Leanna Cox | | Internship, News, Watershed
Watershed crew builds road crossing in Warpath Valley by Leanna Cox, Watershed Summer Intern June 9-12, Tó Nizhóní Ání (TNA) ...
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Plant project interns connect and learn with other Colorado Plateau community groups
By Raeanna Johnson | | Internship, News, Plant Project
Plant project interns connect and learn with other Colorado Plateau community groups Artrisha Charley, Kaya Dickson, Raeanna Johnson, 2026 DYN ...
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Summer interns garner community support for 2026 summer plant project efforts
By Raeanna Johnson | | Internship, News, Plant Project, Reclamation
Summer interns garner community support for 2026 summer plant project efforts Artrisha Charley, Kaya Dickson, Raeanna Johnson, 2026 DYN Summer ...
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TNA tables at 2026 Flagstaff Wool Festival
By Makaius Marks | | Internship, News, Plant Project, Pumped Storage Hydropower, Watershed
Tó Nizhóní Ání tables at 2026 Flagstaff Wool Festival FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – On June 6th and 7th, members of Tó Nizhóní Ání spent the two days tabling at ...
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Statement of Tó Nizhóní Ání and Diné C.A.R.E. on FERC Acceptance of Preliminary Permit Application for Chilchinbeto Pumped Storage Project on Black Mesa
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Pumped Storage Hydropower
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 4, 2026 Contact: Herb Yazzie, White Grass Resident, 602-291-4474, hyazzie2003@yahoo.com Adrian Herder, Tó Nizhóní Ání, 928-380 ...
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Tó Nizhóní Ání welcomes 2026 summer interns
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Internship, Just Transition, News, Plant Project, Reclamation, Watershed
Tó Nizhóní Ání welcomes 2026 summer interns FLAGSTAFF, AZ – On Tuesday, May 26, 2026, Tó Nizhóní Ání welcomed the ...
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Hataałii groups oppose ONGD 2026 reform proposal
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 18, 2026 Contacts: Avery Denny, Diné Hataałii Association, Inc, (928) 349-1221, adenny@dinecollege.edu Leland Grass, Diné Medicine ...
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Watershed Intern’s first day at Warpath Valley
By Leanna Cox | | Internship, News, Watershed
By Leanna Cox, Watershed Summer Intern May 11-15 Gather Session, Haajibáhí (Warpath Valley), Kits’iili Chapter On Monday, May 11, 2026, the ...
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Tó Nizhóní Ání tables at the annual parent summit in Pinon
By Makaius Marks | | News, Plant Project, Watershed
Tó Nizhóní Ání tables at the annual Parent Summit in Piñon PINON, Ariz. – On Wednesday, April 29, 2026, Tó Nizhóní Ání (TNA) tabled at the Annual Parent Summit at ...
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Kinsey, Flagstaff School’s Watershed Discovery Day on Black Mesa
By Makaius Marks | | Food Sovereignty, News, Watershed
Kinsey, Flagstaff School's Watershed Discovery Day on Black Mesa HARDROCK, AZ - On April 23, 2026, Navajo and Hopi students from Kinsey Elementary and Flagstaff High School joined ...
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Rally to Protect Black Mesa
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Pumped Storage Hydropower
Rally to Protect Black Mesa WINDOW ROCK, AZ - On Tuesday, April 21, 2026, Black Mesa impacted community members were joined by supporters and other ...
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Pumped Storage Faces Renewed Opposition on Black Mesa as FERC Attacks Tribal Sovereignty
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Pumped Storage Hydropower
For Immediate Release Wednesday, April 1, 2026 Contacts: Herb Yazzie, 602-291-4474, hyazzie2003@yahoo.com Percy Deal, 928-205-7332, deal.percy@gmail.com Adrian Herder, 928-380-3914, adrian@tonizhoniani.org ...
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President Nygren, don’t let history repeat itself by settling for less with TEP
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Just Transition, News, Transmission Line
President Nygren, don't let history repeat itself by settling for less with TEP Tucson Electric Power (TEP) is inching closer ...
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Kayenta Pumped Storage Hydropower, more risks than rewards
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Pumped Storage Hydropower
Kayenta Pumped Storage Hydropower, more risks than rewards By Adrian Herder, Community Organizer, Tó Nizhóní Ání KAYENTA, AZ - On Tuesday, March 17, 2026, members of Tó Nizhóní Ání (TNA) traveled to Kayenta, ...
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Diné communities pressured to support Fossil Fuels
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
Diné communities pressured to support Fossil Fuels By Eleanor Smith, Community Organizer Besides the research and technical assistance Environmental groups such as the one I work for, ...
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Tó Nizhóní Ání Statement on FERC Decision to Permanently Destroy a Sacred Mountain in the Pacific Northwest
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Pumped Storage Hydropower
Immediate Release March 2, 2026 Contact: Adrian Herder, Tó Nizhóní Ání, adrian@tonizhoniani.org Nicole Horseherder, Tó Nizhóní Ání, nicole@tonizhoniani.org Tó Nizhóní ...
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People Against Polluters Rally/March
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mattea Goetz, Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter, mattea.goetz@sierraclub.org Sabrina Manygoats, Organizer, info@themathues.com People Against Polluters Rally ...
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Diné Community Members Express Concerns on the Proposal to Reform the Navajo Nation Government Advocated by the Office of Navajo Government Development
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
For Immediate Release February 3, 2026 Contacts: Wendy Atcitty, 505-510-1556, wendy.dcre@gmail.com Joey Tsosie, 505-543-5494, 13joey32tso@gmail.com Adrian Herder, 928-380-3914, adrian@tonizhoniani.org Diné Community Members Express Concerns on ...
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Shifting Topographies: Extracting the Landscape Exhibit Closing Reception and Discussion with Tó Nizhóní Ání
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Food Sovereignty, Hydrogen, Just Transition, News, Plant Project, Pumped Storage Hydropower, Reclamation
Shifting Topographies: Extracting the Landscape Exhibit Closing Reception and Discussion with Tó Nizhóní Ání On Saturday, December 20, 2025, Tó ...
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Wool in Watershed Restoration Pilot Project Install
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Watershed
Wool in Watershed Restoration Pilot Project Install What started as an idea in August 2025, while passing through one of ...
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Hydropower Developers’ no-show at Kayenta Chapter meeting leaves Impacted Communities with more questions than answers
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
For Immediate Release November 20, 2025 Contact: Herb Yazzie, Coal-Lease Area Resident, 602-291-4474, hyazzie2003@yahoo.com Adrian Herder, Tó Nizhóní Ání, 928-380-3914, adrian@tonizhoniani.org Taylor McKinnon, Center for ...
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3rd Annual Save the Confluence Family Gathering
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
3rd Annual Save the Confluence Family Gathering Earlier this month Tó Nizhóní Ání team members traveled to the westernmost edge of the ...
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Monitoring Day 2025: Tsiyi’ Tó Watershed
By Makaius Marks | | Just Transition, News, Watershed
Monitoring Day 2025: Tsiyi' Tó Watershed BLACK MESA - During some of the wettest consecutive days of 2025 so far, ...
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Youth Printmaking Workshop
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
Youth Printmaking Workshop On Monday, October 6th, 2025, Tó Nizhóní Ání organized a Youth Printmaking Workshop at the Hardrock Chapter ...
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World Rivers Day 2025
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Watershed
Happy World Rivers Day! #WorldRiversDay is a celebration of the world’s waterways. It highlights the many values of rivers and ...
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Key Navajo Nation leadership absent in Kayenta Mine Permit Renewal meeting
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Just Transition, News, Reclamation, Voices from Black Mesa
Key Navajo Nation leadership absent in Kayenta Mine Permit Renewal meeting OPINION | Adrian Herder, Tó Nizhóní Ání For more ...
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Transition Navajo
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Food Sovereignty, Just Transition, News, Reclamation, Solar For All, Transmission Line, Voices from Black Mesa, Watershed
https://youtu.be/AxEGC9B4a-I?si=MmX8ec8EpwVSTgtb Just and Equitable Transition Navajo Nation For decades the Navajo Nation dedicated precious resources to single extractive industries after ...
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Summer Interns 2025
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Exchange Program, Internship, News, Plant Project, Watershed
Tó Nizhóní Ání Summer 2025 Interns and Volunteers As we close out the summer and transition into the fall season, ...
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Remembering Chei Johnny
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Just Transition, News, Solar For All
Remembering Chei Johnny Tó Nizhóní Ání (TNA) would like to express gratitude to the late Johnny Weiss, who passed on ...
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Tó Nizhóní Ání raises concerns about gas expansion in the Four Corners Region at the Arizona Corporation Commission
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Hydrogen, Just Transition, News
Tó Nizhóní Ání raises concerns about gas expansion in the Four Corners Region at the Arizona Corporation Commission August 25, ...
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July Watershed Work
By Titus Bert | | News, Watershed
TNA July Watershed Work 2025 The 2025 Watershed Restoration season with Tó Nizhóní Ání has been continuing its work! Great ...
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Tucson Electric Power (TEP) Right-of-Way (ROW) Renewal Blog
By Titus Bert | | Just Transition, News, Transmission Line
Tucson Electric Power (TEP) Right-of-Way (ROW) Renewal Blog Transmission Line in the Community of Tohatchi Tucson Electric Power (TEP) has ...
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Watershed Survey Day 2025
By Titus Bert | | News, Voices from Black Mesa, Watershed
TNA Watershed Restoration Survey Day 2025 The 2025 watershed restoration season with Tó Nizhóní Ání has begun! On June 10th ...
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Navajo Nation Council Public Hearing on Coal
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Food Sovereignty, Just Transition, News, Reclamation, Voices from Black Mesa, Watershed
25th Navajo Nation Council Public Hearing on Coal On Friday, May 30, 2025, the Office of the Speaker held a ...
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TEP Transmission Line ROW Renewal (Updated)
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Just Transition, News, Transmission Line
*This landing page has been updated to reflect information TNA recently received in a FOIA request and contains information on ...
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Democratic Senators held press conference to highlight the dangers of HB2679
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Just Transition, News
Press Release Arizona State Senate Democratic Caucus 1700 W. Washington St. Phoenix, AZ 85007 April 29, 2025 PHOENIX – Democratic State Senators, joined ...
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Tó Nizhóní Ání statement on presidential orders to prop up coal companies
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Just Transition, News
For Immediate Release April 15, 2025 Contact: Adrian Herder, Media Organizer, adrian@tonizhoniani.org (928) 380 3914 Nicole Horseherder, Executive Director, nicole@tonizhoniani.org ...
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Hydrogen: Too Dangerous, Too Risky
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Hydrogen, Just Transition, News
Hydrogen: Too Dangerous, Too Risky Hydrogen, touted as a move towards 'clean energy,' is being proposed on the Navajo Nation. ...
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Pilot Project Conclusion
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Watershed
Tsiyi' Tó Pilot Project Conclusion Sam Ebright with NCDE Inc talking with trainees. On Wednesday, March 19, 2025, the Tsiyi’ ...
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International Day of Forests
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Food Sovereignty, News, Pumped Storage Hydropower
International Day of Forests Piñon Northwest Summit Friday, March 21, 2025, was the International Day of Forests! Here on Black ...
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Artist Talk: Corey Begay
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
Artist Talk: Corey Begay On Friday, March 7, 2025, Tó Nizhóní Ání (TNA) organized our first open house/artist talk during ...
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Black Mesa Map
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Reclamation, Voices from Black Mesa, Watershed
Black Mesa Cartography Map Our map was featured on Esri's Maps.com: www.maps.com/a-water-map-for-the-desert In 2024 Tó Nizhóní Ání embarked on a ...
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AZ Environmental Day 2025
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
Environmental Day at the Capital 2025 On Wednesday, February 12, 2025, Tó Nizhóní Ání organizers traveled down to Pheonix, Arizona, ...
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Local Community Advocate: Delegate Notah
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Just Transition, News
Thank you, Honorable Delegate Nathan Notah, for being proactive in your community! On January 16th, Delegate Notah reached out to ...
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Grassroots Response Event 2025
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Hydrogen, Just Transition, News, Pumped Storage Hydropower, Reclamation, Watershed
Grassroots Response to Buu's 2nd State of the Nation Photo by Leona Morgan, Haul No! On Tuesday, January 28, 2025 ...
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MLK Day of Service
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Watershed
Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service On Monday, January 20th, Tó Nizhóní Ání field staff Andrew Atencia and our ...
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Buu’s 2nd State of the Nation
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Hydrogen, Just Transition, News, Pumped Storage Hydropower, Reclamation, Watershed
Buu's 2nd State of the Nation On Tuesday, January 14, 2025, Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren took the stage in ...
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RDC Mine Tour 2024
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Reclamation
Navajo Nation Resource and Development Committee (RDC) Site Tour of the Black Mesa and Kayenta Mine On Wednesday, November 13, ...
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Encouragement to the Community of Cameron
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Hydrogen, News
Encouragement to the Community of Cameron: Regarding the Recent Chapter Meeting on October 27, 2024 November 4, 2024 To the ...
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Bond Release Meeting – N9 Phase 1
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Reclamation
Bond Release Meeting, Kayenta Chapter House On Thursday, October 24, 2024, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE ...
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Black Mesa to Catskills Exchange Program
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
Black Mesa Exchange From August 16th to the 24th, 2024, the Black Mesa to Catskills Exchange Program began the second ...
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Hydrogen Informational Summit – Western
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
Hydrogen Informational Summit - Western Agency On Saturday, October 12, 2024, Tó Nizhóní Ání (Sacred Water Speaks) organized a Hydrogen ...
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Honoring Tyrone Thompson
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Food Sovereignty, News
Hoop House Building Workshop On Friday, September 27, 2024, the Tó Nizhóní Ání Food Sovereignty team facilitated a hoop house ...
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Save The Confluence Family Gathering
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
Save The Confluence Family Gathering On Saturday, September 28, 2024, Tó Nizhóní Ání attended the 2nd annual Save the Confluence ...
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Navajo Nation Hypocrisy
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
Navajo Nation Hypocrisy When does the Navajo Nation government truly stand with its people and communities that are in the ...
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World Water Week 2024
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
World Water Week 2024 Water offering to Baltic Sea. On Friday, August 23, 2024, members of Tó Nizhóní Ání (TNA) ...
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Reaction to demolition of smokestacks at San Juan Generating Station
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
For For Immediate Release: Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024 Contacts: Mike Eisenfeld, San Juan Citizens Alliance, mike@sanjuancitizens.org, 505-360-8994 Jane Pargiter, EcoFlight, ...
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3rd Watershed Work Session
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Watershed
Tsiyi' Tó Watershed Project & Training: 3rd Work Session Tsiyi' Tó Wash headwater On August 7th and 8th our third ...
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Black Mesa to Catskills Exchange Program
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Exchange Program, News
Catskills Exchange By Raeanna Johnson, Raina Silver, Iris Gillingham, and Liv Bigtree. On June 18, 2024, the Black Mesa to ...
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RDC Regular Meeting
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Hydrogen, News
Resource and Development Committee Regular Meeting Tó Nizhóní Ání (TNA) provided a report in Diné to the Navajo Nation Resource ...
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Summer Session Demonstration
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Hydrogen, News
25th Navajo Nation Council Summer Session Demonstration No Hydrogen Pipeline banner in the background of the 2024 Summer Session gathering. ...
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Diné Solidarity for Pushpum
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Pumped Storage Hydropower
Diné Solidarity for Pushpum Webinar The Navajo Nation Resource and Development Committee (RDC) has approved travel for its members to ...
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Protect Navajo Water Logo
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
Logo Breakdown: Protect Navajo Water In June 2024, our organization proudly unveiled our Protect Navajo Water logo at the 2024 ...
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Tri-State advances transformative ERP
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Just Transition, News
Tri-State advances transformative electric resource plan with unopposed settlement filing Electric Resource Plan seeks 1,250 megawatts of new renewable and ...
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Hydrogen Informational Summit Northern Agency
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Hydrogen, News
On Wednesday, June 26, 2024, our organization hosted a hydrogen informational summit at the Shiprock Chapter House in Shiprock, NM. ...
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Watershed Assessment Week
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Watershed
Tsiyi' Tó Watershed Project/Training Assessment Week Tsiyi' Tó Spring and headwater of Tsiyi' Tó Wash. Allen and Sam of Natural ...
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Grassroots Response to Navajo Water Rights Settlement
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
Response from Grassroots, Diné Water Rights Coalition to the Navajo Nation Department of Justice, President Buu Nygren, and the Navajo ...
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Groups representing coal-impacted communities ask ACC to follow through on the agency’s public duty to provide a coal transition framework
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Just Transition, News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, March 25, 2024 CONTACT: Nicole Horseherder, Tó Nizhóní Ání, nicole@tonizhoniani.org, 928-675-1851 Chanele Reyes, Arizona Center for ...
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Black Mesa to Appalachia
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
Black Mesa organization travels to the Appalachia region Last week, Tó Nizhóní Ání team members traveled to Southwest Virginia, Eastern ...
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ACC turns it’s back on rural and tribal communities in Arizona that are reeling economically from early coal plant closures
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Just Transition, News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 CONTACT: Nicole Horseherder, Tó Nizhóní Ání, nhorseherder@gmail.com, 928-675-1851 Mike Eisenfeld, San Juan Citizens ...
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Federal Officials Reject Three Huge Arizona Pump Storage Projects Targeting Black Mesa
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Pumped Storage Hydropower
For Immediate Release, February 15, 2024 Contact: Adrian Herder, Tó Nizhóní Ání, (928) 380-3914, a.herder92@gmail.comRobyn Jackson, Diné C.A.R.E., (928) 228-5805, robyn.jackson@dine-care.orgTaylor McKinnon, ...
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Grassroots Response
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Hydrogen, Just Transition, News, Pumped Storage Hydropower
Grassroots Response & Discussion on Buu's State of the Navajo Nation Address On Tuesday, January 23, 2024 grassroots organizations and ...
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Environmental Day at the Capital 2024
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
Environmental Day at the Capital 2024 On Thursday, January 25, 2024, Tó Nizhóní Ání staff traveled to the Arizona State ...
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Klee Benally 1975-2023
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Voices from Black Mesa
Klee Benally 1975 - 2023 It’s with heavy hearts that we send our condolences Princess Benally, the wife of the ...
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EcoFlight Tour over Black Mesa
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Pumped Storage Hydropower
EcoFlight Tour over Black Mesa Adrian H., Wilda A., and Troy H. Friday, September 22, 2023, a Tó Nizhóní Ání ...
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Heinz Family Foundation Names Nicole Horseherder the 28th Heinz Awards for the Environment
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
Photo: Joshua Franzos PITTSBURGH, September 20, 2023 — The Heinz Family Foundation today named Nicole Horseherder, co-founder, Tó Nizhóní Ání (Sacred ...
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Arizona Public Service (APS) Rate Case – Testimony/Public Comment
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Just Transition, News
Navajo coal-impacted community members traveled to the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) to testify and provide public comment before the Administrative ...
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Tó Nizhóní Ání strongly opposes H.R. 4374
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources 1324 Longworth House Office Building Washington, DC 20510 July ...
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18 Navajo Chapters Oppose Huge Pumped Storage Projects Threatening Arizona’s Black Mesa
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Pumped Storage Hydropower
For Immediate Release, July 14, 2023 Contacts: Herb Yazzie, Black Mesa Resident, (602) 291-4474, hyazzie2003@yahoo.com Adrian Herder, Tó Nizhóní Ání, ...
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Dził Yíjiin Nanise’ Project
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Plant Project
Black Mesa Plant Project The Black Mesa Plant (Dził Yíjiin Nanise’) Project began with an orientation from the project facilitator ...
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Tucson Electric Power (TEP) Rate Case – Testimony/Public Comment
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Just Transition, News
Navajo coal-impacted community members travel to Tucson, Arizona, for the Tuscon Electric Power rate case to provide testimony and public ...
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TEP Rate Case – Public Comment
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Just Transition, News
Tell the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) to support rural and tribal communities hit hard by the closure of coal plants ...
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No Black Mesa Pumped Storage Project | #NoBMPSP
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Pumped Storage Hydropower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-CkU3K-WXk&t=3896s What is the Black Mesa Pumped Storage Project? The Black Mesa Pumped Storage Project (BMPSP) is a pumped storage ...
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ADOT, Don’t Leave Tribal Communities Out Of Your AZ EV Plan
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), don’t leave the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe out of your AZ EV Plan! Arizona ...
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Black Mesa Reclamation
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Reclamation
Kayenta Mine, Photo by: EcoFlight Since the Black Mesa mine closed in 2005 and the Kayenta mine in 2019, efforts ...
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Just & Equitable Transition – Navajo
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Just Transition, News
COAL COMMUNITY TRANSITION BACKGROUND Several major coal-fired power plants that have helped ensure a reliable supply of electricity for Arizonans ...
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Four Corners community groups fight to retain hard-won public benefits in merger case appeal
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
Today, four northwest New Mexico community groups, along with the Coalition for Clean Affordable Energy (CCAE), joined an appeal to ...
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Hardrock Chapter Solar Celebration
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Just Transition, News
Hardrock Chapter President Jay Begay speaking, Hardrock, AZ. Image by Tó Nizhóní Ání The future is looking bright for Hardrock ...
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Navajo, U.S. officials must defend restoration of Black Mesa before it’s too late
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Reclamation
by Nicole Horseherder, Executive Director, Tó Nizhóní Ání Photography by EcoFlight Years ago, on Black Mesa, our livestock drank from ...
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ACC Kills Energy Rules and Defeats Clean Energy
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Just Transition, News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - January 26, 2022 Contact: Sandy Bahr, sandy.bahr@sierraclub.org, (602) 999-5790 Arizona Corporation Commission Kills Energy Rules Defeats ...
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Diné Residents of Black Mesa Tell Why They Support Build Back Better Plan
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
Biden’s Build Back Better Plan has the potential to help Black Mesa (Dził Yíjiin) heal from decades of exploitation Tó ...
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Red Mesa Community Left in the Dark about Solar Project
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Just Transition, News
Red Mesa Community Demands Navajo Tribal Utility Authority (NTUA), Open Discussions with Community on the Lack of Community Engagement and ...
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VOICES FROM BLACK MESA
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
DiAndre Francis, 23, is Ta’neezahnii from Hooshdódii Tó, located on Black Mesa in northeastern Arizona. DiAndre is a recent graduate ...
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NTUA fails to acquire community consent in Cameron solar project
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Just Transition, News
By Jessica Keetso, Tó Nizhóní Ání Organizer *Disclaimer: The author has a history of working with the Cameron chapter since ...
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ÁSHINEE’ NIHIMÁ: IN LOVING MEMORY
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Voices from Black Mesa
It’s with heavy hearts that we send our condolences to the Tó’aheedlíinii Naakai Dine’é family of Ts’í’ii Bitó. Mae Wilson ...
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27 WOMEN LEADING THE CHARGE TO PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News
Scientists have called our current, climate change–threatened era the Anthropocene, but as the eco-economist Kate Raworth once joked, women are ...
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PEABODY TO CANCEL HEALTH CARE BENEFIT FOR RETIRED COAL MINERS
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Reclamation
Peabody Energy is ending a health care benefit program for retired miners as a cost-saving measure. The St. Louis-based coal ...
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‘EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON THE CORN’: AS CROPS WITHER, THE HOPI FEAR FOR THEIR WAY OF LIFE
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Food Sovereignty, News
For 2,000 years, the Hopi have been growing corn in an arid landscape, relying on the rains. Now climate change ...
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VIDEO: A JUST TRANSITION AT NAVAJO GENERATING STATION
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Just Transition, News
For 50 years, outside power companies profited from the exploitation of precious Navajo & Hopi water and resources, which supported ...
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NATIONAL ECONOMIC TRANSITION PLATFORM
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | Just Transition, News
BREAKING: Leaders from coal communities across America today released their historic platform for bolstering regions hit hard by the declining ...
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WORC REPORT ON RECLAMATION JOBS
By Adrian Herder, Media Organizer | | News, Reclamation
Help us spread the word via social media with the following handles and hashtags. Ahéhee’! Handles: @NNPrezNez @NavajoCouncil @RepRaulGrijalva @peabodyenergy ...
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