Mountain Bikes, Trail Access, and the Navajo Economy
By Adrian Herder | | Article, Audio, Just Transition, News, Reclamation, Watershed
Youth competing in the Silver Stallion Junior Stampede / Photo by Adrian Herder, Tó Nizhóní Ání Adrian Herder, Makaius Marks, ...
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Groups appeal largest coal mine ever permitted in the US, calling its approval on Navajo land ‘disturbing’ in light of coal’s downward economic spiral
By Kaya Dickson, Community Organizer | | Just Transition, News, No Name Mine, Press Release, Reclamation
For Immediate Release: Friday, October 2, 2026 Contact: Nicole Horseherder, Executive Director, Tó Nizhóní Ání, nicole@tonizhoniani.org Mike Eisenfield, San Juan Citizen ...
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Summer interns garner community support for 2026 summer plant project efforts
By Raeanna Johnson | | Blog, 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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Tó Nizhóní Ání welcomes 2026 summer interns
By Adrian Herder | | Internship, Just Transition, News, Plant Project, Reclamation, Stories, Watershed
Tó Nizhóní Ání welcomes 2026 summer interns FLAGSTAFF, AZ – On Tuesday, May 26, 2026, Tó Nizhóní Ání welcomed the ...
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Shifting Topographies: Extracting the Landscape Exhibit Closing Reception and Discussion with Tó Nizhóní Ání
By Adrian Herder | | Food Sovereignty, Hydrogen, Just Transition, News, Plant Project, Pumped Storage Hydropower, Reclamation, Stories
Shifting Topographies: Extracting the Landscape Exhibit Closing Reception and Discussion with Tó Nizhóní Ání On Saturday, December 20, 2025, Tó ...
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Key Navajo Nation leadership absent in Kayenta Mine Permit Renewal meeting
By Adrian Herder | | Just Transition, News, Reclamation, Stories, 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 | | Audio, 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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Navajo Nation Council Public Hearing on Coal
By Adrian Herder | | Food Sovereignty, Just Transition, News, Reclamation, Stories, 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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Tó Nizhóní Ání statement on presidential orders to prop up coal companies
By Adrian Herder | | Carbon Capture & Sequestration, Just Transition, News, No Name Mine, Press Release, Reclamation
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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Black Mesa Cartography Map
By Adrian Herder | | Press Release, 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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Grassroots Response Event 2025
By Adrian Herder | | Carbon Capture & Sequestration, Hydrogen, Just Transition, News, Oil & Gas, Pumped Storage Hydropower, Reclamation, Stories, 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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Buu’s 2nd State of the Nation
By Adrian Herder | | Hydrogen, Just Transition, News, Pumped Storage Hydropower, Reclamation, Stories, 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 | | News, Reclamation, Stories
Navajo Nation Resource and Development Committee (RDC) Site Tour of the Black Mesa and Kayenta Mine On Wednesday, November 13, ...
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Bond Release Meeting – N9 Phase 1
By Adrian Herder | | News, Reclamation, Stories
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 Appalachia
By Adrian Herder | | Just Transition, News, Pumped Storage Hydropower, Reclamation, Stories
Black Mesa organization travels to the Appalachia region Last week, Tó Nizhóní Ání team members traveled to Southwest Virginia, Eastern ...
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Black Mesa Reclamation
By Adrian Herder | | 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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Navajo, U.S. officials must defend restoration of Black Mesa before it’s too late
By Adrian Herder | | 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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Diné Residents of Black Mesa Tell Why They Support Build Back Better Plan
By Adrian Herder | | Audio, Just Transition, News, Reclamation, Stories
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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PEABODY TO CANCEL HEALTH CARE BENEFIT FOR RETIRED COAL MINERS
By Adrian Herder | | 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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