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Download the July 2 Print Edition $1.50 Navajo TimesDINÉ BI NAALTSOOS VOLUME LIX | NUMBER 27 THURSDAY, JULY 02, 2020 NAVAJOTIMES.COM Schools prepare to reopen amid pandemic BY CINDY YURTH TSÉYI’ BUREAU WINDOW ROCK — The Navajo Nation’s schools, located in three different states and under various types of administration, are making widely divergent plans for reopen- ing next month as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. At least one Arizona district will be entirely online for the time being; New Mexico’s schools are being mandated by the state to take a hybrid approach; and San Juan School District in Utah will base its strategy on an online survey of staff, students and parents. According to its website, Chinle Unified School District in the heart of the res- ervation (and the current hotspot of the COVID-19 pandemic) is not taking any chances and school will be entirely online until further notice. The district has purchased 3,000 laptops — enough for every student — and equip- ment to set up Wi-Fi hotspots for those who don’t have access to the internet. Students NAVAJO TIMES | DONOVAN QUINTERO will have the option to check out the laptops Nelson Benally sits by his flock of sheep and goats on Monday near Sawmill, Ariz. Benally was forced to leave his summer campsite with his herd of more by paying a small insurance premium, than 160 sheep and goats due to the Wood Springs 2 fire. SEE REOPEN | A2 ‘Where the fire started’ 65-year-old sheepherder evacuates with herd BY DONOVAN QUINTERO NAVAJO TIMES OOD SPRINGS, ARIZ. — Nelson Benally, 65, who was evacuated from his summer sheep camp on Monday, said he saw the NAVAJO TIMES | SHARON CHISCHILLY lightning that started the Wood Shiprock rises behind a field of hemp last week. WSprings 2 fire. Neighbors of the hemp farm complain of a He was at his camp on Saturday when it skunk-like odor, bright lights disturbing their began sprinkling. At the same time, he heard sleep and non-Navajo workers who drive too fast. a loud thunder crack through the Defiance Plateau forest. A bright flash of lighting hit the earth. Hemp farm neighbors Soon it began to smolder. “That’s where the fire started,” he said in Navajo. complain of smell, He said he saw wildland fire fighters arrive seemingly in no time and work on putting out NAVAJO TIMES | DONOVAN QUINTERO lights, use of water the fire. He went back to herding his flock. On Sunday, Benally thought fire crews ABOVE: A DC-10 extinguished the fire because he didn’t see airplane converted ARLYSSA BECENTI any smoke. He went about his chores thinking to fight fires releases NAVAJO TIMES nothing more of it. fire retardant over By the afternoon, he looked toward where the trees while SHIPROCK – It’s not easy being Dineh Be- he saw the lighting strike, he said, and saw fighting the Wood nally’s neighbor. rising black smoke billowing into the air. It Springs 2 fire on Loretta Bennett and Marietta Lister live was getting large. Monday. The fire has, down a narrow road in Shiprock and for “Now it seems bad,” he said. so far, burned nearly years it’s been a safe and peaceful place to Benally’s sister, Mary Blackmountain from 9,000 acres since it grow their children and grandchildren. It’s Kinlichee, said when she saw the fire start began on Saturday. been a good area to raise horses, and grow again, she became concerned for her little alfalfa, fruits and vegetables. brother and knew she had to go check on him, LEFT: A large plume But this picturesque surrounding especially after her nephew told her he was of smoke from the changed drastically once Benally took it being stubborn about evacuating. So they got Wood Springs 2 vire upon himself to bring in outside workers ready and took water. rises into the air on in order to develop a hemp farm without “We hauled water for his sheep and goats at Sunday. The fire has consulting his neighbors. midnight,” Blackmountain said, referring to burned nearly 9,000 “We have a lot of greenhouses … It gives acres since it started a bad skunk odor,” said Bennett. “They nev- SEE SHEEPHERDER | A4 on Saturday. er approached me … All of a sudden I saw NAVAJO TIMES | DONOVAN QUINTERO SEE COMPLAIN | A4 Lizer voted for $300M investment in ‘company’ that may be Remington BY RIMA KRISST ple demand the committees who ment. with the Nation’s financial ‘Fake news?’ all claimed to have no knowl- NAVAJO TIMES are discussing this proposal do The story about the possibili- advisor RBK, where recommen- The last time the Remington edge of the offer until they read so openly and not in executive ty of a revived Remington deal dations go from the Investment purchase was considered by the about it in the New York Times. WINDOW ROCK — Last week- session…” broke last Friday when The Committee to the Budget and Navajo Nation, the potential Pearline Kirk, the Navajo end, after word that the Navajo In an ironic twist, Nez’s own Wall Street Journal announced Finance Committee for approv- deal was revealed to the public Nation’s controller, remained Nation might purchase Reming- vice president, Myron Lizer, that the firearms manufacturer al and then to the president. in a July 16, 2019 New York mum on the matter, Branch ton Arms Co. hit the national voted for the $300 million was “preparing to file for chap- Damon stated he could not of- Times article that referred to a promptly launched an investi- news, President Jonathan Nez investment proposal on June ter 11 protection … and is in ficially verify if the “company” “draft letter” from the Nation gation, and a firestorm of duel- confirmed to the Navajo Times 12 while sitting on the Navajo advanced talks for a potential in play was indeed Remington. offering to buy the gun manu- ing press releases between the that the $300 million “Reming- Nation Investment Committee bankruptcy sale to the Navajo “There could be ongoing facturer for $475 to $525 million president’s office and speaker’s ton proposal” was again on the as Nez’s proxy, according to Nation…” investments and dealings with in cash. office ensued. table. Speaker Seth Damon, begging Damon explained that as a investors but I can’t comment The story shocked the Na- “As president, I question the Because of concerns about the question, once again, who normal course of business, on any negotiations that may or tion, including then-President secrecy by which this offer lack of transparency the last knew what when? the Nation can work on poten- may not exist,” said Damon. Russell Begaye, Vice President time the idea was considered in Neither Nez nor Lizer re- tial investments through the Jonathan Nez and then-Attor- SEE LIZER | A4 2018, Nez said, “The Navajo peo- sponded to a request for com- Investment Committee process ney General Ethel Branch, who INSIDE WHERE TO BUY OPINION A6 NATIVE NEWS C2 The Times is sold in stores OBITUARIES A11 CLASSIFIEDS D1 VOLUME LIX | NUMBER 27 throughout the region. SPORTS B1 PUBLIC NOTICES D2 navajotimes.com/ © 2020 Navajo Times Publishing Co., Inc. All Rights Reserved COMMUNITY C1 contacts/locations A2 THURSDAY, JULY 02, 2020 NAVAJO TIMES Casinos push back ‘It’s not OK’ reopening Personnel policies failing virus-exposed frontline workers BY RIMA KRISST COVID-19, they must use accrued his own family members are scared to a communication breakdown between date NAVAJO TIMES annual or sick leave, or be approved for talk because they’ve been told by their DPM and department supervisors if the leave without pay or seek family medi- supervisors not to break the chain of employees have been reaching out to del- WINDOW ROCK — Imagine being a Na- cal leave, which James says sends them command. egates saying that they’ve been forced to BY BILL DONOVAN vajo Nation essential employee who has back to Square One. “We have employees who tell us that use their sick or annual leave. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES been exposed to or contracted COVID-19 Becenti clarified that in order to there’s dysfunction that goes on in pro- “We pay you a salary to get this in the line of duty and all you’re trying receive the 120-day COVID-19 leave em- grams,” said Otto Tso. information relayed out to the division LOS ANGELES – The Navajo to do is quarantine and take care of ployees need to make a written request James suggested that once an employ- directors and program managers,” said Nation Gaming Enterprise yourself and your family. to their supervisor. Once the leave is ee tests positive for COVID-19, it should Tso. “It’s the responsibility of these has announced another Imagine that during this time when granted, the employees cannot come be entered into the DPM system and programs! It’s an executive branch delay in re-opening its four you most need support you are faced back to work unless they have a doctor’s there should be no further questions function!” casinos. The new date for with bureaucratic red tape and hostile note saying they are no longer positive, or limitations put on their recovery be- reopening is July 28. supervisors who, instead of helping, are she said. cause of leave policies or other burden- PPE was unavailable The casinos have been making matters worse. Becenti confirmed that if employees some requirements for documentation. closed since mid-March That was the picture painted by need to go beyond the 120-day leave, He said that while he and other dele- Becenti said that all division directors as part of the shutdown of delegates at last Thursday’s Naabik’iya- they need to notify their supervisor and gates have received complaints from de- have been advised to work with their businesses in Arizona and ti Committee meeting who said the can apply for short-term disability or partments, the majority he has received supervisors and program managers to New Mexico in the attempt Department of Personnel’s policies Workman’s Compensation in addition to have come from the Division of Public obtain PPE for their employees, but that by tribe and state leaders to are failing essential employees, while family medical leave.
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