CONGRATULATIONS TO SPEAKER CURLEY ON RE-ELECTION Today, during the first day of the 2025 Winter Session, the 25th Navajo Nation Council elected Crystalyne Curley, once again, to serve as Speaker for the next two years. Your oath obligates you to serve the Navajo people through the legislative body, and I am eager to collaborate with you during this term. As Speaker and President, we both have two years remaining in our terms. It is imperative that we work together to ensure access to basic water, power, and electricity for our communities. Our constituents elected us to serve them, and addressing these urgent needs must be our top priority. As we move into 2025, I encourage both of us to hold each other accountable, alongside Chief Justice Jayne. The three-branch government provides essential checks and balances, enabling us to achieve significant goals for our people. Speaker Curley’s election followed three rounds of runoff, demonstrating the confidence the council has in your leadership. I look forward to working with the entire Navajo Nation Council on our progress and urge everyone to roll up their sleeves and pass the budget. Congratulations again, Speaker Curley on your re-election! -Navajo Nation President Dr. Buu Nygren

PRESIDENT NYGREN SIGNS GRANT TO SUPPORT TORREON LIBRARY TO FUND NEW BOOKS, ACTIVITIES, AND FURNITURE In a push to inspire other Chapters on the reservation to open libraries, the Navajo Nation Library and Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren are working together to secure funding for Torreon Library. On December 9, President Nygren signed a grant for $15,363.84 from the New Mexico Rural Library Program fund for the library in Torreon, N.M. which is also a new branch to the Navajo Nation Library. Home to about 200 people, Torreon lacks activities for both youth and elders, and Torreon Library Director Martina Martinez believes that improving the library with the grant could bring positive change. “There aren't a lot of places out here because there’s no community centers or youth centers or things like that,” said Martinez. “The library would be a place where we could do those things.” A faculty member at Navajo Technical University has been donating textbooks to the library for students in need. Martinez aims to expand partnerships like that with NTU with other colleges and programs to bring more resources to youth and elders in Torreon and get new furniture and funding full-time employees. With help of Navajo Nation Library funding the library and President Nygren signing of the grant, they are operating at 36 hours a week. “The great hope is that we can set up a library at every chapter,” said Donovan Pete, Navajo Nation Library Director. “There has been a shift I’ve been doing with the Navajo Nation Library and instead of being a place of books, it’s a community hub.” Pete said the Torreon library has not been fully operating for five to six years and decided to tackle the challenge of getting even more library branches with the Navajo Nation library. “The unique thing with tribal libraries is that there isn’t a curriculum, there isn’t anyone trying tell us how we need to act,” said Pete. “So for us, a lot of what we try to do is trying to focus on Diné k’éechi (the Navajo way) and do a lot with language and culture.”