Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley has announced she’ll run for tribal president.
She’s the most high-profile candidate to challenge President Buu Nygren, who’s running for a second term in this year’s election.
Curley was first elected to the Navajo Council in 2022 to represent the Tachee/Blue Gap, Many Farms, Nazlini, Tselani/Cottonwood, Low Mountain communities in the central portion of the Navajo Nation. The next year, she was elected council speaker.
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