Navajo Nation

Congressional Letter to Indian Health Service re: Faulty PPE Sent to Navajo

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

IHS Letter

RFP for Navajo Nation

Kate Fort

Here. Due June 8.

Scope of Work: The selected contractor (attorney or law firm) will provide the following services to the Navajo Nation: Under the direction of the Navajo Nation Attorney General or her designee, the Attorneys, as independent contractors, will provide legal services to the Navajo Nation Office of the Attorney General in connection with Special Investigation and related litigation matters involving the legal interests of the Navajo Nation. Proposal should describe Attorneys expertise and work experience in the following areas:

• Special Investigation Work

• Civil and Criminal Litigation in Navajo Courts and Federal Court

• Evaluating Government Attorney Ethics Issues

PBS Newshour: “U.S. Native communities see COVID-19 as existential threat”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

HCN: “COVID-19 impacts every corner of the Navajo Nation”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

Navajo Nation Doc: “Rural Matters — Coronavirus and the Navajo Nation”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

From the New England Journal of Medicine, here.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

NYTs Op-Ed on Navajo and COVID

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

From Wahleah Johns, “A Life on and Off the Navajo Nation: The reservation has one of the country’s highest rates of infection.”

Morning Ireland: “Navajo Nation thanks Ireland for Covid 19 donations”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here, featuring Navajo AG Doreen McPaul.

You can visit the Navajo donation page here nndoh.org/donate.html.

FB Page here: https://www.facebook.com/Navajo-Nation-Covid-19-Relief-Fund-105664894478899/

Original thank you video: https://www.facebook.com/105664894478899/videos/282938079772471/

 

 

NYTs: “Tribal Nations Face Most Severe Crisis in Decades as the Coronavirus Closes Casinos”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

Ninth Circuit Finds No Navajo Jurisdiction over Off-Rez Insurer

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the unpublished opinion in Employers Mutual Casualty Company v. McPaul.

Briefs here.

Paul Spruhan on COVID, Navajo, and Legal Responses

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is “COVID-19 and Indian Country: A Legal Dispatch from the Navajo Nation,” from the Northwestern University Law Review blog.