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Former Indian housing leader lands in jail on Navajo Nation
Friday, July 7, 2023
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A once prominent Indian housing leader is blaming the new president of the Navajo Nation for his arrest at a recent event on the reservation.
Chester Carl, a former chairman of the National American Indian Housing Council (NAIHC), was arrested on June 28 following an incident at the Navajo Nation Housing Fair. Video from the scene showed him being taken away by tribal police officers on the New Mexico portion of the reservation.
“I was told to leave, and told them people were asking for help with housing and there ways to help people under the NAHASDA legislation where it said self-determination in which all people there can determine how they can get housing,” Carl said in a post on social media in which he referenced the Native American Housing Assistance and Self Determination Act, a federal statute.
According to Carl, President Buu Nygren was the one who “got the police” involved. But the new Navajo leader had nothing to do with the incident, a spokesperson confirmed.
“President Nygren was nowhere near the vicinity at all when this occurred,” Donovan Quintero, the director of communications for the Navajo Nation Office of President and Vice President, told Indianz.Com two days after the incident.


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