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Native America Calling: Native candidates make strides in local elections
Monday, November 24, 2025
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Native candidates make strides in local elections
Social worker and political newcomer Sierra Yazzie Asamoa-Tutu will take office in January 2026 as the first Diné city council member in Gallup, New Mexico.

Notably a city along Route 66 and on the edge of the Navajo Nation, Gallup’s population is more than half Native American, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Yazzie Asamoa-Tutu is one of a number of Native candidates filling local elected seats since the mid-term elections.

Tune into Native America Calling to talk with some of them about what their hopes are for their coming term of elected public service.

Sierra Yazzie Asamoa-Tutu
In November 2025, Sierra Yazzie Asamoa-Tutu won election as the first Navajo person on the city council in Gallup, New Mexico, a community near the Navajo Nation. She will represent District 2 in Gallup. Photo courtesy Sierra Yazzie Asamoa-Tutu

Guests on Native America Calling
Sierra Yazzie Asamoa-Tutu (Diné), council member-elect for the city of Gallup, New Mexico

Ed Lowery Jr. (Lumbee), mayor-elect of Parktown, North Carolina

Chris Roberts (Choctaw), mayor of Shoreline, Washington

David Holt (Osage), mayor of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Chris Roberts and Native Elected Officials at National Congress of American Indians

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