Resources — official sources, charts & tools

• The Right Door — tap what happened, get the right door: who can file, what to bring, will you hear back.
• Can It Really Not Be Done? — the impossibility ledger: each “can’t” researched into claim · truth · what it would take.
• Barriers vs. Tactics — obstacles (built wrong) vs. tactics (intentional harm), and which instrument counts each.
• Getting Legal Help — who qualifies for DNA and the other doors, checked and dated.
• Which Door for What — fraud, ethics, audits, your job, a crime.
• The Community Clock — how long each official door actually takes, gathered from the people who waited.
• Know the Tactics — deception, obstruction, coercion, weaponization — with protect yourself and guardrails.
• Where’s the data? — the master list of what the public should be able to see.
• Make It Accessible — count what you need closer to home.
• Telehealth Doors — IHS, 638s, VA clinics: who offers video/phone visits, checked and dated.
• Navajo Nation Human Research Review Board (NNHRRB) — the Nation’s own review board for research involving Diné people; anyone planning a study or survey on the Nation should ask them first. Navajo Department of Health, Window Rock · (928) 871-6929 · nnhrrb.navajo-nsn.gov. Why this matters to us: whose data is this?
• CRIDA — the Navajo Nation Civil Rights of Individuals with Disabilities Act (2018): the Nation’s own ADA-parallel law. Plain-language overview · NADLC summary
• Native American Disability Law Center — legal advocacy and guides for Native people with disabilities.
• Find your race — the precinct dropdown, straight to your ballot.

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Official offices, laws, data, and public documents, organized by topic. A link is not an endorsement — it means the source is official or publicly documented.

A link on this page is not an endorsement — it means the source is official or publicly documented. If a link breaks or a better source exists, let us know.

Some conduct is governed by federal law the Navajo Nation does not enforce. Walking into the wrong office first can cost a federal deadline.

• Medical privacy (HIPAA) — HHS Office for Civil Rights. Complaints in writing; generally within 180 days. Not HHS-OIG. Not the Nation. See HIPAA 101.
• Medicare / Medicaid fraud — HHS Office of Inspector General, hotline 1-800-HHS-TIPS.
• Federal crimes — the FBI, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the district where it occurred.
• Why: a 638 facility is a covered entity under federal law. Under Oliphant v. Suquamish (1978), tribal courts have no inherent criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians. See The Seams.

The published Code is current only through 2009. To know the law you must assemble it from four places.

• Navajo Nation Code (2010 annotated) — Office of Legislative Services. Four downloadable sections.
• Amendment index, 2014–present — the government’s own summary of what has changed. It begins in 2014.
• Diné Nihi Kéyah Project — indexes uncodified amendments from 2010 forward, with links to the resolutions themselves. Maintained by law students at Pace University and the University of Arizona. It fills the 2010–2013 gap no government index covers.
• Navajo Nation Council — current legislation, by year.

The Judicial Branch states it cannot post most statutes, citing copyright. The Navajo Nation Supreme Court’s decisions are sold as Navajo Reporter volumes. Why this matters →

Two lists: what the law already makes public, and what nobody publishes →

In plain words: The cases that decided things →

Before you start looking: what you cannot get, and what it costs →

If a page mentions it, it should be reachable from here.

Navajo Nation — offices

• Navajo Election Administration — candidate certification, ballots, absentee. 1-800-775-8683
• Navajo Nation Council — legislation, committee agendas, the Budget & Finance Committee
• Office of Legislative Services — the Code, the amendment index, committee records. The Office of Legislative Counsel is charged by 2 N.N.C. § 221(A) with codifying the law.
• Navajo Nation Judicial Branch — courts, Peacemaking, quarterly caseload reports, Navajo Reporter order form
• Office of Navajo Labor Relations (ONLR) — where an NPEA charge is filed. See 15 N.N.C. §§ 604, 610
• Navajo Nation Labor Commission — hears NPEA complaints. It does not publish its decisions.
• Office of Ethics & Rules — enforces 2 N.N.C. §§ 3744–3784, including § 3749 (contracts and bid requirements) and § 3767 (retaliation prohibited)
• Office of Hearings and Appeals — adjudicates ethics complaints
• Office of the Auditor General — audits chapters, programs, enterprises
• Office of the Controller — the confidential Fraud, Waste & Abuse hotline
• Central Records Department — where every Nation contract is filed under § 224, and where § 225 says the public may see it. How to ask →
• Office of Management & Budget — the Budget Instruction Manual and planning base amounts
• Office of Navajo Government Development (ONGD) — the reform office. Executive Director: Harrison Tsosie. Ask: is the 48-page draft the ballot version?
• Navajo Department of Health — created by CO-50-14

Legal help

• DNA-People’s Legal Services — 1-800-789-7287. Free civil legal aid.
• Navajo Nation Bar Association — attorneys and tribal court advocates, who are not attorneys and typically cost far less
• Diné College legal research — and the bookstore where the Navajo Reporter volumes are sold, $45–$100 each

Federal doors — when Navajo law does not reach

• HHS Office for Civil Rights — HIPAA complaints, in writing, generally within 180 days. Not HHS-OIG. Not the Nation. HIPAA 101
• HHS Office of Inspector General — Medicare and Medicaid fraud. 1-800-HHS-TIPS
• FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the district where it happened
• GAO-19-74R — IHS per-capita spending: $4,078, against $13,185 for Medicare and $8,600 for federal prisoners

The law itself

• Navajo Nation Code (2010 annotated) — Titles 1 through 24. Title 26 is not in this volume.
• OLS amendment index — begins in 2014
• Diné Nihi Kéyah Project — fills the 2010–2013 gap no government index covers. Law students, Pace University and the University of Arizona.
• Local Governance Act (Title 26) — published separately by the Division of Community Development

Something we name but don’t link? Tell us and we’ll add it.

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