🌽 THE WELLNESS CENTER · WHAT YOU CONTROL
What you control
Staying well
Why People Stay Sick — what’s outside the clinic → · the Health Clinic → · the Senior Center → · and the part no office controls: being useful to your community →
Maintain the language: the language IS the culture — Diné bizaad carries K’é, the stories, the way of seeing. Keeping it is wellness. Learn a piece → · our elders carry it: sit with one, listen, record → · fluent speakers: lend your voice →
D · Draft — not verified Every claim of a citizen power below either cites the source it was read in, or says plainly that the governing document could not be located. How we verify →
No one can tell you who deserves your vote — and no office can take from you the things on this page. This is the list of levers a citizen actually holds. It is shorter than it should be, for one reason this whole site keeps finding: people cannot know what they control until the documents that say so can be read.
Direct — your vote
Chapter officials, Council delegates, the President
The primary is July 21, 2026; the general is in November. Every interviewed candidate is on this site — their words, verbatim, and tools to weigh them. Nothing here scores or ranks anyone; you judge.
The November referendum — the proposed constitution
This is the largest single act of direct control on the ballot. Among its verified provisions: § 1024 would transfer NTUA, NTEC, Diné Development Corporation and the Gaming Enterprise to living tribal members for their collective benefit, with a dividend system. § 3748 would require signed recusal statements in the official record. Read what it actually says before anyone tells you what it means: the lesson.
Standing — powers you hold between elections
See the Nation’s contracts
Every executed contract of the Nation must be filed with the Central Records Department — and the law says the public may see them: 2 N.N.C. § 224 (filing) and § 225: “Access to contracts or papers shall be provided to the public.” A lawful request is a form of control any citizen can exercise this week. How to ask →
Your chapter
The chapter is the government closest to home, and its meetings are where a resolution starts. What a chapter may decide depends on its Local Governance Act status — certification is reviewed by the Auditor General under 26 N.N.C. § 102. Which chapters are certified? No public list could be located. That gap is item 1 on Still looking.
Your knowledge
What you have seen — a seam between offices, a record that should exist and doesn’t, a tactic — is evidence nobody else holds. Tell us what you’ve seen: read by a person, verified before anything is published, counted only in combined counts.
The honest rows — where the answer is unpublished
Do the People get a say in 638 institutions?
It varies by entity, and for most, the document that answers it — the plan of operation, which says who appoints the board and whether the community has a formal role — could not be located in public form. That is not a “no.” It is an unpublished answer, and it is item 7 on Still looking. If you sit on or work under one of these boards and can point to the plan, one pointer closes the row.
Do the People get a say in the enterprises?
Today: through the officials you elect, who appoint the boards. On the November ballot: § 1024 would change the ownership itself — see the referendum entry above. Between those two sits everything this site keeps finding: boards whose duties, meetings and reports could not be located in public form.
Two things you can do before July 21: check where and how you vote, and read your candidates in their own words. One thing you can do any week of the year: ask to see a contract.