It would be a serious mistake to think that this newspaper will give up so easy. Hardly. The results of a biased federal inquiry into the travel by hundreds of Navajo delegates to a conference in Hawaii, many of them using public money, found no wrongdoing and Sen.   Full Story

I'm just guessing, but I'll bet Mr. Denton Blueeyes never has visited Hawaii. However, given that nearly 400 of his fellow tribal members spent perhaps $1 million in public money to go there, I'm sure he thinks it must be a pretty darn special place.   Full Story

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The U.S. Department of the Interior continues to investigate the travel by hundreds of Navajo representatives to Hawaii last October, with federal officials in California now involved in the review.   Full Story

The Navajo Nation Department of Diné Education spent $70,820 to send 27 people to a Hawaii conference, adding to a growing tally believed to be around $1 million for as many as 400 tribal representatives.   Full Story

It is sad but appropriate that a federal investigation is under way to explain why the Navajo Nation's government leaders and school administrators traveled in such large numbers to Hawaii using money so desperately needed by Navajo schoolchildren and teachers.   Full Story

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of the Interior has launched an investigation into the travel by hundreds of Navajo representatives who attended an education conference in Hawaii, many of them known to have used public money to pay for the trip.   Full Story

SHIPROCK — The Central Consolidated School District is standing behind its decision to send eight people to the 2007 National Indian Education Association convention in Hawaii at a cost of about $15,000.   Full Story

FARMINGTON — U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici on Friday called for a federal inquiry into the claim that more than 362 people representing the Navajo tribe traveled to an education conference in Hawaii, many of them using federal or tribal money to pay for their trips.   Full Story

In case you're wondering, the purpose of the story, "Navajo tribe sends 362-plus to Hawaii conference," was not so much to inform, as it was to make the Navajo Nation, its educators and its president look wasteful, look frivolous and look bad.   Full Story

Wednesday's column (Nov. 7), with the headline "Navajo schoolchildren deserve better," garnered dozens of e-mail responses from all over the U.S., with a majority of them coming from local writers claiming to be Navajo.   Full Story

FARMINGTON — The identities of most of the 362 people who preregistered as members of the Navajo Nation for an Oct.   Full Story

Editor: This comment is to the story you've been covering, and I'm so appalled at the comments of the Navajo Nation president!   Full Story

Editor: I totally agree with what you guys are doing. As a member of the Navajo tribe and graduate from NMSU, I cannot believe the number of representatives that went on this "vacation.   Full Story

What we have here is a lack of communication. Or accountability. Or ethics. Or all of the above. But what we do not have here any longer are the thousands and thousands of dollars spent to fly, wine and dine as many as 400 Navajo representatives who decided to attend the National Indian Education Association Conference in Hawaii instead of using the money on desperately needed students, schools and supplies.   Full Story

So the Navajo Nation decided to visit Hawaii for a few days. What's the big deal about that? Anglo senators, representatives and other government leaders take junkets.   Full Story

FARMINGTON — The Navajo Nation, with much of its massive reservation home to residents still living in Third World-type conditions, sent hundreds more delegates to a Hawaii education conference than any other American Indian tribe.   Full Story

SHIPROCK — People who tried to call Janet Slowman-Chee, the director of Indian Education for the Central Consolidated School District, last week were out of luck.   Full Story

Central Consolidated School District went too far. Literally. It is admirable but also expected that the school district has a keen interest in learning the latest methods and tools available for keeping American Indian students motivated to stay in school and prosper.   Full Story

Editor: Absurd that a school district with the achievement level of CCSD should spend money to go to Hawaii and Niagara Falls to learn how to do better.   Full Story