The Council met to discuss the matter on Friday and later that evening filed legislation to place Damon on administrative leave without pay.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the members of the Navajo Nation Council select and confirm their Speaker, they do so with the expectation that the selected Speaker can be trusted to be their Natahnii\u2019\u2019 [leader] and lead the Council by example with honor, integrity, veracity and reliability at all times. They do not expect their leader, the Speaker, to violate their trust and bring disrepute on the Council,\u201d stated the legislation.<\/p>\n
The Council acknowledged that Damon had complied with Navajo fundamental law by accepting personal responsibility for his actions and by issuing a public apology to the Navajo people. But he must still face the consequences, it added.<\/p>\n
After much deliberation and discussion with Speaker Damon, the Navajo Nation Council has determined that placing Speaker Damon on administrative leave without pay for an indeterminate time is the appropriate path to restore Hozho within the Navajo Nation Council and with the Navajo People,\u201d <\/strong>the Council concluded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe Nation appears to have some clout with big tech companies. As of Monday, the offending image seems to have been wiped off social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Navajo Nation Speaker Seth Damon is in hot water. The tribal leader was photographed at an unnamed Las Vegas casino earlier this month, apparently intoxicated, slumped across a slot machine. While that\u2019s never a good look, let alone for a politician, it\u2019s a particular sore point for the Nation, which owns four casinos on its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":240337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,61,18456],"tags":[23,83504,83503],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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