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What each template does, what your Chapter must fill in, the federal deadlines already running, and the practical steps that turn a resolution into funding. Read this first.
Download .docxNavajo Nation · October 2026 Flooding
Four resolutions any Chapter may adapt and adopt, so that no community loses federal or Navajo Nation funding because of a missed deadline, an unfiled form, or a resolution that was never written.
These are drafts, not adopted documents. Each one has blanks for your Chapter's name, your resolution number, your meeting date, and your own verified conditions. Italicized notes in brackets are instructions to you and should be deleted before the resolution is presented.
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What each template does, what your Chapter must fill in, the federal deadlines already running, and the practical steps that turn a resolution into funding. Read this first.
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Requests Navajo Housing Authority funding for new homes on higher ground. Asks the Nation to use its sovereign authority over its own land procedures, and to invoke the emergency clearance provisions that already exist in federal law rather than waiting on ordinary review.
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Requests a Navajo Nation emergency appropriation, supports a Presidential major disaster declaration for the Nation, asks for a FEMA damage assessment in your Chapter with Diné Bizaad interpreters, opens USDA livestock loss sign-up, and supports relocating floodplain families.
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Requests one Nation-wide system through which every Chapter can report road damage and track its request. Demands the Nation file under the federal ERFO program before its deadlines lapse, and supports bringing in outside road crews under emergency procurement.
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Calls the Council and Executive Branch into one continuous week-long session with every signature authority and attorney in the room. Asks that the State of Emergency be extended, and requests National Guard support and, if needed, international humanitarian assistance.
Download .docxThe Nation-wide facts recited in these templates — the storm, the State of Emergency, road damage reported elsewhere on the Nation, and the federal programs and their legal citations — were verified against news reporting and official sources at the end of October 2026. Conditions change. Confirm that the State of Emergency is still in force and that the federal declaration status is current before your Chapter votes.
Document first. Photograph every damaged home, road, crossing, and livestock loss, with dates and locations. Submit ICS 213 Resource Request Forms to the Navajo Nation Department of Emergency Management. The Emergency Operations Center can be reached at 505-422-6597.
Several Chapters adopting parallel resolutions in the same week carries far more weight than one Chapter acting alone.
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Prepared by Nathaniel Brown, Naataani Consulting LLC, Dennehotso, Arizona. Offered freely to all 110 Chapters of the Navajo Nation.
Questions: nbrown@naataaniconsultingllc.com · naataaniconsultingllc.com
These templates confer no representation and create no attorney–client relationship. Each Chapter is responsible for verifying its own facts and for the resolution it adopts.