It’s been an interesting few weeks since Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren suddenly fired the tribe’s controller. Now, the Navajo Nation District Court in Window Rock has granted a temporary restraining order against him from taking any further action until a preliminary injunction hearing set for Oct. 27.

The Navajo Nation Council contends Nygren’s recent behavior has been “unlawful.”

In the fallout, local officials from across the biggest reservation in the U.S. are signaling growing disapproval with his administration. The government for the sprawling 27,000-square-mile reservation spanning three states — Arizona, Utah and New Mexico — is broken up into five regional agencies.

So far, at least two of them — representing nearly half of the tribe’s on-reservation population — have pas

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