LOW

MOUNTAINCHAPTER

 

 

Navajo name:  Jeeh deez'·á

Interpretation:  (Pitch) gum extending out

Indian Population:                        1980 Census:                          910

                        1990 Census:                        664

                        2000 Census:                        911

Estimated land size:  41,382.15  Acres

Land Management District :        7

 

GOVERNMENT

Number of Chapter NNC delegate(s):    2

Delegate(s) shared with:

            Jeddito Chapter

Navajo Police district office covering Chapter :

            Chinle District

Tribal offices providing service within Chapter:

      Division of Cmty Dev  WIC

      Community Services      Community Health Rep

      Div of Social Services    Food Distribution

      Dept of Workforces ServicesDept of Headstart

      Dept of Youth Services       Nav Area Agency on Aging

 

Chapter committees:

      Planning Board

      Community Land Use Planning Committee

 

MEDICAL

Hospital(s) & clinic(s) where most Chapter people go:

            Hospital            Town

Chinle Indian Hospital            Chinle, AZ

Hopi Health Care Center             Polacca, AZ

Pinon Health Care Center            Pinon, AZ

 

 

EDUCATION

Total enrollment by school (Fall of 2003):

School           Enrolled

Low Mountain Pre-School         40

Jeeh Deez’a Academy, Inc.                 210

 

Hopi Jr/Sr High School

Chinle School District

Pinon School District

 

 

COMMUNICATIONS

Computer available  for public use:            4

Number of public telephones:                   2

 

Regular TV reception; stations received:

Call Letters                        Town

            KNAZ            Flagstaff, AZ    

Clear AM radio stations received:

Call Letters                        Town

KTNN                        Window Rock, AZ

KGAK                        Gallup, NM

 

Clear FM radio stations received:

Call Letters                        Town

            KAFF; KMGN            Flagstaff, AZ

            KNAU; KOLT            Flagstaff, AZ

            KUYI            Polacca, AZ

            KFXR            Chinle, AZ

            KYVA            Gallup, NM

 

Newspaper received within the Chapter :

Name of Paper                        Town

Navajo Times                         Window Rock, AZ

The Independent                        Gallup, NM

Navajo Hopi Observer                        Page, AZ

Eagle Eye

 

PUBLIC FACILITIES

Number of offices at chapter house:4

Facilities, other than chapter house:

            Senior Citizen Center

            Warehouse

 

EQUIPMENT

Farm tractor

 

CIVIC

Churches:

            Name of Church  Est'd Membership

Low Mtn Comm Wesleyan Church  40

Smoke Signal Mission            40

New Life Bible Church  40

Indigenous

            Traditional Navajo Religion

            Native American Church

 

Active community organizations:

Youth Organization

Veterans Organization

Local Senior Council

Lil’ Echo Indian Club

Low Mountain Health Angels

 

COMMERCIAL            None

 

TRANSPORTATION

Paved roads through the chapter area:

            Navajo Route 67

            Hopi Route 60

Distances to:

            Agency:             Fort Defiance            113 miles

                        Chinle            46 miles

            Window Rock     107 miles

            Holbrook, AZ (via Keams Cnyn)82 miles

LOW MOUNTAIN CHAPTER (Continued…)

 

 

 

MAJOR EMPLOYERS            No. of

            Name of Employer            Employees

Navajo Nation   15

Jeeh Deez’a Academy     65

 

LOCAL NATURAL RESOURCES

            None reported.

               

COMMUNITY/COOPERATIVE FARMING

None.

Estimated number of family farms:65

Estimated total acreage used:         195

 

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF CHAPTER

The Navajo and Hopi land dispute and eventual land partitions have kept the chapter from needed development.  However, recent improvements have included:  a chapter house, pre-school, telephone service, electrical extensions, domestic water development.  The twenty new Mutual Help Housing units are occupied.  Electrical power line extensions cover most of the rural area.  The chapter undertook a project to have 100 homes with bathroom additions during the mid-1990s.

Low Mountain Chapter is located near the Hopi Reservation within the Navajo and Apache Counties.  Although the chapter is under the Fort Defiance Agency, all programmatic services are administered under the Chinle Agency.  The chapter completed a Senior Citizen Center, constructed power and water lines, constructed a new school, made road improvements, and extended telephone lines.

 

This Chapter information was updated by:

                Name                Telephone No.

2004                Edgerton Gene, CSC                Tel: 928-725-3700

                Mareita Joe, Ofc Spec         Fax: 928-725-3703

 

'92 & '96                Edgerton Gene, CSC

 

'92                Roger B. George, Chapter Pres.