ABOVE: More than a dozen members of the Navajo Nation Honor Riders arrive on their motorcycles Tuesday at the Gallup Cultural Center with Navajo Nation Council speaker Lawrence T. Morgan to present care packages to the South West Indian Foundation for distribution to US Troops in Iraq. BELOW: Members of the Navajo Nation Honor Riders surround Navajo Nation Council Speaker Lawrence T. Morgan as he reads a proclomation Tuesday morning at the Gallup Cultural Center following a motorcycle run from Window Rock to Gallup. The Care Package Honor Run began in 2003 and are a collaboration between the Office of the Speaker, the Southwest Indian Foundation office in Gallup, NM, and the Dept. of Navajo Veterans to provide packages for active-duty service personel.[Photos by Jeff Jones/Independent]

Alexandria Lopez moves a piece of her Halloween display in her Utah Circle front yard on Sunday afternoon. Lopez and her mother said they will spend the next couple of months putting up and taking down decorations as they holiday season approaches. [Photo by Brian Leddy/Independent] Related Story

Everytt Begay walks past a row of signs leaning against a fence that keeps people out of the proposed mining site in Crownpoint. More than 30 protestors showed up at the site to voice their concerns to officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Hydro Resources Incorporated. [Photo by Brian Leddy/Independent] Full Story