MANY FARMS CHAPTER

Location

History

Many Farms is located along State Highway 191, in the Central part of the Navajo Nation in Northeastern Arizona, approximately 15 miles north of Chinle in Apache County.

Now known to community members as Dá’ák’eh Halani or Many Farms, the Chapter’s original name was To Naneesdizi, meaning Water Stringing Out in Rivulets. Dá’ák’eh Halani began in 1937 as a small farming community near an irrigation dam, 15 miles North of Chinle, Arizona, on the site of an ephemeral spring fed by Sheep Dip Wash, a Diversion Channel of Chinle Wash. Early on the town came to include a few clusters of residential homes. Later, during World War II, the people of Many Farms raised and harvested livestock. In 1941, Many Farms became the site of the Navajo Tribal Slaughter House and Cannery, which supplied fresh and canned meat from local livestock for schools and hospitals on the reservation. In fact, they packed and shipped livestock products to the armed forces.

Today, Many Farms is identified as a secondary growth center with educational and community facilities, public governmental services (tribal, county and state), commercial businesses and the traditional livelihood of farming and ranching. Dine College was accommodated at the local Many Farms High School before it found its permanent home in Tsaile, Arizona.

For Immediate Announcements/MEETINGS: 

September 2025

  Upcoming Meetings/Events:

*MEETING DATES & TIMES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE*

September 2, 2025

-Bike Ride @ 6 to 8 p.m.

September 3, 2025

-Spinning Class @ 6 to 7 p.m.

September 4, 2025

-Spinning Class @ 6 to 7 p.m.

-Volleyball @ 6 to 8 p.m.

September 7, 2025

-Veterans Meeting @ 12 to 3 p.m.

September 8, 2025

-Spinning Class @ 6 to 7 p.m.

September 9, 2025

-Fire Safety @ 9 a.m.

-Evening Bike Ride @ 6 to 8 p.m.

September 10, 2025

-Planning Meeting @ 9 a.m.

September 11, 2025

-Spinning Class @ 6 to 7 p.m.

-Volleyball @ 6 to 8 p.m.

September 12, 2025

-Movie Night @ 6 to 8:30 p.m.

September 15, 2025

– Chapter Meeting @ 10 a.m.

September 16, 2025

-Evening Bike Ride @ 6 to 8 p.m.

September 17,2025

-Spinning Class @ 6 to 7 p.m.

September 18, 2025

-Planning/Zoning Meeting @ 10 to 2 p.m.

September 21, 2025

-Farm Board meeting @ 1 p.m.

-Farm Board/Permittee Meeting @ 3 p.m.

September 23, 2025

-Evening Bike Ride @ 6 to 8 p.m.

September 24, 2025

-CPR/First Aid Training @ 8:30 a.m.

September 25, 2025

-Fire Safety @ 9 a.m.

-Volleyball @ 6 to 8 p.m.

September 26,2025

-Movie Night @ 6 to 8:30 p.m.

September 29, 2025

-Spinning Class @ 6 to 7 p.m.

September 30, 2025

-Evening Bike Ride @ 6 to 8 p.m.

Chapter Officals

Charlotte Begaye, President

Jacqueline Begaye, Vice President

Helena Shepherd, Secretary/ Treasure

Administration Staff

Francine Harrison, CSC

Lewanda Ben, AMS

Elvert Tsosie, P.S.

VACANT, CHR

COUNCIL DELEGATE

Honorable Crystalyne Curley

  ⋗ Tsenjikini
  ⋗ To’aheedliinii
  ⋗ Kinyaa’áanii
  ⋗ Dził t’aadi Kinyaa’áanii

Gabriel Freeland, LDA

Elected Officials

Elbert Jumbo, Grazing Official

Francine Harrison, Farm Board President

Katherine O. Arthur, Farm Board Vice President

Tiffany Hardy, Farm Board Secretary