Protecting Sacred Lands Through Technology
Delivering quality service to ensure optimum use of real property for all.
Vision Statement
Acquire, Record, Regulate, Value, and Preserve Our Sacred Navajo Lands (Dińé BÍ Kéyah).
Mission Statement
"To provide quality customer service by utilizing technology, legal authority, cultural awareness, and continuous education to ensure proper optimum use of real property for all to benefit."
Homesite Lease
The Navajo Nation is served by five regional Navajo Land Department offices that guide individuals through securing a 75-year, one-acre residential lease. This lease enables families to construct or finance a home, with full rights to extend, transfer, or relinquish their agreement. To qualify for a Homesite Lease (HSL), applicants must first complete all required federal and tribal environmental clearance procedures.
Homesite Lease Application >(opens in new tab)
Archaeologists and Surveyors Listing >(opens in new tab)
GIS
The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) section collaborates with County Recorder offices, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to research and confirm Navajo Nation land status, coordinates, and boundaries. Maintaining digital records of all land status and Chapter boundaries across the Navajo Nation, GIS uses modern technology to process spatial data and deliver public access to non-sensitive geographic information.
Title, Records & Acquisition Program
Title/Records Section conducts research into all aspects of land title, receives and maintains land records, and assists and participates in land exchanges, real estate purchases, and/or gifts of land. Administer the Navajo Nation Land Acquisition Program on behalf of the Navajo Nation, review all land appraisals, and make recommendations for purchase to the Navajo Nation Council. Administer property tax payments and valuations on all Navajo Nation fee lands.
GLDD
The Navajo Nation General Land Development Department (GLDD) is charged with leasing authority of telecommunications, easements for all right-of-ways (oil & gas lines, power lines, water lines, service line agreements, etc.), land withdrawals, permits, mission sites, permits to drill, and permission to survey.
NLTDS
The Navajo Land Department has established a Title Plant (NLTDS) to record titles, deeds, leases, land conveyances, retrieve trust asset accounting, and ability to store/retrieve records for the entire Navajo Land records. Currently, Navajo land records are being populated into the NLTDS. Administered by the Navajo Land Department.
Cadastral
In 1982, the Navajo Nation established a Memorandum of Agreement with BLM and BIA to complete cadastral surveys on the Navajo Nation. The monuments are used to control surveys to locate geographic positions; maintenance and perpetuation of the existing Public Land Survey System (PLSS); and necessary required retracement, resurveys, and surveys of areas requested by the Navajo Land Department and BIA.
Contact Us
Ft. Defiance Land Office is Located in St. Michaels
Located next to Navajo Nation Oil and Gas in St. Michaels
2B Taylor Rd. Bldg. #8966
St. Michaels, AZ 86511(opens in new tab)
Chinle Land Office
Route 7, across the street from Chevron Gas Station, west side of Chinle Chapter Complex
Crownpoint Land Office
Located at the Crownpoint Administrative Services Center, across from the Senior Citizens Center
Shiprock Land Office
US-64, old NAPI Building, across from the 7-2-11 Food Store and next to Foutz Trading on the corner
Tuba City Land Office
Tuba City Spur Rd, across from the Cavesa Car Wash and next to the old Police Station.