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Tribal Elders Are Dying From the Pandemic, Causing a Cultural Crisis for American Indians
Pall bearers with the coffin of Jesse Taken Alive, a Lakota member of the Standing Rock Tribe, who died from Covid-19, at Kesling Funeral Home in Mobridge, S.D., last month. New York Times By Jack Healy Photographs by Victor J. Blue STANDING ROCK RESERVATION, N.D. — The virus took Grandma Delores first, silencing an 86-year-old…
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Navajo Thaw Report to NHLC January 7, 2021
Thursday THAWts #28
What Robert L. Bennett was Supposed to Do
TLE Covid-19 Relief and Recovery Food and Water Security
A Tribute to Colbert Dayzie
Walking along the run-down wire fence of her family’s farm plot, Eileen Tohonnie recalls a time when her family was able to plant every spring. The family’s plot sits along the Little Colorado River in Black Falls, Arizona, on the Navajo Nation. Black Falls is about an hour north of Flagstaff, near Wupatki National Monument.…
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We Have Struck Water!
Walking along the run-down wire fence of her family’s farm plot, Eileen Tohonnie recalls a time when her family was able to plant every spring. The family’s plot sits along the Little Colorado River in Black Falls, Arizona, on the Navajo Nation. Black Falls is about an hour north of Flagstaff, near Wupatki National Monument.…
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