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Fox News May 27, 2020 As stay at home orders start to expire, it appears life is slowly going back to a new normal. However, some parts of the country are still suffering and are seeing coronavirus cases rise. The Navajo Nation has been hit especially hard as cases and deaths continue to increase. To…

A sign warns nonresidents to stay out of the Navajo Nation town of Tuba City in Arizona in an attempt to stop the spread of covid-19. (Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images) Washington Post Opinion by Elizabeth Warren and Deb Haaland | May 26, 2020 Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, represents Massachusetts in the Senate. Deb Haaland, a…

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CNN By Hollie Silverman | May 18, 2020 The Navajo Nation has surpassed New York and New Jersey for the highest per-capita coronavirus infection rate in the US — another sign of Covid-19’s disproportionate impact on minority communities. The Navajo Nation, which spans parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, reported a population of 173,667…

Navajo Times By Arlyssa Becenti | May 14, 2020 WIDE RUINS, Arizona – Vernita S. Tsosie dreams that one day her community of Wide Ruins will get the luxury of running water. At a two-mile radius from the Wide Ruins Chapter House is where the running water stops. The water line project the chapter has been…

New York Times By Wahleah John | May 13, 2020 I was born in the Navajo Nation and raised half on and half off the reservation. Shuttling between my grandmother’s ranch in Black Mesa, Ariz., and the small border town of Winslow, I took note from an early age of the vast inequities between those…

A water tank in the backyard of an elderly Navajo woman whose home lacks running water. CBS News CBS News By Grace Baek | May 8, 2020 Margie Barton unfolded a map of Dilkon in Navajo Nation and pointed to the clusters of households representing 90% of its residents living without running water. Barton is…