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Tribal Affairs

Posted inChaos and cannabis, Tribal Affairs

Uprooted

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Ed Williams and Don J. Usner November 11, 2020July 10, 2022

A police raid near Shiprock has all but ended an illicit cannabis-growing operation

Posted inCoronavirus, Featured, Hitting Home, Shiprock, Shiprock Part 2, Tribal Affairs

The deadly loss of Navajo women

Avatar photo by Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi November 11, 2020July 10, 2022

On the Navajo Nation, the coronavirus is leaving children motherless, families lost and traditions in peril. But Diné women fight on.

Posted inChaos and cannabis, Featured, Tribal Affairs

Strangers in a foreign land

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Ed Williams and Wufei Yu October 29, 2020July 10, 2022

A massive marijuana bust in Farmington represents just a sliver of an ongoing operation on Navajo lands that has now drawn federal investigators

Posted inFeatured

Chaos and cannabis

Avatar photo by Ed Williams September 23, 2020November 14, 2022

A massive hemp empire is accused of growing illegal marijuana and sowing violence on the Navajo Nation

Posted inCoronavirus, Featured, Tribal Affairs

Navajo elders: Alone, without food, in despair

Avatar photo by Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi August 6, 2020July 10, 2022

A Navajo reporter checks in on elderly people on the reservation. Hunger and neglect is what she finds.

Posted inCoronavirus, Featured, Gallup, Gallup Part 1, Health, Hitting Home, Tribal Affairs

Bordering on desperation

Avatar photo by J. Weston Phippen June 17, 2020July 10, 2022

In Gallup, surrounded by the Navajo Nation, a pandemic crosses paths with homelessness, hate and healers

Posted inCoronavirus, Featured, Hitting Home, Shiprock, Shiprock Part 1, Tribal Affairs

Planting hope amid a plague

Avatar photo by Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi June 3, 2020July 10, 2022

Older generations on the Navajo Nation have passed down stories of scourges, resilience — and survival. New generations are bringing the tales to life.

Posted inCoronavirus, Featured, Health, Tribal Affairs

Unsafe, understaffed, overwhelmed

Avatar photo by Nick Pachelli May 7, 2020July 10, 2022

As COVID-19 sweeps through the Navajo Nation, a hospital is accused of endangering lives

Posted inCoronavirus, Featured, Health, Tribal Affairs

Tested

by Dahr Jamail May 1, 2020January 13, 2023

The Navajo Nation has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Indian Country. How will it cope?

Posted inFeatured, Tribal Affairs

Stolen and Erased

Avatar photo by Nick Pachelli December 17, 2019February 13, 2023

A Navajo girl was exploited and sex trafficked in urban and rural New Mexico. Why did so many fail to help her? 

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