Who are ‘Navajos for Trump’?
But are there any actual Navajo Republicans behind the massive “Navajos for Trump” ad campaign that hit the Navajo Nation last week? If so, they’re not exactly front and center.
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BIE schools to open in-person Sept. 16; school board association, Nez not pleased
A memo from the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs has instructed the nation’s 53 Bureau of Indian Education-controlled schools — more than half of which are located on the Navajo Nation — to open as “brick-and-mortar” institutions “to the maximum extent possible” on Sept. 16.
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Navajos, others laud Biden’s pick
Native and local politics watchers seemed pleased for the most part with presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s announcement of Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate.
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Nonprofits work to get surplus produce to quarantining Diné
Even before the coronavirus hit, America’s food supply chains were woefully inefficient. Hunger relief organizations estimate some 52 million tons of fresh produce ends up in landfills every year just because farmers can’t get their crops to market before they spoil. Meanwhile, an estimated one in seven Americans struggles with hunger, most of them children.
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New addiction treatment program in Scottsdale focuses on Natives
While the pandemic rages on and gets all the attention, there is another pandemic that must continue to be addressed: addiction.
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