Diné language and culture teacher and COVID-19 survivor Albert Brent Chase says the many profound challenges, revelations and changes he experienced in 2020 are guiding his path of healing in 2021. “I, too, have suffered the grief and heartbreak that is ongoing with our people,” said Chase.
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In a bit of good news to ring in 2021, the nonprofit Santa Fe Recovery Center has partnered with McKinley County, Gallup, the state of New Mexico and local health care providers to open a much-needed substance abuse treatment center called the Four Corners Detox Recovery Center.
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At a time when the gross disparities in health care services and infrastructure have been highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Navajo Nation’s gaming operations have been grounded, could it be time to consider transforming the casinos into health care facilities?
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The long-awaited coronavirus aid package includes a one-year extension for expenditure of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act funds, which is a great relief for tribes, who have struggled to spend the monies by Dec. 31, 2020.
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In a painful double whammy, last week Diné traditional practitioners learned during a president’s office online town hall that they were denied their allocated Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act funding and that they were not eligible for the first priority COVID-19 vaccinations, as was previously announced.
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