In this episode, Majerle and I talk to Torey Dolan (Choctaw), lawyer & voter rights organizer, and Arylssa Becenti (Diné), reporter for the Arizona Republic, about the latest fiasco on election day in Apache County. Dolan explains what happened at the various voting sites and why voting discrimination happens against Diné people. 

Apache County Voting Blues

This special podcast focuses on the idea of "social distancing" on the Navajo Nation. I interview Janene Yazzie, Moroni Benally, and Council Delegate Nate Brown.

*this is a timely topic and will be updated regularly

Colonial Distancing - Diné COVID-19 response

In this episode, I spoke with Bijiibah Begaye, Executive Director of Tsé Ko Community Development Corporation – founded in response to COVID relief in Coalmine Mesa; Michael Parrish, Policy Analyst at the Diné Policy Institute at Diné College, in Tsaile; and Alastair Bitsui, public health advocate and writer currently based in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

We discussed national media coverage, which fails to name colonialism at the root of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Navajo Nation. 

You can find out more information about Tsé Ko Community Development Corporation at; and read Alastair's full account of his experience with COVID19 here: https://newrepublic.com/article/157219/tried-get-tested-coronavirus-major-city-maze-dead-ends.

COVID19 2nd Episode

Preexisting Colonial Conditions

Sept 17, 2020 - In this episode, Diné College professor Christine Ami considers the Navajo Nation's participation in a Pfizer-Johns Hopkins Covid vaccine trial. We consider both the limitations of Navajo Nation IRB and questions of research ethics during the pandemic. The NNHRRB page is here: https://www.nnhrrb.navajo-nsn.gov/aboutNNHRRB.html. Dr. Ami's critique is found here: https://indiancountrytoday.com/opinion/politics-of-distrust-the-navajo-nation-s-use-of-propaganda-devices-to-recruit-participants-for-covid-19-trial-vaccine-mOdSWibZFkirjqBLHrWuMg?fbclid=IwAR2h0rHzq1V3n79J3Qxby5fn6XkTwuVktTywMg1EtiNKI-1HYQHx2M5pNdU.

Research Risks and Diné vaccine trials

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