

Nation Nov 23

Rural school districts around the country have been engineering ways to connect with students who are otherwise disengaged during the pandemic.
By Cedar Attanasio, Associated Press
Nation Aug 11

PHOENIX (AP) — Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez has asked President Donald Trump to commute the death sentence of a Navajo man convicted in the 2001 killing of a fellow tribal member and her 9-year-old granddaughter. Nez cited the tribe’s…
By Associated Press
Nation Jul 28

Products containing cannabidiol, or CBD, are everywhere -- and their growing popularity means big business. The substance can be derived from both cannabis and hemp, which is also used to produce fabric and food. But one Navajo leader jumping at…
By Marcella Baietto
Nation May 25

Native communities in the U.S. have suffered disproportionately from COVID-19, with higher rates of infection and death. The Navajo Nation has implemented a series of strict lockdown measures in an effort to protect its population, but health care facilities have…
By Stephanie Sy, Lena I. Jackson, Casey Kuhn
May 19

By Morgan Lee, Associated Press
While much of New Mexico is showing signs of emerging from the initial wave of the pandemic, stubbornly high rates of infection and death persist in the state's northwest corner — including in the Navajo Nation that extends into Arizona…
May 13

By Randall Akee, EconoFact
Some Native American populations are facing disproportionately high COVID-19 infection and mortality rates. Understanding how the disease is affecting these communities is important to mitigating the damage.
May 12

By Felicia Fonseca and Tim Sullivan, Associated Press
From one church, COVID-19 took hold on the Navajo Nation, hopscotching across families and clans and churches and towns, and leaving the reservation with some of the highest infection rates in the U.S.
May 09

By Morgan Lee, Associated Press
Small Native American pueblos across New Mexico are embracing extraordinary isolation measures that turn away outsiders as well as near-universal testing to try to insulate themselves from a contagion with frightening echoes of the past.
Apr 24

By Stephanie Sy, Lena I. Jackson, Casey Kuhn
COVID-19 is ripping through the Navajo Nation, infecting and killing people at rates that are above U.S. averages. Located across three states, the Navajo population is already vulnerable, with a high prevalence of underlying disease, a lack of infrastructure and…
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