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douglas9

(4,358 posts)
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 09:12 AM Aug 2020

Navajos desperate for food and water.Navajo Council wants $24 million of virus relief funds casino

Navajos are desperate for water and food, reports a Navajo journalist. Meanwhile, $650 million in federal coronavirus relief funds are delayed in the tribal government appropriation process. The Navajo Nation Council wants $24 million from the virus relief funds for casinos.

It is now the sixth month of the pandemic on the Navajo Nation and there is no plan in place to deliver emergency food and water to those sick with the virus and in quarantine at home.

Since March, 468 Navajos have died from the virus. Now, there are more than 2,500 active coronavirus cases and there is no plan in place for visiting health care for Navajos sent home from the hospitals to quarantine. Most are too sick to care for themselves.

Navajo reporter Sunnie R Clahchischiligi reports that Navajo elders are alone, without food, and in despair in her article in The Guardian. Clahchischiligi interviewed Dine' elderly in her homeland, south of Shiprock.

It was the first time in 20 years of reporting that she broke down and cried.


https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2020/08/navajos-desperate-for-food-and-water.html

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Navajos desperate for food and water.Navajo Council wants $24 million of virus relief funds casino (Original Post) douglas9 Aug 2020 OP
I have no words. CrispyQ Aug 2020 #1
from the article... dhill926 Aug 2020 #2

dhill926

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2. from the article...
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 11:53 AM
Aug 2020

"Meanwhile, the Navajo Nation received $714 million in federal CARES Act funds. Now, $650 million of it remains unused and delayed in the tribal government appropriation process."

This is a real big problem. Needs to be investigated. No doubt some rampant corruption. I do think but am not sure, that World Central Kitchen is helping out.

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