Podcasts about Shiprock

Host Diana Korte speaks with award-winning journalist and novelist Anne Hillerman, author of 18 books, whose newest title is SHADOW OF THE SOLSTICE (#10 in her Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series). In the new book, Navajo Nation police are on high alert when a U.S. Cabinet Secretary schedules an unprecedented trip to the little Navajo town of Shiprock, New Mexico. The visit coincides with a plan to resume uranium mining along the Navajo Nation border. Tensions around the official's arrival escalate when the body of a stranger is found nearby. Is it coincidence that a cult with a propensity for violence arrives at a private camp outside Shiprock the same week to celebrate the summer solstice?Anne Hillerman was approached several years ago by Robert Redford and George R.R. Martin to create the popular tv series, “Dark Wind,” now in its third season that is based on her and her dad's (Tony Hillerman) crime novels.            

Tiffany Reid was a 16 year old from Shiprock, NM. She was Native American and had several siblings. On the morning of May 17, 2004, Tiffany left for her walk to school, knowing she would be late. She never arrived. A week later, some of Tiffany's belongings were found along a highway in AZ. She was never seen again. Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/case/tiffany-reid NAMUS: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/4352?nav MapVideo: https://youtu.be/nuu0kRI0MC8 Article: https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/missing-in-america/tiffany-reid-new-mexico-disappearance-mystery-rcna166378 Website: https://theunfoundpodcast.com/2025/04/22/tiffany-reid-the-endgame/ If you have any information concerning the disappearance of Tiffany Reid, please contact the Navajo Nation Police Department - Shiprock District at (505) 368-1350. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz4bh2ppqACeF7BdKw_93eA/join --Unfound plays on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, Instagram, Twitter, Podbean, Deezer, Google Play and many other podcast platforms. --on Monday nights at 9pm ET, please join us on the Unfound Podcast Channel for the Unfound Live Show. All of you can talk with me and I can answer your questions. --Contribute to Unfound at Patreon.com/unfoundpodcast. You can also contribute at Paypal: paypal.me/unfoundpodcast --email address: unfoundpodcast@gmail.com --the website: https://theunfoundpodcast.com/ Images subject to fair use allowance. Images also acquired from CharleyProject.org, directly from the clients of Unfound Podcast or created by Unfound. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. #TrueCrime #MissingPersons Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of Teaser Talk, host Hollie Nicole chats with Sean Fitz, a talented musician with a deep love for emo music and an incredible new single, Fake Relationships.

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friend, Jordan McAdam. Jordan McAdam is an emergency room nurse with nearly a decade of experience, currently serving as the Nurse Educator at the Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, New Mexico. As the Pediatric Emergency Care Coordinator, Jordan has been instrumental in enhancing pediatric readiness in her department, elevating their score from 64 to an impressive 94 out of 100. She was also the first in her team to earn her Certified Pediatric Emergency Nurse (CPEN) designation and has since dedicated herself to mentoring her colleagues on the path to certification. We are really looking forward to meeting Jordan in person at Learn LIVE in Phoenix Arizona as she will be presenting at the conference. Lots of exciting things to talk about with Jordan today! If you've recognized a gap in your knowledge and wondered how to go about bridging it, Jordan shares her insight on how she generated momentum for herself and her department to improve pediatric readiness. This episode is called, "Courage is fear you ignore." BCEN & Friends Podcast is presented by the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing. We invite you to visit us online at https://bcen.org for additional information about emergency nursing certification, education, and much more.

Tiffany Reid is STILL MISSINGAccording to reports, Tiffany was last seen on her way to classes at Shiprock Northwest High School in Shiprock, New Mexico at 8:20 a.m. on May 17, 2004. However, she never arrived at school and has not been heard from since. At the time, she was carrying a black backpack and a purse with her nickname, Kay-C, printed on it. It is worth noting that her mother did not report her missing until a week later, as Tiffany had a history of running away from home and usually returned on her own. Additionally, it was not uncommon for her to not come home directly after school, but she would always stay in touch with her loved ones through phone calls.It is believed that Tiffany left of her own accord. Following her disappearance, her makeup bag was found at a well-known party area near Sweetwater, Arizona, at the base of the Carrizo Mountains. Several items of clothing were also discovered in the vicinity, but they could not be positively identified as belonging to Tiffany. It is possible that she may still be in the Shiprock or Sweetwater areas, or she could have traveled to Arizona or Mexico.If you know anything, please contact Shiprock Police Department 505-368-1350--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*Social Media Links*Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/handsoffmypodcastYou Can Buy Us a Coffee: https://bmc.link/handsoffpodHOM Pod Shop: https://www.bonfire.com/store/hom-pod-shop/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@handsoffmypodcastOur Latest Video: https://www.youtube.com/@handsoffmypod/featuredNEWS Sponsor, Supporters, Partners:  https://handsoffmypodcast.transistor.fm/partners'Hands Off My Podcast' Original Theme Song Produced by : Just DiVine https://www.youtube.com/@JDivine911  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

 A lot of planning, Scooter Ward of Cold and I finally sit down before tour rehearsals to do a deep dive on his life and music. Shy and introspective from a young age, he showed and early passion and talent for writing deeply and touching people with his words. We talk Cold band classic songs like "Bleed", "Ugly" and "Gone Away". Connecting with fans throughout the years and the origin stories of the band,  how Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit helped them get signed, how Wes Boreland helped re-name the band. Collabs with friends like Aaron Lewis of Staind, Ben Burnley from Breaking Benjamin and writing new music in 2024. Follow me on Instagram at @scandalousofficial Code: Scandalous for 15% OFF at Rockabilia.com

The torture and gruesome murders of three Navajo men by white high school students touched off a series of racially-fueled conflicts in Farmington, N.M. on the border with the Navajo Nation. The murders in April 1974 became known as the Chokecherry Massacre. One protest organizer at the time called Farmington “the Selma, Alabama of the Southwest,” referring to the simmering racial tensions. Demands by Navajos and other Native activists since then have improved relations in the border town and surrounding areas somewhat. But many residents and observers say the sources of the problems remain just below the surface. We'll recount this little-known period of Four Corners history and discuss what community relationships are like 50 years later. GUESTS John Redhouse (Diné and Ute), longtime activist Chili Yazzie (Diné), Shiprock community member Dr. Jennifer Denetdale (Diné), professor and chair of American Studies at the University of New Mexico Nate Duckett, Farmington mayor

A terrible rumor leads to the discovery that another woman is missing in the Shiprock district. Why is barely anyone looking for her? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, Drewby and Yergy head to New Mexico to discuss the case of Ashlynne Mike, and adorable 11 year old girl living in the town on Shiprock, located in the Navajo reservation. On May 2nd, 2016, Ashlynne and her younger brother, Ian, were abducted by a man driving a van after they were dropped off by their school bus. Ian was later found safe, but Ashlynne was missing...  Support Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themiserymachine PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/themiserymachine Join Our Facebook Group: https://t.co/DeSZIIMgXs?amp=1 Instagram: miserymachinepodcast Twitter: misery_podcast Discord: https://discord.gg/kCCzjZM #themiserymachine #podcast #truecrime Source Material: https://www.ojp.gov/archives/ojp-blogs/2019/legacy-ashlynne-mike https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a19561163/ashlynne-mike-amber-alert-navajo-reservation/ https://www.scribd.com/doc/311503479/Criminal-complaint-against-Tom-Begaye https://www.daily-times.com/story/news/crime/2016/05/07/ashlynnes-mother-decries-slow-amber-alert/84028912/ https://www.daily-times.com/story/news/local/2016/05/03/amber-alert-issued-san-juan-county-girl/83866168/ https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/2016/05/05/church-member-says-murder-suspect-betrayed-him/84008174/ https://www.daily-times.com/story/news/crime/2017/08/01/begaye-pleads-guilty-ashlynne-mike-killing/529899001/ https://www.daily-times.com/story/news/local/navajo-nation/2016/05/04/tribal-president-issues-statement-abduction/83916682/ https://amberalert.ojp.gov/amber-alert-indian-country https://www.sharonherald.com/news/nation/thousands-mourn-kidnapped-navajo-girl/article_9412b39c-7559-5d23-85a4-1accc0af3762.html https://www.daily-times.com/picture-gallery/news/local/navajo-nation/2017/04/29/photos-ashlynne-mike-memorial-event-at-san-juan-chapter--april-29/101079638/ https://navajotimes.com/reznews/remembering-ashlynne/#:~:text=Her%20older%20sister%20Brittany%20Begay%2C%20said%20Ashlynne%20was%20a%20talented%20artist https://www.columbian.com/news/2016/may/07/__trashed-5/ https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/four-corners-high-school-honors-murdered-classmate-at-graduation/ https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/five-years-after-ashlynne-mikes-death-family-seeks-proper-headstone/ https://www.amberadvocate.org/amber-feature/ashlynnes-law/ https://www.bia.gov/service/mmu/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-people-crisis https://www.amber-ic.org/news/november-13-2021-five-years-in-remembrance-of-ashlynne-mike/ https://www.amberadvocate.org/amber-feature/warrior-mom/

At a Shiprock Chapter meeting this week on the Navajo Nation, community members put forward a resolution that calls for independent oversight of cleanup efforts after an oil spill north of Shiprock, N.M. Chris Clements with KSJD has more. Residents held a meeting on Saturday to discuss the ramifications of the spill and the community-drafted […]

A new store that sells potable water has opened up in Shiprock, New Mexico, on the Navajo Nation. About a third of the roughly 170,000 people who live on the Navajo Nation do not have access to clean, reliable drinking water, according to the tribe's Department of Water Resources. Many Navajo citizens regularly have to drive for miles to haul water back to their communities. Elijah Bitah is a co-founder of Tó Water Company, which celebrated its grand opening in Shiprock on Saturday. Bitah says that he and his family were inspired to start Tó, a Navajo word that means water, after visiting a similar drinking water business in Gallup. They also saw a need for residents of Shiprock to have access to clean water after the Gold King Mine Spill in 2015, which caused wastewater containing heavy metals like arsenic and lead to flow into the Animas and San Juan rivers.

Diné farmer and father Zac Ben is busy harvesting and processing corn from his farm in Shiprock, N.M. to make baby food, the product of his company Bidii Baby Foods. Citizen Potawatomi chef Loretta Barrett Oden's new cookbook Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine features recipes and ingredients she's gathered from her culinary start in Santa Fe to her current post at Thirty Nine Restaurant in the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City. And we'll explore the contributions Hispanic traditional foods have made to American and Native American cuisine. GUESTS Loretta Barrett Oden (Citizen Potawatomi), First Americans Museum chef consultant and creator and host of Seasoned with Spirit: A Native Cook's Journey, an Emmy Award-winning PBS mini-series Zachariah Ben (Diné), owner and co-founder of Bidii Baby Foods Enrique Ochoa, professor of Latin American studies and history at California State University, Los Angeles

Diné farmer and father Zac Ben is busy harvesting and processing corn from his farm in Shiprock, N.M. to make baby food, the product of his company Bidii Baby Foods. Citizen Potawatomi chef Loretta Barrett Oden's new cookbook Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine features recipes and ingredients she's gathered from her culinary start in Santa Fe to her current post at Thirty Nine Restaurant in the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City. And we'll explore the contributions Hispanic traditional foods have made to American and Native American cuisine.

Tasha Lewis, 29, was reported missing by her family in March 2021 only for her body to be discovered days later at the bottom of a mesa in Thoreau, Arizona. Police ruled her death accidental, however, her family is adamant that authorities overlooked several key factors that point to her death being a homicide. To stay up to date on Tasha's story please follow Justice For Tasha Lewis | FacebookFor links to information found for this episode:Missing, murdered cases face jurisdictional issues - Navajo TimesArizona families remember missing and murdered Indigenous women (azcentral.com)Shiprock recognizes MMIW awareness day in walk (daily-times.com)

Fundamental Needs, a Cortez-based non-profit, began by helping out on the Navajo Reservation during the pandemic. Ultimately, the founder's discovered water was one of the most desired resources on the reservation. It developed a program that installs water systems for individual dwellings that don't have access to clean water. In 2023, the non-profit will continue its expansion into the Farmington and Shiprock areas. By Connor Shreve.Watch this story at www.durangolocal.news/newsstories/non-profit-brings-water-to-navajo-reservation-homes This story is sponsored by Three Rivers Brewing and The Big Idea Makerspace at San Juan CollegeSupport the show

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Labor held an outreach event in Shiprock, New Mexico on the benefits available to some coal and uranium miners in the Navajo Nation. Current and former uranium miners attended the meeting to get more information about accessing benefits through the Energy Workers Program. Coal miners went to the meeting to learn more about their eligibility for federal black lung benefits. Justin Tsosie, a former coal miner and union representative who worked at the Kayenta surface Mine in Arizona, says he frequently encountered dust when he worked as a serviceman at the mine. And the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said on Tuesday that a resident of Montezuma County has tested positive for the plague.

Hello!!! here is another impromptu episode of discussing ICWA, Native superiority, Q&A's, ORCAS, and more U.S News. Also I recognize and acknowledge Ranelle Rose Bennett, a MMIW last seen June 15,2021. For tips or information please contact Shiprock,NM police department at (505)-368-1350. Please like,rate, or follow, if you like my THOTS. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hannah98532/support

Progressives back Mike Johnston in Denver mayor's race | Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs slate of clean energy bills | $11B in federal funds allocated for rural clean energy projects | Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples crisis commission meets in Flagstaff, AZ (WARNING: contains graphic descriptions of violence) | Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs nation's first Right-to-Repair law | Violent Femmes perform their self-titled debut in Denver, Austin and Houston this week.  Song playsIntro by hostWelcome to High Country - politics in the American West. My name is Sean Diller; regular listeners might know me from Heartland Pod's Talking Politics, every Monday.Support this show and all the work in the Heartland POD universe by going to heartlandpod.com and clicking the link for Patreon, or go to Patreon.com/HeartlandPod to sign up. Membership starts at $1/month, with even more extra shows and special access at the higher levels. No matter the level you choose, your membership helps us create these independent shows as we work together to change the conversation.Alright! Let's get into it: COLORADO NEWSLINE: Progressives back Mike Johnston in Denver mayor's raceBY: CHASE WOODRUFF - MAY 15, 2023 4:00 AMAs ballots begin to hit mailboxes for Denver's June 6th runoff election, Johnston and Kelly Brough, the other top-two finisher in April's first round of voting - have rolled out a veritable smorgasbord of endorsement announcements.Former mayoral candidates Ean Thomas Tafoya, Terrance Roberts, Jim Walsh, Al Gardner and Leslie Herod all endorsed Mike Johnston. Rep Herod (who was my preferred choice for mayor) said “Having shared countless debate and forum stages with Mike over the past months, I know that he has the passion, commitment, and vision to tackle Denver's toughest problems. Mike and I share the value of public service, hard work, and doing right by our communities, and I am excited to work with him to deliver on our progressive vision for Denver.”Meanwhile, Brough, the former Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce head who secured her spot in the runoff with just over 20% of the first-round vote, has picked up endorsements from Democratic state Sen. Chris Hansen as well as Thomas Wolf, an investment banker who campaigned on harsh anti-homelessness policies and received 1% of the vote for Mayor in April.Sen. Hansen said “Denver needs a proven executive — Kelly Brough is the leader we can trust to deliver results. It's going to take all of us to tackle Denver's biggest challenges, and I'm proud to join Kelly's team.”Brough also picked up endorsements from Democratic state Rep. Alex Valdez and former Tattered Cover CEO Kwame Spearman, both of whom entered the mayor's race but later withdrew. Brough and Johnston emerged from the crowded field of mayoral candidates after becoming by far the race's two best-funded candidates, each raising about $1MM in direct contributions and benefiting from millions more in outside super PAC expenditures from billionaires and real-estate interests.After a first round that featured a wide range of perspectives and ideologies, the runoff campaign has featured few stark disagreements on policy between the two candidates, both of whom are veteran figures in Colorado's centrist political establishment.Brough served as then-Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's chief of staff from 2006 to 2009, then led the conservative-leaning Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce for 12 years before stepping down ahead of her mayoral run. Some of her top endorsers include former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter and former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, both Democrats.On Friday, she touted the endorsement of the Greater Metro Denver Ministerial Alliance, a coalition of clergy and civil rights leaders in the city's Black community. Pastor Paul Burleson, the Alliance's vice president of political affairs, said that Brough's experience is key to her appeal.Brough has also picked up endorsements from the Denver Police Protective Association and other unions representing law enforcement officers and firefighters. She was one of the only candidates in the mayor's race to endorse a return of “qualified immunity,” a legal doctrine that bars people from suing law enforcement officers in their individual capacity. Colorado lawmakers, led by Herod, passed a landmark police reform bill that abolished qualified immunity in the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020. - Just one reason I love Leslie Herod.During his time in the state Senate, Mike Johnston became one of the state's leading champions of education reform, a movement that has galled teachers' unions and progressives who've accused him of undermining public education. From 2020 to 2022 he was the CEO of Gary Community Ventures, a Denver-based philanthropic organization founded by oil tycoon Sam Gary.Though hardly a progressive firebrand himself, Johnston spoke at Wednesday's event of the coalition he hopes to build as mayor. Along with former mayoral rivals, he received endorsements from Democratic state Sens. Julie Gonzales (another legislator I have tremendous respect for) and James Coleman (who is my state senator but someone whom I don't know much about), adding to a list of supporters that also includes former Mayor Federico Peña and former Colorado House Speaker Terrance Carroll.Rep. Leslie Herod said “Make no mistake: We are the progressives in this race, and we have chosen to back Mike. We are the candidates who have consistently spoken about putting people over structures, putting people over businesses — people always first.”So for my part I'll be following State Sen. Julie Gonzales and Rep. Leslie Herod, voting for Mike Johnston.Final thought: Johnston might not be seen as progressive, but if he wins this election assembling a progressive coalition to bear a developer/business-backed candidate in Kelly Brough, then progressives should absolutely have a strong voice in the Johnston administration if he wants to keep his job. But first he's got to win.COLORADO NEWSLINE: Gov. Jared Polis signs slate of clean energy measures, utility regulation billBY: CHASE WOODRUFF - MAY 11, 2023 5:36 PMGov. Jared Polis has signed into law a bill that commits Colorado for the first time to a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target, along with other measures to address spiking utility rates and the state's long-term energy future.Flanked by Democratic lawmakers and state energy officials, Polis signed Senate Bill 23-16 at an event at the Denver Botanic Gardens. The bill, a wide-ranging package of reforms aimed at boosting clean energy efforts in a variety of industries, was approved on party-line votes by Democratic majorities in the General Assembly just before its adjournment on May 8.SB-16 sets a statutory goal of a 100% reduction in Colorado's greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, revising that target upwards from a 90% goal set by the Legislature in 2019. It's the first time the state has formally established the net-zero goal that scientists with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have said is necessary to avert the most catastrophic impacts of global warming.To get there, the bill contains what sponsors called a “potpourri” of measures to accelerate the transition to clean energy, including sections that streamline the process for the installation of electric transmission lines and rooftop solar panels; stricter requirements on large insurance companies to assess climate risk; tax credits for the purchase of electric-powered lawn equipment; and more authority for the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to regulate carbon capture projects.COGCC chair Jeff Robbins applauded the bill's efforts to encourage carbon capture, which he called “critical as a tool in addressing climate change.”“The COGCC is well poised with its resources and regulatory understanding to now help carbon storage be deployed safely and responsibly in Colorado,” Robbins said in a press release.Gov. Polis also signed House Bill 23-1252, which establishes a new state grant program for geothermal energy projects and requires large natural-gas utilities to develop emissions-reducing “clean heat plans.”Senate Bill 23-291, a package of reforms to state utility regulations, and House Bill 23-1234, a bipartisan measure aimed at streamlining permitting and inspection processes for solar projects were also both signed into law. SB-291 emerged from hearings held earlier this year by the Joint Select Committee on Rising Utility Rates, a special panel of lawmakers convened by Democratic leaders following sharp increases in many Coloradans' utility bills in 2022.It directs the state's Public Utilities Commission to more closely scrutinize how privately-owned utilities manage volatility in natural-gas prices, the main culprit in rate increases that caused the average monthly payment for customers of Xcel Energy, Colorado's largest utility, to rise by more than 50% last year. Other provisions in the bill are aimed at assessing the long-term future of natural gas infrastructure as more homes and businesses transition to all-electric heating and cooking appliances.In a press release, Advanced Energy United, an industry group representing clean energy companies, said the legislation creates a “national model” for dealing with volatility in the natural gas market.“This bill will help make Colorado's energy system more affordable long-term, and should be seen as a model for states across the country on how to manage high gas prices and a transition to cost-saving alternatives to gas, like high-efficiency heat pumps, rooftop solar and battery storage,” said Emilie Olson, a senior principal at Advanced Energy United.House Bill 23-1272, creates or extends a variety of clean energy tax credits, including incentives for the purchase of electric vehicles, e-bikes, electric heat pumps, industrial decarbonization technologies and more.Gov. Polis said “These exciting money-saving changes for Coloradans mean reliable, lower energy costs and good-paying jobs, as we continue to fuel the innovation that makes Colorado a national leader in clean energy. We are cutting red tape, creating good paying jobs and improving air quality as we continue to make bold progress towards achieving 100% renewable energy by 2040.”ARIZONA MIRROR: Rural electric co-ops to get $10.7B in USDA funds for clean energy grants, loansBY: JACOB FISCHLER - MAY 16, 2023 7:11 AMThe U.S. Department of Agriculture will begin to administer two loan and grant programs worth nearly $11 billion to boost clean energy systems in rural areas, administration officials said Tuesday. The programs are the New ERA program for rural electric cooperatives, and the PACE program for other energy providers. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the funding “continues an ongoing effort to ensure that rural America is a full participant in this clean energy economy.”White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi said, “Rural areas can have more difficulty than more urban ones in attracting private sector investment. The programs are intended to allow those rural areas to take advantage of an industry-wide trend to invest in clean energy production.He said, “There's a favorable wind blowing here. This allows rural communities to put up a sail.”The programs are meant to put rural electric cooperatives on equal footing with larger privately owned companies that have already put major funding into clean energy deployment.The programs represent the largest single funding effort for rural electrification since President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Rural Electrification Act in 1936.The money is meant not only to address the climate impacts of fossil fuel energy and reduce home energy costs, but to act as an economic engine for rural areas.Rural electric cooperatives are eligible for the New ERA program, and up to 25% of the funding in that program can be in the form of direct grants. Utilities can use the money to build renewable energy systems, zero-emission systems and carbon capture facilities.The USDA will begin to accept initial applications for funding on July 31. Applicants are expected to write more detailed proposals for funding after the USDA accepts their initial applications.The PACE program provides loans to renewable energy developers and electric service providers “to help finance large-scale solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, hydropower projects and energy storage in support of renewable energy systems,” the release said. The program is targeted to “vulnerable, disadvantaged, Tribal and energy communities,” the release said. It's in line with a Biden administration goal to allocate at least 40% of the overall benefits of certain federal spending to disadvantaged communities.The USDA can forgive up to 40% of most of the loans in the program. Up to 60% of loans to applicants in some U.S. territories and tribal communities can be forgiven.Initial applications for that program will open June 30.ARIZONA MIRROR:National commission on the MMIP crisis meets in Arizona to hear testimony, recommendationsBY: SHONDIIN SILVERSMITH - MAY 15, 2023 1:50 PMFive empty chairs sat at the front of the Not Invisible Act Commission hearing, each wrapped in a shawl, blanket or quilt representing a different group of individuals impacted by human trafficking or with a loved one who is missing or murdered.“We want to allow space for representing our relatives,” commission member Grace Bulltail said, noting the traditions in many Indigenous families to always preserve a space for absent loved ones. “We're doing that to honor our loved ones,” Bulltail said, explaining that, by putting the chairs there, the commission hearing was holding space for them.The chair wrapped in a red shawl with white and yellow handprints honored the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The chair wrapped in a red, orange, bridge, and white Native design shawl with a black blazer draped over it was to honor the missing and murdered Indigenous men and boys. Another chair was wrapped in a light blue, white and purple quilt. Pinned to the quilt was a picture of 11-year-old Ashlynne Mike, a Navajo girl who was abducted and killed on the Navajo Nation in 2016. This chair honored Indigenous children.The chair wrapped in a maroon shawl with floral designs honored the LGBTQI and two-spirit Indigenous community. The chair wrapped in a brown Pendleton honored Indigenous veterans.The Not Invisible Act Commission, organized by the U.S. Department of the Interior,  held a public hearing at the Twin Arrows Casino near Flagstaff to hear testimony and recommendations from victims and families impacted by human trafficking and the missing and murdered Indigenous peoples crisis. The commission also heard from local tribal leaders and advocates. The Not Invisible Act was passed into law in October 2020, establishing the commission as a cross-jurisdictional advisory committee of federal and non-federal members, including law enforcement, tribal leaders, federal partners, service providers, family members of missing and murdered individuals, and survivors.The meeting at Twin Arrows was the commission's third public hearing. This summer, it has four more planned in Minnesota, northern California, New Mexico and Montana. The hearings are being held in communities impacted most by the MMIP crisis.Commissioners heard emotional testimony from Seraphine Warren and Pamela Foster as they shared their experiences of losing a loved one and advocated for change.Ms. Warren is the niece of Ella Mae Begay, a Navajo woman who went missing from her home in Sweetwater, Arizona, on the Navajo Nation on June 15, 2021. Warren continued to advocate for not only her aunt but all Indigenous people.Speaking through tears, she told her aunt's story. “I know it wasn't her legacy to be stolen or to be murdered,” Warren said. “Just because she isn't here doesn't mean she can't be part of change.”Begay is still missing, but there have been developments in her case. In March, Preston Henry Tolth, 23, of New Mexico, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Phoenix for assault and carjacking.The indictment alleges that, on June 15, 2021, Tolth assaulted Begay, resulting in serious bodily injury, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Tolth then took her Ford F-150 pickup truck and drove it from Arizona to New Mexico with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury to Begay.Warren said during Tolth's arraignment hearing on April 7 in Flagstaff that she heard details about the night her aunt went missing that she was not ready for.Warren, in tears, told the commission that Tolth told federal agents that he “snapped” and struck her in the face multiple times, causing her to bleed from the nose and mouth. Tolth told authorities that he wasn't sure if she was dead, Warren said, and when he drove away, he said he regretted hitting her, since all he wanted was the truck.Tolth is being held in custody and is expected to go to trial later in May.Pamela Foster is the mother of Ashlynne Mike, the 11-year-old Navajo girl abducted and killed on the Navajo Nation in 2016. Foster has been at the forefront of advocacy efforts for Indigenous children and people since she lost her daughter. On the afternoon of May 2, 2016, Ashlynne Mike and her 9-year-old brother, Ian Mike, didn't make it home from school. When they got off the school bus in Shiprock, New Mexico, on the Navajo Nation, a predator tricked them into getting into his van by promising them a ride home.Hours later, passersby found Ian Mike wandering alone in the area. Police located Ashlynne Mike's body on May 3, 2016, and discovered she had been sexually assaulted, strangled, and bludgeoned repeatedly with a tire iron.She said, “I miss my daughter every single day. I became a voice for my daughter the moment I received word that her life was taken from her.”She talked about how the system failed when her children were missing in 2016. She said that May 1 to May 6 is a nightmare for her every year, because she relives what happened to her children.Foster talked about the hours from when her children disappeared to when they found her daughter's body; she ran into countless obstacles that left her without support.“It was very hard to sit there and know that there were no resources available for my children,” Foster said. “I absolutely had nothing.”She said local law enforcement was not adequately trained to handle child abductions. There was no clear communication between local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. Instead of searching for her children, Foster said they were trying to figure out exactly what protocols were needed to start looking.“Time was lost,” Foster said, and they did not send out an AMBER Alert until the following day. Foster recalled the alert went out at 2 a.m., and she said that helped no one because not many people were awake then. She remembers hearing officers from the neighboring jurisdictions tell her they couldn't go out to look for her daughter until they were given the clearance to do so by the Navajo Nation Police Department. Foster said it frustrated her how long it took for that to happen. She said the anger and hurt about what happened to Ashlynne led her to be a voice for her daughter.“I promised her I would do something for all of our other Indigenous children. To give them the protection that they need so they don't go through the same thing.”Foster has led many grassroots efforts to support Indigenous children, including advocating and petitioning for the AMBER Alert system to include Indian Country.Foster said she wanted to change, and she knew the justice system in Indian Country needed to be updated, so she focused her efforts on the AMBER Alert system. Her advocacy resulted in the Ashlynne Mike AMBER Alert in Indian Country Act of 2018, which makes tribes eligible for AMBER Alert grants to integrate into state and regional AMBER Alert communication plans.“I always say that I've never received justice for what happened to my daughter because nothing can bring her back,” Foster said. “There will never be justice, but we can learn how to move forward in changing laws to make things better for our people.”The goal of the hearing was for the federal commissioners to listen and hear recommendations on the best course of action for the MMIP crisis. Commissioners will use the suggestions to develop their final report for the Department of Interior.Foster's big recommendation was not only geared at the commissioners, but other attendees of the hearing. She encouraged them to tell their tribal leaders to receive the AMBER Alert in Indian Country Act training. “It is free,” she said, adding that it is a vital program for Indigenous communities because it will train police officers and social workers from the tribe. Because tribes are sovereign nations, the Department of Justice has to receive a request in order to run the training on tribal land: “Have your tribal leaders request this training for your community because the children are our next generation,” Foster said. “There's still a lot of tribes that need to be trained.”When Seraphine Warren was finished sharing her aunt's story, she laid out her recommendations. “Transparency and swift action is key,” she said, “which means that when a person is missing, law enforcement should immediately inform all jurisdictions and issue press releases to media channels to inform the public.”“Family members need to be regularly and constantly updated with the progress of the investigation, and families should be prioritized if any remains are found in any jurisdiction.” Some of the other recommendations included allowing families to hire private investigators, providing them access to case files, supporting families in organizing their task force, providing families with constant and reliable access to grief counseling services, medical attention, financial and legal assistance, and safe housing for families of missing or murdered loved ones. ASSOCIATED PRESS: If you're not first, you're last. DENVER (AP) — Sitting in front of a hulking red tractor, Democratic Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill Tuesday making Colorado the first state to ensure farmers can fix their own tractors and combines with a “right to repair” law — which compels manufacturers to provide the necessary manuals, tools, parts and software farmers would need.Colorado, home to high desert ranches and sweeping farms on the plains, took the lead on the issue following a nationwide outcry from farmers that manufacturers blocked them from making fixes and forced them to wait precious days or even weeks for an official servicer to arrive — delays that hurt profits.While farmers wait and their increasingly high-tech tractors or combines sit idle, a hailstorm could decimate an entire crop. Or, a farmer could miss the ideal planting window for their crops to grow.Lawmakers in at least 10 other states have introduced similar legislation, including in Florida, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, Texas and Vermont. But Colorado has taken the lead. At the signing ceremony Tuesday afternoon, under a light drizzle of rain, Gov. Polis said: “This bill will save farmers and ranchers time and money and support the free market in repair” before exclaiming, “first in the nation!”Behind the governor and arrayed farmers and lawmakers sat a red Steiger 370 tractor owned by a farmer named Danny Wood. Wood's tractor has flown an American flag reading “Farmers First,” and it has been one of two of his machines to break down, requiring long waits before servicers arrived to enter a few lines of computer code, or make a fix that Wood could have made himself.As the signing ceremony ended, Gov. Polis and Rep. Brianna Titone, who ran the bill in the state House, climbed inside the tractor for a photo as the ceremony ended.Great job, Rep. Titone! Huge win for this up-and-coming legislator. When I first saw her speak announcing her initial candidacy in 2017, I didn't know what to expect. Honestly, I didn't expect a lot, and I didn't particularly expect her to even win. And then, winning that seat was just the first of many instances where I've seen her demonstrate a level of depth, grit, and smarts that rival any of her peers. Great job Rep. Titone, you rock. CONCERT PICK OF THE WEEK: Violent Femmes - performing their self-titled album - Levitt Pavilion in Denver on Sunday May 21. The cult favorite folk punk band from Milwaukee is celebrating 40 years since the release of their first album in 1983. More info at vfemmes.comWelp, that's it for me! From Denver I'm Sean Diller. Original reporting for the stories in today's show comes from Colorado Newsline, Arizona Mirror, Denver Post, Associated Press and Denver's Westword.Thank you for listening! See you next time.

Progressives back Mike Johnston in Denver mayor's race | Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs slate of clean energy bills | $11B in federal funds allocated for rural clean energy projects | Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples crisis commission meets in Flagstaff, AZ (WARNING: contains graphic descriptions of violence) | Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signs nation's first Right-to-Repair law | Violent Femmes perform their self-titled debut in Denver, Austin and Houston this week.  Song playsIntro by hostWelcome to High Country - politics in the American West. My name is Sean Diller; regular listeners might know me from Heartland Pod's Talking Politics, every Monday.Support this show and all the work in the Heartland POD universe by going to heartlandpod.com and clicking the link for Patreon, or go to Patreon.com/HeartlandPod to sign up. Membership starts at $1/month, with even more extra shows and special access at the higher levels. No matter the level you choose, your membership helps us create these independent shows as we work together to change the conversation.Alright! Let's get into it: COLORADO NEWSLINE: Progressives back Mike Johnston in Denver mayor's raceBY: CHASE WOODRUFF - MAY 15, 2023 4:00 AMAs ballots begin to hit mailboxes for Denver's June 6th runoff election, Johnston and Kelly Brough, the other top-two finisher in April's first round of voting - have rolled out a veritable smorgasbord of endorsement announcements.Former mayoral candidates Ean Thomas Tafoya, Terrance Roberts, Jim Walsh, Al Gardner and Leslie Herod all endorsed Mike Johnston. Rep Herod (who was my preferred choice for mayor) said “Having shared countless debate and forum stages with Mike over the past months, I know that he has the passion, commitment, and vision to tackle Denver's toughest problems. Mike and I share the value of public service, hard work, and doing right by our communities, and I am excited to work with him to deliver on our progressive vision for Denver.”Meanwhile, Brough, the former Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce head who secured her spot in the runoff with just over 20% of the first-round vote, has picked up endorsements from Democratic state Sen. Chris Hansen as well as Thomas Wolf, an investment banker who campaigned on harsh anti-homelessness policies and received 1% of the vote for Mayor in April.Sen. Hansen said “Denver needs a proven executive — Kelly Brough is the leader we can trust to deliver results. It's going to take all of us to tackle Denver's biggest challenges, and I'm proud to join Kelly's team.”Brough also picked up endorsements from Democratic state Rep. Alex Valdez and former Tattered Cover CEO Kwame Spearman, both of whom entered the mayor's race but later withdrew. Brough and Johnston emerged from the crowded field of mayoral candidates after becoming by far the race's two best-funded candidates, each raising about $1MM in direct contributions and benefiting from millions more in outside super PAC expenditures from billionaires and real-estate interests.After a first round that featured a wide range of perspectives and ideologies, the runoff campaign has featured few stark disagreements on policy between the two candidates, both of whom are veteran figures in Colorado's centrist political establishment.Brough served as then-Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's chief of staff from 2006 to 2009, then led the conservative-leaning Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce for 12 years before stepping down ahead of her mayoral run. Some of her top endorsers include former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter and former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, both Democrats.On Friday, she touted the endorsement of the Greater Metro Denver Ministerial Alliance, a coalition of clergy and civil rights leaders in the city's Black community. Pastor Paul Burleson, the Alliance's vice president of political affairs, said that Brough's experience is key to her appeal.Brough has also picked up endorsements from the Denver Police Protective Association and other unions representing law enforcement officers and firefighters. She was one of the only candidates in the mayor's race to endorse a return of “qualified immunity,” a legal doctrine that bars people from suing law enforcement officers in their individual capacity. Colorado lawmakers, led by Herod, passed a landmark police reform bill that abolished qualified immunity in the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020. - Just one reason I love Leslie Herod.During his time in the state Senate, Mike Johnston became one of the state's leading champions of education reform, a movement that has galled teachers' unions and progressives who've accused him of undermining public education. From 2020 to 2022 he was the CEO of Gary Community Ventures, a Denver-based philanthropic organization founded by oil tycoon Sam Gary.Though hardly a progressive firebrand himself, Johnston spoke at Wednesday's event of the coalition he hopes to build as mayor. Along with former mayoral rivals, he received endorsements from Democratic state Sens. Julie Gonzales (another legislator I have tremendous respect for) and James Coleman (who is my state senator but someone whom I don't know much about), adding to a list of supporters that also includes former Mayor Federico Peña and former Colorado House Speaker Terrance Carroll.Rep. Leslie Herod said “Make no mistake: We are the progressives in this race, and we have chosen to back Mike. We are the candidates who have consistently spoken about putting people over structures, putting people over businesses — people always first.”So for my part I'll be following State Sen. Julie Gonzales and Rep. Leslie Herod, voting for Mike Johnston.Final thought: Johnston might not be seen as progressive, but if he wins this election assembling a progressive coalition to bear a developer/business-backed candidate in Kelly Brough, then progressives should absolutely have a strong voice in the Johnston administration if he wants to keep his job. But first he's got to win.COLORADO NEWSLINE: Gov. Jared Polis signs slate of clean energy measures, utility regulation billBY: CHASE WOODRUFF - MAY 11, 2023 5:36 PMGov. Jared Polis has signed into law a bill that commits Colorado for the first time to a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions target, along with other measures to address spiking utility rates and the state's long-term energy future.Flanked by Democratic lawmakers and state energy officials, Polis signed Senate Bill 23-16 at an event at the Denver Botanic Gardens. The bill, a wide-ranging package of reforms aimed at boosting clean energy efforts in a variety of industries, was approved on party-line votes by Democratic majorities in the General Assembly just before its adjournment on May 8.SB-16 sets a statutory goal of a 100% reduction in Colorado's greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, revising that target upwards from a 90% goal set by the Legislature in 2019. It's the first time the state has formally established the net-zero goal that scientists with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have said is necessary to avert the most catastrophic impacts of global warming.To get there, the bill contains what sponsors called a “potpourri” of measures to accelerate the transition to clean energy, including sections that streamline the process for the installation of electric transmission lines and rooftop solar panels; stricter requirements on large insurance companies to assess climate risk; tax credits for the purchase of electric-powered lawn equipment; and more authority for the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to regulate carbon capture projects.COGCC chair Jeff Robbins applauded the bill's efforts to encourage carbon capture, which he called “critical as a tool in addressing climate change.”“The COGCC is well poised with its resources and regulatory understanding to now help carbon storage be deployed safely and responsibly in Colorado,” Robbins said in a press release.Gov. Polis also signed House Bill 23-1252, which establishes a new state grant program for geothermal energy projects and requires large natural-gas utilities to develop emissions-reducing “clean heat plans.”Senate Bill 23-291, a package of reforms to state utility regulations, and House Bill 23-1234, a bipartisan measure aimed at streamlining permitting and inspection processes for solar projects were also both signed into law. SB-291 emerged from hearings held earlier this year by the Joint Select Committee on Rising Utility Rates, a special panel of lawmakers convened by Democratic leaders following sharp increases in many Coloradans' utility bills in 2022.It directs the state's Public Utilities Commission to more closely scrutinize how privately-owned utilities manage volatility in natural-gas prices, the main culprit in rate increases that caused the average monthly payment for customers of Xcel Energy, Colorado's largest utility, to rise by more than 50% last year. Other provisions in the bill are aimed at assessing the long-term future of natural gas infrastructure as more homes and businesses transition to all-electric heating and cooking appliances.In a press release, Advanced Energy United, an industry group representing clean energy companies, said the legislation creates a “national model” for dealing with volatility in the natural gas market.“This bill will help make Colorado's energy system more affordable long-term, and should be seen as a model for states across the country on how to manage high gas prices and a transition to cost-saving alternatives to gas, like high-efficiency heat pumps, rooftop solar and battery storage,” said Emilie Olson, a senior principal at Advanced Energy United.House Bill 23-1272, creates or extends a variety of clean energy tax credits, including incentives for the purchase of electric vehicles, e-bikes, electric heat pumps, industrial decarbonization technologies and more.Gov. Polis said “These exciting money-saving changes for Coloradans mean reliable, lower energy costs and good-paying jobs, as we continue to fuel the innovation that makes Colorado a national leader in clean energy. We are cutting red tape, creating good paying jobs and improving air quality as we continue to make bold progress towards achieving 100% renewable energy by 2040.”ARIZONA MIRROR: Rural electric co-ops to get $10.7B in USDA funds for clean energy grants, loansBY: JACOB FISCHLER - MAY 16, 2023 7:11 AMThe U.S. Department of Agriculture will begin to administer two loan and grant programs worth nearly $11 billion to boost clean energy systems in rural areas, administration officials said Tuesday. The programs are the New ERA program for rural electric cooperatives, and the PACE program for other energy providers. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the funding “continues an ongoing effort to ensure that rural America is a full participant in this clean energy economy.”White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi said, “Rural areas can have more difficulty than more urban ones in attracting private sector investment. The programs are intended to allow those rural areas to take advantage of an industry-wide trend to invest in clean energy production.He said, “There's a favorable wind blowing here. This allows rural communities to put up a sail.”The programs are meant to put rural electric cooperatives on equal footing with larger privately owned companies that have already put major funding into clean energy deployment.The programs represent the largest single funding effort for rural electrification since President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Rural Electrification Act in 1936.The money is meant not only to address the climate impacts of fossil fuel energy and reduce home energy costs, but to act as an economic engine for rural areas.Rural electric cooperatives are eligible for the New ERA program, and up to 25% of the funding in that program can be in the form of direct grants. Utilities can use the money to build renewable energy systems, zero-emission systems and carbon capture facilities.The USDA will begin to accept initial applications for funding on July 31. Applicants are expected to write more detailed proposals for funding after the USDA accepts their initial applications.The PACE program provides loans to renewable energy developers and electric service providers “to help finance large-scale solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, hydropower projects and energy storage in support of renewable energy systems,” the release said. The program is targeted to “vulnerable, disadvantaged, Tribal and energy communities,” the release said. It's in line with a Biden administration goal to allocate at least 40% of the overall benefits of certain federal spending to disadvantaged communities.The USDA can forgive up to 40% of most of the loans in the program. Up to 60% of loans to applicants in some U.S. territories and tribal communities can be forgiven.Initial applications for that program will open June 30.ARIZONA MIRROR:National commission on the MMIP crisis meets in Arizona to hear testimony, recommendationsBY: SHONDIIN SILVERSMITH - MAY 15, 2023 1:50 PMFive empty chairs sat at the front of the Not Invisible Act Commission hearing, each wrapped in a shawl, blanket or quilt representing a different group of individuals impacted by human trafficking or with a loved one who is missing or murdered.“We want to allow space for representing our relatives,” commission member Grace Bulltail said, noting the traditions in many Indigenous families to always preserve a space for absent loved ones. “We're doing that to honor our loved ones,” Bulltail said, explaining that, by putting the chairs there, the commission hearing was holding space for them.The chair wrapped in a red shawl with white and yellow handprints honored the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The chair wrapped in a red, orange, bridge, and white Native design shawl with a black blazer draped over it was to honor the missing and murdered Indigenous men and boys. Another chair was wrapped in a light blue, white and purple quilt. Pinned to the quilt was a picture of 11-year-old Ashlynne Mike, a Navajo girl who was abducted and killed on the Navajo Nation in 2016. This chair honored Indigenous children.The chair wrapped in a maroon shawl with floral designs honored the LGBTQI and two-spirit Indigenous community. The chair wrapped in a brown Pendleton honored Indigenous veterans.The Not Invisible Act Commission, organized by the U.S. Department of the Interior,  held a public hearing at the Twin Arrows Casino near Flagstaff to hear testimony and recommendations from victims and families impacted by human trafficking and the missing and murdered Indigenous peoples crisis. The commission also heard from local tribal leaders and advocates. The Not Invisible Act was passed into law in October 2020, establishing the commission as a cross-jurisdictional advisory committee of federal and non-federal members, including law enforcement, tribal leaders, federal partners, service providers, family members of missing and murdered individuals, and survivors.The meeting at Twin Arrows was the commission's third public hearing. This summer, it has four more planned in Minnesota, northern California, New Mexico and Montana. The hearings are being held in communities impacted most by the MMIP crisis.Commissioners heard emotional testimony from Seraphine Warren and Pamela Foster as they shared their experiences of losing a loved one and advocated for change.Ms. Warren is the niece of Ella Mae Begay, a Navajo woman who went missing from her home in Sweetwater, Arizona, on the Navajo Nation on June 15, 2021. Warren continued to advocate for not only her aunt but all Indigenous people.Speaking through tears, she told her aunt's story. “I know it wasn't her legacy to be stolen or to be murdered,” Warren said. “Just because she isn't here doesn't mean she can't be part of change.”Begay is still missing, but there have been developments in her case. In March, Preston Henry Tolth, 23, of New Mexico, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Phoenix for assault and carjacking.The indictment alleges that, on June 15, 2021, Tolth assaulted Begay, resulting in serious bodily injury, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Tolth then took her Ford F-150 pickup truck and drove it from Arizona to New Mexico with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury to Begay.Warren said during Tolth's arraignment hearing on April 7 in Flagstaff that she heard details about the night her aunt went missing that she was not ready for.Warren, in tears, told the commission that Tolth told federal agents that he “snapped” and struck her in the face multiple times, causing her to bleed from the nose and mouth. Tolth told authorities that he wasn't sure if she was dead, Warren said, and when he drove away, he said he regretted hitting her, since all he wanted was the truck.Tolth is being held in custody and is expected to go to trial later in May.Pamela Foster is the mother of Ashlynne Mike, the 11-year-old Navajo girl abducted and killed on the Navajo Nation in 2016. Foster has been at the forefront of advocacy efforts for Indigenous children and people since she lost her daughter. On the afternoon of May 2, 2016, Ashlynne Mike and her 9-year-old brother, Ian Mike, didn't make it home from school. When they got off the school bus in Shiprock, New Mexico, on the Navajo Nation, a predator tricked them into getting into his van by promising them a ride home.Hours later, passersby found Ian Mike wandering alone in the area. Police located Ashlynne Mike's body on May 3, 2016, and discovered she had been sexually assaulted, strangled, and bludgeoned repeatedly with a tire iron.She said, “I miss my daughter every single day. I became a voice for my daughter the moment I received word that her life was taken from her.”She talked about how the system failed when her children were missing in 2016. She said that May 1 to May 6 is a nightmare for her every year, because she relives what happened to her children.Foster talked about the hours from when her children disappeared to when they found her daughter's body; she ran into countless obstacles that left her without support.“It was very hard to sit there and know that there were no resources available for my children,” Foster said. “I absolutely had nothing.”She said local law enforcement was not adequately trained to handle child abductions. There was no clear communication between local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. Instead of searching for her children, Foster said they were trying to figure out exactly what protocols were needed to start looking.“Time was lost,” Foster said, and they did not send out an AMBER Alert until the following day. Foster recalled the alert went out at 2 a.m., and she said that helped no one because not many people were awake then. She remembers hearing officers from the neighboring jurisdictions tell her they couldn't go out to look for her daughter until they were given the clearance to do so by the Navajo Nation Police Department. Foster said it frustrated her how long it took for that to happen. She said the anger and hurt about what happened to Ashlynne led her to be a voice for her daughter.“I promised her I would do something for all of our other Indigenous children. To give them the protection that they need so they don't go through the same thing.”Foster has led many grassroots efforts to support Indigenous children, including advocating and petitioning for the AMBER Alert system to include Indian Country.Foster said she wanted to change, and she knew the justice system in Indian Country needed to be updated, so she focused her efforts on the AMBER Alert system. Her advocacy resulted in the Ashlynne Mike AMBER Alert in Indian Country Act of 2018, which makes tribes eligible for AMBER Alert grants to integrate into state and regional AMBER Alert communication plans.“I always say that I've never received justice for what happened to my daughter because nothing can bring her back,” Foster said. “There will never be justice, but we can learn how to move forward in changing laws to make things better for our people.”The goal of the hearing was for the federal commissioners to listen and hear recommendations on the best course of action for the MMIP crisis. Commissioners will use the suggestions to develop their final report for the Department of Interior.Foster's big recommendation was not only geared at the commissioners, but other attendees of the hearing. She encouraged them to tell their tribal leaders to receive the AMBER Alert in Indian Country Act training. “It is free,” she said, adding that it is a vital program for Indigenous communities because it will train police officers and social workers from the tribe. Because tribes are sovereign nations, the Department of Justice has to receive a request in order to run the training on tribal land: “Have your tribal leaders request this training for your community because the children are our next generation,” Foster said. “There's still a lot of tribes that need to be trained.”When Seraphine Warren was finished sharing her aunt's story, she laid out her recommendations. “Transparency and swift action is key,” she said, “which means that when a person is missing, law enforcement should immediately inform all jurisdictions and issue press releases to media channels to inform the public.”“Family members need to be regularly and constantly updated with the progress of the investigation, and families should be prioritized if any remains are found in any jurisdiction.” Some of the other recommendations included allowing families to hire private investigators, providing them access to case files, supporting families in organizing their task force, providing families with constant and reliable access to grief counseling services, medical attention, financial and legal assistance, and safe housing for families of missing or murdered loved ones. ASSOCIATED PRESS: If you're not first, you're last. DENVER (AP) — Sitting in front of a hulking red tractor, Democratic Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill Tuesday making Colorado the first state to ensure farmers can fix their own tractors and combines with a “right to repair” law — which compels manufacturers to provide the necessary manuals, tools, parts and software farmers would need.Colorado, home to high desert ranches and sweeping farms on the plains, took the lead on the issue following a nationwide outcry from farmers that manufacturers blocked them from making fixes and forced them to wait precious days or even weeks for an official servicer to arrive — delays that hurt profits.While farmers wait and their increasingly high-tech tractors or combines sit idle, a hailstorm could decimate an entire crop. Or, a farmer could miss the ideal planting window for their crops to grow.Lawmakers in at least 10 other states have introduced similar legislation, including in Florida, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, Texas and Vermont. But Colorado has taken the lead. At the signing ceremony Tuesday afternoon, under a light drizzle of rain, Gov. Polis said: “This bill will save farmers and ranchers time and money and support the free market in repair” before exclaiming, “first in the nation!”Behind the governor and arrayed farmers and lawmakers sat a red Steiger 370 tractor owned by a farmer named Danny Wood. Wood's tractor has flown an American flag reading “Farmers First,” and it has been one of two of his machines to break down, requiring long waits before servicers arrived to enter a few lines of computer code, or make a fix that Wood could have made himself.As the signing ceremony ended, Gov. Polis and Rep. Brianna Titone, who ran the bill in the state House, climbed inside the tractor for a photo as the ceremony ended.Great job, Rep. Titone! Huge win for this up-and-coming legislator. When I first saw her speak announcing her initial candidacy in 2017, I didn't know what to expect. Honestly, I didn't expect a lot, and I didn't particularly expect her to even win. And then, winning that seat was just the first of many instances where I've seen her demonstrate a level of depth, grit, and smarts that rival any of her peers. Great job Rep. Titone, you rock. CONCERT PICK OF THE WEEK: Violent Femmes - performing their self-titled album - Levitt Pavilion in Denver on Sunday May 21. The cult favorite folk punk band from Milwaukee is celebrating 40 years since the release of their first album in 1983. More info at vfemmes.comWelp, that's it for me! From Denver I'm Sean Diller. Original reporting for the stories in today's show comes from Colorado Newsline, Arizona Mirror, Denver Post, Associated Press and Denver's Westword.Thank you for listening! See you next time.

On this editon of Bay Native Circle, on 03/22/23 Morning Star Gali hosts and Interviews poet activist yAyA; then Cathy Jackson interview two young Navajo women, owners of Dolii farms. Below we have a rough transcript done by Cathy Jackson for the Dolii Farms interview. Today we're going to interview two young women who are farmers on the Navajo reservation.  Can you please say your names and the names of your company?  And where you live on the reservation. Yes, my name's Jeneva Ben  (speaks in Dine traditionally introducing herself by clan) Those are my clans and how I am recognized on the Navajo reservation.  And within the reservation, we live in a community called Shiprock, New Mexico…which is one of the biggest um farming communities on the reservation. And sitting with me is my sister, and she'll introduce herself. Hello, we represent Dolii Farms LLC, and my name is najazoni Rain Ben, my clans are ye'dine B….(introduces in Dine). And as she mentioned we both reside in Shiprock, New Mexico. C question:  And how did you both decide to become farmers? kl; For me personally, this is Jeneva  I really dove into farming when I was going to New Mexico State University…I originally went there to become a veterinarian, and I also taken college courses with in my time at the high school..to get ahead on my veterinarian career that I was thinking about doing at the time.   And while I was at NMSU, it hit me that I really enjoyed farming, due to driving around the campus..they grow Alfalfa, and Pecans that surrounds the university.  And whenever I got really overwhelmed in schoolwork, or homesick– because it was about six hours away from where I reside on the Navajo reservation– it's in Las Cruces, New Mexico.   And..whenever I really want to talk to my family– and I couldn't get a hold of them..I would go to the fields, the alfalfa fields and just sit there and just smell the alfalfa. And it reminded me of home…reminded me of when I was young and loved by my family and they supported every decision I made..so far. 02:46   And that love and passion for my family and my nation..and for food overall..I realized that I wanted to become a farmer.  Well, I was a farmer at the time, but..getting a degree in farming.   I called my father and I told him that I no longer wanted to pursue my veterinarian career…but I wanted to become a legit farmer in the western society.  And asked what degree I could go for in that. 03:21 So he called a friend of his..and he called me back and told me that there is a degree called “Agronomy.”  So I went to my academic advisor and asked them if they had an Agronomy degree at NMS university and they said yes.   So they sent me to a professor– I went to talk with him, and he told me what Agronomy is..and can be for a community.  And from there on I decided that I wanted to be an Agronomist.   Agronomy– the definition is the science of soil management and crop production.  My emphasis is in crop consulting…that way when I do come home to the Navajo Nation I would be able to consult with my farmers ..farmer peers here on the reservation ..and help them understand the new techniques of farming…which I was educated through western universities. 04:20 So with that in mind, I really engulfed myself in my classes, different after school programs there at the university..one of the clubs I loved was horticulture club.. And then I knew my love for farming preceded The veterinary career I wanted.  And that's how I got into um, more interested in becoming a farmer. 04:57 Yes, hello, this is Najazhoni, and one underlying lesson we've learned is through education..we had to pursue it off- reservation..we understood the importance of kinship? And how we are really tied to our people in terms of wanting to help them…and just wanting to be back on the reservation once we got off.   So for me I was able to study at the University of New Mexico, which is in Albuquerque..and the drive isn't too long…but itI was far enough– I was getting homesick pretty bad..on my first year there…and one thing I really noticed that ..I really missed looking at the stars…and not only that, but the constant reality of just having to step on cement all the time (chuckles) there's not a lot of cement here in Shiprock…I think just those little things affected me, in wanting to come back. 06:19 And so..right now I'm studying economics at the university of New Mexico, and I'm on a gap year, and focusing on our farming business and expanding it in that way. 06:31 C:  Well..who in your family– was anyone in your family growing corn..before you guys or ..who in your family taught you about the process of drying the corn?   Yes..our father…Joe Ben junior…was the leader of showing us how to farm…put the seed in the ground..love it and create the product of dried steam corn. 07:12 He learned it from his father …and obviously the farming back then was different … they had to do hands on…more hands on work at the farm, meaning they would cultivate with hoes…whereas now we have tractors to do that…heavy hard work.   Other than that..the way of growing it and cooking it is the same..as he had done it before. 07:46 C:  Were you doing this before the pandemic? Or since the pandemic? 07:53 We farmed when we were young..ahm, back then it was more farming to feed our family– our immediate family. And then as we grew older.. I would say when we were getting more into middle school and high school–that's when we started farming, or leasing from other farmers..and there on we decided to start selling the product to the communities, and during fairs, the flea market..ah getting orders for weddings and birthday parties, and that's how we understood the business part of the selling to the community, communicating with them and understanding that there is a profit to be made on Navajo Nation farm. 08:49 Yes and…we just grew up in farming..it's our way of life now ..as it was when we were younger.  So we would wake up early in the morning, go out to run on the fields, hoe..and irrigate, and all the way through the day..and then at night we would Me and my sister started school we still had to do it Our dad still expected to help you at the farm and sell at in the weekend at the Flea Market, and we learned a lot of discipline.. 09:31 And what type of person you have to be to continue this and make it your job?  Cause..it was just– when you're younger you didn't think about like..the money aspect.. But that was our only financial income coming into our family 09:50 Other than our father's artwork?  So, it was really interesting.. In seeing that..that we're able to survive off that and um… 10:02 And to share it with our community–but not only that..when we got into college, we understood the western methods of running a successful farming business, and the pros and cons of doing business with your family. 10:22 And…I'd say going to school and working with our father really helped us create our farming business 10:40 C:  Do you see any obstacles..in say doing business in the urban environment and..doing business on the rez? 10:51 Are there any obstacles you've had on either side of that? 10:58 Yes, definitely there are many obstacles..as being a indigenous farmer..on any reservation.  For Navajo Nation, particularly is what we see is there's no Agriculture extension agents for us. 11:17 An Agriculture extension agent… what I've learned at NMSU is  a person who takes on the role of becoming an agent for the people..and for  farmers..and ranchers..and ranchers in particular.   And what they do is they go to them in the beginning of the year, and they lay out a whole farming plan with them, and advising them on what grants they can apply for, what type of fertilizers they can use, what type of chemical plants they can go to – to buy cheap fertilizer, where they can go to get their seeds, the different markets that are coming up..um, how to run a farming business.. 11:57 So many different..ahm important aspects of farming they teach.  However…we do have a San Juan county extension agent– agriculture extension agent ..but they don't cross the reservation border..they stay on New Mexico border. 12:15 And the reason?  I have no idea. Ahm, they help many farmers off reservation..if you drive east of Shiprock.. You're coming to a community called Hogback– excuse me..Waterflow, New Mexico..and Waterflow..you'll see many farms there. 12:38 And you keep driving up to Kirtland, New Mexico..again, there are farms there. How they get their big expensive equipment, their seeds, their fertilizers..that's through the extension agent who helps them every year. 12:52 However, when you drive into Navajo Nation..you don't get that necessity…you don't get that knowledge..it's not handed to us..and never has been.  How Navajo farmers got their agricultural knowledge from western people was through BIA .. Bureau of Indian Affairs. 13:14 Back in the 1900's ..there they taught us how to farm our fields using the western methods.   And when I was at school..they said…how to prepare your land.. You have to do seven steps. 13:31 You gotta plow.. First you have to walk your field..look at the soil, see if it be able to hold a seed, and yield a lot..for example if the soil is too sandy or silty..it's not gonna be a really good soil to hold a seed or hold the water..so it has to be a  pretty  good nice organic soil that can really grow the seed. 13:57 After that you have to plow the soil..many other different  agricultural terms – but basically you have to rip up the soil, and you do that after every season..after every harvest of your field. 14:10 However, at school we learned that's not a really good way to farm..There's different farming techniques that were learned by indigenous people such as…no till..which means when you grow ah..if you can visualize a corn field.. Your grow that, you harvest the field..you leave the cornstalks on the field, until next year. 14:32 Then all you do is disc it,..you don't plow the corn stalks under where it goes, or you rake off the cornstalks you just leave the corn stalks on there..and you disc the field. So the cornstalks will still be on the field. 14:48  And then you plant over it. . 14:50 And that creates organic matter– and that's how our fam– not our family but our ancestors..ahm..farmed, when they were here. (truck noise) Excuse me, there's some farm trucks driving down our lane…with a lot of hay..(chuckles) 15:08 Sorry about that..so back to what I was saying..that type of farming, our father was able to teach us..on how to not really..ruin the land with chemicals, or overplowing or overdiscing ..and that's how I want it to be. 15:27 So when I went to school, the things they taught me..I've learned..but I've also chose to leave some of those teachings behind… because I know that in the long run, it's not healthy for the soil. 15:41 So, the teachings offered by western farmers and the different companies that help them, they don't come to the Navajo Nation to teach us these new methods. So that's why I was very grateful to go to New Mexico State and for them to teach me what is not taught on the reservations. 16:06 And again…I do not know –I don't know why those agents don't come to the reservation to teach us the most simplest things..and– but that's ok, because what the Navajo Nation has is youth..youth that are wanting to learn..that are wanting to better our livelihood..that want to push our sovereignty and food energy , etc..and me and my sister are one of those youth that are spearheading that change for the Navajo Nation. 16:39 And the change is just basically gaining knowledge on how to better our farms.  Our people ..the food ..and the other things that we face ..that really hurt us as farmers is the lack of responsibility of our western neighbors when it comes to natural catastrophes..such as the Gold King Mine spill. 17:10 We weren't compensated as how the western farmers were compensated, we had no natural catastrophe aid during the Gold King Mine spill ..meaning no one came over here to haul water for us 17:27 Our own government also lacked that, because they didn't know how …how to keep thousands of acres of Navajo farms alive when we couldn't use that river back in 2016. 17:42 So, in that year..over 95 per cent of the farms died..because we couldn't use the water due to  the heavy metal contamination. However, the western farmers..they had water supplied such as dams that they created in case – which means, they already knew that..maybe one day in the Rockies..those mines might break and come into the water, so we have to have a contingency plan. 18:12 And Navajo Nation did not have a contingency plan..we did not think further ahead on the different evils we could face as farmers ..and due to that we lacked so many things during that catastrophe 18:30 But also we weren't offered any help at all. So due to all these real life situations we face as indigenous farmers ..and the lack of assistance ..me and my sister realized we have to be the ones to speak..not only for ourselves as indigenous farmers, not only for the nation ..but for our land..our water ..our water rights ..and our air rights. 19:00 And with all this experience..as a young Navajo woman farmer..our love for continuing our traditional way of farming ..our product, dried steam corn..we had to really look into ..what are we going to do as a business..not just to make profit..but..how are we going to help our people.. 19:30 How are we going to pull in all these ..aids, such as grants..or being able to speak up in Chapter meetings and having a say in ..ahm off-reservation things pertaining to the water..As a young Navajo woman..you have to realize that things won't be handed to you..you have to work hard for it. 19:59 And fortunately, we had a father who really made us work hard during our youth – but to us it was fun, and it is still fun to this day..farming..but it really instilled in us  Integrity, self-discipline ..ahm, love..compassion for each other, kinship, and many more things that are unspoken.. 29:26 C:  I'm hoping that someone out there listening will be able to direct you on some of the resources that are available ..especially for women in business ..is there anything else you'd like to add?  And please give your contact information. 20:46 I believe one thing I could add..is..what we're trying to combat..me and my sister is bringing in the youth to farming.  What I mean by that is ..if you look at the numbers of how many number of farmers here today in Shiprock..how many of them are over the age of 65..over 85 per cent of these farmers here in Shiprock are over the age of 65. 21:22 Meaning..there are no young farmers..there's probably–  say 25 per cent of the farmers are around my sister and my age..and below the age of 30.  And that's not a really good ratio.  Cause what happens when elders– elder farmers pass on. 21:45 Who are they passing their farms to?  And what are those farmers gonna do with those farms?  A lot of the farms here are in probate..people are fighting in court..and/or people just don't care… and they just leave Navajo Nation because they don't know how to farm. 22:04 That part is what me and my sister really want to emphasize and helping our reservation is by going to the schools to do little class exercises with the children with agriculture, and having the kids understand that their land is worth something.. 22:27 Their land is very valuable, their water is very valuable..and I believe these teachings are just understanding is very not widely spoken on..and the resources that are out there..aren't readily accessible to the people that are living on the Navajo Nation right now..today. 22:50 Just as we said..there's no office on the Navajo Nation, nor in the biggest community –farming community in the Navajo Nation ready to take on these type of questions or having actionable plans to help the people. 23:11 Yes..ahm..one thing that I'd say – would really help us is just for my sister and I is to really build our foundation of our business in order to be that advisor ..that agent, that leader in our culture community here on the Navajo Nation to spearhead all these different issues and come up with solutions with the youth. 23:45 And hopefully gain trust with our elders farmers and hopefully pass that down to us and their children and to be comfortable with that. Yes, and you may contact us at a phone number which is 505 420 7167 or send us a message on Instagram or Facebook under the name of Dolii Farms LLC to get in contact with us.  24:15 C: Can you spell Dolii Farms for the people please? It's DOLII Farms FARMS LLC. C:  Thank you so much. The post Bay Native Circle March 22 2023 – Morning Star Gali Interviews yAyA & Cathy Jackson interview two young Navajo women, owners of Dolii farms appeared first on KPFA.

Episode 2 of Indigenous Women Working Group featuring Cara from Shiprock, NM. The conversation highlights the issue of air pollution & reproductive justice.

Hello Underdog Ag podcast listeners. This interview should inspire everyone. Here's why. Matt Denetclaw is a farmer and rancher in Shiprock, New Mexico and a proud member of the Navajo Nation. My sincere hope is that you will listen to Matt's story and share it. Maybe, just maybe, it will create relationships between 4-H Clubs, FFA groups and more in Nebraska and elsewhere with Matt's efforts in Indian Country. Maybe it will be used in curriculum in classrooms to help bridge cultural bridges. Maybe it will simply help us all understand the blessings we have and the resources we have to share. I applaud and am humbled by our Indigenous neighbors. We have everything to learn from them. We have friends to make. Matt is a friend to all he meets. He was once a child with a stuttering problem, not confident enough to say even a few words unless spoken to. Now he is a leader for his people and all of agriculture. Thank you for your friendship Matt! Keep throwing down that cowboy hat in celebration for youth and their families as you give so much to see them find confidence and hope in themselves. That's powerful. That's agriculture at its very finest. Follow Matt at: www.facebook.com/matt.denetclaw--Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe.HOST: Kerry HoffschneiderGUEST: Matt Denetclaw --CREDITS:Mitchell Roush, ProducerBibi Luevano, Cover ArtPurple Planet Music, Theme

MMIW - Ranelle Bennett was a beautiful 33-year-old mother of two children. She brought her family joy with the stories she would tell. She is very loved and very missed by her family. She has had no contact with her family since June 15, 2021. She disappeared from her home in Hogback, New Mexico without a trace on that day. Hogback lies on the Navajo Reservation, about 12 miles from Shiprock. This is her story. Thanks to Jackie Moranty for writing and researching this episode. Promo: Campus Killings https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/campus-killings/id1640582478Ranelle Bennett Show Notes:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPk1Bsbw3GMhttps://www.koat.com/article/mmip-ranelle-rose-bennett-disappearance/39388757#https://www.bia.gov/missing-murdered-cases/ranelle-rose-bennetthttps://www.azmirror.com/2021/12/16/bia-launches-new-website-spotlighting-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-people-cases/https://operationladyjustice.usdoj.gov/archives/olj/missing/cold-caseshttps://www.bia.gov/service/mmu/missing-murdered-open-cases?title=&field_mmu_case_type_value=All&page=0https://www.bia.gov/service/mmuhttps://www.justice.gov/usao-az/pr/shiprock-man-sentenced-more-three-years-prison-assault-officer-during-high-speed-ch

Today we chat with Corey Medina, a blues-rock artist from Shiprock, NM, and member of the Áshįįhí clan of the Diné Nation. His band, Corey Medina & Brothers, has a reputation as an on-stage powerhouse, bringing its blues-tinged rock and roll to stages across Minnesota.Corey shares his experience moving to northern Minnesota a decade ago and talks about decolonizing his writing process during the recording of the new album Soak. He also talks us through Soak's album art, which features an animal skull submerged in a colorful body of water.Corey Medina & Brothers' latest album Soak is available on Spotify and other streaming services. Find out where the band is playing at https://www.facebook.com/coreybluesfolks - Their record release show is in Bemidji at the Rail River Folk School on September 23, 2022.Chi Miigwech to Corey for sharing his gift with us today!Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine is produced by Minnesota Native News and Ampers, Diverse Radio for Minnesota's Communities with support from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage fund. Online at https://minnesotanativenews.org/

The 2022 National Heritage Fellows have been recently named and we're celebrating that and kicking off our “Artful Lives” series by revisiting my interview with songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Louie Pérez whose music with Los Lobos has deep roots in his neighborhood of East LA. The interview is a wonderful snapshot of Los Lobos' fifty year journey as well as the beauty and strength of culture grown in community, a core principle of the concept of Artful Lives and of the National Heritage Award*.*  Louie Pérez is a great story-teller and in this podcast he discusses the creation of Los Lobos, the band's love for and admiration of traditional Mexican music, their half- century commitment to bring that music and culture to the world, the extraordinary journey of “La Bamba,” the influence of East Los Angeles on the music, and the brotherhood the band shares. The 2022 National Heritage Fellows are: Michael Cleveland, Bluegrass Fiddler from Charlestown, Indiana Eva Enciñias, Flamenco Artist, Albuquerque, New Mexico Excelsior Band, Brass Band Musicians, Mobile, Alabama Stanley Jacobs, Quelbe Flutist and Bandleader, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands The Legendary Ingramettes, Gospel Musicians, Richmond, Virginia TahNibaa Naataanii, Navajo/Diné Textile Artist and Weaver from Shiprock, New Mexico Francis “Palani” Sinenci, Hawaiian Hale Builder, Hana, Hawaiʻi Tsering Wangmo Satho, Tibetan Opera Singer and Dancer, Richmond, California C. Brian Williams, Step Artist and Producer, Washington, District of Columbia Shaka Zulu, Black Masking Craftsman, Stilt Dancer, and Musician, New Orleans, Louisiana

The 2022 National Heritage Fellows have been recently named and we're celebrating that and kicking off our “Artful Lives” series by revisiting my interview with songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Louie Pérez whose music with Los Lobos has deep roots in his neighborhood of East LA. The interview is a wonderful snapshot of Los Lobos' fifty year journey as well as the beauty and strength of culture grown in community, a core principle of the concept of Artful Lives and of the National Heritage Award*.*  Louie Pérez is a great story-teller and in this podcast he discusses the creation of Los Lobos, the band's love for and admiration of traditional Mexican music, their half- century commitment to bring that music and culture to the world, the extraordinary journey of “La Bamba,” the influence of East Los Angeles on the music, and the brotherhood the band shares. The 2022 National Heritage Fellows are: Michael Cleveland, Bluegrass Fiddler from Charlestown, Indiana Eva Enciñias, Flamenco Artist, Albuquerque, New Mexico Excelsior Band, Brass Band Musicians, Mobile, Alabama Stanley Jacobs, Quelbe Flutist and Bandleader, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands The Legendary Ingramettes, Gospel Musicians, Richmond, Virginia TahNibaa Naataanii, Navajo/Diné Textile Artist and Weaver from Shiprock, New Mexico Francis “Palani” Sinenci, Hawaiian Hale Builder, Hana, Hawaiʻi Tsering Wangmo Satho, Tibetan Opera Singer and Dancer, Richmond, California C. Brian Williams, Step Artist and Producer, Washington, District of Columbia Shaka Zulu, Black Masking Craftsman, Stilt Dancer, and Musician, New Orleans, Louisiana

Guests include:Trini King - Project Director of Shiprock Farmers' Market, located in Shiprock, NMMariah Gladstone - founder of IndigikitchenHeather Tracy, co-founder of Native Art Market, the first Indigenous-owned shop in Old Town Scottsdale, AZSupport the show

MMIWG Ashlynne MikeThis episode was written and researched by Jackie Moranty. May 2, 2016, was just like any other school day in Shiprock, New Mexico. The bus ridehome was just like any other bus ride.Twelve-year-old Gracelynne Mike along with her sister, eleven-year-old Ashlynne andtheir brother, nine-year-old Ian, got off the school bus to make the walk home. That all chaned when Ian and Ashlynne were picked up by a man named Tom Begaye. References:Show Notes for Ashlynne Mike:https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a19561163/ashlynne-mike-amber-alert-navajo-reservation/https://wcti12.com/news/state-news/making-every-minute-count-new-technology-could-help-police-find-missing-children-faster-cherokee-indian-police-department-amber-alert-system-amber-alert-in-indian-country-initiativehttps://www.niwrc.org/news/niwrc-calls-support-ashlynne-mike%E2%80%99s-family-and-national-response-missing-and-murdered-nativehttps://www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2016/05/05/criminal-complaint-details-kidnapping-death/24191849007/https://www.google.com/books/edition/Child_Abuse_Child_Exploitation_and_Crimi/D9m_DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=ashlynne+mike&pg=PA352&printsec=frontcoverhttps://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/2016/05/05/church-member-says-murder-suspect-betrayed-him/84008174/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/05/05/navajo-nation-reeling-after-suspect-in-11-year-old-girls-slaying-identified-as-one-of-their-own/https://www.cedarcityutah.com/news/archive/2016/05/04/apc-navajo-girls-body-found-after-abduction-community-grieves/#.YnvcTOjMLrdhttps://www.columbian.com/news/2016/may/07/__trashed-5/https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/11-year-old-navajo-girl-ashlynne-mike-found-murdered-after-abducted-new-mexico-school-bus-stop-1558083https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh176/files/pubs/252671.pdfhttps://www.azcentral.com/story/news/nation/2017/10/20/navajo-nation-murder-tom-begaye-ashlynne-mike/784401001/https://www.gofundme.com/f/ashlynne-mike-gravestone-fundraiserhttps://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/772https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-115publ166https://ncjtc.fvtc.edu/resources/RS00009326/implementation-of-the-ashlynne-mike-amber-alert-inhttps://navajotimes.com/reznews/begaye-pleads-guilty-to-brutal-murder-of-ashlynne-mike/https://www.koat.com/article/thursday-marks-2-year-anniversary-of-ashlynne-mike-s-death/20144561https://www.koat.com/article/suspect-in-navajo-girl-s-death-admits-to-horrific-murder-details-pleads-guilty/10392335https://www.nhonews.com/news/2019/jun/27/man-who-murdered-ashlynne-mike-wants-life-prison-t/https://www.abqjournal.com/1080812/man-gets-life-sentence-for-killing-of-11-year-old-girl-on-navajo-reservation.html#foogallery-0/p:1https://www.daily-times.com/story/news/crime/2017/08/01/begaye-pleads-guilty-ashlynne-mike-killing/529899001/https://operationladyjustice.usdoj.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh281/files/media/document/oljamberalert.pdfhttps://www.voanews.com/a/grief-girl-slaying-navajo-nation/3319619.htmlhttps://apnews.com/article/ashlynne-mike-kidnapping-farmington-crime-tom-begaye-e9c08eb25482112afe2110479c20ba86https://www.ojp.gov/library/publications/native-american-children-reported-missing-ncmechttps://www.law.cornell.edu/topn/ashlynne_mike_amber_alert_in_indian_country_acthttps://biggs.house.gov/media/press-releases/president-trump-signs-ashlynne-mike-amber-alert-indian-country-acthttps://ncjtc.fvtc.edu/resources/RS00009326/implementation-of-the-ashlynne-mike-amber-alert-inhttps://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/five-years-after-ashlynne-mikes-death-family-seeks-proper-headstone/https://www.ojp.gov/archives/ojp-blogs/2019/legacy-ashlynne-mikehttps://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a19561163/ashlynne-mike-amber-alert-navajo-reservation/https://wcti12.com/news/state-news/making-every-minute-count-new-technology-could-help-police-find-missing-children-faster-cherokee-indian-police-department-amber-alert-system-amber-alert-in-indian-country-initiativehttps://www.weremember.com/ashlynne-mike/7l8s/memorieshttps://ojjdp.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh176/files/pubs/252671.pdfhttps://abc13.com/boy-sister-stranger-ashlynne-mike/1322660/https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/us/navajo-girl-found-dead/index.htmlhttps://www.newsday.com/news/nation/ashlynne-mike-11-mourned-by-more-than-3-000-at-new-mexico-funeral-l44083https://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-affidavit-navajo-girl-kidnapping-death-20160504-story.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGTOgda0pzwhttps://www.yahoo.com/news/mother-slain-navajo-girl-delivers-174148771.htmlhttps://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/the-neglected-epidemic-of-missing-bipoc-women-and-girls

Join Tracy as she interviews children's author, theatre teacher, and director, Seana Walsh. Seána Walsh lives in a little house called Dandelion Burrow in the wilds of Western Massachusetts. She's worked as an elementary school teacher for the last twenty years and runs a program teaching children to write and produce their own musicals. She also runs a camp called Shiprock and Anchordog. Her newest book, Maisie and the Clootie Tree is a magical, immersive, voyage through love and loss, adventure and joy, that is sure to evoke curiosity, hope, and a love of all things magic. Maisie and the Clootie Tree was released on December 7th, 2021 by The Three Little Sisters, and is a wonderful picture book for ages 7+, illustrated by Megan Day Afon Walker. About the Book: Maisie's mom is sick. But maybe there's something she can do to help her? Inspired by the ancient myths and legends of Scotland, Maisie goes on a quest to find a way to care for her mom, learning about herself along the way. This charming tale introduces readers to the rich history of Scotland, a realm of magic and mystery, as well as providing the building blocks for younger readers to enable them to understand a very adult problem like breast cancer. Join Maisie as she discovers the truth behind the selkies, gets inspired by Robert the Bruce, and creates the perfect Clootie tree! Links: www.shiprockandanchordog.com Website: https://the3littlesisters.com/authors...

Join Tracy as she interviews children's author, theatre teacher, and director, Seana Walsh. Seána Walsh lives in a little house called Dandelion Burrow in the wilds of Western Massachusetts. She's worked as an elementary school teacher for the last twenty years and runs a program teaching children to write and produce their own musicals. She also runs a camp called Shiprock and Anchordog. Her newest book, Maisie and the Clootie Tree is a magical, immersive, voyage through love and loss, adventure and joy, that is sure to evoke curiosity, hope, and a love of all things magic. Maisie and the Clootie Tree was released on December 7th, 2021 by The Three Little Sisters, and is a wonderful picture book for ages 7+, illustrated by Megan Day Afon Walker. About the Book: Maisie's mom is sick. But maybe there's something she can do to help her? Inspired by the ancient myths and legends of Scotland, Maisie goes on a quest to find a way to care for her mom, learning about herself along the way. This charming tale introduces readers to the rich history of Scotland, a realm of magic and mystery, as well as providing the building blocks for younger readers to enable them to understand a very adult problem like breast cancer. Join Maisie as she discovers the truth behind the selkies, gets inspired by Robert the Bruce, and creates the perfect Clootie tree! Links: www.shiprockandanchordog.com Website: https://the3littlesisters.com/authors...

sign up for our Patreon to support the show and get bonus episodes! www.patreon.com/themidnighttrainpodcast  Info take from: https://allthatsinteresting.com/skinwalker   https://www.legendsofamerica.com/navajo-skinwalkers/   https://www.wjhl.com   The Uinta Basin is a section of the Colorado Plateaus province, part of the enormous Intermontane Plateaus division. It is also a geologic structural basin in eastern Utah, east of the Wasatch Mountains and south of the Uinta Mountains. For as long as humans have lived in the Uintah Basin, they've seen strange things in the sky. In the 1970s, Utah State professor Frank Salisbury wrote a detailed, profoundly investigative book about hundreds of UFO sightings seen in the basin, called “The Utah UFO Display: A Biologists Report.” However, the weird stuff goes way beyond strange flying anomalies. For 15 generations, indigenous tribes, including the Utes, have referred to this ridge as being “in the path of the skinwalker.”  In the Navajo culture, a skinwalker is a harmful witch who can turn into, possess, or disguise themselves as an animal.   The legend of the shapeshifting entity known as the Skinwalker has primarily been seen as a hoax. It's hard to believe that a human-like figure has been transforming into a four-legged animal and terrorizing families in the American Southwest for centuries. While not precisely proven, the Navajo Skinwalker has profound roots in Native American lore.   So, what is a Skinwalker? As The Navajo-English Dictionary explains, the “Skinwalker” has been translated from the Navajo “Yee Naaldlooshii. The literal translation means “by means of it, it goes on all fours” — and the yee naaldlooshii is just one of many varieties of Skinwalkers, called ‘ánti'jhni and is considered one of the most volatile and dangerous witches. For the Navajo people, witchcraft is just another part of their spirituality and one of the “ways” of their lives. Witchcraft has long been part of their culture, history, and traditions. Witches exist alongside humans and are not supernatural beings. The Navajo believe there are places where the powers of both good and evil are present and that those powers can be harnessed for either. Medicine men utilize these powers to heal and aid members of their communities. At the same time, those who practice Navajo witchcraft seek to direct the spiritual forces to cause harm or misfortune to others. This type of Navajo witchcraft is known as the “Witchery Way,” which uses human corpses in various ways such as tools from the bones, and concoctions that are used to curse, harm, or kill intended victims. The knowledge of these powers is passed down from the elders through the generations.   The Navajo are part of a larger cultural area that includes the Pueblo people, Apache, Hopi, Ute, and other groups that also have their versions of the Skinwalker. Still, each consists of an evil witch capable of transforming itself into an animal. Among these tribes, several stories and descriptions have been told throughout the years about the Skinwalkers. Sometimes, these witches evolved from living their lives as respected healers or spiritual guides, who later chose to use their powers for evil. Though they can be male or female, they are more often male. They walk freely among the tribe during the day and secretly transform at night. To become a Skinwalker, they must be initiated by a secret society that requires the evilest of deeds – the killing of a close family member, most often a sibling. Kind of like the soul stone. After this horrible task has been completed, the person then acquires supernatural powers, which give them the ability to shape-shift into animals. They are often seen in the form of coyotes, wolves, freddy foxes, cougars, dogs, and bears but can take the shape of any animal. They then wear the skins of the animals they transform into, hence, the name Skinwalker.  Sometimes, they also adorned animal skulls or antlers atop their heads, which brought them more power. They choose what animal they want to turn into, depending on the abilities needed for a particular task, such as speed, strength, endurance, stealth, claws, teeth, etc. They may transform again if trying to escape from pursuers. Because of this, the Navajo consider it taboo for its members to wear the pelt of any predatory animal. However, sheepskin, leather, and buckskin are acceptable. The skinwalkers can also take possession of the bodies of human victims if a person locks eyes with them. After controlling, the witch can make its victims do and say things that they wouldn't otherwise.   Some traditions believe Skinwalkers are born of a benevolent medicine man who abuses indigenous magic for evil. The medicine man is then given mythical powers of sin that vary from tradition to tradition. Still, the power all traditions mention is the ability to turn into or possess an animal or person. Other practices believe a man, woman, or child can become a Skinwalker by committing any deep-seated evil deed.   The evil society of the witches gathers in dark caves or secluded places for several purposes – to initiate new members, plot their activities, harm people from a distance with black magic, perform dark ceremonial rites and tickle the taints of ceremonial voodoo dolls. These ceremonies are similar to other tribal affairs, including dancing, feasts, rituals, mutual masturbation, and sand-painting, but were “corrupted” with dark connotations. The evildoers are also said to engage in necrophilia with female corpses, commit cannibalism, incest, and grave robberies. During these gatherings, the Skinwalkers shape-shift into their animal forms or go naked, wearing only beaded jewelry and ceremonial paint. The leader of the Skinwalkers is usually an older man, who is a very powerful and longtime Skinwalker. Skinwalkers also have other powers, including reading others' minds, controlling their thoughts and behavior, causing disease and illness, destroying property, getting a woman to make up their mind about where to have dinner, and even death. Those who have talked of their encounters with these evil beings describe several ways to know if a skinwalker is near. They make sounds around homes, such as knocking on windows, banging on walls, and scraping noises on the roof. On some occasions, they have been spied peering through windows. More often, they appear in front of vehicles in hopes of causing a severe accident. Some claim that, in addition to being able to shapeshift, the Skinwalker is also able to control the creatures of the night, such as wolves and owls, and to make them do their bidding. Some can call up the spirits of the dead and reanimate the corpses to attack their enemies. Zombies. Boom! Because of this, the Native Americans rarely ventured out alone. The skin walkers' supernatural powers are uncanny, as they are said to run faster than a car and have the ability to jump high cliffs. They are swift, agile, impossible to catch, and leave tracks that are larger than those of any animal. When they have been seen, they have been described as not quite human and not entirely animal. They are usually naked, but some have reported seeing the creature wearing tattered shirts or jeans, kind of like Bruce Banner.   The Skinwalker kills out of greed, anger, envy, spite, or revenge. It also robs graves for personal wealth and collects much-needed ingredients in black magic. These witches live on the unexpired lives of their victims, and they must continually kill or die themselves. Skinwalkers and other witches have long been blamed for all manner of unexpected struggles and tragedies through the years, including sickness, drought, poor crops, and sudden deaths. Even more minor or individual problems such as windstorms during dances, alienation of affection by mates, the death of livestock, and reversal of fortune, were often believed to be the work of a witch. This situation was most apparent with the Navajo Witch Purge of 1878, which initially evolved from a cultural response to many people moving across and onto their lands. After a series of wars with the U.S. Army, the Navajo were expelled from their land and forced to march to the Bosque Redondo (Fort Sumner) in New Mexico in what is known as the Long Walk of the Navajo in 1864. The people suffered from inadequate water, failed crops, illness, and death, reducing their numbers dramatically. After four years, the government finally admitted they had made a mistake, and the Navajo were allowed to return to their homeland in the Four Corners area. During these years, many of the tribe's members were said to have turned to shape-shifting to escape the terrible conditions. In the meantime, the rest of the tribe were convinced that their gods had deserted them. Once the people had returned to their homeland, their conditions improved, but the dreaded skinwalkers, whom they blamed for their years on the bleak reservation, were still among them. Accusations of witchcraft and the hunting of the skinwalkers began. When someone found a collection of witch artifacts wrapped in a copy of the Treaty of 1868, the tribal members unleashed deadly consequences. The “Navajo Witch Purge” occurred in 1878, in which 40 Navajo suspected witches were killed to restore harmony and balance for the tribe. Today, most of the tales of sightings of these witches do not include death or injury but instead are more “trickster-like.” So, the Native American equivalent of Loki.  Numerous people have told stories of swift animals running alongside their vehicles, matching their speed. After a short period, however, they run off into the wilderness. Along the way, these animals often turn into a man, who jumps out and bangs on the hood. Another story tells of a man making repairs on an old ranch home when he began to hear loud laughter coming from the nearby sheep pens. Thinking he was alone, he investigated and found all sheep but one huddled in one corner of the pen. However, a lone ram was separated from the group, standing upright and laughing very human-like. After the man locks eyes with the ram, he sees that his eyes are not an animal but like a human's. The animal then casually walked away on all four legs. Peyote's a wonderful drug.   Some say they have seen the skinwalker running through the night, sometimes turning into a fiery ball, leaving streaks of color behind them. Others have seen angry-looking humanoid figures looking down on them from cliffs, mountains, and mesas. In the 1980s, one of the most notable events occurred when a family was driving through the Navajo Reservation. As they slowed to make a sharp curve, something jumped from the ditch. It was described as black, hairy, and wore a shirt and pants. A few days after this event, at their home in Flagstaff, Arizona, the family was awakened to the sounds of loud drumming and chanting. Outside their home were three dark forms of “men” outside their fence. However, these shadowy creatures were seemingly unable to climb the fence and soon left. These events have occurred in the Four-Corners area of southwest Colorado, southeast Utah, northeast Arizona, and northwest New Mexico. In the 1990s, a ranch in northeast Utah, far away from the Navajo Reservation, became the partial focus of the Skinwalkers. Called the Sherman Ranch, the UFO Ranch, and most notably, the Skinwalker Ranch, this place has a history of UFOs, aliens, cattle mutilations, and crop circles. Located near the Ute Indian reservation, these people have long thought that the Navajo curse their tribe in retribution for many perceived transgressions. Since then, the skinwalkers have plagued the Ute people.    Witchcraft represents the antithesis of Navajo cultural values and is not tolerated. They work to avoid it, prevent it, and cure it in their daily behaviors. However, when it exists, their laws have always said that when a person becomes a witch, they have forfeited their humanity and their right to exist, so they should be killed. However, skinwalkers are notoriously hard to kill, and attempts are usually unsuccessful. Trying to kill one will often result in the witch seeking revenge. Successful killing generally requires the assistance of a powerful shaman, who knows spells and rituals that can turn the Skinwalker's evil, back upon itself. Another alternative is to shoot the creature with bullets dipped into white ash. However, this shot must hit the witch in the neck or the head. Double-tap! Little more is known about the purported being, as the Navajo are reluctant to discuss it with outsiders — and often even amongst each other. Traditional belief threatens that speaking about the malevolent beings is not only bad luck but makes their appearance all the more likely. Native American writer and historian Adrienne Keene explained how J.K. Rowling's use of similar entities in her Harry Potter series affected indigenous people who believed in the Skinwalker. “What happens when Rowling pulls this in, is we as Native people are now opened up to a barrage of questions about these beliefs and traditions,” said Keene, “but these are not things that need or should be discussed by outsiders.”   The rest of us Americans got our first real glimpse into the story of the Navajo legend in 1996 when an article titled “Frequent Fliers?” was published by the Utah-based news outlet, The Deseret News. The story told us of a Utah family's unsettling experience with the creature that included cattle mutilations and disappearances, UFO sightings, and the appearance of, you guessed it, crop circles.   Terry and Gwen Sherman first observed UFOs of varying sizes hovering above their property, then seven of their cows died or disappeared. One was reportedly found with a hole cut into the center of its left eyeball. Another had its rectum carved out. Damn near killed ‘em.   The Shermans found dead cattle surrounded by an odd, chemical smell. One was found dead in a clump of trees. The branches above appeared to have been cut off. One of the vanished cows had left tracks in the snow that suddenly stopped. “If it's snow, it's hard for a 1,200- or 1,400-pound animal to just walk off without leaving tracks or to stop and walk backwards completely and never miss their tracks,” Terry Sherman said. “It was just gone. It was very bizarre.”   However, the family's most traumatizing encounter happened 18 months after moving onto the ranch. Terry Sherman heard voices while walking his dogs late one night. Sherman reported that the voices spoke in a language he didn't recognize. He estimated that they came from about 25 feet away — but he couldn't see anything. His dogs went nuts, barked, and ran back hastily to the house.   On a different night, Sherman took his dogs for a walk around the ranch late at night when he came upon a wolf. But, of course, this wasn't an ordinary wolf. It was three times larger than a regular wolf, had glowing red eyes, and just stood there when three close-range shots by Sherman hit its hide.   The Shermans dipped the hell out and sold the so-called Skinwalker Ranch in 1996 — after only 18 months of owning it.   The Sherman family weren't the only ones traumatized on the property. After they moved out, several new owners experienced eerily similar encounters with these creatures, and today, the ranch has become a hub of paranormal research that's aptly renamed Skinwalker Ranch. While paranormal investigators probe the property with novel inventions, what they're looking for has a history that is centuries old.   The ranch is now fortified with barbed wire, private property signs, and armed guards. UFO enthusiast and Las Vegas realtor Robert Bigelow bought the ranch for $200,000 in 1996. He established the National Institute for Discovery Science and put up substantial surveillance. The goal was to assess what exactly had been going on there. Dr. John Alexander retired from Army intelligence as a colonel. He was part of the first scientific study of the ranch under the umbrella of NIDS, the National Institute for Discovery Science. He continues to work as a consultant to the Department of Defense. After earning a Ph.D., Alexander was directly involved with the U.S. Army's psychic warrior research program and then became one of the first employees of NIDS. NIDS was a think tank created and funded by Las Vegas aerospace entrepreneur Robert Bigelow. After reading a Deseret newspaper story about UFO activity at the ranch, Bigelow flew to Utah, bought the property, and assigned a team of professionals to study the ranch and the basin. The rancher and his neighbors told the NIDS team about a crapload of abnormal activity from shadow people appearing in and around the ranch house. In these poltergeist-type events, physical objects moved on their own, strange animals, including giant wolves and sasquatch, have been seen, as well as holes in the sky.   The scientists witnessed much of this for themselves, including animals carved up with surgical precision and ghostly images that appeared on camera. In all, they documented hundreds of paranormal events. “Something else is in control,” John Alexander told Mystery Wire. “And if it wants you to find out, it may allow that, but if it doesn't, this thing keeps morphing and changing into, you know, new shapes and forms. We had cameras there and things that happened just off-camera , sometimes in front of the camera, but you wouldn't see them.” The NIDS investigation was conducted secretly for years but was hindered by buttholes trying to screw with them.   A 2005 book, Hunt for the Skinwalker, revealed details about the ranch to the world and came to the attention of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). With the support of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the DIA launched its study of abnormal activity at the ranch and the more significant issue of UFOs. In all, $22 million was allocated to the research. Reams of documents and reports were generated but have never been made public. In December 2017 the New York Times revealed the Pentagon's secret study of UFOs, but that article did not mention the far more mysterious encounters at the ranch. Lue Elizondo was the intelligence officer in charge of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program – better known as AATIP. This Pentagon group studied the now-famous UFO videos called Tic Tac, Go Fast, and Gimbal, along with other military encounters. Elizondo coordinated with the DIA and the team investigating the ranch.   While the strange happenings at the ranch could be considered a spooky Halloween tale, told to scare the bejeezus out of people, it also involves national security. “Let's take the nature of Skinwalker Ranch out of the equation and just look at it from an intelligence problem,” Elizondo told Mystery Wire. “You have to ask yourself, ‘is this something that is occurring naturally? Is it something that is being deliberately done? Is it something that another nation could be behind trying to influence us?'” The public got an inside look at the first two scientific studies of the ranch in a 2018 documentary film, Hunt for the Skinwalker. This film helped inspire a television program about the ranch's new owner, Utah businessman Brandon Fugal, who financed his own scientific study.   On March 12, 1997, Bigelow's employee biochemist Dr. Colm Kelleher spotted a sizeable humanoid figure perched in a tree. Detailed in his book, “Hunt for the Skinwalker,” the creature was 20 feet off the ground and about 50 feet away. Kelleher wrote:   “The large creature that lay motionless, almost casually, in the tree. The only indication of the beast's presence was the penetrating yellow light of the unblinking eyes as they stared fixedly back into the light.”   Kelleher fired at the supposed Skinwalker with a rifle, but it fled. It left claw marks and imprints on the ground. Kelleher described the evidence as signs of a “bird of prey, maybe a raptor print, but huge and, from the depth of the print, from a very heavy creature.” This was only a few days after another scary incident. The ranch manager and his wife had just tagged a calf before their dog began acting strangely.     “They went back to investigate 45 minutes later, and in the field in broad daylight found the calf and its body cavity empty,” said Kelleher. “Most people know if an 84-pound calf is killed, there is blood spread around. It was as if all of the blood had been removed in a very thorough way.” The distressing activity continued well into the summer. .   “Three eyewitnesses saw a huge animal in a tree and also another large animal at the base of the tree,” continued Kelleher. “We had videotape equipment, night vision equipment. We started hunting around the tree for the carcass, and there was no evidence whatsoever.” Ultimately, Bigelow and his research team experienced over 100 incidents on the property — but couldn't amass the kind of evidence that scientific publication would accept with credulity. Bigelow sold the ranch to Adamantium Holdings for $4.5 million in 2016. Adamantium… I think someone's screwing with us.    Nevertheless, the research on Skinwalker Ranch is more sophisticated and secretive than ever.   There are many stories about Skinwalkers online in such forums as Reddit, which I'll read through a few in a minute. These experiences commonly occur on Native American reservations and are allegedly only prevented by the blessings of medicine men. While it's challenging to figure out just how truthful these accounts are, the descriptions are almost always the same: a four-legged beast with a disturbingly human, albeit marred face, and orange-red glowing eyes. Those who claimed to have seen these Skinwalkers also said that they were fast and made hellish noises.   Skinwalkers have crept back into popular culture through television shows such as HBO's The Outsider and the History Channel's “The Secret Of Skinwalker Ranch” documentary series.    Since taking over Skinwalker Ranch, Adamantium has installed equipment all over the property including cameras, alarm systems, infrared, and more. Most alarming, however, are the accounts from company employees.   According to VICE, employee Thomas Winterton was one of several who randomly experienced skin inflammation and nausea after working on the grounds. Some had to be hospitalized, with no clear medical diagnosis for their condition. This, and the following account, parallel some of the inexplicable events featured in Sci-Fi shows like The Outsider. As Winterton reported: “I take my truck up the road, and as I start to get closer, I start to get really scared. Just this feeling that takes over. Then I hear this voice, as clear as you and me talking right now, that says, ‘Stop, turn around.' I lean out the window with my spotlight out and start searching around. Nothing.” The area surrounding Skinwalker Ranch has been dotted with crop circles and littered with UFO sightings and the disappearances of people and livestock. Despite this dreadful experience, Winterton reported that he isn't leaving Skinwalker Ranch anytime soon. “It's like the ranch calls to you, you know,” he said with a weird ass smile.   Reddit user skinwalker stories. Thank you Ranker.com for these From Redditor /u/Neptune420: My Father owns a small delivery service that operates out of Farmington, NM. We mostly deliver small packages out to the middle of nowhere that are too much of a hassle for the larger delivery companies to bother with. My Dad is the only employee and we have a few pickup trucks and a trailer. One day we get a delivery out to Window Rock, AZ, on the Navajo reservation about two hours from Farmington. My Dad gets the call for the job while he is chilling with his Navajo friend, Travis and his girlfriend. Travis mentions how he's got family in Window Rock that he hasn't seen in ages and suggests they go with him. I was about six or seven at the time and it was the summertime so Dad decides we'll go down together, he can do his delivery really quick, then while Travis sees his family we can go check out the Window Rock (big rock face with a large hole in it that goes to the other side, pretty cool.) We had to convoy in separate trucks since my Dad's was loaded down with freight. We decided to bring along some talkie talkies so we could communicate with one another. We spend our time in Window Rock, everything is generally uneventful and we start heading home along the old highway with my Dad and I in front, and Travis and his girlfriend in their truck behind us. I honestly don't remember most of the Window Rock trip but this next part I can never forget. We're somewhere on the highway between Window Rock and Gallop, NM. It had just rained earlier in the day and the road was kind of slick so we were taking it pretty slow. On the left of the highway there is nothing but sandstone cliffs and on the right there is a huge field separated from the road by a small barbed wire fence. We crest the top of this hill and down at the bottom of the hill we see what appears to be a very large dog, sitting back on its haunches in the middle of the road, facing the cliffs. My Dad calls over the radio "Hey Trav, do you see that big ass dog?" Travis starts yelling back over the radio "That is not a dog! Speed up right now and hit it!" He sounds almost hysterical. He just keeps screaming "Hit it! Jj you have to hit it! Please! PLEASE! Hit that f*cking thing right now!" So my Dad starts to speed up and as we get a bit closer I can begin to see it a little more clearly. It's covered in this brown, wiry, matted hair that appears to have dried blood all over it. It's still facing the cliffs but the moment our headlights hit it, it turns and looks at us and it has a...face I don't know how else to describe it other than a mix between a bear's and a humans' face. It looks twisted and distorted and almost in pain. As we get closer to this thing we start to realize it's actually f*cking huge. Though it was still sitting on its' haunches it is about shoulder height with the hood of the truck. We get literally inches from hitting it when it lets out this scream that sounds like someone screaming as their lungs were filling with water and it leaps backwards, towards the field, landing just on our side of the barbed wire fence. Then with another leap it was gone from sight. Travis is comes over the radio again, "Holy sh*t! Keep driving! We have to get out of here! We have to go faster!" he kept repeating that last part. We have to get out of here and we have to go faster. Pretty soon we a speeding like crazy and just as we start to come near the outskirts of Gallup we get pulled over. Travis pulls his truck over with us. Naturally this makes the cop, a Navajo man himself, very on edge and he immediately asks why Travis felt the need to pull over as well. Travis says "We just saw a skinwalker a few miles back and it's been following us!" The officer immediately turns white, stammers something about a verbal warning gets in his car and takes off. We do the same. We didn't see anything else that night but when we got home Travis refused to let us leave without taking some kind of Navajo totem thing that was supposed to keep it away. From Redditor /u/Navajo_Joe:  I was a kid when this happened... My uncle and I were finishing up chopping/gathering firewood for my grandmother because it was getting dark. Driving back on a dirt road at about 30mph (give or take 5mph) I had this awful sense of being watched. Before I could turn to look out my window (passenger side) my uncle quickly shouted, "Don't!" I completely froze. My heart felt like it was beating out of my chest then completely stopped when I heard a tap tap on my window. My uncle sped up and was loudly praying in my native language. I didn't know what was going on and thought it was over till our truck suddenly dipped from the bed. My uncle then started saying, "Look at me" and "Don't turn away" over and over. Then I heard it again, tap tap but from the window behind me. It was getting harder for me to breathe and I wanted to cry. A minute or two passed and the truck dipped again. My uncle looked around and sighed. It was quiet besides the truck and the road. He looked at me and said, "We will ask your father to do a prayer in the morning. So the evil will forget our faces." (Navajo to English equivalent). I remember curling up on the seat and just staring at the radio watching the time. Listening to my uncle sing an old prayer till we got to my grandmother's house. I called my uncle because I had a nightmare about that night. We talked about it for a bit. He said, “I didn't see faces. Just eyes. Like brake lights you see on the road. It watched you.” (Navajo to English equivalent) Before hanging up I tried joking with him about it. "Why didn't you just step on the brake when it was in the back?" No laughter. Just a pause. “Because it wasn't alone.”   From Redditor /u/Iron_Jesus: Anybody that has been on the Navajo reservation has either probably heard of some creepy things or have experienced pretty creepy things. Namely skinwalkers. I have only seen one. Here is my story. I come from a small town in northern Arizona that's sandwiched between the Paiute reservation to the north and the US's largest Navajo reservation to the south. My high school being so small (a 1A high school that has, on average, 80 students enrolled every year.) always had to travel south about five to 10 hours one way to play another high school in any sport. This means that we traveled A LOT on the Navajo rez. And we also usually stayed at hotels when we would head out to play and come home in the morning but this trip was a little bit different. I remember the basketball coach saying that the school didn't have enough money to put up the teams in a hotel that trip so we were going to be on the road for a total of about 12 hours. I was the only male senior to play basketball that season. We had just got done playing our game and headed home on our bus “Big Blue.” We were headed out and it wasn't long, about two hours of driving, before we had entered the rez. By this time, everyone was asleep with it being about two in the morning. When we had crossed the rez's border I noticed the bus driver had sped up and was now going about 85 mph. I thought this was a little weird because he never exceeded the speed limit, at least not in my high school career. For some reason, I couldn't fall asleep like the rest of my teammates, and I just sat at the back of the bus staring out across the desolate desert landscape that was lit up by the full moon. As I looked out, I could see a figure running towards the bus at an angle of pursuit…and keeping up with the bus at 85 mph. As the figure got closer I saw that it was a humanoid form. As a matter of fact it looked exactly like a human, only that the face was painted half black and half white with glowing eyes. Glowing eyes like a rabbit's eyes reflecting light from a spotlight. I immediately thought, “Holy crap! It's a skinwalker!!” The skinwalker ran up to the edge of the road and just kept up pace with the bus hurdling sage brush and rocks while staring at me. After I made eye contact with the thing, I COULD NOT look away. It was as if something was holding my head and eyes in place. The skinwalker just smiled at me this inhuman smile that went ear-to-ear, showing crooked, yellow, pointed teeth. I felt like I was going to throw up and I was panicking through the whole ordeal. The skinwalker started to crumple down on to all fours, still keeping up with the bus. I could see his bones crack and reform, hair started appearing all over the skinwalker's body and in about 3 seconds was now a coyote and it ran off back into the desert out of view. As soon as it was gone, I ran to the onboard bathroom and puked a mixture of food and blood. I didn't want to tell anyone for fear they would think I was crazy. I confided in my Navajo friend. She told me that I needed to see the chief, who also happened to be a friend of mine, and get a blessing. I saw him the next school day in the parking lot. He just came up to me and mumbled something in Navajo while waving a feathered scepter-like thing, turned around, got in his truck and drove away. To this day, I haven't seen another skinwalker. It might be due to the fact I moved away from that town and rez, and, if I do have to go south, I go around... WAY around.   From Redditor /u/jibbyjam1: This all happened about five years ago. One night, a few of my friends decided after a night of hanging out that we'd go on an adventure at about 3 AM. We took a ride about 50 miles to this old Spanish ruin (in New Mexico), that was once the seat of the Inquisition. I can't for the life of me remember what the place is called. So we jump the front gate to the place and start exploring. One of my friends brought a flute with him and he started playing it and about 30 seconds into his (mediocre) playing, something started screaming really really loud on the tops of the long-destroyed walls of the place. It was going from wall to wall really quick, screaming the most blood-curdling scream you've ever imagined. We noped the f*ck out of there (one of my friends pissed his pants) and drove for a few hours to Bandelier National Monument where we planned to camp out at for the rest of the weekend. We got to bandelier at probably like 6 or 7am and set up our camp. After a few hours just talking about what the hell happened at the ruins, I went to talked a piss behind a probably only like 300 feet from our camp. This is where everything starts getting a little fuzzy. I remember seeing 2 dust devils coming my way and when I turned around again, 2 of my friends were there and they were motioning me to follow them. I couldn't help but to follow them, like I was being pulled behind them in shackles. I followed them for what seemed like 10 or 15 minutes and then I snapped out of it. These weren't my friends they had bright red hair, with my friends faces and cat eyes. Both of these friends were brunette. I stopped walking and they looked at me with probably the most terrifying gaze I've ever seen. Monsters in movies are nothing compared to this. I turned around and ran as fast as I could back the way I came from. After like 5 minutes of a full sprint, I got back to that rock that I pissed at and found our camp. Everyone was there, still sitting around talking and didn't even notice that I was gone. I told them what happened with the look-alike skinwalkers and we packed up everything and left probably within like 10 minutes and got the hell back to Albuquerque.   Ok, last one!   From Redditor /u/NordicAlchemist:  As many of you might already know, many Navajo people (including my own family), are very reluctant to speak about skinwalkers because it is believed to attract their attention. Well, I however, grew up away from the Navajo Nation and was very naive about the subject. When it came to skinwalkers, I was an absolute skeptic. My mom used to tell a story of how back in the 80's when she lived with her siblings and my grandparents (still in Shiprock, but the southern outskirts) about how she and my aunt saw a skin walker just outside their driveway under a street light. She described it as a black dog with dirty fur, a twisted noodle-like front leg, and these unnatural eyes with a soft burnt orange glow. Me being my own closed minded self doubted every word, but I never said my doubts aloud. BUT, these doubts totally changed last year when I went to my grandparents house last October. Me and my family had just finished scourging the carnival at the Navajo Nation Fair and called it night. The house was close enough where we could walk home in just 10 minutes, so we did. When we got there it was about 9 at night where we stayed up until about 2 catching up about family affairs and the local news. It was during that time that I just decidedly opened my mouth and blurt out the question, "Hey are skinwalkers real?". "guys?", I asked. "You shouldn't be speaking about that!" my grandma said with almost a disturbed yell in her voice. So she and my grandfather both decide to go to bed. After being scolded by my mom, one of my aunts chimes in with a very cautious tone and says, "They're real alright, had a few start screaming outside of my trailer in Farmington just a few night ago. You're cousin had nightmares the whole night and woke up crying that morning." Not wanting to push the discomfort any further, we all decided to go to bed. Now the trailer/home is pretty old and it was a really nice night, so we slept with the windows open with screens to prevent bugs coming in. Everyone had drifted off to sleep except me, because my mind was still going a million miles a minute about skinwalkers and wondered if I ever encounter one while here on the reservation (As a kid I was told its taboo to think about skinwalkers because it can still call their attention). That's when the sh*t totally hit the fan. Just as I was settling and finally getting relaxed for sleep, I started to hear something moving outside. I get up from the couch and start wandering over to the kitchen window. In the trailer, all of the rooms have the lights out so the only visible light that can be seen is from the porch light out front. I was thankful for this because I told myself if it really was a skin walker outside then hopefully it wouldn't notice me seeing it. So I muster up the courage and take a quick scan of outside. From the porch light all I can see is the dusty ground and the vehicles that my family drove along with some old metal trashcans that stood beside the road. Looking for about a good 5 seconds, I wasn't able to see anything so I was getting ready to turn around and walk back to bed thinking it was just a stray cat or something. Only have taken two steps, I hear what sound like a distorted scream coming from outside, definitely close by. Fear rising, I look outside again and there I see it! A coyote-like figure was staring at my direction from behind the cars, just outside of the reach of the porch light. Only it looked, awfully wrong, and gave off an evil vibe just from seeing it. It was grey with very disheveled hair and a horrific orange-red soft glow came from its eyes. I noped the hell out and ran back to the bedroom. It was at this moment I had begun to also notice an awful stench in the air that smelled like rotting meat. I started trying to wake up my mom who was like, "omg, its almost 3am, what do you want?". I immediately began in a shaken voice, "there's something scary outside!". Then she said (now annoyed because I woke her up), "Ugh it's probably just a stray animal or something, it's the rez, animals wander all the time at night." She obviously wasn't getting the drift of what I was saying so I screamed, "THERE'S SOME BLAIR WITCH PROJECT SH*T GOING ON OUTSIDE, MA!!!" that got her attention "What?! What the hell are you talking about??" she said. Then we heard it, the thing outside started making more of it's dreadful like screams and started what sounded like thrashing outside on the ground. "Hear that?! That's what I'm talking about!" So both her and I got back up looked outside the window and the coyote-thing was making it's way to the door. It walked with an odd limp and dragged it's back right leg as if it has handicapped. We could hear it start to scratch against the door and make this odd muffled moaning sound. My mom went and got my dad and they both started shouted in Navajo all sorts of words telling the thing to go away and saying it's not welcome here. Well all this commotion was enough to get the rest of the trailer up as they came out into the hallway. The only thing my mom did was turn to them and said "skin walker" while proceeding to point to the door (noises STILL happening). Apparently they already knew exactly what to do as my grandfather got out a handgun from a drawer and a bag of ashes. He coated a few bullets and loaded them into the gun and went straight to the door. Yelling out more Navajo that was too fast for me to comprehend he swung open the door and fired twice. Nothing. The thing managed to escape before my grandpa could put a bullet in it. "That's the fastest one I've ever seen", said my grandpa. Next thing you know my aunts and my parents are freaking out about what just happened saying stuff like, "What if it comes back tomorrow?" and "It saw us, does that mean we're targets now?". Afterwards my grandparents calmed everyone down (myself included) saying we'll be fine and we all went to bed (around 3-ish) Morning comes and my grandparents call one of their neighbors and explain to them what happened. Apparently one of them was a medicine man who used to partake in Yei Bi Chei's (Navajo ceremonies used for healing and curing sickness) and came over to bless each family member and the grounds outside.

Sokwa is a prolific acrylic on canvas painter from Shiprock, NM living in Albuquerque. Browse his original works on instagram: @sokwa

A dizzying cornucopia of 4-Corners backcountry trivia: 1. Igneous structures like Shiprock and the laccolith mountains of the Plateau. 2. Toxic plants:poison ivy and datura. 3. Stupid laws of the Southwest. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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A powerful winter storm brought snow and wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour to the Four Corners region Tuesday night, causing widespread power outages, and in Shiprock, schools in the Central Consolidated School District were closed Wednesday; The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has sent a progress report to the state legislature on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

https://kensthinktank.com/flying-around-shiprock-s01e12/Clay Jaqua on Ken's Think Tank Season 1, Episode 12Clay Jaqua took me up in his plane so we could film the Season 1 Finale in the air.He gave me the option of flying over Farmington Lake or Shiprock.  I had never seen it from this vantage point, so I chose Shiprock.​Support the show (http://kensthinktank.com/)

Welcome Back to Another Super Exciting Episode of The Cursewords in Cursive Podcast! This Week we Welcome to the show     BRANDON SANCHEZThis is probably the most Intense story thats ever been featured on this podcast!  Brandon Talks about the amazing story of wheres hes been! Things hes seen and experienced! In all Honesty Brandon has done things i could have never even Dreamed about doing in my life, being a little chizzy native from Shiprock, This is a pretty long episode but we'd like you to Hear it because boy-howdy! Its worth it! Gather Around for story time kids! This is the Cursewords in Cursive Podcast          EPISODE EIGHT!!!!!Check out our YouTube channel! We post videos as much as we can! Find out Instagram page under: the cursewords in Cursive podcast #navajo #nativeamerican #powwow #storytime #2021 #nativeexperiance 

This time on New Mexico in Focus, extended coverage of the federal government's effort to document the truth about Native boarding schools. Interior secretary and former New Mexico congresswoman Deb Haaland announced the investigation this summer, on the heels of gruesome discoveries of mass graves at Canadian boarding school sites. Correspondent Antonia Gonzales speaks with two Native leaders about the need for the painful look back as well as the path forward toward healing. Thirteen of the University of New Mexico Medical School's 15 recent family and community medicine residents will stay in the state, boosting long-slumping numbers of rural primary care doctors as they fan out to work in communities from Shiprock to Lovington. Producer Matt Grubs speaks with a graduate of the program and two doctors who are trying to ensure continued success. Plus, we offer a primer on the state's redistricting efforts which are already underway. This year's process will look much different than 10 years ago, as lawmakers last year approved the creation of a new Redistricting Committee to make the process less partisan and reduce the risks of gerrymandering. Public hearings are going on currently, and participants can even suggest their own maps and models to the committee. Find out more information and watch livestreams of the public hearings here. Guests: Joe Garcia, Head Councilman, Ohkay Owingeh Angel Charley, Executive Director, Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women Deb Haaland, U.S. Interior Dept. Secretary Dr. Arthur Kaufman, UNM Vice Chancellor for Community Health Dr. Molly McClain, UNM Family & Community Medicine Residency Director Dr. Darshan Patel, UNM Family & Community Residency Graduate, Nor-Lea Hospital Hon. Edward L. Chavez, Redistricting Committee Chair Lilly Irvin-Vitela, Community Liaison

As we confront the issue of food insecurity, we need to ask ourselves deeper questions about our relationship to the earth and each other. Join Sophia in conversation with Chili Yazzie, an iconic advocate for indigenous civil and human rights, and longtime leader of the Shiprock community of Northwestern New Mexico and the Navajo Nation in the greater Southwest.

Vince checks in and asks some questions. I'm cruising to Shiprock to meet my mom. I skate. I talk.

We've got a whole universe of new music this week on Radio Active Kids! Out-of-this-world songs by Jelly of the Month Club, DJ Willy Wow, Dirk Scheele, Music with Michal, Twinkle Time, MIKE PARK, Kathryn the Grape, El Nai Music ft. #ICanSouthSudan, Snooknuk, Songeez, The Mister Chris and Friends Band, EVT Kids, Roy Moye III, FIRE DOG, KIZZRock, #BlueMoonBoy, Ms. Niki's Music Class, Three O'Clock Rock, Shiprock & Anchordog, & Totally Knuts/Aguamenti/Candle Wix/Ludo Bagman and the Trash!!! Playlist: https://spinitron.com/WSFM/pl/12997496/Radio-Active-Kids

Just wanted to read and ramble about an email from a listener about his encounter with a skinwalker in Shiprock. Also my encounter with a white girl. Been looking into new or used cameras for wildlife photography. Any feedback is welcome at rezdogradio@gmail.com Thanks for listening.

Currently in Native country is a resurgence of Indigenous fatherhood teachings and practices, as well as an evolving role of Indigenous fathers in their families and communities. In this conversation WFC Co-Founder Thosh Collins sat down with his friend and collegue Dr Joshuaa Allison-Burbank during a Native Wellness Institute Power Event that was live on Facebook. Josh is a Diné / Pueblo Man and father of 2 from Tohatchi, NM on the Navajo Nation. Josh received an MA in 2015 and a PhD in 2020 in speech-language pathology from University of Kansas. He also attended the University of New Mexico completing undergraduate degrees in speech and hearing sciences. Josh's research and clinical interests include autism spectrum disorder, communication disorders associated with cleft/craniofacial differences, disability surveillance, early intervention, and culturally responsive service delivery. Josh is an adjunct lecturer at the University Vermont Medical Center. Josh has facilitated numerous workshops and technical assistance related to early childhood programming and diversity initiatives across Indian Country. Josh currently works as a speech-language pathology at Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, NM. Thosh also co-authored, with Josh, a chapter called American Indian Fathers and their Sacred Children in recently the published book called ‘Handbook of Fathers and Child Development’. Handbook of Fathers and Child Development by Fitzgerald, H.E., von Klitzing, K., Cabrera, N., Scarano de Mendonça, J., Skjøthaug, Th. (Eds.) https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030510268 
To learn more about Josh’s work and consulting business visit his website at https://www.lilmoccasins.com/About. Instagram: @ndnslp

On February 1975, a group of 20 Indigenous activists from the American Indian Movement and the Coalition for Navajo liberation took over the Fairchild Semiconductor plant in Shiprock, Navajo Nation. As Dr. Lisa Nakamura describes, Fairchild chose to insource from the Navajo Nation due to cheap labor, tax benefits, and Federal monies. After eight days and failed negotiations, Fairchild announced it would close and leave the Navajo Nation. This had a lasting impact in the Navajo community. In this episode I talk a long term Shiprock community member. He was a band member of XIT. His name is “Chili” Yazzie Chili Yazzie discusses the events leading up to the takeover, why it occurred, and the impacts of takeover from the perspective of a community member. The incident provides insight into how Navajo workers played a role in the digital industry as chip manufacturers, as well as activists confronted exploitation, and how the community reacted to the incident. Chili Yazzie details the sentiment of Navajo community and provides some lessons to consider when organizing in Indigenous communities. The opening song is titled “Reservation of Education” and the closing song is titled "At Peace". Both songs are by the band XIT.. I will also include a link to Dr. Lisa Nakamura's article about the racialization of the Navajo women who worked at the factory. I suggest checking it out. Thank you to Chili Yazzie, thank you for listening. This is the Wósdéé podcast. Dr. Lisa Nakamura article: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/c…enous-circuits.pdf

Connection Conversations: COVID Care Force Date Recorded: 12/15/2020 Overview: Host Sam Levrault interviews Dr. Paul Fuhrmeister over his experience volunteering with the COVID Care Force and the Navajo Nation. Running time: 18:12 minutes   The following transcript has been edited for clarity. Sam Levrault Welcome to the TCC connection. I'm Sam Levrault. I'm the managing editor here at the TCC connection. On this episode, we have special guests, Dr. Paul Fuhrmeister, thank you for joining me today. And on this episode, we'll be talking about your experience as a medical doctor who volunteered on Navajo Nation a couple of times now in New Mexico during the covid 19 pandemic. And so why don't we start up with just kind of brief ideas, a little bit background, about your experiences, doctor and your time there on the Navajo Nation.   Dr. Paul Fuhrmeister All right, I normally do urgent care clinic here. So that's the kind of work I do. As it turned out in the spring, we were seeing very few patients here. So, our workload had was very light, but they were very, very heavy out of New Mexico in the Navajo area. So they were asking for volunteers, this organization, the COVID Care Force put out a call for volunteers. So, I answered that, and went out there for two weeks in May and two weeks in June, out to the Navajo reservation, I used to work out on the Indian Reservation before I moved to Oklahoma. So, I was familiar with that area. They were asking just for doctors and nurses to help out in all different places. They had extra work out there in the reservation, partly because they had a lot of sick people with the COVID.   At the same time, some of their staff was getting burnt out or sick and not able to work. So, they had this strange situation where they had a lot of extra work, but then fewer and fewer people to do it. And that's why they needed some volunteers to come and help out. Plus, they had to set up a whole new clinic to do the COVID testing and things like that. In the follow ups, the contact tracing, there was just a lot of extra work. And so, they were very happy to have us come as volunteers.   I went there with a team in May and worked at Shiprock Indian Hospital in Shiprock, New Mexico, and worked mostly outdoors doing the COVID testing in the parking lot of sick people for two weeks. Then in June, I went back out I went to Gallup New Mexico and worked at Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital, where they were also doing COVID testing in the parking lot. And I did a lot of interviewing of the patients by phone, people who were coming to be tested.   So, on the phone, was it just kind of going over the symptom checklist before they get there?     I asked them what their symptoms were, we asked them if they had been exposed. We asked them if they'd been around anybody that had a positive test, or if they had any deaths in their family or hospitalizations. And then we arranged for the test. And then we also gave them some recommendations and advice about how to keep well and whether or not depending on their symptoms, whether or not they should quarantine, whether they should wear masks all the time just reminding with some of those things and telling them when to expect the results of the tests and what to do if it was going to be positive or negative. So, there was a lot of information for us to give them as well.   And sounds like reassurance to not just the information but the reassurance of here's the next step. Because not everybody knows what to do while you're waiting for that result.   We had a script to tell them because a lot of people really didn't, you're right. They just did not know what they were going to do if it was positive. So, we just outline the steps to them and told them somebody would call them. And if, when they might need to get tested again, and so on.   For the COVID care force, How did you hear about it and how did you join?   The COVID care force was started by a doctor up in Kansas City in the spring, specifically to help find volunteers. He's done this before he did this before for like the Ebola outbreak in Africa and set volunteers there. So, he's very familiar with it. He happened to have I happen to have a friend My pastor's wife that was following him on Facebook. She told me about it when I had just chatted with her about that I wasn't working. And she told me about this. So, I went on there to the COVID Care Force website, became very interested, especially when they were needing volunteers out in the Navajo reservation, because that's a familiar place to me. So, I felt I felt comfortable going out there. So, I just put my name in on their website. And they contacted me, and we made arrangements, I had to send in lots of paperwork and fill out forms to get my credentials on file and apply for the right the right to work in these hospitals in New Mexico. They had to get an emergency medical license for me out there. Plus, I had to just sign so many papers and send copies of my licenses and that kind of thing to them. And they took care of that very, very quickly. So that everything was arranged before I got there   When you started work for the Care Force, as this was just developed in response to COVID, How does it compare to your past experiences with either working with the military or other things help organizations?   Well, I have to say the COVID care forces taken very, very good care of us. They made sure we had everything that we needed, and they took care of the paperwork for us. When I worked in the army, they weren't quite as nice. We had to do a lot of things ourselves in the COVID care for us. They made our airline reservations. They made hotel reservations, they provided our meals and everything we needed. And there was somebody there, when we got there to meet us, and they kept in touch with us, if we had any problems, they would take care of everything. And myself and some others who went with me on the team, we were almost spoiled. By all of the arrangements that they made, we were able to just spend our time working.   The care force help gather the volunteers, who exactly was in charge? Was at the hospital, still kind of leading the charge. Did you have your own team?   When we when we arrived at the hospital, we were we were volunteers. And so, every hospital has a volunteer program in which they have a system and some people whose responsibility is to receive the volunteers and make sure they get various things done. The hospital has an office that handles volunteers. In fact, hospital and Shiprock had what they called an incident command center that they set up right when the COVID outbreak began, it's part of their disaster plan, they set up a disaster command center. And that center was staffed by people whose job it was to coordinate volunteers. We weren't the only volunteers; they did have onto from other organizations as well. And just individuals who volunteered. So, they funneled us all through the same system. The chairman of the Department of Family Practice whose job it was to assign us where we were going to work each day. And she made sure that we had everything we needed checked on us to make sure we were there, gave us the training, we needed to do our job. And then she sent us a very nice thank you note after we came home   When they were assigning you, did you have a specific department or area? I know you mentioned testing, but since you were two different locations, what were the specific areas you worked on?   The first time I went, I went to Shiprock Indian hospital. And there I joined the family practice department where they were responsible for the outpatient clinics and also responsible for the COVID testing site. And so that's why and they were the ones that really needed the additional help. And that's why I was assigned into the COVID testing site. I also volunteered to do some contact tracing, or some follow up phone calls to people to work with the public health nurses on the weekends, because they spend a lot of time calling people who are sick, checking on them at home, they provide oxygen for them at home, and so on. So, I spent some time working with them and making some calls as well. And that was part of the part of my assignment there. The second place I went, they had already decided they get our information in advance. So, they had already talked it over and decided that I and one of the other nurse practitioners who was with me, we would both be assigned to work in the urgent care office doing the COVID testing, especially since they only had one nurse practitioner there who was having to do all the work seven days a week. So, she was very glad that we came and once we got to train, she was able to at least have the weekend off.   That's great that they were able to kind of make a system where, especially those who are there permanently or on a long term basis, as far as providing service, to give them a chance to rest. They can get their energy back so that they're able to provide that care back.   Out of everyone you worked with, can you kind of give an estimate of how many were also volunteers or are just from outside of that area?   My first trip I went, we in fact had probably about six or seven volunteer people at any one time, my team, there were four of us. But there were at least maybe even four or five from other places that were there volunteering as well. And they would arrive and work and then one group of volunteers would leave, and another group would come in. So, we were kind of overlapping and we were helping each other. So normally in the testing clinic, we would have probably two of the regular staff and then some of the nursing staff who were the regular staff to help everything go properly. And we would also have maybe two volunteers although on the weekends, sometimes it would just the volunteers only taking care of things along with the nursing assistance from the hospital. Once we learn how to do things, we could pretty well run the clinic ourselves and give the regular staff a break. Likewise, I think the second time I was there in in Gallup. We had a Two of us, three of us who are volunteers and about three, also who are the regular staff,   We're focusing kind of on your visits there. But also, since you have come back between those visits, what goes through your mind, both as a doctor, professionally, but also just coming back personally here in Oklahoma?   The thing that I noticed a lot is that people back here in Oklahoma are, are don't they don't see as much of the disease, at least back in the summer, they weren't seeing so much of the disease. And so, it was strange and kind of sad to see that people in Oklahoma, we're not taking things seriously. Very, very much not wearing masks and social distancing and thinking, thinking it's really not nothing. But I became a little bit of a preacher telling them, no, I've been there. And I've seen it seen people dying. And I've seen people sick, and people who can hardly breathe at all. It's something that's very real. And eventually, it's going to come here to Oklahoma to, so I became a little bit of an advocate for people to try to take it more seriously. When I did get home, I really appreciated the fact we didn't have as much. A lot of the staff here, the nurses and doctors were not really burned out yet. Although now this fall, it's getting more and more prevalent here in Oklahoma to so many of them are starting to have the same kind of problems getting burned out and overwhelmed.   Since things are still going on, I mean, we've heard in the news recently, they're coming out with new developments with as far as the vaccine and giving it to some of the frontline workers, would you say it is still important to be kind of preventative? If you don't have it, if you are able to quarantine or stay safe, at least in social distance, or to volunteer if you have the expertise and are able to?   Well, the first thing: Yes, I think that even though the vaccine is on the horizon, we have to be kind of double down on our wearing masks and our social distancing, and really trying to stay home and not go places that we don't need to go to, I think we need to stay away from crowds, especially indoors, crowds, or large gatherings of people. Because the virus is going to continue to spread. It's highly contagious.   And even with the vaccine, it's still going to be spreading, maybe not quite as fast, but it will still be spreading for many months until it finally begins to fizzle out. And so, I think especially if we want to keep our hospitals from being overwhelmed, if we want our schools to be able to stay open, because all the teachers aren't getting sick, then we all need to be especially careful in our own personal lives. I know some people do have to go to work. But I encourage people to try to wear that mask all the time, which I try to do myself, wear the mask all the time and keep that social distance. Because the virus is still a very aggressive and it's and there are many more cases in the community than there used to be.   In fact, there are more cases than we even know about. I'm sure there are a lot of people we don't even know about who are carrying the illness without having any symptoms. Even when the vaccine comes it won't be 100% protective. I have not received the vaccine yet. But after I do, I will still continue to wear my mask as much as I can just and nothing will really change for me, I just may feel a little bit more confident. I'm not so susceptible. We need to look forward to many months at least, and probably a whole other year of wearing masks and doing our social distancing until we're able to let our guard down   For the COVID Care Force, are they still accepting volunteers? And are they still needing help in some of these other areas? Or even here in Oklahoma?   Yes, the COVID care force is still asking for volunteers. In fact, I'm leaving this weekend to go back out to New Mexico to volunteer with them. They have a lot of time during this fall. They have been asking for volunteers to work at the Shawnee nation in southern Oklahoma. And they're they've been asking mostly for nurses to help with the COVID testing there. And so, they've placed several teams, I believe they've placed at least 50 teams since March in various places around the country and also in Mexico. And they are still in need of volunteers.   In fact, they're trying to do one week volunteer trips to help relieve some of the busiest hospital some of the some of the hardest working hospitals help give the nurses or the doctors a week off. And they just started a program doing that most of the volunteer tours are two to three weeks in length. And that's what I've been doing as a two week but yes, they're still very much in need of volunteers and they're anticipating needing volunteers all through the winter and the spring. And it's amazing. The teams that I worked with, it's amazing to see medical people who are in between jobs or in between classes. Some of them are working at universities and have some time in the summer. Some of them work on a temporary basis in various places. And they've decided to take two weeks and, and go and volunteer, it's amazing to see the spirit of the volunteers able to go and willing to go and give two weeks of their time off.   Do you have any lessons that you have taken with you?   One thing that I really noticed is, when I went on my volunteer trips, is we were we were welcomed not only by the hospital staff, but we were very much welcomed by the community to the Navajo people, the people who live in Gallup, they were very friendly and welcoming to us and with thank us when they would see us on the street. So, we were very pleased with that.   But I also recognize that the Navajo Nation has a very strong sense of responsibility for its own people. And they had organized a lot of relief efforts. They the ladies were sewing masks for all the people, they had big food distribution programs that were organized by the Navajo Nation. In fact, the tribal chairman was out there helping distribute food. It's not as though they're sitting there helpless, they have a very strong sense of working together. To address the issue. We were very pleased to see how much they were taking responsibility and for them, for their own people. And yet there's only so much they could do. And the especially the technical things that the that the doctors and nurses could provide. Those were the harder things for them to provide.   But much of relief activities were not being done by outsiders. They were being done by the Navajo people themselves. And the people, the Navajo people were very, very strict about wearing their masks. And they were very strict about standing six feet apart wearing their masks, I think they were much more making a much greater effort than we Oklahomans do, to follow the guidelines and to help prevent the spread of the of the virus. So, they were taking it very seriously. They even had a curfew at night and all weekend long. And I could see that they were they were working very hard and taking things seriously. It wasn't as though they were just expecting someone else to take care of themselves. But the Navajo people were very strong and independent minded, and they were taking responsibility for things themselves.   Well, thank you so much for joining me today, again, my guest is Dr. Paul Fuhrmeister. I am Sam Levrault, here at the TCC connection. If people want to know more about the COVID Care Force, they can visit the website at https://covidcareforce.org/. They are also all-over social media. So, you can check all the different links. We are on social media as well. And you can visit our website or YouTube page which is where this podcast is going to be. So, thank you so much for listening and thank you for joining me.      

Dineh Benally let everyone in the Navajo Nation know he was growing industrial hemp and maybe wink-wink, some pot, on his farm near Shiprock. But when his farming spread from 30 to over 400 acres and fences went up that hid what was going on, things took a darker turn. Ed Williams broke the story in Searchlight NM … and then watched it grow.

In this episode, I talk to people at the Diné Introspective First Inaugural Full Circle Conference in Shiprock, Navajo Nation. I speak to both members of Diné Introspective and participants about the conference and the reasons behind the event. The conference began on October 4, 2018 and ended on October 7, 2018. Diné Introspective members organize, educate, motivate, empower, to sustain a healthy community by embracing culture and resilience. They promote mental, physical, spiritual wellbeing, and environmental issues surrounding our local communities to increase intellectual health awareness between self-reliance and living a healthy lifestyle (Yá'átéehgo jiiná). intro/outr music by: @purplecatsinslacks

In this episode I talk to Kyle and Breanna about Dineh Benally's hemp production in Shiprock, Navajo Nation. Breanna is a graduate student in Public Health, a farmer, and community advocator. Kyle is a community organizer where he is currently working on reintroducing healthy foods. He has been on the podcast before. Both are community members of Shiprock who have been watching and organizing against the hemp production in their community. Hemp was introduced in their agricultural community three years ago by Dineh benally. We look at how he used the local farm board as well as his use of economic development and sustainability arguments to initiate the production. We discuss the tensions that have materialized because of its production. The two make it clear that they are not against the plant itself but they practice they deem as unethical for its labor issues, land/water use, and the lack of accountability on Dineh Benally's part. Finally, we discuss what sustainable futures they hold for their community of Shiprock. Thank you for listening, this is the Wosdee podcast. Music: @PurpleCatsinSlacks

Shaina Oliver is an Indigenous Peoples' Rights Advocate and Field Organizer Moms Clean Air Force In this live podcast episode, Shaina shares how you can make a difference by testifying at hearings and understanding what the different commissions are doing that impact air quality. This is an important way we can all work to improve conditions for less-affluent neighborhoods and communities of color. Support the podcast by becoming a member at patreon: https://www.patreon.com/greenteamacademy Take Action with Moms Clean Air Force at https://www.momscleanairforce.org/petitions/. Update your address to Vote, or Register to Vote at https://www.momscleanairforce.org/register-to-vote/. Be A SuperMom or Dad and Vote2020 Climate Leaders! Shaina Oliver, a tribal member of the Navajo Nation from Shiprock, New Mexico, is an advocate for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights. In 2015, after the EPA’s toxic mine spill affecting the Animas and San Juan Rivers, which supply water to the Navajo Nation, Shaina became more aware that the environmental disasters that happen in Colorado—where she now lives with her husband and four boys—also impact her tribe’s well-being and future. Shaina began to feel her responsibility to do her part as a mother, aunt, sister, descendant, and survivor of genocide. Living in northeast Denver, Shaina is just south of the Suncor refinery. Sometimes she and her family can’t step outside for a breath of fresh air. On very cold days, her asthma flares, and she must be cautious and stay indoors. She worries about her youngest son, who has more allergies than his older brothers—allergies that may be asthma-related. Testifying with Moms Clean Air Force at EPA hearings and in support of environmental bills at the U.S. Capitol is one important way Shaina lives up to her responsibility to protect all living beings and secure a future for all children. https://www.momscleanairforce.org/state-chapters/colorado/

In podcast episode 130, I talk with Cyndi Frank (Navajo) who is the owner of Cynergy Dine Body Therapies in Shiprock, New Mexico. Cyndi talks about her experience opening her small business on the Navajo reservation. Follow Cyndi on Facebook at Cynergy Dine Body Therapies. Checkout the services Cyndi provides: http://www.dinecynergy.com  

Today we are joined by a special guest, Dr. Lawanda Jim, chief of internal medicine at Northern Navajo Medical Center, to talk about what it's been like taking care of patients during the pandemic in Shiprock, NM. Check it out! Music from https://filmmusic.io"Sneaky Snitch" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

We learn about community responses to the covid crisis in Chibueo, Ecuador and Shiprock, Navajo Nation and how these communities are responding to maintain their collective wellbeing during the initial months of covid, what their agricultural economies look like and movements in both places to strengthen and revitalize ancestral collective practices and community economies.

Good morning friends, and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week.Another weekend at home, another week's starting from the same spot. How are you holding up? Do you miss your commute yet? Just want to get some breakfast from a kitchen other than your own? I feel you.But it is Monday all the same and that means it's time for Equity, so let's get to it. You can hit play above and following along with notes:Kingsoft Cloud's IPO went well. Very well, in fact. Far better than expected if we're being honest. The company was recently gross-margin negative and is now public? In this economy?Vroom has filed privately to go public, which is pretty wild given that the capital markets are theoretically closed.Earnings this week are pretty light but keep an eye out for Cisco, JD.com, Sony and Tencent.Over the weekend, bitcoin crashed around 10 or 12 percent, depending on how you do the math. Right before the halvening. Surprised? I was.Shiprocket raised $13 million and Ermetic raised $10 million in two neat early-stage rounds worth your time.And finally, a call to arms. TechCrunch was once a dude in his backyard writing blogs and generally being mad online. It was great! Since then, blogs have grown up, sold out, been re-sold, and generally become part of the landscape if you are being generous (or part of the furniture if you aren't). Surely there's room for new, kickass media companies. Who is building one? They would be a real contrarian.

Good morning friends, and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week.Another weekend at home, another week's starting from the same spot. How are you holding up? Do you miss your commute yet? Just want to get some breakfast from a kitchen other than your own? I feel you.But it is Monday all the same and that means it's time for Equity, so let's get to it. You can hit play above and following along with notes:Kingsoft Cloud's IPO went well. Very well, in fact. Far better than expected if we're being honest. The company was recently gross-margin negative and is now public? In this economy?Vroom has filed privately to go public, which is pretty wild given that the capital markets are theoretically closed.Earnings this week are pretty light but keep an eye out for Cisco, JD.com, Sony and Tencent.Over the weekend, bitcoin crashed around 10 or 12 percent, depending on how you do the math. Right before the halvening. Surprised? I was.Shiprocket raised $13 million and Ermetic raised $10 million in two neat early-stage rounds worth your time.And finally, a call to arms. TechCrunch was once a dude in his backyard writing blogs and generally being mad online. It was great! Since then, blogs have grown up, sold out, been re-sold, and generally become part of the landscape if you are being generous (or part of the furniture if you aren't). Surely there's room for new, kickass media companies. Who is building one? They would be a real contrarian.

William O. Stephens was born in June 1962 in Lafayette, Indiana. He was raised in West Lafayette, Indiana, the second son of Purdue University professors. He attended West Lafayette Senior High School where he earned varsity letters in tennis and began his study of ancient civilizations and Latin with an inspiring teacher named Oliver S. Oesch. After two years at the College of Wooster in Ohio studying philosophy with James Coke Haden and Latin with Joe and Leslie P. Day, Stephens transferred to Earlham, a Quaker college in Richmond, Indiana. At Earlham he studied philosophy with Robert L. Horne and Peter Suber, Greek and Latin with Steve Heiny and Liffey Thorpe, and played varsity tennis (doubles). After graduating from Earlham in 1984, Stephens moved to Philadelphia to do his graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn he studied with Charles H. Kahn, Alexander Nehamas, and Martin Ostwald, and received his doctorate in philosophy in 1990. In autumn of that year he joined the Arts & Sciences faculty at Creighton University.   He has published articles on topics in Stoicism, Epicureanism and friendship, ecology and food ethics, ethics and animals, sex and love, sportsmanship, and the concept of a person. His books include an English translation of Adolf Bonhöffer's work The Ethics of the Stoic Epictetus (Peter Lang, 1996), an edited collection The Person: Readings in Human Nature (Prentice Hall, 2006), Stoic Ethics: Epictetus and Happiness as Freedom (Continuum, 2007), and Marcus Aurelius: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2012). A manuscript entitled Lessons in Liberation: Epictetus as Educator is his current research project. He teaches a variety of courses in philosophy.   Stephens has traveled widely. In May 2016 he toured much of Poland, from Wiżajny (near the Lithuania border) and Suwałki in the northeast to the lakes of Mikołajki. After presenting two papers at the University of Warsaw he visited Kraków, the Wieliczka salt mine, and the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. In June 2017 he returned to Poland, presented two papers at the University of Warsaw, and visited Poznań, Jastrowie, and the village of Chwalimie before traveling to Marseille and Aix, France.   He has presented papers abroad at conferences in London, England (Stoicon 2018), in Toronto, Canada (Stoicon 2017), at Aix-en-Provence, on the island of Rhodes, at Vilia, Greece, and at Palmerston North, New Zealand. He has toured the island of Crete, the northern and southern islands of New Zealand, Iceland, and several of the Galapagos Islands. Stephens has taken cruises to Ensenada, Mexico, the Bahamas, and the Isle of Symi in the Dodecanese island chain. His expedition aboard the National Geographic Endeavor to the Antarctic peninsula was by way of Santiago, Chile and Ushuaia, Argentina. In England he has toured Cornwall, East Sussex, Bournemouth County, the Salisbury Plain (and Stonehenge), the Lake District, the Scottish Highlands, and the Isle of Skye. He has visited Montreal, Vancouver Island, and Victoria, British Columbia. In the Hawaiian islands he has visited Maui (and Haleakalā), Kauai (and Waimea Canyon), and much of Oahu.   Stephens enjoys tennis, chess, hiking, spelunking, kayaking, and nature photography. His domestic treks include the Wonderland Trail around Mount Rainier, the Cascades, and the Olympic peninsula in Washington. He has kayaked in the San Juan Islands of Washington and in the Point Reyes National Seashore area of California. He has visited Crater Lake in Oregon and Boundary County, the Kootenai River, and Coeur d' Alene in the Idaho panhandle. In California Stephens has hiked in Redwood, Yosemite, and Joshua Tree National Parks, spelunked in Lava Beds National Monument, and visited Crescent City, Tule Lake, Bodega Bay, Monterey, and Big Sur. He has explored Arches National Park, the Moab area, the Valley of the Gods, and Monument Valley in Utah. His travels in Arizona include the Grand Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, Petrified Forest National Park, Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, and Sedona. He has visited Shiprock, Petroglyph National Monument, and Santa Fe in New Mexico. In Colorado he has visited Rocky Mountain National Park, Crested Butte, Mesa Verde, Durango, Royal Gorge, Silverthorne, Breckenridge, Vail, and has traveled over Loveland Pass. In August 2016 Stephens drove Mount Herman Road from Monument to Woodland Park, Colorado. As a boy he visited Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. His travels include the Badlands, Wind Cave, and the Black Hills of South Dakota, Madeline Island off the northern coast of Wisconsin, Mammoth-Flint Ridge Cave of Kentucky (the longest known cave system in the world), Acadia National Park in Maine, the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and many parts of Florida. He has yet to visit Alaska, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Mississippi.   From an early age Stephens has closely followed the misadventures of the Chicago Cubs, which helps explain his interest in Stoicism. Stephens watched his Cubs win game seven of the World Series Nov. 2, 2016 at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio. He lives in the Bemis Park neighborhood of Omaha in an arts & crafts style house built in 1912 he shares with four cats and a talented chef blessed with a beautiful singing voice. Website: https://williamostephens.wordpress.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-stephens-b76369b/   Simon Drew Links   Patreon: patreon.com/simonjedrew Coaching: simonjedrew.com/coaching/ Practical Stoic Mastermind: facebook.com/groups/practicalstoicmastermind Facebook: facebook.com/simonjedrew Instagram: instagram.com/simonjedrew LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/simonjedrew Website: simonjedrew.com

Radio Francigena fornisce una voce e un servizio a tutte le realtà culturali, associative, storico-turistiche, di movimento – italiane ed estere – che puntano sul patrimonio culturale, allargato alla qualità della vita e del buon vivere. Slow food, cammino lento, cultura, creatività, prodotti a chilometro zero, riscoperta della parola, della fantasia e dei valori fondamentali della vita. In più: ottima musica e conduttori di talento.

Radio Francigena fornisce una voce e un servizio a tutte le realtà culturali, associative, storico-turistiche, di movimento – italiane ed estere – che puntano sul patrimonio culturale, allargato alla qualità della vita e del buon vivere. Slow food, cammino lento, cultura, creatività, prodotti a chilometro zero, riscoperta della parola, della fantasia e dei valori fondamentali della vita. In più: ottima musica e conduttori di talento.

Radio Francigena fornisce una voce e un servizio a tutte le realtà culturali, associative, storico-turistiche, di movimento – italiane ed estere – che puntano sul patrimonio culturale, allargato alla qualità della vita e del buon vivere. Slow food, cammino lento, cultura, creatività, prodotti a chilometro zero, riscoperta della parola, della fantasia e dei valori fondamentali della vita. In più: ottima musica e conduttori di talento.

Radio Francigena fornisce una voce e un servizio a tutte le realtà culturali, associative, storico-turistiche, di movimento – italiane ed estere – che puntano sul patrimonio culturale, allargato alla qualità della vita e del buon vivere. Slow food, cammino lento, cultura, creatività, prodotti a chilometro zero, riscoperta della parola, della fantasia e dei valori fondamentali della vita. In più: ottima musica e conduttori di talento.

Radio Francigena fornisce una voce e un servizio a tutte le realtà culturali, associative, storico-turistiche, di movimento – italiane ed estere – che puntano sul patrimonio culturale, allargato alla qualità della vita e del buon vivere. Slow food, cammino lento, cultura, creatività, prodotti a chilometro zero, riscoperta della parola, della fantasia e dei valori fondamentali della vita. In più: ottima musica e conduttori di talento.

Radio Francigena fornisce una voce e un servizio a tutte le realtà culturali, associative, storico-turistiche, di movimento – italiane ed estere – che puntano sul patrimonio culturale, allargato alla qualità della vita e del buon vivere. Slow food, cammino lento, cultura, creatività, prodotti a chilometro zero, riscoperta della parola, della fantasia e dei valori fondamentali della vita. In più: ottima musica e conduttori di talento.

Radio Francigena fornisce una voce e un servizio a tutte le realtà culturali, associative, storico-turistiche, di movimento – italiane ed estere – che puntano sul patrimonio culturale, allargato alla qualità della vita e del buon vivere. Slow food, cammino lento, cultura, creatività, prodotti a chilometro zero, riscoperta della parola, della fantasia e dei valori fondamentali della vita. In più: ottima musica e conduttori di talento.

Radio Francigena fornisce una voce e un servizio a tutte le realtà culturali, associative, storico-turistiche, di movimento – italiane ed estere – che puntano sul patrimonio culturale, allargato alla qualità della vita e del buon vivere. Slow food, cammino lento, cultura, creatività, prodotti a chilometro zero, riscoperta della parola, della fantasia e dei valori fondamentali della vita. In più: ottima musica e conduttori di talento.

Radio Francigena fornisce una voce e un servizio a tutte le realtà culturali, associative, storico-turistiche, di movimento – italiane ed estere – che puntano sul patrimonio culturale, allargato alla qualità della vita e del buon vivere. Slow food, cammino lento, cultura, creatività, prodotti a chilometro zero, riscoperta della parola, della fantasia e dei valori fondamentali della vita. In più: ottima musica e conduttori di talento.

Radio Francigena fornisce una voce e un servizio a tutte le realtà culturali, associative, storico-turistiche, di movimento – italiane ed estere – che puntano sul patrimonio culturale, allargato alla qualità della vita e del buon vivere. Slow food, cammino lento, cultura, creatività, prodotti a chilometro zero, riscoperta della parola, della fantasia e dei valori fondamentali della vita. In più: ottima musica e conduttori di talento.

If you’ve ever seen him live, you know what I’m talking about! ONE OF THE BIGGEST ENERGY MAGNETS I’VE EVER SEEN LIVE, one of the funnest guys I’ve ever been around, ADORED equally by fans and his peers in the industry. This is what happens when raw talent, handwork, and dedication come through! You’ve got to tune in for my episode with the Rock/ Metal/ Hip Hop/ Rap Artist, Hyro The Hero!  @ScandalousOfficial on IG@ScandalousSays on Twitter Sponsored by Tour Support CBD & Hella Hot Hot SauceEdited by Myrriah GossettRecorded at Permanent RCRD Studios

We made a zine about Indigenous food futurisms! It includes 24-pages of all-original work by myself, Monica Braine, junior editor of “Imminent Cuisine,” and seven other Native artists, illustrators, comic book artists, chefs and writers. In this episode, we talk about food in Indigenous futurisms and the work in the zine. Zine contributors: Elizabeth Lapensée (Anishinaabe/Metis/Irish), award-winning designer, writer, artist and researcher who creates and studies Indigenous-led media such as games and comics. Visit elizabethlapensee.com. Donell Barlow (Ottawa), author of “Medicine Tracks- A Memoir” and the children’s book, “Bigfoot and Lightning Bug.” Donell is a certified holistic health coach. Visit donellbarlow.com for recipes and more information. Kayla Shaggy (Diné/Anishinaabe), born in Shiprock, New Mexico, Kayla has been drawing comics since she could hold a pencil. To see more of her art and comics check out her website, kaylashaggy.gallery. Tashia Hart (Anishinaabe), writer, artist and biologist from Red Lake, Minnesota. Learn more about her work at tashiahart.com. Weshoyot Alvitre (Tongva/Schottish), comic book artist and illustrator who has been making comics for over 15 years. Mariah Gladstone (Blackfeet/Cherokee), food activist focused on reteaching traditional foods through modern methods. She is the founder of Indigikitchen, indigikitchen.com. Terry Fisher (Coushatta/Jena Band Choctaw/Alabama-Coushatta), halfway right. Inspired by an Indigenous worldview filled with creeps, monsters, pro wrestlers and degenerates.

For our last episode of our Summer Series, we are talking with Dr. Paula Lum and Dr. Triveni DeFries, both physician activists of the UCSF Primary Care Addiction Medicine Fellowship. In this episode, we talk more about the historical and racial roots of the socially constructed phenomena of “the opioid epidemic”. In addition, we talk about how structural and social determinants have affected historical and current drug epidemics, including the rising methamphetamine epidemic going on now. We most importantly talk about how health professionals must de-stigmatize the culture of shame around drug use both in patient care and within our institutions through our words, actions, and activism. We also talk about how to expand resources in our hospitals and communities in order to address drug epidemics and their associated stigma and shame for people affected. We hope this episode serves as a call to action for many people to address personal and institutional biases about people and communities affected by the rise of current drug epidemics. Most of all, we hope this episode brings compassion and humanity to these very real issues of our communities. Also check out our brotha Max's podcast “Flip the Script” episodes “Opioids in Black and White” Pt. 1 and 2 for further context on the current opioid epidemic! https://soundcloud.com/yaleuniversity/opioids-in-black-and-white-pt-ii-imani?in=yaleuniversity/sets/flip-the-script Bios: Paula J. Lum, MD MPH is Professor of Clinical Medicine and Program Director of the UCSF Primary Care Addiction Medicine Fellowship. She has been a faculty member in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital since 1999. Board certified in internal medicine and addiction medicine, Dr. Lum practices at the place where HIV, addiction, and poverty collide. Her research and clinical activities are grounded in evidence-based, patient-centered care to improve health outcomes and life quality of the urban poor. Her current areas of focus include: (1) HIV and viral hepatitis prevention and treatment in persons who inject drugs, (2) evidence-based interventions in primary care and non-traditional settings for substance use disorders and their complications, and (3) curricular interventions to provide health care professionals with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to offer effective patient-centered care to persons who use drugs. Triveni DeFries, MD, MPH was born and raised in Washington, DC. She studies Human Rights & Latin American Studies as an undergraduate at Columbia. After completing her MPH in Global Health at Columbia University, she moved to San Francisco where she attended UCSF for medical school and internal medicine residency. She worked for the Indian Health Service as a general internist in the Navajo Nation in Shiprock, NM for 2 years. Her professional interests are in transforming and teaching primary care to be trauma-informed and integrate the care of people with substance use disorder. She also spends time working on medical evaluations of people seeking asylum in the US. She enjoys spending time outdoors with daughters!

Punch Buck, Owner of Punch's Boxing Club in Farmington and Buck's Tire and Towing in Shiprock, discusses boxing as a means to improve young lives with Ken Collins. See all episodes at http://KensThinkTank.comSupport the show (http://kensthinktank.com/)

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Shiprock is a sheer cliff that rises 1,500 feet above the desert in New Mexico and is the site of an ancient Native American folklore tale. Today the rock is governed by the Navajo Nation and has significant spiritual importance to the Navajo people. Our featured guest is Pamela Aaralyn. She’s a voice of the Elohim - a world renowned channel of a group of angelics who represent Christ Consciousness. We’re speaking with Pamela about her spiritual insights and how 2018 is the year of Emergence.Learn about upcoming mindful events and spiritual observances like Ramadan which is observed by Muslims around the world. Show Segments Intro: 00:00 Spiritual Reflection: Paying Attention to Your Own Path: 01:30 Spiritual Events and Observances: Ramadan: 02:24 Spiritual Places: Ancient Native American folklore of Shiprock: 03:42 Featured Guest: Voice of the Elohim Pamela Aaralyn: 05:24 Outro: 18:20 Our Featured Guest Pamela Aaralyn is a voice of the Elohim - a world renowned channel of a group of angelics who represent Christ Consciousness. She travels the world teaching humanity how to awaken to their own awareness and Divinity. You can find out more about Pamela on her website.     Show Resources and Links The Rock Formation in New Mexico named Shiprock. The Muslim holiday of Ramadan. Eckhart Tolle and Kim Eng events. Join our Spiritual Community Today Join our Facebook group and find out more about the spiritual world around us. Find out more about the Spiritual Fizz Podcast Please support us by subscribing to this podcast on iTunes and tell your friends about us. We look forward to being with you next time when we talk more about the connections between the spiritual and physical worlds.

In this special episode I hit the road and visit a sheep camp near Shiprock, N.M. to talk with a sheep herder family and Aretta Begay (Diné), director of Diné be’iiná, or Navajo Lifeway, a non-profit group dedicated to preserving and strengthening Navajo sheep culture. Please visit toastedsisterpodcast.com and the Toasted Sister facebook page for photos from sheep camp. Also: Diné be’iiná will host their annual Sheep is Life Celebration on June 16 and 17, 2018 at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona.

Brenda Harris is a Native American born in Shiprock, New Mexico and raised in Farmington New Mexico. She has lived on the reservation in Upper Fruitland, NM since 1986. Brenda is married with three grown kids and works on the farm. She has been looking into Sasquatch activity since she was a teen going into the early 90’s. In 2012 they started their own team NM Shadow Seekers with the help of Jon Lee, William Woodall, Ryan Harris, Vincent Lujan, Hoyt Velarde. Brenda has been on several radio shows and TV shows Monster and Mysterious and Finding Bigfoot show. Brenda’s goal is to inform the people of what’s out there and take extra precautions to avoid unwanted encounters. Tonight Brenda will discuss a case her and her team investigated regarding a family's horse being antagonized and injured by a possible Bigfoot.

A rock formation in New Mexico is the focus of a sacred Native American legend. Our featured guest Kimberly McGeorge is an internationally known Frequency Master, Conscious Creation Expert and Naturopathic Energy Healer. Learn about upcoming mindful events and spiritual observances including Lent and the Chinese New Year. Show Segments Intro: 00:00 Spiritual Reflection: Finding a Stable Base: 01:20 Spiritual Events and Observances: Lent and the Chinese New Year: 02:50 Spiritual Places: Shiprock: 04:29 Featured Guest: Frequency Master, Kimberly McGeorge: 06:18 Outro: 32:24 Our Featured Guest Kimberly McGeorge is an internationally known Frequency Master, Conscious Creation Expert and Naturopathic Energy Healer. As a single mother of 4 young girls, Kimberly sought healing and hope, and exhausted all her resources with no results. Then she found real world answers for health, relationship and financial improvements. She now has over 24 years of clinical experience in both the alternative health and energy healing fields, and has worked on thousands of clients in person and remotely around the world. You can find out more about her at her website. Show Resources and Links The rock formation of Shiprock in New Mexico. The Christian observance of Lent. The Chinese New Year. Activities of the Holy Father Pope Francis. The schedule for the Dalai Lama. Eckhart Tolle and Kim Eng events. Join our Spiritual Community Today Get exclusive access to podcasts, videos, our private Facebook group and more. Available only to Spiritual Fizz subscribers. Find out more about the Spiritual Fizz Podcast Please support us by subscribing to this podcast on iTunes and tell your friends about us. We look forward to being with you next time when we talk more about the connections between the spiritual and physical worlds.

Dr. Heather Kovich is chief of staff at Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, New Mexico. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. H. Kovich. And How Long Will You Be Staying, Doctor? N Engl J Med 2017;376:1307-9. K.J. Kelleher and W. Gardner. Out of Sight, Out of Mind - Behavioral and Developmental Care for Rural Children. N Engl J Med 2017;376:1301-3. S. Mann, K. McKay, and H. Brown. The Maternal Health Compact. N Engl J Med 2017;376:1304-5. M. Hartmann and J. Graziadei. Thirty Miles at Sea - Providing Consistent Care in an Inconsistent Environment. N Engl J Med 2017;376:1306-7.

A story of the Navajo reservation, native rock and roll, and action against a colonial government. For over two decades, Duane “Chili” Yazzie has been an activist for Native American rights. Of the Navajo tribe, Chili has spent his life on the reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico, following tribal traditions and questioning the relationship between Native Peoples and Anglo-Americans. As a young man, he became a member of the influential Native American rock band, XIT, playing at political rallies across the United States. Chili would later become involved in Navajo politics, being sworn into the administration of the Shiprock Chapter House, where he now serves as president. In this story, Chili explains the principles of the Diné people, while also recalling his experiences of the United States Indian Affairs relocation program, armed take-overs of corporate factories, political riots in the Navajo Capital, and an assassination attempt by a local white man to take Chili’s life. A LINE DRAWN IN THE REZ DIRT illustrates the struggle of Native Americans transitioning into a modern day America that has renounced the traditions of its past. Produced by Garrett Crowe, Mike Martinez, and Tyler Wray. eisradio.org Select photos by Clarke Tolton clarketolton.com Music by High Aura’d highaurad.bandcamp.com

On todays episode of LET THERE BE TALK my guest is Ralph Sutton Co-Host of the great podcast The SDR show with Big Jay Oakerson. What you may not know about Ralph is years ago he ran one of the best Rock n Roll clubs of all time in NYC called THE LIMELIGHT. Ralph also has a weekly syndicated Rock Radio show called The Tour Bus. Tune in now for this 100 percent rock n roll ride

“Give yourself six months and do the one thing that absolutely terrifies you.” Sooner Davenport’s official bio Sooner Davenport is Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, Kiowa and Navajo. She was born in Shiprock, New Mexico and currently lives in the Oklahoma City area. She graduated with her Bachelor's from Oklahoma City University and pursued  graduate studies at the University of Minnesota-Duluth's Master of Tribal Administration and Governance program. Davenport is a passionate advocate for quality education, child welfare, multiculturalism and sensible economic policies. In 2014, Davenport was selected to the prestigious Native American Political Leadership Program in Washington DC. It was there that she served as a policy assistant for the White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education. She returned from this experience at the US Department of Education determined to continue policy work in Oklahoma. Her work with tribal governments includes the areas of taxation, economic development, oil & gas, renewable energy and government accountability. She has also completed an internship for the Oklahoma Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank. Currently, she works in the non-profit sector building public awareness around the issues of domestic violence and sexual assault in communities throughout Oklahoma. She is involved in many projects and organizations, the latest of her endeavors is her campaign for the Oklahoma House of Representatives in District 43.    In this episode we discuss: How Sooner got her name Running cross-country in college Sooner’s ability to make tough decisions The importance of self-awreness “Following your passion” vs. being passionate about a job Native American Political Leadership Program Sooner’s healing journey and how she works to help others along their journey Sooner’s involvement in various non-profits, and Native Max Magazine Her candidacy for Oklahoma State House District 43 Subscribe to NextGen Native iTunes Stitcher Google Play  

Night Lights - Indie/Pop band from Los Angeles...New single "Take My Hand" out now..more new music will continued to be released through out the year...Check out their music,tour dates & more @ www.facebook.com/wearenightlights Mega Ran - Hip-Hop Artist from Phx,Arizona..New album "RNDM" out now...Video Gamer...Video Game Rapper...Headed out on tour w/ Richie Branson and hitting up Las Vegas on Feb 7th...Check out his music, tour dates & more @ www.facebook.com/MegaRanmusic Biters - Rock N Roll band from Atlanta,GA...Just played Shiprock and headed out next month on a UK/Europe run with Sum 41..New album "Electric Blood" ft the single "1975" out now...Check out their music, tour dates & more @ www.facebook.com/BITERS The Hip Abduction - Afropop/Indie Rock band from St. Petersburg,FL...New album "Gold Under The Glow" ft the singles "Come Alive" & "Before We Lose Our Mind" out on March 11th...Check out their music, tour dates & more @ www.facebook.com/thehipabduction

Jourdan Bennett-Begaye is Navajo. She attends the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Jourdan is also one of the creators of the Survival of the First Voices Festival. Jourdan grew up in Shiprock, NM. Sports played a big role in her life as a child. She played soccer and volleyball. One came naturally, as Jourdan’s mother was a volleyball coach. Soccer was completely foreign to her and her first practice she showed up in tennis shoes and denim shorts. Both experiences are great learning environments. In one, you have access to knowledge, mentors, and opportunity. In the other, you are in an environment unfamiliar to you, you are uncomfortable, you have to open yourself to learning and growth and being comfortable being uncomfortable. I think access to structure, mentors and resources, as well as discomfort are critical to development and success. People can succeed with one or the other, but combined experiences are really springs to success. Jourdan eventually focused on volleyball full time. She played club volleyball, traveled many hours each week to practices and tournaments. It even allowed her to travel to Australia, opening Jourdan up the world of travel. Jourdan began college at Emory University. Her goal was to go work at the Centers for Disease Control. But she experienced culture shock, living far away from home and not being able to play volleyball due to some injuries. She transferred to Fort Lewis College, which was closer to home. But it was her last choice when initially considering what school to attend. I asked Jourdan why that was the case. She got very real and shared a powerful story. Initially she thought Fort Lewis was “too rezzy” and she was looking for a different experience. She said during high school she felt a bit ashamed of being Native; she accepted it but felt ashamed of her identity. Today, she has the complete opposite perspective. What caused this change? A story from her grandparents. She was visiting them one day and her grandmother told a story about how Jourdan’s Greatx2 grandmother was born on the long walk. Jourdan learned she descends from someone who survived not only the journey itself, but survived an experience where women and babies would be killed on the journey and that only half of the people on the walk survived. Jourdan realized that “she was a miracle” and that she was on Earth for a reason. The story helped her understand who she is and where she came from. Talk about powerful and empowering. So much of our recent histories has been about survival. And we have. Suicide has been an issue for too long. Jourdan’s message that each person is a miracle, that they are here because previous generations survived is one worth sharing in our own communities. Jourdan’s inspiration for Survival of the First Voices with a friend during a road trip. They were driving home from LA and Jourdan mentioned a new media festival that occurred in New York and that people wanted a similar event on the West Coast. They decided to do it themselves. And they did it in three months. It’s amazing to see how successful they were in implementing the festival in such a short timeframe. They just took action. So amazing. They are in the third year of the festival and continue to grow it. Listen to the episode for more about Jourdan’s story. And be sure to check out their Facebook page for more information.  

THE LONGEST WALK 3 (Reversing Diabetes) Feb 14 - July 8, 2011 The Longest Walk northern route 2011 is being organized by Chris Francisco, Navajo from Shiprock, N.M., living in Portland. This is a 5,000+ mile Walk Across America to bring awareness of the devastating effects of diabetes and how it can be reversed by changing our entire diet and lifestyle! This disease is at epidemic levels across America, and throughout Indian Country. LW III will hold community talks along the way about reversing diabetes, and heart disease. They will be advocating for major changes in eating habits, while promoting beneficial exercise programs. The goal is to REVERSE DIABETES AND RAISE THE CONSCIOUS OF AMERICA THAT WE MUST HALT THE WORST DIET IN THE WORLD! The Longest Walk 3 is welcoming a NORTHERN ROUTE from Portland, Oregon to Washington DC!! Chris Fransisco will be leading this route. CONTACTS: Goodie Cloud, National Coordinator The Longest Walk 3/Reversing Diabetes 2011, (218) 209-0232 ndn_queen_bee@yahoo.com Tatanka Banks, t.banks2010@yahoo.com President, Dennis Banks Co., (952) 220-9046 Northern Route: Chris Francisco, (503) 515-6239 indigenouswalkabout@yahoo.com Dennis J. Banks, Ojibwa Warrior, nowacumig@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001440316542 http://apps.facebook.com/fundrazr/activity/871fe984dfbe4d4aa7141d426aa6d829 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAUU0XMeDt8 http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/08/longest-walk-2011-reversing-diabetes.html http://evanscraig.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/for-your-wellness-today-longest-walk-3-northern-route/

THE LONGEST WALK 3 (Reversing Diabetes) Feb 14 - July 8, 2011 The Longest Walk northern route 2011 is being organized by Chris Francisco, Navajo from Shiprock, N.M., living in Portland. This is a 5,000+ mile Walk Across America to bring awareness of the devastating effects of diabetes and how it can be reversed by changing our entire diet and lifestyle! This disease is at epidemic levels across America, and throughout Indian Country. LW III will hold community talks along the way about reversing diabetes, and heart disease. They will be advocating for major changes in eating habits, while promoting beneficial exercise programs. The goal is to REVERSE DIABETES AND RAISE THE CONSCIOUS OF AMERICA THAT WE MUST HALT THE WORST DIET IN THE WORLD! The Longest Walk 3 is welcoming a NORTHERN ROUTE from Portland, Oregon to Washington DC!! Chris Fransisco will be leading this route. CONTACTS: Goodie Cloud, National Coordinator The Longest Walk 3/Reversing Diabetes 2011, (218) 209-0232 ndn_queen_bee@yahoo.com Tatanka Banks, t.banks2010@yahoo.com President, Dennis Banks Co., (952) 220-9046 Northern Route: Chris Francisco, (503) 515-6239 indigenouswalkabout@yahoo.com Dennis J. Banks, Ojibwa Warrior, nowacumig@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001440316542 http://apps.facebook.com/fundrazr/activity/871fe984dfbe4d4aa7141d426aa6d829 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAUU0XMeDt8 http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2010/08/longest-walk-2011-reversing-diabetes.html http://evanscraig.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/for-your-wellness-today-longest-walk-3-northern-route/