By Woody Lee, Executive Director (Feature photo by Cynthia Wilson, Traditional Foods Program Director) In an interview with the Utah Diné Bikéyah Communications Desk, Woody Lee virtually sat down with Alastair Lee Bitsóí, UDB’s Communications Director, and Willson Atene, UDB’s Office Assistant. The trio talked about what Voting Vigilance means under Mr. Lee’s leadership as the […]
By Willson Atene It was a crisp cool September morning; we woke from our slumber at La Posada Pintada in Bluff, Utah. This is before the big run – 350 miles from Bears Ears to Salt Lake City. We all met up in the lobby of a boutique inn and had breakfast. While eating and
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Feature image and written by Alastair Bitsóí Even though home – Naschitti, Navajo Nation, New Mexico – is 183 miles southeast of Bears Ears and not in San Juan County, Utah, I am still of the Bears Ears region. As Indigenous peoples, we do not see state or county jurisdictions as the borders to our
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Yá’át’ééh shí éí Willson Atene, Tóchiinii Nishłí, Tachiinii Báshishchiin, Ashiihí Dah Shí Cheii, Tł’ízí Łání Dah Shí Nálí. Tséł Báhídi shighan, t’áádóó Halgaitódéé éí nááshá. Greetings my name is Willson Atene, I am Bitterwater, born for the Red Running Into Water People, my maternal grandparents are the Salt People and my Paternal Grandparents are the
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Launching the “Seeds and Sheep” program is an act of food justice to show the Earth and universe that we are shifting back to cultural solutions to address the COVID-19 pandemic, climate crisis, and oppression on our food systems.
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For Immediate Release: February 18, 2020
Contact – Alastair Lee Bitsóí: (917) 202-8308
SALT LAKE CITY – Just west of the City of Blanding, Diné (Navajo) children and elderly have no access to running water or electricity in their homes, and are forced to haul water sometimes spending about $150 per month from outside sources.
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We drove along the highway, the snow dusted with vermilion-umber sand, seemingly the only form of water in the dry lands of the high desert in the winter. As we passed Wunu’qa / Tsé Biiʼ Nidzisgaii (Monument Valley), we admired the fog gently caressing the red rock mittens and buttes in the valley and along the southern Comb Ridge.
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