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
By Willson Atene Photo credit: SLC Air Protectors 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
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
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
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.
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