University Showcase, Friday 8/21 8a: COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the Navajo Nation, which only this week began a cautious re-opening. Not long ago, the vast reservation had one of the highest infection rates per capita in the United States. 

Sunnie Clahchischiligi is journalist with Searchlight New Mexico and a graduate student at the University of New Mexico, and she wanted to find out how Navajo elders were faring in the pandemic. What she discovered for her article "Navajo elders: Alone, without food, in despair," was hunger and neglect, but also profound strength and resiliency.

Resources:

• These doctors and nurses volunteered to battle Covid-19 in the Navajo Nation, and came back with a warning - CNBC

• 'Hit us at our core': Vulnerable Navajo Nationfears a second COVID-19 wave - NBC

• ‘Always wear your mask’: NN employees return to work; Nez outlines re-opening - Navajo Times