. >> straddling arizona, new mexico and utah, navajo nation now has the highest rate of infection percapita in the united states. >>> the nation which is roughly the size of west virginia lacks comprehensive healthcare and only 60% of all residents have running water. residents have been wearing masks for 6 weeks and dividing by 57 our weekend lockdown spends. since late april, -- to help the vulnerable committee. joining me now is a professor of medicine at uc fs that has treated hunters hundreds of patients in the navajo nation, joining us by skype. doctor, thank you so much for being with us. >> thanks for having me. you have been going out to the navajo nation since 2015 but this was a special trip to assist with the pandemic surge response. why is there such a high rate of infection there? >> well, there are several reasons why when you talk about the history of navajo nation is a history of neglect of native americans in the united states and so, you have genocide, broken treaties and you have a health system that is underfunded so one third of the rate per capita that the india

yes so the navajo nation is located in the southwest region. of the united states it's approximately the size of west virginia and for people not from america it's about the size of ireland. and where a community living on the reservation or about 173000 people. about 3 over 300000 people and role in our tribe and you know are very close knit. where i'm actually all society so our clans are passed down from generation to generation in from. from. the from from. and i would appreciate it if we come back alley thank you so much because i'm deleting my i want to jump straight into you tube one of the. comments has is and the largest city that is the handle and best thing in new mexico right now and they're asking about the wood to supply i'm running out of time of this seems to pay sick can you explain why in the navajo nation that some people in the rue areas may not have easy access to water. you know. first off it's an arid landscape the navajo reservation is in the southwest corner of the united states which in and of itself already is usually

i was just standing there and in navajo, people were dying.s of people from all the different tribes in utah. all i could say... ijust said, "i cannot stand here and do nothing." and so i did something and it has grown and i have an amazing team of people who are incredibly caring, and we are all working together to save lives. so do you think you were brought up to take action? absolutely, and it is true of every native american child and adult — community before self. from my youngest childhood, i remember my mother asking me, "what are you going to be when you grow up and what will you do to help the people?" so i got a degree in social work because i thought that was one of the ways that i could really help native americans and it means the world to me. my mother is a world changer and i have a deep desire to make my mother proud and there would be nothing more important to me than being just like my mother. she changed the lives of the people on the reservations. how? my mother, she was raising four girls single—y and in her early a0s she

then fast forward to coronavirus this year when a navajo nation was impacted.thel branch sought help. this was your idea? >> i knew people would be hit hard for various reas fixed inc not adequate funding, we have no running water. others have no electricity. i went ahead and started the go fund me. >> reporter: in ireland patrick heard about the appeal. what moved you to donate? >> this idea of finding es have been like paying it forward. >> reporter: and countless irish men and women saw this as a chance to pay back for something they never forget. >> when i started the fund the goal was set of $50,000. i thought this is wildly optimistic, i don't think w $10,000 and now to be approaching $5 million, it's amazing. >> reporter: the hopi nations in utah, arizona and new mexico organized to distribute food and other essentials and they're thanking the irish. so here we are in 2020. we're in the middle of the pap democratic and lo and behold, ireland comes calling to the navajo nation. >> you cannot teach things like that. i mean, that's the things that surpass h

we had done that on behalf of the navajo chapter. that was about all anybody needed, so i was drafted. john asked another to work on the project and instructed all of us to work with sidi ward and the vice president. they assigned brad patterson as executive assistant to work with me. one of the first steps we took was to consult with bob robertson, director of the and cio, which reported to vice president agnew. ncio had been established by the executive order by president johnson in his march 6, 1968 message. it was chaired by the vice president and this is an interesting list of people on the council. the secretaries of interior, agriculture, commerce, labor. the director of oeo and six indian leaders. in august 1970, president nixon expanded the council by executive order to include the attorney general, who should have been on it from the beginning, and two other additional indian leaders for a total of eight. ncio had already started a series of age forums on indian issues and programs around the country, taking reservation and

nation the largest native american reservation in the united states and the navajo people indigenous people in the united states already a tiny minority under resourced as well how on earth are they going to cope with a coup or not virus that is what we're going to be talking about today if you have ideas if you have experience if you have questions for i guess you know what to do a new to jump into the comments section and you can be part of the show.

fast forward to coronavirus pandemic this year when the navajo nation was severely impa impacted. was your idea. >> i knew people would be hit hard for various reasons. either, you know, living on a fixed income with not adequate funding. one-third of the nation has no running water. another third has no electricity. i went ahead and started the gofundme. >> reporter: in ireland, patrick kerrwan heard about the appeal. what moved you to donate? >> i think for most irish people, it's this idea of finding commonality. all of the messages have been about this idea of paying it forward. a sense of remembrance. >> and countless irish men and women saw this as a chance to pay back for something they never forgot. >> when i started the fund, i put the goal at $50,000, and i just thought this is wildly w optimistic. i don't think we're going to make more than $1,000. and now to be approaching $5 million is just amazing. >> in a little more than two months, a team from the navajo and then the hopi nations in utah, arizona, and new mexico organized to distributed food and other essentials.

for example the navajo nation has one of the highest per capita rates in the country. it's resulted in confused lockdowns. the high infection rate, limited internet access to pascrell excess. i'm concerned they are experiencing unique difficulties in accessing the federal courts. given the significant presence in the indian country, is a federal presence, i asked specifically how the judicial system is accounting for challenges present their read on to ensure their needs thoughtfully fairly and equitably addressed. i would question for judge campbell. you've been a judge in arizona for nearly two decades. presided over a very rising areas. were fortunate to have you with your expertise some of the roles and practices and procedures for the notice about the committee on federal judiciary covid-19 task force, have representatives from important stakeholders. as a test course of the company unroll procedures have tribal representation. thank you congressman stanton. and for your support in the course of arizona. there is not to my knowledge, tribal representation on the c

at least 322 navajos have already died from covid -- a toll higher than 16 states. in other news from arizona, a county sheriff, who refused to enforce the state's stay-at-home restrictions, has now tested positive for conavirus. sheriff ma l lamb pininal counun tested positive, just beforee e was heduduleto avel to washingtonon to attendna ceremony for president trump's new policing executive order. meanwhile, oklahoma reported a record number of new covid cases on thursday for the fifth consecutive day. president trump is traveling to tulsa, oklahoma on saturday for his first large indoor rally in months. trump has refused to cancel the event, despite warnings from public health officials, who fear the rally could turn into a "super-spreader event." attendees will be asked to sign coronavirus liability waivers to prevent future lawsuits against the campaign. but they will not be required do wearar a mask. trumump is also exexpected to be greeted by protesters in tulsa. the filmmaker eugene jarecki has announced he is bringing the trump death clock to tulsa. the cl

sided 29000 executive orders stop wishing a toss who was a physical safety it was complemented by navajo nation the vice president myron lizer he signed 3 bill supporting spokane's tribes funding indigenous language recognizing the little shell tribe has only been much better than obama. oh i would have to say absolutely not. and i'm happy to go over those those points individually that $8000000000.00 that tribes received from congress out of the care act originally the trump administration did not want any funding going to tribes it all it was congress that made that a $1000000.00 appropriation to try and finish that $8000000.00 corporation was made . leadership in the white house has just been a horrible job and getting it subtribes it's taken 2 months to get any funding to drive when it was supposed to have been done within 30 days there are leader in the assistant secretaries office or indian affairs and trumpet administration actually was trying to appropriate funding for. alaska native corporations which are not tribal governments and she happened to be a shareholder of one of thos

resurfaced for the first time as a government contractor, and got a contract to $3 million to bring ppe navajo nation's. what do you know? more than a quarter of the ppe's were completely unusable and ppe's were completely unusable and flawed, and yet he made off with millions of dollars. in a pandemic, to exploit the taxpayers -- we do not want the money going to the greediest people and corporations. we want it going to the neediest small businesses, and the unemployed, and the people who have need to get through this. at the same time, we are going to work hard to make sure the country actually comes up with a national testing and contact tracing and quarantine strategy, which the executive branch of government has failed to come up with. at every point, we have seen a series of excuses. we have seen the president praising the chinese government in january, february, march. basically, we don't have a strategy and we don't have a plan. we want to work on making sure the taxpayer dollars are zealously protected at the same time we bear down and make sure we get a real testing, contact tracing

release several days ago michael white that's what we do i'm a private citizen also trying to help the navajo nation that has been hit hard in the west with the cove and the border hispanic communities i just think i have a responsibility now that i'm out of office still a little gas in the tank trying to help people and that's what i'm trying to do i you concerned that the opening of america may be too soon. no i think you've got to balance it i think for instance in new mexico my governor's done a good job of protecting the new mexico people from the covalent social distancing stay at home orders infection rates but we're also a rural poor state so i think there has to be a balance larry opening up the hotels opening up. the opportunities were big tourism economy retail workers know i think the proper balance it goes state by state but in my state i think what is key here larry is governors of done a good job republican governors mike de wine in ohio don't larry open to maryland governor cuomo in new york the governor california my governor i think those that are trying to balance but give

navajo nation, detroit, new orleans. >> jimmy: it's just such a great idea. take people who were working with the peace corps, and you really are -- enable emergency workers to be there in case there is an emergency. it's very simple. and you would think that this would be the sort of thing we had a mechanism for, and turns out you are the mechanism for this sort of thing. >> well, we're hoping that there will be more mechanisms. the idea is in picking these particularly marginalized areas as we go out around the country, to do it very visibly. and we put out a manual through our websitar where other organizations can merge with local government and put these sites up. and just get people tested. that's our leg. the diagnostic test. not the serology or antibody test. our test sites tell you if you're positive or negative. and the upside of that is if you're positive, you know to notify the people close to you, notify people you've been in contact with, and watch for your own health and god forbid you start to get respiratory symptoms, get yourself to a hospit

food, water and cloepts brought to navajo communities. and children and their families helped, too.oney family from boston needed to get to california. mom had landed a new job. their 9-year-old son, john, battling cancer and they did not know how they would fly him there. they say the angels swoopedthan grateful. >> how we would get there, just being so impossible with covid and with john. >> angel flight northeast got them to california. the nonprofit has now thrown about 400 flights since this pandemic began, 15 states. >> hi, david. >> volunteer pilot richard jacobs just back from a fright, checking in with us from a windy runway in massachusetts. >> in these covid times, we may lose track of the fact that there are people that have other medical issues they are dealing with. >> richard telling us why he does it. >> i became an angel flight pilot because i love to fly and this gave me a way to help people at the same time. >> richard and the team ready for the next mission, while tonight, 9-year-old john and his family are thankful. >> we're just really touched that, you know, s

partner, doug anderson, a navajo indian is here today at this meeting. my whole career has been basically involved in indian law and representing tribal interests. before i joined the interior department, i had been a professor at ucla law school and in that capacity i talked indian taught also -- i federal indian law. i helped bring some of the initial mall reform cases that were brought ready much at the same time as the nixon message. say -- i guess i should let me say one other thing. wally i remarked last week that wallybeen a subaltern to johnson and what i meant by that the assistantwas attorney general in the division of the justice department handling indian cases. he had been appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. associate solicitors did not have to go through that and also my boss at the interior department, the solicitor, the general counsel of the was ament, kent frizzell presidential appointment and confirmed by the senate. and i guess together i saw them as the real giants in implementing the nixon-indian policy as a lega

and with the context with the navajo nation, significant amount of efforts from our partners to include health and human services, indian health service and the state of arizona, new mexico, utah, all in support of the nation. we provided $5 million of direct federal support to the navajo nation and again with indian health service has provided an allo case of $80 million to help the nation deal with covid-19. so again, would you be happy to work with you and your staff moving forward. >> i have a follow-up question. many tribal governments have not worked directly with fema. tribes that seek direct assistance must over come a number of administrative hurdles including completing a fema tribal agreement providing proof of an active emergency response plan and completing a public assistance administrative plan before they could apply for reimbursement. stream lining this administratively burdensome process would allow expedited access to protect public safety. how could fema streamline this process for the duration of the pandemic. >> yes, ma'am. again, through our regional administrator

to applaud the va for providing additional support to ihs and the tribal health facilities in the navajo nation. i'm concerned about other tribes across our country and wondering if va has a singular point of contact for trying to reach out to the systems for care for the-- >> yes, chairwoman two things, number one, cam mathews who is head of community care, managed the tribals that we have within indian kriebs and our health office is also available for that. we remain concerned. in fact, this morning i had a conversation with the leadership of indian health service regarding some of the issues that we've faced as we've worked to support them and you should know that that is an incredibly collegial effort as we go forward to support not only ihs about you individual tribal delivery systems. >> so, dr. stone, is there just a one point of contact? that's my concern is that if the tribes are just told to contact ihs that that's calling a big bureaucracy and they might not be getting the help and support they need. what i'm really looking for is that there would be a universal one point of

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where he even hosted a group of navajo veterans right in front of that painting. >> you were here longf us were here. >> reporter: second, no one sought to remove andrew jackson from the bill entirely. a redesigned bill, simply moves him to the back of the bill, and features harriet tubman on the front. this decision came during the obama administration, a decision that was also voted on by americans. initiating a time line to unveil the bill's redesign in 2020. coinciding with the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote. four years later, the plans for release have been pushed back a decade. treasury secretary steven mnuchin telling reporters earlier this month, this is something that is in the distant future. but the new bill wouldn't be released until 2030. so what accounts for the delay? mnuchin claims it's security concerns. >> this is a nonpolitical situation where the primary objective of changing the currency is to stop counterfeiting. >> reporter: but when pressed, mnuchin couldn't explain why the imagery would still be delayed. >> so, yes or no, will you meet wha

. >> and moving his portrait to the oval office, where he even hosted a group of navajo veterans, right in front of that painting. >> you were here long before any of us were here. >> second, no one sought to remove andrew jackson from the bill, entirely. a redesigned bill, simply moves him to the back of the bill. and features harriet tubman on the front. this decision came during the obama administration. a decision that was, also, voted on by americans. initiating a timeline to unveil the bill's redesign in 2020. coinciding with the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote. four years later, the plans for release have been pushed back a decade. treasury secretary steve mnuchin telling reporters, earlier this month, this is something that is in the distant future. but the new bill wouldn't be released until 2030. so what accounts for the delay? mnuchin claims it's security concerns. >> this is a nonpolitical situation, where the primary objective of changing the currency is to stop counterfeiting. >> but, when pressed, mnuchin couldn't explain why the imagery would, still,

as you know, reverend al, vulnerable communities, the elderly, navajo nation, people of color, are seeing death rates at significantly higher rates. and this is something that all of america should be condemning, and not just the leadership, but frankly, the lack of a vision for how our country can get through this crisis that's going to last for many, many more months. >> we'll have to leave it there, senator cory booker, thank you for joining us. >>> joining me now is senator doug jones of alabama, a democrat. let me ask you, senator jones, as you know very well, i've shared with you, i have roots on my mother's side in alabama. she grew up and was buried there. i have a sister, two brothers there, living there now. what is going on about this spike in covid-19 in alabama? it seems to me disturbing. can you give us firsthand knowledge of what is going on? and your view of the president who seems to be telling the nation everything is going fine, and your home state is less than fine, to put it nicely. >> it is putting it nicely, reverend al. thank you for having me today. it's disturbin

. >> reporter: and moving his portrait to the oval office where he even hosted a group of navajo veterans front of that painting. >> you were here long before any of us were here. >> reporter: second, no one sought to remove andrew jackson from the bill entirely. a redesigned bill simply moves him to the back of the bill and features harriet tubman on the front. this decision came during the obama administration, a decision that was also voted on by americans, initiating a timeline to unveil the bill's redesign in 2020, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote. four years later, the plans for release have been pushed back a decade. treasury secretary steve mnuchin telling reporters earlier this month, this is something that is in the distant future. but the new bill won't be released until 2030. so, what accounts for the delay? mnuchin claims it is a security concern. >> this is a non-political situation where the primary objective of changing the currency is to stop counterfeit. >> reporter: but when pressed, mnuchin couldn't explain why the imagery would

it was there that he met his jess begay senior of the navajo nation was a long-haul trucker who transported everything from explosives to milk. he taught others how to drive commercially, includs own daughter, leslynn. she said her dad was humble, and always open to learning more. he still referred to himself as a rookie, even as a 25-year veteran in the trucking industry. s family described jess as dedicated, prayerful, and loving. he was 73 years old. mary wilson had a way with animals. she was 23 when she started working at the maryland zoo, and went on to become thfirst black woman to be promoted to senior zookeeper. mary was a mother figure to many, including an orphansy gorilla nameia. mary continued to visit sylvia even after she left the maryland zoo. sylvia always remembered her. mary's dedication to her work to become a zookeeper, too.ron mary was 83. lifelong educator udent. passionate about learning, thomas earned advanced degrees in education, well into his fifties.he aught english classes in kenya, where he was born. after immigrating to the u.s. in 1985, he taught at a minnes

reluctance to speak out but i do know that i can say that within th force we have had assistance, navajo 30,000 additional kits per month, the leadership at large has to be the people and we've got to take the value from those who are offering it and the way they can with their expertise from any office in this country and i applaud dr. fauci and i think that, you know, i would just say that for anyone who has not heard his voice lately or heard it enough he's on the record and we're going to stay the course on the lane that he set. >> sean penn, thank you so much. and thanks for coming on to tell us about the work you're doing. >> thank you very much. can i just do a quick shout out? >> actually, i have a shout out for you right here. if you would like to know more about what c.o.r.e. is doing, go to the website on the screen, coreresponse.org/covid-19. that's right, isn't it, sean? >> that's correct and also check out world central kitchen. they feed the front line staffers, protesters and elderly. the partnerships are what make things work. >> thank you. we really appreciate you comin

she knows, and navajo nation vice president myron. thank you.t people i met when i announced i was going to run and what she has gone through with illegal immigration, nobody will ever go through, hopefully nobody ever has to go through, unfortunately people will have to do it. but she is one of the first people i met and she lost a magnificent child to an illegal immigrant and it's a horrible thing and she spent her life in the last long period of years fighting and fighting and people have gone to respect her greatly, mary mendoza. [cheering] >> he has a lot of guts. thank you, very special thank you to pastor luke barnett, where is the pastor, is that the pastor, where is the pastor, i want to see this guy, he is always good. i will be here and get here someday. i will be here some sunday morning. thank you. [cheering] great job, i hear great things, thank you very much. we are also joined by a man who became such a superstar overnight. i put them there to be a fuller. he was the ambassador to germany. and he was like i needed somebody to sit

the second highest rate per capita is the navajo people. all of those things you just saw are choices. those are not happening because people are black or because they're brown or because they're first indigenous. it's happening because of historic denial of health care. it's happening because the people that are dying the most are the ones that are having to go to work because they don't have sufficient unemployment and the sick leave or the living wages. they don't have the forgiveness of their rent. they don't have the moratoriums against cutting off their water. so they are being forced into lethal situations. and one of the things, ari, we're saying is in this moment while we focus on the death of george floyd, part of what we have to also do in this moment and others who have died is to -- that's just one piece of violence caused by racism. we need to look at all the people who aren't caught on camera. all the people that died because of health care. and this pandemic is exposing the wounds of our society that come from systemic racis

food, water, and clothes brought to navajo communities. children and their families helped too.boston needed to get to california. mom had landed a new job. their 9-year-old son, john, battling cancer, and they did not know how they would fly him there. they say the angels swooped in. and his mother, elizabeth, is grateful. >> how we would get there seemed impossible, with covid, with john. >> reporter: the angels got the cunys to california. the nonprofit has flown about 400 flights since this pandemic began, 15 states. volunteer pilot richard jacobs just back from a flight, checking with us from a windy runway in massachusetts. >> in these covid times, we may lose track of the fact that there are people who have other medical issues they're dealing with. >> reporter: richard telling us why they does it. >> i became an angel flight pilot because i love to fly, and this gave me a way to help people at the same time. >> reporter: richard and the team ready for the next mission, while 9-year-old john and his family are thankful. >> we're just really touched that someone who doesn'

. >> i would add, the native american population mug we watched what happened to the navajo nation that has among the highest rates of covid infection and that's despite their population is a percentage of the nation. we know what's happening in communities of color especially those that have the coexisting not only people of color but they are impoverished or working for. the challenge is the only way we get through and recover from the pandemic and its effect, the devastating public health crisis, the economic lack and lack of faith in our system because we watched our leaders lie to us about what is happening. the fact we had to have a man simply for telling us the truth and doctor fauci is emblematic how broken our country is at this moment but we are still here. but you clearly for communities that are the most vulnerable and least resilient about the only way through is through voting. to elect new leadership. elect new representation. representation sees us and listens to us. part of the responsibility i think each of us hold, do not give in to the price of people. that's strong

the navajos that have been living there for hundreds of-years-old this soulless as an invasion of theircles to their attempt to control the west and their vision of this national future. so i also learned that after the union defended the territory in the spring of 1862, they turned to these other enemies have initiated hard work campaigns against the so what this meant is tha at the same time that the union was fighting this war to be emancipated enslaved men and women in the east it was also to exterminate or remove native peoples in the west. >> as folks are beginning to arrive good evening and welcome to tonight's live online author event with green lights bookstore. i'm one of the owners and they are so excited to host tonight's event with nikita stewart presenting her book truth 6,000 girl scout troop that inspired the world. she will be talking with her daughter so you are in very excellent time tonight. going to say a huge thanks to all the participants for being here and all of you for showing up.

reunited with my birth mother, moved to new mexico and attended hall here so just like -- i live in the navajo nation and other roles with native nations and the state of new mexico. but i will tell you this whole time through my entire childhood and certainly through the drills of practicing law i was writing. not with an eye toward publication but for me. writing for me has always been an act or survival. but i wasn't even think but publication, i guess, because i am a black and native woman, writing science fiction and fantasy, and i really didn't know could i be published. i had not discovered folks like butler and -- and there were no -- certainly in native women writing in the genre it wasn't something i had conceived of. what i was doing, i think, is what tony morrison has told us to do, which is writing the story that i wanted to see in the world. so black sun is a story that i wanted to see in the world. it is a big, sprawling epic fantasy for me in the lines of a honored lord of the rings ringsr game of thrones if i could be so bold. the thing that black sun is different it's not ins