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COVID in the Navajo Nation

Title (Dublin Core)

COVID in the Navajo Nation

Description (Dublin Core)

When I was originally planning my trip, I hoped to visit Antelope Canyon, as well as a few other parks on the Navajo Reservation, but the Navajo Nation has been one of the hardest-hit regions in the country, so by the time I was in the area, the parks were closed, and even if they had been open, I wouldn’t have felt comfortable visiting and spreading it more, even if I would have been outside and away from people. Because of that experience I wanted to take this space to try to amplify their experience. This Instagram account records the experience of an organization providing relief to members of the tribe. There are only 45 search results for Navajo in the archive, which I would constitute as an archival silence considering that many cities with comparable populations have hundreds of entries. I know that taking a screenshot of a website can only tell you so much, but it is the best way I could come up with of elevating the voices of the Navajo Nation, which is an important practice to engage within the context of archival work.
Screenshots of Antelope Canyon’s website and an Instagram account that provides covid relief to the Navajo and Hopi communities

Date (Dublin Core)

December 1, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Navajo and Hopi COVID Relief Fund
Antelope Canyon Park Service

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Ainslee Moorehead

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST241

Partner (Dublin Core)

Suffolk University in Boston

Type (Dublin Core)

screenshot

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Education--Universities
English Community & Community Organizations

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Suffolk
Navajo Nation
Hopi
New Mexico
Arizona
Utah
Colorado
Indigenous
Diné
Navajo
#rezlife

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

HST241
Suffolk
Navajo
Navajo Nation
#CovidMiniCollection
Hopi
New Mexico
Utah
Arizona
#rezlife

Collection (Dublin Core)

Rural Voices
Indigenous POV

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

12/16/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

01/26/2021
02/25/2021
06/21/2021

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This item was submitted on December 16, 2020 by Ainslee Moorehead using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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