You are about the increase in hostilities in yemen listen this is the moment to stop all the 30 action this is the moment also trades on fighting like we meet with the global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the elders there are. Going to be ok look im sure thats truly the most infections of carla virus her capital in the rest not in new york city it is in the in the Navajo Nation the largest native american reservation in the United States now another hope 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 were 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. I will introduce the guests and they will introduce themselves to you had a time ran great to have you in the stream tell everybody who you are hello my name is tyrone white horse i am the cofounder of protect me of elders i am many go to mourn for the white corn woman by the edge of the water i am. Here today with you all we are so glad to have you dealt to jail welcome to the strange tell everybody who you are. My name is dr tell them i am going to executive director for the never Heard Department of health and number of their 8 people clam and born for their rich strike running until our clan. Going to thank you for an. Oh it is make it is the great to have you i know you in your Doctors Office hes taken some time off from your work we really appreciate that welcome to the straight. An alley and i am the big water clan born for the near the water people and i am from kirtland in mexico the director protect the sacred. Alley the Big International audience how would you describe the Navajo Nation i knew the people in United States who dont understand dont know about another nation how would you explain your community to the welt. Yeah so the Navajo Nation is located in the southwest region. Of the United States its approximately the size of West Virginia and for people not from america its about the size of ireland. And where a Community Living on the reservation about 173000 people. About 3 over 300000 people and rolled in our tribe and you know are very close knit. Where i Matrilineal Society so our clans are passed down from generation to generation in from. From. From from. And i would appreciate it if we come back alley thank you so much because im deleting why 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 theyre asking about the wood to supply im 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 its an arid landscape the navajo reservation is in the Southwest Corner of the United States which in and of itself already is usually in Drought Conditions so water itself is not very abundant among our people thats not the say that water is nonexistent or that there are ways to get water but for the most part about 30 percent of individuals and families on the reservation do not have access to Running Water and so the way that that has been remedied in the past is the majority of families load up the water barrel on the back of their pickup trucks and travel to a nearby community used to fill them up with a pot of water to take back to distribute among themselves and their families and also among the livestock so. Given thats the case most of those families they do that do not have access to Running Water so water is a Precious Resource among our people weve done what we can or we are doing what we can to to acquire it and to do what weve always done which is all water but when it comes to that basic infrastructure thats thats so prominent among the rest of the United States its lacking on the reservation bill to im just wondering im just looking ahead lined up but we shared with online audience that aljazeera dont come why has Navajo Nation. By the coronavirus there are many factors at play here but as adult kony simplifying influences you can actually understand capital it is a hot spot in the United States for the crew to fight this. Do not think you put that question and i think being and having a doctorate in Public Health is very important and this effort because of the Public Health emergency so it is a Public Health emergency and i think thats very important to understand that in a Public Health emergency every sector of the community is impact that from a community of a school to an area relate it to businesses hospitals just about every function of Government Entity yes what we consider Public Health and i think every area has impacted thats what we say about that theres these its out there is when were doing our education that we cant see we cant touch we cant build this disease so its very. Unpredictable and unknown and very new its a novel disease that weve been weve been dealing with and i think why its impacted it a lot of our community is this just and not only the native communities such as another nation but the entire not United States or for those reasons but for us thank you there are some factors as we look back at the spread of that as the u. S. And some are really in relation to multigenerational homes and we talked about water access i mean obviously you need water to wash your hands and then you reserve your own water you might not have that luxury out washing your hands and i think and in a general in the general day or before coronavirus i think native americans are nabbed in abuja nation has really use less water at dissent general because of the limited access we also have that their issues right that were related to our Health Care System and then food excessively just in general theres a lot of social Economic Issues that are there are underlying as well as the Chronic Health conditions that our population has we are high diabetes rates Heart Disease and cancer as. So for Instance Health care issues would be like oh specialists and clinics and facilities you know suit. Few well so she also deals than the rest of the country its an usually sponsored time and least. Well the United States government has treaty obligations with tribes across the country and one of those obligations to her is to provide health care for native American Communities. And given that so many communities are few and far apart least on in our reservation where a lot of families live or rural the 1st off most of the towns and cities on the reservation are not large cities like you would expect anywhere else in the United States or anywhere else in the world there are smaller communities so Community Hospitals are really small Community Hospitals are set up at these places to serve people and in large rural areas and so given that its kind of hard for access for a lot of these people to get to use Healthcare Facilities and secondly there when it comes to funding Indian Health services are drastically underfunded per capita every across in your country is spent about 3100. 00 per capita whereas across the rest of the country outside of native American Communities per capita spending that about 8000. 00 so thats about 5000 dollars difference thats thats not being spent toward helping in improving health care for native American Communities across the United States to make a really good point we spoke to her. About funding what is the issue why Indigenous People in america suffering so much with doing a virus and why this is what she told us is a list. So the Navajo Nation has received 600000000. 00 under the carousel act but getting those funds into action thats a little arm and then you might think something thats often overlooked is that our nation has. The federal government as an intruder. To provide for the Health Care Needs of native americans in this country and the federal Agency Responsible for filling that obligation and in Health Services has been chronically underfunded prove yours so intolerable to get through these bureaucratic hurdles grassroots and other organizations like the travel code in 1000 really are going to continue to play an Important Role to meet in media needs these tribal communities. So there isnt just pointing the finger and saying were underresourced as a community or communities she will say setting up. A way to help you time stripes right now and i want to just click a few to see how the white house hes dealing with this and this is from the white house themselves President Trump is protecting the native American Community as we come back the coronavirus alley you see any evidence of this no im not. Mean i feel like President Donald Trump he visited arizona but i i personally feel that he could have prioritized dispersing these friends to tribes rather than putting a trip to arizona ahead of that and i think that thats where finding and the lag and finding and sending it to tribes put us in a situation and that we could have been this could have been pretty preventable we could have. With the finding it would have helped immensely earlier im. Good question here for you tyler and this comes from 2 need to me is on you tube watch me right now and jenny says i understand that reservations may have different rules and regulations but why not work with the leaders and Council Members to make their lives better is that happening tyrone tell them about the organization that you had. Saw i. Cofounded protect native elders with the with the goal of doing exactly that protecting the native american elders across the United States. Working with tribal communities in tribal leaders is part of what we do with the also the understanding that the bureaucracy that exists there in not just with them but also with the federal government. Takes a little longer for that to happen so as grassroots organizations pop up were trying to fill the need until funding arrives or until people are able or im sorry until federal got the federal government or tribal governments are able to fully handle the crisis thats happening among our people across Indian Country. Theres a need for dinner is when i was more determined to my skis make i want to show some peaches to each shade weed so you can you tool through what were seeing here because its from the organizing that you are doing down in the ground here is this. Tell us. This is an elder lives on the reservation she lives about 45 to an hour away from any community. Does not have Running Water and those not have electricity and so Healthcare Access basic access to infrastructure is is needed in these small communities needs a rule areas of these people live in places where they take care of their livestock so when youre taking care of your life you need to live away from people so your livestock and have places really isnt what i need to live in i saw i saw that she had a mask on because most in short supply such you are taking things like monsters you have to protect the elderly age because as we all know if youre in a virus it tends to target the elderly what are we delivering here whats whats in the speech. And this picture were delivering p. P. To tribal. Healthcare workers on the reservation. P. B. Such as gallons face masks face shields and sanitizer and so forth the going to tribal communities them. Tribal workers to help them combat coronavirus mung theyre the members of their community. And this final picture books is of what these are faith based mags and and they shields being offered all the sense so when i when i started this organization i called my my grandmother i have a degree in Public Health so i talked to my grandmothers when they when it started to appear and i could just hear the desperation in their voices the the uncertainty that they feel about this virus among our people and so understanding that it was a novel virus which means that we dont understand fully whats happening or whats going on yet but also understanding that p. T. E. Would be an important way to prevent the disease i made a call on social media to anybody that would be willing so a face mask that id be willing to take them down or send them down to elders on the reservations that they would have a chance to most importantly avoid contact in communities with people who may have the virus so thats how we got started and thats what our main effort started as now what were doing is delivering p. P. And other goods food and so forth to native elders across the river across Indian Country but starting there among my navajo people and this is jim c. For pennsylvania hello jim thanks for being in a conversation today jim says i have a friend another and i have been praying for the nation what else can i do al each night not want. There are different ways to donate there is different mutual aid funds across the Navajo Nation theres also the official and now her nation fund on the Navajo Nations website so protect the city sacred has partnered with the office of the Navajo Nation working with president jonathan nez and we have a web site protect the sacred dot care and that links redirects to the Navajo Nations website where you can find places to donate and also sign up to be a medical volunteer thats very helpful right now if youre able and qualified to come out and help our people. What is the things that we have being scratching around and nobody. Has you on a crisis right now with the very beginning of. Chat one of the comments came in and asked this is t. V. Cool and oppressed people again suffering disproportionately because of the cruel enough virus how do you an activist how would you put the situation the Navajo Nation is saying right now. I think of the situation that is the result of centuries of genocide colonization and the oppression of our people and i feel that. You know what were seeing right now its not a coincidence that the hot spot on the Navajo Nation is and in the area where historically they were its uranium and coal mining i think thats something that we should Pay Attention to and hold these. These Energy Corporations accountable because. Youre raney em and coal mining carts is you know the radiation that causes lung diseases cancers in our people have suffered through that our elders have suffered through that incredible trauma and it was the only. Sort of Economic Resource in our community and our people relied on it but it was also dangerous and that has lasted for for decades and now our people are being affected by that and as as a result corona virus attacks and the respiratory area and our people are vulnerable and if that wasnt there if that was not brought to our. Tribe and if it didnt exist you know i think wed be in a better place to combat this virus. I need to bring into this conversation dalton shell tom she is treating native americans who have coronavirus im going to play her comments that she was an early and they dont jill tell us about the i want to get your experience there was well lets start with doc to talk. Treating patients in hours of the show has been quite difficult to play differently than the training that i have for coming back home my patients i call grandmother or grandfather or Brother Sisters and nephews. So growing up from here and. Me and ones ours on our own is for the region another nobody. Cleta longer now and then tired our nation. Our our. Kind of hits home to family so not only is mental fatigue our physical. And i sense a very deep spiritual fatigue. Got to deal just be sure we started getting sicker before did you have a mask on i thought shes going to see the whole show with a mask on you are so in the middle of things what