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The Miss Utah Navajo crown has deep meaning from the two feathers carved on the inside to the round stamping that represents the seven Utah Navajo chapter houses.

You need not look any further than the recent allocation of $600 million in Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act funding to Navajo to know how important U.S. Census data is.

The Navajo Nation’s domestic violence shelters finally got the meeting with Division of Social Services higher-ups they’ve been pressing for on Monday, but instead of solutions to their delayed funding problem, they got yet another couple of roadblocks thrown at them.

Radmilla Cody had already been thinking about the plight of domestic abuse victims during the COVID-19 pandemic when she read an article in the Navajo Times about the funding for the Nation’s domestic violence shelters being delayed for eight months.