Health

Navajo Area IHS has almost doubled inpatient capacity from what it was prior to COVID-19 and have added three alternate care sites, in Gallup, Chinle and Shiprock

Mary Tom could hear her four-year-old son crying and pleading to see her. He was just outside her bedroom door.

From his home in the San Francisco Bay area, Diné molecular biology professor Wilfred Denetclaw has followed the statistics on the spread of the coronavirus on the Navajo Nation with increasing alarm.

The way to tell a story in the Diné language is to paint it in one’s imagination as if you are actually there experiencing it, says Raymond Don Yellowman, president of Bodaway-Gap Chapter and founder of The Forgotten People.