Letters

When I was a little girl, younger than 10 years old, my Diné cousins and my sister and I would scramble up the red rocks in Bááháálí to a beautiful remote setting we thought of as our secret stream.

One, two, three, four weeks — where’s the Hardship checks of $432 for the senior citizens?

Sexual child abuse is part of the list in the Major Crimes Act and prosecuted by federal prosecutors. The problem I have with this scenario is that, since 2011, the FBI “administratively closed” 1,900 cases because they “fail to meet evidentiary or statutory requirements.”

If it weren’t so dangerous to Mother Earth and harmful to Navajo and Pueblo people around Prewitt, it might almost be funny.

The Creator granted our wishes for the new year, 2022, and brought a blessing we should all be joyful about, which is another round of Hardship payments to the Navajo people.