Letters

When I first met Kelsey Begaye, it was at a music festival. He walked up to me and said, “Hello, I’m Kelsey. That’s some good guitar playing you been blessed with.”

I am writing about the Blessingway singer, Frank Mitchell.

Ya’at’eeh, my name is Joseph Roan. My clans are Tódích’íi’nii (Bitter Water), Tábąąhá (Water’s Edge), Dibéłzhíní (Black Sheep), and Tsi’naajinii (Black Streak Wood People).

We are hearing traumatic tales from the Northern Agency, and we have now heard they don’t even have a jail.

Within the last week, both the Department of the Interior secretary and the Navajo Nation top official voiced a sincere objection on BIA-operated boarding schools. Both were so quick to recall and live in the past.