Letters

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.

The recent story concerning the Navajo Bureau of Indian Education schools not receiving their computers in time for our children’s education are an absolute disgrace (“The Bureau of Indian Education hasn’t told the public how its schools are performing”, June 10, 2021).

After months of intense lockdowns and other pandemic-related interventions, the measures have had a considerable impact on COVID’s decline. While on the subject of public health, the discussion of free-roaming dog populations, both owned and stray, have a number of public health concerns, especially since the pet population continues to multiply without intervention.