Former Dine Bich'eeke' Makes Dine Food Recipe Video

Former Miss Navajo Jennifer  Wheeler is making videos about food recipes.  T'aa Dine Bizaadji yalti'go iyiila.  The Navajo Times ran a story about her Dine Bizaad preservation efforts. ("Former Miss Navajo spends curfew making recipe videos")  In this time of the  Covid Pandemic, we are all quarantined inside with shelter-in-place orders.  "T'aa hoghandi nahasoota," goes the saying.  Please stay at home.  Save lives as the life you save may be your own!  While we are sheltering in place, now may be a time to dust off that Navajo dictionary, to tap on that Dine Bizaad app icon and start learning.  Ohool'aah!  Very great job by Miss Wheeler.  I hope she is very successful with her efforts.  Great job Navajo Times.  Yeego Idahool'aah!

Actor Mark Ruffalo advocates for Protect the Sacred

Mark Ruffalo explains the Protect the Sacred effort.  It is an effort started by a young Dine from Farmington to help protect our Navajo elders during this virus crisis because they are the ones who carry the sacred traditional knowledge of our ancestors, and they are the ones most at risk during this pandemic.  Once these people pass away, their knowledge is gone.  Most of our young folks are not relearning  the traditional ceremonies because they are preoccupied with school and work.  This is a real good cause.  But even with this effort, the elders only have a few more years before they reach old age.  So either way, our young people need to start relearning for the Dine to keep its tribal identity.

Joseph Austin - upcoming Dine scholar and leader

I would urge our Dine, especially the Christian Navajos, to watch this video and get educated about what Joseph Austin is saying.  These are the real issues.  Try to figure out where the church fits into this lecture.  Excellent job, Mr. Austin!

Page Mayor Levi Tappan retracts racist statement and apologizes

Mayor Teppan and his family when he became Page Mayor in 2018

The Mayor of the City of Page made some controversial remarks about the Dine, that the Dine should address the alcohol problem like it does the Corona virus. Immediately, he reissued an apology saying that he meant to say that the Navajo Nation and Page should work together to address these issues. ("Page mayor apologizes for alcohol comment") This previous statement by the city's leadership and the earlier post by a Page resident calling for the shooting of Navajos because they carry the virus shows us the atmosphere in Page. I repeat,

Shi Dine'e, be aware of your surroundings. There are many racist people in our bordertowns who want to harm and destroy the Navajo People and destroy the Navajo way of life. I hope Frazen gets the max. There's no room for racism in Page. 

As we Dine get more educated into the American mainstream society, we need to remember and reeducate ourselves of our true identity as Dine.

Why Navajos have more Corona Cases than most of the US

Youtuber Jo Jo Jackson here shows us the disparities between Navajo and other areas of the United States. These disparities is one of the major reasons Navajos have more positive Corona cases on a per capita basis than the rest of the United States except for New York and New Jersey. These disparities exist because of historical genocide consisting of broken treaties, disparate treatment, and racism which Jackson talks about. This is what we need to be educated on. Our Dine Youth are starting to come out and be vocal on these issues on a national scale. Excellent!