{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Fighting COVID-19 in the Navajo Nation, with President Jonathan Nez (EP.22)","description":" For much of the last year, the highest per capita rate of coronavirus infections belonged not to New York City, nor New Jersey, but to a 27,000-square-mile territory in the southwestern US called the Navajo Nation. Encompassing 3 states and 309,000 members, the Navajo Nation is the country\u2019s largest Native American tribe.  It was also, in 2020, one of its worst hot spots. But the COVID-19 crisis, like so many others that have afflicted Indian Country, was decades in the making \u2014 borne of a long legacy of neglect and promises broken by the U.S. government.  Here to share the unique challenges his people have navigated, their successes, as well as their priorities with a more receptive US administration, is Jonathan Nez, the 9th President of the Navajo Nation, and the youngest in its history. I learned a lot from him and am excited for you to hear what he has to say.   To learn more about the Navajo Nation, check out: - this brief retelling of their history - the Navajo Department of Health\u2019s page on COVID-19 - President Nez\u2019s testimony to the U.S. House last July, about tribal needs amid the pandemic  - this CNN feature on their tremendously successful vaccination campaign    To listen to more Civic Rx, visit us at civic-rx.org.  ","author_name":"Civic Rx","author_url":"https:\/\/www.civic-rx.org\/","html":"