commUNITYrelief
A collective action initiative to provide ​protective gear and well-being support to communities in need and to vulnerable community members adversely affected by the COVID-19 crisis, including elders, women, and children, as well as essential workers, healthcare workers, and first responders.

Thanks to a generous donation of PPE from the Intuitive Foundation, 101,000 face shields and N95 masks have been donated to Native communities in 19 Pueblos, Jicarilla Apache, and Navajo Nation, as well as Montana.

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Honoring all of the local volunteers and community organizations that collaborated to distribute PPE including Pueblo Relief Fund, Pueblo Cultural Center, City of Santa Fe,
​LANL Foundation,  Ke' Infoshop, Mural Net, Indigenous Mutual Aid Fund, Navajo Nation Right Relations Fund, and more.

Supporting a range of community-based relief efforts:

Right Relations Fund for Navajo Nation 
Ke' InfoShop 
Indigenous Mutual Aid Fund
Kinlani Mutual Aid
Protect Native Elders
Pueblo Relief Fund
Private City of Santa Fe Employees Spread some Sunshine Fund

Right Relations Fund for Navajo Nation 
Protective Gear and Wellness Support for Navajo Community
​facilitated by Weyakpa Najin Win (Woman Stands Shining - Pat McCabe).
"On March 11, 2020, the Navajo Nation Commission
on Emergency Management declared a public health state of emergency
for the Navajo Nation due to the confirmation of the novel coronavirus ("COVID-19")
​in regional areas surrounding the Navajo Nation.​"
Visit this website for updates from Navajo Nation.

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Indigenous Mutual Aid Fund 
"K’é Bei Nihi Dziil - Through Kinship We Are Strong."
K'é Infoshop in Window Rock is partnering with the following organizations to build an autonomous yet effective distribution system to provide food and other essential items to families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic:
​Navajo & Hopi Solidarity
​Linktree of Indigenous Mutual Aid Groups
Navajo & Hopi Solidarity - Donation Page
Taalaa Hooghan Infoshop - Donation Page
The Red Nation - Donation Page
Rez Refuge - Donation Page

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​Why is the Navajo Nation hit hard by COVID-19?
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​From K'e Infoshop: "Only 60% of households within the Navajo reservation have running water, the remaining 40% must haul water many miles for their families and livestock. Resource extraction and exploitation have depleted much of our direct water sources (aquifers, natural springs, rivers, lakes, etc.) and devastated our watersheds (e.g. irradiated from over 500 abandoned uranium mines). The lives, lands, and natural rights of Diné and Hopi people have been sacrificed so the capitalist economy of the Southwest U.S. may thrive. Without coal mined from Dzixl Yizhiin (Black Mesa, Arizona) by Diné and Hopi people to power the Central Arizona Project canal system, settlements known as Phoenix, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and other abominably unnatural metropolises in the Southwest would not exist.

The Navajo Nation reservation/interment camp is about 27,000 square miles in size with only 13 grocery stores to feed over 244,000 people. There are also 10 continously understaffed, underequipped, and underfunded hospitals within the Navajo Nation. Almost one-third of homes within the Navajo Nation lack electricity, internet, and cell services. Most of these same households live on 10 gallons of water a day, whereas the average American home uses 100 gallons. The socio-economic conditions of life on a reservation exacerbates the high mortality rate of diseases among Indigenous people due to extremely limited access to clean water, unpolluted land, and fresh organic foods. The crumbling infrastructure of roads, pipes, and communication makes the situation ripe for a pandemic breakout.

All Indigenous nations have been subjected to the same abuse and immiseration created by U.S. policies to deny Indigenous people their ability to truly determine their own futures. By outsourcing our kinship to inhuman structures, we have erased any semblance of self-determination for the false promises of peace. This does not mean we are looking to "go back" to pre-contact with European settlers, we are striving to recenter our purpose of upholding healthy and dignified lives for all based on kinship with human and non-human relatives".

Updates on Coronavirus in Indian Country: Latest Counts