Bleu Adams, a Navajo business owner and co-founder of the volunteer group "Protect Native Elders” which is distributing relief to native communities, tells Lawrence O'Donnell the "lack of infrastructure regarding access to electricity, water and internet" makes it challenging to contain the spread of coronavirus. Aired on 5/18/2020.
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Navajo Advocate: ‘Extremely Difficult To Wash Hands’ In Navajo Nation Due To Scarce Running Water
Hey Lawrence if you can get desks to kids in Africa then maybe you could help promote water development for the Navajo.
This nation in 2020 still are murdering the first American!!
@Margaret Nicol its called survival of the fittest. Europeans where the betters so they got what they did. Stop being so salty lol
@American Gamer No dear. The Europeans had guns, that’s all. The pilgrims wouldn’t have survived if the natives hadn’t help them. Since then till now they are still getting kicked in the teeth by people with no honor and not integrity – just like Trump.
@Albert Green That’s the problem with your value system. Your lack of education shines through. Yes there were schools and businesses they just weren’t caged in concrete.
@Albert Green If they didn’t have anything to defend why did you murder so many to take … nothing?
@Margaret Nicol Your right. Good things Europeans discovered Gun trees! It was pure luck. It’s not like Europeans developed and or assimilated technology and used it to spread their culture better than any other. I’m sure other cultures are doing just as well as the West. …….
Most of the comments on this video are completely off-topic, and the rest are just trolls.
TRUMP-BIDEN 2020!!!! Violet wave!!!! Don’t get your dogs vaccinated they will get ADHD!!!
Mention a reservation and every racist crawls out from under a rock. Trolls just doesn’t describe folks making a joke out of covid deaths. Thanks Nathan for decency.
I had the privilege to visit the Navajo Nation in 2003. It’s an area of great starkness and great beauty.
I found the Navajo to be welcoming and cordial.
I’m from Northern Ireland and I did not know about the warmth and generosity extended to my ancestors all those years ago.
That is so wrong they should never be poor no Native American descendent should be, legacy stolen and it’s wrong. How did the Covid spread rapidly to this Nation? I hope they do an investigation to find out
They were poor and doing nothing when the Europeans arrived. Nothing has changed.
Albert Green that is far from the truth Europeans distorted almost every continent of the world for their comfort. Bigotry is evil and uneducated people are annoying. The truth is right in front of your face yet you embrace the lies so you feel comfortable. Please comment on your own post before spreading your negative comment on a strangers feed. It’s desperate.
This is EXACTLY what Humanity stands for!
No one can be surprised Trump and his administration are doing nothing to help native americans. He probably doesn’t even think they are part of the U.S. At least Ireland and Doctors without Borders are helping. Maybe we can get the U.N. here next to force the government to give them the ability to vote as easily as the rest of us.
They aren’t part of the US. They have their own laws and people.
America’s covid deaths per capita are 70x that of Australia, a very similar country. Explain that.
Australia has competent leaders, America has trump.
@gobigorange: You forgot to include the Republicans… and the corporate Democrats. We have, with damned few exceptions, INcompetent leaders, period.
gobigorange How does the population of Australiacompa
As a honorary member of the Sioux nation; I note that the poor treatment of indigenous peoples has changed little…
This clip showed way too little of the interview.
It’s awful that Doctors Without Borders has had to address this. The US needs to update the heath care system for everyone! How can we accept this?
Especially when they normally go into war torn areas that the US had caused.
Poor people are poor by choice. People live on reservations by choice.
Why is this government so greedy. Are they taking their money with them when they die?Why can’t we be care for each other.
Well done, Ireland. The rest of us should be ashamed.
Your good deeds will come back to you. Keep helping those in need.
That’s an encouraging story. A historical sense of indebtedness and morality. And it shines a light on native Americans, which is always good. Please cover more stories about NA Tribes?
Shame, shame, SHAME on Americans who allow native Americans (or any American) live without basic plumbing and running water.
Shame shame shame on you for being so dumb that you don’t know they live without plumbing by choice.
Zuckerberg should be ashamed. He flies across the pacific to give internet to customers when his next door neighbors are left out.
The “Greatest country in the world “. And people living in poverty and don’t even have clean water.
Living in poverty by choice. Their tribal leaders could easily build a sewer and fresh water infrastructure but according to them they’d lose their identity 🤣🤣
Today, if you watched the clip, you can say you saw an actual American.
Their high school girl basketball teams are AWESOME in arizona and new mexico