The only sounds left at the traditional Najavo hut where Dorothy Scott once lived, and her family recently returned, were the notes of the wind chimes and the whines of the puppies. 'Just looking at it is sad,' Scott, accompanied by ABC News, said of her former traditional hogan. COVID-19
The only sounds left at the traditional Najavo hut where Dorothy Scott once lived, and her family recently returned, were the notes of the wind chimes and the whines of the puppies.COVID-19 ripped apart the family of 11 that had lived in this dwelling.Three generations of the Scott family had lived on its dirt floors, huddled around its wood stove and sleeping heaped on the jumble of bedding -- or when it was too cold, in the rusting Dodge Durango outside.
The Scott family is now fractured -- split up in one of the four motels functioning in Gallup, New Mexico, as respiratory shelters. Those not sick enough for the hospital -- which number in the hundreds -- have been set up in these motels. He said the systemic poverty on the reservation and the lack of critical infrastructure made things even more difficult. Their main focus is on survival.
"There are benefits for that, one of the biggest benefits is passing down cultural knowledge. You have grandparents interacting daily with the toddlers and the children passing that knowledge down to them," he said.That knowledge, according to him, teaches his people to be resilient in life. Story continuesOnly 40% of residents have electricity and up to 30% lack access to clean running water. The factors leading to the chronic poverty on the reservation are hundreds of years in the making.
"Ultimately it's really trying to be walking alongside this community in solidarity and finding a way to help relieve that worry and that fear," she said.
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