Dine College

COVID-19 Response

This research will help reveal the unmeasured and unnoticed reports of the informal economy on the Navajo Nation. The data and results will create some infrastructure, policies for flea markets sites, and provide a space for roadside vendors. Informal economy retains a critical role regarding economy staying on the reservation.

The main purpose of our land reform initiative is to create new ways to manage and regulate our lands and water resources in the Navajo Nation. We will think ecologically and legally to shape the political reality on the ground. Second, we will strengthen and retain the work of community members who are putting theory into practice, and assist the work of water catchments that reform land practices toward sustainable agriculture and increased water rights. Finally, we will leverage our work to influence tribal lawmakers to initiate wide scale reform to land management and water use in the Navajo Nation.