A disaster declaration for the Navajo Nation was approved after winter storms and flooding continue to damage their homes. However, those resources aren't being distributed to everyone who lives there.
However, those resources aren't being distributed to everyone who lives there.She and Ashley Parker-James are members of the Birdsprings community located 13 miles northwest of Winslow, Arizona.Flooding on the Navajo Nation. Photo courtesy of Brittanny Taylor and Ashley Parker-James
"A homesite lease is required to receive assistance, but when they settled in the area, that wasn't required at the time," Parker-James said. "There has been full size refrigerators, trash, dead animals, livestock, that get stuck under that bridge, that doesn't get cleaned out properly, and it builds up and causes the majority of the overflow to our homestead," Parker-James said.
"We are in dire need of help from our tribe, and we do feel like we have to relocate at this time because the land is damaged, our homes are damaged. It's gotten so bad to where my aunt's full size van had gotten swept down in a water channel," Taylor said.
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