With much of the Navajo Nation stuck at home due to the pandemic, one Navajo farmer is on a mission to help people return to their roots by teaching traditional farming techniques.
Since COVID-19 has much of the Navajo Nation stuck at home, farmer Tyrone Thompson says it's the perfect time for them to return to their agricultural roots.Tommy Greyeyes /Courtesy Hundred Storms Creative
"As we see the shelves emptying of food and toilet paper we kind of reconnect to our roots," Thompson says."Some of the tools that were given by our elders and our ancestors — our planting stick and our steering sticks — those are our weapons against hunger and poverty and sickness." This renewed interest in agriculture comes five years after many people on the reservation abandoned farming. They quit when an EPA crew investigating a mine in Colorado accidentally unleashed 3 million gallons of"It's shocking and it shocked people worldwide," Francis says.The town of Shiprock, which was the most affected, is named for a giant rock formation that appears to be sailing across the desert. Many people there don't have running water.
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