… It astonished Redfeather that on a reservation where new development is tightly controlled by tribal bureaucracy, a large-scale farming operation was going up across the street without her even hearing about it. The Navajo Nation was also struggling with a severe coronavirus outbreak, one of the worst in the country, and movement on and off the reservation was supposed to be tightly controlled.
She decided to record what was going on on her phone.
“They’re like, ‘What are you doing here?'” she recalls. “These are non-Natives. So of course, I fired back saying, ‘What are you doing here? You guys aren’t allowed here.'”
