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A Special Report on the Navajo Nation

Diocesan Press Service. June 12, 1975 [75226]

Responding to wide-spread reports of the poverty and hunger among the Navajos in the southwest, the Diocesan Press Service asked Lewis and Ellen Thompson, Santa Fe, N. Mex., editors of The Rio Grande Episcopalian (Diocese of the Rio Grande), to research and write a report, with photographs, of the situation. Their report is attached and photographs are enclosed for the Diocesan Press Service.

Through the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief, the Episcopal Church is helping to feed the Navajos on their reservations. Two grants from the Fund, totaling $28,500 ($8,500 and $20,000) have been made to the Navajo Episcopal Council for agricultural supplies and immediate hunger relief for the Navajos in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.

Many of the people who are helped by this food supply have no transportation and have to walk as far as 25 miles to pick up the food and then have to carry the heavy load another 25 miles home.

If a food stamp program can be started, the people will have to travel up to 400 miles one way to file an application and then make monthly trips the same distance to pick up the stamps. If this program is begun, the local traders might be unable to furnish enough food in areas where there is a heavy influx of food stamp users in some of the more remote areas.

The food situation among the Navajos is critical.

[To view the attached Special Report, please contact the Archives. --Ed.]