The Navajo are looking for alternatives to the fossil-fuel based economy that has dominated its reservation for decades, and left it with a 50 percent unemployment rate. Thee Navajo Nation Council recently voted in support of green jobs, legislation Wahleah Johns worked to promote. She’s co-director of the non-profit Black Mesa Water Coalition, and she talks with host Jeff Young about the past and future of her nation.
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