KGLP Podcasts

Navajo NHCOC 12/22/2020 COVID-19 prevention Forum

Navajo Leaders Discuss Covid-19 Vaccine

Navajo leaders and activists discuss the COVID-19 vaccine in this panel forum. We hear both a western and traditional medicine perspective as well as from a youth activist. They discuss concerns in the Navajo Nation community.

Guests include:

• Laurelle Sheppard (Moderator, public health professional with Johns Hopkins CAIH)
• Dr. Lance Whitehair (Physician, Shiprock IHS) 
• Anson Etsitty Sr. (Traditional Healer from Diné Hataałii Association)
• Allie Young (youth activist and Director of Protect the Sacred)

Lt Governor Howie Morales on Statewide Health Order

KGLP speaks with New Mexico's Lieutenant Governor Howie Morales on the latest State Health Order in response to Covid-19. This order will be in effect from November 16, 2020 to November 30, 2020. We discuss how this order impacts businesses, holiday plans and the escalating case load which is threatening hospital response.  

Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine Trial Interview with Johns Hopkins University Researchers

KGLP speaks with Dr. Laura Hammitt and Wanda Lefebvre, two researchers from the John Hopkins Center for American Indian Health. They are currently doing research for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine trial, with participants from the Navajo Nation and White Mountain Apache Tribe. Dr. Laura Hammitt answers questions in English, and Wanda Lefebvre in Navajo. 

Legislation proposed to address COVID-19 frauds and scams on Tribal lands - NM's U.S. Senator-Elect, 3rd Dist. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan

KGLP Station Manager Rachel Kaub speaks with New Mexico's U.S. Senator-Elect, Ben Ray Lujan, discusses the Fraud and Scams Reduction Act, which is designed to address scams during the COVID-19 pandemic targeted toward vulnerable communities – including seniors, military service members, and Tribes and Tribal members. As has been reported by the Federal Trade Commission, fraud reports have increased by 144% during the pandemic.

Navajo Nation Nov. 17, 2020 COVID-19 Forum

NM Lt. Gov. Howie Morales 10/16/2020 follow-up to Gov. 10/15 COVID update

Navajo Nation President Nez 10/15/2020 COVID forum and update

NM Gov Lujan Grisham 10/15/2020 COVID-19 press update

Oral History of Gallup's Red Mesa Center by Martin Link on Sept 20 - 2020

On September 20, 2020, Gallup area historian Martin Link, a member of Plateau Sciences Society (PSS), presented a history of the Red Mesa Center, aka the Bischoff House, including it's construction in 1915, it's use as an art gallery and center under the tenure of the old Gallup Area Arts Council, and more recent management by PSS.