“You don’t really know about things unless you go to the grocery store and run into someone,” says PANDOS Education Chair Rose Yazzie, a Diné elementary teacher. “You only heard about it through word of mouth.” Yazzie now lives in West Valley City, but taught on the Navajo Nation when 11-year-old Ashlynne Mike was abducted and murdered there in 2016. That, Yazzie says, pushed residents into action on social media channels during the search.
“People woke up,” she says.
Read more in the City Weekly article.
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