Melissa Begay's guest appearances

Melissa Begay

EPIDEMIC with Dr. Celine Gounder

Cecile Richards

Adam Grant

Scott Galloway

Claire Wardle

Peter Hotez

Amanda Cohen

Michele Gelfand

Chris Martin

Stacey Abrams

Garry Kasparov

Rebecca Nagle

George Annas

Michael Mina

Tunde Wey

Chris Christie

OwlTail

Jamescita Peshlakai

Transcript“I think there's always sort of like Indian humor with everything and so there were a lot of people making jokes about Trump putting a travel ban in place to stop the spread of disease from Europe. A lot of native people on Twitter and Facebook were commenting that it was, you know, a few centuries too late." -Rebecca NagleIn this episode, our host Dr. Celine Gounder speaks to Rebecca Nagle, Dr. Melissa Begay, and Jamescita Peshlakai about why the Navajo Nation has been so hard hit by COVID, and what their communities are doing to protect everyone—young and old—during this pandemic. The Navajo Nation is the nation’s largest indigenous tribe and has the highest per capita infection rate of COVID in the United States.Dr. Melissa Begay is a member of the Navajo Nation, and a physician at the University of New Mexico in the Department of Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care. Jamescita Peshlakai is an Arizona State Representative and represents eight tribes in her district, including the Navajo. Rebecca Nagle is an Indigenous rights activist, writer and speaker, and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She also hosts the Crooked Media podcast, “This Land,” about a Supreme Court case on the land rights of indigenous peoples in Oklahoma.This podcast was created by Just Human Productions. We're powered and distributed by Simplecast. We're supported, in part, by listeners like you.#SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #coronavirus

<a href="https://www.justhumanproductions.org/podcasts/e26-indigenous-peoples-rebecca-nagle-melissa-begay-jamescita-peshlakai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Transcript</a>“I think there's always sort of like Indian humor with everything and so there were a lot of people making jokes about Trump putting a travel ban in place to stop the spread of disease from Europe. A lot of native people on Twitter and Facebook were commenting that it was, you know, a few centuries too late." -Rebecca NagleIn this episode, our host Dr. Celine Gounder speaks to Rebecca Nagle, Dr. Melissa Begay, and Jamescita Peshlakai about why the Navajo Nation has been so hard hit by COVID, and what their communities are doing to protect everyone—young and old—during this pandemic. The Navajo Nation is the nation’s largest indigenous tribe and has the highest per capita infection rate of COVID in the United States.Dr. Melissa Begay is a member of the Navajo Nation, and a physician at the University of New Mexico in the Department of Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care. Jamescita Peshlakai is an Arizona State Representative and represents eight tribes in her district, including the Navajo. Rebecca Nagle is an Indigenous rights activist, writer and speaker, and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She also hosts the Crooked Media podcast, “This Land,” about a Supreme Court case on the land rights of indigenous peoples in Oklahoma. This podcast was created by <a href="https://dashboard.simplecast.com/shows/3b353b72-5801-48ad-b96e-a1c3ac82f6f8/episodes/21a63552-f488-4349-825a-844951c8a7d8/justhumanproductions.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Just Human Productions</a>. We're powered and distributed by <a href="https://simplecast.com/#_r_justhuman" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Simplecast</a>. We're supported, in part, by listeners like you.#SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #COVID #coronavirus

S1E26 / Indigenous Peoples / Rebecca Nagle, Melissa Begay, Jamescita Peshlakai