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Passing Thoreau - Two Years On, Navajo Suicides Still Haunt Rez. Town
Marilyn Berlin Snell, NAM|Sep 5, 2012
Ed. Note: After a string of suicides two years ago, money and additional resources poured into the tiny town of Thoreau, N.M., where economies, cultures and destinies bump and collide, and where more than one Navajo teen has lost hope and a sense of identity. Although the crisis spawned a reservation-wide state of emergency, the Navajo Nation still sits on a ragged edge. Marilyn Berlin Snell has been writing on the Navajo Nation since 2000. She spent a year listening to people on and off the...