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FILE - In this May 28, 2019, file photo, Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez, right, and U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt look out over Pueblo Bonito, at Chaco Culture National Historical Park, N.M. In the U.S. Southwest, Nez, the leader of the Navajo Nation restricted travel for employees who answer to him and wrote letters to federal officials saying anyone pulled away from duty at federal health care facilities on the vast reservation wouldn't be welcome back for 45 days. (Hannah Grover/The Daily Times via AP, File)

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Tribes take measures to slow spread of new coronavirus
March 21, 2020 12:39 p.m.

Tribes take measures to slow spread of new coronavirus

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Sharon Bahe has made her home on the Navajo Nation a refuge, placing cedar branches and burning sage to help purify the space and praying for protection for herself and her children home from boarding school and a toddler with severe asthma.