{"id":10613,"date":"2021-04-23T11:29:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T15:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=10613"},"modified":"2021-04-23T11:34:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T15:34:46","slug":"navajo-nation-welcomes-first-lady-dr-jill-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/04\/23\/navajo-nation-welcomes-first-lady-dr-jill-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Navajo Nation welcomes First Lady Dr. Jill Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"The <a href=https:\/\/www.navajo-nsn.gov\/>Navajo Nation<\/a> welcomes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLOTUS\">First Lady of the United States Dr. Jill Biden<\/a> for a historic, <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/04\/22\/first-lady-dr-jill-biden-visit-to-navajo-nation\/\">two-day visit to the largest reservation<\/a> in the United States.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nTribal officials hosted Dr. Biden in Window Rock, Arizona, the capital of the Navajo Nation, on April 22, 2021. The <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IWX3l2glHz8\">program lasted about 90 minutes<\/a> and featured:\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=mx-5>\r\n&#8226; Host Clara Pratte, Joe Biden presidential campaign tribal engagement leader<BR>\r\n&#8226; Invocation by Kee Allen Begay, Navajo Nation Council Delegate<BR>\r\n&#8226; Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez<BR>\r\n&#8226; Navajo Nation Vice President Myron Lizer<BR>\r\n&#8226; Navajo Nation Council Speaker Seth Damon<BR>\r\n&#8226; Navajo Nation Supreme Court Chief Justice JoAnn Jayne<BR>\r\n&#8226; Performance by Navajo Nation Youth Advisory Council<BR>\r\n&#8226;  Exit invocation Dr. Perphelia Fowler, Navajo Division of Human Resources Director\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nPrior to the event in Window Rock, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1717870175145185\/videos\/942167183203137\">Dr. Biden met with Navajo women leaders<\/a> and discussed a wide range of issues, from education and cancer research to missing and murdered Dine relatives. She referred to the group as &#8220;my sister warriors.&#8221;\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/2021\/04\/22\/navajo-nation-arizona-new-mexico-utah-494\/\">Dr. Biden leaves the Navajo Nation<\/a> on April 23, following a visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpbs-az.org\/\">Hunters Point Boarding School<\/a> in St. Michaels, Arizona, and a <a href=\/covid19\/>COVID-19<\/a> vaccination site on the reservation.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"h4-responsive\">Related Stories<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/04\/22\/first-lady-dr-jill-biden-visit-to-navajo-nation\/\" title=\"First Lady Dr. Jill Biden heads to Navajo Nation\">First Lady Dr. Jill Biden heads to Navajo Nation<\/a> (April 22, 2021)\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/23\/jillbiden-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"jillbiden\" class=\"invisible\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Navajo Nation welcomes First Lady of the United States Dr. Jill Biden for a historic, two-day visit to the largest reservation in the United States.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-video-entry.php","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,20,1,14,334],"tags":[42,441,5,986,1444,53,28,72,1445,29,24,1446,539,102],"class_list":["post-10613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-health","category-indian-trust","category-national","category-politics","category-video","tag-arizona","tag-clara-pratte","tag-coronavirus","tag-jill-biden","tag-joann-jayne","tag-joe-biden","tag-jonathan-nez","tag-judiciary","tag-kee-allen-begay","tag-myron-lizer","tag-navajo","tag-perphelia-fowler","tag-seth-damon","tag-youth","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/23\/jillbiden-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-2Lb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}