{"id":3530,"date":"2020-04-25T15:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T19:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=3530"},"modified":"2020-04-25T15:03:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T19:03:12","slug":"valentina-blackhorse-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/2020\/04\/25\/valentina-blackhorse-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentina Blackhorse Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3531\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3531\" class=\"wp-image-3531 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/13934a_t670.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/13934a_t670.jpg 400w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/13934a_t670-185x300.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Valentina Blackhorse, a young and vibrant mother from the Navajo Nation, died on April 23, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Blackhorse served as Miss Dine College from 2011-2012. She also held the title of Miss Western Navajo in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing a tradition of service to her people, Blackhorse most recently worked for the Dennehotso Chapter of the Navajo Nation, located on the Arizona portion of the reservation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was a mother, sister, granddaughter, and friend to many,&#8221; sister Vanielle Blackhorse said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/funeral-expenses-for-valentina-blackhorse\">GoFundMe<\/a>. &#8220;She had a great passion for competing in Pageants and was well known in that circle, she had a immense love for sharing her Navajo culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blackhorse succumbed to complications from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, family said. She is much loved by her parents, two sisters, her 1-year-old daughter and her partner.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Being a former titleholder has brought me to know and bond with many sisters who strive to make a difference in their community. This young lady was one of them. Valentina Blackhorse was a special person and touched many lives. She died this AM from covid-19. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RIP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RIP<\/a> \ud83d\ude2d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zef41wHQGn\">pic.twitter.com\/Zef41wHQGn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sitol Jane (@SitolCarr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SitolCarr\/status\/1253821057363927040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Blackhorse was well known in pageant circles in Indian Country. She&nbsp;competed for Miss Indian World in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being a former titleholder has brought me to know and bond with many sisters who strive to make a difference in their community,&#8221; fellow Miss Western Navajo Asdz\u00e1\u00e1 Ts\u00e9 gh\u00e1\u2019dindinii (Crystal Cree)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sitol_Jane\/status\/1253821057363927040\">said on social media<\/a>. &#8220;This young lady was one of them. Valentina Blackhorse was a special person and touched many lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The family is using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/funeral-expenses-for-valentina-blackhorse\">GoFundMe<\/a>&nbsp;to raise money for funeral expenses and other costs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was an awesome sister, wife, daughter, granddaughter, and most importantly a mother to her 1 year old daughter,&#8221; sister Vanielle said on social media. &#8220;I never thought I would have to do this for my sibling, and I pray to the creators above to please heal our broken hearts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=3507\">Navajo Nation, 1,540 tribal citizens<\/a> who live on tribal homelands have tested positive for COVID-19 as of April 24. There have been 58 coronavirus related deaths on the largest reservation in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valentina Blackhorse, a young and vibrant mother from the Navajo Nation, died on April 23, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[12,8,125,415,92],"class_list":["post-3530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tribes","category-updates","tag-arizona","tag-navajo","tag-obituaries","tag-valentina-blackhorse","tag-youth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3534,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions\/3534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}