Drilling Deep
Drilling Deep
Tristan Clum
Voices from Drilling Deep: Etta Arviso
3 minutes Posted Jan 26, 2015 at 6:17 am.
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Etta Arviso is one of the Diné – or, Navajo – women who I met last year in Counselor, New Mexico. She is an “allottee ,” which means her family lives on land adjacent to the Navajo reservation that is held in trust by the United States government. In this audio clip, she introduces herself, talks about the history of her homeland and people, and voices her opposition to increased oil and gas development on the checkerboard lands of the eastern Navajo Nation. When Arviso mentions the Long Walk,