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A Visit to Navajo Country
Chinle is a small town in Northern Arizona. The town is deep in Navajo country. It looks like any rural town that is just getting by. The first telltale signs that this is Indian country are the blighted, government-issue housing projects that have replaced the beautiful, traditional Indian pueblos and adobe dwellings in much of Navajo country. The second telltale sign is the absence of liquor stores. These carbohydrate-intolerant, insulin-resistant peoples have tried strictly to limit the presence of liquor stores, or prohibited them outright, on lands they control. The most chilling sign that we were in Indian country was the dialysis center. We know all too well what a dialysis center signifies: near epidemic levels of adult onset non-insulin dependent diabetes among the Amerindians of all tribes, not just the Navajo, but the Zia, and Pueblo, and Pima, and all the other tribes throughout New Mexico and Arizona.