This week I am excited to have back on the show Runner, Hiker, and Advocate Darrah Blackwater.

Darrah Blackwater is from Farmington, NM and is a citizen of the Navajo Nation. She is a recent graduate of the University of Arizona, where she earned her law degree studying Indigenous law and telecommunications law. In July of 2020 she hiked the 486-mile Colorado Trail to raise awareness about the digital divide in Indigenous communities. Last month she ran to Oak Flat with a group of O'odham and Yaqui runners in solidarity with Apache Stronghold. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico on Tewa homelands.

Follow Darrah on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blackwatersoul/

Vice New Doc Featuring Darrah, “Why The Internet Needs The Navajo | Still Connecting”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3Ud7V_IYis

Determi-Nation Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4u4xUXS3JLuhWroYoDd7xx?si=a42940b4bff64c0e

Check out everything Darrah has going on on her site: https://blackwatersoul.org

Save Oak Flat: http://apache-stronghold.com/

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