The article "And then I went to School" talks about a character who describes living with her grandmother from the ages of five to nine. She really talks about where she comes from, which is the Pueblo of Cochiti. Talks about where they lived in the village and how it was only one room in the house.  She explains what they do in the Winter, and her grandmother taught she leanerd. She explains her experience going to boarding school and learning English was a struggle at first, but it got easier for her as she kept learning it each day.

Suina, Joe. (1985). And then I went to school: Memories of a Pueblo childhood. New Mexico Journal of Reading.

The article highlights the western landscapes and their names are straitened with personal memories, ancestral teachings, mythic events, and colonial disturbances. It tells a lot about many different places with a western landscape and tells us who Laura Tone is. It also tells us about the Dine syllable and what some Dine words mean in their own language. This article teaches you about many different places and how they connect to personal memories.

Toastie B. "How place names impact the way we see Landscape" High Country News 1 May 2022, pp 1-8

"Sharing one Skin" is about one character explaining where she comes from, which is the Okanagan community. She explains where her mother and father come from. She describes the word Okanagan and what it means. She identifies the four capacities of self, which connect with the community and herself. She discusses her community in depth, highlighting two distinct aspects within it; she identifies these aspects using terms like 'identity' and 'responsibility'. 

 Armstrong, Jeanette. “Sharing One Skin: The Okanagan Community,” in Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith (eds), The Case Against the Global Economy. San Francisco, CA, Sierra Club Books, 1996. Pp 460-470

The article “ Gridlock: Infrastructure and Jurisdiction in Eastern Navajo Agency” talks about the importance of two years of fieldwork, conducted between 2018 and 2020, and how it is an ongoing collaboration with Eastern Dine community members to develop a concept of gridlock as an effect of setter governance. This also has an hour section in it, which all four sections talk about the relationship, review the information, efforts to repair N474 road, and lastly, how poor road conditions affect all medical, school, etc.

Grant, S. "Gridlock: Infrastructure and Jurisdiction in Eastern Navajo Agency ." Antipode, vol.57, no 1, 2025, pp.169-192.

This short article is in the Navajo Times. The title of this short article is $43-water project brings clean tap access to Western Navajo. This article reflects on a major water infrastructure project that is underway at the navajo community of Lechee, Arizona. This project will deliver clean and dependable water to the Lechee Chapter and the growing Antelope Canyon Economic Development Corridor. This lechee water system improvement project will cost approximately $43 million, which is the largest among the Western Navajo pipeline phases developed over the years.

Times, Navajo. “$43-million water Project to bring clean tap access to Western Navajo.” Navajo Times, 19 June 2025, navajotimes.com/reznews/43-million-water-project-to-bring-clean-tap-access-to-western-navajo. 

This article talks about Bitter Springs tenants who say NHA homes are falling apart. The problem is these houses in Bitter Springs are falling apart now. This causes a lot of elders at risk because something might happen inside the house while any elders are still inside. They also talk about how Window Rock, the main Navajo Nation council, won't do anything about it even though the community spoke up about ot for many years.

Quintero, Donvan. “Enough is enough.” Bitter Springs tenants say NHA homes are falling apart.” Navajo Times, 25 Sept.2025, Navajo-times.com/reznews/enough-is-enough-bitter-springs-tenants-say-nha-homes-apart

This short film provides a closer look at infrastructure issues on the Navajo Nation. There is a project that is designed to connect more whole families to the grid. This project will help many Navajo Nation community members who don't have any electricity. They can't even make toast for them to eat at home. There are a lot of elders in many Navajo communities who have been waiting for electricity for many, many years now.

Ciletti, N. (2024, June 18). ABC15 Arizona in Phoenix (KNXV). ABC15 Arizona in Phoenix (KNXV). https://www.abc15.com/news/state/a-closer-look-at-infrastructure-issues-on-the-navajo-nation

This article by Clark Adomaitis, titled "Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project is on track for completion at the end of 2029," is about a big water project that will take about 4 years to finish. The Navajo-Gallup water supply project will provide fresh drinking water to the Navajo Nation and the Jicarilla Apache Nation. The project will cost around $2.2 billion, which the federal government is contributing.  The projects will bring fresh water to over 200,000 people, which was authorized under the Obama Administration.

Bureau of Reclamation. (n.d.-c). Newsroom | Bureau of Reclamation. Newsroom. https://www.usbr.gov/newsroom/news-release/5007

This article talks about how South Africa has badly damaged roads and has huge potholes. It's not just on one road; it is throughout the county. It slows down medical services while transporting a patient in the back to the hospital. It puts many drivers at high risk because of how dangerous the road has been, but over the years, drivers end up moving to a different country. The lack of infrastructure, mainly the road improvements, affects the whole country of South Africa. The article shows pictures of how bad the roads are, and it doesn't even look like a road. The picture shows a highway with multiple potholes that are very big, that matches the road very patchy. If I were driving on this road, I would not want to drive on it because it's in very bad condition, and I would drive off the road on the dirt for my safety.

View of Road Infrastructure in South Africa: What Is Missing? bussecon.com/ojs/index.php/ijbes/article/view/738/462.

This article discusses road maintenance in South Sudan and how it is in very poor condition. Road maintenance is one of the most significant challenges hindering sustainable development in South Sudan. Because of the bad conditions, so many children have to walk to school because their families are worried about their safety, about them getting on a bus, and the bus swerving off the road. South Sudan mainly focused on the road conditions because it’s very, very dangerous, with families finding other ways to get to work, school, and stores. But with the lack of infrastructure improvements in South Sudan, it will continue to be very difficult for families to find more ways to have their roads improved without having to commute or having their own roads. 

Paul, Gai Chol. “Road Maintenance Challenges: The Greatest Obstacle to Sustainable Development in South Sudan.” Journal of Sustainable Social Change, vol. 15, no. 1, Oct. 2023, https://doi.org/10.5590/jssc.2023.15.1.03.

This article talks about how the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is dealing with bad infrastructure issues, which mainly deal with roads. A lot of our roads were built back in the ‘50s and ‘60s; they’re dilapidated and need replacing. After an accident with a culvert, powerful floodwaters had destroyed a culvert running under the road, washing a 30-foot section of the highway away, which caused two people to lose their lives and two motorists to be injured. After this accident, it brought attention to many community members, saying A lot of our roads were built back in the ‘50s and ‘60s; they’re dilapidated and need replacing. The tribe that receives most federal funding for roads and highways on reservation lands is provided through the Tribal Transportation Program (TTP), which was authorized for $505 million in 2020 and is co-administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Federal Highway Administration. After the accident, they talk about how Indigenous communities are some of the poorest in the country. 

Stephe, Starr: Infrastructure on Reservations is Falling Apart

https://talkpoverty.org/2021/03/24/failing-infrastructure-indigenous-reservations/index.html

My action plan took place on November 11 in Ojo Encino with my family. I planned to cover up the potholes in my community's main road to make driving safer, rather than having to hit or dodge them.  It. I chose it because a lot of people have a hard time driving this road and have to always swerve or end up hitting it, so I took it into my own hands to try and help make the road drivable without driving like a maniac. I planned this by gathering my family and shovels and filling in the potholes that were major to start off with. I filled in one-tenth of a mile of potholes on my community's main road. It took about 12 cubic yards of road material and fill, in addition to potholes, to improve the road for my community.

For my second action plan, it took place on February 22 in my community, Ojo Encino. I planned this by gathering my family and asking my chapter house president for help. I planned on picking up trash along my community's main road and the dirt road leading to the community houses. While I was picking up trash with my family, I asked my chapter house president to fill in the potholes on the main highway in the community. He said yes and took the chapter house tractor. He filled in the whole community road with road material. It took him a while, but he got it done for the safety of our community's roads.