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"alicia murphy" Discussed on Native America Calling
"Some of that. Another important component that we've been working a lot on in recognition of the fact that a lot of Indian country is livestock country, ensuring that our disaster programs in the livestock segment are catching up with the disaster and safety net programs that exist for our crop growers. Including horses in those programs has been a critical thing. Ensuring that we are making sure that we're properly identifying the loss when a producer loses livestock. So that we can provide assistance to those programs, including buffalo in some of these programs. Things that really matter to Indian country and it's having the support of secretary vilsack in pushing these boundaries and finding the flexibility to deliver for our Indian producers and others has really been invigorating experience for me. Got it. All right. Well, Zach, thank you so much for joining us today. We'll have a link to the state of Indian state of native agriculture addressed by the Native American agriculture fund on our website. But you just heard from Zack Dustin, he's a USDA farm service agency administrator. I think you again for joining us today. This month, my hometown of crown point New Mexico celebrated the grand opening of Victoria's pizza. It's the only Navajo Navajo owned restaurant in town and the first in a very long time. Victoria Largo, the new brick and motor restaurateur, has been making and selling pizza in town from her house and from a small food trailer for nearly 30 years. I interviewed her a couple of years ago for a food business story and learned about some of the barriers she came up against trying to open a brick and mortar restaurant in crown point. Lack of access to capital, land jurisdictions in the town and lack of business real estate. We weren't able to have Victoria Largo on the show at this busy lunchtime hour, but my sister, Alicia Murphy, was able to meet with her for an interview before that grand opening. To be sitting here looking at my establishment now and it becoming a full restaurant dine in compared to the small trailer. I knew that it was time that we had to step into something like this because there were just so many people customers coming all from far distance. They traveled to haki, they traveled from Lake valley, pebble pintado, coming all the way to crown point, and I was like, oh my goodness, it's getting too big. And I know a lot of the customers out there that try calling in for victorians pizza and couldn't get through this, I said, okay, this is it this is telling me that pizza needs that this needs to become a restaurant. That little trailer, it couldn't handle crown point. It was getting bigger and bigger. So we had to, I had to start thinking about dine in and so that became my target was really thinking about the people and the customers because I think really my joy and my heart is to see a family enjoying pizza altogether. That was Victoria Largo talking with my sister Alicia Murphy who is The Economist for the Navajo Nation and the current resident of chrome point. You can join our conversation. Is there a restaurant or food business owner in your native community that you're proud of? Give us a call we're at one 809 9 6 two 8 four 8 that's also one 809 9 native. Joining us now from Wendell rock, Arizona, is Nick Taylor. He is the CEO of Navajo Nation shopping centers incorporated. He's Navajo. Welcome to the menu Nic. Hi, Nick. We'll work on getting him on the line here. Oh, are you there? Yes, I'm here. Okay, cool. All right, well, Nick, you were at the grand opening of Victoria's pizza. How was it? How did you see the community turn out for this event? Unfortunately, I was not able to attend the grand opening event, but I did have a number of my staff who were at the event and the feedback I received from them that was that it was a great turnout. And we shopping centers to quote company itself. Assisted miss Laura go in preparing for her grand opening and everything went well and everybody was well received by the community from the staff side. And also, it was great to have staff be a part of that sensitivity. And to sample the pizza. This is great. All right. So tell me a little bit about Navajo Nation shopping centers incorporated. I mean, this is the this is where Victoria's pizza is housed. Sure. So the Navajo Nation shopping centers incorporated is a corporation owned by the Navajo Nation. So we're often referred to as an enterprise in some circles and other areas of this corporation. And our responsibility to the nation is to serve as a property management real estate company where we provide ownership and management of grocery anchored shopping centers across the Navajo nation. So within the Navajo Nation, there are 13 shopping centers, the corporation I work for, we own and operate 9 of those shopping centers. And one of those happens to be the one located in crown point in Mexico. All right. And you mentioned you work with Victoria. What does that mean? What did that work
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"alicia murphy" Discussed on Native America Calling
"So this is serious stuff here. This information data there in New Zealand here in the states and it's obviously imperative that as native people, we protect that data in regards to its sovereignty. And how do you do that? Man, how do you protect some of this data that is so easily used in ways that don't necessarily benefit indigenous people? What's the process there for protecting that and ensuring that we have data sovereignty? Yeah, incredibly complicated and so the parts that are administered by the state and certainly in the New Zealand context we have quite a lot of leader managed the governance there. So administrative data collected by the state. We can have Marty governance or advisory boards in place to manage the use of that data. There's also a lot of should we say social and cultural license here. So we're the state gets it wrong. There can be a lot of very strong pushback both in the media and through, especially social media and the population. So I'm reasonably confident that we are making the right steps and the administrative space. We're it becomes a little bit more complicated for us as we have a data held by companies you have facebooks and googles about Marty or even some of the DNA companies. And lots of I don't know how we're going to overcome governance issues there. We've certainly talk of trying to put cultural cultural, what's the word for it? Like plant variety rights. So you can see where the part of Mahdi and the knowledge or the information has come from this sort of tags put on data. So it may not protect and provide data governance, but it provides an identifier for where Mario data is being used. And that once that identifier is more widely used that can potentially help us move to a better governance space. But it's incredibly difficult once it gets data that's in the private sector. Certainly, certainly, and you mentioned Facebook and the whole social media angle as well. And that's on the top of everybody's concerns right now with regard to privacy and data collection with regard to technology. So just a really, really interesting discussion. I want to thank our three guests today. Casey lozar, Alicia Murphy and Matt Ross Scrooge for what's been a really insightful conversation on information and data collection as it pertains to indigenous populations. Join us on native America calling in tomorrow as we talk about new music from native artists. Until then, I'm Sean spruce. Are you a Native American healthcare provider, recovery counselor, social worker, domestic and sexual abuse advocate or traditional healer working in Native American communities, doctor ruby Gibson will begin a 6 month advanced immersion in healing historical trauma. This online masterclass looks through the lens of a 7 generational recovery
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"alicia murphy" Discussed on Native America Calling
"Let's go to the phones now. We have Justin. He's listening on KM, HA, in newtown, North Dakota, Justin, you're on the air. Hey, good day to Sean. Thanks for having me. This is in regards to the ever changing travel governments that we have all across the America country and Alaska natives. What kind of benefits or what kind of impacts can the new federal government experience through information data? All right, Justin, appreciate that call there, Justin's question again. How is data impacted by new tribal governments or new tribal administrations? And let's go ahead and bring in our third guest to be our second guest. I think she would be uniquely qualified to answer this question. Joining us now from window rock, Arizona is Alicia Murphy. She is the Navajo Nation division of economic development, economist, she is Alicia. Welcome to the show. Hi. Thank you for having me. Absolutely. Alicia, your job sounds really interesting and before we get to Justin's question, I just want to ask you right off the bat. Is it common for tribes to have an economist such as yourself on the payroll? For my choice specifically, I'm the first economist to be within this division of economic development. And I'm everywhere I go and people I meet. I am eager to meet other native and indigenous economists that seem we're all working towards the same goal where we're collecting data that would truly reflect the characteristics in the of our communities that are so unique. So I haven't met very many. And but I am honored to be to have been selected to work for my tribe and to be on this journey together more information about our tribe. So tribal economists sounds like a select group of professionals, certainly. And Alicia, could you respond to our caller Justin's question? He wanted to know how data information can be impacted when new tribal administrations come in or leave.