Packet 1: Tossup 19

In the 1950s, this nation’s radio station KGAK broadcast anti-tuberculosis campaigns by its “legendary mother,” Annie Dodge Wauneka, as discussed in Wade Davis’s (10[1])book Healing Ways. This nation’s healers include stargazers and hand-tremblers. This nation’s namesake “Healthy” act promoted foods like beeweed spinach, kneeldown bread, and blue mush made with juniper ash. This is the only nation with its own Tribal Epidemiology Center. This nation’s oral tradition identified deer mice as a vector of the Sin Nombre hantavirus before a 1993 (10[1])outbreak (-5[1])investigated by the IHS. In 2020, this nation’s per capita rate of COVID-19 surpassed (10[1]-5[1])every state’s. (10[2])Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (10[1])celebrated this nation passing the first tribal junk food tax in a ceremony (-5[1])at Window Rock. (10[5]-5[1])For 10 points, hataałii (10[1])(“ha-TAH-thlee”) are healers of what nation that straddles the Four (10[1])Corners? (10[1])■END■ (10[8]0[3])

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