Season 1, Episode 4: Bidtah Becker, Attorney for the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, Former Director of the Navajo Nation Division of Natural Resources

Attorney for the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, Former Director of the Navajo Nation Division of Natural Resources. 

In this conversation, Mosby speaks with Bidtah about growing up in New Mexico as a member of the Navajo Nation, her experience as a student at Georgetown University, a mission trip to the Rama Peninsula in Nicaragua just after the Civil War and how that shifted her focus back home.   Bidtah discusses the incredible history of the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority and the intricate web of regulations, treaties, history, culture, and negotiation that have shaped energy and water rights and policies in Indian Country, and how those norms are changing with the rise of a new generation of Native American professionals.  Bidtah explains how we are in an inflection point in history where we can rethink our approaches and reconsider the value of life and the intrinsic value of natural resources to our human lives, and find more equitable paths forward.