Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

November 4, 2026

Neighbors Rush to the Rescue: Floods Devastate Navajo Nation and Four Corners


Pioche Food Group in Shiprock on the Navajo Nation serves up homemade chicken tortilla soup and hot tortillas to their friends and neighbors as floods devastate the Navajo Nation and Four Corners region. 


A family in Bloomfield, New Mexico recalls the tragedies of when the floods rapidly rose, and how they found their pitbull clinging to a vehicle as he died, and sheep clinging to a fence. 
(Turkey Boy Photography)


Reynaldo in Bloomfield tells how he rushed out, and as the water rose in his welding truck, he banged on doors to wake the people and made three trips rushing his neighbors to safety, children on the tops of cars were among them. As the water covered the hood, police prevented his return for a fourth trip to rescue a woman on a rooftop. His horses were rescued, two were injured, but the family lost their sheep and their bulldog.
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Homemade chicken tortilla soup was served up by Pioche Food Group in Shiprock The crew asked for more volunteers as the MOD in Shiprock at the Kirk Center which provides hot meals and shares donations that are coming in.

To the northeast of Shiprock in southwest Colorado, flood waters pushed cabins into the raging waters in Pagosa Springs and tore the highway apart at Wolf Creek Pass. To the Southeast of Shiprock, rescues continue of Dine' elderly whose hogans are flooded on the Navajo Nation.




 In Tucson in southern Arizona, dramatic rescues on Monday, as rain poured into flood waters skirt across the hard-baked land of the desert Southwest. In Oak Creek, south of Flagstaff, air rescues were underway. Two lives were lost in flooding in Flagstaff, Arizona, and searches were underway for others. 
Photo Tucson Fire Department.


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