The post Flooding upends lives in the Navajo Nation’s Tse Dáá K’áán Chapter appeared first on Searchlight New Mexico. The region has a population of about 1,200 people, but its 120,000 acres straddling the San Juan River between Farmington and Shiprock make it difficult to respond in emergencies such as this, chapter…

TSE DÁÁ K’ÁÁN CHAPTER — Ronald Joe, 61, has spent the majority of his life in his family’s beige, single-story home, with two bedrooms, a kitchen and a small family room. Outside on the 1-acre property was a little garden.

Ronald Joe’s family home is surrounded by water following recent flooding from the San Juan River in the Navajo Nation’s Tsé Dáá K’áán, or Hogback, Chapter.