https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/4d76d623-c30f-4edc-a1da-db4f8a4b3736 https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/music/navajo-hum-6408576/ Tuba City recently received increased media attention when Lori Piestewa became the first Native American to die in U.S. military service. A good number of the reports described the western portion of the Navajo reservation as an economically despairing and challenged area, a notion that Bilagody tries to counteract in his music. “In each album, I want to do something that includes economic development because I want the people to think self-sufficiency and prove that it can be done,” he says. “We’re moving. We have our own college we’re building now, [and] the campuses are just about completed. We have two high schools. I think it’s the second largest community on Navajo. All of it is reservation. We have Bashas’. We have McDonald’s, KFC, Taco Bell. We have a Chinese food restaurant, a pizza place and a general department store.” To honor those businesspeople, Sing for Me contained “Hey Boss,” about a young Navajo lady who runs a construction company out of the Four Corners area, and this collaboration with the Cremains follows up with “Truck Stop Chii.” “Chii’ means grandpa’ in Navajo,” says Bilagody. Tue, 20 Oct 2026 01:22:20 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/4d76d623-c30f-4edc-a1da-db4f8a4b3736 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.