FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Jill Biden is traveling to the country's largest Native American reservation, the Navajo Nation, which was hit hard by the coronavirus but is outpacing the U.S.
in vaccination rates while maintaining strict pandemic restrictions. The trip Thursday and Friday will be Biden's third to the reservation that spans 27,000 square miles (70,000 square kilometers) in the Four Corners region, and her inaugural visit as first lady.
She's expected to meet Navajo officials in the tribal capital of Window Rock, named for an opening in a red sandstone arch and where the tribe established a veterans memorial.
She'll also visit a boarding school and a nearby hospital that has been administering vaccines, both of which the tribe runs under