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[Supplies Needed on Navajo Nation.

Dear friends,

I would like to share the following message from Dr. Sara Jager (who lived in PC while completing her residency at Primary Children’s), now a doctor on the Navajo Nation:

Want to help fight COVID?

I am a doctor on the Navajo reservation in Tuba City, Arizona. We are being hit hard by COVID. We do not have enough gowns, masks, or face shields to protect all of the members of our triage, ER, and inpatient units.

Here is what we need:

1) Homemade face masks - these will be given to coughing patients to containt the spread of the virus among members in the home as well as for use in the ER or other clinic visits. We may also use them over the top of the N95 mask to protect the N95 from contamination.

2) Homemade gowns for hospital personnel. We can send them through Hospital laundering services. This will help protect healthcare workers from the virus. Long sleeve, to the knee. Easily washable, probably cotton.

3) Face shields - people have been making these as well. This protects our eyes from couhging/sputum. These will be worn by healthcare workers seeing patients.

Usually these are single-use items, but we are reusing all of them right now.

Thank you,

Sara Jagar, MD

Lieutenant Commander, USPHS

Deputy Chief Pediatrics

PO Box 2561

Tuba City, AZ 86045]

Sam Hunter Pinto. Librarian/Archivist.  Born 1988, in a home birth on the Dineh Reservation in New Mexico.  Sam is slender, somewhat on the short side, bronze skin, black hair and eyes, and dresses in close-fitting jeans, button down shirts and sweater vests in a multitude of colors with sturdy and comfortable shoes and the occasional whimsical bowtie.  They keep their hair trimmed short, and wear small-lensed, wire-framed glasses.  

Sam's great grandfather was a Navajo Code-Talker in WWII. Sam grew up listening to their great-grandfather's exploits, and about the time he met Captain America and Bucky.  Sam collected a lot of the old Cap memorabilia, and frequently has a Capt. America t-shirt or tank top beneath their button up.  

Sam studied Libary Science at the University of Arizona, getting their Masters of Library Science as quickly as possible, and obtaining a second Masters in Archival Studies.  

Their androgyny led to much bullying in school, but they endured, turning into a quick and dirty fighter, more than capable of defending themselves when pushed.  

After obtaining their degrees, they looked up a couple of their grandfather's Army buddies in DC and asked to become an Archivist for SHIELD.  

The physical training required of even the administrative staff proved no problem for Sam.  They also took on additional hand to hand training, as well as spending time at the firing range to relax.  Growing up in the New Mexico mountains, they are an excellent shot.  

Sam had gotten to see Steve in passing at the Triskelion several times, and whenever Steve was in town would be uncharacteristically out and about, instead of holed up in their basement office.

Sam missed a lot of what happened with the Helicarriers' fall because the second Natasha released the Hydra records into the wild, they were glued to their computer.  They were in the habit of spending days on end in their office, which Fury had outfitted with a small bathroom including a shower. When alarms sounded and the firedoors locked, they settled in to wait it out, and obsessively read the HYDRA files on the internet, archiving and backing things up on the army of external hard drives they kept on hand.  They occasionally answered concerned emails from Ethel.

When the rescuers arrived, Sam scolded them about dust near the computers, and insisted on putting everything to rights before sealing the room to their corneal scan and leaving with them.  

When they'd heard about the old SHIELD offices that had gotten blown up taking out Zola, they screamed in anguish.

Ethel took Sam with her to Stark Industries.  The SHIELD archives are still located under the ruins of the Triskelion in DC, and Sam makes frequent trips back and forth.  There are talks of building a new archive. Sam may or may not be in intense negotiations with Stark, Hill and Ethel about its location and the necessary safeguards.  

Sam was the one who gave Ethel the file on Bucky that she handed off to Steve. They had tears in their eyes, but told Ethel they didn't feel qualified to make that call.  When Ethel told Sam she'd given the file to Steve, they went back to their apartment in the tower and ate an entire pint of Ben & Jerry's in their pajamas, watching The Librarians on DVD, a gift from their older sister, without even making snide comments about their archival practices.  

After the Accords, Sam refuses to speak to Tony, and spends more and more time in the old archives in DC crating things up and getting them ready to move to the new location.  

When Sam is in New York, they are forced by Ethel out of their office periodically.  No one says no to Ethel.  She makes them get coffee with her, mostly at odd hours.  Sam thinks Cassidy is nice, but seems sad.  They find Sierras amusing and pity Tim.  They are friendly with everyone, but not close.  

The last time someone asked them about their gender, they looked that person (a new recruit who did not make the cut) in the eye and asked, "Why? Do you want to fuck me?"  When no answer was forthcoming, they turned and walked away, apparently unfazed.