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Glenda
Bennett used to design and make Diné (Navajo) inspired handbags, but people
stopped buying when the coronavirus hit.
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She
shut down her business and trained to become a semi-truck driver, and now
crisscrosses the country with a different perspective behind the wheel of a
Freightliner Cascadia tractor.
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Bennett
told the Navajo Times her trainer recommended she carry a
weapon after she explained to him how often indigenous women are targeted by
criminals.
The coronavirus has
forced all of us to make changes in our lives, but not many have gone from
designing handbags to driving long-haul trucks. That's exactly what Glenda
Bennett, a 34-year-old Diné (also known as Navajo) from Arizona, did when
things got tough earlier this year.
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