07/24/2026
Keshhi,
This is Shaun Tsabetsaye. Today at 11:00 a.m. MST, I will join Native America Calling live to discuss the devastating flood’s impact on the Pueblo of Zuni and our community’s response. Zuni Governor Arden Kucate will also participate, along with a community member who may share firsthand experience of the disaster.
Listen on local public radio or through Native America Calling https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/friday-july-24-2026-zuni-pueblo-responds-to-monsoon-flooding/.
Rebroadcast today on KSHI at 5:00PM MST
I will speak on behalf of my family’s Zuni-owned and operated grocery store, Major Market, Inc., and share how our family and employees responded when flooding disrupted electricity, transportation, water access, and normal business operations.
I will discuss:
* Major Market’s efforts to maintain access to food, drinking water, and essential supplies while other stores were closed or operating with limited services;
* Our work with vendors to procure additional food and supplies for the community;
* How our solar energy and reverse-osmosis water systems supported critical energy and clean drinking-water needs;
* My parents’ Darrell & Roscelia providing decades of servant leadership reinforced by David & Colin extending Major Market’s essential service during the COVID-19 pandemic;
* The inseparable connection between energy security, food security, and water security;
* My work with the Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy to help Tribal Nations prepare for extreme weather, rising costs, and infrastructure disruptions.
We respectfully ask for the patience, understanding, and continued support of our customers and community. Major Market is working diligently to procure the food, water, supplies, and services most urgently needed. Like many others, we are navigating transportation challenges, limited inventories, disrupted supply chains, and extraordinary demand.
We are deeply grateful to our employees, vendors, volunteers, donors, and supporters within Zuni and beyond the reservation who are working together to assist our community. Every delivery, donation, volunteer hour, and act of kindness is helping Zuni families through this emergency and into recovery.
Major Market has also established a gift-card option to support families displaced by the flood. Gift cards for in-store food and essential purchases can be purchased at:
major-market-inc-zuni.cloveronline.com
Donors may send the QR code directly to an impacted family, send it to themselves for later distribution, or email it to [email protected] for distribution through the general Zuni Flood Relief Fund. List your first & last name and use [email protected]
Locally owned Tribal businesses are more than economic enterprises; they are essential community infrastructure. Zuni people have endured profound challenges throughout our history, and the strength and guidance of our ancestors continue to carry us forward.
Elahkwa to everyone standing with the Zuni people. Please continue to be patient with our team, support one another, and keep our community in your thoughts and prayers.
Tsabetsaye & Major Market, Inc. Family
