Chinese dreams on Native American land: A tale of cannabis boom and bust

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In the pandemic, hundreds of Chinese migrants who lost their jobs moved to a remote city on the Navajo Nation Indian reservation in New Mexico, to do what they thought was legal agricultural work. Instead, they and the local Native community found themselves pitted against one another in a bizarre cautionary tale about the boom in cannabis production in the US, and the impact on Asian migrant labourers.

When Xia (not her real name) first heard about the job as a “flower cutter”, she pictured roses.

Details were scant, but a roommate told her it was 10 days’

This story is from The BBC News. To read the full story, please go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56835897.

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