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    The 2020 census is coming. Will Native Americans be counted?

    by Kurtis Lee and Ben Welsh, Los Angeles Times Jun 25, 2019 5 minutes

    CROWNPOINT, N.M. - Leonard Jones doesn't remember a survey packet on the porch or a knock on his front door during the last census count.

    But that doesn't surprise him - not out here. Only family and close friends make the dusty 10-mile trek from the paved road, down dirt switchbacks lined by sandstone mesas, to his secluded home in northwestern New Mexico. There is no electricity, no running water, in the single-level sandstone structure.

    "Few people know we're out here," Jones, who lives on the Navajo Nation reservation, said on a recent morning as his son Brett trimmed his hair. "We live in nature."

    "The thought of people coming out here and making us a part of any official count seems like a stretch, you know?"

    As the 2020 census nears, concern about an undercount of Native Americans is gaining

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