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People of Color and COVID-19: Native Americans I (20 Articles)

Angeline Cheek, an organizer with the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux frontline organization Kokipansi. Photo courtesy Indigenous Environmental Network
Angeline Cheek, an organizer with the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux frontline organization Kokipansi. Photo courtesy Indigenous Environmental Network

NOTE: At Historianspeaks.org, we are committed to bringing you the most current information on issues impacting Black people and communities of color. This informational blog is the first installment in our new series: People of Color and COVID-19 will focus on providing information on the impact of the pandemic on Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans and other impacted groups.

Native American Tribes Brace for Coronavirus: “Its going to be a test’ (NBC News, 3/15/2020)

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/native-american-tribes-brace-coronavirus-it-s-going-be-test-n1156961

Indian Country, where residents suffer disproportionately from disease, is bracing for coronavirus (The Washington Post, 4/2/2020)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/04/04/native-american-coronavirus/

Coronavirus takes more than Native Americans’ lives. Killing our elderly erases our culture (NBC News, 4/11/2020)

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/coronavirus-takes-more-native-americans-lives-killing-our-elderly-erases-ncna1189761

New Arizona data shows Native Americans, older people and men dying more than COVID-19 (AzCentral, 4/12/2020)

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-health/2020/04/12/coronavirus-in-arizona-data-where-who-deaths-impact-location-cases/2979690001/

Native Americans make up 31% of New Mexico COVID-19 cases (New Mexico In Depth, 4/12/2020)

http://nmindepth.com/2020/04/12/native-americans-make-up-31-of-new-mexico-covid-19-cases/

COVID-19 strikes Native Americans at high rates in New Mexico (New Mexico In Depth, 4/12/2020)

http://nmindepth.com/2020/04/14/covid-19-strikes-native-americans-at-high-rates-in-new-mexico/

Native Americans were already decimated by a virus. They’re scared it could happen again (CNN, 4/14/2020)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/us/native-americans-coronavirus-blake/index.html

Helping Native Americans battle COVID-19: Tamee Livermont, MPH ’20 (My Vanderbilt University, 4/30/20)

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2020/04/30/helping-native-americans-battle-covid-19-tamee-livermont-mph20/

Native American health center asked for COVID-19 supplies. It got body bags instead (NBC News, 5/5/2020)

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/native-american-health-center-asked-covid-19-supplies-they-got-n1200246

For Native Americans COVID-19 is the ‘worst of both worlds at the same time’ (The Harvard Gazette, 5/8/2020)

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/05/the-impact-of-covid-19-on-native-american-communities/

Irish Support for Native American COVId-19 relief highlights historic bond (The Guardian, 5/9/2020)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/09/irish-native-american-coronavirus-historic-bond

Native Americans make up 50% of COVId-19 deaths in New Mexico (New Mexico In Depth, 5/11/2020)

http://nmindepth.com/2020/05/11/native-americans-make-up-50-of-covid-19-deaths-in-new-mexico/

COVID-19 has spread to most New Mexico Tribes (New Mexico In Depth, 5/13/2020)

http://nmindepth.com/2020/05/13/covid-19-has-spread-to-most-new-mexico-tribes/

Tribal Nations Face Most Severe Crisis in Decades as the Coronavirus Closes Casinos (NYT, 5/13/2020)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/us/coronavirus-native-americans-indian-country.html

COVID-19 Presents Significant Risks for American Indian and Alaska Native People (Henry Kaiser Health Foundation, 5/14/2020)

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/covid-19-presents-significant-risks-for-american-indian-and-alaska-native-people/

Native Americans Struggle to Fight the Coronavirus (Axios, 5/16/2020)

https://www.axios.com/native-americans-unprepared-coronavirus-pandemic-62659da0-e49b-4a1b-bbf3-5cf3bc1df53b.html

Coronavirus pandemic threatens accurate census count for Native American tribes (NBC News, 5/20/2020)

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coronavirus-pandemic-threatens-accurate-census-count-tribal-nations-n1233771

COVID-19 Further Strains Care Disparities Among Native Americans (Medpage Today, 5/21/2020)

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/86633

As the coronavirus pandemic strains supplies, Native Americans fight food insecurity (NBC NEWS, 5/24/2020)

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coronavirus-pandemic-strains-supplies-native-americans-fight-food-insecurity-n1213116

Why Native Americans took Covid-19 seriously: ‘It’s our reality’ (The Guardian, 5/25/2020)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/26/native-americans-coronavirus-impact

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