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

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