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21 October 2020
Washington, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Most Washington counties adopted a universal vote by mail system between the 2004 and 2006 federal elections, which led to increased voter turnout. Statewide turnout increased by over six percentage points for subsequ...
18 October 2020
Utah, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A legal settlement in Utah expanded access to voting on Navajo Nations and influenced similar settlements in Arizona. All registered voters receive a mail-in ballot, but counties also offer early voting and election-d...
12 October 2020
Penobscot Indian Island Reservation, Maine, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
The Penobscot Nation's Healing to Wellness Court is a drug court, diverting people charged with drug offenses from possible fines and jail into therapy. But it has an added cultural element, providing traditional heal...
8 October 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Native American Community Clinic in Minneapolis is utilizing telehealth practices to treat both the medical and spiritual needs of the community and its patients. Although the "spiritual-meets-traditional care pro...
7 October 2020
Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, South Dakota, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
An indigenous community has tapped into new technology to provide broadband internet access which is critical for virtual learning during the coronavirus shutdown of schools. Digital radio waves were used to broadcast...
5 October 2020
Canada
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1500-3000 Words
The First Nation–Municipal Community Economic Development Initiative is a nationwide initiative to foster positive relationships, empowering First Nation and municipal leaders to talk as equals. There have been hundre...
30 September 2020
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The absence of an active "fire culture" in the American West has contributed greatly to the scale of catastrophic wildfires fueled by decades of aggressive fire-suppression tactics. In Florida, Australia, and pockets ...
30 September 2020
Wyoming, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Massive herds of bison once roamed the American prairie, powering the "wildlife economy" and making Plains Native American tribes both rich and healthy. Now, indigenous tribes are bringing back what was once a cultura...
26 September 2020
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A volunteer organization is helping to address a language barrier as it pertains to COVID-19 by translating and distributing public health information in the native languages of tribes. Although this is not as simple ...
22 September 2020
Oregon, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Indigenous communities in need of clean drinking water have turned to aid from a Black-led nonprofit in Portland. Don't Shoot Portland raised $16,000 dollars for water and other basic supplies for the Warm Springs Tri...
14 August 2020
Cherokee, North Carolina, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians reacted to COVID-19 with aggressive measures that yielded fewer illnesses than in neighboring counties, and no deaths, all without outside help. But one of their preventive measure...
21 July 2020
Michigan, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Food bartering helps families during times of food insecurity, which is often exacerbated by crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Families with lower incomes have bartered for food for a long time but the pandemic ha...
18 July 2020
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
Renaming the Washington Redskins to remove a racist name and logo will require a difficult and delicate process juggling a host of issues that other professional and college sports franchises have successfully navigat...
10 July 2020
Utah, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In 2016, court ordered redistricting gave Navajo nation residents in San Juan County fairer representation and required in-person polling locations and translation assistance. Shortly after, the Bear Ears National Mon...
11 June 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Volunteer street patrols organized by the American Indian Movement, the national civil rights group, saved the heart of the Twin Cities’ native American community from damage during the looting and arson that broke ou...
6 June 2020
Navajo Nation, Arizona, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Community Health Representative Program has been helping connect the Navajo Nation with health-care resources for decades, but when the Covid-19 pandemic began to impact community members, the role of the represen...
12 May 2020
Houma, Louisiana, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw has long had a culture of cyclicality which is now coming in handy during the Coronavirus pandemic. Because they assume that hardship will come after periods o...
7 May 2020
Wyoming, United States
Multi-Media
Under 800 Words
Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes share land, and despite previous disagreements, they collaborated to create one of the state's most effective coronavirus testing clinics. 3,000 people from both tribes hav...
6 May 2020
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
The number of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada is high, so a group of Indigenous women formed an organization called Power Our Women (POW) to teach other Indigenous women across the country self-defense...
24 April 2020
Yurok Reservation, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Indigenous Peoples Burning Network works with a group of other similar networks with the shared goal of promoting prescribed fire in a positive and safe manner that will help local ecosystems and minimize the risk...
13 April 2020
Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Indigenous people across the United States—like the Oglala Sioux on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation—are relying on survival tactics that their ancestors used to get through the COVID-19 pandemic, like seed saving, c...
10 April 2020
Towaoc, Colorado, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Ute Mountain Ute people have enacted a number of COVID-19 preventative measures for the tribe. These include implementing a curfew, transforming their casino into a food distribution hub and lodging for first resp...
1 April 2020
Menominee, Wisconsin, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Efforts are underway on the Menominee Reservation in northeastern Wisconsin to preserve the at-risk language of Menominee. That looks like conducting school entirely in Menominee, printing Menominee-language books, up...
17 February 2020
Tuba City, Arizona, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
In the Navajo Nation, more than 70 percent of local income leaves the tribal area, but one effort is helping native-owned businesses expand their reach. Change Labs, a business incubator, helped birth Rez Rising, an a...
The Guardian
Anita Hofschneider
12 February 2020
Guam
Text
800-1500 Words
CHamoru, the indigenous language of the Mariana Islands, is endangered. In an urgent move to save the language, Chief Hurao Academy was founded, a nonprofit that offers a CHamoru summer immersion program, an after-sch...
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