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11 January 2021
Alaska, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
Alaska has achieved one of the highest vaccination rates in the country due to prioritizing access to the vaccine for rural and Indigenous residents. Using a myriad of transportation efforts – including a fleet of cha...
17 December 2020
Seattle, Washington, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Supportive housing options geared toward Native Americans specifically are rare but much-needed resources in urban areas like Seattle where up to 15% percent of the homeless population belongs to the native community....
10 December 2020
Talika, Oklahoma, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Leaders from the Cherokee Nation have been praised for their success in containing the coronavirus pandemic through aggressive and rapid actions. A key component to that success has been the Cherokee Nation's private ...
The Narwhal
Matt Simmons
10 December 2020
British Columbia, Canada
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1500-3000 Words
The Canadian Coast Guard is building a working relationship with indigenous communities that live on the coast of British Columbia, in order to better coordinate rescue efforts. The indigenous tribes "have intimate kn...
30 November 2020
Lincoln County, Oregon, United States
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1500-3000 Words
After a contact tracing effort spurred by an outbreak of COVID-19 cases in Lincoln County, Oregon resulted in the realization that resources weren't being offered in Indigenous Mayan languages, the Oregon Health Autho...
19 November 2020
Arizona, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Organizations across the political spectrum increased voter turnout on Arizona’s Native American reservations. The Biden campaign targeted outreach to specific groups, such as Native women and veterans, and held Covid...
16 November 2020
Washington, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In order to better educate students about indigenous history, in 2015, Washington passed the “Since Time Immemorial” (STI) curriculum, the law requires schools to teach a tribally developed curriculum. This has led to...
Vox
Rachel Ramirez
10 November 2020
Arizona, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Voter outreach campaigns effectively boosted turnout among Native voters. The Rural Utah Project left informational flyers inside plastic bags at people’s doors (a Covid-19 tactical adjustment), held drive-through vot...
5 November 2020
Maine, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
By providing a forum to the Wabanaki people to tell their truth about public policies' effects on their lives, the Maine-Wabanaki Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission prompted reforms in Maine's child wel...
2 November 2020
Maine, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
To confront and fix Maine's practice of removing Native American children from their communities and giving them to white families for adoption, the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commissi...
2 November 2020
Toksook Bay, Alaska, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Remote Alaskan villages traditionally followed the native practice of banishing members of their communities for serious, chronic wrongdoing. Created in the absence of a functioning criminal justice system of police, ...
24 October 2020
Hawaii, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
A 100-year-old program provides virtually free land for Native Hawaiians to build their own home or buy one from a developer. Despite a $1/year land lease and low taxes, the program has failed to promptly provide affo...
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...
13 October 2020
Montana, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Legal challenges have protected Native voting rights since the 1980s, when districts diluting native votes were ruled unconstitutional and redrawn. In 2012, three tribes sued to increase access to registration and pol...
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
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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...
20 September 2020
Canada
Text
Over 3000 Words
A 3-year pilot is developing a traditional fire management program for First Nation communities using cultural burns, a practice banned for over a century. Cultural burns are used to reinvigorate the landscape so that...
22 August 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Remembering global indigenous connections allows tribes and those whose families were forced from their native lands, to strengthen their familiarity of traditions and of knowledge that was handed down for centuries. ...
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...
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