Today, catch up on some of the stories we’re following from Indian Country. This week, learn why the initiative to ship half a billion free COVID-19 tests to Americans will struggle to reach Native Americans living on rural reservations, read about how Indigenous citizens continue to suffer in 2022 despite the country’s racial reckoning, and more in this week’s News You Can Use from all over Indian Country.
Biden’s Free Home COVID Tests Out of Reach for Many Native Americans – Alaska Native News
A U.S. government initiative to ship half a billion free COVID-19 tests to Americans will struggle to reach one of the communities that has been hardest hit by the pandemic — Native Americans living on rural reservations. The administration launched a website — COVIDTests.gov — on Janua…
What Indigenous people can teach us about fighting climate change – Verve times
Julian Brave Noisecat Photo courtesy Emily Kassie Julian Brave NoiseCat is a writer and advocate for Indigenous people. He himself is a member of the Secwepemc First Nation and a descendant of the Líl‘wat Nation of Mount Currie of British Columbia. NoiseCat suggests climate change is a call for huma…
How the least populous states have overhauled their election systems
The ongoing election evolution in the United States, while in large part catalyzed by the Covid-19 pandemic, has been building momentum for years.
A redwood forest in California has been permanently returned to its Indigenous tribes
More than 500 acres of California redwood forestland has been officially returned to a group of Native American tribes whose ancestors were expelled from it generations ago.
Treading the path of a vanishing Native American art
COLUMN: For more than 40 years, this self-described “mountain woman at heart,” Tamara Reily has been creating beadwork and leatherwork.
Cam Foreman: Human rights abuses continue in Indian Country
We are at a crossroads in United States and Indigenous history.
