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Native communities share heritage ways to live and care for each other during this latest pandemic.
2AYCFT9 A cultural performance in the village of Kake, a Tlingit village located on Kupreanof Island where Frederick Sound meets Stephens Passage and Chatham
In reporting on the transformative thinking Native communities are putting into action in these tumultuous times, I heard time and time again: âThis is not our first pandemic.â Since the 1500s, when ever-larger numbers of Europeans began arriving in this hemisphere, disasters have come thick and fast for the First Nations, including tens of millions wiped out within a century by continual waves of unfamiliar diseasesâmeasles, influenza, smallpox, typhus, diphtheria, and more. Village after village stood empty. Enduring shock and grief, the survivors relied on ancient lifeways to support them as new trials arose.
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