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Why the U S is terrible at collecting Indigenous data

Abigail Echo-Hawk, the chief research officer for the Seattle Indian Health Board and director of the Urban Indigenous Health Institute. “The main nuance of Indigenous data is recognizing that, right now, the data simply isn’t being collected, or it s being collected in a manner that still effectively excludes us or we’re being racially misclassified,“ she says. Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut Indigenous peoples in the United States sorely need health data. Yet health-care centers and public health institutions regularly overlook Native Americans, Alaskan Natives and other Indigenous peoples when collecting data and conducting research a problem compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.

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