COVID-19 has claimed the lives of three million people worldwide, with over 500,000 of those deaths in the United States (Johns Hopkins, 2021). Tribal communities have been unequivocally impacted by the pandemic, often being left on their own to address the crisis (Curtice & Choo, 2020). Limited access to healthcare, lack of resources, and potential underlying conditions have heightened tribal community vulnerability to COVID-19, resulting in increased concern from community members (Smith, 2020).
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, students from Oglala Lakota College (OLC) in Kyle, South Dakota, and United Tribes Technical College (UTTC) in Bismarck, North Dakota, partnered virtually with the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder Earth Lab through an NSF grant aimed at building capacity to teach Earth data science skills. Through workshops, webinars, and assignments, students also learned valuable computer science skills. With the pandemic heavy on their minds, students took the o
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Aerial view of Cankdeska Cikana Community College
At Navajo Technical University, which has campuses on the sprawling Navajo reservation in New Mexico and Arizona, some students commute up to two hours each way to attend classes. Many of them lack reliable access to the internet.
The pandemic has made attending the university even more challenging, but university leaders have come up with creative ways to engage students and keep them enrolled, even starting a Homework Express service through which campus shuttle bus drivers bring packets of homework to designated drop-off points for students who lack internet access altogether. The drivers then return to pick up the completed assignments.
The Senate unanimously passed a bill that requires all North Dakota studies and U.S. history courses to include instruction about Native Americans, though many schools in the state already do so and it is unclear how much "Native American instruction" is enough to satisfy the bill and how that would be enforced.
Former Standing Rock chairman Jesse Taken Alive dies after contracting COVID-19 (Lakota) belongs to all of us, so my message to all of the young people: . This is your language. When you learn it, you re going to be able to learn more about this beautiful thing called life, Jesse Jay Taken Alive said in a 2016 video promoting the Lakota language. 6:28 pm, Dec. 18, 2020 ×
Jesse Jay Taken Alive, tribal councilman at large for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, speaks in opposition of the nickname for the University of North Dakota during a hearing at the State Capitol in Bismarck. Forum News Service file photo