"With the United States Supreme Court declining to hear the case, a protracted legal battle between two Indigenous communities has nowhere to go." "Indigenous people and their ancestors have been netting salmon and digging clams in the island-studded Salish Sea for at least 10,000 years. These longtime residents of what are now Washington State and British Columbia multiple
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Tony Johnson is the chair of the Chinook Nation. He says members of his community have been lost because the Chinook Nation is not federally recognized. Credit: KUOW Photo/Eilis O Neill
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The Indian Health Service has been lauded for the success of its vaccine rollout.
But thereâs one group of tribes that received no vaccines, no testing supplies, and none of the federal relief money thatâs gone to Indian Country during the pandemic.
Most tribes received testing supplies that Indian Health Service sent to their clinics. And as sovereign nations, they got their own vaccine allocations that they could prioritize as they chose.
Image credit: Eilis O Neill
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The Chinook Indian Nation has about 3,000 members who mostly live near the mouth of the Columbia River in southwest Washington. But they’re not on the list of federally recognized tribes so they get nothing from the Indian Health Service.
“We have all the problems of Indian Country, but no means of dealing with it,” Chinook chair Tony Johnson says. Without recognition, they get no reservation, no housing allowance, no clinics.