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The statistics show that Indigenous communities are disproportionately affected by COVID-19.
A Wednesday dialogue with tribal leaders from the Flathead and Fort Peck Indian reservations emphasized their response â enacting stay-at-home orders, closing lands, taking school online, reinventing youth and health services, distributing federal CARES Act money, and planning their own vaccination rollouts.
âIndigenous leaders have stayed ahead of the curve,â said Dr. Cora Neumann, the moderator and a public health expert who sits on the stateâs vaccine rollout task force.
While the headlines often focus on case numbers, âthe loss in these communities has not been for lack of leadership,â she said.
After decades of battling misinformation, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes recover their lands and the herd. Image credit: Pete Caster Jan. 26, 2021 From the print edition
When Shane Morigeau was growing up on the Flathead Indian Reservation, he knew that the land inside the fenced National Bison Range was different from the tribal lands elsewhere on the reservation, at the base of Montana’s Mission Mountains or the shores of Flathead Lake. He remembers being a kid in his dad’s truck, driving past while his father explained that the lands inside the fence weren’t tribal lands anymore. As tribal elders tell it, it was common knowledge that the fence was as much to keep them out as it was to keep bison in. “It happened long ago,” Morigeau said, but “it still resonates across generations.