Bastrop County is a finalist for a $25,000 national health prize that honors communities at the forefront of providing health equity to residents.
The county is a finalist for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize, which is a collaboration between the foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
Bastrop County is the only 2021 finalist from Texas, and the county is also the state’s first rural community to be recognized by the prize.
“To the Bastrop County community, this is a moment to recognize and celebrate your hard work, resilience, collaboration and collective can-do attitude,” said Debbie Bresette, the executive director of Bastrop County Cares, a local nonprofit focused on improving the social determinants of health in the county.
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The talk is the culminating event in the Capps Center’s yearlong exploration of contemporary Indigenous ethics, Ethics in Place: A Symposium on Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Principled Democracy.
“We began with a question,” said Johnson. “How do we take steps toward a principled democracy wherein bedrock ideas of fairness and honor anchor our common humanity? One starting point, we suggested, is to address Native American land claims and place-based sensibilities in a sustained and forward-looking manner.”
The Ethics in Place symposium was designed to focus on what Johnson calls “knowledge production outside of university settings,” and has featured a slew of speakers who are not academics, including Walter Echo-Hawk, president of the Pawnee Nation; Caleen Sisk, chief of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe; Justice Gregory Bigler of the Muscogee Creek Nation Tribal Court; and Pua Case, a Native Hawaiian ceremonial leader.
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When Elisha Yellow Thunder first learned of COVID-19, she worried that her community would be hit hard. As a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation (Oglala Sioux Tribe), born and raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, Yellow Thunder knew that her community was not equipped to address a pandemic. Nearly a year later, Yellow Thunder mourns the loss of many relatives. Like many tribes across the U.S., the Oglala Sioux Tribe has been devastated by a loss of elders, many of whom are the cultural knowledge-keepers and fluent speakers of the Lakota language.
American Indian and Alaska Native communities have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 compared to other racial and ethnic minority groups, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. Compounding this problem, COVID-19 data has not been collected or shared consistently across American Indian reservations.
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