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A virtual community conversation led by, and for, Indigenous people often referred to as an “invisible minority” will cover the history of health and stigma surrounding vaccinations, as well as provide current information about COVID-19 prevention and inoculation.
“There’s been so much talk in the local media about vaccine equity, but Indigenous people have been largely left out of those conversations,” says Hannah Shippee, program coordinator at nonprofit health research and planning organization Common Ground Health, which is helping to organize the event. “Indigenous populations have a lot of historical and present-day trauma they are confronting, and we shouldn’t forget about them.”