June 2020

Washington • Over the past three months, the Treasury Department has managed to send billions of dollars in small business loans, family checks and business assistance.But distributing the $8 billion pot earmarked for tribal governments, a…

Details By Native News Online Staff June 17, 2020…

Details Through Indigenous News Online Staff June 16, 2020…

A scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) published in Circulation describes the cardiovascular health considerations of Native American and Alaska Native populations, including the assessment of risk factors…

This has left the UIHI and other tribal epidemiology centers without access to basic data on the spread of the coronavirus nationwide, hampering efforts to track the disease in Native American populations and understand how and why it is…

Details Through Levi Rickert June 10, 2020…

Details Through Levi Rickert June 08, 2020…

Q: Did Native American tribes live in the Wiregrass area?A: Yes, Native Americans occupied the Wiregrass region - generally described as parts of southern Georgia, southeastern Alabama and the Florida Panhandle - long…

The SARS-CoV-2 virus is new, but pandemic threats to Indigenous peoples are anything but new. Diseases such as measles, smallpox and the Spanish flu have decimated Native American communities since the arrival of the first European…