Dr. Don Warne, Oglala Lakota, is an associate dean for medicine and health sciences based in North Dakota. He’s explains COVID-19 in Alaska and how Alaska Natives cases are high.
Dianna Hunt, ICT’s senior editor, brings us a story from Louisiana where Indigenous peoples are taking climate change seriously and personally.
- A judge in South Dakota will determine whether charges will be dismissed against NDN Collective CEO Nick Tilsen.
- Ojibwe tribes are fighting a planned wolf hunt in Wisconsin.
- In Minnesota, nuns at a monastery are apologizing for boarding school trauma.
- A Native nonprofit is awarding 13 tribal nations $30,000 to combat COVID-19.
The Interior department is announcing the next steps for its new Indian Youth Service Corps Program.
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