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When someone on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation receives a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19, health care workers from the Whiteriver Indian Hospital jump into action. They personally visit the individuals home to test other household members, perform health evaluations on everyone there  and trace any other potential contacts at risk for COVID-19 exposure. Health care workers in the community say that could be one reason why, even though the rate of confirmed COVID-19 cases among White ...

Garrard, 42, of Lakeside, Arizona, is the son of Gary and Deanna Garrard of Hermiston. He serves as the Disabled Veteran Outreach Program workforce specialist in the Workforce Development Administration within the Northeastern Arizona Department of Economic Security, providing assistance to veterans experiencing barriers to employment, including custom resumes, job searches, job interview assistance, individual employment plans, and Veterans Tool Kit assistance. Garrard served 20 years in aircr...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... A Navajo family near Kayenta, outside a shelter built by CORE to prevent COVID-19 spread in multigenerational households. (Courtesy Nilaya Sabnis) Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal Crowded homes, limited water and electricity, and an underfunded health system have fueled COVID-19 infections in th...

Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this article incorrectly described Rep. Deb Haaland’s status. In 2018, she was one of the first two Indigenous women elected to Congress in the continental U.S.  As a growing number of tribal and Native community leaders rally around Interior Secretary-designate Deb Haaland, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly said he would vote to confirm her when the Senate takes up the nomination. Haaland, a New Mexico Democrat, was one of the first two enrolled fe...

Lila Kills In Sight lost her 81-year-old mother to COVID-19 on Nov. 23. "I really dont know who to be mad at," she said. "Who do I take my frustration to, how do I deal with it?" Kills In Sight, an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, is the first to say shes not dealing with it well. She had been keeping her mom sheltered mostly in her home in the remote community of Spring Creek as the pandemic raged in South Dakota. But in September she broke her hip. Then in November she fell. "I h...

by Kirk SieglerFeb, 19 2021 (Morning Edition) Amanda Bordeaux, 36, gets her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine during a weekly mass vaccination clinic at the Rosebud hospital in South Dakota. Image: Kirk Siegler/NPR Lila Kills In Sight lost her 81-year-old mother to COVID-19 on Nov. 23. "I really dont know who to be mad at," she said. "Who do I take my frustration to, how do I deal with it?" Kills In Sight, an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, is the first to say shes not dealing with...

Image credit: Kirk Siegler Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM or HD radio, the WMFE mobile app or your smart speaker — say “Alexa, play NPR” and you’ll be connected. Lila Kills In Sight lost her 81 year old mother to COVID-19 on November 23rd. “I really don’t know who to be mad at,” she said. “Who do I take my frustration to, how do I deal with it?” Kills In Sight, an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, is the first to say she�...

On one year mark, community remembers fallen White Mountain Apache Police Officer David Kellywood On one year mark, community remembers fallen White Mountain Apache Police Officer David Kellywood. and last updated 2021-02-17 20:44:54-05 Wednesday marked one-year since the shooting death of a White Mountain Apache police officer, killed in the line-of-duty while responding to a call. "Last night was the night, a year ago, that we sent him off to work," said Ofc. Kellywoods widow, Kamellia. "Not ...

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Copper Mine Would Crater Sacred Site, Native Groups Say Law360 (February 11, 2021, 9:42 PM EST) -- Native American rights advocates on Thursday backed a San Carlos Apache nonprofits suit opposing the Resolution Copper mine project, telling an Arizona federal judge that the federal governments planned land swap for the project would lead to the sites destruction and the groups loss of any ability to practice their religion there. The Morning Star Institute, the Multi...

SACHEEN: Breaking the Silence :: The Mountain Enterprise By Patric Hedlund, TME Eric Roy Anderson, our Piñon Pines neighbor [shown in a handsome tux at a candid Cannes moment, at right, from about 20 years ago], wants to spread the word about a short film that is up for Academy Award consideration this year. Here’s his note. “SACHEEN: Breaking the Silence” has qualified for Oscar consideration in the Short Documentary category. “My thanks to Sacheen Littlefeather, Direc...