This story is produced by the Indigenous Investigative Collective, a project of the Native American Journalists Association in partnership with High Country News, Indian Country Today, National Native News and Searchlight New Mexico. It was produced in partnership with MuckRock with the support of JSK-Big Local News. In May of 2020, the Navajo Nation reported […]
From medical health privacy laws to a maze of siloed information systems, a true accounting of COVID-19’s impact on Indian Country is impossible to know.
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In May of 2020, the Navajo Nation reported one of the highest per-capita COVID-19 infection rates in the United States. Since that milestone, official data reveals that the Navajo Nation has been one of the hardest-hit populations during the pandemic. The Navajo Nation boasts the largest population of any Indigenous nation in the United States, and thousands of Navajos live outside the nation, in towns along the border, cities across the country, and in other parts of the world, making it difficult to tally the virus impacts on Navajo citizens.
It s made worse by a labyrinthian system of local, state, federal and tribal data-reporting systems that often do not communicate with each other or share information. In an effort to come up with a more reliable fatality count, reporters with the Indigenous Investigative Collective made multiple public-records requests for death records held by state medical examiners of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. Those requests focuse
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But consider the case of those who are responsible for fostering the scourge of opioid addiction.
During an ongoing trial involving the city of Huntington and Cabell County in West Virginia, and three of the nation s largest drug distributors, it recently was revealed that some company executives regularly made fun of people who became addicted even as they showered the state with more than 1 billion pain pills.
Among the revelations are emails from executives describing addicts as pillbillies, which speaks to the impunity and utter contempt they have for the communities by which they enriched themselves.
The audacity of disparaging the very people you enabled defies measure.