IllumiNative and Urban Indian Health Institute launch COVID-19 vaccine campaign to build on successful rollouts in Indian Country
Organizations to engage Indigenous artists and social media influencers to share resources
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IllumiNative and Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI) partnered to launch a COVID-19 vaccine campaign
For the Love of Our People today to bring together Native health experts and creatives to provide engaging, up-to-date information about COVID-19 vaccines and other COVID-19-related topics.
The campaign website provides access to frequently asked questions, conversation guides, videos from Indigenous health professionals, news updates, and social media resources that allow for others to engage with the campaign.
Published May 14, 2021 Updated May 14, 2021, 12:52 pm CDT
Members of the Indigenous community woke up on May 6 to find their Instagram posts for National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls had disappeared. After months of planning and events leading up to May 5, the day of recognition, activists, educators, families, community organizations, and more had shared infographics, resources, and stories to help get the word about the epidemic of missing and murdered Native women, girls, relatives and Two Spirit Peoples on Instagram. Featured Video Hide
Stories were posted with several hashtags including “MMIW” for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, “MMIR” for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives or Relations, and “MMIWG2S” for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People.
California Native Americans won health care settlement. Federal government hasn t delivered
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Fresno, Calif. The court rulings brought hope. Finally, California s Native American population the nation s largest would receive its rightful share of federal health care funding.
Triumphant, leaders in the California Native community journeyed to Washington to negotiate the process of opening the funding pipeline.
That was more than four decades ago.
Today, despite a 1979 federal court-ordered settlement that would have pumped millions of dollars into California for Native American health care, the state s share remains stunningly underfunded by the Indian Health Service, Native leaders say. Their claim has been corroborated by government records and, most recently, a 2019 letter to IHS co-signed by then-Sen. Kamala Harris and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, urging the agency to repair this longstanding inequity.
FRESNO, Calif. â The court rulings brought hope. Finally, California s Native American population â the nation s largest â would receive its rightful share of federal health care funding.
Triumphant, leaders in the California Native community journeyed to Washington to negotiate the process of opening the funding pipeline.
That was more than four decades ago.
Today, despite a 1979 federal court-ordered settlement that would have pumped millions of dollars into California for Native American health care, the state s share remains stunningly underfunded by the Indian Health Service, Native leaders say. Their claim has been corroborated by government records and, most recently, a 2019 letter to IHS co-signed by then-Sen. Kamala Harris and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, urging the agency to repair this longstanding inequity.
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