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Researchers have long pointed to the importance of incorporating cultural practices into behavioral health care for Native Americans, but there is an ongoing struggle to ensure those services are accessible and affordable.
Increasing access to Native practices to treat mental health
Indian Country headlines for Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021
Tribal elders are dying of COVID-19, causing a cultural crisis for American Indians The pandemic is inflicting an incalculable toll on bonds of language and tradition that flow from older generations to the young. (Victor J. Blue | The New York Times) Pall bearers with the coffin of Jesse Taken Alive, a Lakota member of the Standing Rock Tribe who died of COVID-19, at Kesling Funeral Home in Mobridge, S.D., on Dec. 26, 2020. The coronavirus has killed American Indians at especially high rates, robbing tribes of precious bonds and repositories of language and tradition. By Jack Healy | The New...
Fearing an outbreak of COVID-19, Diné College conducted its first ever virtual graduation ceremony that saw more than 50 students receive associate’s and bachelor’s degrees and certificates. The roughly 90-minute ceremony featured Dr. Jill Jim, executive director of the Navajo Nation Department of Health and a recent appointee to President-Elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 advisory board, as commencement speaker. Sage Bond, a Diné College alumnus and popular Navajo folk musician, sang the national anthem. James Tutt, dean of Diné College’s School of Science, Technology, Engineering, and M...