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How a Two-Spirit Couple is Breaking Barriers


Updated: 10:39 AM EDT May 16, 2021
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Welcome back to matter of fact, May is mental health awareness month. It s had that designation since 1949 and mental health organizations across the country call it a time to build resilience. Resilience is often fragile for members of the L. G. B. T. Q. Community. Mental health struggles can emerge as a result of traumatic experiences. The trauma of discrimination, trauma of harassment, trauma of rejection, experts say resilience is dependent on radical self acceptance. A young to spirit couple from Nevada Sean and Adrian say radical acceptance has helped them break barriers in their native american community. They re competitive sweetheart dancers taking part in a celebration previously reserved for traditional couples at native paolo s hears their story. We are not the typical sweetheart pair that you would see out in the arena or dancing anywhere. Um we are the first same sex couple ....

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'We're Born Indian and We Die White': California Indigenous Fear COVID Deaths Undercounted


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Leticia Aguilar poses for a portrait holding a picture of her grandmother Betty Ann Sigala in her home in Elk Grove.
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For years, Betty Sigala spoke to her family about her death: she didn’t want to be put on a machine and she didn’t want to die alone.
When she was admitted in June to the COVID-19 care ward at her local hospital, her family refused a ventilator. One of her grandsons convinced the nurses to ignore the no visitors rule and let him in.
He set up an iPad so the family could speak with her, then held her hand as she died. ....

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'We're Born Indian and We Die White': California Indigenous Fear COVID-19 Deaths Undercounted


Native American leaders across California said COVID-19 deaths are a shadow on their communities, yet state figures show few American Indian people have died here compared with other states. Leaders and experts fear their community s deaths have been undercounted because of a long history of Native Americans being racially misclassified. And data shows they may be correct.
This unacceptable and damaging practice can bar Native people from getting the help and resources they actually need, they said.
California has the largest number of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States and the largest number of American Indians and Alaska Natives living in urban centers. They are often declared white, Latino or Black on official forms by uninformed hospital workers, according to community leaders and various studies. Sometimes they are simply listed as other. ....

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California Indigenous fear COVID deaths undercounted


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“This approach is the national standard for reporting disease rates and has several advantages,” the health department wrote in a statement to The Salinas Californian. “However, it also has limitations. Any classification system will not be able to capture the complexity and richness of racial identity.”
Acknowledging the problem doesn’t change the fact that the data is wrong, experts said. 
“The problem is in the data itself,” said Virginia Hedrick, executive director of the Consortium for Urban Indian Health, a California nonprofit alliance of service providers dedicated to improving American Indian healthcare. “I don’t trust the state data. I haven’t ever. ....

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