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During the most recent session, there were 12 Native members, the highest number, both overall and percentage wise, since the information began being collected #NativeVote22
There were few contested primaries for the Montana Legislature in southcentral and Eastern Montana, but many of those races finalized selections for state House or Senate.
COVID-19 continues to devastate tribal communities across Montana, despite tribal leaders’ early implementation of pandemic safety protocols that often surpassed state and federal restrictions.
COVID-19 continues to devastate tribal communities across Montana, despite tribal leadersâ early implementation of pandemic safety protocols that often surpassed state and federal restrictions. According to the Centers for Disease Control, Native Americans are killed by COVID-19 at nearly twice the rate of white people. And in Montana, Native Americans are 11 times more likely to die from the virus than white residents, according to a Montana Office of Epidemiology and Scientific Support study. A panel of Montana tribal leaders addressed the role of systemic inequalities in COVID...
The statistics show that Indigenous communities are disproportionately affected by COVID-19. A Wednesday dialogue with tribal leaders from the Flathead and Fort Peck Indian reservations emphasized their response â enacting stay-at-home orders, closing lands, taking school online, reinventing youth and health services, distributing federal CARES Act money, and planning their own vaccination rollouts. âIndigenous leaders have stayed ahead of the curve,â said Dr. Cora Neumann, the moderator and a public health expert who sits on the stateâs vaccine rollout task force. While t...