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Nurses Travel Hours to Vaccinate SD Native Communities Feb. 25, 2021 -- Health care workers in South Dakota are traveling thousands of miles across Native communities to deliver COVID-19 vaccines, according to ABC News. Molly Longbrake, a nurse, and her team of health care providers have administered 4,000 doses and plan to vaccinate about 12,000 people, often in places where only one hospital or a small clinic is available. Cherry Creek Clinic in South Dakota, for instance, is usually staffed by one person and is the only place to buy over-the-counter medicines in the area, the news outlet r...

Israeli tech turns air into water for Native Americans Crowdfunding campaign is underway to supply four Watergen GEN-M water generating machines to Native American communities in need. Photo by Manki Kim on Unsplash Israeli technology is set to convert air into clean drinking water for Native American communities in the United States as part of a collaboration between Israeli and American enterprises. The GEN-M atmospheric water generator requires no special infrastructure except for electricity and collects water by cooling collected air at its dewpoint. The water then goes through physical,...

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 — 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. “Indigenous leaders have stayed ahead of the curve,” said Dr. Cora Neumann, the moderator and a public health expert who sits on the state’s vaccine rollout task force. While t...

Montana’s Missing Indigenous Persons Task Force met Tuesday, with a focus on the future of the program.

Indigenous Cacataibo of Peru threatened by land grabbing and drug trade The Santa Martha Indigenous territory is one of the nine Indigenous Cacataibo communities between Huánuco and Ucayali in Peru. Increasing numbers of outsiders are invading the territory and deforesting large swaths of Indigenous land, largely to grow coca which is used to make cocaine. Residents report they are often subject to intimidation, threats and even murder attempts if they speak out about the incursions. Already under-monitored due to their remoteness, these areas have gotten even less government attention durin...