by NUNAverse | Aug 20, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
A recently released study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) examined how COVID-19 has affected Native communities across the country. The study found that the “the cumulative incidence of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases among [American...
by NUNAverse | Aug 19, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
his year’s Democratic National Convention’s roll call featured what was likely a record number of Indigenous speakers. Native American leaders from Alaska, New Mexico, North Dakota, and South Dakota were chosen to speak on behalf of their states. Tuesday night also...
by NUNAverse | Aug 18, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
The La Posta Band of the Diegueño Mission Indians have filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to halt the construction of the border wall on the southern border in...
by NUNAverse | Aug 17, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
The Trump Administration announced this morning that it would open up 1.5 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, a move critics say will harm local animal species and damage the landscape itself. A recent downward trend of...
by NUNAverse | Aug 14, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
The Trump administration announced yesterday that 23 federally recognized Indian and Alaska Native tribes and two Navajo Nation communities were approved for grants under the National Tribal Broadband Grant (NTBG) to study the feasibility of developing or extending...
by NUNAverse | Aug 13, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
The New York Times reports on the “intensive contact tracing” done by the White Mountain Apache Tribe, who have a COVID-19 infection rate 10 times higher than the overall infection rate in Arizona, but a death rate of just 1.3 percent as opposed to 2.1 percent in the...
