COVID-19 Resources for Indigenous Peoples
Mental and Spiritual Health
Manage Anxiety and Stress (CDC)
Suicide risk and prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic
Humor, Sage & Extra Protection (and list of other resources)
Indigenized Wellness + Stress Relief in Quarantine - Well for Culture
Bored? This Indigenous list is for you
Rethinking COVID-19 (Indigenous Manifesto) zine
Stories of Resiliency
Video credit: Social Distance Powwow
NPR Link: What Hopi And Navajo Teachings Tell Us About Pandemics
Articles
- How the Colusa Indian Community is Bringing Youth Together Across the Digital Divide
- Innovation: Baking the N-95 masks so they can be safely reused
- Created during Spanish flu, jingle dress dance now helping First Nations people cope with COVID-19
- How Native Americans Are Fighting a Food Crisis (New York Times) - As the coronavirus limits access to food, many are relying on customs, like seed saving and canning, that helped their forebears survive hard times.
- How a Small Tribal College Stepped up to Make Face Shields For Health Workers
- Community Care: An Indigenous Response to Coronavirus - Yes magazine
- As a coronavirus pandemic sweeps the world, American Indian communities turn to one another, teachings
- How Virtual Beading Circles Are Empowering Indigenous Women
- Native artists are resilient. We’ll get through this’
- #ItsNotAboutYou: First Nations coming together for their elders amid COVID-19 pandemic
- Indigenous Arizonans dance with thousands around world in online 'social distance' powwow
Articles and Books
The Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1920 among the Navajos
In this article, the experience of the 1918 influenza among the Navajos is organized according to risk factors gleaned from studies of the pandemic among other Indigenous populations. We proceed from a review of these risk factors to a description of the 1918 influenza on the Navajo reservation, drawing on both Navajo and non- Navajo sources. We conclude with a reassessment of influenza- related mortality on the reservation, adjusting early published official figures to reflect later data.
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