COVID-19 in Indian Country
In an update on April 28, 2020, Seneca Nation President Rickey L. Armstrong Sr. announced 'sad news' to his people: the first COVID-19 death of a community member.
The Indian Health Service has updated its coronavirus testing data, showing 2,974 COVID-19 positive cases within the system.
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, with its campaign And Still I Vote and in partnership with the Native American Rights Fund, will host a Turn Up Tuesdays Facebook Live Event.
Tribal leaders and their advocates are celebrating after securing an initial victory against the Trump administration over its handling of an $8 billion coronavirus relief fund that’s at the center of one of the most divisive legal and political battles in recent history. LINK: https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/04/28/judge-sides-with-tribal-governments-in-f.asp
The White House Council on Native American Affairs will continue the important inter-agency coordination of the Indian Country COVID-19 Response Team assembled by the White House in early March.
The Trump administration cannot distribute coronavirus relief funds meant for Indian tribal governments to for-profit Alaska Native Corporations because they are not Indian Tribes and do not have recognized governing bodies under federal law.
'The Navajo Nation will continue to ensure that its legal resources are in the best position to challenge the distribution of CARES Act funding to Alaska Native Corporations,' said Speaker Seth Damon of the Navajo Nation Council.
The Alaska Native Village Corporation Association and the ANCSA Regional Association issued a statement in connection with litigation over the $8 billion coronavirus relief fund promised to tribal governments.
The total number of positive COVID-19 cases for the Navajo Nation has reached 1,769 as of April 27, 2020. There's been 59 coronavirus related deaths on the largest reservation in the United States.
Nicole Ducheneaux, partner at the Big Fire Law and Policy Group, offered a statement in connection with litigation over the $8 billion coronavirus relief fund.
A federal judge's decision is a win for federally recognized tribal governments and clarifies that Alaska Native corporations are not tribal governments.
'The Coronavirus Relief Fund we passed in the CARES Act is meant to ensure Tribal and Alaska Native governments have the resources they need to continue government services and save the lives of those in their community,' Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Arizona) said.
'Federally recognized tribal governments, across the United States including in Alaska, work daily to help mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic," Cherokee Nation Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr said in connection with an $8 billion coronavirus relief fund.
'Federally-recognized tribes stood together to oppose the actions of the Department of the Treasury in another attempt to undermine the first citizens of this country, but our voices were heard and Indigenous people prevailed today!' said Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez.
The administrators of the Social Distance Powwow are hosting a discussion to hear from Native women and leaders of the missing and murdered Indigenous women movement.
A federal judge has issued a decision in the closely-watched CARES Act lawsuit, barring the Trump administration from disbursing an $8 billion coronavirus relief fund to for-profit corporations.
You are invited to the Association of American Indian Physicians 'Ask a Native Physician' COVID-19 Town Hall Meeting on April 29, 2020.
Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs Tara Sweeney announced an extension of the National Tribal Broadband Grant program (NTBG) grant application deadline.
Join NCAI as we showcase several innovative and forward-thinking approaches that tribal nations are deploying in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The National Congress of American Indians will host a town hall to showcase the stories from the men and women of Congress who tirelessly advocated for historic funding for Indian Country through the Third Congressional COVID-19 Package.
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