COVID-19 in Indian Country
Key lawmakers are calling for transparency from the Trump administration after tribes raised significant concerns about their shares of the $8 billion coronavirus relief fund.
The Indian Health Service has updated its coronavirus testing data, showing 9,942 COVID-19 positive cases as of May 27, 2020.
Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-New Mexico) spoke on the House floor condemning the $3 million contract that the Trump administration awarded to a former White House staffer who delivered substandard personal protective equipment to Indian Health Service hospitals serving the Navajo Nation.
More than $700 million is needed to address the widespread lack of water and electricity access across the Navajo Nation. according to tribal lawmakers.
The National Institutes of Health is inviting Tribal leaders and community members to participate in 'Tribal Consultation on COVID-19 Research' on May 28, 2020.
The Indian Health Service has updated its coronavirus testing data, showing 9,545 COVID-19 positive cases as of May 26, 2020.
Members of the 24th Navajo Nation Council urged President Jonathan Nez to sign the Navajo Nation CARES Fund Act into law.
Workers at the Tohatchi Health Care Center received lunches from Navajo Nation Council Delegate Pernell Halona in appreciation for their front line responses and community involvement during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Small Business Administration is setting aside $10 billion of Round 2 funding for the Paycheck Protection Program to be lent exclusively by Community Development Financial Institutions.
The Winnebago Reservation now has had a total of nineteen positive cases of COVID-19. Of those nineteen cases, eight individuals have recovered.
Members of Congress are seeking answers following reports that the Indian Health Service purchased $3 million of potentially substandard respirator masks from a company founded by a former White House aide and distributed those masks to Navajo Nation hospitals.
With tribes experiencing difficulties in submitting additional data for the $8 billion in coronavirus relief promised to them two months ago, the Department of the Treasury is giving them more time to do so.
The Presidential Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives is resuming its public outreach to Indian Country, with the first virtual listening session taking place on May 27, 2020.
The 'Broken Promises' report concluded that federal programs designed to support the social and economic wellbeing of tribal nations and Native peoples remain chronically underfunded and often inefficiently structured. That was before the pandemic.
The Indian Health Service has updated its coronavirus testing data, showing 9,719 COVID-19 positive cases as of May 25, 2020.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico) are calling on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to investigate the impacts of COVID-19 in Indian Country.
As ordered by a federal judge, the Trump administration submitted a status report about its efforts to distribute the rest of the $8 billion coronavirus relief fund promised to tribal governments. It's not going so well.
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to submit another status report about its efforts to distribute the rest of the $8 billion coronavirus relief fund promised to tribal governments.
The Tohono O’odham Gaming Enterprise will resume gaming operations on June 5, 2020, at all four of its Desert Diamond Casinos in Arizona.
Please join the National Congress of American Indians for a virtual town hall discussion with U.S. Census Bureau Tribal Affairs Coordinator Dee Alexander.
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