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Natives Feel Double Pain of COVID and Fires

September 22, 2020April 30, 2026Miranda Green

Around the country, many tribes have full-time fire crews that traditionally aid one another and federal firefighters, sending out teams to help with blazes. But COVID-19 has pushed them to reconsider how much help they can give and receive. (CSKT Division of Fire)

Federal firefighter units juggle COVID-19 infection on fire lines

August 29, 2020April 30, 2026Miranda Green

Federal firefighter units tasked with putting out some of the nation’s biggest wildfires are grappling with the reality of a fire season coinciding with a pandemic.

Federal agency to reopen 53 Native American schools despite coronavirus fears

August 10, 2020April 30, 2026Miranda Green

“Life is what is important right now. I wouldn’t take that risk. I just wouldn’t,” one Bureau of Indian Education educator told the agency in mid-July. The U.S. Department of the Interior – Indian Affairs, which oversees the Bureau of Indian Education, announced last week that it would reopen “brick and mortar schools” under its […]