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Montana Tribes Hard-Hit By Covid-19 Brace For Republican Takeover

January 9, 2021April 30, 2026Miranda Green

Read this article in The Intercept» When Montana’s legislature met at the end of December to vote on whether visitors to the state Capitol building should have to wear masks, one lawmaker gave an impassioned plea. “I have no stomach to talk about this abstractly; my community has been hit hard,” said Sharon Stewart Peregoy, a […]

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 […]