March 2, 2021

Why Indigenous people in cities feel â€˜invisibleâ€™ as pandemic wears on

SEATTLE, WA - DECEMBER 21: Abigail Echo-Hawk, Chief Research Officer with Seattle Indian Health Board (SIHB) and a member of the Pawnee Tribe, shows off her arm after she received a shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, at the SIHB, on December 21, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. A colleague used a black pen to enscribe, For the (Heart) love of Native People over the spot where she got the injection. The Seattle Indian Health Board (SIHB) received 500 doses of the FDA-approved Moderna COVID-19 vaccine today. (Photo by Karen Ducey/Getty Images).

Why Indigenous people in cities feel ‘invisible’ as pandemic wears on

14 states don’t publicly keep track of COVID-19 data for American Indians/Alaska Natives. “We know who we are, and these are our homelands, so to be rendered invisible is another incidence of historical trauma.”