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Native American Tribes’ Pandemic Response Is Hamstrung by Many Inequities

Montana Native Americans

History of systemic inequities from disrupted food systems to extractive industries exploiting native lands hamper tribal response to the coronavirus outbreak, resulting in more deaths among Native Americans.
While many states have raised frustrations with the Trump administration’s unwillingness to distribute protective supplies from the dwindling national stockpile, IHS and tribal health care authorities never had access to the stockpile at all.
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