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The ‘slow-motion’ genocide’ of the Chinook Indian Nation
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The ‘slow-motion’ genocide’ of the Chinook Indian Nation
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The pandemic has exacerbated the Chinook’s lack of the kind of social safety net recognized tribes possess. While the COVID-19 mortality rate of Indigenous people is almost 2.5 times that of white people, unrecognized tribes have not received any of the $8 billion in government aid passed by Congress last spring. Nor have they received priority for tests or vaccines. Instead, they have to rely on neighboring tribes like the Grand Ronde and the Shoalwater Bay Tribe to vaccinate their elder knowledge-keepers. Chinook tribal members sometimes refer to the lack of recognition as slow-motion genocide. “Explain how it’s not genocide,” Johnson said to me. “Someone explain to me how it’s not.”
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High Country News
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Government Federal
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Government State
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Politics
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Race & Ethnicity
English
Social Issues
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Voices for Social Justice in North America
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
04/10/2021
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
04/13/2021
06/12/2021
09/24/2021
Date Created (Dublin Core)
04/01/2021
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This item was submitted on April 10, 2021 by Robin Keagle using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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