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2021-04-19Navajo Department of Health COVID-19 Case Infection Data by Region through 19 April 2021
This image, taken as a screenshot from the Navajo Department of Health website on 19 April 2021, shows COVID-19 infection case data by region within the Navajo Nation. -
2021-04-19Navajo Department of Health Public Health Emergency Orders through 19 April 2021
These eight documents are the eight Public Health Emergency Orders issued by the Navajo Department of Health issued through 19 April 2021. -
2021-04-19Navajo Department of Health Data & Website
Despite recent data and statistical successes, the NDOH has left its 10pm to 5am curfew in place. The site offers a dashboard with current COVID-19 information, in terms of both resources and data. -
2021-04-19News Article: Navajo Nation reports no COVID-19 deaths for 8th day
By Associated Press, 19 April 2021 WINDOW ROCK (AP) — The Navajo Nation is finding no new COVID-19 related deaths for an eighth consecutive day. The tribe on Sunday afternoon reported seven new virus cases but no additional deaths on the vast reservation. The latest numbers bring the Navajo Nation's pandemic case total to 30,366 with the death toll remaining at 1,262. Tribal officials said 16,477 people have recovered from COVID-19 thus far. The tribe had been easing into reopening but that slowed somewhat after coronavirus variants were confirmed on the reservation, which stretches into New Mexico, Utah and Arizona. Tribal officials urged residents to stay vigilant. Navajo President Jonathan Nez said the tribe recently had a cluster of COVID-19 cases as a result of a family gathering where people were not wearing masks. Tribal public health orders mandate that masks be worn on the reservation and a daily curfew is in effect. Restaurants cannot have dine-in services. Navajo Nation roads also are closed to visitors and tourists, which doesn’t affect travel on state highways that run through the reservation. Meanwhile, health care facilities across the reservation continue to offer the vaccine by appointment or at drive-thru events. -
2021-04-14Social Distance Powwow - Prayers for All Nations
Social Distance Powwow is a Facebook page created so Indigenous Peoples can virtually powwow together. Bear Cadman, a member of Dine Nation, submitted this photo of him and wrote "Prayers for all nations. Prayers for peace and healing. Love will win. Prayers for all of you the 5 finger nation." -
2021-03-16Plenty of Vaccines, but Not Enough Arms: A Warning Sign in Cherokee Nation
As COVID-19 vaccine efforts are still going strong across the United States, the Cherokee Nation is struggling to get more members of the community vaccinated. Some of the hesitancy to get the vaccine stems from the memory of the government's medical malpractice the greatly affected indigenous people. Other members of the community have questions about the vaccine's side-effects and how it will affect their pre-existing conditions. -
2021-03-07In numbers: Tracking COVID-19 Across the Navajo Nation
This article reports the latest Navajo Nation pandemic statistics including the number of new cases per day and percent of Indigenous Peoples who have received the COVID-19 vaccinations. -
2020-04-04Mural by Navajo graffiti artist, Ivan Lee
This photo is included as part of an article about the Navajo Nation's fight against COVID-19. -
2020-05-04New Mexico Invokes Riot Law to Control Virus Near Navajo Nation
This article discusses the use of a rarely used Riot Law Act to help diminish the tension between the Navajo reservation and the small towns bordering the reservation in Gallup, New Mexico. The upsurge in cases on the reservation resulted in accusations that the Navajo brought the virus into Gallup and its suburbs. The tribe has fired back that Gallup citizens are refusing to follow social distancing mandates and as a result, Gallup has one of the highest case rates in the nation. This report relates to the JOTPY archive as it an example of the friction COVID-19 has created between the local government and tribal reservations. -
2021-02-05114 new cases, 15,067 recoveries, and six more deaths related to COVID-19
The Navajo Department Health shared its latest data regarding positive cases, deaths, and recoveries. It reminds its members to continue avoiding large gatherings including the upcoming Super Bowl in order to prevent an upsurge in cases. It also gives drive-thru vaccination locations for its Navajo communities and thanks its healthcare workers, working long hours vaccinating tribal members. These stories are important archival items that highlight what measures the Navajo Nation are using to protect its people. -
2021-01-22Navajo Nation COVID-19 Vaccine
Navajo Department of Health directive on Vaccine roll-out. -
2020-12-01COVID in the Navajo Nation
When I was originally planning my trip, I hoped to visit Antelope Canyon, as well as a few other parks on the Navajo Reservation, but the Navajo Nation has been one of the hardest-hit regions in the country, so by the time I was in the area, the parks were closed, and even if they had been open, I wouldn’t have felt comfortable visiting and spreading it more, even if I would have been outside and away from people. Because of that experience I wanted to take this space to try to amplify their experience. This Instagram account records the experience of an organization providing relief to members of the tribe. There are only 45 search results for Navajo in the archive, which I would constitute as an archival silence considering that many cities with comparable populations have hundreds of entries. I know that taking a screenshot of a website can only tell you so much, but it is the best way I could come up with of elevating the voices of the Navajo Nation, which is an important practice to engage within the context of archival work. -
2020-09-16Navajo United Way, Inc.
The Navajo United Way, Inc. received aid from the ASU/Luce Covid-19 Rapid Response project. Community served: Native American (Navajo) Project: Diapers, wipes, water, formula for Navajo children -
2020-05-10
Native artists lend skills to COVID-19 campaigns
his article posted by Indian Country Today about Indigenous artists that are infusing their work with important health, safety messages as the pandemic hits some tribal communities particularly hard. The pandemic has hit the Native American community particularly hard, yet we hear very little about it in the media. Native American artists are taking it upon themselves to send messages of hope and safety. -
-2020-05-13HERMIT HERALD VOL 1 ISSUE 28
take on pandemic and related world news -
2019-03-31#SAVETHEREZ: Leupp Family Posts Signs As Reminder To Stay Home and Protect Elders
“This COVID-19 has threatened all of us, but has bigger threat on our elders,” Jenny Yazzie Buckinghorse wrote. “It also has potential threat on our front line medical personnel, law enforcement, store clerks...etc. Many of them are our own people – sisters/brothers, aunt/uncle, mother/father, and grandmother/grandfather.” -
2020-04-14Northern Arizona University creates Wi-Fi hotspots on Navajo and Hopi reservations to help students continue classes
“By giving students some additional options to connect and take courses, we hope to bring some measure of relief and let them know that our institutional commitment to Native Americans means that none of them is left behind,” said Chad Hamill, vice president for NAU’s Office of Native American Initiatives. -
2020-05-12Williams group helps with food delivery to Navajo Nation as COVID cases at 2,757
"The caravan then brought the final third of supplies to the Navajo Nation Emergency Medical Service strike team situated at the Tuba City Fair Grounds. The crew has been actively sorting and distributing donated food and water. " -
2020-05-13The grief is so unbearable': Virus takes toll on Navajo
"One-third of the homes across the vast, dry reservation don't have running water, forcing families to haul it in. Many in close-knit Navajo communities live in crowded houses where self-quarantine is impossible, and many must drive hours to the nearest grocery store. To most Navajo, isolating an infected person from their family is deeply alien." -
2020-05-13Navajo Nation extends emergency declaration until June 7
"Tuuvi Travel Center in Moenkopi, Arizona informs travelers that the main store is closed and with only the drive thru window open for business. Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez announced May 13 that the Nation has extended an executive order declaring a state of emergency and government closures to June 7 in an attempt to minimize the spread of the coronavirus. " -
2020-05-21Western Native Voice establishes COVID-19 relief fund to support hardest hit native communities
"BILLINGS — The WNV COVID-19 Relief Fund has been established in a partnerships between Western Native Voice and We Are Montana to help respond to the urgent requests from Native leaders for resources to support their communities, protect elders, and ensure front line workers have the protection and supplies they need. " -
2020-05-2096-year-old Navajo woman becomes an internet hit
"Annette Bilagody had never sold her beadwork online before. With help from her granddaughter, she can barely keep up with demand" -
2020-05-13Irish Donors Contribute to Navajo Nation Hit Hard By Covid-19: Repaying American Indians for Helping Them During the Potato Famine
“The Attorney General for the Navajo Nation has issued a heartfelt ‘thank you’ for the outpouring of support from Irish people and people of Irish descent donating essential funds to Native American tribes affected by the coronavirus pandemic…Donations have been flooding with Irish people and people of Irish descent chief among those to show their support for the Native American reservations as a way of repaying a 173-year-old favour. It all goes back to 1847, when Ireland was gripped by 'the great hunger', and Native Americans were struggling to rebuild their lives after suffering through the Trail of Tears. Incredibly, despite their own suffering, the Choctaw Nation tribe raised and sent $170 (an estimated $5,000 today) to Ireland for relief aid, and a monument was erected in County Cork decades later as a mark of respect, gratitude and solidarity.” #IndigenousStories -
05/17/2020Changing Federalism in the Time of Coronavirus
A discussion of how the state of federalism in the US has changed and how this has become evident by the handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. -
2020-05-08Phoenix Indian Center Collects Donations to Help the Navajo Nation
With the Navajo Nation in crisis, much needed supplies--from diapers to bottled water--are collected by urban Indian center and delivered to the reservation. -
2020-05-07New Mexico Delegation of Legislators and Tribal Leaders Introduce Tribal COVID-19 Disaster Assistance Cost Share Relief Act
“Under the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Public Assistance program, emergency work, including Direct Federal Assistance, is authorized at 75 percent federal funding, leaving Indian Tribal governments responsible for the remaining 25 percent. Maintaining this cost share during the COVID-19 pandemic – as Tribal economies and health systems struggle – places severe pressure on Tribal budgets and limits critical resources that are desperately needed to protect the public health of Native communities. The Tribal COVID-19 Disaster Assistance Cost Share Relief Act would waive the cost-sharing requirement and grant 100 percent funding for all Indian Tribal governments.” -
2020-05-09Gallup, New Mexico, Shuts People Out, Preventing Navajo Patrons From Getting Supplies
“The outbreak on the huge Navajo reservation, the nation's largest with 175,000 people, have made people in Gallup nervous. Many see hints of the long-running racism that has divided people in the town for centuries. ‘They targeted the people around here. They're going to be coming to Gallup to shop, so they put a stop to that,’ said Johnnie Henry, who said two of his relatives on the Navajo Nation were apparently infected with COVID-19 while working at a hospital in Gallup. ‘We kind of look at each other and say, are we the ones bringing it? No, it's all over. There's a lot of people who want to go back into Gallup, but they're afraid that they're going to call us names ... say that we are the carriers.’” -
2020-04-28Hopi Tribe Announces 20 Positive Cases; Navajo Nation Mourns Loss of Former Miss Western Navajo Nation to COVID-19
“KUYI Hopi Public Radio reported that the Hopi Tribe held a digital town hall with Hopi Health Care and Indian Health Service officials where they said out of the 39 positive test results from Hopi Health Care Center, more than 20 were confirmed cases of Hopi Tribal members…As of April 27, the confirmed positive cases on the Navajo Nation reached 1,769. Fifty-nine people have died, one of whom was former Miss Western Navajo Nation 2015-2016 Valentina Blackhorse, who was from Kayenta, Arizona.” -
2020-03-15Navajo and Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund Established
Thousands of donors contribute to relief fund set up with the goal of raising $1 million to assist the Navajo and Hopi Nations during the pandemic. #IndigenousStories -
2020-04-10Navajo Nation Hit Hard: Approaching Top 3 Hot Spots in Nation and Running Out of Water
597 people in Navajo Nation have tested positive for Coronovirus while people also are running out of water. National Guard rushing potable water to rural Navajo families while also setting up emergency health facilities. #IndigenousStories -
2020-03-01Keep Her Safe
In this C-19 Comic Propaganda Poster, which is part of the Native Realities collection, Navajo artist Dale Deforest (http://www.daledeforest.com/) challenges his Indigenous audience to take care of their elders during the pandemic by practicing social distancing and the washing of hands. #IndigenousStories -
2020-03-01Keep Him Safe
In this C-19 Comic Propaganda Poster, which is part of the Native Realities collection, Navajo artist Dale Deforest (http://www.daledeforest.com/) challenges his Indigenous audience to take care of their elders during the pandemic by practicing social distancing and the washing of hands. #IndigenousStories -
2020-03-01Common Sense
In this C-19 Comic Propaganda Poster, which is part of the Native Realities collection, Navajo artist Vanessa Bowen (https://bowencreative.co/about-vanessa-bowen/?v=89d269ea9f2e) challenges her Indigenous audience to take care of their communities and elders during the pandemic by practicing common sense through social distancing and the washing of hands. -
2020Outbreak of corona virus in Las Cruces, NM
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