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  2020-06

  INTEGRATING TRADITIONAL INDIGENOUS AND WESTERN MEDICINE INTO NICARAGUA'S HEALTH SYSTEMS

  "In Nicaragua and specifically in our autonomous region, we have organized a family and communal-based model of a health system."
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  2020

  OUR RESPONSE TO COVID-19

  "International solidarity is vital for the survival of Indigenous Peoples and all our relations. There is a special need to support ground-breaking initiatives managed by Indigenous governments, local community organizations, women, and youth, who know what is needed on the local level and are on the ground to carry it out."
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  2020-06-10

  OPEN LETTER TO JAIR BOLSONARO: BRAZIL IS FAILING TO PROTECT THE HEALTH OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DURING THE #COVID19

  "Brazil’s current policies concerning the health and protection of its Indigenous citizens are nothing less than genocidal."
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  2020-06-10

  KEEPERS OF THE EARTH FUND SUPPORTS INDIGENOUS-LED COVID-19 RESPONSES

  "Cultural Survival is responding to the needs of Indigenous Peoples in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic."
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  2020

  COVID-19 impacts in Indigenous Peoples

  "Due to the need to present information disaggregated by Indigenous Peoples (IP), Cultural Survival is producing this map to collect and disseminate information to show the IP situation. Due to the constant increase of cases and the lack of testing in rural areas, the data presented here will vary over time. It is a continuous and not exhaustive effort and we invite you to contribute with us"
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  2020-06-23

  Siblings bring much needed relief to Hopi villages

  "Thomas Kaye and Kiona Arellanes deliver supplies to Mishongnovi on the Hopi reservation as part of the mission of the Hopi Relief Fund. "
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  2020-06-23

  Serve and protect: Navajo Police Department resumes academy with 25 recruits

  "Officers with the Navajo Police Department in Window Rock, Arizona, report for duty. The Navajo Police Department reported 13 officers have tested positive for COVID-19. Four officers remain in isolation and nine have recovered and returned to duty. On June 19, Officer Michael Lee with the Chinle District passed away because of COVID-19. On June 15, 25 recruits reported to the Navajo Police Training Academy in Chinle, Arizona to begin a 15-week academy. (Photos/Navajo Police Department)"
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  2020-06-09

  Diné College researchers believe more reasons behind high Covid-19 Cases on Navajo

  "Diné College science professors release research paper on Native Americans susceptibility to the virus."
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  2020-06-17

  Navajo Nation re-implements 57-hours weekend lockdown as COVID-19 cases spike throughout Arizona

  "The Navajo Nation has issued a Public Health Emergency re-implementing 57-hour weekend lockdowns for the remainder of June as well as a travel advisory outside the Navajo Nation because of an increase in COVID-19 cases in areas surrounding the Navajo Nation."
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  2020-06-28

  COVID-19 update: Navajo Nation cancels July 4 celebrations, ends weekend curfew as state numbers rise

  "Navajo leaders canceled this year’s Fourth of July celebrations in Window Rock as the tribe continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic."
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  2020-06-27

  In Yakutia, they started making cheese from the milk of indigenous cow

  "The farmer Augusta Starostina from Eveno-Bytantaysky national Evenki district of Yakutia took up the production of cheese from the milk of native cow . She masters the secrets of making this delicious and very healthy dairy product on the Internet, and she bought the MAGGIO cheese factory Starostina in the Kirov region, and the district administration allocated funds for this in the amount of 300 thousand rubles."
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  2020-06-16

  Evenki class opens in one of the schools in Yakutsk

  "In the new academic year, the first class with the teaching of the Evenki language will open in secondary school number 26 in Yakutsk. As the Evenki Association of RS (Y) told SakhaNews, this was made possible thanks to the decision of the district administration of the capital and the readiness of the school director and teaching staff to innovate."
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  2020-03-08

  Nenets writer Anna Nerkagi nominated for Nobel Prize

  "Anna Nerkagi, a Nenets writer who leads a nomadic lifestyle and talks about the culture of the peoples of the North, won nominations for the Nobel Prize in literature"
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  2020-07-03

  In Yakutia, proposed to establish an award for the best material in the media in the languages ​​of the indigenous peoples

  "During the discussions, a proposal was made to the Ministry of Arctic Development from the chairman of the Association of Yukagirs of Yakutia, Vyacheslav Shadrin, to create an award for the best material published in the languages ​​of the indigenous peoples."
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  2020-04-29

  On Yamal, United Russia suggested doubling the nomadic during the coronavirus pandemic

  "local support for United Russia discussed issues of support for the indigenous peoples of the North during the coronavirus pandemic.""
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  2020-06-19

  Arctic nomadic indigenous peoples in new collaboration with the World´s top university

  "his is a continuation of our academic collaboration with Harvard University for nearly two decades, representing a new and exciting step forward”, says Anders Oskal, Secretary General of WRH and Executive Director of ICR. “…With this collaboration, the scientific and educational resources of Harvard University can become available also for our emerging indigenous leaders and our indigenous scholars across the Arctic, just as our communities find themselves on the frontlines of Arctic climate change and globalisation”."
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  2020-06-22

  The duet from Yakutia made a splash on a TV show in the USA. Video

  "From Zarina’s story, viewers learned about the existence and harsh climate of Yakutia - one of the “most remote settlements on planet Earth.”"
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  2020-05-26

  Cultural Survival Releases COVID-19 Prevention Manual for Indigenous Community Radio Stations

  "Radio stations can be a voice to call for a calm and unified community prevention strategy. Community radio stations have opportunities to also promote and defend human rights as many governments are abusing their power during the pandemic. Another example included is how radio stations can become educators and serve as a space for community teachers trying to reach children that do not have access to the internet and cannot attend online schooling."
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  2020-05-26

  Covid-19 interrupts cultural activities in Bugisu

  "Known as Imbalu, in Bugisu sub region hangs in balance due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cultural leaders are contemplating calling off event"
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  2020-05-25

  The Sioux man 'empowering' Standing Rock with solar power

  "Cody Two Bears, who is behind North Dakota's first 300-kilowatt solar farm, is bringing power to Standing Rock."
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  2020-05-17

  INC helps tribal communities in Yakutia (ИНК помогает родовым общинам в Якутии)

  "Irkutsk Oil Company LLC, despite the crisis in the industry, provided assistance to tribal communities of small peoples of the north, public and cultural organizations of Yakutia."
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  2020-05-25

  Young reindeer herders will be provided with payments for the purchase of housing (Молодым оленеводам предоставят выплаты на покупку жилья)

  "Young reindeer herders in Yakutia received the right to social benefits for the purchase and construction of housing, the press service of the head and government of the republic said."
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  2020-04-03

  Yakutians ask to stop the disastrous health care reform (Якутяне просят прекратить губительную реформу здравоохранения)

  “In the appeal to the head of the republic, we cited as an example letters from the junior medical staff of the Kobyai medical ambulance station of the Kobyay ulus, residents of the national Evenki kyuptsa of the Ust-May ulus and the primary trade union organization GBU RS (Y)“ Yakutmedtrans ”.
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  2020-06-01

  In Yakutia, quarantine on Chayanda was completely lifted (В Якутии полностью снят карантин на Чаянде)

  "Quarantine at the Chayandinskoye field in the Lena district of Yakutia was announced on April 17. There are 34 shift camps of Gazprom contractors, where more than 10 thousand people work. As of May 17, the regional department of Rospotrebnadzor confirmed 43 cases of coronavirus infection in the field. On May 20, the authorities of Yakutia left the coronavirus quarantine regime at two sites in the field, where the hospital, isolation ward and observatory are located."
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  2020-06-01

  Rare language summer camps will be held in Yakutia (В Якутии проведут летние лагеря с редким языком)

  "Pupils in Yakutia during the holidays will be able to learn the endangered Yukaghir language and get acquainted with the culture of this indigenous small people. To do this, summer camps are organized in the region with presidential grant funds, Valentina Akimova , director of the Kuzhuun Shorile (Rainbow) project, director of the Yarkhag Yukagir revival fund"The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg registered a complaint of the so-called Yakut shaman Alexander Gabyshev , who disputes his detention on December 10, 2019 during a trip to Moscow"
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  2020-05-29

  We Know What Is Best for Us.' Indigenous Groups Around the World Are Taking COVID-19 Responses Into Their Own Hands

  “We’ve had epidemics before. We’ve had viruses before. In general, we’ve had a lot of things attack us before,” says Freeland, who has since recovered fully. But this is “the worst case scenario.”
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  2020-05-04

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  "For hundreds of years, indigenous groups have warned that destroying the environment leads to disease and adversely affects lives and culture. Is the world now ready to listen?"
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  2020-05-15

  Statement from Indigenous Women's Organisations of Nepal on COVID-19

  “The WHO has declared the outbreak of COVID 19 as a global pandemic. The entire world has been caught unprepared to cope with this pandemic. Indigenous Peoples to healthcare, essential services, sanitation, information and other preventive measures like clean water, food, medicines etc. Indigenous Peoples possess their own distinct tradition, culture, and religion and have religious faith worshiper of ancestors, lands, territories and resources live in both urban and rural areas with their own identity. They have their distinct traditional livelihood and collective ways of life. They are the custodians of traditional knowledge, skills, practices, languages, culture and are in extreme poverty and thus more prone to infectious diseases. Many Indigenous Peoples have customary self-government systems that are effective in preventing pandemic but the government does not formally recognize such systems though Nepal is a party to ILO Convention no. 169 and the UNDRIP.”
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  2020-05-14

  Indigenous realities in a COVID-19 world: Africa

  "Now we hear that Corona virus is in town; that we cannot go there anymore. We fear to go to town. And if the disease cannot be treated traditionally, it will be a threat to our life,” Oloshuro Saruni, a member of the Akie community in Tanzania, said.
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  2020-04-20

  Libya: Historic discrimination threatens right to health of minorities in the south amid COVID-19

  "Fears of the spread of COVID-19 in southern Libya expose the vulnerable circumstances of minority communities who have long struggled to enjoy equal access to health care."
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  2020-05-25

  Southern Africa: Open letter to SADC: Restrictive COVID-19 regulations presenting concerning ramifications for enjoyment of human rights, including livelihoods

  "Amnesty International in collaboration with Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA), Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN), Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) are writing this letter to bring to your attention the worrying restrictive COVID-19 regulations presenting concerning ramifications for enjoyment of human rights, including livelihoods. "
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  2020-04-18

  African governments mobilise to keep people fed during Covid-19 lockdowns

  "Lagos State Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu announced an Emergency Food Response as a means of supporting indigenous and other vulnerable persons."
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  2020-04-03

  Malaysia's indigenous people flee into forests to escape coronavirus

  "After blocking the entrance to their village with logs, half the people of Jemeri fled into the surrounding forest in fear as the coronavirus spread in Malaysia, infecting the first indigenous 'Orang Asli' person."
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  2020-04-02

  The Ethnocid Effect of COVID-19 on the Indigenous Peoples of Guatemala

  “In Guatemala, the first infected with Covid 19 was revealed on March 13. Until recently March 26, the government had only carried out 564 tests for the virus and the situation was: 25 infected, and of them, one deceased and 5 cured. The government says that it has already contained the virus, epidemiologists say no and that perhaps the worst may be yet to come…”
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  2020-05-16

  REIMAGINING THE POST-PANDEMIC “NORMAL”: LEARNING FROM INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ABOUT RECONCILING CULTURE AND NATURE

  " As we emerge from this pandemic, we must be guided by the examples and teachings of Indigenous Peoples practicing reciprocal obligations of responsibility to do everything possible to ensure that Nature can continue to thrive.”
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  2020-04-21

  Government's Māori Covid-19 Response All Words, No Action

  "A Māori Touchstone Group would be formed to advise the government on its Covid-19 Māori response, and the ministry would partner with iwi to develop Covid-19 response strategies, and conduct surveillance and monitoring of Māori across district health boards (DHB)." As we emerge from this pandemic, we must be guided by the examples and teachings of Indigenous Peoples practicing reciprocal obligations of responsibility to do everything possible to ensure that Nature can continue to thrive.”
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  2020-04-17

  Māori health workers target greater Covid-19 testing in Auckland and Northland

  "One-hundred-and-twenty Māori community health workers will be deployed in Auckland and further North in an effort to ramp up testing and support for whānau."
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  2020-04-13

  Covid-19: Rural kura makes sanitiser, face shields for Ngāti Porou health workers

  "Staff at Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Te Waiu o Ngāti Porou, from tiny Ruatōria on the East Coast, are supplying protective gear to frontline health workers fighting Covid-19 in their rohe."
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  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.”
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  2020-04-14

  Community member hikes Piestewa Peak after annual memorial sunrise service is cancelled

  “Piestewa was 23 years old and a mother of two young children. She was Hopi and Mexican-American and the first Native American female killed in combat when her convoy was ambushed. For her actions, she was awarded the Purple Heart and Prisoner of War Medal… The annual sunrise service for Lori Piestewa and fallen heroes scheduled for March 23, which normally takes place at the base of Piestewa Peak, was cancelled because of the COVID-19 virus. However, some community members still hiked to the top of the peak in memory of Piestewa.”
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  2020-04-14

  Northern 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.
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  2020-05-12

  Navajo Nation celebrate Nurses Week

  "May 6 – 10 has been proclaimed “Navajo Nation Nurses Appreciation Week” by Navajo President Jonathan Nez in order to honor and pay tribute to all nurses and health care workers for their contributions and hard work to save lives across the Navajo Nation."
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  2020-05-12

  Historic donation leads to Choctaw-Ireland scholarship

  “The $170 donated by Choctaw leaders in 1847 — or “Black ’47,” as the Irish who survived the rampant starvation, disease and exposure remembered it — would today have amounted to over $5,000, historians estimate. At that time, the Choctaw were still grappling with their own grief and loss, caused by the abuses of a colonial government a decade earlier, and they appear to have seen their own suffering reflected in a people over 4,000 miles away. The donation has since inspired three visits between heads of state in both nations, the construction of an iconic stainless steel sculpture in Ireland’s County Cork, a poetry collaboration between Choctaw author LeAnne Howe and Irish poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa, dance performances of welcome, music that aspires to merge Irish “trad” with Indigenous rhythms and a scholarship.”
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  2020-05-12

  Williams 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. "
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  2020-05-19

  Australian Mining Companies Rush to Shield Indigenous Communities from Coronavirus

  "MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Big mining companies that rely on indigenous workforces or operate near remote communities have acted fast to curb the spread of the coronavirus and avoid a public health crisis that could damage their reputations."
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  2020-04-29

  Indigenous Peoples of Russia Take the Initiative into Their Own Hands to Move Forward (Дюляскан — значит «идти вперед»)

  "We need to join forces for the benefit of the preservation and development of our peoples, the preservation and development of traditional industries. No matter how hard it is, we should not sit around waiting for someone to solve our problems for us, we must take the initiative into our own hands and move forward!" #IndigenousStories
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  2020-05-08

  Mountain Ulus Folks Find Ways to Pass the Time During Self-Isolation (#дьиэҕэолоруохха: Маҥанылар иистэнэллэр, оҕуруоттарын бэрийэллэр)

  This article shares about the resilience of the Sahali during the pandemic isolation: "Ekaterina Andreevna will teach you how to read, write, read and write online." #IndigenousStories
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  2020-04-27

  The number of visits to the electronic library in Yakutia has tripled in a pandemic (Число посещений электронной библиотеки в Якутии выросло в три раза в условиях пандемии)

  "The number of visitors to electronic services of the National Library of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in March and April 2020 almost tripled compared to the same period last year, the director of the institution Sargylana Maksimova told TASS." #IndigenousStories
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  2020-04-27

  Coronavirus Threatens Small Communities of Indigenous Peoples of the North (Коронавирус угрожает малым народам Севера)

  "Grigory Ledkov, President of the Association of Indigenous Minorities of the North, Siberia and the Far East, appealed to the governor of the Khabarovsk Territory with a call to take additional measures and take special control of the situation in the Ulchi region related to coronavirus." #IndigenousStories
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  2020-04-14

  Distance Learning in Allaikh

  Schools of Chokurdakh, Olenegorsk, Berelyakh learned in Russian Ust and Byagnyr where they wore masks and kept a safe distance. After a few weeks, an order was issued to transition to distance learning. “During the restrictive regime, parents and legal representatives have received applications and consent to transfer students to distance learning. The educational process is carried out through landline and cellular telephony, through the email of parents (legal representatives) and through the educational platform “Uchi.ru”. Grades are set for completed assignments by students. On the passage of the program and educational material, teachers keep a report on the control sheets for the implementation of program material, and the responsible coordinator of the correspondence form of training forms sheets of teachers' working hours. Certain categories of students for the period of the restrictive regime are provided with food in the form of dry rations,which set includes: stewed beef, condensed milk, paste, cereals, pasta, sugar, jam, etc.” #IndigenousStories