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2020-05-20
Traditional healers help doctors reach patients in Sierra Leone
"In a country where most people visit healers, some are stepping in to bridge the trust gap between the old and the new." -
2020-04-28
Tribes along India-Myanmar border dream of a 'united Nagaland'
"Dozens of Naga tribes yearn to reunite the 3 million living in India with their 400,000 estranged cousins in Myanmar" -
2020-05-27
Coronavirus pandemic exposes inequality in Ecuador's Guayaquil
"Ecuador Indigenous community fears extinction from coronavirus (1:48)" -
2020-05-23
Peru extends nationwide lockdown until end of June
"A person dressed as a Kusillo, a traditional Andean harlequin, reminds people to wear a face masks, gloves and maintain physical distance as a preventive measure against the novel coronavirus in Puno, Peru, on May 15, 2020 [Carlos Mamani/AFP]" -
2020-05-19
Coronavirus threatens remote Indigenous communities in the Amazon
Pan American Health Organization warns the virus is spreading rapidly in Amazon areas between Brazil, Colombia, Peru. -
2020-05-22
Indigenous leaders: Help us stop oil companies drilling in Amazon
"Communities in Peru and Ecuador warn their territory may be exploited as governments reboot coronavirus hit economies." -
2020-05-17
I needed to do something': How Indigenous people are building solidarity.
"One elder, his uncle, encouraged him to check in on indigenous people he knew. “That’s one of your medicines,” Rivas says his uncle told him. “You’re good at that.” Another, his friend Pualani Case, who is Hawaiian, reminded him that indigenous people practice solidarity." -
2020-04
"My faith and beliefs are unchanged..."
"My faith and beliefs are unchanged like I still believe in God." "Um... I don't go to church normally so I'm not sure." "Unchanged." "I have no idea as I don't go to church." -
04/01/2020
Britney Forbes Oral History, 2020/04/01
Michael Drake Interviews a fellow student, Britney, on how COVID has affected their religion or their ability to attend services. -
04/01/2020
Anonymous Oral History, 2020/04/01
An anonymous interview about religions intersection within their community and Hispanic culture. -
2020-05-18
COVID-19 places Iran’s nomadic pastoralists at a crossroads
"Nomadic pastoralists in Iran play an important role in national food security and sovereignty.1 Since the arrival of COVID-19, they have been deeply concerned about the impact that the pandemic is likely to have on them. Their recently established national platform, the Union of Indigenous Nomadic Tribes of Iran (UNINOMAD),2 is taking action. UNINOMAD outlined its members’ concerns and proposed solutions in a letter sent to key national authorities on 10 March. We will outline the main points of the letter and reflect on what the overall situation might mean for nomadic pastoralism in Iran." -
2020-03-27
Qashqai Wedding; Unique Ceremony of Iranian Nomadic People
"One of the happiest and most indigenous celebrations in Iran is the Qashqa’i wedding. The people of this tribe do their best to hold a glorious ceremony." -
2020-03-17
Mystery Illness Kills Ethiopian Nomads
"The affected people roam with their cattle around the Ogaden Basin region, which is being explored by companies looking for oil and natural gas. " -
2020-04-03
Central Asia and Coronavirus: When Being Nomadic Isn’t Enough
"COVID-19 is revealing a great deal about the character of Central Asia’s people and their governments. " -
04/01/2020
Lena Oral History, 2020/04/01
Thao Vu interviews Lena on how they feel religion intersects with the COVID-10 pandemic. -
04/01/2020
Anonymous Oral History, 2020/04/01
Jessica Interviews an anonymous interviewee about how their church service has changed. -
04/01/2020
Israel Duarte Oral History, 2020/04/01
REL101 Oral History with "Israel" -
2020-05-08
Safeguarding the health, wellbeing and livelihoods of indigenous peoples across the world in face of COVID-19
"The Group of Friends of Indigenous Peoples are concerned over the risks faced by indigenous peoples, both in urban and rural areas, in particular over the health and wellbeing of elders, persons with underlying health conditions, persons with disabilities, women and children." -
2020-05-11
Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights Defenders in the Philippines threatened and harassed
"These increased threats come at a time when Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, on 1 April 2020, issued shoot-to-kill orders targeting individuals and organisations seen as ‘troublemakers’, a general term that includes ‘communists’, ‘leftists’ or anyone seen as opposing his rule, including Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights Defenders." -
2020-04-01
Blackfeet Nation Closes Roads, Controlling Outside Exposure
"All roads within the Blackfeet Reservation are closed to regular public to non-essential traffic. Non-essential shall mean travel not necessary for health, safety, and welfare of persons." -
2020-04-08
More Than 300 Groups in Abya Yala Demand Structural Change Due to COVID
"“A coalition of more than 300 social, indigenous, peasant, union, and community organizations from multiple Latin American countries have launched a “’Call of the Original Peoples, Afro-descendants and Popular Organizations of Latin America’”, to make demands for immediate structural changes in the face of the global pandemic crisis…Indigenous, ethnic and social movement organizations recognize the urgency of correcting the economic course of our countries. The economic inertia of the neoliberal regimes that for more than 30 years have defined the path of our countries, has definitely entered a crisis. The dismantling of the public health system, without the installation of adequate services to respond to the current COVID-19 pandemic, has shown that the course followed places life on this planet at risk. Some governments in the region, instead of protective measures, have opted for authoritarian measures, militarization, economic cuts, and massive layoffs. They highlight how this crisis has exposed the brutality of patriarchal violence against women and sexual diversities, further increasing the exclusion of “’indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples exposed to facing the pandemic in conditions of extreme vulnerability.’”" -
2020-04-06
The Garifuna People of Honduras Seek Community Solutions to Pandemic
“We are living moments we never believed our generation would live. We are facing a pandemic similar to that of many centuries ago, where so many people died, millions of people. Right now, millions of people are not dying, but there is no record yet…We must recognize that we are not prepared, as a humanity, to face this coronavirus. Not even the most perfect health system has the capacity to face it, like countries up north, for example. But not only because we do not have the capacity to face it, but because we have been creating patterns and life system that make us more vulnerable as a humanity. It is a pattern and a model of life that is disrespectful towards nature. As human beings, we think we are above other living beings. Now a virus has arrived that keeps us confined to our homes, and the only thing we say we can do at a planetary level is: stay home….As a response and as a safeguard for our communities, since March 17 we began to create COVID-19 Service Centers within our communities. In other words, networks began to be created within the community to organize the community’s response to COVID-19.” -
2020-05-12
Indigenous Health Manuals: A Contribution to the Pandemic
”In this pandemic, indigenous peoples are recovering their ancestral heritage and sharing it generously with humanity. Although, in principle, it must be explicitly said that there is no cure for COVID-19, there are some natural remedies, herbs, that can help alleviate symptoms, and even reinforce the immune system, recovery, and recovery process after infection. This is where this knowledge helps, and it is possible to responsibly recommend the use of indigenous herbalism (which is the precursor base of modern chemical medicine).” -
2020-04-27
Covid-19: Lessons from the Yanomami of Brazil
"Since their initial contacts with outsiders beginning in the 1940s, the Yanomami have lived through wave after wave of deadly viral epidemics, notably the measles and flu." -
2020-05-06
Healing Indigenous Lives Initiative: Culture as Prevention Webinar
United National Indian Tribal Youth, Inc. holds webinar focused on helping tribal youth overcome obstacles during these tough times by drawing from cultural knowledge. -
2020-05-24
Chippewa Cree Tribe Pushes for Community-Wide Testing, Even Offering Gift Cards"
Free Covid Testing--Rocky Boy Health Center offers service in partnership with the Montana Governor's Office, Chippewa Cree Tribe, and the Montana National Guard -
2020-05-01
Tribe Curates Memes as Part of Communication Encouraging Social Distancing
Public notice to tribal members uses popular memes to encourage people to remain six feet apart. -
2020-05-07
Flathead Reservation Offers Financial Relief Grants
Grants offered for business assistance, housing, food programs, financial relief, public health programs, and local food production. -
2020-04-09
"We Must Show Resilience As Indigenous People Once Again": Crow Nation Takes Action Following First Confirmed Case on Reservation
“The Crow Tribe of Indians has confirmed the first COVID-19 case. The individual who has tested positive with the Novel Coronavirus is in self-isolation and there are Public Health Nurses monitoring the individuals past contacts…We must stay strong, of one mind, vigilant, and proactive. We, the Crow people must continue precautionary social distancing measures as we weather the storm and show our resilience as Indigenous people once again. When this virus is contained, I hope we’re remembered by how the Apsaalooke Nation responded to the Novel Coronavirus.” -
2020-05-11
Doctors Without Borders Dispatches Team to the Navajo Nation
“Jean Stowell, head of the organization's U.S. COVID-19 Response Team, told CBS News that Doctors Without Borders has dispatched a team of nine to the hard-hit Navajo Nation in the southwest U.S. because of the crisis unfolding there. The team consists of two physicians, three nurse/midwives, a water sanitation specialist, two logisticians and a health promoter who specializes in community health education. ‘There are many situations in which we do not intervene in the United States, but this has a particular risk profile,’ Stowell said. ‘Situationally, the Native American communities are at a much higher risk for complications from COVID-19 and also from community spread because they don't have access to the variety of things that make it possible to self-isolate… You can't expect people to isolate if they have to drive 100 miles to get food and water.’ Navajo Nation, home to roughly 170,000 people, now has more coronavirus cases per capita than any state in America. Due to a shortage in nursing and specialized medical staff, the most critical patients have to be airlifted to hospitals outside of the reservation. On top of that, Navajo people carry a high rate of diabetes and hypertension, rendering them more susceptible to infection. And as of early May, the region has a higher coronavirus death rate than that of 46 states.” -
2020-05-13
What the Eastern Cherokee Can Teach the U.S. About Public Health
“The Cherokee Indian Hospital Authority has been mass testing asymptomatic residents and visitors to territories held by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. In restricting EBCI borders and closing businesses, Principal Chief Richard Sneed preempted most counties and Gov. Roy Cooper.” -
2020-05-04
Mississippi Choctaw Tribe Sees Opportunities in Manufacturing in Response to Covid-19
“For many domestic companies, the coronavirus has exacerbated troubles they were already having manufacturing in China, after the U.S. levied large import tariffs last year on Chinese-made goods. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians sees there might just be an opportunity for its industrial base in light of new developments. ‘While Mexico - the only low-cost border country with a free trade deal with the U.S. - is expected to be the big winner, our status as a sovereign nation located within the U.S. presents a distinct advantage,’ said John Hendrix, director of economic development for the Mississippi-based tribe. Tax rates, labor and logistics play major roles in determining where manufacturing occurs, remarked Hendrix. ‘The Tribe has the total package – favorable tax structure, an abundant trainable workforce, and proximity to market.’” -
2020-04-23
Low Staffing for Tribal and BIA Fire Personnel Cause Northern Cheyenne Tribe to Issue Major Fire Restrictions
In addition to suspending the issuing of burning permits, reservation residents are to obstain from lighting fire works, burning trash, lighting camp fires, and smoking cigarettes outside of closed vehicles or in designated areas. "Ceremonial fires must be attended at all times with notification to the BIA fire [department]." -
2020-05-07
Winnebago Pandemic Taskforce Chairman Issues Update
Weekly update on the “National Day of Prayer,” including all the data of those infected within the community to date. Leadership from different departments and enterprises within the tribe, including the tribal college and casino, also provide reports. -
2019-05-13
Cultural compromise: Covid-19 crisis may end New Zealand’s iconic Maori greeting – ‘the hongi’
"The Covid-19 outbreak now could possibly force New Zealand to relinquish the traditional Maori greeting – the hongi – wherein two people touch and press their noses together." -
2020-04-30
A Plan for All Won’t Work for All: COVID-19 and Māori in New Zealand
"The higher rates of chronic conditions among Māori raise the probability of serious COVID-related complications. These conditions in turn are exacerbated by inadequate access to health care and prescription drugs." -
2020-05-12
New Zealand's ban on large funerals during Covid-19 criticised as 'inhumane'
"New Zealand’s ban on large funerals and tangi has been described as 'inhumane' by the opposition leader, and 'disappointing' and 'cruel' by indigenous funeral directors." -
2020-04-23
Caring for community to beat coronavirus echoes Indigenous ideas of a good life
"When our COVID-19 lockdowns end, we can’t afford to stop caring about collective well-being. New Zealand is well positioned to show the world how this could be done, including through the New Zealand Treasury’s Living Standards Framework – but only if we listen more to Māori and other diverse voices." -
2020-04-22
Isolated indigenous tribes risk extinction from coronavirus, experts say
"The threat of COVID-19 in the Amazon to indigenous peoples and the peoples in isolation is a very real threat of possible ethnocide," -
2020-04-24
Urban Aboriginal people face unique challenges in the fight against coronavirus
"Now the government needs to turn its attention to the risks Indigenous people face in urban and rural areas." -
2020-04-17
45-Minute COVID-19 Tests Aid Remote Australian Aboriginal Communities
"SYDNEY - Australia will start rapid coronavirus testing for more than 80 remote indigenous settlements. The 45-minute test will help authorities to monitor the spread of COVID-19 more efficiently in isolated areas where results can currently take up to 10 days." -
2020-05-02
Aboriginal Australians Take Music to The World During COVID-19 Lockdown
"SYDNEY - Locked down in COVID-19 biosecurity zones, thousands of kilometers from Australia's big cities, aboriginal artists are performing online to global audiences for the first time. Musicians from northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory are joining the worldwide trend of artists in lockdown performing from home." -
2020-04-01
“I think it's probably... I guess made it stronger..."
“I think it's probably... I guess made it stronger and sometimes it's hard to think that there is a greater purpose for all this but at the same time I think having faith has kept me grounded and it's also given me a source of community and kind of like a sense of peace during this time.” -
2020-04
"Uh... I mean kinda not in a huge sense you know..."
"Uh... I mean kinda not in a huge sense you know some things have changed of course but... I dunno reading the bible and such kinda expected these things like this to happen so its not really as much of a shock if that makes sense but its definitely we definitely do take some precautions though and definitely throw some stuff to the whirlwind." -
04/01/2020
Treyvon Green Oral History, 2020/04/01
One student from REL101 interviews another about how the pandemic has affected their religion and their ability to attend services. Which creator is interviewer, or which is interviewee is unknown. However, both knew this would be a public interview. -
2020-04
“It is making my connection stronger to God..."
“It is making my connection stronger to God because this is a time like I need him the most and I know that he can give me hope.” “No, but we're doing Zoom meetings every Wednesdays for youth group and we do Bible study and a little game.” “Yes, they're doing a drive-thru where people can go through and pick up food if they need it.” -
2020-04-01
“I think covid-19 has affected my beliefs and faith greatly."
“I think covid-19 has affected my beliefs and faith greatly. Me, personally, I'm a Christian so it's taught me to rely on my faith much more even though a lot of right now is in the unknown.” “So just like reading my Bible and going to church online has really helped me to have strong faith and have a positive outlook on life.” “My religious gathering is not physically meeting but they do have church online for anyone to join so its like streamed through YouTube and my own church’s app…” -
04/01/2020
Father John Oral History, 2020/04/01
Nicolas Contreras interviews Father John about how the pandemic has affected the Catholic Church, it's local parishioners, community impact, and religious services. Poor audio and background noise. -
04/01/2020
"Emma Telamontes" Oral History, 2020/04/01
Traci Person interviews a student with the pseudonym "Emma Telamontes" on their religious experiences during the opening stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. -
2020-04-01
“Actually, I believe in an odd way it has made my faith stronger..."
“Actually, I believe in an odd way it has made my faith stronger and my beliefs more solid. Instead of falling into the frenzy and the panic that is out there because of that unknown, my ability to lean into God and rely on my faith has really made me calm I guess you could say.”