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A Navajo woman herds her sheep near Two Grey Hills, N.M. The Navajo Nation has been hit hard by coronavirus infections. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) LA Times By Kurtis Lee | May 6, 2020 Road closures, mask mandates and weekend curfews have not stopped a troubling upward trajectory of coronavirus-related deaths…

Korene Atene, a nursing assistant, gets information from people lined up to get tested for COVID-19 in Oljato-Monument Valley, Navajo Nation.Kristin Murphy/The Deseret News/AP Mother Jones By Delilah Friedler | May 5, 2020 When the Indian Health Service doctors said they’d have to keep him overnight, Ray Belin tore the IVs out of his arm…

People lined up to get tested for Covid-19 outside of the center in Oljato-Monument Valley, San Juan county, Utah. Photograph: Kristin Murphy/AP The Guardian By Rebecca Nagle | April 24, 2020 Misclassification raises fears of hidden health emergencies in one of the country’s most vulnerable populations Native Americans are being left out of demographic data…

Cuomo Prime Time April 24, 2020 When you think of New York and New Jersey as having the highest coronavirus infection rates in the U.S., it makes sense. Big state. Travel hubs, density. Big cities. What about number three? Guess what it California? Seattle? Texas? No. The navaho nation. The largest native American reservation. Dealing…