[The Guardian] Exclusive: indigenous Americans dying from Covid at twice the rate of white Americans

Assistant Professor Desi Lonebear Rodriguez quoted in the article— Covid is killing Native Americans at a faster rate than any other community in the United States, shocking new figures reveal. American Indians and Alaskan Natives are dying at almost twice the rate of white Americans, according to analysis by APM Research Lab shared exclusively with … Read more

[The New Republic] How to Make a Deadly Pandemic in Indian Country

Assistant Professor Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear quoted in the article— How to Make a Deadly Pandemic in Indian Country From the 1918 Spanish flu to Covid-19, broken treaties have been the foundation of health crises among Native people. Nick Martin/July 22, 2020 In 1868, four years after the Navajo Nation was forcibly removed from its homelands in … Read more

US Census Response Rates on American Indian Reservations in the 2020 Census and in the 2010 Census

US Census Response Rates on American Indian Reservations in the 2020 Census and in the 2010 Census Randall Akee Paul Ong Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear May 15, 2020 The U.S. Census is the backbone of the U.S. official statistics system. A decennial census is constitutionally mandated to determine proportional representation in Congress. It also provides population counts … Read more

[The Guardian] Why Native Americans took Covid-19 seriously: ‘It’s our reality’

Faculty member, Professor Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear quoted in the article— In the first few weeks of 2020, as president Donald Trump dismissed and mocked warnings about a novel virus killing people faraway in China, Native American leaders were taking the deadly threat seriously. And they were right. The infection rate among the Navajo Nation has now … Read more

American Indian Reservations and COVID-19: Correlates of Early Infection Rates in the Pandemic

April 25, 2020 The SARS-CoV-2 virus is causing widespread devastation as rates of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) grow across the world. The United States is experiencing one of the largest outbreaks with over half a million confirmed cases as of mid-April 2020. However, outbreaks on tribal lands are largely ignored by the federal government, mainstream … Read more