Science – An email. That’s how Moderna, an American biotechnology company, asked the Hualapai Tribe about participating in its COVID-19 vaccine trial.

By Amanda Morris
May 25, 2021

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TheUpShot – The C.D.C. said Thursday that vaccinated Americans no longer needed masks in most places. Other disease experts recently had a different message: that masks were necessary in public.

By Claire Cain Miller, Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz
May 13, 2021

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ADN – Alaska News – Data in a new report published by the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium shows that Alaska Natives currently have the highest recorded incidence from at least one type of cancer — colorectal cancer — in the world.

By Annie Berman
April 20, 2021

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Indian Country Today – Joint op-ed in response to Dr. Bruce Davidson’s op-ed, ‘Native communities should avoid the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine for now’

AASTEC, Kevin English, DrPH, Director Albuquerque Area Southwest Tribal Epidemiology Center
Abigail Echo-Hawk, Director Urban Indian Health Institute
Nick Hill, MPH, Director Data Coordinating Unit & Lead Epidemiologist, Great Plains Tribal Epidemiology Center
United South and Eastern Tribes Tribal Epidemiology Center
German Gonzalez, M.D., M.P.H., FACE. Director Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Epidemiology Center – Medical Epidemiologist, Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council INC.
Victoria Warren-Mears, PhD, RDN, Director Northwest Tribal Epidemiology Center
Inter Tribal Council of Arizona Tribal Epidemiology Center
March 12, 2021

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A federal bill that would expand data access for tribal health providers may not satisfy Native communities.

Despite a recent victory for Indigenous land rights, tribal communities are still fighting to regain control over another asset: their data.

Elle Rothermich
February 11, 2021

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