Recent Articles about Indian Country

I saw ""Returning to roots: The Fort Belknap Indian Health Service hospital is seeking applicants for two traditional practitioner positions — the first of their kind in Montana" in the Montana Free Press, May 15, 2020 ((if you don't subscribe to Montana Free Press, you should! And true to its name, it is free.) But the article is actually part of one of the Native Journalism Project, annual project featuring work by University of Montana journalism students.

Other stories featured in this year's project include

• A Thousand Miles from Crow Country (about Crow tribal members' work with the Field Museum to create “Apsáaalooke: Women and Warriors”)
• Meat for the Mind: Bison and the spiritual revitalization of the Sioux and Assiniboine
• and a series of articles on Coronavirus in Indian Country (scroll down). 
• Past issues have focused on a variety of topics, from Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women to tribal sovereignty. You can find even more issues here.  

Remember Newsela (the website that rewrites articles at a variety of Lexile levels)? They are now featuring an article originally published in the Christian Science Monitor: "For Native Americans, coronavirus looks heartbreakingly familiar."

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