{"id":25632,"date":"2021-02-04T01:50:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T01:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/02\/04\/as-pandemic-rips-through-indian-country-indigenous-communities-work-to-save-elders-languages-3\/"},"modified":"2021-02-04T01:50:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T01:50:08","slug":"as-pandemic-rips-through-indian-country-indigenous-communities-work-to-save-elders-languages-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/04\/as-pandemic-rips-through-indian-country-indigenous-communities-work-to-save-elders-languages-2\/","title":{"rendered":"As Pandemic Rips Through Indian Country, Indigenous Communities Work to Save Elders & Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We look at the fight to save tribal elders and Native language speakers as the pandemic rips through Indian Country, with Indigenous communities facing woefully inadequate healthcare, lack of governmental support, and the living legacy of centuries of colonialism. Native Americans have died from COVID-19 at twice the rate of white people across the U.S. To combat this crisis, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has prioritized elders who speak the Dakota and Lakota languages to receive vaccines. \u201cKnowing that there were a lot of elders who were at really, really high risk, this was a concern from the very beginning,\u201d says Jodi Archambault, a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the former special assistant to President Barack Obama on Native American affairs. The parents of Nola Taken Alive, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council, both recently died of COVID-19. \u201cMy parents were very humble people,\u201d she says. \u201cThey played a very important role, not only in my siblings\u2019 and our family\u2019s lives, but also to the entire community of Standing Rock.\u201d We also speak with Alex White Plume, a former vice president and president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation who is a Lakota interpreter.<\/p>\n

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