Indigenous Resources
HEALTH
American Indian Health Services of Chicago, Inc. offering testing for COVID-19 by appointment. They are also offering behavior health services via telehealth. Call 773-883-9100 to make an appointment.
MUTUAL AID
Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative Emergency Response Fund- APPLICATIONS CURRENTLY CLOSED but may reopen if more resources are acquired.
Women's Center guide to mutual aid resources
Decolonize Wealth Community Respond Fund
EVENTS
2021 Northwestern Virtual Native American and Indigenous Community Celebration
Chicago Native American Virtual Achievement Celebration- event held on June 13th
EDUCATION
Land Acknowledgment Resources at Northwestern
Indigenous Education Tools part of project led by alumna and professor of learning sciences and psychology Megan Bang ('09 PhD)
American Indian Law Resources compiled by Pritzker Legal Research Center
Honoring the Whole Student: Developing Space for Native American Students in STEM by Supporting Complex Identities
Investigator Training: a training for investigators on research protocols developed by Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars (through Utah State) and community members for those working with tribal communities.
COMMUNITY CARE
Traditional Indigenous Kinship Practices at Home: Being Child-Centered During the Pandemic
The Brilliance of the Beaver: Learning from an Anishinaabe World
by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Physically Distant but Socially Close: Indigenous Resiliency and COVID-19
Message from an Indigenous mother to her three-year-old during COVID-19
by Andrea Landry
Indigenous List of 10 Ways to Practice Self Care
REPORTS and ARTICLES
Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative's 2021 Report: Towards Building Chicago’s American Indians’ Futures: CAICC Report on Education and COVID-19 Data
Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy's "Resiliency and Adversity of Chicago's First: The State of Racial Justice for American Indian Chicagoans" Report
National Urban Indian Family Coalition (NUIFC) Report: RESILIENCY IN CRISIS: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Urban American Indian Nonprofit Sector
I’m Native and Disabled. The US Government Is Sacrificing My People.
by Jen Deerinwater
Parenting During Coronavirus: Opportunities to reconnect and decolonize
by Angela Aguilar
COVID-19 IN NATIVE COMMUNITIES: RECALLING PAST TRAUMA AND PRESENT HOPE
by Matt Remle
In an Era of Pandemic and Protest, STEM Education Can't Pretend to Be Apolitical
by Daniel Morales-Doyle, Shirin Vossoughi, Sepehr Vakil & Megan Bang, Truthout
Native Americans Feel Devastated by the Virus Yet Overlooked in the Data
by Kate Conger, Robert Gebeloff and Richard A. Oppel Jr.
Native Americans in Chicago chart a 15 percent COVID-19 mortality rate — but the city hasn’t released that information
by Maia Spoto (The Daily Northwestern)
Data gaps exist on COVID-19 cases in Indigenous communities, says research fellow
by Jessica Deer