Technology Issues in Indian Country Today

Warner, Linda Sue

doi:10.2307/1409147

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“…There is also substantial evidence on how residing close to abandoned uranium mines are associated with various reproductive physiological damages (Harmon et al, 2017 ). Tribal land status is also related to the lack of Internet access as Tribes have unique geopolitical and geophysical terrain influenced by colonization, cultural practices, sovereignty and Tribal governance (Warner, 1998 ; Monroe, 2002 ). That is, while access to information and communication technology, such as the Internet, depends on aspects of Tribal sovereignty there are other external obstacles such as federal policies, statutory and regulatory requirements, and historically overlooked and underfunded Internet infrastructure (Howard, 2019 ; Morris and Howard, 2020 ).…”

Section: Historical Racisms Tribal Land Status and Abandoned Uranium Minesmentioning

confidence: 99%

COVID-19 in New Mexico Tribal Lands: Understanding the Role of Social Vulnerabilities and Historical Racisms

2020

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The Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionally affected Indigenous Peoples. Unfortunately, there is no accurate understanding of COVID-19's impacts on Indigenous Peoples and communities due to systematic erasure of Indigenous representation in data. Early evidence suggests that COVID-19 has been able to spread through pre-pandemic mechanisms ranging from disproportionate chronic health conditions, inadequate access to healthcare, and poor living conditions stemming from structural inequalities. Using innovative data, we comprehensively investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on Indigenous Peoples in New Mexico at the zip code level. Specifically, we expand the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) to include the measures of structural vulnerabilities from historical racisms against Indigenous Peoples. We found that historically-embedded structural vulnerabilities (e.g., Tribal land status and higher percentages of house units without telephone and complete plumbing) are critical in understanding the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 that American Indian and Alaska Native populations are experiencing. We found that historically-embedded vulnerability variables that emerged epistemologically from Indigenous knowledge had the largest explanatory power compared to other social vulnerability factors from SVI and COVID-19, especially Tribal land status. The findings demonstrate the critical need in public health to center Indigenous knowledge and methodologies in mitigating the deleterious impacts of COVID-19 on Indigenous Peoples and communities, specifically designing place-based mitigating strategies.

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Section: Historical Racisms Tribal Land Status and Abandoned Uranium Minesmentioning

confidence: 99%

COVID-19 in New Mexico Tribal Lands: Understanding the Role of Social Vulnerabilities and Historical Racisms

2020

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“…There is also little instructionally sound software available to meet the needs of students from diverse ethnic backgrounds (Warner, 1998 The inequities that exist concerning technology access in the home and at school contribute to a large segment of schoolaged children and youth from diverse ethnic backgrounds being considered at risk for school failure (Coley, Cradler, & Engel, 1997;Henry, 1997;Holloway, 2000;LaPointe & Martinez, 1988;Lewis, Harrison, Lynch, & Saba, 1995;Wilhelm, 1998;Wilhelm & Rood, 1996).…”

Section: Instruction and Pedagogymentioning

confidence: 99%