CDC Confirms Soaring COVID-19 Rate Among Native Americans. 19 Aug. 2020, https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/88167.
This project is a timeline of Native American public health in the U.S. Southwest. Starting with the Mexican-American war, we follow how the United States government clashed with Native American indigenous populations over territorial claims. Following the violent colonization of the Native American lands, the U.S. government attempted to break up and assimilate Native American populations through detrimental policies which negatively affected the health and wellbeing of Native American communities and individuals. Some of these policies were direct public health policies and other programs and policies indirectly affected the health of native populations, such as through attacks on and repression of indigenous culture. The government’s multiple attempts of termination and assimilation through paternalistic policies that deprived Native Americans of resources, rights, and self-determination formed a web of structural violence that continues to affect Native Americans today both from the generational trauma passed down from families and the lasting effects of the policies themselves. Pulling out themes of colonial roots, magic bullets, the laboratory, reproductive rights, the U.S. healthcare system and mental health, this timeline walks us from 1848 to the COVID era.
Project Members
Members introduced clockwise, starting from top-left:
Fisayo Adeyina, Frances Walker, Olivia Chen, and Paulina Przygonska
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