• Who We Are
    • Project Description
    • Research Team
    • Partners
    • Staff
    • Get Involved
    • Contact
  • International Gathering
    • Keynote Speakers
    • Panel Speakers
    • Program
    • Virtual Archive – Rewatch the Gathering
    • Sponsors
  • Our Data Indigenous
  • Kana Wain Ndida
  • Resources
    • Mapping the Pandemic
    • E-Newsletter
    • Helpful Links
      • Health & Safety
      • Mapping Cases in Indigenous Communities
    • Infographics
    • Community Voices
      • Community Stories
      • Share Your Story
    • Webinars
      • Proposal Development Workshop
    • Kahkakiw
      • Colouring Pages
Covid-19 Indigenous
  • Who We Are
    • Project Description
    • Research Team
    • Partners
    • Staff
    • Get Involved
    • Contact
  • International Gathering
    • Keynote Speakers
    • Panel Speakers
    • Program
    • Virtual Archive – Rewatch the Gathering
    • Sponsors
  • Our Data Indigenous
  • Kana Wain Ndida
  • Resources
    • Mapping the Pandemic
    • E-Newsletter
    • Helpful Links
      • Health & Safety
      • Mapping Cases in Indigenous Communities
    • Infographics
    • Community Voices
      • Community Stories
      • Share Your Story
    • Webinars
      • Proposal Development Workshop
    • Kahkakiw
      • Colouring Pages

Media

  • Home
  • Media
  • COVID-19 Daily News Digest – November 19, 2020

COVID-19 Daily News Digest – November 19, 2020

  • Posted by Kelly.Janz
  • Categories Media
  • Date November 19, 2020

COVID-19: Hiawatha First Nation to not allow visitors from designated red zones into businesses

Hiawatha First Nation Chief Laurie Carr said while the First Nation won’t be utilizing checkpoints entering the community as it did earlier in the year, people will be asked where they are from. Access will not be permitted to areas such as the community’s restaurant, gas bar and store if a resident after a COVID-19 check states they are from an area that’s in a red-zone — the highest level short of a lockdown.

COVID-19: Hiawatha First Nation to not allow visitors from designated red zones into businesses

How the Cherokee Nation is beating the coronavirus pandemic even as surrounding areas surge

Speaking to STAT News, Cherokee health officials credit their success to simply following the science. Implementing measures such as stockpiling ample personal protective equipment (PPE), ensuring access to food, specializing in protecting tribal elders from the virus and disseminating health resources in both English and the Cherokee language are just some of the measures taken to keep people aware of public health protocols. 

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/526555-how-the-cherokee-nation-is-beating-the

Local First Nations dealing with COVID-19 cases

Director of Operations James Jenkins said all of the band programs and departments have been closed for two weeks out of “an abundance of caution” and to be proactive in ensuring the safety of the staff and community. Jenkins added council will be updating the COVID-19 response plan for the Walpole Island community and will identify further measures and actions to ensure that it is well prepared for the second wave of the virus. The action plan will include all sectors including staffing and operations, community members, education, and businesses. The chief and council all agreed that the best course of action was to act now to ensure that the community was the main priority. 

Local First Nations dealing with COVID-19 cases

Fisher River Cree Nation gives students free laptops and internet access for online learning

“We learned from when the pandemic first started… that just sending homework packages home and having teachers flown home periodically just wasn’t cutting in regards to providing any kind of quality education.” 

According to Kelly Selkirk, the Fisher River post-secondary co-ordinator, the online education that students are now receiving is “leaps and bounds above the pen and paper homework that they were getting.”

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/fisher-river-laptop-online-learning-1.5807465

For Mya Beaudry, scrunchies are a way to honour inspirational Indigenous women

What began as a nine-year-old girl’s fundraising idea has now grown into a prize-winning business, run out of her former bedroom in Gatineau, Que.

About a year ago, Mya Beaudry bought what’s called a kokom scarf at an Indigenous women’s craft fair. She was about to host a dance competition for young people at the Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival in Ottawa, and wanted to use the scarf as a prize.

Though COVID-19 forced the cancellation of the powwow, the business that grew out of that idea — Kokom Scrunchies — is now thriving.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/mya-beaudry-scrunchies-indigenous-women-1.5800064

Gov’t to book entire hotel for Neskantaga First Nation evacuees to protect them against COVID-19

About 250 members Neskantaga First Nation where evacuated from their homes in late October after an oily sheen was found in the Neskantaga water reservoir. Initial testing results found high levels of hydrocarbons in the water.

The majority of the evacuees have been staying at the Victoria Inn ever since.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/gov-t-to-book-entire-hotel-for-neskantaga-first-nation-evacuees-to-protect-them-against-covid-19-1.5195327

Affordable housing, safety among the priorities in Ottawa’s Women and Gender Equity Strategy

A “series of tools were developed,” the update also stated, “to raise awareness and assist city staff to apply an Indigenous, and women and gender lens to COVID-19″ in recognition of the “disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Indigenous, women, and gender diverse groups.”

Affordable housing, safety among the priorities in Ottawa’s Women and Gender Equity Strategy

P.E.I. government launches COVID-19 workforce integration fund

The province is seeking proposals from organizations on how to help Islanders impacted by COVID-19 transition into or return to the workforce.

The COVID-19 workforce integration fund will support innovative projects from organizations that help Islanders gain skills and knowledge so they can find long lasting jobs, advance their careers and access entrepreneurship opportunities.

https://www.theguardian.pe.ca/news/local/pei-government-launches-covid-19-workforce-integration-fund-521739/

Government of Canada supports restorative justice initiatives across the country, including those supporting Indigenous communities and youth

Of the total funding, $5 million goes to research, awareness raising and education activities, including capacity-building training and pilot projects. In addition, over 40 Indigenous organizations have received additional support of approximately $500,000 in total to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on restorative justice initiatives in their communities.

https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/government-of-canada-supports-restorative-justice-initiatives-across-the-country-including-those-supporting-indigenous-communities-and-youth-878029501.html

Workforce rotation to resume at Keeyask Dam amid COVID-19 outbreak

As First Nations, this is not the first time we have faced deadly diseases that threatened our people and communities.  But this time, we can do our part to prevent it,” Chief Doreen Spence of Tataskweyak Cree Nation said in a statement.

“We oppose any ramp up of workers at Keeyask until the outbreak in the province is under control.”

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/keeyask-covid-19-workforce-resuming-1.5803211

  • Share:
Kelly.Janz

Previous post

COVID-19 Daily News Digest - November 18, 2020
November 19, 2020

Next post

COVID-19 Daily News Digest - November 20, 2020
November 20, 2020

You may also like

COVID-19 Daily News Digest – February 2, 2021
2 February, 2021

Pauingassi First Nation goes into lockdown after a quarter of members test positive for COVID-19 “It’s safer for them to leave because we have very little resources at our nursing station, and one of them might take a turn for …

COVID-19 Daily News Digest – January 20, 2020
21 January, 2021

Grim’ COVID-19 data highlights inequities on Saskatchewan reserves New data from Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) confirms that fear. As of Monday, there were 13,636 cases confirmed on First Nations reserves across Canada, mostly in the prairies. Reserves in Saskatchewan have …

COVID-19 Daily News Digest – January 19, 2020
19 January, 2021

Covid 19 info in Cree from Thompson general hospital., Learn about COVID-19 in Cree, as Bighetty and Bighetty reports on the virus and current events, from Thompson, MB.  Indigenous Reporters Program helping shape new group of storytellers in Northern Ontario …

Connect

Here are some upcoming virtual events that you can attend online or by phone.

July 7: Climate and Colour

July 2: Anishinaabemowin Wadiswan (Anishinaabe Language Nest)

June 26: 2Spirit Stories: Building Inclusive Intersectional Movements

June 25: A Conversation on Hydro & Indigenous Territories

June 25: Righting Relations Film Screening: Invasion

June 25: Anti-Racism Training Part 2 

June 24: sākihiwē + Wahkohtowin Families workshop: Hand Drum Songs

June 24: Traditional Indigenous approaches to mental health and well-being of health care providers supporting First Nations during the COVID-19 pandemic

June 22: Scaling up - Community Economic Development for a Just Recovery

June 22-29: 7 Days of No Peace

May 30: The Future We Want: Conversation with Young Indigenous Leaders

May 29: Indigenous Laws Conversation in Response to Pandemic

May 28: A Conversation on Indigenous Food Sovereignty

May 28: Indigenous Strategies for a Green Future with Winona LaDuke

May 28: Indigenous Land and Water Protectors Webinar

May 27: Commuting Post-Pandemic: How to Nudge for Sustainable Commutes

May 26: NoWar2020 Conference & Peace Fest

May 21: Protecting Sacred Water: KC Adams and Aimée Craft

May 20: The intersection of mental health and culture during and post COVID-19

May 19: 2020 Rise Webinar Series

May 15: Indigenous Mens/Mxns Gathering

May 14: A Conversation on Land Based Education

May 13: Talanoa: Celebrating Queer Indigenous Resistance

May 12: MEJC Regular Tuesday Meeting

May 11: Speaking up: Conversations About a Better Future - W. Niigan Sinclair

May 7: How to Make A Smudgebowl

May 6: Bush Tea, Podcasting and Indigenous Storytelling

April 29: Lockdown from a First Nations Perspective

April 24: Virtual Ethics Cafe: Equality in a Time of Crisis

April 24: Climate Change and Coronavirus Panel

April 23: Online Community Workshop Alternative Prov. Budget

April 20: Reclaiming Indigenous Paths to Health /Times of Planetary Crisis

April 18: Climate Action During Covid-19

April 14: Indigenous Women on Covid-19 & Fossil Fuel Resistance

April 14: Reconciliation Book Club 4 - Unsettling Canada

April 13 - 17: Isol-action: Spread Justice Not Covid

April 9: Indigenous disaster and emergency management: do past disasters

April 7 - 17: Accessing Deep Indigenous Knowing Webinar

April 6: Building Indigenous Communities of Care during COVID-19

April 2: Online Teach-In: Indigenous Self-Determination and Covid-19

Mar 21: A Covid-19 Fireside Chat with Indigenous Health Professionals
Saved and Accessible here

Mar 18: Webinar on Covid-19 and Indigenous Communities
Saved and Accessible here

Recent Posts

  • Caretaking Mental Health and Wellbeing
  • Post-COVID Horizons: Income-Transfers, Indigenous Poverty and Meaningful Occupations
  • Ka-apachihtaaniwan Creating Togetherness when we are apart
  • Okihtcitawak Patrol Group
  • Virtual Engagement: Relationship building, safe, authentic and culturally appropriate practices

Tags

Advocacy (7) Awareness (2) Ceremony (1) Colonialism (2) Community (11) DigitalHealth (2) Education (3) Environment (3) Food Security (1) Gender (2) Governance (8) HealthSovereignty (5) Health Sovereignty (1) History (4) Housing (2) InternationalPerspective (4) International Perspective (1) Keynote (1) Land (2) MentalHealth (2) Navajo Nation (1) Nunavut (1) Panel (2) PanelCommunity (1) Policy (7) Rankin Inlet (1) Resilience (1) Storytelling (2) TraditionalKnowledge (2) United States (1) Women (1) Youth (2)

Recent Comments

    Education WordPress Theme by ThimPress. Powered by WordPress. ©2020 Wa Ni Ski Tan