CASE STUDY MEMORANDUM NO 1

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CASE STUDY MEMORANDUM NO. 1 DATE: Monday, September 18, 2023 FROM: Gionattan Pullin TO: Prof. Diaz RE: Tribes and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Impacts and Responses I. What tribal leaders and/or organizations were effective in communicating with the media and what were their key points? What things did tribal leadership, including community leadership do to improve tribal responses to the pandemic? With more than 2,600 tribal members residing in outlying areas close to the tribal reservation, the care and protection of the Wampanoag people is as powerful as that of any other nation in the nation. Tribal leaders were developing a strategy before the term "COVID-19" became widespread. They were quick to react as they established a COVID plan as the second Native American tribe in the nation and the first in the area. More than $130,000 in Public Assistance grants from FEMA were given to the Mashpee Wampanoag, and these funds were utilized to buy security glass, clean the government building, and provide housing for the Tribe's homeless people. Although it's clear that the Tribe's campaign efforts helped to contain the virus's outbreak, it's impossible to say with certainty whether any deaths were caused by the epidemic. II. Provide examples of how indigenous knowledge and culture contributed to the tribal response to Covid-19 and how cultural relationships like kinship and family contribute to the response? The Mashpee Wampanoag are one of the Tribal Nations with an Indian Health Service (IHS) clinic. The Tribe's supply was constrained even with the clinic. They had a limited number of supplies, however that did not stop them from contributing as much as they could to the cause. They are all about kinship and family because they accepted financial loss, and even reduced social possibilities. Even though it would harm their economy and businesses, they did this to

protect the wellbeing of their community. FEMA and the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe continued and currently still are serving their joint purpose of providing meals, personal protective equipment, and shelters for the tribe's sick and homeless members as the epidemic spreads around the globe with the help of the agency's technical support and financial backing. III. Think about projects that the Seattle Indian Health Board has implemented in response to the pandemic. Were these projects successful? Is there room for improvement? If yes, provide suggestions for improvement. If not, support your position as to why things should remain status quo. I believe that the Seattle Indian Health Board projects were very successful to the community. By using a variety of financial sources, the SIHB was able to keep running during the pandemic. Both a publicly acknowledged medical facility and an Indian Health Program, it has obtained CARES Act financing that has assisted in making up for drops in service volume during the early stages of the pandemic. Two-thirds of the clinic's 6,000 annual patients are American Indians or Alaska Natives, representing about 250 different tribes. The clinic provided a wide range of primary care services, including drum circles and traditional healing consultations as well as case management and social support for those who were experiencing homelessness. With everything unraveling at the beginning of the epidemic, the Seattle Indian Health Board were one of the main organizations people were turning to first. IV. What are some of the problems for Tribes when they need to access relevant and accurate data in a health emergency? When it came to the tribes' ability to acquire pertinent and reliable data throughout the pandemic, there were several issues and flaws. They encountered numerous negative effects as a result of the lack of control they were subjected to, and because they already had restricted access to information and resources, this made it more challenging for them to get the resources they

required. The information gathered is connected to the delivery of federal services and is under the responsibility of the federal and state governments, not the tribes. As a result, tribes may become reliant on outside sources using techniques that are inconsistent, wrong, or unrelated to tribal objectives. For instance, because tribal identities are not being collected, it was frequently impossible to determine which tribes American Indians and Alaska Natives belong to in many of the administrative datasets. American Indians and Alaska Natives frequently obtain services from the Indian Health Service and from private hospitals and clinics via Medicare, Medicaid, or commercial insurance. Therefore, there are several potential for misclassification and miscounting. V. What can leadership and tribal cultural, natural resource, and medical experts do to ensure indigenous knowledge is integral to the tribal response and transmitted to the next generation? The importance of indigenous knowledge systems and a long-term dedication to natural resource management have been rightly emphasized by tribes and tribal organizations. Tribes have the chance to create and manage programs that cater to their particular requirements thanks to self- determination and self-governance authorities. Programs that are based on tribal cultures and regions emphasize characteristics of human relationships with their surroundings. Despite the systematic destruction of their civilizations and decades of persecution and mistreatment, many Tribes have kept their distinctive perspectives on how people and the environment interact. Federal agencies have a chance to further support tribal sovereignty and the governmental relationship by respecting the information base that is kept up to date by specific tribal communities. With that being said, I believe that the information from tribal communities will be transmitted to the next generation without a problem with an abundance of resources and information.

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REFERENCES Learning from pandemic responses across Indian country . Commonwealth Fund. (2020, September 30). https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/2020/sep/learning- pandemic-responses-across-indian-country The Value of Traditional Ecological Knowledge for the Environmental Health Sciences and Biomedical Research (n.d.). https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP858 One Tribal Nation winning against COVID . FEMA.gov. (n.d.). https://www.fema.gov/press- release/20220721/one-tribal-nation-winning-against-covid

CASE STUDY MEMORANDUM NO 1

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