As with most communities of color in the US, COVID-19 is disproportionately impacting Indigenous people: Infection rates in Indigenous nations is 3.5 times higher than among White people, and younger people are contracting the virus in increasing numbers. In order to protect their own health, many Indigenous nations are exercising their sovereignty and asking people to refrain from visiting their territories.
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2020 is probably the hardest year that I’ve ever been hit with- and it has nothing to do with the quarantine (but it makes a