by Eric S Trevan, PhD April 27, 2020

WHERE ARE WE NOW? TRIBES BALANCING THE CURRENT NORMAL
BY ERIC TREVAN AND JON DEACON PANAMAROFF
22 APR 2020 

​Eric S Trevan, PhD, MPA Faculty Member wrote an article with Jon Deacon Panamaroff, that was recently published on Native News Online. net

“COVID-19 has created an incredible amount of challenges for our daily routines and perhaps will change how we function as a society. Response times have varied throughout the world and defeating this pandemic will take everyone working together. Through immense health challenges, unsettled economies and markets, quarantines, and social distancing, we genuinely have a current “new normal.”

We face conflicting challenges; we need to stay apart to improve our collective health, but we need to be together to improve our economy.

Through these difficult times, Native Americans, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiians already are experiencing more significant challenges through income inequality, higher levels of harmful health conditions (such as diabetes, alcoholism, heart disease), and ongoing equity issues. Whereas there is a trust relationship with the United States government, it appears that tribes once again are having to cover shortfalls in stimulus, access to health care and testing equipment, and tremendous barriers accessing financial resources….”

Read the full article here.