Jacqueline Keeler is a Diné/Ihanktonwan Dakota writer living in Portland with her husband and two children. Host of Pollen Nation Magazine podcast, she has contributed to The Nation, The New York Times and many other publications. She has been interviewed on All Things Considered, PRI’s The World, the BBC and MSNBC. Her book “The Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears” and the forthcoming “Standing Rock to the Bundy Standoff: Occupation, Native Sovereignty, and the Fight for Sacred Landscapes” are available from Torrey House Press.
Native American tribes have faced pandemics before and survived, although often at a high cost –– historically, losing up to 90% of their population. Yet tribal nations are resilient, and a traditional respect for elders has found their governments taking the science of contagion seriously. More
