Overview
- Explores the lived experiences of Native Americans facing the matrix of disease and colonialism in the COVID-19 pandemic
- Features diverse Native American memories and perspectives of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Compiles scholarly and creative pieces including visual art and personal Indigenous narratives
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As the COVID-19 pandemic struck peoples throughout the world, it disproportionately devastated Native American communities. The inequalities, disparities, and injustices they had long experienced as historically marginalized peoples magnified the effects of this crisis throughout Indian Country, causing high hospitalization and death rates, as well as intense economic and social dislocation. This edited volume seeks to tell stories of Native Americans facing this matrix of disease and colonialism in these pandemic years while also highlighting ways that Indigenous people innovated, bonded, and endured through this crisis. It features Indigenous perspectives and experiences through scholarly and creative pieces including short stories, visual art, and academic and personal narratives. Contributors ask how past experiences and traumas have contextualized Native people’s responses to COVID-19 and how intergenerational knowledge and ties have sustained their communities during the pandemic.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part III
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Part V
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Farina King is an Associate Professor of Native American Studies and Horizon Chair of American Ecology and Culture at the University of Oklahoma, USA. Her books include The Earth Memory Compass: Diné Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century (2018) and Diné dóó Gáamalii: Navajo Latter-day Saint Experiences in the Twentieth Century (2023).
Wade Davies is a Professor of History at the University of Montana, USA. His books include Healing Ways: Navajo Health Care in the Twentieth Century (2001) and Native Hoops: The Rise of American Indian Basketball, 1895-1970 (2020).
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: COVID-19 in Indian Country
Book Subtitle: Native American Memories and Experiences of the Pandemic
Editors: Farina King, Wade Davies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70184-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-70183-2Published: 10 December 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-70186-3Published: 10 December 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-70184-9Published: 09 December 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 328
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: US History, Modern History, Oral History, Social History, Cultural History