By Anthony Wallace, The Guardian, October 26, 2021
Leaders of non-profit organizations serving Native American communities in the US say they have been inundated with unprecedented financial support over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Native Americans are three times as likely to have died from the virus in the US as white Americans, according to the APM Research Lab. America’s largest Indian reservation, the Navajo Nation, has lost 1,471 residents to Covid-19 so far. That figure equates to a staggering death rate of 847 per 100,000 residents – double the rate in the worst-affected US state.
With all this loss and hardship has come media attention and donations from the public, Indigenous organizations say. At least $8.7m poured into GoFundMe campaigns for Native communities between March and October 2020 alone, according to Native Americans in Philanthropy (NAP). In June, NAP announced it had also received a “multimillion-dollar” donation from MacKenzie Scott, former wife of the Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos.
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