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Of the total funding, $5 million goes to research, awareness raising and education activities, including capacity-building training and pilot projects. In addition, over 40 Indigenous organizations have received additional support of approximately $500,000 in total to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on restorative justice initiatives in their communities.

"We learned from when the pandemic first started... that just sending homework packages home and having teachers flown home periodically just wasn't cutting in regards to providing any kind of quality education." According to Kelly Selkirk, the Fisher River post-secondary co-ordinator, the online education that students are now receiving is "leaps and bounds above the pen and paper homework that they were getting."

The site is called Nujintuisga'tijig E'pijig, which means "Indigenous women salespeople or vendors" in the Mi'kmaq language, and currently features 16 artists but there is room for up to 30. Leona Newkinga, a Mi'kmaw and Inuit woman who lives in Elsipogtog, has her bead work featured on the site. She hopes it can bring a bigger audience to her work.

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This is the scene at Iqaluit's Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre from Sundays to Thursdays. Nunavummiut usually arrive around noon to gather at tables and enjoy meals that can include stew, green salad and freshly baked buns. The people aren't necessarily homeless, but some of them don't always have enough to eat. "Food security is always an issue for people, but I think the bigger issue now is people's mental health," Thorhaug said in an interview.

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Pfizer says that more interim results from its ongoing coronavirus vaccine study suggest the shots are 95 per cent effective and that the vaccine protects older people most at risk of dying from COVID-19.

The federally recognized tribe on Kupreanof Island, south of Juneau, said it was alarmed by the low supply and high price of fresh meat that followed the outbreak of COVID-19. The hunt was approved in June, but Alaska filed a lawsuit alleging federal officials illegally preempted the state’s rights to manage wildlife. Kake Tribal President Joel Jackson said Alaska Natives never voluntarily ceded hunting and fishing rights on their traditional homelands and that he considers the matter an issue of tribal sovereignty.

A recent survey by the Native Women's Association of Canada finds that Indigenous women are more worried about domestic violence then they are about most COVID-19 issues. One of the things that keeps being mentioned is that there’s just no supports in place right now, because of covid and the opioid epidemic, Alec says. There’s nothing in community right now to support people, says Alec.

For more information, check out our website at https://covid19indigenous.ca/digital-health-initiative/ Stay tuned, more information on the Digital Health Initiative is coming soon!

There are now 60 active cases in the territory. Nunavut's Health Department said Tuesday that an additional 26 cases have been confirmed in Arviat, a community of about 2,800 in western Nunavut. That brings the total in Arviat to 46. Nunavut is to enter a territory-wide lockdown Wednesday. Schools and non-essential businesses are being closed for two weeks.

Implementing a two-week lockdown won’t cure the problem, but we’re trying to flatten the curve somewhat, said Cumberland House Cree Nation Chief Rene Chaboyer. On Monday, the Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority (NITHA) reported 258 active COVID-19 cases in its communities, a significant jump from the 168 it reported on Nov. 16. NITHA is comprised of Prince Albert Grand Council, Meadow Lake Tribal Council, Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation (PBCN), and Lac La Ronge Indian Band.