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PRESS RELEASE: The Response to COVID-19 in Indian Country: A Federal Failure
Washington, DC — A New report of the Center for American Progress traces the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Native American and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities to the failure of the U.S. government to meet its trust and treaty obligations to the Indian country. Tribal communities have faced some of the world’s worst …

‘EXILED IN INDIAN COUNTRY’ | Oklahoma
When the Euchee (often spelled Yuchi) tribe first made contact with European colonizers, members were in settlements in eastern Tennessee, according to the Oklahoma Historical Society. For the rest of the 1600s, they traveled to the southeastern United States and established neighboring colonies of the Creek Nation in Georgia and Alabama. The United States did …