How has COVID-19 affected Native American communities, people? View the entire 'Indigenous Impacts' project here

Numerous Native American contributors teamed up with Forum Communications to share their stories and provide perspective on the impacts of COVID-19.

The project includes essays, a poem, original song and video interviews by Native American contributors, and original reporting by Forum Communications journalists and freelance writers. Find links to the project's content below.

The "Voices" portion of the "Indigenous Impacts" project features essays, poetry, video and more by members of Native American communities in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.

• " An original poem: 'We Carry the Last Century'
  - Poem by Denise K. Lajimodiere

• An original essay: What do I worry about first?
  - Essay by Christopher Bordeaux

• An original essay: We need to create equity
  - Essay by Sage Davis

• An original essay: The travels of Moose Meat Pete
  - Essay by Phoebe Smith-Davis

• An original song: ‘Legacy’ featuring Gene Thin Elk
  - Song by Tanner Drappeau

• An original essay: Amidst dark times, resilience
  - Essay by Curtis E. Rogers

• An original essay: Turning inward in isolation
  - Essay by Michele Hakala-Beeksma

• An original essay: COVID-19 has changed my life in many ways
  - Essay by Beth Roy

• An original essay: The Sitting Bull Plan
  - Essay by Winona LaDuke

• An original essay: Friend’s death from coronavirus ‘a wakeup call’
  - Essay by Eddie Chuculate

• An original essay: Deep concern in Ojibwe country
  - Essay by Anton Treuer

• An original essay: The Unconquered and Unconquerable - Essay by Cherokee Durant

• An original essay: 'Homesick for Red Lake'
  - Essay by Byron Graves

• An original essay: ‘What if everything about this life disappears?’
  - Essay by Shandelle Friedman

• An original essay: Pandemic ‘another layer of pressure and worry’
  - Essay by Serena J. Graves

• WATCH: Indigenous community members share personal perspective on how coronavirus has impacted them, their loved ones, and their community
  - Multiple contributors

Several Native American contributors interviewed members of their communities for a video, and Tanner Drappeau produced a song.

This project also includes stories on a range of issues related to Native American communities and the coronavirus.

• Series looks at how Native American communities are responding to COVID-19

• 19th century journal foreshadows effect of colonization, neglect on Native American public health

• 'It's home': The saga of two Dakota Sioux reservations, born of injustice, but enduring cultural homelands

• Coronavirus places Indian Country on pause

• Tribes innovate to fight off, face COVID-19 pandemic

• Tests for tribes -- one way Mayo makes amends with Native Americans

• COVID-19 reveals deficiencies in IHS funding

• In American Indian communities, questions about COVID-19 test access remain

• South Dakota COVID-19 checkpoints highlight fractures, strength in tribal relations

• 'I don’t want you to go through what I did': Peggy Flanagan says her brother's death shaped Minnesota pandemic response

• Tribes dealt severe economic blow as pandemic squeezes casino revenues

• Artists find strength, inspiration in their communities and history

• Federal COVID-19 relief poured millions of dollars into Indian Country. Was it enough?

• Prairie Island in the pandemic: Tribal Council faced tough, wide-reaching decisions

An interactive map shows the reservations in the tri-state area and the tribal affiliation and demographics of each. Tens of thousands of residents live on and off the reservations.