Mountain West to postpone fall sports season
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The Mountain West is postponing its fall sports season because of concerns surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, the conference announced Monday.
"We were hopeful we could carefully and responsibly conduct competition as originally scheduled with essential protocols in place," Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson said in a statement. "However, numerous external factors and unknowns outside our control made this difficult decision necessary.
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NativeWellness.Life: COVID-19 death toll tops Hiroshima atomic bomb count
Thursday, August 6, 2020   
Coronavirus kills behind hospital curtains, in private, where nobody can see
By Orville Desjarlais Jr. / NativeWellness.Life

On August 6, 1945, the United States detonated two nuclear bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Experts estimated about 150,000 people died in Hiroshima alone.
On July 30, 2020, 75 years later, the United States reported 150,000 deaths from COVID-19.
The atomic attacks on Japan changed the course of history. Horrific images of the aftermath revealed a blast that leveled a city. Human suffering and death from radiation shocked the world. It’s the stuff of nightmares.
So is the coronavirus. It’s not as flashy. And it didn’t strike with an attention-getting mushroom cloud. Daily, the virus steals lives behind medical curtains. In private. Where nobody can see.
Its effects are frightening: Loved ones, isolated, dying, slowly, alone.
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Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe denies Sturgis bikers entrance to fight coronavirus
The Native American tribe denied tourists entrance through the reservation to keep COVID-19 numbers low.
By Alexandra Kelley | Aug. 10, 2020

As hundreds of thousands of motorcyclists and motorsport enthusiasts are descending into Sturgis, S.D., for the city’s annual motorcycle festival, they will be denied access through the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe’s Reservation in a bid to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
The Rapid City Journal reports that the Cheyenne River Reservation authorities will not allow tourists attending the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally to pass through the territory’s checkpoints.
Speaking with the Journal, tribal spokesperson Remi Bald Eagle said that the new regulation is part of the Cheyenne Sioux River Tribe’s policies to prevent COVID-19 infections and reduce transmission.
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The Federal Government Gives Native Students an Inadequate Education, and Gets Away With It
The Bureau of Indian Education has repeatedly neglected warnings that it is not providing a quality education for 46,000 Native students. Once called a “stain on our Nation’s history,” the school system has let down its students for generations.
By Alden Woods, Arizona Republic
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Monday, August 10, 2020

A couple of months after Kimasha Shorty’s son started sixth grade at an Arizona public middle school, his teachers called her at home. He had trouble adding and subtracting and was struggling to read at grade level.
Shorty didn’t understand how it was possible that her oldest child could be so far behind after leaving Wide Ruins Community School, the sole elementary school in an area of about 1,000 residents at the southern edge of the Navajo Nation. He had been diagnosed with a mild learning disability that affects reading and math comprehension, but Shorty said he was doing so well by fourth grade that he skipped a grade at the urging of administrators and began attending a public middle school about 25 miles south in Sanders.
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