If there is a silver lining to 2020, it’s the reminder that even the toughest fights in Indian Country can have a happy ending.

From the 1918 Spanish flu to Covid-19, broken treaties have been the foundation of health crises among Native people.

The Trump administration turned scarce funding and a growing crisis among Native communities into an existential fight over sovereignty.

“We are who we are because of the people who raised us,” said Deb Haaland, one of two Native women in Congress.

How the intergenerational lock of poverty leaves so many Indigenous communities with few options but to sign on the dotted line.