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Upon request from tribal nations, and as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) emergency response, CDC staff provided both remote and on-site assistance to tribes to plan, prepare, and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. From April 2, 2020, through June 11, 2021, CDC deployed a total of 275 staff to assist 29 tribal nations. CDC staff typically collaborated in multiple work areas including epidemiology and surveillance (86%), contact tracing (76%), infection prevention control (72%), community mitigation (72%), health communication (66%), incident command structure (55%), emergency preparedness (38%), and worker safety (31%). We describe the activities of CDC staff in collaboration with 4 tribal nations, Northern Cheyenne, Hoopa Valley, Shoshone-Bannock, and Oglala Sioux Tribe, to combat COVID-19 and lessons learned from the engagement.

\"Are we there yet?\" my son [Bud Hostler] whined in true four-year-old fashion. \"Not quite,\" I answered. Then, as if he meant to bless our brief but seemingly long road trip, a bald eagle soared through the sky. His wings sliced through the rain effortlessly as he followed the Klamath River. He flew for at least a mile until he perched in a Douglas fir tree. My dad stopped the car so we could admire the eagle for as long as possible. This was not the first time I've seen an eagle, but every time I see the magnificent creature is just as majestic as the first. This June, bald eagles were removed from the list of endangered species-a good day for eagle. The gathering was going strong when we arrived. A few basketweavers had pitched their tents outside in the rain, signaling their commitment to the semiannual event. Before we had a chance to walk inside we were invited on a boat ride up the Klamath in search of willow sticks. I poked some holes in a black Hefty bag that a fellow boater donated to my \"stay-dry\" effort and I was off to the river. Karuk Councilmember Bob Goodwin, our river chauffeur, along with our gathering guide, Erin Hillman, was enthusiastic about the boat ride. He didn't seem to be bothered by the rain and the possible stinging effect it can have on a face when traveling at thirty-plus miles per hour up a river. I was in for a pleasant surprise. The boat had a canopy and windshield so there were no stinging faces. As I stood on the bank waiting for Bob and his son to load the boat, I tried to distract myself from the cold by identifying plants. I know what most of them are, but, at the time, I was nearing the end of my first college-level botany course at Humboldt State University. During the course we learned about the origin of many plants, their fruit types, and their uses. I had never looked at the Klamath River bar with such scientific eyes as I did in those few minutes. And a few minutes was all it took to realize how infested the Klamath's riparian areas are with non-native species: thistles, briars, Scotch broom, wild mustard, and others. I thought for a moment about Scotch broom and the negative impact it has had on native species on the Hoopa reservation. Its seeds can lay dormant for forty to sixty years, and when the seed pods burst open the seeds can shoot up to fifteen feet, making it nearly impossible to eradicate.

Geese fly over every year during the Indian Island candlelight vigil to commemorate a 146-year-old massacre of Wiyot people, [Cheryl A. Seidner] told the crowd at last Saturday's fifteenth annual observance. The ancient village of Tuluwat, or Indian Island, is where as many as two hundred Wiyot people-mostly women and children-were slain by Eureka settlers while they were sleeping in the early morning hours of February 26, 1860. Wiyot people regularly traveled to the village, a ceremonial site. Typically ceremonies would last ten days, but in 1860 their time was cut short.