How Humboldt County Native Populations Reacted and Rebounded from COVID-19

COVID had an immeasurable affect on businesses and life as we know it. That is no surprise, however, studies about COVID have focused far too long on the long-term economic and cultural impact that this pandemic has wrought upon the world. The human impact is far greater, and in the bubble of Humboldt country, the local population has felt that impact to a great degree, no more than the local native populations in and around Humboldt County, like the Karuk of Happy Camp, CA. I spoke to tribal chairman Buster Attebery, in order to discover how experiences of the Karuk people and the lives of other local native populations have changed drastically through the COVID-19 pandemic. I also spoke with youth advocate at Two Feathers and HSU Grad student, Amada Lang, in order to ascertain how native health and family services reacted to the pandemic, as well as how they are attempting to return to normalc