Finally, Covid vaccines for the little ones
We’ve hit a new milestone in our fight against the pandemic. As of June 21, children under the age of 5 are finally able to receive a vaccination against Covid-19. Once parents get an appointment, the next question is generally, “Which vaccine should I get?” Dr. Mark Del Beccaro with public health – Seattle and King County responded this way: “Take the vaccine you can get.” But Dr. Del Beccaro said Moderna’s two-dose option might be slightly more attractive for parents who have plans in the near future. Continue reading at KUOW. (Kate Walters)
‘Keep your Indian alive’: After decades of outlawed culture, a Tulalip revival
In Lushootseed, an “s” with a squiggle above it is called a caron. It’s pronounced “sh,” like shore or shout. Pišpiš means “cat.” It’s one of the first words Kaiser Moses learned with his Montessori classmates on the old wooden floor of the Tulalip Dining Hall. Years later, Moses learned those are the ruins of a jail. “And that’s where they used to put kids who spoke Lushootseed instead of English,” said Moses, 19. It was one of hundreds of institutions where teachers “deployed systematic militarized and identity-alteration methodologies” on Native students to “kill the Indian in (them), and save the man,” according to a national report released by the U.S. Department of the Interior in May. Continue reading at The Everett Herald. (Olivia Vanni)
Editorial: Court’s decision a subtraction from our rights
There is no getting past the realization that — for the first time in American history — the U.S. Supreme Court has subtracted from the existing rights of citizens, rather than strengthened them. Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, didn’t merely find for the state of Mississippi and uphold its ban on most abortions after 15 weeks; instead a five-member majority — emboldened for the first time by the addition of three conservative justices nominated by President Donald Trump — used that dominance to utterly strike down nearly 50 years of precedent granted by the court’s decision in Roe v. Wade. Continue reading at The Everett Herald.
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