Representative Voices: Native American Representation, Political Power, and COVID-19 in U.S. States

Laura E. Evans; Raymond Foxworth; Gabriel R. Sanchez; Cheryl Ellenwood; Carmela M. Roybal

doi:10.7758/RSF.2022.8.8.07

Article Information

vol. 8 no. 8 135-152

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.8.07

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online December 15, 2022.

© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Evans, Laura E., Raymond Foxworth, Gabriel R. Sanchez, Cheryl Ellenwood, and Carmela M. Roybal. 2022. “Representative Voices: Native American Representation, Political Power, and COVID-19 in U.S. States.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(8): 135–52. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.8.07. The authors thank attendees of the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC) virtual gathering held in May 2020 for their helpful feedback on earlier work. The research reported in this article was supported by the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health under award number U54 MD004811. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Direct correspondence to: Raymond Foxworth, at rfoxworth@firstnations.org, First Nations Development Institute, 2432 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Longmont, CO, 80501, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Laura E. Evans^a,
Raymond Foxworth^b,
Gabriel R. Sanchez^c,
Cheryl Ellenwood^d and
Carmela M. Roybal^e

^aAssociate professor at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington
^bVice president of First Nations Development Institute, a Native-led nonprofit organization in Longmont, Colorado, and a visiting scholar at the University of New Mexico for 2021–2022
^cProfessor of political science and the founding Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Endowed Chair in Health Policy at the University of New Mexico, United States
^dAssistant professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at Washington State University, United States
^eAssistant research professor and executive director of the Native American Budget Policy Institute at the University of New Mexico