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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
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences December 2022, 8 (8) 135-152; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.8.07
Laura E. Evans
aAssociate professor at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington
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Raymond Foxworth
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
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Gabriel R. Sanchez
cProfessor of political science and the founding Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Endowed Chair in Health Policy at the University of New Mexico, United States
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Cheryl Ellenwood
dAssistant professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at Washington State University, United States
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Carmela M. Roybal
eAssistant research professor and executive director of the Native American Budget Policy Institute at the University of New Mexico
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Laura E. Evans, Raymond Foxworth, Gabriel R. Sanchez, Cheryl Ellenwood, Carmela M. Roybal
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