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Indigenous Communities and COVID 19: Reporting on Resources and Resilience

2021; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 32; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/10646175.2021.1892552

1096-4649

Cristina Azocar, Victoria LaPoe, Candi S. Carter Olson, Benjamin R. LaPoe, Bharbi Hazarika,

Media Studies and Communication

Many Indigenous tribes in the United States count on gaming revenue to provide basic services to their people, but gaming was a critical resource that was lost during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a qualitative contextual analysis, this research explores the news coverage about economic resource loss in both Indigenous and non-Indigenous news media coverage of COVID-19, particularly where the virus and gaming intersected. It illustrates how coverage from news outlets with an Indigenous focus and/or representation differs from outlets without connections to Indigenous people. Using Indigenous standpoint theory, the analysis revealed the ways non-Indigenous media used parachute reporting to create a one-sided view of the pandemic's impacts when it came to the industries necessary to fund indispensable tribal functions.