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SHAWNEE, Okla. — Unemployment has soared amid the spread of COVID-19, as businesses shut down and revenues dropped. Oklahoma stands at a 7.1 percent unemployment rate as of July 2020, more than double the 3.2 percent rate in February.
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – On Thursday, the Navajo Department of Health, in coordination with the Navajo Epidemiology Center and the Navajo Area Indian Health Service, reported four new COVID-19 positive cases for the Navajo Nation and one more death. The total number of deaths has reached 499 as of Thursday. Reports indicate that 7,027 individuals have recovered from COVID-19. 93,565 COVID-19 tests have been administered. The total number of COVID-19 positive cases is 9,601.
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – On Wednesday, the Navajo Department of Health, in coordination with the Navajo Epidemiology Center and the Navajo Area Indian Health Service, reported four more deaths on the the Navajo Nation from COVID-19. With the four additional deaths, the total death toll reached 498 from the deadly disease since the tracking began on March 17, 2020.
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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — For the first time in modern history, an American Indian has been executed by the federal government for killing another tribal member on a reservation.
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ALBUQUERQUE — Three New Mexico pueblos have surpassed the state’s self-response rate for the 2020 Census.
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge has denied a request for a temporary restraining order that would have halted the execution this evening of Navajo citizen Lezmond Mitchell.
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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Barring a last-minute presidential pardon, a Navajo citizen will be put to death on Wednesday evening, marking the first time the federal government has executed a Native American man for a crime committed against another Native American on a tribal reservation.
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TURTLE MOUNTAIN INDIAN RESERVATION — The FBI is investigating the fatal shooting of a Turtle Mountain Chippewa man by police officers last weekend on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in Belcourt, N.D.
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SHIPROCK, N.M. — Wearing a red tie with a turquoise necklace around his neck, Navajo Nation Vice President Myron Lizer spoke to a national audience on Tuesday night, appearing in primetime during the Republican National Convention from Shiprock, N.M. on the Navajo Nation in a pre-recorded taped video.
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