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“Between a Lie and the Truth”: Tlingit Vaccine Hesitancy in a Settler State

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“Between a Lie and the Truth”: Tlingit Vaccine Hesitancy in a Settler State
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A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, and a year into my fieldwork in Sheet’ká (Sitka, Alaska), I spoke with Lorena about COVID-19, vaccination, and public health policy. Lorena, a pseudonym for a Tlingit elder, was worried about the virus. But perhaps she was more worried about how the longer histories of settler infectious disease management shaped and might continue to shape Indigenous life. Wondering aloud about the pandemic and its governance, Lorena mused, “Is this a

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