This policy brief addresses the impact of the current COVID‐19 crisis on American Indian tribal economies, tribes’ responses to the crisis, and the implications of these impacts and actions for the US government’s allocation of crisis‐response funds to federally recognized tribes. We conclude that the pandemic is devastating the economies and governments of the 574 federally recognized tribal nations in US, and that the effects are spilling over with dire consequences for the regions and states in which tribes are embedded. 

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