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Emma Hall
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Emma Hall is the equity reporter for The Sacramento Bee, where she covers equity in the Greater Sacramento region. With The Bee’s Equity Lab, she focuses on Sacramento County and reports on indigenous affairs and higher education. Hall is a graduate of Sacramento State and Diablo Valley College. She is Blackfeet and Cherokee.
At a Sacramento powwow, Native youth use dancing and tradition as healing, reconnecting with culture to combat trauma, mental illness and disconnection.
Native youth in California face the state's highest suicide rates despite being its smallest ethnic group. Now Medicaid cuts threaten vital Indigenous clinics offering culturally rooted mental health care.