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Phoebe Keryte in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Courtesy photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With remote operations at the University of Washington Bothell, Phoebe Keryte is finishing her final quarter back home in New Mexico where she\u2019s helping her grandparents \u2014 and conducting fieldwork for a degree in Health Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have to thank the pandemic for being able to come home,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Indigenous Dine\u2019 who grew up in Albuquerque and other parts of the state, Keryte has three tribal affiliations. She\u2019s an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation<\/a> with ties to the Santa Ana and Isleta pueblos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keryte left home in 2014 for an associate degree at Northwest Indian College on the Lummi Nation near Bellingham, Washington. It helped that she had a relative in the area. \u201cBeing in another tribal community felt like home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She later worked as a caregiver in Bellingham, found that she loved geriatric care and decided to advance her career with a UW bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The School of Nursing & Health Studies<\/a> at UW Bothell was the best fit, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Southwest by Northwest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Graduating this autumn, Keryte is finishing three courses remotely, including her fieldwork project. She is looking at the mental wellness and overall health of tribal elders, primarily at the Isleta Pueblo Assisted Living Facility where she works as a caregiver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also lives near her grandparents in the community of several thousand people about 15 miles south of Albuquerque. She visits them nearly every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI only get to hang out with elders 24\/7, but I enjoy it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keryte researches culturally based responses to the pandemic in tribal communities, how they are maintaining mental health and using resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI love Indigenous research,\u201d she said. \u201cI think there\u2019s more to research than Western methodologies we\u2019ve learned at institutions. There are different frameworks for working in tribal communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keryte also plans to use social media to better connect families with the dozen residents of the facility where she works and to inform loved ones how the elders are coping with the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now and next<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tested weekly for the coronavirus, Keryte works weekend 12-hour overnight shifts, 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., helping on both the assisted living and memory care sides of the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As she looks forward to the graduation finish line, Keryte said she misses the Northwest but also feels ever grateful to those closest to her. \u201cIt has been a long journey. I feel I wouldn\u2019t be here without the support of my family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once she has her Health Studies degree, Keryte plans to work full time before she applies for a master\u2019s degree program in nursing. She wants more experience to figure out what kind of nurse she wants to become to serve her people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think getting a degree is necessary for me, but rather it\u2019s to support my people and represent them,\u201d she said. \u201cWith all the bad things that have happened, my people are very resilient. We\u2019ve overcome a lot of adversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf I can obtain that higher education,\u201d she said, \u201cI want to give it back to them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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