Though people of color continue to be disproportionately affected by COVID (Gawthrop, 2022), because Native peoples in the U.S. are often marginalized and made invisible (National Congress of American Indians, 2019), the impact of COVID-19 on Native peoples continues to be largely overlooked. This article examines the words and stories of three Native American students attending an adult basic and vocational education program to better understand the experiences of Native adult students as their program moved from in-person instruction to online modality. Challenges the students explain are lack of access to technology and technical infrastructure, the lack of resources specific to the construction field that hampered students' work, and the loss of the classroom community that facilitated co-learning experiences.