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In State of the Tribes speech, a sharp break from COVID-19 optimism in South Dakota
Chairman Mike Faith of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe delivered the annual State of the Tribes address in Pierre, S.D., on Thur., Jan. 14. Contrary to speeches the previous two days by state officials, Faith spoke in more deeply somber tones about the deadly impact of the coronavirus pandemic on his reservation, acknowledging it changed our life forever. Written By: Christopher Vondracek | ×
Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Mike Faith speaks Thursday, Jan. 14, in the South Dakota House of Representatives for the 6th annual State of the Tribes address. Christopher Vondracek / Forum News Service
More than 340,000 people died from COVID-19 in the United States in 2020, and as of Friday the number of people infected with the virus had surpassed 20 million. As we begin a New Year, we honor just five of those who we have lost to the coronavirus.
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Judy Woodruff:
We begin a new year, as we did every Friday as we left the last one, paying tribute to five extraordinary Americans who ve lost their lives to COVID-19.
Adalberto Cavazos and his wife fell in love through letters exchanged while he was stationed in Germany with the U.S. Army. They spent more than a half-century together, settling in Fresno, California. While serving abroad, he lost his hearing, but still worked as a foreman until he was 70. Humble and hardworking, family was his world.
Jesse Taken Alive. Forum file photo
Jesse Jay Taken Alive, a former Standing Rock Sioux Tribe chairman and Lakota language and culture protector, died with COVID-19 earlier this week, multiple news outlets reported on Thursday, Dec. 17.
Taken Alive, who was 65 at the time of his death, was Standing Rock tribal chairman from 1993 to 1997. He died Monday, Dec. 14, only one month after his wife Cheryl Taken Alive also died after contracting COVID-19, according to multiple news outlets.
At least 23 people on the Standing Rock Reservation died due to COVID-19 complications between March and Dec. 14, according to the Standing Rock Incident Command.
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