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While the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes have been administering the COVID-19 vaccine to tribal members and now, on a limited basis, to some of their casino employees the Eastern Pequot Tribe has been struggling to get its elderly members vaccinated.
The Easterns’ chairwoman, Katherine Sebastian Dring, believes it’s another consequence of her tribe’s lack of federal recognition, a status the Mashantuckets and Mohegans have long enjoyed.
“Here we are, a state-recognized tribe with a reservation established in 1683, scientists have said we need to get vaccinated and we have not been acknowledged as an at-risk population,” Sebastian Dring said Friday. “As Native Americans, we are at risk. That’s a scientific fact.”
Mohegan Sun cancels 4-day wine, food fest
Updated Jan 11, 2021;
Posted Jan 11, 2021
The annual Sun Wine and Food Fest at the Mohegan Sun draws about 10,000 visitors to the resort casino in Uncasville, Conn. (Ray Kelly photo)
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The pandemic has forced Mohegan Sun to cancel one of its largest and most successful annual events, the Sun Wine & Food Fest.
Over the past 17 years, the Sun Wine & Food Fest has grown into a four-day, multi-event festival drawing 10,000 visitors to the Uncasville, Conn., casino. Events stretch from the Uncas Ballroom to the much larger Earth Expo & Convention Center.
“This difficult decision was made in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, as keeping the community safe takes precedence,” organizers said in a statement on Monday.
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