COVID-19 Response has Been Starkly Different for Indigenous Communities in Texas
While coronavirus rates remain high, officials have taken unprecedented actions not found anywhere else in the state.
A large sign at the Alabama–Coushatta Reservation east of Livingston, Texas. Wikimedia Commons / Lance L Lowry
While coronavirus rates remain high, officials have taken unprecedented actions not found anywhere else in the state.
A large sign at the Alabama–Coushatta Reservation east of Livingston, Texas. Wikimedia Commons / Lance L Lowry
Pauly Denetclaw
Dec 15, 2020, 8:00 am CST
On March 23, the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas issued its first stay-at-home order. In April, the tribe would restrict out-of-state travel, and in May, officials shut down nonessential tribal offices and businesses and eventually banished a tribal citizen for 90 days who refused to comply with the health directive. “He could not come onto tribal lands at all,” said Alabama-Coushatta Chairwoman C