Ed Schafer: Jesse Taken Alive was a servant leader and prayer warrior Jesse did not get discouraged and faced difficult problems with grit and a smile. A servant leader and prayer warrior, he sought not to knock down others who were oppressive and bigoted, but to lift up his people to equal standing and change others through love and kindness. Jesse Taken Alive was a people person.
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Ed Schafer served as North Dakota s governor from 1992 to 2000 and as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 2008 to 2009.
This guest column was written by Ed Schafer, who served as North Dakota s governor from 1992 to 2000 and as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 2008 to 2009.
Tribal elders are dying of COVID-19, causing a cultural crisis for American Indians
The pandemic is inflicting an incalculable toll on bonds of language and tradition that flow from older generations to the young.
(Victor J. Blue | The New York Times) Pall bearers with the coffin of Jesse Taken Alive, a Lakota member of the Standing Rock Tribe who died of COVID-19, at Kesling Funeral Home in Mobridge, S.D., on Dec. 26, 2020. The coronavirus has killed American Indians at especially high rates, robbing tribes of precious bonds and repositories of language and tradition.
By Jack Healy | The New York Times