The coronavirus pandemic hit Native Americans especially hard.
But as the spotlight turned to larger communities like the Navajo Nation,
the much smaller White Mountain Apache Tribe, in eastern Arizona,
quietly battled to save its people.
Photos and text by Alberto Mariani/Cronkite News | May 4, 2021
Justin Tafoya, left, a registered nurse and public information officer, talks with Lafe Altaha before a nurse checks his vitals at his home in Whiteriver, Arizona.
WHITERIVER – Last year, the community of 15,000 in eastern Arizona was considered a hotspot. By Sept. 1, five months after its first recorded COVID case, the tribe had 2,400 cases and had lost 39 people. Over the next six months, there were 1,500 new cases and just 10 additional deaths.
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A rumble rose from the 20,000 Jewish protesters at Trocadero Square, then exploded into shrill screams.
“I don’t even know whether to reassure you or cry out my fury,” boomed Joel Mergui, president of the Consistoire, the organ of French Jewry responsible for providing Orthodox religious services. “Yes, cry out your fury!”
French Jewish events are usually dignified affairs that often end with the singing of “La Marseillaise,” the French national anthem. But the rally on Sunday protesting the fate of the man who murdered his Jewish neighbor Sarah Halimi in 2017 the largest Jewish gathering in France in at least a decade was a rare show of raw emotion from a community that has questioned its future in France in recent years.
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