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'It's time': Standing Rock elder dies from Covid month after wife


It s time : Standing Rock elder dies from Covid month after wife
Erik Ortiz
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In October, as the coronavirus outbreak swept across the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe s reservation, straddling the North and South Dakota border, tribal elder Jesse Jay Taken Alive was sidelined with a nagging cough.
He tested positive for Covid-19. Within a week, his wife, Cheryl, who was feeling congested and weak, did, too.
The couple s health began to deteriorate, their children recalled: Taken Alive was rushed to the Indian Health Service hospital in Fort Yates, North Dakota, and hospitalized for a few days. Later, he and his wife were both admitted to a larger hospital in Fargo, only one floor apart but unable to see each other. ....

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