The pandemic has hit Native American communities particularly hard.
“I just fear for their safety and their well-being — not just the employees, but their families,” said Sue Parton, president of the Federation of Indian Service Employees, the government union that represents BIA employees. “You know, traditionally most Native American families live in groups. So in one household you’ll have elders and then all the way down to infants.”
“They would contact us at the union, you know, because they weren’t getting answers from supervisors, they weren’t getting any guidance,” she said. “Wherever they were located, they were hearing different things from the governor of that state. But nothing coming from the federal government, from their supervisors, all the way up the chain of command.”
correctional officer on the reservation was put on quarantine awaiting test results after “possible exposure.”
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