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.

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A Community’s Response: Reflections from the White Mountain Apache Tribe a year into the COVID-19 pandemic

by Alberto Mariani, Cronkite News
May 4, 2021

<h1>A Community’s Response: Reflections from the White Mountain Apache Tribe a year into the COVID-19 pandemic</h1>
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<p>The coronavirus pandemic hit Native Americans especially hard.<br />
But as the spotlight turned to larger communities like the Navajo Nation,<br />
the much smaller White Mountain Apache Tribe, in eastern Arizona,<br />
quietly battled to save its people. </p>
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A Community’s Response: Reflections from the White Mountain Apache Tribe a year into the COVID-19 pandemic

Alberto Mariani, Cronkite News
May 4, 2021

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.

This article first appeared on Cronkite News and is republished here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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