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Covid-19 strikes hard at Crow Creek
Friday, September 11, 2020
BIG BEND — In a short amount of time, nearly 25 of the 80 residents of Big Bend, a community on the Crow Creek Reservation, had tested positive for COVID-19 in June and July. Now several of them are dead and life has not returned to normal.
The most recent person to pass away was 57-year-old Ethel Left Hand Bull who lost her battle after more than a month on life support in the Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls. Left Hand Bull was a supervisor for the COVID-19 security team and a long-time fifth grade teacher at St. Francis Indian School. She would have received her master’s degree in education in August.
A majority of the people that tested positive in Bed Bend were COVID-19 security team members or close to someone who was. 38-year-old Wesley Fire Cloud Jr. and 34-year-old Randy His Law died of COVID in early July. All three were members of the security team.
Posted by Peter Lengkeek on Tuesday, September 8, 2020
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