{"id":16203,"date":"2021-09-27T14:18:34","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T18:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=16203"},"modified":"2021-09-27T14:21:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T18:21:44","slug":"tim-giago-the-death-of-a-native-news-salesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/09\/27\/tim-giago-the-death-of-a-native-news-salesman\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Giago: The death of a Native news salesman"},"content":{"rendered":" \"Lloyd<\/a>
Lloyd Goings, 1946-2021. Photo courtesy Native Sun News Today<\/figcaption>\r\n
Notes from Indian Country<\/div>\r\n
The death of a salesman<\/div>\r\n
Monday, September 27, 2021<\/div>\r\n
By Tim Giago (Nanwica Kciji \u2013 Stands Up For Them)<\/div>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nWhen I opened an office of my newspaper in Rapid City back in the 1980s one of my frequent visitors was Lloyd Goings. It appeared that he just loved the newspaper business and so he would stop by our new office nearly every day to visit and bring us news.

<\/p>\r\nOne day I told him that since he hung around the office so much I might as well give him a job. He accepted and I put him out on the streets of Rapid City selling advertising. And boy could he sell. He even amazed me because he was bringing in accounts none of my sales people had ever been able to reach.\r\nIt turned out the Lloyd was also a used car salesman on the side. He always had an old car that he was promoting and quite often ended up selling the car to one of my employees.

<\/p>\r\nBut Lloyd had a lot of irons in the fire and one day he said he was giving up his sales job because he had a small business idea he wanted to pursue. We parted company as good friends, and even after his resignation, Lloyd still came to the office a couple of days a week just to visit. He always had stories from the Rez that he had heard about and he would pass them on to our reporters to pursue.

<\/p>\r\nA few weeks ago we put up a sign on our office door that all visitors had to wear a mask. We even put a box of masks at the front door. Well, Lloyd didn\u2019t like the idea at all, but he complied with it. He forced himself to wear a mask at our office, but refused to wear one outside of the office. He was against getting vaccinated also. \r\n

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