A March 25, 2020, video message from President Rodney Bordeaux of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. Bordeaux declared a COVID-19 emergency on the reservation earlier this month in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus in South Dakota. “We are not invincible so if you can, stay at home,” Bordeaux said.  https://youtu.be/o8f95f9NeT4

On a conference call with members of the media on the afternoon of March 17, 2020, Michael Toedt, the chief medical officer for the Indian Health Service, confirmed three “presumptive positive” cases of COVID-19 within IHS. According to Toedt, the three cases are in the following areas of IHS: * Portland Area * Great Plains Area (Charles […]

The Yankton Sioux Tribe remains closed through March 20 following a case of the coronavirus on its homelands in South Dakota. The tribe shut down operations last week after the Indian Health Service confirmed the case. The state had only said the patient was from Charles Mix County. The federal agency later informed Indian Country […]