{"id":3793,"date":"2020-04-28T21:07:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T01:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=3793"},"modified":"2020-04-28T21:07:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T01:07:15","slug":"seneca-nation-new-york-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/2020\/04\/28\/seneca-nation-new-york-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Seneca Nation (New York)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-responsive  embed-responsive-16by9\"><div class=\"iframe-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embed-responsive-item\"   title=\"President Armstrong&#039;s COVID-19 Message 04\/28\/20\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HV-HqvV198E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>In an update on April 28, 2020, &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sni.org\">Seneca Nation<\/a> President Rickey L. Armstrong Sr. announced &#8220;sad news&#8221; to his people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our Seneca community experienced our first death related to COVID-19,&#8221; Armstrong said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HV-HqvV198E\">video address<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Armstrong, the person died on Friday, April 24. The person was from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Allegany_Indian_Reservation\">Allegany Reservation<\/a> of the Seneca Nation and had underlying health issues, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know their spirit will remain with the Seneca Nation forever,&#8221; Armstrong said.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong said no new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed among Seneca citizens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nor do we have any new possible cases under investigation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/j6J_wigzkSc\">April 23<\/a>, the president&#8217;s prior update, Armstrong announced two community members who had tested positive recovered. The individuals are from the Allegany and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cattaraugus_Reservation\">Cattaraugus<\/a> communities, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Seneca Nation: <a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus-response-sni-gis.hub.arcgis.com\">https:\/\/coronavirus-response-sni-gis.hub.arcgis.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an update on April 28, 2020, Seneca Nation President Rickey L. Armstrong Sr. announced &#8216;sad news&#8217; to his people: the first COVID-19 death of a community member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[133,435,73],"class_list":["post-3793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tribes","tag-new-york","tag-rickey-armstrong","tag-seneca"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3795,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions\/3795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}