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“We’re no strangers to pandemics affecting our people,” she says of the Native American community. She added that many of the people she serves face added stress because their family members and friends, who could live on reservations in rural areas with inadequate access to health care, may be at even greater risk.
Haseya can connect Native Americans with other community resources, provide financial help, support healing from trauma, and even help people pack up their belongings and move to safety, Snowbird said.
“Anything that anyone needs from us, we try to fill in those voids,” she added. “COVID hasn’t changed that.”