GREAT FALLS — Between March of 2020 and January of 2021, during what Benefis Health System describes as the first wave of the COVID pandemic, Benefis System took in more than 240 Native American patients and more than 40 of those people lost their lives to the virus.
Benefis recognized those lives lost with black ribbons on an empty teepee outside of the North Tower as part of recognizing Indigenous People’s Day on Monday, October 11, 2021.
They also had colored ribbons to recognize the patients...