Hollister, N.C. — This week marked the first Indigenous People’s Day to be officially honored in the United States, but it comes as some Native American tribes have felt left behind during the pandemic.
Leaders of the Haliwa-Saponi tribe say they’re caught between a rock and a hard place: having to fight to get the COVID-19 support their tribe needs, while at the same time convincing them it’s safe to take.
“We’ve just been forgotten unfortunately, also forgotten at COVID time,” Haliwa-Saponi tr...