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The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation tried early and often to protect its members from COVID-19, but in this case, to no avail.
Near herculean efforts by tribal government to contain the spread of COVID-19 weren't enough to save Michael Gavin, a 39-year-old member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, who died August 7, some 17 months after the Tribes initially declared a state of emergency. Gavin was the second CTUIR member to die of COVID-19. His uncle was the first.
Michael was a son, a brother, and an uncle to the Gavin family, which included his mother, Shawna, a member of the CTUIR Health Commission, and his sister, Jill-Marie Gavin-Harvey, one of nine members of the Tribes' board of trustees, the policy-making panel for the confederacy of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla peoples.
Gavin was an evangelical Christian and youth pastor at a Pentecostal church, and he followed the Washat "seven-drum" Longhouse religion. He also was a former gang member who, even after he left that lifestyle, counseled other gang members from around the world.
https://www.indianz.com/News/2021/09/08/underscore-news-umatilla-covid19/
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