Native American State Senator says spread of COVID is ‘a matter of life and death on a reservation’
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South Dakota State Senator Red Dawn Foster discusses the pandemic’s devastating effects on Native American populations and their fight to keep COVID-19 checkpoints running despite resistance from the governor. She tells Ali Velshi, “Our sovereignty supersedes the state’s existence… We have the right to have these checkpoints.”Nov. 29, 2020
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