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(Continued from last week, first, having read your favorite Bible translation of Ephesians 5:21-33.)

While most tribal nations throughout Indian Country were working on ways to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe of Massachusetts was being ordered recently to disestablish their reservation.  

The Office of the Principal Chief, the EBCI Public Health and Human Services Division, and the many other health and emergency services entities of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians have done an amazing and swift job of implementing a COVID protocol that is slowing the transmission of the disease on the Qualla Boundary.

Covid-19 is running amok among us. It’s been in the USA since early February 2020 after the Chinese first reported it to the WHO in December 2019.

“This is a great mystery:  but I speak concerning Christ and the church.”

…“God blesses those who are merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

If you are from Cherokee, live in the area, or commute here to work, getting around is fairly easy.