Coneys (Rock badgers) teach us about wise building. 

“Lead me to the Rock that is higher than I…Jesus is the Rock!  Back up into the Rock,”

The worst thing that could possibly happen, outside of a national COVID-19 infection, is to politicize this crisis.

After the Covid-19 pandemic runs its course, what changes to our daily life are going to be permanent?

You are part of the pandemic story and so am I. Write your own story and send it to your newspaper’s Letter to the Editor. Connect with your community. 

(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.