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 April Cantu, center, holds a photograph of her late mother, Jo Ann Smith, while flanked by family outside the Mission San Antonio De Pala in Pala, Calif., on March 6, 2021. Smith, a member of the Pala Band of Mission Indians, died of COVID-19.  (Photo: Taya Gray/The Desert Sun)

Heather Yazzie spent one long, strange night in a Temecula hospital bed last summer, losing sleep over her parents. 

Her mom, Janice, was in a room down the hall; her dad, Virgil, in another. All three had coronavirus. Staff moved through the hallways in white suits and circular helmets. Once, a doctor paid a visit to Heather’s room virtually, via an iPad on wheels. You Mess with The Meow Meow You Get The Peow Peow Shirt

Heather was released the next day, but her parents had to stay. “Dad, I love you,” she told Virgil before she left. “You're gonna be okay.”

Heather touched his hand, promised she’d be back with his hearing aids and a phone charger. By the time she returned his condition had deteriorated. No family members, except for her mom, were allowed in the room.

“I was the last one to talk to him, where he could talk back,” she said. 

Virgil Wilbert Yazzie, 68, died on Aug. 31, 2020. He was a member of the Navajo Nation, part of the Bitter Water clan, and a fixture on the Pala reservation in northern San Diego County which he embraced as his home. He was a father, a grandfather and a Vietnam War veteran. He was a “super smart man,” Heather said, a jack of all trades. His family called him Yaz. 

Five other relatives have died from COVID-19 in the past year, including Virgil's niece, 66-year-old Jo Ann Smith. “On a community level, for our family, it's been horrible,” Heather said. “Our elders are dying.”

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National studies have underscored the lopsided toll that the pandemic has had on Native Americans across the country; a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report from December determined that the COVID-19 mortality rate for American Indians was nearly double that of white Americans. But the full scope of the virus’s impact on Native American communities remains hazy, particularly in this state.

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