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Rebekah L. Sanders, Arizona Republic Published 11:43 pm UTC Dec. 30, 2020 Show caption Hide caption Joel Hernandez Valdez, the 100th patient to recover from COVID-19 at Banner Baywood Medical Center, is discharged on June 5, 2020. Sean Logan/The Republic Theres no doubt 2020 was memorable. The collective experience of a pandemic, presidential election and historic protests will long leave an imprint on our lives. Then again, so many big stories dominated the headlines, its easy to forget every...

Copyright © 2020 Albuquerque Journal Nine months after the first COVID-19 cases surfaced on the Navajo Nation, residents have begun to be vaccinated for the disease. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said the vaccines that have been distributed in Navajo clinics and across many countries offer a “ray of hope.” Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla speaks about COVID-19 vaccine development during a Navajo Nation video update Thursday. “All of us at Pfizer are very much aware that the Navajo Nation, and other N...

Red, White, and Black: The US Army in the West 1866-1891 Indian scouts on Geronimo’s trail in Mexico during the mid-1880s included Yavapai Rowdy (front row, far left), who later received the Medal of Honor, and the White Mountain Apache leader Alchesay (back row far left). Sam Bowman, an African American Spanish-speaking interpreter stands in the same row with Alchesay at the opposite end of the line. – Courtesy of John Langellier   After four years of fighting, the Civil War ended. The vi...

3:57 More than 44 thousand people worldwide volunteered for the Pfizer study; half got the new vaccine and half got a placebo. One percent  of those volunteers are indigenous Americans, among them, Derrick Leslie. He works in emergency operations for the White Mountain Apache tribe. "Having a front row seat to all of the heartache, the pain, and all the suffering that this virus has caused my people … this is really my way of contributing to the greater good," Leslie says. But Leslie’s fam...