Meanwhile, COVID-19 was ravaging the Navajo Nation, whose reservation crosses three state borders – Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. With restaurants closed and residents of Washington state ordered to stay home to stay healthy, tribal member Rudy Madrigal of Coast Salish Seafood found himself with a freezer full of fish and no one to sell it to. A Tulalip Tribes seafood wholesaler used the economic challenges of the coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity to help out another tribal nation.
