コンスタンス・マリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (コンスタンス・マリーInstagram)「They are not just numbers. Rest In Peace Valentina Blackhorse. You mattered ✨🙏🏽💕 #FacesOfCovid #Repost @katiecouric with @make_repost ・・・ #FacesOfCOVID: Valentina Blackhorse was an administrative assistant for the Navajo Nation’s Dennehotso chapter who dreamed of one day leading the entire tribe. Known to her family as a “feisty” enforcer of Navajo customs, she pored over books about her culture, and cared deeply about issues like the elderly, protecting tribal land and opposing the installation of pipelines. Natasha studied Navajo language, performed jingle dress dances at community powwows and won the prestigious Miss Western Navajo pageant. One day, she told her family, she would run for a Navajo Nation Council delegate position, or even for president. When the coronavirus began to spread across the US, Valentina consistently wore a mask and gloves, and reminded her parents to do the same. But as careful as she was, she came down with COVID-19 after her boyfriend Robby Jones got the virus from his job as a detention officer with the Navajo Department of Corrections. “She cared for him until she got sick herself,” her sister Vanielle said. “She was always that way, looking after others.” Valentina died of COVID-19 on April 23, just one day after she learned that she had tested positive. She was 28 years old. Valentina was among the Navajo Nation's youngest and most prominent pandemic victims since the virus took hold in March. She had struggled with rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease that might have heightened her risk of dying from COVID-19. She is survived by her mother and father, her two sisters, her boyfriend Robby and their one year old daughter, Poet Bessie. “She loved being a mom to her daughter. It came naturally to her,” Vanielle said. Valentina looked forward to teaching Poet the cultural traditions that were so important to her: speaking the Navajo language, wearing her hair long and participating in pageants. Her sisters will remember the ways she lit up their lives -- teasing them, buying her nephew a Hot Wheels themed birthday cake and decorating the entire house for Christmas. Rest in Peace, Valentina. You mattered💕」8月14日 2時26分