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Storm deaths ‘could have been prevented’, Indigenous leaders say

Suffering from asthma and influenza, sixth-grader Honor Beauvais died last month after intense winter storms hit the United States, preventing emergency care from reaching him on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation [Courtesy of Cordier Beauvais/AP Photo]

Honor Beauvais’s every breath was a battle as a snowstorm battered the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in the US state of South Dakota.

The asthmatic 12-year-old’s condition had been worsening as his fragile lungs fought a massive infection brought on by influenza. His worried aunt and uncle begged for help clearing a path to their cattle ranch near the community of Two Strike so that emergency services could arrive.

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