The family watched uneasily as health-care workers in hazmat suits entered their home on their reserve in northern Saskatchewan. “A lot of the kids didn’t know what was going on,” said patriarch Darin Poorman. “But they all got tested.” It was April 15, two days after a Saskatchewan Health Authority nurse called to inform them they’d been in contact with someone infected with the novel coronavirus. “It was like: What?
Who? How?” said Poorman’s wife, Wanda Wolverine Poorman. “Everything went through my mind, wondering. It was a shock.” Poorman and Wolverine Poorman live in her home community of English River First Nation with two of their children and three of their grandchildren.