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By Rosemary Ponnekanti Puyallup Tribal News Correspondent It’s not everyone who has 2,000 COVID-19 masks and nearly 400 face shields stashed in their garage. Michael Sisson, Puyallup Tribal Veterans Representative, received the KN95 masks in late May after they’d been donated to the tribe by the Republic of South Korea for veterans’ use. Tribal Council recently approved the masks and face shields to be mailed to each Tribal veteran. The story began in early May, when Sisson was contacted by the National Native American Veterans Association in Washington, D.C., asking how many veterans the Puyallup Tribe had. Sisson told them,…