More resources needed to save Native youth

Friday, February 27, 2009 at 9:06AM
Talk Radio News Service (Admin) in News/Commentary, Robert Moore, Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, South Dakota, native youth, suicide

by Christina Lovato, University of New Mexico-Talk Radio News Service


At the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs oversight hearing, Robert Moore, Councilman of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, gave some information about his community where the suicide rate is over 38 per 100,000 population more than eight times the national rate. Moore talks about what he thinks needs to be done in order to lessen the growing suicide cluster. (00:49)

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