More resources needed to save Native youth
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)
February 27, 2009
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