Impoverished tribe struggles to stop surge in teen suicides
by Regina Garcia Cano

The Associated Press    Translate This Article
13 April 2015

On 13 April 2015 The Associated Press reported: The people of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- a sprawling expanse of badlands on the South Dakota-Nebraska border -- are no strangers to hardship or to the risk of lives being cut short. But a string of seven suicides by teenagers in recent months has shaken this impoverished community to its core and sent school and tribal leaders on an urgent mission to stop the deaths. 'The situation has turned into an epidemic,' said Thomas Poor Bear, vice president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Suicide has been a persistent problem, a fact that is hardly surprising considering the grim prospects for a better life on the remote grasslands, say tribal officials. But the teenagers' deaths are especially shattering. Global Good News service views this news as the failure of modern culture and health systems. Such 'flops' highlight the need for more intelligent, evolutionary, Natural Law based, life-supporting systems.

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