Five years ago, psychiatrist R. Dale Walker was invited to a small Northern Plains reservation that had suffered 17 suicides in eight months.
Plains reservations are among the poorest places in the country, with all of poverty's consequences.
Similar findings were reported recently in a study involving aboriginal women from a Northern Plain American Indian reservation outpatient clinic.
The Sioux and other Plains tribes accepted the reservation system, but encroachments by whites in search of gold in the Black Hills led to renewed war by the end of Grant's second term, ending the understanding that had developed between Grant and Sioux Chief Red Cloud.
Data for this analysis came from the Education and Research Toward Health (EARTH) study, a 5-year cross-sectional study of 5,166 adults aged 18 88 years and residing on two Northern Plains American Indian reservations and a Southwestern American Indian community.
As we rolled down Mount Hood and onto the reservation's red, sage-speckled plains, his legacy was clear.
Sparsely populated and beautiful, with rolling plains and unusual rock outcroppings, the Crow reservation is home to about three-quarters of the tribe's 12,144 enrolled members.
Dead before he was 40, Crazy Horse was among the last 19th-century Sioux who never signed a treaty, never left the Plains, never learned English, never lived on a reservation.
She stated that the three men in plain clothes, all carrying pistols, leapt across the central reservation barrier, at which point she saw McCann and Farrell raise their hands.
People who live on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, a few miles from here on a vast grassy plain tucked in the high desert of northeastern Oregon, are used to seeing large animals on the loose.
