Native Americans have shorter life spans. Better health care

HISLE, S.D. — Katherine Goodlow is only 20, but she has experienced enough to know that people around her are dying too young. Goodlow, a member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, said she’s lost six friends and acquaintances to suicide, two to car crashes, and one to appendicitis. Four of her relatives died in […] The post Native Americans have shorter life spans. Better health care isn’t the only answer. appeared first on Daily Montanan.

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