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Trueteenagers, most tend to lose hope and either com-mit suicide or become alcoholics.”
During her travels, she began the process of forming the True Sioux Hope Foundation with the intent of breaking the vicious cycle of poverty on the reservation. She obtained legal nonprofit status for her organization in October.
The True Sioux Hope Foundation has three main objectives: provide immediate aid to families in desperate need of basic living necessities such as firewood or baby formula; create a better educational system on the reservation; and foster long-term sta-bility through workforce training and transporta-tion to employment. The foundation will hold its first fundraising event in February.
One tactic True is using to gather deeper support is to work with her allies in the philanthropy commu-nity to get others on board and to convince them they do not need to go overseas to find people who need help.
“Other philanthropists want to make donations to help places in dire need, but so many don’t know there’s a place right in the middle of America that has problems comparable to any Third World country. They’re going to Africa, they’re going to Mexico,” she said. “When I tell them the statistics (of Pine Ridge) they don’t know what country I’m talking about.”
T h e n u m b e rs f ro m the U.S. Census Bureau back up her statement: 97 percent of people on the reservation live below the poverty line; it has an 89 percent unemployment rate; infant mortality is 300 percent higher than the national average, and
is the highest in North America. Meanwhile, 60 percent of homes have no water or electricity; only 27 percent of residents have a high school diploma or GED; 17 people live in a single home on average; and the life expectancy for men on Pine Ridge is 47 years.
When explaining the problems with Pine Ridge, True said she’s has to dis-pel some stereotypes that many people have about Native Americans. Many people she has spoken to assume that Native Americans have a lot of money because they can have casinos or get lots of federal aid. She said peo-ple are much more recep-tive to contributing to her foundations once they get past those misconcep-tions.
“Philanthropists I’ve talked to seem eager to help once I can dispel some of the myths they have about Native American reservations,” True said.
Katie Collins, a fun-d ra i se r fo r n o n p ro f i t organizations in Irvine, said she had never heard of Pine Ridge until True spoke with her about 18 months ago.
“I was flabbergasted to hear that this was happen-ing in the United States,” she said.
She said just about everyone she has spoken with has had the same reaction when they learned about Pine Ridge. Now she is helping True get her new foundation rolling by contacting other philan-thropists and charitable organizations.
True said she has mixed emotions about her trips as a child to the reser-vation with her grand-mother.
“Growing up, I saw all of the good, I saw the family values, it goes back to the traditional ways of family values and helping each other,” True said. “ But I also saw all the pov-erty, which motivated me to work hard to avoid that
fate. I was lucky to have an opportunity to be off the reservation. Most people who on the reservation never go more than 400 yards off the reservation. But I had a chance to suc-ceed.”
She couldn’t really explain why she and her grandmother would take trips to Pine Ridge; it was just something she always did.
“I don’t know why (we went), but they say we’re like homing pigeons, no matter how good or bad the conditions are, we always go home,” She said. “It always somehow feels good to be amongst your fellow Native Americans.”
Jeff Whalen, 61, has lived on the reservation for most of his life, aside from his time serving in the United States Marine Corps as a Lance Corpo-ral. He said he has been working alongside True to identify the best way to the tackle the monumental problems on the reserva-tion.
Throughout his life, he has seen other groups and organizations present what they call investment opportunities, but they were usually either total pipe dreams or wouldn’t actually benefit the tribe itself.
He said True is different because not only does she have the resources to make a difference, she is also a member of the tribe and she has been welcomed with open arms.
“Twila is a tribal mem-ber, which makes a lot of difference. She’s been down here a lot talking to a lot of tribal leaders, and it’s obvious she cares about her people.”
He has absolute faith that the True Sioux Hope Foundation is going to have a huge impact. “I’m not hopeful or skeptical,” he said, “I know that this is going to happen.”
Contact Scott Feldman at 394-8337 or [email protected]
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Lawmakers“In the Meade School
District, we took that extra money and gave it strictly to teachers,” he said. “I’m asking you that at the end of the session, if there is any additional revenue that obviously we would like to have it in the PSA (per student allocation) so that we could use it any way we want to, but if that is not an option, and you give it to us in the form that it has to be used for additional teacher salaries, we will do that.”
Low teacher salaries in South Dakota are a con-tributing factor to the state’s teacher shortage, educators have said.
In an opening statement given before the question and answer session even began in Rapid City, Rep. Jacqueline Sly (R–Rapid C i ty) , a fo r m e r R a p i d City schoolteacher, talked about how teacher pay in South Dakota has been dead last in the country for years, but she’s pleased the issue has finally come to the attention of the aver-age person.
O n e c i t i z e n a s k e d whether the recent staff cuts being proposed by the Rapid City School Board are problems that should be handled by the legisla-tors, the school board, or Rapid City taxpayers, or whether the cuts are even problems that should be addressed.
Sly said that school districts across the state have problems, but each individual district must examine its own spending habits.
“It’s important that each district in the state look internally how the money is used or not used,” Sly said.
Rising health insurance
costs, reli-a n c e o n temporary g ra n ts to f i n a n c e programs, and early retirement are some of the prob-l e m s a n d policies the Rapid City S c h o o l D i s t r i c t must eval-u a t e f o r itself, she said.
“Making changes might not feel healthy because it’s very hard; it tears your heart out,” Sly said. “You don’t want to make those decisions. so sometimes you put it off. Then you get into a more unhealthy situation, and I believe the Rapid City School District is there right now and we need to work toward change.”
Rep. Lance Russell (R–Hot Springs) said indi-vidual school spending must be evaluated but that the state legislature has to shoulder a share of the responsibility for problems in all school districts.
“We have slipped in the amount of money that we are putting in as a per-centage to education in the state,” he said. “It hasn’t been a great slippage over the last few years, but there has been a slip.”
He attributed the slip to the state’s focus on different priorities, such as investments into eco-nomic development proj-ects, some of which did not always pan out.
At the Butte County session in Belle Fourche, proposals for maintain-ing roads in counties and townships as well as state highways took the majority
of the conversation by the legislators.
Meeting at Belle Fourche City Hall were District 28 Rep. Tom Brunner of Nisland, Rep. Dean Wink of Howes and Sen. Gary Cammack of Union Cen-ter, and District 28 Sen. Betty Olson of Prairie City and new Rep. Sam Marty of Prairie City.
Roads and bridges were a major Saturday topic in Belle Fourche.
Cammack said that state highways are currently 89 percent in “good or excel-lent” condition, but that would drop to less than 50 percent in 10 years.
C o u n t y a n d to w n -ship roads are in far worse shape. Counties are closing or adding weight limits to bridges that were built 70 years ago or more.
P r o p o s a l s i n c l u d e increasing gas taxes as well as possibly increasing other taxes and fees, such as license plate price tags, vehicle sales excise taxes and wheel taxes.
Education was the main topic of discussion in Rapid City, but it wasn’t the only issue discussed. Other subjects included:
• How the legislature will address the minimum wage and gambling initia-tive measures that passed.
• If payday loan busi-nesses need more regula-tion.
• If lobbyists are play-ing too large a role in the creation of bills.
The next crackerbarrel will be held at 9 a.m. Sat-urday at the Didier Educa-tional Center in the Class-room Building at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology.
The Butte County Post’s Milo dailey and Meade County Times-Tribune’s deb Holland contributed to this report.
LOCAL
Jan. 18Accident · 1:59 p.m., ridgeview road
and ridgeview CourtAssault · 12:30 a.m., 725 Main St. · 7:41 p.m., 11 new york St.
Burglary · 9:15 p.m., 420 E. Fairlane
driveDrug complaint · 5:56 p.m., 714 n. Seventh St.
Intoxicated subject · 9:04 p.m., 815 Joy ave.
Shoplifting · 6:19 p.m., Wal-Mart, north
Lacrosse StreetTheft · 8:29 p.m., 3633 reder St.
Jan. 19Accident · 9:36 a.m., 2012 red dale
driveBurglary · noon, rushmore 7 Cinema · 4:23 p.m., 3714 W. St. Louis
St.Burglary/K9 Deploy · 12:09 a.m., 4340 W. Main
St.
Drug complaint · 8:21 p.m., Little Caesar’s,
Lacrosse StreetFight · 2:13 a.m., 100 Surfwood
driveShoplifting · 12:55 p.m., 4:39 p.m., Wal-
Mart, Stumer road · 5:32 p.m., JC Penney
Theft · 9:07 a.m., north Creek drive
and East anamosa Street · 9:58 a.m., 4101 deadwood
ave. · 9:29 p.m., 3636 Cotton-
wood St.
POLICE LOGThis information comes from selected local calls to the Rapid City Police Depart-
ment. The address listed may be either the location of the incident or the place from which the call for service originated.
Russell
Sly
Site/time
Chamber of Commerce 1:00 pm6:00 pm
Holiday Inn Express 1:30 pm6:30 pm
Grand Electric 5:30 pm
McLaughlin Sr. Center 1:00 pm
Harry’s Hall 1:30 pm
Custer Sr. Center 1:00 pm
Date
1/13/15
1/16/15
1/19/15
1/21/15
1/22/15
1/28/15
town
Spearfish
Deadwood
Bison
McLaughlin
Dupree
Custer
Newell Library 3-5 pm1/12/15 Newell
Sturgis Library 1:00 pm6:00 pm
1/15/15 Sturgis
Community Center 1:00 pm1/19/15 Buffalo
Dakota Lodge 1:00 pm5:00 pm
1/20/15 Lemmon
Limit Lodge 6:00 pm1/21/15 Timber Lake
Bad River Sr. Center 5:30 pm1/23/15 Philip
Belle Fourche Library 1:30 pm1/29/15 Belle Fourche
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