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Editorial ..............2A Health .................9A Sports .................1C See page 5A for ‘Seminole Girl’ honor INSIDE: Community .........3A Education .......... 1B Announcements ....6C 2A • The Seminole Tribune • February 28, 2017 ‘The New Trail of Tears’ With unemployment at more than 80 • Naomi Schaefer Riley percent and alcoholism rampant, Pine Ridge LVDKDUGSODFHWRJURZXS7KHVFKRROV¶¿UVW If you want to know why American job, it has to be said, is to keep children safe. Indians have the highest rates of poverty of Since Phelps’s team took over two years ago, any racial group, why suicide is the leading there’s general agreement that the school cause of death among Indian men, why is a calmer place. When I walk through the native women are two and a half times more halls of Wounded Knee – which goes from likely to be raped than the national average kindergarten through eighth grade – they’re Could there be a day, one day, without oil? and why gang violence affects American quiet. Although the area outside of the school Indian youth more than any other group, do is run-down, with trailer homes falling apart and trash strewn about, the inside of the near the construction site itself (as well as could lose $1.4 billion in a year if delays not look to history. • Mark Trahant There is no doubt that white settlers school is clean, freshly painted, and bright. It a massive cleanup of where people were continue … Even a temporary delay would also seems fairly empty – the school operates FDPSLQJLQÀRRGSURQHDUHDV mean loses of over $430 million.’ ETP is devastated Indian communities in the 19th, and early 20th centuries. But it is our policies at less than half of capacity. What’s clear about the “what’s next?” attempting to raise new debt. This could Alice Phelps, the newly installed he Trump administration has been is that the battle against the Dakota Access mean that the banks are ramping up pressure WRGD\²GHQ\LQJ,QGLDQVRZQHUVKLSRIWKHLU land, refusing them access to the free market principal and Stacy’s sister-in-law, takes LQRI¿FHIRUOHVVWKDQDPRQWK² Pipeline is taking a very different form. on the company to repay their loans out of me to visit some of the classrooms, where and already the construction