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Tribe gets grant to fight suicides

| Friday, September 08, 2006

BISMARCK, N.D. — The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is getting a $400,000 federal grant for efforts to reduce the suicide rate on the reservation.

The money from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will be used by a tribal program that has four mental-health outreach workers, said Sens. Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan and Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D.

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Dorgan said American Indian children in parts of the Great Plains are 10 times more likely to commit suicide than their non-Indian peers.

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