Rosebud Sioux Tribe declares state of emergency on reservation suicides

my kids dad commited suicide almost 10 months ago and i still sit here and wonder why he did it.i will never know..and he ain't burnin in hell i know he is in a better place..i miss him so much but there ain't nothen i can do to bring him back..nothen.!..it hurts my heart to think that my kids have to grow u withouth their dad..we all loved him so much.i wish i knew then what i know now..he would still be here..
RIP Eric Lee Swalley
July 19,1987-April 10,2008
i love and miss you so much..see you when i get there...

im not from sd im from tennessee there are alot of kids across the country that are hurting and are in pain...drugs are every where i cant even act like i know the hardships your people face but i think maybe in some ways might they be loosing their pride ..pride of who they are? your people are a great people.. if you have kids tell them remind them of who they ARE and tell them to hold their head up high..to be proud of their heritage encourage them to look for ways to better their people as a whole...im sure many of yuns do.. just remember this if the kids act as if they dont care or dont hear you they do and in time when they work threw their anger and learn to rise above it..it will be the voices of their elders they will remember..
my kids know their heritage mostly irish but they also know their great grandfather was native...left as a orphaned child he knew nothing of his family he resorted to alcohol wich nearly destroyed my mothers life his daughter..
alcohol and drugs kill but not just that is leaves one empty and depressed..i wish your people the best you have a proud heritage..i know life has been hard for your people and its not right..the gov even today does your people wrong..

Rest Eazy Arthur Poorbear. man on the real..we all grew up a hard life on the reservation, its not always the teenagers fault they end up like this. its everything. I could say im one of the statistics too. But im not proud to say it. I grew up watchin' moms get beat, alcohol, drugs, & gangs. U grow up around all of that and u think thats the only way u think is the right way. But i've come to realize it aint. theres more to life then the reservation. When u move away its not like ur leaving the ones u love on the rez behind but put it like this, ur not going away & forgetting about them, jus go out and make a change and COME BACk & help one another its sounds fake and all that but just think u can save a life. I jus wish i had known all the things i've known now. When someone u love passes away, its hard. It is! But live ur life they way they wanted u to live it. I just hope no one on the rez (rosebud,mission,s.f) i hope none of u decide to leave. Im not gonna judge on whoever killed themselve whut they went thru is something we cant understand. Not even if we tried. What went thru there minds is something we'll never know. I just hope there all in a better place,then whut the real world holds. Lifes tough but Tunkasila put u on this earth for a reason, So make something of urself. Do it for u not anyone else. Make urself happy & leave the rest up to everyone else. Right now im in Minnesota & not a day goes by i dont think about my crew, my family & everyone else down there. After highschool im off to the Marines. & it is whut it is. Just dont give up. 1
r.i.p 213
& A.PB

im going to rosebud to try to help out dont know if I can. but someone has got to try it takes everyone doing everything. taking care of small kids to helping the old. its not a race thing
its a people thing my kids and grandkids are there
they think they are black. jamin to rap wharin ther pants below there butts. being what they think is hard asses.being in a gang to represent what... there is no pride in killing or spray paint. the family is broken how do you talk to a
drunk or a meth hoe looking for there next fix
you cant even have anything because your family
and friend stell it why you are out..who do you
trust. the old ways are the right way. you are judged by your actions and ways.. not by how many
times you can beat someone up.. its not how tuff
you are.. but its how tuff you are! can you do the
right thing the right thing is the hardest thing to do. much harder then beating someone up or takein something or being a shit.. so keep your cool do the right thing. even if you are not liked
you might change you might start a change.
oh maybe pick up trash. or plant flowers. or help someone you dont know. or something anything just do it. now..

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Olowah Makes Room For Them: Rest In Peace

you need to get families involved. Not just the community. Find a way to bring families together to get to the issue.

its wrong what kids are doing why cant they realize that they have something in there life all they need to do is grow up