Rosebud Sioux Tribe declares state of emergency on reservation suicides

damn it was gettin bad when i moved from there i am glad i moved then

In reading some of the English slang I can't help but think that a large number of african-americans are commenting and pretending themselves to be Sioux???!?!?!??

I kno caly wilson. He wuzz my cuz. Rest In pEace

I Love You Aaron !!! You'll Neer Be Forgotten

Gawd i relly hate these suicides!! I live on the Rosebud. I really kinds hate saying that i'm from the rosebud. But then again i happy bout it. But righ' now i'm in treatment to get over this grief and loss. I really miss Clay Wilson, Stony Larvie, and everyone else who i loved. Rest In Peace!!:( Please NO ONE else kill themsevles. If you got the thought think about the ones that you love and how much you'll put them in pain. Cause i thought about killing myself but then i thought about how much i'll hurt my younger siblings. I really love Ramona, William, and Jessica. So remember that!!! Lov u all

Gawd i relly hate these suicides!! I live on the Rosebud. I really kinds hate saying that i'm from the rosebud. But then again i happy bout it. But righ' now i'm in treatment to get over this grief and loss. I really miss Clay Wilson, Stony Larvie, and everyone else who i loved. Rest In Peace!!:( Please NO ONE else kill themsevles. If you got the thought think about the ones that you love and how much you'll put them in pain. Cause i thought about killing myself but then i thought about how much i'll hurt my younger siblings. I really love Ramona, William, and Jessica. So remember that!!! Lov u all by the way this is Wanda Lou Frederick in Mitchell at the Abbott House

Umi wrote:

In reading some of the English slang I can't help but think that a large number of african-americans are commenting and pretending themselves to be Sioux???!?!?!??

wtf. I'm sure they prolly dont give damn bout us. They have enough problems of their own, just LIKE US, why'd they pretend to be one of us? THEY WOULDN'T.The reason the youth is talkin like that is cuz they listen to all that gangsta rap & pick up on it w/o realizin it! & you know WHY we listen to it? Itz becuz we can relate. We kno what its like to struggle just to survive...we even kno what itz like to be in gangz an shit. Gangz become like family. Who givez a fck how we talk? Its bout what we do that matterz.

Are any of you people capable of reading or writing proper English? Listen to yourselves..."u b killin an ha8tin 4 lyf yur on n8tv peepz fer nuthin..." No wonder so many people are committing suicide. Out here in the real world one must cope with a variety of problems and issues. That means LEARN TO READ AND WRITE!

"Well if they want to do some good they should clean up the garbage in their front yards first."

-Ray LittleWeasle

"no wonder so many people are committing suicide.."

How can you even say something like that...there is no reason to committ suicide. Here on the Rosebud Reservation we now have the highest suicide rate. Do you know why we our on Reservations...because certain ASSHOLES..decided that we weren't fit to make it out in your "REAL WORLD." And you know...we do cope with a variety of problems...but how are we supposed to cope with something that is constantly happening. Learning to read and write has nothing to do with whats going on...Until you've lived the life you'll never know...its easy to sit there and judge other people when you yourself has never struggled. I've lost my mom to a car accident, 6 friends, 4 cousins, and an uncle to suicide. Im only 17. But HEY... I can read and write...and guess what, I've attempted to kill myself twice...but i thought about it and realized I only get one chance to live. One chance to do everything I've ever wanted to do, go anywhere I've wanted to go. I have a little brother. He was six months old when my mom died, I was 2. When I wanted to end my life...i thought about the impact it would have on him. How he would react to it...how would you? He lost the woman who gave him life...and the only other part of her that he had left was about to leave him too. If I had gone through with it...my family would have lost him also. I couldn't bare the thought of hurting him...after we've both been through so much together, if it had happened...all of our pain and suffering would have been for nothing. They say the more you suffer...the stronger it makes you. For some its just too hard, they give up hope. One suicide can lead to three others. Since where we live (Mission,SD) is so small...everyone knows pretty much everyone, so when one person is lost...the whole lot is affected. In my high school years so far...there has been at least one suicide every school year, even one is too many. There are so many problems that we as teens on the reservation are faced with EVERYDAY, so don't think that your the only one who can cope with your problems, we're people too, we're just stereotyped as less. So before you try to determine why so many people are committing suicide here... try taking a walk in our shoes, see how well you COPE....Since you can "read and write in proper English."

Suicide is permanent solution to a temporary problem...that just isn't worth it.