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Correction: American Indian Teens Don't Get $50K When They Turn 18

Posted by Iowa Civil Rights Commission on January 15, 2010 at 2:32 PM Comments comments (0)

Earlier this week, DiversityInc received complaints from some American Indian readers because of our video interview with Margot Copeland, executive vice president and director, Corporate Diversity and Philanthropy at KeyBank, No. 50 on The 2009 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity® list. In the video, discussing the bank’s efforts at financial literacy for traditionally underrepresented communities, she stated: "We have initiatives around the Native American community. Many...

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Gang Violence Grows on an Indian Reservation

Posted by Iowa Civil Rights Commission on December 13, 2009 at 7:39 PM Comments comments (0)

PINE RIDGE, S.D. — Richard Wilson has been a pallbearer for at least five of his “homeboys” in the North Side Tre Tre Gangster Crips, a Sioux imitation of a notorious Denver gang. One 15-year-old member was mauled by rivals. A 17-year-old shot himself; another, on a cocaine binge and firing wildly, was shot by the police. One died in a drunken car wreck, and another, a founder of the gang named Gaylord, was stabbed to death at 27.

 

“We all got drunk ...

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