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Youth program on Pine Ridge Reservation suffers setback
Monday, December 7, 2020
Indianz.Com
The Grinch came early this year, ransacking a popular youth program on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation and leaving some in the tribal community wondering who could be so heartless.
Last Wednesday night, a burglar broke down a door to the Bear Program, a youth and suicide nonprofit that operates in Billy Mills Hall, a community center in Pine Ridge.
The thief stole three guitars, four computers, shoes, four animal hides used to make drums, sketch pads, colored markers, paints, two gaming systems and wrapped presents that the program’s organizers planned to give to children at Christmas.
Yvonne “Tiny” DeCory, director of the Bear Program, said a witness who found the man inside the program’s offices told DeCory that it was a man who had visited the Bear Program a few months earlier.
DeCory said she and others helped provide the man with shoes because his were too small and were causing blisters to his feet.
“We put shoes on his feet,” she said. “We gave him clothing. We gave him a jacket, and we gave him gloves.”




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