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Health officials fear pandemic-related suicide spike among native youth

by Sara Reardon of Kaiser Health News
| December 30, 2020 8:40 AM

WOLF POINT — Fallen pine cones covered 16-year-old Leslie Keiser’s fresh grave at the edge of Wolf Point, a small community on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation on the eastern Montana plains.

Leslie, whose father is a member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, is one of at least two teenagers on the reservation who died by suicide this summer...

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