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The third Dakota Roundtable was held in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on April 12-13, 1996. This Roundtable provided a forum for a group of sixteen young Native American women, ages 12-19, who usually do not have opportunities to present their issues and concerns as young women. The tribal membership of the young women participants includes the following: Crow Creek, Lower Brule, Rosebud, Santee, Sisseton Wahpeton, and Yankton.
The sixteen participants of this Dakota Roundtable are representative of many of the several thousand young Native American women who live in the rural and urban communities of the Aberdeen Area, and their stories and experiences are critical to- understanding the depth of the personal, familial and societal problems that they face. As young women, they encounter numerous challenges as students and teen mothers, often providing for their children as single parents. Some of them have become foster children due to family domestic violence and have had, to reconcile with separation from their immediate and extended families or Tribe.
Preparations for the Roundtable were carefully done to safeguard the participants--that they would ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Introduction.