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Our Teens Need More Things to Do with Dusty Olson

Explore Our Teens Need More Things to Do with Dusty Olson with available transcripts, learning questions and source alignments in the South Dakota and North Dakota Elder

Interview · North Dakota · Dusty Olson · NDNAEU 7

Themes: Children & young people

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Learn About questions

What are the options for young people to do in reservation communities? How does a lack of opportunities for teens impact them? What might be options that could be started?

Learn From questions

What did I like to do as a child?  A teen?  A young adult? Did I have opportunities to do the things I enjoyed?  Why or why not? How have the opportunities I had or didn’t have impact me as I grew up?

Transcripts

06 Dusty Olson Our Teens Need More Things to Do

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Well there’s a lot there actually our reservation doesn’t have enough they don’t have well we’ve always said we’ve always mentioned that there’s not enough for the teenagers to do yeah there’s gym and stuff but you know it’s not everybody goes to a gym you do have boys and girls clubs all over the reservation but I don’t think the teams when I hang out with a little while they’re fourth graders difficulties but a lot of more teen centers need to open maybe a Big Brothers Big Sisters I can go on and on there just needs to be a lot more outlets for our teenagers to do because the pressures that are on the reservation we’ve actually have you know I think we’re trying to build a Teen Center talked about it mmm just to have a place for them to go it’s obsolete in the 80s where they had arcades and stuff you know technologies took over so a lot of our kids

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