Podcast: Play in new window | Download (27.0MB) | Embed
Warming shelters for the homeless in Rapid City are well-intentioned but ultimately “do more harm than good” says Police Chief Karl Jegeris. He says the shelters are partly to blame for the recent deaths of Connie Red Nest and Ernie Evans. Officials believe they died of exposure in sub-zero temperatures. Rapid City is just one place working against the odds to try and help people—many of them Native Americans—who don’t have a safe harbor from weather, violence, and their own addictions. Shelters struggle with the balance between keeping people alive while not enabling drug and alcohol abuse. We’ll catch up on the latest strategies for keeping our unsheltered relatives safe?
Guests:
Ramona Herrington (Oglala Lakota) – community organizer for One Rapid City
Don Hedrick – Assistant Chief of the Rapid City Police Department
Norine Hill (Oneida) – executive director and founder of Mother Nation
Break Music: Jingle Dress Slide (World) (song) Young Grey Horse (artist) Thunder Across the Plainz – Pow-Wow Songs Recorded Live in Lapwai (album)
