"mAKING A DIFFERENCE IN INDIAN COUNTRY. ONE NATIVE YOUTH AT A TIME"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meilani Pourier is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, is nineteen years of age and is from Porcupine, South Dakota on the Oglala Sioux Indian Reservation. Meilani is a graduate of the Red Cloud Indian School and is presently enrolled as a sophomore at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska with a Physical Therapy Major.

Brittany Pourier was born and raised on the Oglala Sioux Indian Reservation. Brittany resides in Porcupine, a small community in the heart of the Oglala Reservation. Brittany’s an accomplished barrel racer and is active in youth rodeos and is on the volleyball team at the “Lady of Lourdes School.

Her main interest is in taking care of her small angus cattle herd that she has purchased with the help of the Farm Service Agency Youth Loan program and the FSA American Indian Credit Outreach program. Brittany was eleven years old when she first started working on her loan application. During that time, she Attended the Beef Basic Training Program at the Oglala Community College in Kyle, South Dakota. With the help of her father Bob, Brittany is of to a good start in the cattle business.