"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.

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.

Meilani is active in the sport of Rodeo and competes in the Ladies Barrel Racing. She has purchased six pairs of cattle, making her a fifth generation cattle rancher. Meilani obtained her youth loan, along with her sisters, Caryna age fifteen and Brittany age thirteen. All three loans were approved at the same time at the Bennett County FSA office in Martin, South Dakota. With the help of their father and little brother the girls are off to a very good start in the cattle business. The girls also took the Beef Basic Course from the Oglala Community College in Kyle, South Dakota.

Bill is proud of his daughters and is glad that they are following in his footsteps. The girl’s great grandmother has taken her land out of a BIA unit and plans to lease the land to them for $100 dollars a piece per year. Mr. Pourier has plans to apply for an FSA loan making it a FAMILY AFFAIR. The Pourier family heard about the FSA Indian Credit Outreach program from a friend and attended a meeting that Marlene Whipple held at the Lakota Fund in Kyle, South Dakota.