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New business in Browning connects unemployed with jobs – Nin-Nah-Too-Sii

A new Browning business is hard at work finding work for those out of work, which in this Indian reservation town includes a very large majority.

"As you know," said Anna Bull Shoe, "employment on the reservation is pretty low."

Low, as in unemployment pushing 80 percent in the winter. Summer firefighting jobs might prop up the economy to a mere
55 percent unemployment, she said, but "the year-round average is still about 70 percent."

Those are crippling numbers, Bull Shoe said; unimaginable, really, affecting each and every family on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.

Bull Shoe’s new business, Nin-Nah-Too-Sii, hopes to rekindle the reservation job market by matching government contracts with skilled workers, and then using those skilled workers to train more still.

By MICHAEL JAMISON of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2005/06/20/news/mtregional/news04.txt

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