Personal Narrative: I Am Apart Of The Crow Tribe

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I am a 15 year old Native American woman and I am apart of the Crow Tribe. I live in Lodge Grass, Montana on the Crow reservation as young as I am I know my Tribe needs help my goal to help my Tribe is to go to Navajo Prep and receive my education there as it gets me ready for college I plan to go to pre med school and become a doctor specifically a surgeon because here at our local hospital in Crow Agency we have no high end doctors which makes it hard for us by travel we have to go to Billings to receive help instead of getting the proper care easily at Crow.
My hope is to become an example for my family and for the younger generation by exceling in my schooling and getting all my degrees like my mother who I look up to she has all of her

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