Tribe seeks child services solution

Spirit Lake officials met here Monday with a “strike team” of U.S. Interior Department officials, hoping to reassure the director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and others that they are making progress on improving the tribe’s embattled social services department. Tribal chairman Roger Yankton said that he and other tribal leaders “are reassuring them that we’re working on this.”

By: By Chuck Haga , Forum Communications, The Jamestown Sun