Flint Tall enrolled at the Chemawa Indian School,one of only four Native American boarding schools the federal government still runs, in 2010. After a kind of weird misunderstanding, and he was kicked out soon after. After returning home to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota,he was killed in a drunk driving incident. Tall's mother says he wouldn't absorb gotten mixed up with alcohol if he was still in school. In the first of a series of stories approximately Chemawa students, OPB's Rob Manning - with assistance from reporter Tony Schick - brings you Tall's story.
Source: thetakeaway.org