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Woman hopes to bring nursing career home to Crow Indian Reservation

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Woman hopes to bring nursing career home to Crow Indian Reservation
Woman hopes to bring nursing career home to Crow Indian Reservation

She’s from the Crow Indian Reservation and she is determined to take what she’s learning at MSU home to make a difference for her people.

Cheyenne Wightman is dediccaring for others as a stuvery clear about her goalsand take the skills.

She'sher family and loved oneswith nursing.

I think it'sif I can help somebody, yobetter, like why wouldn'twhite man describes why shpeople on the Crow reservanurses are in high demandthe skills she's learningno place she'd rather be.to my people and I've beenyou know, I visited Washineven and I just I really lI just feel like a reallySo I think I would ratherserve my people.

This is hgrandmother, Rosie Doyle,woman who spent 46 years afor native american famililater out and about and ruor shopping and she'll seecome up to her and they'llyou gave me my shot now onbozeman.

Cheyenne is a lonshe says knowing she's makand parents proud, keeps hsays her busy schedule keetoo homesick besides her nactive in many organizatioserves as co president ofcouncil, I love being busyinvolved through the ameriShe works to connect studeher heritage and customs.that poverty is shift botha viscous ended.

That is tshe proudly spoke some oflanguage she learned fromsays she hopes to learn moimportant.

It makes you feand it's just it's so beauit makes you feel cool.

LiI was like I'm so proud, IShe says most of her peersbut there are some myths aamericans.

She's had to sehad someone in my class whthat native americans or aShe hopes to show others hand she says most are eagestereotypical old stereotynew world stereotypes likeare just drunks and like syou know, it's like a lotbreak, you know, a stereotmaybe this stereotype hasthe whole time and they doit.

She feels msu's editioHall is a great way for peof true native american hiIt just makes me, I feel llike I have a place here,and culture.

It's like somof unify us.

Lots of peopllike a separator, like, ohto share with people.

Now.even more from Cheyenne whher to the Crow Reservatiomeet her grandma, rosie anand father.

Is it to Ameriwant to miss in bozeman, h

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