Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe to deliver gifts to Native children in South Dakota

All he wanted was a good pair of shoes for Christmas. He knew if he had a good pair of shoes he would be able to get to where he wanted to go. "He was 17 or 18, and asked for Nike Air Jordan's. He was very specific. That's all he put on his list," Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribal Council Treasurer Louanna Bruner said of a Native boarding student at the Marty Indian School on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. "He was supposed to graduate the previous year but his grandmother died," she said. The teen was now responsible for his three younger siblings who were allowed to move into his dormitory at the school. "His grandma told him 'as long as you have a good pair of shoes, you will get to where you are going,'" Bruner said. The shoes were expensive, but he did get them last year for Christmas. He graduated in June.

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