' We need help'
Forgotten People of Black Falls in dire straits

Forgotten People president Don Yellowman (right) addresses members while fellow consultant Marsha Monestersky walks around the room handing informational documents on March 6 in a member's Black Falls home. — © 2010 Gallup Independent / Diego James Robles

By Dalina Castellanos
Special to the Independent 

LEUPP — The smell of homemade fry bread wafted through the one-room house in Black Falls as dozens of people sat in mismatched chairs on a dirt floor. Many who stood and spoke needed a translator to get their point across, but all of them stood for the same thing: We need help.

Some people living in the western agency don’t have electricity or clean water to drink. Living decades in the former Bennett Freeze area, their remotely located homes lack many commodities others take for granted, but that is slowly changing.

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