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Written by: BLAIR EMERSON, Bismarck Tribune

Parent Category: Life

Published: 27 July 2017

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Stephanie Munro took a huge leap when she decided to leave the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana and enroll at United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck.

She had many questions about how this could work for her, a 41-year-old mother returning to school. One of her biggest hang-ups was how she could live on campus and receive insulin medication for her diabetes and other counseling services she received back home at an Indian Health Service facility.

"I just thought, I'm in Browning (Montana), I have all the resources here," she told the Bismarck Tribune. "Just one of my medications is $591, and that's a two-week supply. That's why (I wondered), could I even stay here? Could I even go to school?"

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