His professional career began with theBureauofIndianAffairs in Browning, Montana as a Soil Conservationist working with Indian livestock producers on the Blackfeet Reservation.
An additional 8, 500 employees ofthe U.S. Geological Survey and 4, 100 employees oftheBureauofIndianAffairs also face furloughs, although they have not yet begun.
Teenagers in the village must either go to one oftheBureauofIndianAffairs boarding schools (the nearest are in Oregon and southern California), or move in with family members in a larger city and go to public schools.