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Muckleshoot High School Gets Jump on Financial Literacy Month

Although April is officially designated “National Financial Literacy Month,” many tribes have already started hosting financial education and money management workshops for their youth. Most recently, faculty members at Muckleshoot Tribal High School, in partnership with theOffice of the Special Trustee for American Indians (OST), organized two back-to-back financial education workshops for 30 of juniors and seniors.

Most of the students were Muckleshoot tribal members and beneficiaries of the tribe’s minors’ trusts. Tribal members are required to complete a senior portfolio of various projects and activities. They are required to complete 15 activities, including two that focus on savings/investment and budgeting.

First Nations’ financial education consultant Shawn Spruce led two workshops in February that helped students meet these requirements. The firstit?" "It was the same fella who threw the pipe bomb." "What happened to Git?" "I wasn't there when it happened." "What happened?" "There was a fight and I'd gone home and they rang me." "He'd gone looking for me in a bar we have and.." "This is what I was told." "He was.." "He was in a situation." "He was in a situation where he was out the back raping a young one and this is what was said." "She says it happened and there was a scrap with two of the lads." "One of them broke his neck." "Who was that?" "The same head banger who did the pipe bomb." "And killed Paddy?" "Yeah." "Who is he?" "You met him when you were down." "He was.."