«The Realities of Life on the Pine Ridge Reservation». Re-Member : Volunteer Organization on Pine Ridge Reservation (på engelsk). Besøkt 16. september 2021. «The officially reported average life expectancy on Pine Ridge is 67 years, the lowest in the United States. Other statistics, attributed to the Pine Ridge hospital, cite an average life expectancy for men of just 47 years. Women fare slightly better, with an average life expectancy of 55 years.»
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«This Map Shows The Deadliest Counties in America». Time Magazine (på engelsk). 25. mars 2015. Besøkt 16. september 2021. «Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, is the deadliest county in America, at least by one measure: it is the place where residents are most likely to die before the age of 75, which health experts consider premature death. | The new edition of County Health Rankings from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, places the county — which until very recently was called Shannon County — at the bottom of the class in the number of people who died before age 75, a common measure of public health. | Oglala Lakota County sits inside the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, whose residents suffer from a number of well-documented health problems. While South Dakota has a number of counties with high rates of premature deaths, the unhealthiest region in the U.S. is arguably the heart of Appalachia, from eastern Kentucky into southwest Virginia and southern West Virginia. Many of the counties have rates of smoking and obesity north of 30% of the population.»
