Along the way, she got pay raises and benefits, which helped when her husband couldn't find work and ended up as a stay-at-home dad - that is, until this past fall, when he passed away.īURNING BREAST: He was, like, kidney failure and liver failure.ĮDWARDS: Burning Breast says she's been taking her husband's death pretty hard. And then, after the casino opened, she moved into the finance office. It was just a bingo hall.ĭELINDA BURNING BREAST: I was just a regular floor worker, just like when they sell sheets and stuff for bingo.ĮDWARDS: But it didn't take long before she moved up to floor supervisor. MELODIE EDWARDS, BYLINE: When Delinda Burning Breast started with the Wind River Casino 10 years ago, it wasn't even a casino. ![]() Wyoming Public Radio's Melodie Edwards brings us the story of one casino on the Wind River Indian Reservation, where the female workforce is almost 60 percent. But even so, Native American women are getting higher educational degrees and better paying jobs than ever before. One in four Native Americans lives below the poverty line. ![]() We just talked about how more women than ever becoming the breadwinners in their families.
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