Choosing life: Native American youth face higher suicide risk

Like most young people, Coloradas Mangas wonders about his future.

He imagines working as a museum curator or as a park ranger at someplace like Yellowstone National Park. Even better, he'd prefer to stay close to home on the Mescalero Apache Reservation and work at the nearby Guadalupe Mountains National Park.

It is autumn 2014. The late afternoon sun sets a grid of light on Mangas' face. With rectangular glasses and long black hair brushed out down his back, Mangas taps slim fingers against the surface of his desk, politely resigned to be talking with a reporter.

And so he begins a story about survival.

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