Community in Pain Teenagers Ariel Farmer (left), Kyla Sharp Butte, and Will Sharp Butte relax at a gas station on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. This photo appeared in a 2007 New York Times article about the shocking rates of suicide among reservation youth (Nieves, 2007, June 9). Suicides, homicides, and alcohol-related accidents continue to be a major problem on Rosebud, where the average male life expectancy is just 47 years (White, 2013, April 22).