He spent four years working at the Mexican facilities until he had the opportunity to return home to work for the Fort Peck Tribes as the director of the Fort Peck Planning District in 1974. He advanced within the company and became their operations manager for a plant opened in Mexicali, Mexico, to manufacture and assemble electronic components for the space industry. His employment field was within Vanguard Electronics, a major aerospace firm. They married in Compton, Calif., at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church on Nov. During this time, he met Yvonne LaRoque while she was employed at the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Navy and spent seven years serving our country aboard an aircraft carrier, destroyer and finally with the SeaBees, a mobile construction battalion.Īfter military service, he attended Western States College of Engineering in Los Angeles, Calif., majoring in electronic engineering. Right after graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. He spent his first two years of high school at Flandreau Indian Vocational High School in South Dakota and finished his last two years of high school in Poplar, graduating in 1956. From there, he went to Pierre Indian School in South Dakota from fifth through eighth grade. He then attended a few years of grade school in Poplar and one year at the Old Day School in Fort Kipp. In the early years, he went to school in Seattle, Wash., and Portland, Ore. He grew up on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation and in several West Coast cities where his parents worked in the shipyards during World War II. and Frances Smith in Poplar at the old hospital building. He was born April 15, 1938, to Fred Shields Sr. Caleb Shields, Wambdi Wahachanka, Eagle Shield, 83, died Jan.
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