Shaloe Red Eagle, a 17-year-old from the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota, has spent the last month at an alcohol treatment center in South Dakota.

Red Eagle had her first drink when she was 12. She soon found herself getting drunk every day.

"It got to the point when I would steal cars, I stole my sister's car and that's when I realized I need to come back to a place like this," she told KELO-TV.

Red Eagle has been living at the Keystone Treatment Center. She will leave at the end of the month and is worried about going back to the reservation.

"There's lots of violence where I live," she says.

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