Patrick Cronin, Portsmouth Herald
HAMPTON — A group of young Native Americans will be coming to Hampton Beach for the first time this summer to work as part of a new pilot program in the tourist community.
John Nyhan, president of the Hampton Area Chamber of Commerce, said they plan to host a dozen 18- to 25-year-old Oglala Lakota tribe members from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, starting in May.
This will be in addition to the roughly 250 to 300 foreign students expected to arrive this summer to work in the beach’s shops, hotels, restaurants and state parks.
“This is a win-win,” Nyhan said. “These young Native Americans (from the Lakota tribe) will get to see a part of the country they’ve never seen before, and workers will get the help they need.”
