ABSTRACT
Tyler Parisien is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa with his hometown region being within the beautiful Turtle Mountains in North Dakota. He has a BS in Clinical Laboratory Science from the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, where he is also fi nishing up his last year of graduate school and will have his Master of Science in Medical Laboratory Science in May 2014. He grew up with two younger brothers and younger sister in an extremely tight-knit family environment. He enjoys anything and everything outdoors, including golf, fi shing, and
hunting. He loves being around his family and friends, and he is most happy when these people are surrounding him .
