{"id":73854,"date":"2024-01-18T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2024\/01\/18\/julian-shields-jr-20240117-0436-021863\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:42:09","modified_gmt":"2027-03-02T15:42:09","slug":"julian-shields-jr-20240117-0436-021863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2024\/01\/18\/julian-shields-jr-20240117-0436-021863\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Julian Shields Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Julian K. \u201cSonny Boy\u201d Shields Jr., 73, of Wolf Point died Jan. 2, 2024, at Trinity Hospital in Wolf Point.<br \/>\n\t  A member of the Fort Peck Tribe, he was born in Poplar on Aug. 4, 1950, to Viola Red Elk and Julian Shields Sr.<br \/>\n\t  Among his achievements were earning a bachelor\u2019s degree in social work from Montana State University in Billings and his master\u2019s degree  in social work from the University of Washington in Seattle, Wash.<br \/>\n\t  He worked in Indian Country  in a variety of capacities  from Portland, Ore., to Gallup, N.M., including the Indian Health Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the social work field. He returned home to serve his community at Health Promotion  Disease Prevention and as the Tribal Health Director for Fort Peck until 2023.<br \/>\n\t  He had many interests, including  gambling, dancing, reading, playing pool, watching  crime documentaries, car, cooking, comedy, home repair shows, traveling, providing  mentorship and those who knew him well enjoyed <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74038,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73854\/revisions\/74038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73854"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=73854"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=73854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}