.... If so, what is your affiliation? Choctaw. Cherokee. Lakota. Your "family ties" are in what areas? Mostly Oklahoma, Mississippi, and South Dakota (Pine Ridge). Did you grow up on a reservation, homestead, etc.? Nope, a small city in Wisconsin. Do you practice a form or forms of your native culture? A...

woot woot, vaginas and stuff

... "Crooked Braid." It's pretty intense. Sad. I like it a lot. It's based on interviews by Eve Ensler with women from the Oglala Lakota Nation on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Here, have a look: 1 He wanted to go out. He said to me-"You stay home" I said "I wanted to go out" He said "...

18th Annual Native American Culture Day

... human rights. (As an aside, today, November 1, Raquel Rolnik, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, is scheduled to visit the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where the housing is said to be in a deplorable state.) Special guests include Tony Gonzales of the American Indian Movement (AIM-West...

Oh, Tuesdays.

7am: Awake and Caffeinated. Reading a paper on Decolonization of Indigenous Archaeologies. 9am: Totally distracted by fascinating photo essay on the Pine Ridge Reservation in North Dakota. Clicking on blog links of commentators. 10am: Reading blogs about Wasilla, Alaska. Cooing over pictures of cute dogs....

The Homeless, Shame and the Government

... foreclosed properties. She also visited a Native American reservation. The US government does not tally the numbers ...in all the places she visited, the worst was on the Native American reservation of Pine Ridge in South Dakota. "You see total hopelessness, despair, very bad conditions. Nothing I... to the physical condition of the housing at Pine Ridge. Nothing compared to the overcrowding. They're...

"I want to find the light in this darkness."

... Wounded By James Estrin October 20, 2009 Aaron Huey arrived on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota at the start ... America. The poverty he found on the reservation stopped him cold. “It was emotionally devastating,”... of his nationwide project to focus on Pine Ridge. Five years later, he’s still photographing on the reservation, which includes the Wounded Knee massacre site...

Behind the Scenes: Still Wounded

...Anyone Lakota here? Anyone have any insight? Agree/Disagree? " Aaron Huey arrived on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota at the start of a ... in America. The poverty he found on the reservation stopped him cold. “It was emotionally devastating,” Mr. ... — Mr. Huey abandoned the rest of his nationwide project to focus on Pine Ridge. As for the problem and what people need ...

Free and cheap events Oct 9th to 12th

... 433 S. Main Street $3-5 donation requested Robert Redford narrates this documentary about the violent events that took place in 1975 on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Indian activists ended up in an extended standoff with FBI agents, and the result was several deaths, including two FBI agents...

History - Rebellion at Wounded Knee

During the early 1970s life on Native American reservations was difficult, poor and often violent. The Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota was one of the worst examples of this life and one of ... outside cattle concerns. Full-blood Lakotas were increasingly marginalized on the reservation and as tension grew an investigation was instigated to examine Wilson'...

In Remembrance

... so here's a toast to all the folks who live in palestine afghanistan iraq el salvador here's a toast to the folks living on the pine ridge reservation under the stone cold gaze of mt. rushmore here's a toast to all those nurses and doctors who daily provide women with a choice who stand ...