PINE RIDGE SIOUX

These girls are on the Student Council in Red Cloud High School which is on the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.
They live in the POOREST COUNTY in the USA.
Highest suicide rate and highest alcoholism rate in the USA .
But look at the smiles on their faces. With the hope of the future.

I was searching in the Yahoo search box for Native American Blogs...and there were
several links that didn't really work...but I persevered .
Don't know how , exactly I came across this blog...but I found one for
PINE RIDGE REFLECTIONS...and I can access that blog right from here.
What a nice surprise for me.

To be able to read what some of the employees and volunteers on the rez have to say.....heartwarming things going on......reaching out to people in need.
Reaching out to forgotten Americans...the First Americans.

Here is a small piece from an activity director's goodbye after working with
the Sioux ( High School ) on Pine Ridge for 2 years.

>>Ah, to be entering another temporary world- I look forward to life at Princeton, I really do, but I know I will miss everything about this place and these people. My heart was reborn here, in a sense, and I'm leaving bits of my heart all over the place here! So, here's to anyone from my life at Pine Ridge who might be reading this- I will always love you, and I will always cherish the bits of my heart which I now leave behind.>>

http://pineridgereflections.blogspot.com/2009/05/saying-goodbye.html