The semi-arid plains of the Pine Ridge reservation are dotted with hundreds of mobile homes and meager shacks, housing the Oglala Lakota nation — a population who have long been engaged in a fight …
Abigail Echo-Hawk stnads next to a powerful statement of resilience and protest- a dress she crafted from body bags mistakenly sent to the Seattle Indian Health Board in place of PPE during the 2020 pandemic. The semi-arid plains of the Pine Ridge reservation are dotted with hundreds of mobile homes and meager shacks, housing the Oglala Lakota nation — a population who have long been engaged in a fight for running water, electricity, sewage systems and adequate housing.
Many inhabitants of the Pine Ridge reservation feel abandoned by mainstream society and withdrawn from the public consciousness. . This dark era of American history, the facts of which are still being uncovered, has contributed to the profound intergenerational trauma and social stagnation on reservations.and dread the arrival of the weekend on account of the neglect they face at home and the alcoholism which remains rampant in reservation households, impacting up to.
Devoid of supportive institutions and economic opportunity, impoverished reservations have served as the backdrop for the proliferation of alcohol and substance abuse. in from local towns.
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