Pine Ridge, South Dakota
Coordinates: 43 ° 1 ′ 32 " N , 102 ° 33 ′ 23" W.
Pine Ridge ( Lakota : wazíbló) is a settlement in Oglala Lakota County in the US state of South Dakota . Pine Ridge is not a community in the sense of US law, but a census-designated place . Pine Ridge is the seat of the administration of the Indian reservation of the same name .
Pine Ridge had 3,308 permanent residents according to a 2010 census.
The settlement borders Whiteclay , Nebraska , to the south . Pine Ridge was named after the pine trees that grow on the slopes in the area. The settlement was founded as a base for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and was therefore originally called the Pine Ridge Agency. Pine Ridge is in the area of Wounded Knee , the site of the 1890 massacre of Native Americans of the same name. The name is a symbol of the oppression of the indigenous population by white settlers. Pine Ridge is predominantly (94%) inhabited by Oglala -Lakota- Sioux- Indians. The settlement is the seat of the Red Cloud Indian School founded by Catholic Jesuits in 1888 , which was called Holy Rosary Mission until 1969. Pine Ridge also has a public school. Pine Ridge continues to be a BIA location. Russell Means , the well-known actor, activist, and leader of the American Indian Movement , was from the Pine Ridge area.
See also
Web links
- Welcome to the Pine Ridge School, Home of the Thorpes! (English)
- Red Cloud Schoole (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Jan F. Ullrich: New Lakota Dictionary , 2nd. Edition, Lakota Language Consortium, Bloomington, IN 2014, ISBN 978-0-9761082-9-0 . Archived from the original on October 18, 2016 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed May 22, 2016).
- ↑ In 1969, Holy Rosary Mission was officially renamed Red Cloud Indian School, both as a token of respect for the man whose work had made it possible to found the school and as part of a program of re-identification meant to demonstrate to the world that Red Cloud was not meant to be an organization of cultural imperialism, but rather the product of a lasting bond between groups of two separate cultures who wanted to enhance the best parts of both worlds to serve the people of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
- ↑ The Pine Ridge School includes the High School as well as the K-8 School located on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bureau of Indian Affairs Highway 18, Main St., Bldg. 159 Pine Ridge, South Dakota 57770 ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
