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2
Aug

Oglala Sioux tribe gets new ‘one-stop shopping’ justice facility

   Posted by: admin    in Law and Order, Oglala Lakota, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs is funding a badly needed new justice facility – jail, courtroom, administrative offices, an electronic record-keeping system, the works – for the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Roxanne Two Bulls, the tribe’s grants and contracts manager, tells the Journal’s Holly Meyer that the Rapid City Journal that the $42 million facility is “kind of like a one-stop shopping place.”

The funding was secured with the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, something Two Bulls termed “quite the victory.”

“It develops base criteria and a design handbook for justice facilities in Indian Country,” she says. “This one is creating those documents for future detention facilities, justice facility.”

The tribe’s eventual plans include a new communications tower and staff quarters for law enforcement near five schools: Loneman School in Oglala, Porcupine School in Porcupine, Little Wound school in Kyle, Crazy Horse School in Wanblee and American Horse School in Allen.

Gwen Florio

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12
Dec

Space heaters just aren’t cutting it: Pine Ridge Reservation students look forward to new school – with heat!

   Posted by: admin    in Education, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

Wahpetowin Tobacco, left, and first grade classmate Lakeisha Two Lance walk through the hall during classes at Loneman School on the Pine Ridge Reservation this week. (Kristina Barker/Rapid City Journal)

Wahpetowin Tobacco, left, and first grade classmate Lakeisha Two Lance walk through the hall during classes at Loneman School this week. (Kristina Barker/Rapid City Journal)


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Heat. That would be high on the list for what students at the Loneman School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota would like in a new school building.

This week, as temperatures in South Dakota plunged below zero the kindergarten class had to meet in the library because even space heaters couldn’t keep their classroom warm, teacher Sheryl Starr tells Kayla Gahagan of the Rapid City Journal, here.

They’ve got a little while to wait before getting their wish. A $13.6 million Bureau of Indian Affairs grant will pay for a new school, slated to be completed sometime in 2011. And yes, the new building will have central heat that actually works, says principal Deborah Bordeaux.

The current school is 60 years old and includes several portable classrooms.

“We’ve had this building forever, it seems,” says librarian Darlene Bettelyoun. “It will be nice to have something nice and clean and something everybody can be proud of.”

Gwen Florio

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