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	Pine Ridge Indian Reservation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is an Oglala Sioux Native American reservation located in the U.S. state of South Dakota.
		Pine Ridge was established in the southwest corner of South Dakota on the Nebraska border and consists of approximately 2.7 million acres (11,000 km²), roughly the size of Connecticut.
		Pine Ridge Reservation was originally part of the Great Sioux Reservation established in the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 and originally encompassed approximately 60 million acres (240,000 km²) of parts of South Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pine_Ridge_Indian_Reservation (878 words)

	Pine Ridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The second-largest Indian reservation in the United States, Pine Ridge was created by Congress in 1889.
		Indians are eligible for financial assistance provided by the federal government, the same assistance provided to all Americans, such as TANF, SSI, Food Stamps, and farm subsidies.
		What they do have is knowledge of reservation life, of living with a disability, and of surviving the bureaucracy of the white man. However, according to federal regulations, these real experiences do not qualify them as VR counselors.
	members.tripod.com /dljmlight/DL/PineRidge.htm (2012 words)

	Village Earth: The Consortium for Sustainable Village-Based Development
		Home of the Oglala Lakota Nation, the Pine Ridge Reservation was established during the 1876 Fort Laramie Treaty and encompasses a territory of approximately 2 million acres of the Northern Great Plains grasslands in southwest South Dakota.
		The Pine Ridge Reservation, with an average life expectancy of 55 is the lowest of anywhere in the western hemisphere outside of Haiti.
		Nearly 50% of the adult population on the Pine Ridge Reservation has diabetes and it is estimated that nearly 80% of diseases on the reservation are preventable.
	www.villageearth.org /pages/Projects/Pine_Ridge/index.php (1398 words)

	Constitution and By-Laws of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Pine Ridge, South Dakota
		The jurisdiction of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of Indians shall extend to the territory within the original confines of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation boundaries, as defined hereafter added thereto under any law of the United Sated except as may be otherwise provided by law for unrestricted lands.
		Tribal lands – The unallotted lands of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and all lands which may hereafter be acquired by the Oglala Sioux Tribe or by the United States in trust for the Oglala Sioux Tribe, shall be held as tribal lands, and no part of such land shall be mortgaged or sold.
		Upon the deaths of any Indian holding a standard assignment, his heirs or other individuals designated by his, by will, or written request, shall have a preference in the reassignment of the land, provided such persons are members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe who would be eligible to receive a standard assignment.
	www.narf.org /nill/Constitutions/oglalaconst/oglalasiouxconst.htm (3870 words)

	Indian Poverty 1
		And Indians are far more liable to succumb to diseases associated with the poor -- four times as likely to die of alcoholism, three times as likely to die of tuberculosis, nearly twice as likely to die of diabetes.
		Campbell, a Colorado Republican, is the one Indian in Congress.
		The tent is overflowing with Indians, many of them wearing T-shirts bearing a map of the original Great Sioux Reservation and the slogan "The 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty: It's the Law." As is the custom at Indian gatherings, anyone can get up and speak about any subject for as long as he or she wants.
	emayzine.com /lectures/indian.htm (3046 words)

	Transportation Investments and Tourism Development at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation - FHWA
		Pine Ridge Reservation, situated in the southwestern region of South Dakota, is home to the Oglala Lakota/Sioux.
		The economic development projects in the reservation region that are currently at some stage of progress were assessed, with the objective of determining the focus of the economic benefits to be measured.
		Despite such on-reservation and nearby assets, tourism is limited at Pine Ridge, and the economic benefits to Pine Ridge from tourism are minimal.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /planning/econdev/pineridge.htm (3562 words)

	Telemedicine - Pine Ridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Signals were transmitted from a portable satellite dish located in Pine Ridge to the ACTS satellite and bounced to Mayo Clinic Scottsdale where the signal was turned around and sent over a T-1 land line to Mayo Clinic Rochester.
		The reactions of the participants were assessed with a structured questionnaire, and after the end of the transmission phase, all employees of the Pine Ridge Hospital, all community health representatives, and all Mayo Clinic participants were asked to complete a questionnaire.
		Pine Ridge clinicians changed their course of management in two-thirds of the cases presented - one-third of the changes were reported as "major"
	www.quasar.org /21698/nasa/pridge.html (798 words)

	Pine Ridge
		There was a deaf Indian named Black Coyote who did not want to give up his gun; he did not understand what they were giving up their arms for… The struggle for the gun was short, the muzzle pointed upward toward the east and the gun was discharged.
		Indian activist Russell Means, background center, sits in the cab of his vehicle which stalled on the Nebraska-South Dakota state line and stopped traffic across the road leading from Whiteclay into the Pine Ridge reservation, Wednesday, June 28, 2006, during a planned beer blockade protest announced by Indian activists.
		Pine Ridge has been deemed the poorest area in the U.S. It is a small way of encouraging the children to stay in school in an area that has a high drop out rate.
	pineridgemission.blogspot.com (10123 words)

	Leonard Peltier Case \| FBI Report \| Accounting For Native American Deaths, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota
		She died as a result of a two-car automobile accident four miles north of Scenic, South Dakota, in Pennington County, outside the exterior boundaries of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
		On 09/04/75, the Pine Ridge, South Dakota Police Department received a telephone call from an unknown female who reported a fight and stabbing at the Le Roy Apple residence in Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
		Pine Ridge Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) police officers found the victim, Howard Blue Bird, lying in the kitchen.
	www.freepeltier.org /fbi_pine_ridge_report.htm (5578 words)

	Pine Ridge Stronghold Occupation
		Pine Ridge Reservation is a potential source of zeolite, a mineral that government officials would like to see mined for use in plutonium waste repositories.
		Indians are concerned that zeolite mining would release erionite, a known human carcinogen, into the environment.
		The Indian Reorganization Act was implemented on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1934.
	www.alphacdc.com /treaty/pine_ridge.html (7536 words)

	Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
		I am profoundly honored to be in Pine Ridge and in the Lakota Nation.
		I had a little boy take me through every room in the home, tell me exactly where every closet was, tell me what his sister's room had that he didn't have, and why it was all right, because she was older and she needed such things.
		The fact that this reservation is a long way from an urban center would have been an absolute prohibitive barrier to a lot of economic development just 10 or 15 years ago.
	clinton4.nara.gov /WH/New/html/19990709.html (2483 words)

	Digital Scrapbook: Wounded Knee, South Dakota
		The southern half of the Badlands National Park is part of the Pine Ridge reservation The reservation is known to the Lakota who live there as the Oglala Nation.
		Literature we picked up in Pine Ridge indicates that the Lakota Sioux are not interested in the government's offer of money for their lands stolen from them in the Black Hills Act of 1877 when Congress took the Black Hills that they had given to the Indians in the Fort Laramie treaty of 1868.
		We drove through the town of Pine Ridge and stopped to take pictures of this sculpture at the high school.
	www.wmburgweb.com /DigitalScrapbooks/Travel98/PineRidge/pineridge.html (817 words)

	Remarks in a discussion at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota - Pres Bill Clinton speech - Transcript Weekly ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Pine Ridge is kind of like the capital of the reservation, if you will.
		And then homeownership - very little homeownership on the reservation - and homeownership, given the conversation we've had this past week is really the first access to capital strategy, when you think about it.
		It's been a - working with this reservation, now signing an agreement with one of our major lenders and with the tribe to cut through a lot of the legal problems that lending - when you've got trust lands involved.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2889/is_27_35/ai_55610025 (875 words)

	Clinton focuses on poorest of poor, American Indians - July 7, 1999
		An estimated 50 percent of American Indians are unemployed, and at Pine Ridge the problem is even more chronic -- 73 percent of the people do not have jobs.
		"Pine Ridge is simply the poorest census tract in the nation," said Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo, who visited the reservation in August 1998.
		Pine Ridge, which is not far from Mount Rushmore, is the second largest Indian reservation in the United States.
	www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/07/07/clinton.tour (830 words)

	Friends of Pine Ridge Reservation
		Friends of Pine Ridge Reservation is made up of individuals like you who are interested in supporting the many social service organizations located on Pine Ridge Reservation.
		Pine Ridge Reservation, located in South Dakota, is home to the Oglala Sioux Tribe and is 2,000,000 acres large with an estimated population of close to 40,000.
		The reservation is large, and its needs immense, so it would be impossible for us to help individuals or individual families and do so equitably.
	www.friendsofpineridgereservation.org (798 words)

	Pine Ridge NOTE Change of Address for sending supplies - formerly blankets for Pine R - Crochetville--A Crochet Forum ...
		This Spring I made a trip to the Pine Ridge Indian reservation) I worked for ten years in Haiti, and I had heard that conditions were as bad as in Haiti - but I thought no way - this is the United States.
		I was really torn by the babies, infants, with nothing but extra old newspapers sometimes to keep them warm, and the toddlers, no socks, or socks and shoes that had been passed down from 4 or 5 older siblings and had holes on the bottoms.
		Pine Ridge is in MY state, I've been there numerous times, and yes the conditions of both the people and the housing will bring tears to the hardest hearted person.
	www.crochetville.org /forum/showthread.php?t=8217 (963 words)

	Russell Means
		Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Pine Ridge, South Dakota
		Russell Means, an Oglala Lakota, served as the first national director of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and became one of the organization's best-known spokespeople.
		Means was one of the Indian activists who in 1969 occupied San Francisco's Alcatraz Island in a landmark AIM-led protest that lasted 19 months; in 1973, he helped lead the AIM takeover of Wounded Knee.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0885507.html (244 words)

	Industrial Hemp and Sovereignty
		LOUIS Members of a family say they were growing hemp, not marijuana, on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and asked federal appeals judges Monday to return the matter to a lower court to consider the legality of their crop.
		So it is, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, the home of the Oglala Lakota people and to some of the most daunting statistics of poverty in the country, including that dubious honor of being the single poorest county in the country, that a field of hemp grows under the South Dakota sun.
		Kentucky hemp growers supported the Pine Ridge Land Use Project members after their industrial hemp crop was destroyed and confiscated by federal officers of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
	www.twofrog.com /hemp.html (3777 words)

	Wakpamni B&B - Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of South Dakota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Wakpamni Bed & Breakfast is located on the Bar-O-Bar Farm on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, three miles east and one half mile south of the junction of highways 18 and 391, close to the Wakpamni Lake Community, an Oglala Lakota village.
		In the early days, intrepid explorers and fur traders fought the elements and engaged in bloody battles with the proud Sioux Indians, who defended their territory against the encroachment of the white man. Today, the vast Indian Reservation and the sprawling farms and ranches share the land.
		It's ancient sanddunes are stabilized by the tenacious roots of the prairie grass.
	www.rapidnet.com /~raleigh (435 words)

	Knitting for Pine Ridge Indian Reservation - Knitting for Rosebud Reservation
		The Rosebud and Pine Ridge Reservations in South Dakota have the lowest per capita incomes in the United States.
		An Indian Country Today article reported that 29% of the people on the Rosebud Reservation are homeless, and 59% live in housing that is substandard.
		Warm children's clothing is scarce, both because of expense and because the reservations are geographically isolated.
	www.warmwoolies.org /whowehelp.html (202 words)

	Hemp News - Hemp Controversy Growing On Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
		Hemp has grown wild for decades on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, despite the DEA's repeated attempts - spraying and dousing with chemicals, setting fields on fire - to wipe it out.
		The Land-Use Association, a group of tribal members in the small reservation town of Slim Buttes, wants to turn the tall hemp stalks into paper, mats, construction blocks for housing and other products.
		Milo Yellow Hair, the tribe's vice president, said the reservation has struggled with the issue for at least two years and finally decided to proceed with the hemp project after other economic-development initiatives failed.
	www.hemp.net /news/9808/980814sd.html (611 words)

	Pine Ridge
		This case study was written by Ellen Dockery, a lower division undergraduate student who is not an earth science major, as part of the DLESE Community Services Project: Integrating Research in Education.
		The study is dedicated to telling the story of the Lakota Sioux, culminating in an increased awareness so that we may confront the use of power that has proved so detrimental to both the Native Americans and their land.
		Climate and Biota - Explore the climate, flora and fauna of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
	serc.carleton.edu /research_education/nativelands/pineridge/index.html (439 words)

	Transcript: Clinton addresses Pine Ridge Indian Reservation - July 7, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		President, and thank you to all of you here from Pine Ridge and all the other tribal leaders who are here for a HUD- shared-vision conference.
		Adults to have something to look forward to every morning when they get up, and if they want their kids to stay in school and stay out of trouble and look to tomorrow, their lives have to be evidence that looking to tomorrow pays off.
		CLINTON: The fact that this reservation is a long way from an urban center would have been an absolute prohibitive barrier to a lot of economic development just 10 or 15 years ago.
	cnn.ch /ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/07/07/clinton.tour/transcript.html (2568 words)

	Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
		Spent time on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
		We went to Wounded Knee where in 1890, the 7th Calvary of the United States killed 146 men, women and children in what is know as the Wounded Knee Massacre.
		We also went to the Red Cloud Indian School to see an art exhibition at the Heritage Center Museum.
	www.watchic.net /shannon/crosscountry/woundedknee.html (78 words)

	Running Strong for American Indian Youth - WWDP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Running Strong remains steadfast in its commitment to bring running water to families on Pine Ridge by drilling thirteen wells a year on the reservation.
		Running Strong began working on Pine Ridge in 1986, when then tribal president, Joe American Horse, identified water as the greatest single need on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
		The Indian Health Service (IHS) also keeps a running list of families who need water wells, but this list is lengthy and is only marginally reduced each year.
	www.indianyouth.org /wwdp.html (431 words)

	SWAN - The Pine Ridge American Indian Reservation And Sahaja Yoga [Tuesday, May 24, 2005]
		For the first time we understood who the REAL people of Shri Krishna’s land are – not the European immigrants that dominate this land, but the Native Americans who by their very nature and culture express perfectly the qualities of the Vishuddhi.
		Our seminars to introduce Sahaja Yoga and give Self-Realization to more members of the reservation, was a return visit at the request of a Lakota-Sioux woman leader (Janice) who had received her realization some 7 months prior.
		The vast wealth generated by some gambling casinos on some American Indian Reservations is not a factor on Pine Ridge, and we were told that the one small casino that exists there was dominated by corrupt and greedy managers so that no money went back into the community.
	www.sahajayoga.org /swan/view/swan_333_2005.asp (1303 words)

	Running Strong for American Indian Youth - News & Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is estimated that 40% of adults over the age of 40 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation have the disease.
		SBAG helps local Indian gardeners with garden preparation and seedlings, fighting widespread malnutrition and hunger on the reservation by encouraging participants to grow their own fresh fruit and vegetables.
		South Dakota—Running Strong for American Indian Youth, a group that works to improve conditions and promote self-sufficiency on Indian reservations, awarded $300,000 in grants to two tribal colleges in South Dakota, Sinte Gleska University on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in Rosebud and Si Tanka College on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in Eagle Butte.
	www.indianyouth.org /news___events.html (949 words)

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