Oglala
Lakota Tribe
Pine
Ridge Indian Reservation
Near
Wounded Knee, South
Dakota
Pine
Ridge Indian Reservation:
$9,728 per
capita income
United
States:
$27, 334 per capital income
“When I was a boy the
Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and
set in their lands. They sent 10,000
horsemen to battle. Where are the warriors
today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?”
Sitting
Bull circa 1831-1890
Pine
Ridge Indian Reservation:
48.3% poverty
rate
United
States:
13.8% poverty rate
“We preferred hunting
to life of idleness on the reservation, where we were driven against our
will. We preferred our own way of
living… All we wanted was peace and to
be left alone.” Crazy Horse circa
1842-1877
Pine
Ridge Indian Reservation:
66.6% life expectancy
United
States:
76.5% life expectancy
“In 1868 men came and
brought us papers. We could not read
them and they did not tell us truly what was in them… When I reached Washington THE GREAT FATHER
EXPLAINED TO ME… that the interpreters
had deceived me. All I want is right and
justice.”
Red
Cloud circa 1822-1909
Pine
Ridge Indian Reservation:
18.4%/1000
infant mortality
United
States:
6.8%/1000 infant mortality
“Out of the Indian
approach to existence THERE CAME A GREAT FREEDOM, an intense and absorbing love
for nature… enriching faith in a supreme
power; and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as
a guide to mundane relations.”
Luther Standing Bear
circa 1868-1939
Pine
Ridge Indian Reservation:
121.3%/100,000
liver disease deaths
United
States:
9.7%/100,000 liver disease
deaths
“Perhaps you have
noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the
cottonwood tree; THIS WE UNDERSTAND IS ITS PRAYER TO THE GREAT SPIRIT, for not
only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in differing
ways.”
Black
Elk circa 1865-1950
Pine
Ridge Indian Reservation:
37.2%/100,000
suicides
United
States:
10.9%/100,000 suicides
SOURCE: National Geographic Magazine 2011/2012
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