Little Wound School

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Little Wound School (Lakota : Taopi Cikala Owayawa) is a tribal K-12 school in Kyle, South Dakota. It is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). [1] It is located in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. [2] It is named after Little Wound. [3]

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In 2001 the school started a cable television station. [4]

In 2015 the school had 900 students. That year the Minneapolis Star Tribune stated that it was one of four BIE schools in the Pine Ridge community with a building deemed to be in a "poor condition". The gymnasium was built in 1939. [2] The editorial board added that the school had portable buildings unused due to deterioration and that it "lacks separate restrooms and other facilities needed to maintain student discipline and privacy." [2]

By November 2015 the school community experienced a suicide epidemic involving 12 suicides. In 2015 the United States Department of Education gave the school a $325,000 grant to address this. [5]

Athletics

The elementary division has a boxing club. The school pays for the program, making it one of the few such programs in the state. [6]

References

  1. ↑ "Little Wound School". Bureau of Indian Education . Retrieved August 1, 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Pine Ridge schools: Amid beauty, deterioration". Minneapolis Star Tribune . April 2, 2015. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
  3. ↑ "About". Little Wound School. Retrieved February 6, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Little Wound to start school cable station". Rapid City Journal . October 21, 2001. Retrieved August 1, 2021.
  5. ↑ "US DOE grant to help Little Wound School respond to suicides". Rapid City Journal . Associated Press. November 19, 2015. Retrieved August 1, 2021.
  6. ↑ "Little Wound Boxing Club". Rapid City Journal . May 1, 2011. Retrieved August 11, 2021. - See this particular slide

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