COVID Brings New Challenges for Native American Reservations

Pine Ridge School Continues to Delivery it’s Mission

The Pine Ridge Girls School was rounding out its fourth year of teaching young women on the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota when the COVID-19 pandemic began.

The privately funded, all-girls middle and high school is about 10 miles outside the community of Porcupine. The school was founded in 2016 with the goal of providing Native American girls in seventh through 12th grades with an academically rigorous but also deeply personal education, said Head of School April Johnston….Read full story: https://www.capjournal.com/news/covid-brings-new-challenges-for-native-american-reservations/article_a8b69576-0822-11eb-982d-d32cdb536302.html

Caitlin Dempsey