Walker Stover, a junior at Red Cloud Indian School, hands out orange ribbons for Orange Shirt Day on Sept. 20, 2021, in Pine Ridge, S.D. Students and teachers wore orange in solidarity with Indigenous children of past generations who suffered cultural loss, family separation and sometimes abuse and neglect while compelled to attend hundreds of residential schools that once dotted the map across the United States and Canada from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries. (AP Ph…
December 15, 2021
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Ex-boarding school for Native children owning up to its past
PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — Middle schooler Rarity Cournoyer stood at the heart of the Red Cloud Indian School campus and chanted a prayer song firmly and solemnly in the Lakota language — in a place where past generations of students were punished for speaking their mother tongue.