Little Wound School

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]

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 2021-08-01.
  2. "Pine Ridge schools: Amid beauty, deterioration". Minneapolis Star Tribune. 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  3. "About". Little Wound School. Retrieved 2023-02-06.
  4. "Little Wound to start school cable station". Rapid City Journal. 2001-10-21. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
  5. "US DOE grant to help Little Wound School respond to suicides". Rapid City Journal. Associated Press. 2015-11-19. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
  6. "Little Wound Boxing Club". Rapid City Journal. 2011-05-01. Retrieved 2021-08-11. - See this particular slide

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