Pine Ridge, USA : a frontier of the forgotten / by SCEREN-CNDP.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

SCÉRÉN (Network)

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

Filmakers library online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--South Dakota--Economic conditions.

Indians of North America.

Lakota Indians--South Dakota--Economic conditions.

Lakota Indians.

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.).

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)--Economic conditions.

Genre:

Documentary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (26 minutes)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2006.

Language Note:

English.

System Details:

digital

data file

Summary:

The 40,000 Sioux Lakota Native Americans living on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota are the poorest inhabitants in America. In this film, they describe the abysmal conditions there, with neither a bank, a store, an industry or technology of any kind. Unemployment has reached 95%, life expectancy is about 50 years of age and social problems are rife. They are shockingly isolated from the rest of the U.S. More than 90% of the land In Pine Ridge is rented and farmed by non-Indians who do not even live on the reservation. The closest city offering employment is Rapid City, South Dakota, the economic and financial hub of Western Dakota. It attracts Pine Ridge inhabitants but discrimination, lack of skills and low salaries keep most of them in a state of financial instability. On top of that, they have to endure the humiliation of tourists visiting the site of their historic defeat in the Black Hills.

Notes:

Originally released as DVD.

Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).

OCLC:

747798467

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.