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Sioux woman and a dog on the Pine Ridge Reservation, 1968
(Denver Public Library, Western History Collection) |
In the 1876 Treaty following the war between the U.S. and the Sioux, the U.S. government promised "a comfortable house" to all families living in Indian Territory. Despite these promises, hundreds of people on the Pine Ridge Reservation are homeless and thousands live in crowded or substandard housing. The American Indian Relief Council estimates that 44 percent of Sioux households lack complete kitchens and 55 percent do not have a telephone.
Many Lakota families have moved off the reservation in the hopes of finding jobs and creating a better future for their children. In Rapid City where thousands of Lakota have settled, Native people face prejudice and hardship due to differences between their culture and the white man's world.
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