If you watched the ABC 20/20 episode with Diane Sawyer last Friday night, you saw a glimpse of the hopes, accomplishments, and struggles of the Lakota people living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
At the invitation of the First Peoples Fund, Four Bands Community Fund, and the Open Society Foundations, Artspace colleague Naomi Chu and I joined a group of grantmakers, artists, and other social justice practitioners on a three-day learning visit to the Cheyenne River and Pine Ridge Reservations, September 26-29.
The purpose of the visit was to grow our collective knowledge about social justice work across Indian Country through dialogue with community leaders, activists, and artists working across a range of issue areas at the local, regional, and national levels.
For the next three days, I’ll post blog entries about the places we saw, the people we talked with, and the connections we made as we had the honor of embarking on a journey to the Cheyenne River and Pine Ridge communities.
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