Lakota Empowerment Group Builds for Success

WOUNDED KNEE—A group of expert tradesmen and their apprentices put a new, tin roof on a local lodge as part of a new initiative to create employment and bring valuable skills to the Lakota people. The Lakota Empowerment Group is a One Spirit initiative, funded by a donation from One Spirit Germany, to provide valuable job skills and encourage employment on Pine Ridge Reservation. The group currently consists of eight students, a plumber, an electrician, a carpenter and coordinator Rick Gray Grass. Gray Grass said the group got started when he got a call from One Spirit’s director, Jeri Baker,...

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