RE-MEMBER

Re-member: to put back together that which is broken

Two weeks ago I spent six days at the Re-member organization on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Statistics for the rez are glum:per capita income, life expetancy, employment rate, graduation percentages...all among the lowest in the nation.

Teenage suicide, alcoholism, violence, diabetes, inadequate housing...all among the highest in the nation.

So, we, and volunteers from around the country spend six days learning history, seeing with our own eyes, offering some work and doing a little bit to re-member the relationship between two cultures.

I could write volumes. Due to time and energy constraints I'll just offer a few glimpes, odds and ends.