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Podcast: AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast
Episode: How Red Cloud Indian School Is Confronting Its Past with Maka Black Elk
Description: For Maka Black Elk, being a member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe on Pine Ridge Reservation confers a great responsibility. And it forms the bedrock of Black Elk’s work — first as a teacher at Red Cloud Indian School and now as the school’s Executive Director for Truth and Healing.
Red Cloud is a Jesuit-run school on the reservation. It was founded in 1877 and its history spans many turbulent and painful periods on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Maka Black Elk is helping Red Cloud face this past.
On this episode of AMDG, host MegAnne Liebsch talks to Black Elk about...