Interact Reaching Out

     

Emmy Mills and Mikaru Hirose show students at Pine Ridge the dictionaries the Interact Club donated to them.

     On Monday, October 20, 2014, the Interact Club from Chadron High School took a trip to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota to deliver dictionaries to third graders in four different schools. 
     Dictionaries were provided by the Rotary chapter in Chadron, Nebraska. The students were accompanied to Red Cloud, Batesland, Porcupine, and The Lady of our Lourde, by Dr. Schafer, Dr. Ron Miller, George Ledbetter, and Interact sponsors Mrs. Williamson and Miss Mack. At Red Cloud, Interact members got to sit in the chapel and hear about the history of the reservations, boarding schools, and the Red Cloud School. 
     Junior Interact member, Emmy Mills, explained, "It was very eye-opening to see the advancements that are taking place in reservation schools, and the poor housing situations that many kids go home to at night. You can tell that in each classroom, the students are there and excited to learn."
     Along the way, the club stopped at Wounded Knee and received a detailed explanation about the background and history of the massacres, that occurred in that location, from Dr. Miller. 
     On the way home, the group had the opportunity to drive through White Clay to experience the poverty that residents of the Pine Ride Indian Reservation experience in their every day lives. 
     This is the second year the High School Interact Club has traveled with Rotary up to the reservation schools.