Essays: A Beautiful Dream - Pine Ridge, South Dakota: PINE RIDGE RESERVATION

Danielle High Hawk is put on the trampoline where she can't escape while her mother tends to her other daughters on Friday, June 2, 2006 in a housing complex outside of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Darlene has six children and doesn't have time to leave them and work. Pine Ridge Reservation is considered the poorest county in the United States. Gang violence, unemployment, and alcoholism are major problems throughout the reservation.
PINE RIDGE RESERVATION

Danielle High Hawk is put on the trampoline where she can't escape while her mother tends to her other daughters on Friday, June 2, 2006 in a housing complex outside of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Darlene has six children and doesn't have time to leave them and work. Pine Ridge Reservation is considered the poorest county in the United States. Gang violence, unemployment, and alcoholism are major problems throughout the reservation.