Day six of Savanna Studio we woke up to a blistery cold morning. The day a head was filled with a long drive and an eye opening visit to the Wounded Knee site. The weather was a cold and misty which made our lovely morning lecture feel like a 3 hour statistics class. Short after we all gathered into the vans and headed out for the days seven hour drive to Custer State Park. The drive was rather event full, in van Lamb chop we got to listen to the one the only Micheal Marten iPod remix. The drive sure didn't seem as long as it sounded the amount of fun naps and reading made time pass. The first stop on the trip was Pinelake Reservation it's very large sum 100 miles wide by 50 miles long. The reservation hosts the site of Wounded Knee where we got the wonderful experience to meet Kathy Elk and listen to her eye opening stories.
We learned that most of the reservation doesn't even have jobs sum 80 percent does not have and one the other 20 percent have part-time jobs. Kathy explained that that people don't have anywhere to go to get away and the younger generations are turning to drugs and alcohol to cope with there situation. The Wounded Knee burial site was hard to enter because of the amount of somber and death that occured there. The site was almost hard to enter because we did not want to disrespect any of the Lakota people.
After the visit we drove to Pinelake where we had a classy lunch a Taco Johns and bought groceries at the local market to help stimulate the economy. After the Wounded Knee experience we headed out to the Custer State Park. Upon arrival at Custer State Park was a foggy day so a whole lot wasn't seen. The arrival at the State Game Lodge Campground was very foggy but we had a great camp site right next to a creek. After camp set up and dinner we had a kumbaya moment with Michael and the whole gang sang the night away. After the cold set in for the evening everyone scattered to there warm sleeping bags dreaming of the next days events.
Over and out, Jeff Boyum and Yuqiu Hong
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