2024 I made aroud $7000 last year and Canada is alot more expensive than USA to live in . I'm a wealthy King in a land of poverty ' inflicted with the greed of the poor rich .

Your story is dated. There is business in Pineridge. A bank,a new gas station, Taco John's,True value,Bowie's and H&R Block. And White Clay has been dry for years. Family Dollar and Dollar General have built stores there. It isn't a victory, but it's something. Jack

Your story is dated. There is business in Pineridge. A bank,a new gas station, Taco John's,True value,Bowie's and H&R Block. And White Clay has been dry for years. Family Dollar and Dollar General have built stores there. It isn't a victory, but it's something. Jack

I remember pine ridge I remember being shot down and running with the people and custer being killed from my past life 😢 I miss my family so much 💔

Instead of a firearm, why not utilize the martial arts, like Tai Chi, Taekwondo, karate, Etc

Such Proud zbeautiful people should not have to live this way !

Thank u for sharing this with me. All i can do in join in with u in prayer. For God is larger than any evil

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Why do they say three hundred lives lost in mass graves? It's one hundred thousand life's lost during the 1890 chief massacre in mass collections of the American Smithsonian. I know because they tried returning them to Sioux nation last year on the 50th anniversary of wounded knee massacre.

Is this tribe able to help build lower cost housing for it's people? If not, what is preventing them from doing so?

Yes I Grew Up poor Gary From NC GOD Bless You All But We Were Happy I Am Still Poor But Not As Much As Them ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Why is pine ridge so poor when other clans better off , why the ogalala ? Lakota and others are doing fairly well in comparison . Comment , I'd like to hear facts and opinions .

This is not the native Americans i know im so sorry for the reservation

Why aren't the church leaders in this country trying to help .

This is wrong.

White clay had been the poorest place in the United States. Get it right. Not the rez 400 yards away. Majority of people who buy the alcohol there are the ranchers in Nebraska with their yearly brandings and daily lifes bragging on who buys the most beer for the branding so more people can show up for free beer. I did alot of research when I was in high school and trust me I can expose alot of stuff native Americans are blamed for.

Sorry but I disagree with this video.

They may not drink alcohol in the reservation but they go to Gordon, a close town of Pine Ridge, where they go to drink Friday,Saturday and Sunday. They do it on week ends and not on labor days. Whoever say that is liying...They wanna give Pine Ridge, a bad credit... ,

😢 All life's matters ! 🙏

And the rest of the country complaining about their struggles in today's society, when the indigenous people have been struggling since the immigrant government invaded our lands!

Amber Buriff : This video was posted 13 years ago I believe. My comment is : Hau mitakuyape/ hello my relative . Please stop posting these old ,outdated, obsolete, videos of Pine Ridge Reservation and my pte oyate/ people. The facts and statistics contained in this video were true at one time, these facts and statistics have since changed, Pine Ridge has changed! With the help of people from across the USA and around the world Pine Ridge has been making a steady positive transformation from quality of life to infrastructure and everywhere in between. Pine Ridge still has a long way 2 go , we're getting there. The most important transformation is schools being built on or near the reservation and our native Lakota tongue / language is being taught to young and old and is alive! Again please stop posting these old videos regarding a once was way of life not a present! Wopila Tanka/ thankyou very much. Mitakuye oyasin! We are created by our Creator whose name is Yahweh , we are all related ! And for all you saying that we the Lakota people have $1.4 Billion dollars waiting for us from U.S. government that is true , but allow me to share with you the truth of why we won't and cannot accept that money. 1) Our land including Hessapa ( Black Hills) is not , I repeat , is not fir sale! 2) The land and the Black Hills is the center of the universe for our pte oyate / people and tiyoshpae / extended family. 3) There are about roughly 20,000 of my people on Pine Ridge. If we were to accept that $1.4 Billion that would be equivalent to each of the 20,000 residents receiving between $10,000 -$20,000 dollars. 4) The Black Hills has untold and u known amounts of gold and other resources. The $1.4 Billion is only a fraction of what our land the Black Hills is really worth. 5) Lastly and most importantly Hessapa ( Black Hills) is burial grounds for our forefathers who came , lived, and passed on before us! I wanted to include these facts for whoever if you keeps telling us ,go and pick up that money. Now you know why we haven't accepted that money and won't accept it at any time now or in the future! Toksha ahke / till mi greet you again. Talk later. Wanu wyee / I'm here , send a reply anytime! One last thing , one day in our generation justice for my pte oyate the Lakota Nation/ Buffalo Nation will come not from the washichu / whiteman in Washington, D.C. but will come from Wakan Tanka, Great Spirit, Creator of All Life, Almighty God, Tankashila/ Grandfather, Yahweh . It will be Divine Justice. That's His Promise! He Cannot Lie! One day soon it will come! It may get worse before it gets better but soon all life the way Yahweh intended it to be for all of us will come soon! Let it be so! Amen!

Had to upvote this, nothing like a well known local guy playing his county fair!

White Clay has been shut down.

Is that your pretty daughter Amber?

Sitting Bull was a Teton, not an Oglala.

What kind of animal is the person filming and laughing at that? :/.

The crow creek sioux Indian reservation of SD northwest of the town stephan. Has its tragic event after many decades the Indian Wars had ended. During the dust bowl area of the 1930s a large encampment of twenty or thirty Probably more hunkpati Dakota sioux people were living on Cheney rush, a hilly prairie land country along the Missouri River. When a large party of white civilians came with guns and rifles to wrongful blame the Dakota sioux people for horse thievery. They started to kill everyone there and buried the dead Dakota sioux bodies on top of a hill. Some Dakota sioux elders were young children at the time saw an witness the tragedy unfolded there will hiding a safe distance away. Many years later they told the story well crying and wipt of the tragic massacre at Cheney rush massacre. There's no memorial site there because of the forgotten Dakota sioux tragedy took place there. It's also the most huanted place on the reservation. Some of the Dakota sioux Indian people were descents of bullghost the hunkpati Dakota sioux Indian war leader later becoming the spiritual advisor of the ghost dance uprising of 1890 he inspired many Lakota sioux people to the ghost dance celebration in standing rock SD. Bullghost is also buried on the crow creek sioux Indian reservation. The Cheney rush massacre is the last forgotten Dakota sioux Indian massacre of the 20th century. The only tragic massacre the American civilians tried to cover up the evidence of the massacre. They later said that it never happened there? The Dakotah and Lakotah sioux people know the truth of the Cheney rush massacre is their ignorance towards our Native people and the seven council fires of the Dakota and Lakota sioux people. There were probably some of our Lakota sioux people there to.

Amber.......Can the Lakota people obtain a small bison/buffalo herd to breed and farm on the Rez ? Surely this would sustain the people naturally and cut out the diabetes problem circulating on most of the rez's. Go back to basics.........I know in some areas of the Yellowstone , buffalo are culled because their are ' apparently ' to many.......?? Instead of culling them could they not be given to the Lakota to start their own herd ?

So very powerful.

Don't Lakota Lives Matter?

Open a Casino

Another video of Christians trying to save the Indians, push your god on to us. I pray in my language and understand my traditional ways. The only god that matters is your god, why do I need to know him? When I pray with Tunksila everyday. I don’t push anything on you? Remember we as natives were here first. Aho

So who is to blame for these conditions or who are you blaming? Never heard this story before.

As a survivor of generational trauma.i am broken hearted that these humans are still being treated this way.this video is 13 years ago and deeply wondering if anything has been done to start making changes for the better since than. In this deeply divided country I am wondering if there is hope. Please update to what has been done I prey thru my heart thankyou

Remember what Crazy Horse said: "“Upon suffering beyond suffering; the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of seven generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again. In that day there will be those among the Lakota who will carry knowledge and understanding of unity among all living things, and the young white ones will come to those of my people and ask for this wisdom. I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am in that place within me, we shall be as one.” The was Crazy Horses prophecy 4 days before they assassinated him.

And we have to listen to Black Lives Matter whiners constantly,,, while these indigenous people were robbed of their land, forced on to reservations, their main source of food, and clothing/warmth, trade diminished for no reason,,, DESPICABLE!!! THE GOVERNMENT OWES THESE PEOPLE IF ANY ONE AT ALL Funny though how you never hear ONE COMPLAINT and they continue to struggle

Mitakuye Oyasin ♥️♥️🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

If you live there. Get the he'll out of there now. Start a new life elswere....

Plenty of land there .

Well done

Whiteclay’s liquor stores shut down.

The white man has a lot to answer for , and I don't feel sorry for them one bit

these are self governed places & dropout, unwed pregnancy, booze and nihilism epidemics are unavoidably self inflicted. Heartbreaking social failure

Boo Ah

*I believe the Native Americans/Central American's are descendants...*

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This is the second time I am watching this video, and am more appalled than the first. Would the government allow the entire state of Connecticut to go without plumbing and electricity? I don’t think so. When your income is $3500. per year, how can anything be built? One person commented they should leave their land. And, go where? Any apartment wants first and last month’s rent. Where would that come from? The beautiful people are suffering. The government is more worried about refugees than they are about America’s original people. No schools, libraries, community centers, absolutely nothing. All these do-gooders who are there at the drop of a hat for other countries when a disaster strikes, look in your own country first!! For once our indigenous people need a break. The government needs to be held accountable for this travesty.

I've watched several videos about Pine Ridge, and I'm left asking why. Why are no apartments built? New trailer homes brought in? Businesses started? Yes, I realize the residents would not have the funds to build housing and start businesses, but there are whole organizations dedicated to building homes for disadvantaged people. Programs to help people start businesses. Why will these organizations and programs not locate and work here? What is stopping progress? I ask in full respect of our native peoples that live there, and I'm asking honestly to be educated - not as an accusation towards the residents. Do we have laws and regulations in place that prevent things from happening or are there other issues stopping organizations from functioning there?

There are a lot of grass. Very good for animal farming. They can be rich if they use their grassy land.

Sending much love to you all with total respect !! I will pray for who ever is in power to help , for them to open their hearts and minds. This is unacceptable, love you all 🤗💕