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Children at Government Day School
34. Children pose at Government Day School, ca.
1940s (Wind River Archives at CWC)
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I think the kids now have more opportunity to go to school.
In our day there wasn’t anything for us to use to go to school,
like money....To take care of your home and to raise your family,
that’s what I recall. Even working at school, I worked in the
hospital [in South Dakota] and enjoyed it, I would have liked to
have gone on with it but there was no opportunity here to study
nursing (Winnie St. Clair)
The programs that they have now days, like these young kids
going off to school, they have a lot more opportunity to go learn
something like careers. At that time, if you went through the eighth
grade, well, that was it. We were out. We couldn’t afford our
tuition or anything like that. Now days, the kids can go off to
school or college. They have the money set aside for that. Back
in those days, we didn’t have it. I tell my grand kids, “Get
your education while you can.” (Ina Weed)
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