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Students at Flandreau School Store
35. Students at Flandreau School Store, Date
Unknown (Kassel Weeks, Wind River Archives at CWC)
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Larger off reservation boarding schools such as Flandreau, South
Dakota, provided greater opportunities for older pupils that those
at home. Many appreciated the wider choices in career training available
to them at these schools, the more modern atmosphere with current
films and dances, expanded sport and work/study programs which allowed
them to earn spending money while pursuing their education.
My Dad said, “You have to go.” He got our minds
set to go, you know, to be somewhere else, that’s what he
taught my brothers and myself. We weren’t always going to
be around you know, here. We were going to go out and learn. Well,
it was embedded in our minds that way, that’s why I never
really was too lonesome. (Margaret Headly)
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