A team of Lakota educators has been organized to ensure Red Cloud students are able to learn the history of boarding schools in North America and our own school’s history across multiple grade levels. The team will review currently available boarding school curriculums, research the history of Holy Rosary mission, and create custom curriculum for educators to use here at Red Cloud Indian School.

Boarding School Curriculum

A team of Lakota educators has been organized to ensure Red Cloud students are able to learn the history of boarding schools in North America and our own school’s history across multiple grade levels. The team will review currently available boarding school curriculums, research the history of Holy Rosary mission, and create custom curriculum for educators to use here at Red Cloud Indian School.

Curriculum committee: Cherella Hughes, Laree Pourier, Russ Cournoyer, Sierra Concha, Kyleigh Blacksmith, Emery Braveheart

Truth and Healing Student Group

Red Cloud High School currently offers an After School Program for students to be leaders in the Truth and Healing Process. This group meets every other week to discuss issues related to boarding school history and lead ways the school can grapple with the history.

This student group led the school in honoring Orange Shirt Day this year. This included education on the tragic history of boarding schools, an all school prayer assembly where survivor and current Lakota Language teacher, Roger White Eyes, led the school in offering tobacco and making prayer ties. The student group also invited the students to write words of hope, encouragement, and remembrance on six antique desks from the boarding school era as a way of memorializing those who attended the boarding school.