As The Rez Turns...
You can't expect to "get it" in a week. I can't expect you to "get it" when I tell you about it. You can't come with the expectation that you will understand or appreciate or be able to comprehend the challenges we face on a day-to-day basis ranging from our ability to order fresh produce to our ability to navigate to our work sites when there is no address system. Re-Member does what it can do, with what it has. Pine Ridge is unlike any other place you have probably ever done a service/mission/work/experiential/immersion/whatever-you-may-call-it kind of trip before. Worked on the Gulf Coast fixing homes destroyed by hurricanes? Wonderful, it is all needed work, but it is the result of a natural disaster that destroyed the homes of people who had it made before a terrible event ruined their lives in 12 hours. On Pine Ridge, we are working to repair the result of decades of man-made disasters that have left this reservation on the cusp of the third world....
