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100 Mission Drive Pine Ridge, SD 57770
(605) 867-5888
Red Cloud School’s Mission: To promote a thriving community of learners grounded in Lakȟóta and Catholic beliefs, values, and practices that cultivate our capacity to love and serve in a diverse and rapidly changing world.
From helping Red Cloud’s youngest students to read their first words, to guiding middle school students in exploring robotics and computer coding, to launching a new farm-to-school initiative and helping to lead Red Cloud’s first Lakȟóta language immersion classroom, every day the members of the Oyate Teča Wauŋspekiya Program work tirelessly to serve students and families and to support Red Cloud’s work to provide an education rooted in equality and social justice. They use their skills and talents to make Red Cloud—and the world—a better place! AmeriCorps Members commit to bus-driving, engaging in academic interventions with students, and running our after-school program. Our program works in conjunction with the volunteer program with a focus on professional development that enables our members to be the best educators possible for our students. Our members live on campus in intentional-communities that are also a part of our Volunteer Program.
Red Cloud Volunteers work for and stand with the Oglala Lakȟóta people on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Pine Ridge is located in Oglala Lakota County, one of the three poorest counties in the country (based on per capita income), but it is also one of the richest and most beautiful communities in terms of culture, spirituality, hospitality, and landscape. Volunteers serve nearly 600 Lakȟóta students in a K-12 Catholic School System, which is jointly administered by the Jesuits and the Lakȟóta people. Volunteers are typically recent college graduates or young adults with a background in education or who desire to engage more deeply in the field of education. During the ten-month term of service, which can be renewed for up to three school years, Volunteers work as classroom teachers or support staff. Volunteers also assist with bus driving, coaching, and after-school activities. Most of our volunteers are also half-time AmeriCorps members through the Oyate Tȟeča Wauŋspekiya AmeriCorps Program, which supports their bus driving, academic interventions, and after-school service, as well as provides professional development support. If you have a desire to work within a challenging cross-cultural and inter-religious environment, commit to living simply in intentional communities with fellow volunteers, grow spiritually, work for justice in education, and become more socially conscious, then this program may be a good fit for you. We'd love to hear from you!