Participate in a He Sapa - Black Hills camp experience
which will include on-site geoscience research experiences, incorporating field
exploration and data collection, writing and presentation of results.
The South Dakota School of Mines, Sinte Gleska University, and Humboldt State
University, with support from the National Science Foundation, are sponsoring
a series of camps for Lakota youth in the Rapid City area to nurture a
geosciences learning community linked to culturally significant sites in the
Black Hills, which were sacred not only to the Lakota but other Plains tribes,
such as the Cheyenne, the Arapaho
and the Kiowa, and to increase the
participation of Native people in the geosciences. These camps utilize outdoor,
experiential learning to integrate indigenous knowledge and science with
contemporary western science.
