After lunch we traveled to a primary school called Marere. We couldn’t get to the school by car, which meant a lot of walking through dry, barren land. The kids who attend the school have to walk up to 2.5 hours to get to their school. We were walking through the typical lens of a...
Our course instructors report that last night the group settled into their hostel before enjoying some authentic Mexican street tacos and meeting with Alex Gómez and Maria Galleta who will be their guides and teachers on this learning journey. Today the group explored Old Town and its historical sites as they relate to the story of...
Our CI’s reported that today, “Students hiked to the top of Black Elk Peak, formerly known as Harney Peak, to share in the rituals of tobacco offerings and recreating and remembering the journeys that many Lakota took from the reservation to their sacred mountain in the Black Hills.”