'We're in constant crisis': cyclone-hit reservation forced to recover on its own

Native Americans on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota are struggling after a winter hurricane, with no disaster relief from Trump

The canyons and hills of South Dakota’s Badlands National Park fade south into the nearly 3,500-sq-mile Pine Ridge Reservation. About 20,000 members of the Oglala Lakota nation live on the reservation in sparsely populated towns and ranches with small trailers often housing multiple families, loosely connected by miles of dirt roads.

Home to the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre, where US soldiers massacred 150 to 300 Native Americans in 1890, including women and children, the reservation is wracked by rampant poverty, lack of resources and poor infrastructure. Pine Ridge encompasses some of the poorest counties in the United States, with unemployment around 75% and the lowest life expectancy in the country.

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