Wounded Knee, Again

Sunday June 7, 2009

We went to Wounded Knee again today, per usual. It was our shortest trip there. We were there for at most half an hour, 2 weeks ago we were there for at least 2 hours. What helped was that everything was mud and it was raining the whole time.

After Wounded Knee, instead of the Badlands, we started on work projects since there were so many people. The crews I was with had to move three huge wicked heavy stoves on to a trailer to bring to the recycle center/dump on the Rez sometime later in the week. Then, I got to drive that trailer around for a while. We cleaned up the workshop, in and around it, some other groups mowed the grass because snakes like to hide out there.

Also today a new intern arrived, Christian. All of the other interns are college students, but Christian is a 30 year old teacher, so I was anxious about meeting him and having him as an intern with us. But once I actually met him all of that went away. He seems like a really cool guy, but I haven’t gotten to know him yet. We’ll see.