Among the last of its kind, Flandreau Indian School catches second wind

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Angelina Oldperson of Browning, Montana, attends class on Tuesday August 18, 2015 on the first day of school at Flandreau Indian School. Indigenous youths from many states are drawn to the government-run boarding school.


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POSTED: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 12:30 AM | UPDATED: 1:22 PM, SUN SEP 20, 2015.
By Erin Grace / World-Herald columnist

FLANDREAU, S.D. — At 6 a.m. the dorm’s hallway alarm blared. Then the overhead fluorescent lights beamed on.

Slowly, high school students Talitha Plain Bull, Juwan Grant and Ethan Young Bird tumbled out of bed and toward the showers.

They had arrived the night before, without much time to settle into this government-run boarding school for Native Americans.

Some of their schoolmates had flown to South Dakota from far-flung places like the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Some had come by car. Most had come on buses that traversed the Great Plains, stopping at reservations and towns along the way.

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