Native communities deserve better: the truth about Pine Ridge health care

Driving through South Dakota after visiting the Badlands, I entered the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. As a medical student at GCSOM in Scranton, PA, I rarely see Native American communities. I was shocked by the poverty and neglect. How had I never heard of Pine Ridge?

Pine Ridge Reservation was established as a prison camp before a deadly massacre.

Pine Ridge Reservation was established in 1889 as Camp 334 for …

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