Today a story about a school and how some other schools failed some students over and over again.

I used to have this history class in one of the vocab was reservations.

In like a bunch of these kids just didn't know what it was they're like the definition of a

reservation and it's just like I have lived on a reservation most of my life.

That's precious Traversey she's 17 years old. Her brother Matthew White Mountain is 16.

When I went to school four out of seven of my classes were substitutes which I didn't learn

or do anywhere because I couldn't because they were substitutes which like weren't really teaching.

And their sister Alana Lebo 172. That was bullied for how dark I was and I was never

called like Native American they thought I was black or Mexican and like they would make so

many racist jokes about it. Matthew loves skateboarding. Alana loves reading and precious

she loves hanging out with her family. They're the kind of siblings who are also best friends

laughing and joking the whole time we talk to them. We met them at the Standing Rock

Zoo reservation in South Dakota just outside of the biggest town which is actually a pretty small

town of 569 people according to the 2020 census. It's called McLaughlin. It was a Thursday afternoon

and they left school to come talk to us. We sat on the dirt floor of a dome structure facing

each other. The air smelled like cedar from all the fresh wood around us and you could see bright

blue sky through an opening in the roof. Outside the wind was kicking up dirt and dust everywhere.

But inside it was warm and peaceful. The serenity of the space didn't quite match the stories we

heard from the kids about all the schools they'd been to in communities around South Dakota

on and off the Standing Rock and Shayan River reservations. A lot of the pre-kids they like really

think because they live on the res that they have a right to make fun of Native Americans and stuff

so like recently they made a video of them dancing outside a gas station like just making fun of

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