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Co-ordinator: The Rev. Robert Two Bulls (Program Officer for Native American Ministries, Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles)  Click here for contact details

Participants:
6 young adults/youth (college/high school students from USA, Canada, and Aotearoa/NZ)

Duration:
17 July – 9 August 2006-06-01

Description:
6 young adults and youths travelling to the community of Red Shirt on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to work on a 3 week mission program.

Aims:
To give participants a means to look beyond themselves in a community that is intentional, multicultural, religious, and theological.
Provide a cultural experience through the building of community with one another as well as making relations with the tribal members of the Oglala Lakota Oyate.

Content:
Participants will travel from Los Angeles to South Dakota and take part in a community labour project. Participants will spend one week in Los Angeles prior to the journey to Pine Ridge.