Monday, February 27, 2012

Through Video, Lakota Students Reject Stereotypes : NPR

Through Video, Lakota Students Reject Stereotypes : NPR: Tired of being negatively portrayed by mainstream media, a group of Native American students created a video describing how their community was about more than alcoholism, broken homes and crime.

The students from South Dakota's Rosebud Sioux Reservation are in Washington, D.C., Monday to lobby Congress for increased funding for schools on Native American reservations.

Filmed in black and white, the student-produced video More Than That takes the viewer through the hallways, classrooms and gymnasium of the Rosebud Sioux Reservation's county high school.