South Dakota: The Roots Of Tragedy - Lakota People's Law Project Challenges New York Times "Poverty's Poster Child" OpEd By Nicholas Kristof

South Dakota: The Roots Of Tragedy - Lakota People's Law Project Challenges New York Times "Poverty's Poster Child" OpEd By Nicholas Kristof   Nicholas Kristof's portrait of the Pine Ridge Reservation in his piece for the May 9th New York Times "Poverty's Poster Child" is shocking and sympathetic, but, according to the Lakota People's Law Project, it does not address social and economic structures of oppression in South Dakota. While he implies that regular economic investment models could...

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