Description
Five Oglala Lakota have come from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, located along the southern edge of the Badlands in South Dakota, to take part in a weeklong San Francisco-based wellness program that culminates in a swim from Alcatraz to the San Francisco shore.
Just as the prisoners who attempted to escape from Alcatraz were swimming for their lives, these youth, too, are swimming for lives—theirs and their families and friends— swimming on a mission for their tribe, reminding themselves why they are doing this: “Oyate kin nipi kte: So that the people will live…”