College of Education and Human Development
CEHD Students Work with Native Americans in South Dakota
September 23, 2013
Nine graduate students traveled to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to spend more than two weeks with members of the Oglala Sioux tribe as they prepared for and performed their annual Sun Dance ceremony.
While the name Pine Ridge might not sound familiar, the location was the setting for several tragic events for Native Americans of which the Wounded Knee Massacre is probably the most well known. It is also located in one of the poorest counties in the United States.
The trip was a part of the Summer Term class EDCD 797 Cross-Cultural Counseling and was led by Rachael Goodman, assistant professor, as part of the Counselors Without Borders (CWB) project. The trip participants were graduate students from the Counseling and Development program within George Mason’s College of Education and Human Development. Interested students had to submit a letter of intent and interview for a spot on the team.
CWB is a nonprofit organization started in 2005 by Mason professors Fred Bemak and Rita Chi-Ying Chung to provide culturally responsive counseling in post-disaster emergency situations.
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