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Little Wound SchoolLittle Wound School (Lakota: Taopi Cikala Owayawa) is a tribal K-12 school in Kyle, South Dakota. It is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE).[1] It is located in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.[2] It is named after Little Wound.[3] In 2001 the school started a cable television station.[4] In 2015 the school had 900 students. That year the Minneapolis Star Tribune stated that it was one of four BIE schools in the Pine Ridge community with a building deemed to be in a "poor condition". The gymnasium was built in 1939.[2] The editorial board added that the school had portable buildings unused due to deterioration and that it "lacks separate restrooms and other facilities needed to maintain student discipline and privacy."[2] By November 2015 the school community experienced a suicide epidemic involving 12 suicides. In 2015 the United States Department of Education gave the school a $325,000 grant to address this.[5] AthleticsThe elementary division has a boxing club. The school pays for the program, making it one of the few such programs in the state.[6] References
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