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The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the American state of South Dakota is home to the Oglala Sioux Tribe. It's also where Nicky Oulette is in her first year as the journalism teacher at Little Wound High School.
NICKY OULETTE: "What else would make this a newsworthy story?"
STUDENT: "Human interest?"
NICKY OULETTE: "Totally human interest ... "
Ms. Oulette teaches the twelve students on the school newspaper, the Mustang News.
NICKY OULETTE: "They pick the articles that we write. Sometimes, if we're getting stuck, I'll kind of guide them along. Say, like, here's a couple of things that happened last week, here's who we can talk to. But, especially lately, they've been the one picking the articles. One girl wanted to write her own column, comparing the weather to different parts of her own life. One girl wanted to start writing some song reviews. So now, every two weeks, she'll pick out a couple of songs and write a review about them."
The reporters also cover news like a recent flood at the school caused by a broken water pipe. Yet the real story here is that Nicky Oulette is the school's first journalism teacher in years.? The Mustang News had stopped publishing. But now, not only is it back, copies are included every other week in the Lakota Country Times, a local newspaper. This way, school news reaches parents and other people in the community.
NICKY OULETTE: "I know a lot of schools have their own newspaper or newsletter, but don’t know of many who have a newspaper for the school that's part of a reservation-wide or huge area-wide publications."
Other student newspapers have been incorporated into Native American papers, but not many. The publisher of the Lakota Country Times, Connie Smith, says the public has welcomed the idea.
CONNIE SMITH: "Everywhere I go, people are talking to me about how proud they are. The kids do the news. They do the interviews. They take the pictures. Sometimes a teacher may have something that goes in, but mostly it's the students. So I think the quality is as good as some of the stories I get from community members, because we get stories and photos from community members that come in. So I’ve been really pleased."
The idea inspired two other schools on the Pine Ridge Reservation to publish their own papers. They take turns being included in the Lakota Country Times.
Brooke Chase Alone works on the Mustang News at Little Wound High School. She says her favorite story so far has been covering the history of the annual Big Foot Ride. This is a two-week trail ride from the Standing Rock Reservation to Wounded Knee.
Wounded Knee was where government soldiers killed more than two hundred Sioux in eighteen ninety. The Army called it a battle; Indians called it a massacre.
Brooke has a personal connection to the story.
BROOKE CHASE ALONE: "My grandpa, Percy White Plume, he was one of the original riders. He helped start it the first year it got started. And I just went to his house and interviewed him about it. And it's, like, really interesting because you learn a lot of things about him that you can't get from other people, because it's like a point of view, like, from their perspective."
And that's the VOA Special English Education Report. We welcome your comments at voaspecialenglish.com and on the VOA Learning English page on Facebook. I'm Christopher Cruise.
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Contributing: Jim Kent
Listen? Email? Print? Comments?Comments (46)07-04-2011Jenny(china)too quick, pls also translate into chinese, it will help us to understanding firstly.
07-04-2011sara(somalia)thank you VOA for article
07-04-2011WinsorThank you on this report, In college i wrote poems for the school newspaper.
07-04-2011C(Vietnam)journalism is an active tool now, in which we can rise our knowledge and update information daily. An in that, i known how to safe spending and protect our environment, i know how to behave to get effictient communication. And have you eve thought about rasing money for charities or giving your property to them?
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07-04-2011Autumn Leaf(Vietnam)It is a great idea if every school has its own newspaper. It is a way to encourage students to research, study, brainstorm...to complete their column. It is also a means to link students to the world outside schools. Through the process to collect information, to work together, they will learn much more and understand more about problems in society. It is also very happy when students find the articles they wrote in publishing papers.
07-04-2011John(China)It's good if the students could do newspaper for the school news and life. It will contribute to their future developing!
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07-04-2011Joruji(Japan)It's wonderful to learn journalism through the school newspaper because it helps students to develop their communication skills, raises their interest in a variety of topics, and improves their communication with their community. I wish I had lessons like this when I was a high school student.
07-04-2011Tino Therezo(Brazil)Nichy Oulette and Brooke Chase speak too fast. As a learning English listener, I hardly understand them. It would not be possible for VOA to avoid such speechs?
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07-04-2011Maki(Japan)Speaking of a school news on television, a television correspondent usually goes to the school and reports something. The viewpoint is from an outsider. But transmitting information from inside the school, audience could learn what's really happening. With the help of her professional skill, I think that the quality of news will be much better.
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08-04-2011Emiko(Japan)I remember I had school newspapers which students published. However it was not connected with local news paper.It is great idea for kids to attach to their community, to listen to the real voice instead of through the internet, because kids can learn not only the fact of the article but also the emotion from peoples’ perspective.
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09-04-2011hungking1982(Viet Nam)Why they don't creat a website to post their article on instread of newspapers; beacause if each school own a newspaper, there are a lot of trees can be cut to produce paper to sprint the newspaper.
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09-04-2011Antonia(China)It's difficut to listen and understand this article. There are so many special items, like name of place, and so on. Learning English is not easy to a adult.
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10-04-2011Lucy(China)I cam imagine how excited Chinese students will be,if they have such experience of owning their own newspaper.The lives of students are boring.
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