North American Indians, Part 3: Lament of the Reservation

Duration: 23

Year Published: 1970

Creator: Ross Devenish

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Presents the living conditions of the Sioux Indians on Pine Ridge Reservation in the Bad Lands of South Dakota. Explains the problems of land division, sanitation, employment, infant mortality, and physical and mental health. Looks at another reservation in Washington State where the suicide rate is much above the national average.