Pine Ridge Girls’ School

The Pine Ridge Girls’ School (PRGS) in South Dakota is the only independent girls’ school on an Indigenous reservation in the United States. Called Anpo Wicahpi in the Lakota language, the school provides culturally rooted education to girls from grades 6–12 on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The rigorous college-prep curriculum is grounded in Lakota values and traditions, and prepares students to walk in both worlds proudly as Lakota, wherever they go. PRGS foresees a day when every Lakota girl on the reservation is prepared academically, spiritually, and emotionally to reach her full potential and give voice and energy to critical advocacy, healing, and community-building efforts.