Native-led community center in the works for Rapid City
April 21, 2021
RAPID CITY, S.D. — He Sapa Otipi stands for community center for the people of the Black Hills and that is exactly what they are trying to bring to Rapid City. The center is in the early stages of vision planning but is hoping to provide a number of different services to natives and non-natives in the area.
Beverly Warne, Organizer for He Sapa Otipi, said, “There will be activities for them, a gym hopefully where they can play basketball and other activities. Families can come and have wakes and funerals that we are traditionally embedded with. The youth will have a place to come, we’ll have an industrial sized kitchen where we can serve food to the children after school.”