Little Wound School ( lkt, Taopi Cikala Owayawa) is a tribal K-12 school in

Kyle, South Dakota Kyle (Lakota: ''phežúta ȟaká''; "Branched Medicine") is a census-designated place (CDP) in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, United States. Its population was 943 at the 2020 census. Located within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of the ...

. It is affiliated with the

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(BIE). It is located in the

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ( lkt, Wazí Aháŋhaŋ Oyáŋke), also called Pine Ridge Agency, is an Oglala Lakota Indian reservation located entirely within the U.S. state of South Dakota. Originally included within the territory of the Gr ...

. It is named after

Little Wound Little Wound (c. 1835–Winter 1899; Lakota: Tȟaópi Čík’ala) was an Oglala Lakota chief. Following the death of his brother Bull Bear II in 1865 he became leader of the Kuinyan branch of the Kiyuksa band (Bear people). Family His father Ch ...

. In 2001 the school started a cable television station. In 2015 the school had 900 students. That year the ''

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'' 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. 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." By November 2015 the school community experienced a

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epidemic involving 12 suicides. In 2015 the

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gave the school a $325,000 grant to address this.

Athletics

The elementary division has a

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club. The school pays for the program, making it one of the few such programs in the state.
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Little Wound School
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