We’re a group of 20 high school students from Wakpala and Dupree in South Dakota, and we’ve been planning a once-in-a-lifetime exchange trip to Iyasica Makoce (aka Germany).

We really need your help to make it happen. This will be our first time traveling overseas, so we all need to get passports. We’re also trying to raise money for flights, travel insurance, and a few field trips, like going to art museums, doing nature hikes, and visiting some World War history sites.

We’re proud to represent our Lakota Oyate while we’re there. We’re going to attend a German school and stay with host families. We’re really excited to see a new place and learn about another culture and language. Our German exchange partners will also come visit us for a couple weeks, so we can show them the rez and what life is like here.