OWASTE OTI: HOME
Oceti Sakowin Community Academy + Community Development Vision Plan
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The Oceti Sakowin; Home project was a plan that encompassed equitable opportunities for the Rapid City area and for the Indigenous people all across North America. This was one of the many diverse regenerative projects that focuses on racial justice, wellness, and education through the lens of cultural identity.
This project includes a K-12 school, affordable housing, community-serving commercial development, healing-informed care, and shelter for victims of domestic violence as well as unhoused youth. The project honors the cultural customs and wicoun (way of life) of indigenous people from past to present and for future generations through social, environmental, and economic benefits that impact all people in a positive way.
This project provided a perspective of connections between communities and natural systems in relation to cultural importance. The plan prioritizes focused systems including those below as part of the seven Oceti Sakowin Essential Understanding (OSEU) of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota people.
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Land use
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Ecosystem & Land restoration
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Water
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Greenways or Trails
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Energy
PROJECT DATA
Location
Rapid City, South Dakota
Year
2022- Ongoing
Client
NDN Collective
Many Thanks To
Michelle Fox, Caitlyn Shoulder, Hermus Bettelyoun, Andrew Iron Shell
Consultant Team
Joshua Hemberger Co-Leader/ Architecture Substance Architecture
Christina Hoxie Co-Leader/ Planner Hoxie Collective
Phaedra Svec Regenerative Systems Planner McLennan Design
Document Link
Owaste Oti: Home Community Academy and Community Development Plan HERE
Core Team
NDN Collective NDN Collective
Nick Tilsen, President and CEO, NDN Collective
Robby Burroughs, Managing Director, NDN Partners, NDN Collective
Alberta Eagle, Director of Operations, NDN Collective
Bre Jackson, Executive Assistant, NDN Collective
Mary Bowman, Education Equity Lead Designer, NISN Fellow
Abby Menter, Public Policy Fellow Education Equity Team, NDN Collective
Sunny Red Bear, Director of Racial Equity
Korina Barry, Managing Director of NDN Action, NDN Collective
Michael Johnson, Director of Advancement, NDN Collective
Sarah White, Executive Director, South Dakota Education Equity Coalition
Anpao Duta Flying Earth, Executive Director, NACA Inspired Schools
Bino Garcia, Director of NISN North, NACA Inspired Schools
Charles Eagle Bull, Manager of Special Projects, NACA Inspired Schools
Mathew Kull, Director of Operations, NACA Inspired Schools
Design and Engineering Consultants
Tim Hickman Principal Architect Substance Architecture
Leah Rudolphi Architect Substance Architecture
Harison Pitchford Architectural Designer Substance Architecture
Brandon Dake Principal Architect/ K-12 Expert Dake Wells
Lee Harmsen Cost Estimator Stecker Harmsen
Regan Tokos Planner Hoxie Collective
Lance Klein Landscape Architect SWT Design
Will Metcalf Landscape Architects SWT Design
Erin English Water Practice/ Engineer BioHabitats
Juan Rovalo Ecologist/ Design Specialist BioHabitats
Trevor Butler Director/Engineer Archineers
Jeffrey Crocker Civil Engineer KLJ
Connectivity of Future Generations and Sacred Sites
The Chokan or Central Space
The Chokan or center serves as a physical or spiritual spaces for student.
The Chokan Diverse Diagram Arrangements
The Chokan within the Oceti Sakowin Community Academy
The Chokan embodies connections of the seven Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings based on what is within and around.
Elementary Classroom that surrounding the Chokan
The connecting spaces for students in knowing and learning the seven Oceti Sakowin Essential Understanding.