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Books for Lakota Kids at the Ground Control Indoor Skatepark on Pine Ridge Rez

 

 

This book drive is for the kids who spend time at the indoor skatepark (skateboarding and roller skating), Ground Control, on Pine Ridge Rez.  Please take a look at their wish list and let me know what you are sending so I can mark it as donated. New or gently used copies are fine to send.

Thanks so much for supporting them! You kindness and generosity is very much appreciated.

Also, here’s a video about Pine Ridge. At minute 21:39 you’ll find a clip about the skatepark!

 

Needed/Donated as of 10/2025:

The Disposable Skateboard Bible  (Need 1)
Skateboarding for Dummies (Need 1)

Skateboarding: Legendary Tricks 2 (Need 1)

How It Happened  Skateboards: The Cool Stories and Facts Behind Every Trick (Need 1)

Guinnes World Records 2026 (Need 1)

The Daring Book for Girls (Need 1)

Shaun White Airborne  (Need 1)

Skate the World (Need 1)

Mark Gonzales (Need 1)

The Highlights Book of Things to Do (Need 1)
The Highlights Book of Things To Do Outdoors (Need 1)
The Highlights Book of Things to Do Indoors (Need 1)

Gregor the Overlander (Need 1)

Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane (Need 1)

Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods (Need 1)

Gregor and the Marks of Secret (Need 1)

Gregor and the Code of Claw (Need 1)

Four Wheels and A Board: The Smithsonian History of Skateboarding (Need 1)
Tony Hawk: Professional Skateboarder (Need 1)
Skateboard (Need 1)
The Skateboard Art of Jim Phillips (Need 1)
100 Skateboards (Need 1)
The Skateboarding Field Manual (Need 1)

The Mutt: How to Skateboard and Not Kill Yourself (Donated–Thank you!)

Skate Like A Girl (Donated–Thank you!)

On the Halfpipe with Tony Hawk (Donated–Thank you!)

Also donated–Thank you!:

 

4 skateboard themed coloring books
1 skate word search
4 four graphic novels
1  See Spot Shred book

 

Please ship your books for the Ground Control kids here:

Via UPS/FedEx/Online Orders:

Kyle Mesteth
Ground Control
53 Old Sundance Road
Pine Ridge, SD 57770


Via USPS if you’d like to shop locally and mail to the rez:

Kyle Mesteth
Ground Control
P.O. Box 316
Pine Ridge, SD 57770

 

 

Please note: Due to the volume of donations shipped to the reservation, FoPRR cannot verity delivery of your boxes.  If you are shipping from home and require confirmation of delivery, please purchase delivery confirmation from the post office or use your shipping service’s tracking system.

 

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Current Donation Drives

 

  • 2025 Thank You Letters
  • A 2025 Thanksgiving Meals Drive for Lakota Families – First Families Now
  • A 2025 Christmas Gifts Drive for Lakota Elders – First Families Now
  • A 2025 Christmas Gifts Drive for Navajo Elders
  • A 2025 Christmas Gifts Drive for the Yurok Rez Boys and Girls Club
  • A 2025 Christmas Gifts Drive for the Oglala Lakota Children’s Justice Center
  • A 2025 Christmas Gifts Drive for the Yurok Elders Nutrition Program – COMPLETED–Thank you!
  • A 2025 Christmas Gifts Drive for Lakota Kids – First Families Now – COMPLETED–Thank you!
  • A Christmas Decorations Drive for an Indoor Rez Skatepark
  • A Food Drive for Yurok Elders
  • A Food Drive for Lakota Families
  • Support an Indoor Skatepark on Pine Ridge Rez
  • Books for An Indigenous Little Free Library in Albuquerque, NM (Navajo, Isleta Pueblo)
  • A Book Drive for Multiple Indigenous Little Free Libraries in Oklahoma City (Cheyenne, Cherokee, Comanche, Kiowa)
  • Books for the Yurok Tribe Boys and Girls Club
  • Books for Kids at An Indoor Skatepark on Pine Ridge Rez (Lakota)
  • A Book Drive for Indigenous Little Free Libraries Across the Country
  • Books for Havasupai Children [At the bottom of the Grand Canyon] (Havasupai)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Weitchpec Yurok Magnet Elementary School (Yurok)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Jack Norton Elementary School (Yurok)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – American Horse School (K-8) (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Batesland Elementary School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Crazy Horse School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Lakota Waldorf School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Little Singer Community School (Navajo)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Little Wound School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Loneman Day School [Isnawica Owayawa] (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – ‘O Me-nok Learning Center [Formerly Margaret Keating Elementary] (Yurok)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Our Lady of Lourdes School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Piñon Elementary School (Navajo)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Porcupine School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Red Cloud School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Red Shirt School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Rockyford Elementary School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Wolf Creek Elementary School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Wounded Knee District School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation High School – Lakota Tech High School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation High School – Little Wound High School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation High School – Oglala Lakota County School District Virtual High School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation High School – Piñon High School (Navajo)
  • Books for a Reservation High School – Red Cloud High School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation K-12 School – Pine Ridge School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Middle School – Piñon Middle School (Navajo)
  • Books for a Reservation Middle and High School – Crazy Horse School (Lakota)
  • Books for First Families Now (Lakota)
  • Books for Head Start (Lakota)
  • Books for Oglala Lakota College Library (Lakota)
  • Books for the Oglala Lakota College Library Build Your Own Library Children’s Book Project (Lakota)
  • Books for Oglala Lakota Children’s Justice Center (Lakota)
  • Books for Partnership for Housing (Lakota)
  • Books for the Kiyuksa O’Tipi Reintegration Center (Lakota)
  • Monetary Donations (Lakota and Yurok)
  • OLC Library’s Head Start – Early Childhood Books Giveaway Project (Lakota)
  • Support the Oglala Lakota College – Nursing Department (Lakota)

 

 

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Aaron Huey's effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people — appalling, and largely ignored — compelled him to refocus. Five years of work later, his haunting photos intertwine with a shocking history lesson.

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