Schooling at Pahapesto

Hard to find and harder to get to was the lonely schoolhouse of Pahapesto (which in Lakota language loosely translates to “view from hill”). A Tripp County South Dakota hideaway, in a nondescript location somewhere about five miles northeast as the crow flies, from the diminutive prairie town of Wood. But crows never flew there because they always became lost on the expanse of prairie. The one…