WHAT CAMP OFFERS

Through carefully planned activities and approaches, Camp Laugh A Lot:

• gives children the opportunity to experience carefree days full of fun and adventure at camp,
• helps children build positive relations and enhance their self-image,
• helps children assume greater personal responsibility,
• helps children learn about nature and indigenous knowledge related to the natural world, thereby enhancing their appreciation of nature as well as their capacity to care for the environment,
• helps prepare Lakota children to become involved in volunteering and participating in self-help initiatives.

Camp Activities

• Nature Study
• Learning indigenous knowledge about the natural world
• Team Building Activities
• Hiking in Wind Cave National Park & Custer State Park
• Trail riding in the Black Hills
• Visit to America’s largest wild horse herd
• Swimming in lakes and Cascade Falls
• Tubing down the Fall River (warmed natural by hot springs)
• Canoeing
• Treasure Hunts with Nature Clues
• Learning Lakota and other campfire songs

By providing these camping opportunities in the Black Hills, Lakota children spend time in an area sacred to their Tribe.