Despite those tensions, several people on the reservation said they would have liked to see a more robust National Guard and state government presence during the storm response. As members of the tribe volunteered to cook meals and unload food delivery trucks on Friday, and as people checked on older neighbors who lived far from the highway, some of the biggest needs remained unmet. (The water was moving too fast, she said, to make it out in her kayak.) In the meantime, some on Pine Ridge were hunkering down for what could be weeks more with little or no access to the outside world. Bernadine Rowland, stranded since March 12, said Saturday that she and her grandchildren had remained in good spirits and had passed the days by watching Netflix and YouTube videos.

Source: New York Times March 24, 2019 16:52 UTC