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In this place, two roads meet. Where they cross, it is holy. The black road winds north from Whiteclay, Neb., to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The red road winds west from Wounded Knee, where more than 300 Native men, women and children were massacred in 1890.
Which way will the path of the Seventh Generation of Lakota lead? Click here for a Journal Star special report, Standing at the Crossroads.

Many consider this generation to be the prophesied one that could mend the Lakota nation's sacred loop, broken at Wounded Knee. Can this happen when so many young lives are broken?
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BY KEVIN ABOUREZK
Lincoln Journal Star
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They have homes. They have families who will take them in. But still, on any given day, several dozen Lakota drink in the dust of Whiteclay. At night, they haunt the streets, caught up in something unforeseen.
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BY COLLEEN KENNEY
Lincoln Journal Star
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