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David Rooks
David Lawrence Rooks was born the second of premature twin boys in
Phoenix, Arizona in 1956. He spent 10 formative years near there in the
valley towns of Chandler and Tempe, Arizona. He then moved...vizualizați mai multeDavid Lawrence Rooks was born the second of premature twin boys in
Phoenix, Arizona in 1956. He spent 10 formative years near there in the
valley towns of Chandler and Tempe, Arizona. He then moved with his
family to his father’s Native land of the Oglala Lakota on the Pine Ridge
Indian Reservation where he graduated high school at Red Cloud Indian
School in 1974.
He attended College at Mount Marty in Yankton, SD on an academic/
athletic scholarship, and later attended Chadron State College in
Chadron, NE. on the GI Bill. He learned life lessons on the oil fields of
Colorado, Utah, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and
Wyoming. He also served our country with the First Infantry Division at
Fort Riley, Kansas for four years.
Dave has worked at Red Cloud School, and written for several newspapers and magazines, including the
Rapid City Journal where he has been a columnist from 1997 up to the present. In his spare time he has
coached soccer for a decade to young boys and girls across Western South Dakota.
He currently lives in Hot Springs, SD where he and his wife are raising their six children, two cats, a
dog, twelve fi sh, and one black widow spider.vizualizați mai puține