A Little About Georgia Littleshield

If you don't know about the Pretty Bird Woman House, you might not know about its dedicated director, Georgia Littleshield, so I thought I'd share a little bit about her with you. Georgia is a Registered Nurse and a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe; she grew up on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation. Shortly after she began her nursing career, Georgia found that she preferred working with women outside of a hospital setting. So, 12 years ago she started advocating for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe at the Single Mother's Self-Sufficiency Program. After that she worked as an Advocate Specialist in education at the Family Violence program there.

In 2004, the South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (there is a link for the organization on the right side of this page) asked Georgia to go to the Standing Rock Reservation to start the Pretty Bird Woman House, which then opened its doors on January 5, 2005.

As you can see, Georgia was literally called to do this work!