U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Dakota Robinson. Courtesy photo
First Oglala Tribal member graduates from West Point
By Violet Robinson
For the Native Sun News
www.nsweekly.com WEST POINT, N.Y. –– After graduating at the top of the Wolf Point High School Class of 2012, Dakota Robinson endured the intense educational and military training and graduated in the top 15 percentile of his class from the military academy at West Point, N.Y. on Saturday May 21, 2016. Cadet Robinson is now U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Robinson (MI) with a specialty in Military Intelligence. He will serve with the Military Intelligence Branch. Dakota started preschool at the Oglala Sioux Tribal Head Start in Pine Ridge, S.D. and finished at Fort Peck Tribal Head Start in Wolf Point, Mont. He attended school in Wolf Point and then moved to be with his father in Emerson, Neb. where he completed eighth grade year. He then went on to complete high school in Montana at the top of his class as Valedictorian. Dakota participated in Leadership seminars during his junior and senior years in high school and visited both West Point Military Academy, N.Y. and the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Admission process for Military Academy required the nomination by a member of the Congressional delegation, whether it be a Senator or a Congressman. Senator Jon Tester (D-MT), former Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) and former Representative Dennis Rehberg (R-MT) all nominated Robinson. Appointment to West Point Academy requires satisfactory scores on SAT and ACT tests and the applicant must meet fitness and medical requirements. Academy graduates have a minimal five years active duty obligation. Highlights of Robinsons four years at the Academy was six months of Russian language study in Kazastan, a self-governing nation in Central Asia north of Afghanistan and bordering China and Russia.
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