The Minneluzahan Senior Center is a local non-profit organization that provides social and educational programming for the elderly in the Rapid City area. To become a member, you could fill out the application from the newspaper or come in to fill out an application in person and pay the annual membership fee of $30. So, stop on by and “Enrich your life!”

    The Center is located at 315 North 4th Street in Rapid City, across the street from the Civic Center and next door to the Boys Club. The Center hours are from 8:00am to 3:00pm Monday – Friday.

What’s in a name?
    “Minneluzahan Senior Citizens Center ” is a name hard to spell and pronounce, but equally hard to forget. “M-I-N-N-E-L-U-Z-A-H-A-N” is the Lakota Sioux word for “Rapid Creek” in the spelling given it by the modern Sioux language experts and accepted by the traditional Lakota Member of the Human services advisory board, which was the group who founded and chartered the Minneluzahan Senior Citizens Center in 1975. “Minne” means “water”, as in “Minnesota,” “Minnetonka”, and “Minnehaha.” “Luza” means “swift.” “Han” (the “n” is only half-sounded as in French “pont”) means “continuing” and “good.”