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Rez->PineRidge: Help desperately needed on Pine Ridge Rez - people will freeze as temperatures drop to 60 below zero
Posted on Saturday, December 20 @ 07:17:45 CST (1659 reads)

South Dakota has been hit with yet another blizzard last night. This severe storm has brought low temperatures of -35 degrees with the wind chill factor. Tonight's low is expected to be -60 degrees in many areas of Western South Dakota. These temperatures are expected to last through Tuesday evening, with more snow expected over the next few days. The rest of this week, evening temperatures will be around zero, or just above.

The people of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota are particularly at risk. Between substandard housing and pandemic poverty, elders are literally ringing heating assistance agencies’ phones off the hook as they face the very real threat of freezing to death.

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Org->Social Services: Pine Ridge Winter Clothing Drive is Still Going On
Posted on Tuesday, January 08 @ 21:24:06 CST (3409 reads)

AUTHOR: S.O.T.Y.

Hello friends,

We have received generous donations of clothing, coats, scarves, gloves and hats for the children of the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. We have also received monetary donations to help with the costs related to shipping....thank you friends.

We are still accepting donations for all the above mentioned items for the children of Pine Ridge as well as blankets and monetary donations.

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Org->Social Services: Campbell Soup labels benefit Pine Ridge Reservation Elementary School
Posted on Tuesday, October 09 @ 17:30:01 CDT (3690 reads)

Collect Campbell’s soup labels and other proof of purchase from Campbell’s products and they will offer rebates to help the children of Pine Ridge Reservation Elementary school with free educational and athletic equipment.

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Org->Social Services: Drive to help Lakota children of the Pine Ridge Reservation
Posted on Saturday, May 12 @ 00:00:18 CDT (4567 reads)

Bonnie Hobbs

"I went out there expecting — on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest — to see poverty at level 10," said Head Coach Jay Corwin. "But the poverty level on the Pine Ridge reservation would probably score a 50. It was nothing I ever imagined I'd see in the United States — not in my lifetime."

Corwin, a firefighter with Station 16 in Clifton, learned about the Lakota Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation while studying Native Americans. And once he did, he felt compelled to do something firsthand about their situation. So from April 1-6, he, Assistant Coach Bruce Thayer and 11 boys, age 13, lent a hand. And the experience changed them all.

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Org->Social Services: Talking circle helps veterans cope with stress disorder
Posted on Saturday, August 19 @ 00:43:33 CDT (4712 reads)

Casey Phillips, The Albuquerque Tribune

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - In this plain, white room at Albuquerque's Veteran Affairs Medical Center, many stories have been told; few of them have happy endings.

But the five veterans sitting in a circle facing each other are tied together by more than their unhappy tales.

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Org->Social Services: Choctaw Scleroderma Foundation created
Posted on Wednesday, June 21 @ 02:25:28 CDT (9577 reads)

AUTHOR: Louis Gray

The Choctaw Scleroderma Foundation was created as an Oklahoma 501 (c) 3 non-profit group in May of 2006 to help sufferers and their families to know they are not alone. Aimee Angle-Zahn, Taloa Gibson and Alicia Seyler are the founding members of this noble and needed organization. Seyler and Gibson's Grandmother died from a form of Scleroderma.

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Org->Social Services: National Native American Veterans Association
Posted on Thursday, February 16 @ 12:23:31 CST (7989 reads)

lonewolf721 writes Calling All Native American Veterans, hear the drums
Listen to the winds, and your heart...

The mission of the Native American Veterans Association is to educate and assist Native American Veterans without regard to Tribal affiliation, degree of Indian Blood, branch of Armed Service, or Combat Status with regard to Veteran Rights, Benefits, and Entitlements.

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Org->Social Services: Native Youth Magazine.com to launch site at NABI
Posted on Wednesday, August 03 @ 20:29:46 CDT (8266 reads)

Anonymous writes It’s a website for Native youth that’s long overdue! Native Youth Magazine.com is an online lifestyle magazine about Native youth on and off the reservation. By the touch of a button young Native people can now finally find out what their peers are doing, thinking and wearing in all regions of the U.S. and Canada! This is a magazine designed to encourage and inspire Native youth by promoting positive messages through articles, profiles, illustrations and photos.

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Hist->ModernDayHeroes: Oklahoma Hall of Fame seeks Indian nominations
Posted on Friday, February 04 @ 11:09:23 CST (10179 reads)

Oklahoma Hall of Fame seeks Indian nominations... KEYWORDS: oklahoma hall of fame modern day heroes Indian hero Wilma Mankiller Alice Brown Davis Robert L. Owen Fred Lookout

Here is your chance to nominate a fellow Native American to join what is already a prestigious list. Officials with the Oklahoma Hall of Fame are seeking nominations. The rules limit the number of living inductees to eight, in addition to one posthumous induction. The 2005 class of honorees will be inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame on Thursday, November 17 during a televised ceremony in Oklahoma City.

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Org->Social Services: Native veteran's organization offers resources to those that served
Posted on Friday, February 04 @ 10:35:24 CST (10067 reads)

Oklahoma Native veteran's organization offers resources to those that served.. KEYWORDS: National Native American Veterans Association native american veterans organization native veterans organization Oklahoma native veterans group

In October 2004 an entirely Native American Veterans Organization, the National Native American Veterans Association, began operations. The Association, headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK, is the first National Organization which has structured itself to work with both individual Native Veterans and Tribal Entities on a National basis.

It is the Association’s belief that every veteran deserves representation that understands and respect their unique needs and feels that Native American Veterans have long been overlooked in this regard. It hopes to fill the void by representing Native American Veterans with an emphasis on Native American Tradition and Heritage.

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Museums-> Illinois: American Indian Center of Chicago museum and art gallery opening
Posted on Wednesday, December 01 @ 12:47:21 CST (17900 reads)

American Indian Center of Chicago museum and art gallery... KEYWORDS: native american museum american indian museum native american art gallery +Chicago American Indian Center of Chicago midwest indian museum Illinois indian museum chicago powwow american indian culture

It was 1953 when a small group of American Indians held the first American Indian Center Powwow in Chicago. They filled the streets near Kinzie and LaSalle, dancing and singing and pounding drums.

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Native American Groups fight to save Mounds
Posted on Wednesday, March 24 @ 11:31:46 CST (11551 reads)

Koda writes KEYWORDS: native american sacred places american indian burial mounds burial grounds attrocities to american indians in the 21st century Native American Alliance Ohio burial mounds native american demonstrations native american protests July 4, 2004

Native American Alliance to Protect Indian Burial Mounds

Demonstration of Unity July 4, 2004

The ancient burial mounds and earthworks located in Ohio are being destroyed and damaged, some of the human remains have been dug up and then stored in a warehouse. In one area, the mounds were leveled and a country club and golf course were built around the earthworks. The public and Indian groups are no longer allowed on the property except for 2 half days during the year.

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Rez->PineRidge: You can be a Modern Day Hero - Support Leonard Peltier's Annual Christmas Drive
Posted on Sunday, December 22 @ 22:34:05 CST (7674 reads)

Anonymous writes Indigenous Political Prisoner, Leonard Peltier, has organized his annual gift drive for the children of the Pine Ridge Lakota Nation in South Dakota. This is one way Leonard continues his humanitarian work for his people despite his incarceration.

Help Leonard Peltier reach out beyond the bars that imprison him.

You can send gifts such as new toys and practical, new winter clothing (gloves, jeans, thermal underwear, sweaters, socks, hats, scarves, jackets, boots, and blankets, etc,) to the addresses listed below. Your gifts will be distributed to the people of Pine Ridge in Leonard's name.

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Org->Social Services: Mita Maske Ti Ki offers Refuge, Hope to Battered Women & Children
Posted on Thursday, December 27 @ 22:32:24 CST (7025 reads)

AUTHOR: Melanie Brandert
Argus Leader

According to a 1999 U.S. Department of Justice study on Native Americans and crime using statistics from 1992 to 1996, Native Americans are twice as likely to become victims of violence as the rest of the nation. Nearly 125 violent crimes are committed per 1,000 Native Americans, compared to 50 per 1,000 U.S. residents.

Shelter program officials statewide suggested a need for a shelter for minority women, said Verlaine Gullickson, co-director of the South Dakota Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault in Pierre. The group has founded and financially assisted shelters, such as Mita Maske Ti Ki (My Sister Friends' House), statewide.

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