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Dear Ones, Please read and notify those you think might help of this crisis.
''Emergency Winter Heating/Utility Assistance Program for the Elders, Disabled, and Seriously Ill.''
Winter in South Dakota started early Autumn 2008 and has been
exceptionally brutal with days and nights already breaking many records
for below 0*F temperatures and reported wind chill factors defying
comprehension at -72*F.
On the Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux Reservation, this has set even the
most solid of reservation organizations scrambling for heating fuel.
Add to the problem a 33% increase in propane costs this year and it has
become a very tenuous situation.
Sadly, like everywhere, it's always the elders and sick who are the most at risk.
Still there are many qualified elders and disabled from the Reservation
on a waiting list for assistance.
Bitter cold temperatures and snow still persist and are expected to
continue well into March 2009.
But with the early onset of winter and the blizzards and extended frigid
temperatures creating extreme need, funding is low or depleted
at this point for most of them.
The ultimate goal will be the programs provided which will continue
to keep people alive and warm, one family at a time.
www.republicoflakotah.com/
Please visit www.nativeprogress.org
to help send money, food, blankets etc...
Sooper Bear spoke to a lady named Jeri Baker and a gentleman named John DuBray this morning.
JERRY: 570-460-6567
JOHN: 605-441-5477
www.nativeprogress.org/content/view/49/112/
Jeri provided the above website to peruse:
John gave the following address for mailing supplies:
ONE SPIRIT
28080 ALLEN RD
ALLEN, SOUTH DAKOTA
57714
NATIVEPROGRESS.ORG
www.nativeprogress.org/
The woman in charge of directly working with the elderly on the reservation is:
LINDA BULL BEAR
605-454-0007
LBULLBEAR@NATIVEPROGRESS.ORG
FEMA is not helping. I repeat, FEMA is NOT helping.
Thank you Sooper Bear and Crow's World for the tip
Please- lets all do what ever we can and also pass along this message... Thanks
Blessed Be
Siz'l
"The survival of the world depends upon our sharing what we have and working together. If we don't, the whole world will die. First the planet, and next the people."
FOOLS CROW
Ceremonial Chief of the Teton Sioux
''Emergency Winter Heating/Utility Assistance Program for the Elders, Disabled, and Seriously Ill.''
Winter in South Dakota started early Autumn 2008 and has been
exceptionally brutal with days and nights already breaking many records
for below 0*F temperatures and reported wind chill factors defying
comprehension at -72*F.
On the Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux Reservation, this has set even the
most solid of reservation organizations scrambling for heating fuel.
Add to the problem a 33% increase in propane costs this year and it has
become a very tenuous situation.
Sadly, like everywhere, it's always the elders and sick who are the most at risk.
Still there are many qualified elders and disabled from the Reservation
on a waiting list for assistance.
Bitter cold temperatures and snow still persist and are expected to
continue well into March 2009.
But with the early onset of winter and the blizzards and extended frigid
temperatures creating extreme need, funding is low or depleted
at this point for most of them.
The ultimate goal will be the programs provided which will continue
to keep people alive and warm, one family at a time.
www.republicoflakotah.com/
Please visit www.nativeprogress.org
to help send money, food, blankets etc...
Sooper Bear spoke to a lady named Jeri Baker and a gentleman named John DuBray this morning.
JERRY: 570-460-6567
JOHN: 605-441-5477
www.nativeprogress.org/content/view/49/112/
Jeri provided the above website to peruse:
John gave the following address for mailing supplies:
ONE SPIRIT
28080 ALLEN RD
ALLEN, SOUTH DAKOTA
57714
NATIVEPROGRESS.ORG
www.nativeprogress.org/
The woman in charge of directly working with the elderly on the reservation is:
LINDA BULL BEAR
605-454-0007
LBULLBEAR@NATIVEPROGRESS.ORG
FEMA is not helping. I repeat, FEMA is NOT helping.
Thank you Sooper Bear and Crow's World for the tip
Please- lets all do what ever we can and also pass along this message... Thanks
Blessed Be
Siz'l
"The survival of the world depends upon our sharing what we have and working together. If we don't, the whole world will die. First the planet, and next the people."
FOOLS CROW
Ceremonial Chief of the Teton Sioux
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Re: A Cry for help- a native emergency
Thu, January 15, 2009 - 8:04 PMa bunch of my friends got togeather a few years ago and sent a bunch of warm clothes and coats... but the need is greater than ever now.
i really some of you can be the manifastor of miracles for them... -
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Re: A Cry for help- a native emergency
Fri, January 16, 2009 - 9:20 PMI talked to friends out at PR and they said it's really cold, and all help will be appreciated. They said that sending aid to Linda will be good.
Money for propane and food is the fastest way to help, sending warm clothes and blankets by mail is slower but also very helpful. -
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Re: A Cry for help- a native emergency
Sun, January 25, 2009 - 2:55 PMScrew propane and boat people.... lighters and axes are cheaper.... huddle huddle.
"Don't give because its hope that binds us
Pain that guides us
Who do we trust when those things remind us
Its hope that guides us
Pain that binds us
Who do we trust when they're not behind us?" - Flaw, "World's Divide"
This kind of weather shouldn't last for long. I send my Prayers and Love...
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Re: A Cry for help- a native emergency
Sun, January 25, 2009 - 3:10 PMThis is the first winter in 3 years I have used wood for heating... common sense would tell anyone to stay moving, it keeps you alive no matter how cold it may be... complaining will make it worse... and your "vision" will ultimately pull anyone through anything, unless your vision is focused upon... quitting...
Fire is also more energy efficient... positive... AND... is MUCH hotter... you can also keep a fire going... it's tough when you run out of propane, you gonna start your car when it's iced over and travel who knows how many miles to get your propane refilled? No... you're gonna burn things. Shoes with rubber soles and rubber tires will create the hottest fires you ever seen. That's overkill though..
Heat is worse than cold... try walking 17 miles on a gravel dirt road with no shoes, no water, and it's a heat index of about 125 F. Yes, I made the journey, however, I didn't make the welcome home... I was welcomed to the hospital D.O.A.... glad to have lived to be able to say.... not everyone is strong enough to choose to live. I suppose these are common sense things...
"Who were the Four Fathers that taught us to be dependent upon posessions?" - Me
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Re: A Cry for help- a native emergency
Sun, January 25, 2009 - 3:11 PMahem... typo: "Don't give up because..."
That's a lesson and something I meant to say... Bee sure you know your source. -
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Re: A Cry for help- a native emergency
Sun, January 25, 2009 - 3:33 PMThat's all I have to say.
No real chief ever asked for anything from someone else.... maybe to pass the pipe when someone had smoked too much, ;-)
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Re: A Cry for help- a native emergency
Thu, January 29, 2009 - 8:22 PMare we not glad that he unsubscribed? -
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Re: A Cry for help- a native emergency
Sat, January 31, 2009 - 9:05 AMHe unsubscribed from my tribe also. Maybe he has finally moved on. -
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Re: A Cry for help- a native emergency
Sat, January 31, 2009 - 8:50 PMI don't really understand much of what "unsub." is trying to say. Bit too vague or twisted for my way of thinking. I guess I'm not much of a "poet".
But, if he is trying to say the folks at Pineridge should heat with wood, I would agree with him, ..in a general sort of way. Wood is good, it helps you be more self-sufficient.
The problem is that there is very little wood at PR. People who want to heat their homes with wood mostly need to go to the Black Hills to cut trees. That takes many hours of driving, gas, a chain saw and a pickup truck. And one pickup load will only heat one house for a week, (if it's not too cold out.) They could plant fast growing poplar trees for home grown fuel, but that doesn't do much for this year.
It's a wicked tough place to be in winter. In the old days they wintered elsewhere. But, they were made to live there, it sucks, and in the last hundred+ years, it hasn't gotten any better. (Unless you think a casino improves things.) -
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Re: A Cry for help- a native emergency
Sun, February 1, 2009 - 7:49 AM"(Unless you think a casino improves things.) "
I have spoken my peace on that issue. I have seen tribes decimated as they start culling members to get their numbers down. In some cases, it has helped tribes immensely. This is when the primary use of the profits has been for services like schools and hospitals that the government has fallen down on providing. The sad part is that many tribes succumb to the lure of greed. In one case a tribal elder started questioning where all the money was going as those involved with the casino were driving around in fancy cars and had nice houses, while many elders were going without. He and his family, long members of the tribe were cast out and told they had to prove their lineage. The problem with that was the tribe held the records. They tried to turn to the BIA but the BIA said it was a family matter.
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Re: A Cry for help- a native emergency
Tue, February 3, 2009 - 10:13 AM"They tried to turn to the BIA but the BIA said it was a family matter."
Working with the BIA is like swimming in the sewer without a snorkel. Of course swimming in the sewer with a snorkel only means that you won't drown, but you still have to endure the stink. There is a special place in Hell reserved for the "Apparatchiks" who have conspired to loot the billions of dollars from the Native Peoples and still do.
One of the things that I have hoped that the Obama Administration would do was to begin a Truth and Reconciliation process with the victims of the traditional crony operated slush fund that is the complex of accounts into which the Trust Funds have always vanished. Adjusted for inflation and currency valuation the monies stolen via the BIA and its predecessors DWARFS the monies stolen by the CPA in Iraq.
Like many other people, I have adopted a 'wait and see' attitude toward the possible selection of Jim EchoHawk for the job at Interior. Looking at the way that Obama seems to be 'sensitive' to the needs of the Republicans in drafting a bi-partisan governing structure, I am very sanguine about how far he will push things with the Western States governments about NDN monies. This may be a fight that has to wait for his second term.
In any regard; it is important for us and all folks of good will and integrity to remember the plight of not just the people on the rez but also the rights of all of the original Americans. We are the Bosnians on this continent. All of our cities stand on lands that we (our forebears) ethnically cleansed.
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Re: A Cry for help- a native emergency
Sun, February 15, 2009 - 9:34 PMnobama is, at heart, a socialist. He believes in government solving the problems of the "people". Already in the first month of his term he has managed to get passed "universal" health "care", which is hidden within the nearly trillion dollar so called stimulus bill. He believes it proper to take enormous amounts of money away from individuals , give it to the gov't, and then have the gov't give it to whomever it wants, in the way that it wants to. Amoung the end results of "uni. care" will be that the gov't will decide who gives what and who gets what. If the gov't decides that a particular medication or medical procedure is not affordable for the system to pay for, then the person who wants it won't get it. Or if a person eats too much or drinks too much, they won't deserve or be eligible for certain kinds of care. Universal care will give complete gov't control to one of the most important aspects of peoples lives.
.....If this sounds like a good idea to you, then how do you, at the same time, expect that nobama will do the opposite, and "grant" greater soverienity to individuals and groups ?
Original Peoples would be far better off if the gov't, and all it's systems of control, would simply go away. They would be much better off if they would cease being wards of the "state".
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