Buying time Brinkmanship
One Spirit was originally founded to help the Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation achieve greatly improved nutritional outcomes, while simultaneously helping to foster independence and self-reliance.
The Road to Independence
One last obstacle
The walk-in cooler (photo below) is the Last Obstacle to a fully functional USDA compliant meat processing facility. They're crazy expensive. This unit is quoted at $22,200.00 for the cooler and shipping. Then there's the cost of installation.
The Lakota have worked so hard to make the Charging Buffalo House a reality, from sweat equity to donations by Lakota artists to try and raise funds to reach the finish line this season.
Fall is the harvest time for buffalo and for other game taken by Lakota hunters, so the need for your generous donations is acute to enable One Spirit and the Lakota to get the Charging Buffalo House up and running immediately.
One last push
Fall is the harvest time for buffalo and for other game taken by Lakota hunters, so the need for your generous donations is acute to enable One Spirit and the Lakota to get the Charging Buffalo House up and running immediately.
One of the amazing things about watching an elite athlete running a race, even a marathon, is that will to put forth a final burst of energy to achieve a victorious outcome.
For the past few years, One Spirit and the Lakota people of the Pine Ridge Reservation have been running a marathon effort to complete the Charging Buffalo House: a fully-equipped, USDA-compliant meat processing facility that will enable the Lakota to process buffalo and other traditional meats to provide sound nutrition to people so desperately in need.
Charging Buffalo House
A Wild Update
By Jim Drevescraft
The ancient sport of lacrosse, which has been reborn as a major collegiate and professional sport in the past several years, is a uniquely Native American invention. While there are plentiful sports involving sticks and balls around the globe, the cultural significance and specific equipment used for lacrosse are unlike any other.