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Food Program
This month's Food Day is scheduled for:
Saturday, December 21st
The last day to submit food orders is:
Saturday, December 14th
If you would like to donate to the many people who don't have sponsors but desperately need food, we will need to order based on available funds by:
Sunday, December 15th
Please email your food selections to Diane Capalario and Donna Herlihy today.
dcapalario@nativeprogress.org
dherlihy@nativeprogress.org
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Quotation of the week
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” - Maya Angelou
December Raffle
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This year in December we offer 7 items to be raffled off. Each $5 donation will qualify for a raffle ticket. All donations will go to Oglala Sioux Tribal Members in need of Wood, Food etc….This is an emergency and we need to get wood and food to tribal members asap.
So this will be a 7 days raffle and 7 items will be shipped to 7 winners on December 16th priority mail and you should get it by Christmas! What a unique one of a kind handmade by Prisoners at Jameson Prison in South Dakota.
The dream catcher has a hoop and a spider like web in the inside. It symbolizes our unity and how we are all connected and related to each other. It is said to catch the good dreams and let them fall down to the dreamer and let the bad dreams go through.
These items have all been blessed and prayed for to bring good thoughts and dreams to their owner. Normally they retail from $100 to $200 a piece. Good Luck
Watch this video to see each item in detail:
Mitakuye Oyasin – We are all related.
Give the Gift Of Food- December Food Program
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In November, One Spirit donated 1000 turkeys for the Thanksgiving holidays. We have been asked to give turkeys again this month. Without our help, food will be in short supply this holiday season. Our regular food distribution will take place on Saturday December 21st. Can you help us buy turkeys for 1000 additional families – turkeys that will be shared to feed more than 8000 people. The additional turkeys will again cost $12 each. To help families stretch their food, we are distributing 20lbs of potatoes to each family and will include in the food boxes both a turkey and a ham. One Spirit is committed to ending the widespread hunger on Pine Ridge Reservation. In 2014, we will establish food banks that will maintain the same quality of food we now distribute but the food will be more readily available when needed. The food bank will also begin to provide buffalo meat harvested from herds on the reservation. Our goal is a self-sustaining program that will make food available on an ongoing basis. The cost for a food box is $65 |
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Be part of the Project to End Hunger on Pine Ridge Reservation.
Your Help is Urgently Needed
There is an urgent need for wood in homes on the reservation. Temperatures are below freezing in the daytime and in single digits and below zero at night. Urgent requests are coming in from elders and families whose only source of heat is a wood stove and there is no wood. 2000 dollars would allow us to deliver 15 loads of wood to homes where the need is most critical.
Please donate what you can to help - all of every donation will go to the wood program.
OST Honors Team One Spirit
As the buffalo soup cooked all day, the OST tribal vice president Tom Poor Bear was preparing his words. The day had come and a dream lived, with family and friends in attendance Team One Spirit received the highest honor from the OST officials. During the marathon it was with great pride to see the Lakota Five featured segment during action at the marathon. It was proof that dreams do come true. Team One Spirit received a special honoring from the OST Vice Presidents office on behalf of the Oglala Lakota Tribe. A traditional meal was cooked over the open fire and buffalo soup was served. The buffalo meat was donated by Kevin Hancock who is a friend of the Lakota. After becoming the first Lakota Marathon team to run in the ING New York Marathon and making the tribe proud, each runner received a hand stitched star quilt and a tribal flag.
From left to right: Irv Provost*, Nupa White Plume, Amanda Carlow, Alex Wilson, Dale Pine, Tom Poor Bear**, Scott Weston***
Tom Poor Bear was in attendance and gave a nice talk of being proud of the runners and he also spoke of his time as a runner. Percy White Plume also spoke of the pride and hope it gave our people in seeing our runners in the marathon. Other tribal officials in attendance were Scott Weston and Irving Provost. The day was without two runners Turning Heart and Good Lance who were unable to attend. The traditional hand shake and big hugs of pride would warm Billy Mills hall. There was no better place to celebrate and welcome home our runners then the “hall” in Pine Ridge South Dakota and named after our hero Billy Mills Olympic champion. Team One Spirit now bringing back the spirit of running and living healthy has started a running program on the reservation. There will be a Run in December TBA. Go Team One Spirit the pride of the Lakota Nation!
*Irv Provost is OST Councilman from Pine Ridge and Chairman of the Finance Committee
**Tom Poor Bear is Vice President of the Tribe
***Scott Weston is OST Councilman from Porcupine.
