“What skirt,” you say? Yesterday, volunteers for Okiciyap (we help) the Isabel Community, put the skirt on the trailer. AND…we have a $500 challenge grant, good to tomorrow at midnight, This donor is asking all the small donors to get together now….can you pitch in $5, $10, $15? It adds up quickly, believe me. Right … Continued
Welcome to the fourth edition of First Nations News & Views. This weekly series is one element in the “Invisible Indians” project put together by Meteor Blades and me, with assistance from the Native American Netroots Group. Last week’s edition is here. In this edition you will find an update on the Cheyenne River Reservation … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) I don’t know about you, but I had parents who would pull the “starving children in Africa” thing if I was going to leave food on my plate. Then one day I came up with something that made them quit. I held out my plate full of leftovers and said, … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) I hate the winter. I especially hate the darkness and the cold. Yes, I have Seasonal Affective Disorder. But I also have a warm apartment and a job, even if I am underemployed right now…. But I’m only SAD….add unemployment, terrible housing, hunger pangs and a chronic health condition or … Continued
This diary was inspired by the recommended diary Suicide State Of Emergency On Pine Ridge Reservation by Winter Rabbit. Permission granted to post the following in its entirety: The Arrogance of Ignorance: Hidden Away, Out of Sight and Out of Mind Regarding life, conditions, and hope on the Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Reservation of … Continued
Keith Olbermann tells us (quoted in navajo’s “Dakota’s Rezs Winter Heating Funds Ran Out In December”) “If anybody wants to go further, the chairman of the tribe tells us the consciousness of politicians is as important as donations right now. FEMA has yet to declare the region a disaster area, and there’s something else that … Continued
