“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
( – 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
I sent Autumn Two Bulls a message asking how many suicides on Pine Ridge in the last 6 months. I noticed yesterday that Cornell University had a front page story in The New York Times after three suicides on their campus. All young people at risk for suicide deserve help love and suppport. But why … Continued
Tribal president declares state of emergency over increase in youth suicide attempts Posted: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 PINE RIDGE — Oglala Sioux Tribe President Theresa Two Bulls will declare a suicide state of emergency for Pine Ridge Indian Reservation during a news conference at 1 p.m. today. I want to share a personal story, because … Continued
( – promoted by navajo) (Navajo invited me to cross post this from Daily Kos.) A lot of people are aware of the many abject problems Native American’s face- rampant poverty, diabetes, environmental degradation to name a few. The current social problems are not isolated from the past several hundred years of colonalism & imperialism, … Continued
