Lakota-Aid

[rosiedoes]

Hello Everyone,

I sincerely hope the New Year brings you all that you wish for and a good year for everyone.

Unfortunately, this will not be the case for a lot of Elders on the Pine Ridge Reservation, many struggling to bring up Grandchildren also. This is the case on other Lakota reservations too. I am being told of Elders sitting in the cold because they have no money for fuel for heating. I have just been told of one full blood Lakota man that collects soda cans just to try and get some money for fuel and food!! The Elder is not on his own, there are way too many that have to live this way and no help is ever given.

I am slowly accumulating a list of people that live in the remoter areas of the reservation lands, and are always struggling just to try and get through life, especially in the winter months, and I am putting this newsletter out to ask for help for these people.

You can help by sending a few dollars, or a food parcel etc, and also by writing to them and touching the hearts of these people, thus giving them some hope that someone, somewhere cares!!

If anyone would like more information about this project I am trying to build up, then please e-mail me at:- info@lakota-aid.co.uk

If you would like to make a difference to an Elders life, no matter how small a contribution, then please contact me and I will give you the relevant information for an Elder.

Also, I am going back to South Dakota in march of this year after a couple years gap due to personal circumstances. I am so looking forwards to seeing my friends on the reservation again, but this will also be a trip in which I intend to do a lot of research and gain more knowledge of conditions etc on the reservation.

Bearing in mind that I live in the UK, I am intending to do more talks after this trip about my work with the Lakota people and if anyone would like me to do a talk on this subject, then again please e-mail me at:-

info@lakota-aid.co.uk

Thank you for reading this newsletter and I hope that this appeal will touch the hearts of many people.

Best Wishes for 2008

Brenda – www.lakota-aid.co.uk

Comments

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I've been seriously considering becoming involved with Adopt A Native Elder, and the plans you're making sound similar, so I'd like to find out more about them. Will email soon. :)

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

Thanks - Brenda is the person to contact, she's the one co-ordinating it all. :)

[philipstorry.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the reminder - I'll donate ASAP!