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Sun Feb 19, 2012 at 13:54:16 PM PST
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"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 now, by my estimates we only have about $120 toward that challenge (correct me in the comments if I'm wrong). We have until midnight on Monday to qualify for the match. Can we do it drop by drop?
And when that challenge is up, another Kossack stepped forward with another challenge for next week.....
Here's a photo update so you can see what your money is doing. Yesterday volunteers installed the skirt on the trailer.
Here they are:
Yes, everyone wants to help!
Cutting the wood to size:
There they go, working that skirt:
Okiciyap is truly on the brink of success!
Won't you help us get over this last hump, or forward this diary to someone who can?
(If you are financially pinched right now - which was me until a month ago - please don't feel guilty for not being able to send funds. You can help us by spreading the word and posting this story on your Facebook pages etc. We greatly appreciate ALL help here!)
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Sat Dec 03, 2011 at 12:21:55 PM PST
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What does the epithet "Prairie Nigger" have to do with the controversy around the University of North Dakota's mascot, the "Fighting Sioux?"
It's simple.
Racism.
Simply racism.
 Follow me from a 2009 Tribal Council Meeting on the Standing Rock Reservation where students testified about why they had dropped out of the University of North Dakota to recent news that the North Dakota legislature has effectively repealed a law it passed earlier this year that mandated that the UND keep the Fighting Sioux Mascot, bucking a 30+ year trend to to get rid of these disrespectful signs of school spirit. So now the mascot and team name is "in transition" (to avoid further NCAA sanctions).
How long did this thing going take to play out?
Decades. Decades during which American Indian students on campus were the subject of racist attacks while the university simultaneously built up its American Indian Studies program.
And to add intrigue to this story, there was a nefarious, Nazi-obsessed, big capitalist donor (read, casino owner) behind this controversy at its height.
And P.S. No, I'm not exaggerating about the Nazi obsession. This actually supports research suggesting that once you stereotype one group you're more likely to stereotype other groups. So, the mascots actually increase stereotyping in general.
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Fri Dec 02, 2011 at 03:38:34 AM PST
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Pepsi Challenge Grant Lifting the Digital Curtain
http://youtu.be/eGdMXxA7lU4
Many communities across the United States, especially rural communities and communities of color, live behind a digital divide. They don't have access to the same online organizing tools as urban white upper and middle class neighborhoods. And, at the same time, progressives find it difficult to engage the under-served.
Each year, at Netroots Nation, bloggers bemoan the fact that too few people of color are included or heard. We reach out again and again to the blogging world to recruit African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans and other people of color. And each year we fall short of the mark because we cannot find the activists we seek in sufficient numbers among bloggers.
I have a different kind of idea. Let's help leaders of community health coalitions attend Netroots Nation to introduce them to online organizing tools. More below the jump:
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Fri Nov 25, 2011 at 08:45:32 AM PST
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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,
"well, here, send it to them."
That shut them both up. Never again did I hear that stupid expression.
And that brings up Thanksgiving.
Many of us have a lot of leftovers in the fridge. We should be thankful for that. But like my parents, you can't really send your extra food to hungry people.
But you can take out your credit card or checkbook and donate to a food pantry on the Cheyenne River Reservation, where, like on many Indian reservations, hunger is rampant during the winter.
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Fri Oct 14, 2011 at 14:32:42 PM PDT
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TONIGHT, at 10 PM Eastern, ABC is airing a 20/20 special called "Hidden America: Children of the Plains" featuring Tashina Iron Horse, a 5 year old from Pine Ridge Reservation.
Young Tashina Iron Horse is a competitive pow wow dancer. (credit: Elissa Stohler/ABC News)
Pine Ridge residents live amid poverty that rivals that of the third world. Forty-seven percent of the Pine Ridge population lives below the federal poverty level, 65 percent to 80 percent of the adults are unemployed, and rampant alcoholism and an obesity epidemic combine with underfunded schools to make it a rough place to grow up. Tashina lives in government housing in Manderson, 30 minutes north of downtown Pine Ridge. She lives with her grandmother, parents, siblings and uncles - sometimes up to 19 people live in the three-bedroom house, which has seen better days.
In the decades following President John F. Kennedy's pledge to fund public housing projects on American Indian reservations, a construction boom began in Pine Ridge. Today, most of these units built in the 1970s and 1980s are in varying degrees of disrepair - a result, critics say, of steep cuts to the Housing and Urban Development budget made by President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. Public housing dollars today are largely spent battling black mold in reservation housing rather than constructing new homes.
Amid the despair, there are youth across the reservation - like Tashina - who are breaking through the hopelessness with huge dreams and powerful stories.
Check out a sneak peek - Tashina teaches Diane Sawyer some of her moves - below.
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Sun Apr 10, 2011 at 18:09:15 PM PDT
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This is part three of my continuing coverage of Aaron Huey's Pine Ridge Billboard Project.
Below is Ernesto Yerena's latest screenprint made for this project and based on one of Aaron Huey's images from Pine Ridge. Information about Ernesto and his first illustration for this project is featured below the fold.
I'm truly amazed at the magnitude of beauty in this artistic collaboration among Aaron Huey, Shepard Fairey and Ernesto Yerena.
Art and Activism.
Background on this project below:
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Mon Mar 14, 2011 at 10:46:23 AM PDT
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In my last diary Sherry Cornelius aka lpggirl of St. Francis Energy told us about Lillian Walking Eagle who desperately needed a new propane heater:
Lillian Walking Eagle and grand daughter : Lillian's son Cornell said to put the caption "These two old ladies nearly froze." they have an old faulty ummm lpg space heater? not sure what they're called. housing is constantly being called by them and housing merely replaces the thermocouple. i thought i heard liep had funds for furnaces so i told lillian about it. i told my mom about lillian's situation, and she called the VP willie kindle. he said he would do something for this gramma. wks later nothing is done for them.
Kossack kurt, a lurker, my new favorite lurker ordered a heater plus all the necessary accessories and had it shipped to Sherry. Sherry installed it right away.
Here is Lillian with her brand new heater:
Lorikeet, lineatus, RunawayRose and jessica (?) also donated money specifically for heaters. I waited to hear from Sherry to make sure the heaters were safe and the proper accessories were included. An update on cost, thanks to kurt, is that plus the accessories and shipping the total cost for each heater is $230. I was able to buy 2 more heaters. Sherry promised to take photos of the new heaters with their new owners.
lpggirl has sent us more photos of our Rosebud rezidents saying THANK YOU to you all for helping them get through another harsh winter in South Dakota.
Below you'll find more THANK YOU photos and details on how you can help. Please share these donation details with family and friends.
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Tue Mar 08, 2011 at 10:38:11 AM PST
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I would like to announce a new project to raise NATIONAL awareness of the poverty on our reservations. My friend Aaron Huey is launching an ambitious billboard campaign using his images of Pine Ridge reservation. Aaron is donating his time and talent to organize this project.
I have been documenting the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the past six years. Recently I have realized how inappropriate it is for this project to end with another book or a gallery show.
More than any project I have done in my career, the ever-evolving Pine Ridge project gives voice to social injustice and a forgotten history. I want my work to empower the Lakota and other tribes who fight for recognition of the past in order to help give them a chance to move forward.
Your involvement will help raise the visibility of these images by taking them straight to the public to the sides of busses, subway tunnels, and billboards. I want people to think about prisoner of war camps in America on their commute to work. I want the message to be so loud that it cannot be ignored.
Illustration by Ernesto Yerena using images by Aaron Huey
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Mon Feb 21, 2011 at 09:59:46 AM PST
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Sherry Cornelius aka lpggirl of St. Francis Energy has sent us more photos of our Rosebud rezidents saying *THANK YOU* to you all for helping them get through another harsh winter in South Dakota.
Below you'll find more THANK YOU photos and details on how you can help. Please share these donation details with family and friends.
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Tue Feb 15, 2011 at 19:30:16 PM PST
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Welcome to News from Native American Netroots, a series focused on indigenous tribes primarily in the United States and Canada but inclusive of international peoples also.
A special thanks to our team for contributing the links that have been compiled here. Please provide your news links in the comments below.
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Mon Jan 31, 2011 at 08:29:56 AM PST
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Cross-posted at Daily Kos
Sherry Cornelius of St. Francis Energy has sent us more photos of our Rosebud rezidents saying
*THANK YOU*
to you all for helping them get through another harsh winter in South Dakota.
One wonderful couple donated $1000 two weeks ago! From my last diary I sent a $700 check collected from our Native American Netroots PayPal link. Many people called St. Francis Energy directly with their credit cards. Sherry said the response has been overwhelming and it appears you are all sharing this outside of Dkos.
Special grand kudos go to Lineatus and her generous Dawn Chorus Birders who raised over $700 for Rosebud. There is currently $1000 in the NAN PayPal account which includes the Dawn Chorus. I'll be mailing a very large check STAT.
 
More photos below and details for you to share so your friends and family can donate also.
Many thanks for the notes of encouragement attached with your donations.
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Fri Nov 19, 2010 at 14:31:30 PM PST
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Thu Nov 04, 2010 at 07:47:03 AM PDT
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Tue Sep 07, 2010 at 10:30:36 AM PDT
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Fri Aug 27, 2010 at 15:44:25 PM PDT
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Mon Aug 23, 2010 at 23:10:51 PM PDT
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Sat Aug 14, 2010 at 09:35:08 AM PDT
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Sun Aug 01, 2010 at 11:28:59 AM PDT
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Mon Jul 12, 2010 at 19:36:36 PM PDT
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There is only three more days to give your input on the U.S. review of UNDRIP. If you have not signed, "UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous "UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples," now is the time, before this Thursday, July 15th.
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Mon Jun 14, 2010 at 19:00:21 PM PDT
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In honor of my mother, THE FLORA SOMBRERO LIND NAVAJO ENDOWMENT FUND has been set up to accept your donations.
This scholarship endowment has been established at the American Indian College Fund to honor Flora Sombrero Lind, as an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who was born at Inscription House, Arizona of the Many Goats clan circa 1925. This scholarship endowment is funded by Flora's family and friends who want to see Navajo students pursue higher education and carry on their great Navajo heritage.
Please leave a comment here if you donate.
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