A State of Emergency has been declared on the Pine Ridge Lakota “Sioux”
Indian Reservation. People have died. Many more people are at risk of
freezing to death. Another cold front is coming in, yet where is the
national media coverage?

Does the ‘Lacreek Electric Company’ – a non-Indian utility often thought
to be prejudice, care that people are suffering, since they are pulling
meters every day? (which is illegal throughout the rest of the u.s.
during the winter months).

What will Obama and the federal government do about this? While they dig
out Haitians, indigenous people right here may freeze to death. What are we going to do about it?

Help put this message out for help. The children and families of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation need our help now. It is urgent that all 40,000 residents of the Oglala Nation have electricity and propane.

Call LaCreek toll free at 800-655-9324 or (605)685-6581 to see how you can
help pay into a customer’s account, example $5 into ten customers would
require a $50 donation by you. Tell LaCreek to make sure tanks are full
for ALL area residents between the months of November to March – and to
collect any delinquent payments between April and October.

Also, check out this non-profit to see if it is appropriate for you:
Arlene Catches The Enemy 605-867-5771 Ext 13.
Tax Deductable, Non-Profit (501-c-3). She can take credit cards over the
phone: Pine Ridge Emergency Fund, C/O Economic Development Administration
PO Box 669, Pine Ridge, SD 57770-0669

And call Lakota Plains Propane at 605-867-5199 and find out what homes have elderly or children and if they need money put down on their account to be
able to have a warm home tonight.

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List to assist Elders at Pine RidgeShare

Below are several Elders in the Kyle Community of Pine Ridge that are in immediate need of assistance. The contact information has been confirmed and permission has been granted to share their information with you.

There are several ways I will mention where assistance is needed and I’ll share here before I begin the information for where you can assist in paying for Propane for those who need it or to contact a local grocery store to pay for food for families who need this. Other ways of assisting the individual families will be listed with their contact information below.

To pay for propane for any individuals listed below use the information here and be sure to make your payment to the account of the individual(s) you choose to help. The propane company requires a minimum order of $120 of fuel before they will make a delivery to the individual. You can also pay for a persons propane and they will credit the individuals account so that when they do run out of any fuel they may have at the moment they can simply call and the company will deliver more.

Lakota Plains Propane (will take credit card)
Highway 407
Pine Ridge, SD 57770
605-867-5199
Be sure to request a receipt and use the contact for the person you are helping to call and followup to be certain they received the help you paid for.

Kyle Grocery (will take credit card)
Owner: Liz May
605-455-2824
Again be sure to follow up with the person you make a donation for to be sure they received the appropriate credit for purchasing food.

Elders in need are as follows:

Adolph Bull Bear
605-454-2190
He remains in need of continued assistance for propane, his son who is disabled lives with him and he is in need of food assistance which you can contact Kyle grocery (above) to make a donation for food. He will also need help with his electric bill.

Arlene Talks (age 72)
605-407-8243
She has a daughter and a granddaughter (age 7) who lives with her and is in need of propane and food assistance and you can contact the propane and grocery above to assist. You could also contact her for mailing address to send items for her granddaughter such as clothes, etc.

Janice One Feather (age 61)
605-455-2889
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 44, Kyle SD 57752
For Propane Delivery give House # 307
She has two grandsons living with her. Asa Steele age 7 and Dillon Westover age 9. You can mail donations for the two boys to the mailing address above for her and if you mail by fedex, UPS, etc use the house #307 Kyle SD 57752. She is in desperate need of food assistance and propane and you can use the info for propane and grocery companies above to pay for those items.

Donna Garnette
605-455-2527
605-441-7541
She has two grandchildren (Boy and girl), you can contact her for an address to offer assistance in clothes, etc for the children. She is in need of Propane and food assistance and you can use the info above for both companies to assist them with that.

Lilly Mae Red Eagle (age 88)
605-455-2612
Mailing address: P.O. Box 2, Kyle SD 57752
For propane delivery give House #HC2
She is in need of Propane and food assistance. You can use the info above for both companies to assist them with that. For deliveries by fedex, ups, etc use the house #HC2 Kyle SD 57752

Perlene Yellow Wolf (age 65 approx)
605-455-1458
She is in need of propane and food assistance. She lives with her daughter Crystal and three children. You can use the info above for both companies to assist them with that. They have a lot of problems with pipes freezing so if anyone in the immediate area could help with this that would be greatly appreciated.

May you be richly blessed for sharing your blessings with these elders and ensuring some relief to their suffering. Please help now as the need is immediate but please remember to help again in the future if you are able to as their needs are continual. Thank you in advance for sharing your love and helping these elders.

Raven Skye WinterHawk

A woman is like a tea bag: you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.
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Yes Cops were just here, electricity will be out for possibly more then 2 more weeks. Water is getting scarce. Pathwaystospirit.org is doing the best they can, they are in contact with Vice Chairman. Sad that news does not pick up on this serious matter as much as other news. I am sure there are other organizations that are trying to assist, don’t know their information. But people can go to the website and see how they can assist, they have a good track record., they assisted in tornado victims in Pine Ridge before.

On 26/1/10 6:04 PM, “kelly morgan” wrote:

Just spoke to my sister down in Eagle Butte. She said they have no water again. That the pump house flooded after the pipes froze and broke. She said that she saw the Red Cross there and that she heard that Walmart delivered a truckload of supplies. She also said that there is very little communication to the community as to what is going on. That there are members of the National Guard there and that they are doing some things. Yet there is not much communication of what is happening getting out to them in the community. They do have power right now in Eagle Butte but that REC will have to shut it off again as they continue to repair poles.

I am certain, as with my brother West of McLaughlin, that there are many without power and heat in the outer districts on Standing Rock, Cheyenne River and everywhere else in South and North Dakota where this dangerous situation is occurring. I graduated from high school in McLaughlin and have relatives on both Standing Rock and Cheyenne River. I hope that they and your brother are all safe as we enter into a very cold below zero night in this part of the country.

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Jomay Steen Journal staff - Posted: Sunday, November 1, 2009 9:20 pm

When it comes to housing, Fred Sitting Up compared the reservation he lives on to a Third World country.

In 1985, because of a disability — he was blinded in his right eye — Sitting Up says he was promised a house by the housing commission.

“It’s been 28 years, and I’m still waiting,” he said.

At the time of her husband’s death, Jessie Pulliam was forced out of government housing that she had called home for years. She now lives with relatives in an unorganized trailer court of nine trailers, two of which have running water and seven have electricity. Electrical cords strung across side yards power space heaters in the other two trailers.

“We struggle every day,” she said.

About a dozen people from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation gave testimony Sunday afternoon on the lack of adequate housing on reservations throughout the United States. It was part of a United Nations investigation on human rights to housing.

Raquel Rolnik, the United Nations Special Rapportueur on the Right to Adequate Housing, toured Wanblee and Porcupine before hearing testimony at the administrative building on the Oglala Lakota College campus near Kyle. It was part of Rolnik’s investigation of conditions in public housing as well as homelessness.

Ina Pacheco of Pine Ridge had received a 14-day notice to vacate her home at Cherry Hill, a complex that houses elderly and disabled people.

Pacheco, a single grandmother living with her daughter-in-law and three children younger than three years old, pleaded with housing officials and was given 60 days to find housing near her work, pack up her belongings and move.

Selected as a family for a proposed new home, she knows it won’t be built by January — when she will need to vacate Cherry Hill.

“We were homeless and will be again,” she said. “There is nowhere else to go.”

Marian White Mouse talked of her family getting a house, then having contractors build it on the wrong land. It took years to trade land for the house, but eventually her mother lost it at her father’s death.

“Adequate housing is a human right,” Rolnik said to the audience of 40 to 50. “We thank you so much for coming, and your testimony.”

Rolnik will visit with President Barack Obama on Friday, when she will talk about what she has seen of housing and homelessness in New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Pine Ridge reservation.

The information will also become part of a report to be presented to the United Nations in Geneva in 2010.

“We’ll tell what we have seen, and what we’ve heard, and what we know about housing in the United States,” she said.

Once reported, Rolnik believes it will bring change.

“All these things, I’m going to report to contribute to a better standard of living,” she said.

Contact Jomay Steen at 394-8418 or jomay.steen@rapidcityjournal.com.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Bill Means
International Indian Treaty Council
Cell: 612-386-4030
Email: Bill.Means@state.mn.us

UNITED NATIONS OFFICIAL TO VISIT PINE RIDGE RESERVATION TO INVESTIGATE HOUSING
CONDITIONS

San Francisco, CA, October 11, 2009 ? The United Nations (UN) Special
Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Raquel Rolnik, will visit the
Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota on November 1st during her official
visit to the United States where she will be focusing on the human right to
housing. She will investigate conditions in public housing as well as
homelessness, the foreclosure crisis and the lingering impacts of Hurricane
Katrina. South Dakota is one of six states Ms. Rolnik will visit in addition
to Washington, D.C., during her official mission to the U.S. from October 23rd
? November 8th, 2009. Pine Ridge is her only scheduled visit to an Indian
reservation.

The Rappporteur’s visit will provide an opportunity for her to view housing
conditions on Pine Ridge, meet with tribal and community members and examine
the Treaty and Trust obligations of the U.S. Government to the Lakota and
other Indian Nations which includes housing, education, health and other
social services. The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,
adopted in 2007 by the UN General Assembly, affirms the international
character of these Treaty Rights and the obligations of countries to honor and
uphold them. Housing remains a significant problem on the Pine Ridge
reservation and throughout Indian Country. A preliminary report submitted to
the Rapporteur by the IITC in August of this year, included information
provided by the Oglala Sioux Lakota Housing authority (OSLH), and stated:

“?housing built and indirectly maintained by the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development (through thoroughly inadequate grants in aid to the
Lakota Oglala Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation) is in a deplorable state. Holes in
the wall are inadequately repaired by the residents with duct tape and
cardboard, mold is a constant menace to health, the units are severely
overcrowded, and trash is not collected, among many housing problems. The
Oglala Pine Ridge Reservation also raises another problem of many Indian
Reservations and their relationship to the United States. The Lakota Nation,
among other Indian Nations, is a party to treaties with the United States,
signed in the mid and late 1800’s. Among the United States Treaty Obligations
is the provision of subsistence and housing, guaranteed to them for their
stolen lands and the extermination of their primary means of subsistence, the
Buffalo”.
The Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing was created by the UN
Commission on Human Rights in 2000 to examine and report back on the housing
situation in various countries in accordance with international human rights
obligations. The report on her first?time visit to the U.S. will be presented
to the UN Commission on Human Rights in 2010.

American Indian, Alaska, Hawaiian Native and other Indigenous Peoples living
in the U.S. are invited to present information to the Rapporteur during her
visit to Pine Ridge and in the cities listed below. The National American
Indian Housing Council in Washington, D.C., is also hosting a policy briefing
for the Rapporteur on November 7th in which various Tribal and community
leaders will also participate.

For more information on the Pine Ridge visit contact: Bill Means, IITC,
612-386-4030, Bill.Means@state.mn.us, or Andrea Carmen, IITC, 907-745-4482,
andrea@treatycouncil.org.

For more information on the November 7th Indigenous Peoples Policy Briefing in
Washington, D.C. contact: Wendy Helgamo, National American Indian Housing
Council, 202-789-1754, whelgemo@NAIHC.NET.

Lead Organizers and Contact Information for other Site Visits:

Chicago: Willie J.R. Fleming, Coalition to Protect Public Housing at
iamcabrini@gmail.com

Los Angeles: Becky Dennison, Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN) at
BeckyD@cangress.org

New Orleans: Sam Jackson, Mayday New Orleans at jackson-action@hotmail.com

New York: Rob Robinson, Picture the Homeless at rob@picturethehomeless.org

Wilkes Barre: Frank Sindaco at frank@nepaorganizingcenter.org

You may also contact Tiffany Gardner, Human Right to Housing Program Director
at NESRI (National Economic and Social Rights Initiative) for general
information about the UN Rapporteur’s upcoming visit to the United States,
tiffany@nesri.org.

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These people need help now. And help needs to continue month after month. How can people live like this in the USA.

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11/10/2008

Request For Donations On Pine Ridge

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Organizers are looking for the following items to be donated: canned food, water, blankets, diapers (all sizes), baby formula, wood, propane, lamp oil, candles, flashlights, batteries (all sizes), matches, kerosene, gloves, toilet paper, baby wipes and soap.

If you have something to donate, you can drop items off at the Crazy Horse School in Wanblee. You can also call one of the following phone numbers for more information: 462-6784, 462-6580, 454-1452 or the Office of Economic Development in Pine Ridge at 867-5771 or 867-5600.

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November 6, 2008

Blizzard blasts western South Dakota
Associated Press

High wind pushed tons of early November snow into huge drifts in portions of western South Dakota as a blizzard continued an eastern trek on Thursday.

A National Weather Service observer reported 38.5 inches of snow just northeast of Deadwood in the Black Hills.

“It’s a raging blizzard out there,” said Jeff Schild, a meteorologist with the NWS office in Rapid City.

The snow came down – sideways might be a better description – at a rate of 3 inches an hour overnight. It’s slacked off to 1-2 inches an hour, Schild said late Thursday morning.

“It’s still rolling here. It’s still going on,” he said. Wind gusts of 60 mph were still being reported late Thursday morning.

More than 100 schools and businesses were closed in the region, according to a Rapid City television Web site.

Interstate 90 was closed from Murdo west to the Wyoming state line.

Other portions of Lawrence County, reported almost 2 feet of snow by midmorning Thursday.

Spearfish reported 12.5 inches of snow and drifts 6 feet high on Thursday.

In Shannon County, in the southwestern corner of the state, 20-foot snowdrifts were reported on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation early Thursday.

As for electricity, the Nebraska Public Power District said a power line running in northwest Nebraska failed late Wednesday, cutting power to Pine Ridge. Repairs have begun.

In the tiny Butte County town of Hoover, a National Weather Service observer said it was the worst blizzard she’s seen in her 32 years in the village. Six-foot drifts were blocking doorways, the observer said.

The blizzard was moving east Thursday, and safety officials predict treacherous road and weather conditions would hit the central and eastern portions of the state, prompting more road closures.

In Rapid City, streets are clogged with drifts and police report cars getting stuck all over town. Mayor Alan Hanks said that even some police vehicles were victims of the snowdrifts.

• All state offices in the Black Hills area were closed Thursday.

Reporting points near Rapid City checked in with 8 inches of snow by the middle of the morning. And downtown Rapid City reported a 78-mph wind gust late Wednesday.

Capt. Kevin Karley of the South Dakota Highway Patrol said Rapid City is socked in. “If this storm continues at its current pace, the same conditions can be anticipated across almost the entire state.”

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