This quilt auction is to benefit the Food Pantry of the Isabel Community in the Cheyenne River Reservation in north central South Dakota. The Isabel community is a reservation town of about 250 people. The name of the project, Okiciyap, comes from the Lakota language meaning “We Help”.
The Lakota are one of the seven Sioux tribes that make up the Plains Indians. At the time of first contact with the Europeans, the Plains Indians’ territory stretched from lower Canada all the way to Mexico through the middle of what would become the United States, bordered on the east by the Mississippi River and the west by the Missouri River.
