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Daily Kos Fundraisers for Okiciyap: The Harsh Winter Season Begins, YOU Can...
DONATE by credit card Okiciyap is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization Donate by Check: Okiciyap PO Box 172 Isabel, SD 57633 It's time to ramp up the fundraising for our reservations as we go into the...
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Daily Kos Fundraisers for Okiciyap: Taking the Long View — A Trickle Turns...
DONATE by credit card Okiciyap is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization Donate by Check: Okiciyap PO Box 172 Isabel, SD 57633 There is nothing I like more than feeding people. As a waitress, a mom, a...
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Daily Kos Fundraisers for Okiciyap: Helping Now!
DONATE by credit card or PayPal Okiciyap is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization Donate by Check: Okiciyap PO Box 172 Isabel, SD 57633 A favorite fundraising project for many of us in the community at...
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Giving Tuesday: Okiciyap
As we get closer to Christmas, some folks out there in social media land have declared the advent of 'Giving Tuesday' to join the pantheon of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday....
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Want to help Okiciyap Shine a Little Holiday Light on the Cheyenne River...
As you probably know if you clicked on this diary, the Daily Kos community supports a food pantry on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota called Okiciyap ("we help" in Lakota) the Isabel...
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'Tis the Season for the Okiciyap Christmas Party!
As you probably know if you clicked on this diary, the Daily Kos community supports a food pantry on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota called Okiciyap ("we help" in Lakota) the Isabel...
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A Final Christmas Gift: Okiciyap ("We Help")
DONATE by credit card Okiciyap is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization Donate by Check: Okiciyap PO Box 172 Isabel, SD 57633 I mentioned last night that I'd received several gifts over the course of the...
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(We help-ed) The Okiciyap Christmas Party - Photo heavy
As you probably know if you clicked on this diary, the Daily Kos community supports a food pantry on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota called Okiciyap ("we help" in Lakota) the Isabel...
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Frigid Winter Endangers Lakota Elders - Okiciyap!
Standing Rock Reservation, January 2009 If you've been shivering through this winter and crumbling under the weight of mounting heating bills, particularly propane, imagine how bad it is for the elders...
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Cold Without Choice: Okiciyap (we help)
DONATE by credit card or PayPal Okiciyap is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization Donate by Check: Okiciyap PO Box 172 Isabel, SD 57633Almost exactly four years ago, I read a newspaper article entitled...
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Giving Warm for Valentine's Day Okiciyap (we help)
Cindy Taylor reported on February 3rd that the price of one gallon of propane heating fuel was up to $5.00 on the reservation. Please be assured that even a donation of just $5.00 will help. Please...
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Foundations cast in stone and spirit: NAICOB
Note: This diary is in support of an ongoing crowdfunding effort by the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB). The funding will play a crucial role in helping regenerate the building they've...
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NAICOB Regeneration Crowdfunding Challenge: "Two for Tuesday"
Note: This diary is in support of an ongoing crowdfunding effort by the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB). The funding will play a crucial role in helping regenerate the building they've...
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School's Just Around the Corner: Okiciyap!
In the midst of all the turmoil in the world right now, you may have forgotten that school is just around the corner. This is the third year that the Daily Kos community has been sending school...
View ArticleSchool supply drive for Okiciyap!
This is something we’ve done here for a few years at Daily Kos. Provide almost 200 kids with school supplies to start the year with. Why do we do this, you may ask? Well. Partly because we’re Democrats...
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Okiciyap: A Few More School Supplies Needed
Hi everybody,I want to extend a warm thank you to everyone who has sent school supplies to the Okiciyap food pantry so the children on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation can be properly equipped this...
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Help Keep Okiciyap Open
We here at the Isabel Okiciyap in Isabel, SD have been trying hard to get more grants to keep us functioning. BUT until the next one comes in it would be great to get some help to keep us afloat in...
View ArticleEmergency Fundraiser for Swampyankee
Our beloved Swampyankee is $1500 behind on her bills for heat and electric and is almost out of food. She is in CT, just got home a little bit ago(about two weeks) from her third angioplasty, and needs...
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Help Aji & Wings Build a Home
Aji and Wings recently got hit by an electrical fire that could have been deadly, though thankfully neither were physically injured. Then, their well pump died. this past weekend. These events sent a...
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I'm not that kind of a girl. Groups and their groupies.
Though when I start to list the names of bands I’ve been on the road with, some people do tend to think I am that kind of a girl. Off the top of my head, and please remember the late 70’s and early...
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First Native American Congresswoman?
Let’s hope so and maybe we can do all we can to get Denise Juneau elected as the Representative from Montana to the US Congress. She’s already the first American Indian woman in the country to serve in...
View Article31st Anniversary Oglala Lakota Nation, Pine Ridge, SD
Start: August 4, 2016, 12:00 amEnd: August 7, 2016OGLALA NATION POWWOW & RODEO: Pine Ridge, SD
View ArticleDaily Kos helps Hillary in every state.
Thanks to some really amazing diarists, the word about down ballot races, and the importance of electing a Democratic Congress for our next President is becoming the next big dance craze here at DK. In...
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Pootie Pads on KickStarter - From the Heart of the DK Community into the World!
I have some exciting news! My sister, Ann, and I are launching a Kickstarter to help our Pootie Pad business update its website, advertise on the internet, and to provide the wherewithal for us to...
View Article#POLL of the Daily Kos Community: Should the power of Daily Kos be used for...
As kos noted in a story he wrote here earlier this year, Daily Kos now has the ability to send an email blast out to 1.9 million email addresses, when the need arises to send out a message.1.9 million...
View ArticleHenry Red Cloud - Winterizing the camps for protesters at Standing Rock.
Just got this from Henry Red Cloud’s campaign manager, Richard Fox. He always includes a nice little note to me.I hope you are doing well this fine Wednesday night, Tracy.
View Article"Mother Earth is not a machine"
Henry Red Cloud Mother Earth is not a machine"Sustainability is one of the main points of the Indians. "Mother Earth is not a machine, it has a soul," the Lakota Indians. There are three...
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HomeRise - Thankful Progress and Matching Gifts
Yesterday was Thanksgiving Day: appropriate, as its intent is to celebrate the things we are thankful for among family and friends, ideally in a home filled with love. Today, we have a $1000 anonymous...
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The Grace Of Giving: Zen Trainer Knows It
Some people just leave traces of themselves in our lives, without ever knowing what an impact they’ve had. Our ZenTrainer is one of those people.She’s been dancing her way through DK since 2006 and...
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Zen Trainer beat cancer, next she'll beat Trump
Like Zen Trainer, I’m a breast cancer survivor. There are many of us here at our virtual home. The anxiety and worry that accompanies treatment and recovery is a journey of its own, and this is the...
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A Lake For Lin: Breath, Eyes, Memories
“Every thought we have is a tangible energy with the power to transform. A thought is not only a thing; a thought is a thing that influences other things.” -–Lynne McTaggartGood afternoon,...
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Community Quilt for Puddytat
Yesterday, the community was devastated to hear that Puddytat has been in treatment for Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Chemo is very, very rough — as she said in her diary:I’m finally home, kidneys back to...
View ArticleThank you Daily Kos readers!! from Zen Trainer
You guys rock! That’s all I can say. I had no clue how I was going to get through the recovery from my December surgery. I was told I would need to take 2 to 3 months off work. They say that so easily,...
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Anne Wheelchair Update - Really Close!
WOW! You guys have raised $3930.00 of $5000.00 for the custom wheelchair fund for Anne! This actually happened on Tuesday and I wanted to post yesterday but then we had a fire at work and life got a...
View Article3 Kossacks in Urgent Need
Three of our wonderful, caring, and former caregiver Kossack community folks have urgent living needs that must be funded very quickly: Mufftootuff, MaureenMower, and jtg.
View ArticleNeed help writing grants for OneSpirit
I have set about writing one or more grants to get more internet access for the Pine Ridge reservation. They only have connections now at the schools. But I know very little about writing grants…. is...
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Street Prophets Helping Humpday
Welcome to the third edition of the Helping Humpday revival, dedicated to Kossacks helping one another through personal emergencies. BfitzinAR’s cozy welcoming corner — our virtual innHumpday— because...
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Community Building; Community Helping: Sara and Ann Reed
Have my stripey friends caught your eye? If not….well, we have our ways…….Cute always works….What do tigers have to do with Community? Or with Sara and Ann?Darned near everything.You see, Sara and...
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♥Help The Okiciyap Community Food Pantry♥
After wracking my brain trying to find a Christmas gift for my Sister, who really needs, nothing. I got the idea, to send a donation to the Okiciyap Food Pantry, in her honor.Donate/ContactI only had...
View ArticleIt's Valentine's Day. Let's show some love to a family fighting cancer, and...
Heya. Yup, it’s me. Us, actually; Wings is in on this, too. So is the spirit of She-Wolf, up there in that photo; she’s been gone almost a year now. I’m lucky to be here even now.A couple of things:...
View ArticleWe Have An Emergency - Please Help *MASSIVE UPDATE! x3*
Hi everyoneI can't believe this.I was going to post a diary about Kim receiving the Community Quilt yesterday after the internet the gentleman downstairs lets us use was restored. Kim adores the quilt,...
View ArticleFreelance Escapologist Desperately Needs Help
This is the first diary I have ever written here at DKos. I am only posting now, because our friends, Callum and Kim — Freelance Escapologist and his wife, desperately need our help.As many of you...
View ArticleAMAZING UPDATE! URGENT: Please help a Kossack pay for her elderly mom's meds!
My friends, I’m asking for your help for scamperdo, a long-time Kossack who I’ve known personally for several years. She is a lovely hard-working woman who until recently (see her story below) held...
View ArticleHelp Needed: Life Gets Interesting... (Updated)
So, I have previously written about my sudden need to move, with two cats. If you missed it, it’s here: Sheer Terror.Well, kossacks are just the best. My cats and I have been offered crash space in the...
View ArticleThank You So Very Much - Kossacks are the Best!
We have reached our goal with a bit extra —w00t! Thanks so much to everyone who contributed to the “Help Youff move to Denver” fund. It’s nervous-making and exciting all at once to make this leap, but...
View ArticleHelp AZ Kossacks get firewood to AZ Native Elders!
UPDATE: Wednesday, Nov 30, 2022 · 3:39:01 AM +00:00·Kat SnyderWe hit the goal in less than 2 and a half hours! Thanks to everyone for doing your part to keep community elders safe and warm!Jaynie...
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Help purchase School Supplies for Navajo, Hopi and Apache Students
All across Arizona’s sovereign lands students are preparing to go back to school. As part of our ongoing mutual aid, we will provide school supplies for students on tribal lands across northeast...
View ArticleMy friend was shot by a Trumper in a MAGA hat at a peaceful Indigenous rally....
I went to Santa Fe, NM this week for a US Climate Action Network conference. During the conference we covered decolonization and how Santa Fe/NM has been stolen from Indigenous, first by Spaniards and...
View ArticleFacing my cancer diagnosis.
When I was growing up, there were a lot of adults in my community who would never say “the C word.” It was as if naming cancer would somehow taint and infect everyone in hearing distance. Now that I...
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Let's set someone free. eeff needs two new knees so he can walk again. We can...
We operate on trust on this site. That is what this community is founded upon. It’s why we have community moderation. We are this site’s protectors. It’s also why we have one another’s backs. We take...
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