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Propane...Propane...and past time to help these vets !
Photos show Rosebud Indian Reservation residents thanking Daily Kos donors for propane and heaters last winter I am reading these propane diaries and there can never be too many. We must not let this...
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Warm Winter Clothing for Kids at Okiciyap
Writing about kids with cold hands and feet is a challenge for me. I want to empty my closet and send them gloves and boots and blankets. But, I just don't have any kids' clothes in my home; the last...
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Propane Project: Cash-Strapped Progressives Unite!!
Money. ::sigh:: It seems it always comes down to money. What's a cash-strapped progressive to do?As long as I have been aware of my political tendencies and have voiced them in some kind of active...
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The Propane Project: Because there are people in need
There is one overriding reason why all who can should do what they can to help the People of the Rosebud obtain the fuel they need to heat their homes through the harsh Dakota winter: There are people...
View ArticleOkiciyap: You Never Know How Far Your Impact Reaches
Today, we're officially launching a fundraising drive to provide a small thank-you for each of the 17 regular volunteers at the Okiciyap food pantry on the Cheyenne River Reservation in Isabel, South...
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Okiciyap Needs Happy Volunteers & Warm Clothing for Kids
Ten days ago, Aji and betson08 launched a fundraising drive for gift cards to thank each of the 19 regular volunteers at the Okiciyap food pantry on the Cheyenne River Reservation in Isabel, South...
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In the Holiday Spirit, and in Memory of Eagle Wings Woman: Holiday Cheer for...
WE DID IT!!! $1,900.03 AT 8:45 PM MST!Georgia Little Shield (1959-2012) Seven and a half short months ago, on April 22, 2012, another light went out of this cold world: a beautiful woman with a...
View ArticleUpdate! Oh wow! Look at what you've done. $200 match so the kids have food...
A $200 match!I'm stunned. Truly. A wonderfully generous kossack, just let us know that they will do a $200 match! Can you believe it? So please, if you have a spare $3, or $5 or $10 for the Okiciyap...
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Okiciyap Food Pantry: warm clothing and a full tummy
A wish for everyone to have warm clothing and a full tummy is the very least one can ask in the holiday giving time of year. You might think in this very wealthy country that this would be a given....
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MORE MATCHING FUNDS! Ending Violence Against Indian Children: Okiciyap,...
As I write this, it's 11 degrees and snowing in Isabel, South Dakota. With the wind chill, it feels like one degree above zero. The high today was supposed to get all the way up to 15, but the...
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Stop Cover-Up of Rape of Lakota Foster Children in South Dakota
Our Lakota People's Law Project needs your help packing a courtroom in Aberdeen, South Dakota next Monday, January 7. Two champions of Lakota foster child safety—former assistant state attorney...
View ArticleBeauty and Justice (and quilts! Oh my!)
This new group has been started as an adjunct to the Daily Kos Quilt Guild. Our purpose is to put the creativity and talents of the quilt makers to create works of beauty to be auctioned, with the...
View ArticleDK Quilt Guild: ♥♥♥♥ Quilting for a Good Cause
The quilters of the DK Quilt Guild are doing it again! Working together, the guild has assembled the many quilt blocks needed to produce not one, but two fabulous quilts to be auctioned for the...
View ArticleTIME FOR THE BIG SHOW!!!!!!!
This diary is not about quilts. It's about hunger, making a difference, recognizing and rewarding beauty. OK, maybe a little about A quilt.The reason for the creation of the Daily Kos Quilt Guild...
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DK Quilt Guild: The Okiciyap Quilt
DK Quilt Guild: A place for quilters to gather, share ideas, projects, and to make the world a better place, one quilt at a time. Join us and share your thoughts, projects, questions, and tips....
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Okiciyap Quilt Auction: Helping the Helpers Who Helped the Helpers
I have watched and supported the Okiciyap (we help) group since I came upon a call for supplies for the Isabel community of South Dakota. The 8500 residents living on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe...
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Okiciyap Quilt Auction: Twelve is a community number.
There are twelve blocks on the Okiciyap quilt. They were created and contributed for the Okiciyap Quilt Auction, to benefit the Okiciyap program and ideally give it a little breathing room before...
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Feeding the Body, Feeding the Spirit: Okiciyap (We Help)
Next month - on April 22, to be exact - it will have been one year since Eagle Wings Woman, also known as Georgia Little Shield, walked on. Georgia, whom I have elsewhere remembered as a beautiful...
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DK Quilt Guild: Okiciyap Quilt Auction~ We Quilt For Others
Quilters by nature are generous & creative. Most of us can remember a quilt given by a dear relative or friend for a special occasion. A baby receiving blanket, a wedding gift, a graduation gift....
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Of Quilts and History: The Okiciyap Quilt Auction
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...
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