Pine Ridge Reservation, located in South Dakota, is home to the Oglala Sioux Tribe and is 2,000,000 acres large with an estimated population of close to 40,000. The reservation is large, and its needs immense, commensurate with grinding poverty. Unemployment is over 80%, the weather is extreme, and families struggle mightily with crushing financial, housing, health, educational and social issues. Since it is impossible to provide assistance to individual families on the reservation from a distance and do it equitably, the Friends of Pine Ridge Reservation website focuses on specific needs of the many schools and social service organizations such as shelters, children's organizations, and clinics physically located on the reservation. These organizations, always understaffed and under funded, struggle in turn to serve thousands of children, women and men in dire need. Please do not underestimate the importance of a small donation. Your contribution, sent directly to a reservation organization--even if only a single pair of socks for a child who has none--makes a huge impact when combined with many others.

If you've received a phone call soliciting donations for "Pine Ridge Reservation" please consider it a scam and do not provide any credit card information. Friends of Pine Ridge Reservation does NOT, has never and never will place phone calls soliciting donations at any time and you should be wary of any and all such solicitations! Have you received a mailing from St. Joseph's Indian School? You'll want to watch CNN's "U.S. Indian school's fundraising letters sent to millions signed by fictitious kids" click here ABC 20/20 Special on Pine Ridge Children To view Diane Sawyer's ABC special about Pine Ridge Reservation, 20/20: A Hidden America - Children of the Plains, click here Law and Disorder on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation Pine Ridge: A broken system failing America's most forgotten children Glimmers of Hope on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation Support Wounded Knee District School The reservation organizations' needs are many and change constantly so your donations can take many forms, from school, sewing, crafts, sporting, baby, and office supplies, to toiletries, clothing, Christmas gifts, holiday items, bed, bath and kitchen linens, cold weather gear, crayons and more.

As you look through these pages you'll find specific needs and where to send them. Please note that none of your donations are ever directed to third party charities; everything you send will go directly to the organization on Pine Ridge Reservation that needs your help. Dire poverty makes for a harsh existence but you can help by providing needed resources and at the same time donating in ways that help preserve and support the Lakota culture, with the utmost respect for the dignity of our neighbors on Pine Ridge Reservation. Please be extremely mindful of the condition of the items you donate, and whenever possible, send new items. For some organizations and specific donation drives, gently used items are acceptable, please read posted information carefully for guidelines as to the types of items each organization can accept. Please browse through the Friends of Pine Ridge Reservation website and return often as it is updated daily and don't forget to check the FoPRR blog or Twitter page for special updates, announcements and news.

Thank you so much for joining the effort to lend a helping hand to our neighbors on Pine Ridge Reservation! Pleae note: Since 2015 FoPRR has also supported a school on the Navajo Nation so some of the donation drives you will see on this site are directed to the children and elders in that community. "So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other."Harvey Norman King Quilt CoversUncontacted peoples are communities who live without significant contact with globalized civilization, most often by choice. Teacup Persian Cat Breeders UkAlthough we commonly call them ‘uncontacted,’ a more accurate description is probably ‘voluntarily isolated’ or ‘withdrawn’ or ‘evasive.’ Teacup Yorkies For Sale In Norfolk Virginia

They live in the Amazon Rainforest, the island of New Guinea, and on India’s North Sentinel Island. Survival International reports that about one hundred groups around the world prefer to be left alone. Knowledge of the existence of these groups comes mostly from encounters with neighboring tribes and from aerial footage. These maps won’t help anyone make ‘first contact’. But they will help to stop oil companies and loggers from invading the lands of uncontacted tribes. These maps show the territories of uncontacted tribes around the world. The territories are typically thousands of square kilometres in size, and the locations are deliberately approximate. No one should go to tribes which aren’t in regular contact with outsiders. It’s dangerous for everyone. Learn more about the work being done to protect the tribes and their land by Survival International. In Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), the Inuit people are known for carving portable maps out of driftwood to be used while navigating coastal waters.

These pieces, which are small enough to be carried in a mitten, represent coastlines in a continuous line, up one side of the wood and down the other. The maps are compact, buoyant, and can be read in the dark. These three wooden maps show the journey from Sermiligaaq to Kangertittivatsiaq, on Greenland’s East Coast. The map to the right shows the islands along the coast, while the map in the middle shows the mainland and is read from one side of the block around to the other. The map to the left shows the peninsula between the Sermiligaaq and Kangertivartikajik fjords. Source: Topografisk Atlas Grønland Extinct languages are ones which no longer have any speakers. The languages included in this map are one which have presumably gone extinct since the 1950s. It is estimated that, if nothing is done, half of 6000 plus languages spoken today will disappear by the end of this century. With the disappearance of unwritten and undocumented languages, humanity would lose not only a cultural wealth but also important ancestral knowledge embedded, in particular, in indigenous languages.

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Wazí Aháŋhaŋ Oyáŋke (The Pine Ridge Reservation) in Lakȟótiyapi (Lakota). Map by Jordan Engel Lakota place name – English place name (Translation) Bló Wakpála – Potato Creek (Potato Creek) Čaŋkpé Opí – Wounded Knee (Wounded Knee) Čaŋkpé Opí Wakpála – Wounded Knee Creek (Wounded Knee Creek) Čhaŋnúŋpa Sápa Wakpála – Black Pipe Creek (Black Pipe Creek) Čhasmú Makȟóčhe – The Sand Hills (Sand Country) Hokhíyoȟloka Wakpála – Pass Creek Íŋyaŋ Šála – Batesland (Red Stone) Makȟásaŋ – Whiteclay (Whiteish or Yellowish Clay) Makȟásaŋ Wakpála – Whiteclay Creek (Whiteish or Yellowish Clay Creek) Makhízita Čík’ala – Little White River Makhízita Wakpá – White River Makȟóšiča – The Badlands (Bad Land) Makȟóšiča Otȟúŋwahe – Interior (Bad Land Village) Matȟó Wakpála – Bear-In-The-Lodge Creek (Bear Creek) Oglála – Oglala (To Scatter One’s Own)

Ógle Šá – Red Shirt (Red Shirt) (Also known as Ógle Lúta) Oyúȟpe – Manderson (The name of a band of the Oglala) Pahá Zípela – Slim Butte (Thin Butte) Pažóla Otȟúŋwahe – Martin (Knoll City) Pȟahíŋ Pahá – Porcupine Butte (Porcupine Butte) Pȟahíŋ Siŋté – Porcupine (Young Porcupine) Pȟahíŋ Siŋté Wakpála – Porcupine Creek (Young Porcupine Creek) Phežúta Ȟaká – Kyle (Branched Medicine) Phežúta Ȟaká Wakpála – Medicine Root Creek (Branched Medicine Creek) Wagmíza Wakpála – Allen (Corn Creek) Wakpá Wašté – Cheyenne River (Good River) Waŋblí Hoȟpi – Wanblee (Eagle Nest) Waŋblí Hoȟpi Pahá – Eagle Butte (Eagle Nest Butte) Waŋblí Hoȟpi Wakpála – Eagle Nest Creek (Eagle Nest Creek) Wazí Aháŋhaŋ Oyáŋke – The Pine Ridge Reservation Wazíbló – Pine Ridge “As part of my joint project Melting Barricades (2004-2005) with Inuk Silis Høegh I conceived the idea for the map of Denmark on the way to Kangerlussuaq looking at an in-flight magazine from Air Greenland.