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A Rolling Backpacks & School Supplies Drive for Incoming Nursing Students at Oglala Lakota College

 

Each year we support the incoming nursing students at the Oglala Lakota College on Pine Ridge Reservation with rolling backpacks and school supplies. Please take a moment to check out their wishlist below and send what you can. Thanks so much for your kindness! Please let me know what you are donating so I can update the tally here.

 

Needed/Donated as of 7/8/26:

20″ Rolling Backpacks (black or gray only please) (Goal 14, 5 donated–Thank you! Need 9)

 

Heavyweight 4 x 6 Lined Index Cards  (Goal 14, 14 donated–Thank you!)

3 x 3 Sticky Notes 12 pads (Goal 14, 14 donated–Thank you!)

Quick Study Nursing Laminated Study Guide (Goal 14, 4 donated —Thank you! Need 10)

Quick Study Nursing Pharmacology Laminated Study Guide (Goal 14, 4 donated—Thank you! Need 10)

Quick Study Lab Values A Laminated Study Guide (Goal 14, 4 donated—Thank you!  Need 10)

Quick Study Nursing Assessment Laminated Study Guide (Goal 14, 9 donated–Thank you! Need 5)

R-Cat EKG Badge (Goal 14, 14 donated–Thank you!)

Pediatric Nursing Laminated Study Guide (Goal 14, 14 donated–Thank you!)

 

Ship your donations to the OLC nursing students here:

Via UPS or FedEx, this address only [you can use this one for online purchases]

Nicole Herman
Oglala Lakota College
One Nursing Place
Pine Ridge, SD 57770

Via the US Post Office, this address only:

Nicole Herman
Oglala Lakota College
P.O. Box 861
Pine Ridge, SD 57770

 

 

Please Note: Due to the volume of donations shipped to the reservations FoPRR cannot verify delivery of your boxes. If you are shipping from home and require confirmation of delivery, please purchase delivery confirmation from the post office or use your shipper’s tracking number.

 

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Current Donation Drives

 

  • 2026 Thank You Letters
  • 2025 Thank You Letters
  • A School Supplies Drive for Two Rural One-Room Yurok Rez Schools
  • A Rolling Backpacks and School Supplies Drive for Incoming Nursing Students at Oglala Lakota College
  • A School Supplies Drive for Little Singer Community School (Navajo)
  • A Food Drive for Yurok Elders
  • A Dog and Cat Food Drive for First Families Now
  • A Book Drive for Indigenous Little Free Libraries Across the Country
  • Books for the Yurok Tribe Boys and Girls Club
  • Books for Kids at An Indoor Skatepark on Pine Ridge Rez (Lakota)
  • Books for Havasupai Children [At the bottom of the Grand Canyon] (Havasupai)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Weitchpec Yurok Magnet Elementary School (Yurok)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Jack Norton Elementary School (Yurok)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – American Horse School (K-8) (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Batesland Elementary School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Crazy Horse School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Lakota Waldorf School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Little Singer Community School (Navajo)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Little Wound School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Loneman Day School [Isnawica Owayawa] (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – ‘O Me-nok Learning Center [Formerly Margaret Keating Elementary] (Yurok)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Our Lady of Lourdes School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Piñon Elementary School (Navajo)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Porcupine School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Red Cloud School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Red Shirt School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Rockyford Elementary School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Wolf Creek Elementary School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Wounded Knee District School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation High School – Lakota Tech High School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation High School – Little Wound High School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation High School – Oglala Lakota County School District Virtual High School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation High School – Piñon High School (Navajo)
  • Books for a Reservation High School – Red Cloud High School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation K-12 School – Pine Ridge School (Lakota)
  • Books for a Reservation Middle School – Piñon Middle School (Navajo)
  • Books for a Reservation Middle and High School – Crazy Horse School (Lakota)
  • Books for First Families Now (Lakota)
  • Books for Head Start (Lakota)
  • Books for Oglala Lakota College Library (Lakota)
  • Books for the Oglala Lakota College Library Build Your Own Library Children’s Book Project (Lakota)
  • Books for Oglala Lakota Children’s Justice Center (Lakota)
  • Books for Partnership for Housing (Lakota)
  • Books for the Kiyuksa O’Tipi Reintegration Center (Lakota)
  • Monetary Donations (Lakota and Yurok)
  • OLC Library’s Head Start – Early Childhood Books Giveaway Project (Lakota)
  • Support the Oglala Lakota College – Nursing Department (Lakota)

 

 

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Aaron Huey's effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people — appalling, and largely ignored — compelled him to refocus. Five years of work later, his haunting photos intertwine with a shocking history lesson.

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