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Support the Lakota Culture

Jingle Dresses

Please donate any of the following items to be used to make jingle dresses for traditional dances and dance competitions.

 

Order online and have the items shipped directly to the address below!

  • Two yard pieces of fabric (any bright solid color in satin or satin-like, shiny fabric)
  • One-half yard or larger pieces of contrasting fabric for special designs (lame, metallic, or other shiny, bright or decorative fabric)
  • Double fold bias tape (any color, 5 pkgs. per dress)
  • Single-fold bias tape (any color, 2 pkgs. per dress)
  • Extra-wide double-fold bias tape (any color, 2 pkgs. per dress)
  • Rick Rack (any type, any color)
  • Poly Cotton Thread (any color)
  • Straight Pins
  • Fiskars Softouch Scissors, Left/Right Hand, 8 Inches
  • Fiskars Short Cut Razor-Edge Snips
  • Seam Rippers
  • Jingle cones, silver or gold, any size – toddler, children’s or regular (Each dress requires 150-300 jingle cones, depending on the design)

Please send your jingle dress donations via

UPS/FedEx:*

Alice Phelps, Director
First Families Now
2900 BIA 27
Porcupine, SD 57772-3027

U.S. Mail:

Alice Phelps, Director
First Families Now
2900 BIA 27
Porcupine, SD 57772-3027

Beading

Please donate any of the following items to be used to teach students traditional beading techniques.

  • Seed Beads, any color in sizes 9, 10, 11
  • Crow beads, any size, any color
  • Bugle beads
  • Earring wires
  • Beading Needles Size 10 and 11
  • Beading Thread Bobbin Size D
  • Soft leather scraps

Please send your beading supplies donations via

UPS/FedEx:*

Alice Phelps, Director
First Families Now
2900 BIA 27
Porcupine, SD 57772-3027

U.S. Mail:

Alice Phelps, Director
First Families Now
2900 BIA 27
Porcupine, SD 57772-3027

 

*When entering this address on Amazon orders you’ll get a message that says “This street name or number appears to be invalid.” Ignore it and continue by clicking on the “Ship to this address” button and it will accept it.

Please Note: Due to the volume of donations shipped to the reservation 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 shipping service’s tracking system.

 

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Current Donation Drives

 

  • A Books Donation Drive for An Indigenous Little Free Library (Navajo/Zuni)
  • A Food Drive for Yurok Elders
  • A Food Drive for Lakota Families
  • Happy 21st Birthday Friends of Pine Ridge Reservation! Share the Love with Native Kids!
  • Books for the Yurok Tribe Boys and Girls Club
  • A Book Drive for Indigenous Little Free Libraries Across the Country
  • Books for a Reservation Elementary School – Havasupai Elementary School (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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