Increasingly, states and municipalities are adopting Indigenous Peoples’ Day in addition to, or in place of Columbus Day. By Presidential Proclamation, the United States is observing Indigenous Peoples’ Day and Columbus Day on Monday.
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Keith Titus, Re-Member’s founding director, has made his journey to the Spirit World after 83 years of Earthly life. With his passing, Keith rejoins his beloved “Ginny,” the late Virginia Titus.
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As summer turns to fall, our volunteer season also draws to a close in the coming weeks. We are grateful for the hundreds of volunteers who made the trip to Pine Ridge this year and look forward to sharing more details about this season’s accomplishments in the coming weeks.
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Responding to community needs, and embracing the Lakota way of life, for 24 years, Re-Member has built things and built relationships with the Oglala Lakota people, and our volunteers from across the United States and around the world.
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We are now several months into our resumed volunteer program – and are thrilled to have safely welcomed hundreds of new and returning volunteers back to Pine Ridge.
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We need your help. Do you have contacts at local colleges or universities in your area? Most summers, we collect mattresses from schools across the region. We are looking for quantities of mattresses that would fill a large U-Haul style truck.
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We are now two full months into our resumed volunteer program and are thrilled to have welcomed hundreds of volunteers from across the United States and around the world safely back to Pine Ridge.
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We believe that in addition to providing direct, tangible support to the Oglala Lakota people, the strongest way to promote positive exchange in one of the poorest areas of the United States is to build relationships.
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We are back to work with you — our volunteers — working alongside us. It’s oh-so-good to resume hosting groups and individuals to learn and serve here on the Pine Ridge Reservation. In short: We’re back to building things, and building relationships.
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After more than two years of COVID-19 safety protocols that forced us to shutter our program to volunteers, we are thrilled to announce that we will resume our volunteer program, effective April 2.
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When I first came to the Rez, driving around, I saw so much negative, so much to be upset about, to be angry about, so much that I wanted to fix. I viewed these people and this place as broken. It was a long time before I woke up and realized that all I was seeing was exactly what I was looking for.
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Our work continues. Despite the disappointment in not welcoming volunteers back this month, we are increasingly hopeful that we will be able to do so soon. In the meantime, our staff continue to provide essential services.
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As of this writing, 16 firewood requests are pending, and the phone continues to ring. With overnight temperatures again expected to drop below zero, it will be a cold night for these families.
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COVID-19 continues to impact Pine Ridge Reservation community members. As of Sunday, there were 83 active cases being tracked by the tribe’s COVID Task Force. The risk assessment, issued by the same Task Force recommends sheltering in place given the current case load.
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Our day begins with a temperature of -7º. With the wind, it feels like -26º. The forecast for today: Cloudy and cold, with a high near -1º. Wind chill values as low as -28º. The wind chill advisory for our area notes that “dangerously cold wind chills could cause frostbite on exposed skin in as little as 10 minutes.”
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