UPDATES: SEASON GIFTING...help our list of helpers grow

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GREETINGS,

The board of Barefoot Connections, Inc is pleased to announce we have received our official 501(c)3 status.

What this means to you:
Any donations made through Barefoot Connections, Inc is now tax deductible and VERY trackable due to extensive paperwork requirements for all 501(c)3 organizations.
What this means to us:
We are now better able to serve those in need, establish and promote programs that foster understanding between our peoples, educate those who haven't a clue that we are STILL HERE!  that not all tribal entities operate casinos..

Mission Statement 

  The mission of Barefoot Connections is to gather, maintain and make available voluntarily       given; tangible, social and monetary resources to provide news, communications, physical necessities, educational support and community contacts to and concerning members of aboriginal nations in the Continental Americas on an emergency and on-going basis.

BOARD OF BAREFOOT CONNECTIONS, INC
PRESIDENT
Linda J LeMonde
VICE PRES.
Dawn Hill
SECRETARY
Storm Reyes
TREASURER
Nicolette Gudith
DIRECTOR
Martha E. Ture
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WINTER NEEDS

Temperatures have plummeted the last week of October across the northern tier of states.  Upper levations in SD have already received six inches of snow.  Most state heating programs don't kick in until midwinter.  The need is dire.
It is time to think of winter cold and those in need.  For many of our Elders and children it is a time without the basic necessities, for others it is a struggle day to day with nothing left for any amenities whatsoever.

The Staff of Native News will be compiling a list of recipient organizations and individuals known and trusted who have participated in years past in assistance to our people.  Donations to Barefoot Connections may be earmarked for any of the following and will be sent on your behalf.

For instance, is there a heating fuel fund for heating costs?  Current funds in some areas cover far less than the cost of one month in a season already much colder than last.

HEATING FUND
Barefoot Connections, Inc.  supports the efforts of Erth of the ndn-aim list who manages the ndn-aim heat/fuel fund for the Pine Ridge-Rosebud area for those in need of assistance for the winter months.


Rosebud
 Carter Camp

Pine Ridge/ Rapid City
Erth
NDN-AIM or NDN-AIM FUND
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VITAMINS FOR KIDS
Over 70% of the children in Central American countries are considered to be malnourished.  while the US has sent grain supplies to help prevent famine, grain is only a stop gap measure and does not prevent vitamin deficiencies which lead to long term health problems.  We are collecting vitamins to send to those in need.
Drugstore.com has this week (last week of October)  a 300 count vitamin bottle with minerals for $5.99. 
Please consider ordering vitamins as a gift order and ship to:
Barefoot Connections, Inc.
PO Box 2065
Riverview, Michigan
48192-2065
We will get them to those in need!

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Groceries for those in need on Pine Ridge,  goes through the Sioux Nation Grocery Store directly for those in need.

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CLOTHING AND TOYS
 The Sioux YMCA,
#1 YMCA Street,
Dupree, South
Dakota 57623. 
The phone number is:  (605) 365-5232.

Here is another address to send clothes:

Pine Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation
ATTN:  Michele Means
Porcupine Day School
Porcupine, SD 57772.

thanks, colleen

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Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Property & Supply
CO:  Rocky LeCompte
Box 590  Main St.
Eagle Butte, SD  57625
605-964-4767  ask for Rocky

Thank you again,

Gregg J. Bourland

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The Adopt-A-Native-Elder Program
(note to be confused with the now defunct "adopt a Grandparent" program}
http://www.anelder.org/
exists to create a bridge of hope between Native Americans and other cultures. It allows us to reach out to one another, share our gifts, and mend the broken circle of our relationship with the Land and the Native Americans who hold it in sacred trust.

The Program supports the traditional Elders who live in the cultural and spiritual traditions of The Dine' People. Most live in remote portions of the Dine's (Navajo) reservation. Many live in traditional hogans, and some raise sheep as a means of maintaining themselves. The Program provides food, simple medicines, clothing, fabric and yarns to help these Elders live on the Land in their traditional lifestyle. As they have become elderly, it has become more difficult for them to support themselves on the Land in their traditional ways...

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The Internet angel tree.... Please stop by if you can.

http://rintintin.colorado.edu/~cameron/LakxotaKxoyag.html


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Please send information to contact other individuals and organizations who are sending much needed supplies and funds where needed.  Let us know if you have worked with them before successfully.
Many of our people face a bleak season far from home behind bars in the federal prison system..please send names, reading interests and contact information for a book drive.  Notice..in most cases "books" must come directly from the publishing companies.
thank you,
Board of Barefoot Connections, Inc.
501(c)3
EIN# 38-30391
Staff Native News