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Stacey Low Dog has created a fund specific to helping those out in Pine Ridge and RoseBud who have had problems resulting from the blizzard and who will require heating assistance this winter. The DLN Advocacy Coalition is hosting the Heating and Winter Survival Assistance Project.

DLN Advocacy Coalition is implementing a temporary emergency heating and winter survival assistance project to supplement what the tribes or state are not able to assist with. It is up to us to use our grass roots efforts to help our people with this type of emergency heating assistance with these much needed Winter survival supplies before another major blizzard devastates our areas.

The DLN Advocacy Coalition website is one that I’ve managed for a long while, having gone out to Rosebud some eight years ago to meet Alfred Bone Shirt. He, with the ACLU, had brought suit against the state concerning violation of voting rights against Native Americans, and the Coalition thought it would be a good idea to have a web site for keeping people informed. Someone suggested me and, having been suggested, I volunteered, which meant a trip to Rosebud to meet Alfred and collect stacks of material for the website, including the beautiful drawing (it’s on the left of the webpage) which I would scan and make into a t-shirt that could be sold.

That suit resulted two years ago in a final federal appeals court decision affirming the redrawing of legislative district lines in South Dakota to ensure there would be no discrimination against Native American voters.

I made a donation to the heating fund as soon as I created the web page for it. Believe me, if you’re not familiar with the area, it gets bitter cold out on these reservations where individuals already suffer harsh deprivation.