Lakota
AID
Registered
Charity
No: 1097444
Volume
2 Issue 11
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Hi Everyone Hope you are all enjoying the Easter Holiday. Don’t know about elsewhere in the country, but here in Devon it has been really sunny and nice the past few days, so let’s hope Spring is well and truly here!! This past winter has been a major struggle to get donations in for the Propane fund. The Tsunami disaster happened and most people have been concentrating on helping these poor people in Indonesia, and quite rightly too. This has really affected Lakota Aid, and it has been a real headache and a major worry for me just trying to help the few families that I have been able to this winter. So I have decided very reluctantly, that I will not be accepting anymore donations after march 2005, and am going to concentrate more in the areas of supporting and campaigning with the Lakota people, in their fight to retain their sovereign rights. It has been a very hard decision, but it has to be made. I would like to thank everyone that has donated in the past and for all the moral support etc, and I will still be in regular contact with the people, so any queries can still be e-mailed to me, nothing will change there at all. Also, if anyone wishes to still help with donations elsewhere to help the people, there is a continuing campaign going on for the fight to regain the Sacred Black Hills, and donations are always needed for this campaign, so please keep this website in mind and pass it around and you can help in this very important cause. I am in constant contact with some of the people within this cause, who go to voice their rights at the United Nations meetings in Geneva, and help is always needed there for airfares and accommodation, food etc. Without these Lakota people regularly campaigning for the rights of the people, by now, the Lakota Nation would be no more!! I will still be posting newsletters and updating you on what is happening with the film documentary. Apparently the editing is going really well. I am still happy to do talks about the situation out on the Pine Ridge Reservation, and can never stop helping these people in anyway I can. If things change in the future I will certainly let everyone know, but for now I need to concentrate in other areas. If anyone wants to help in anyway, I can still direct their queries, ideas etc to the right contacts, so again I repeat, nothing is going to change there at all. e-mail me on:- lewjas@aol.com So keep the fight going folks!!!! The battle has to go on, even though it has to change direction sometimes. These people still need a lot of help, and spreading the word is still vitally important remember! Take care and thanks once more for all the support far. Once again in the words of the late Tony Black Feather:- LET THE SPIRIT LEAD! |
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