John & Mary Hollow Horn At Red Shirt Table
A Gathering of the Clans – 1930
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Presented by
Elizabeth & Bernadette Hollow Horn
HOW
YOU CAN HELP
The
Wounded Knee Development Project was founded
in 2003 and depends solely on the support of
individuals, corporations, and organizations
to help carry out the critical services and
programs the project will be providing to the
families of Wounded Knee. We are a tax exempt
501C-3 organization so all contributions are
tax deductible. Here are some ways you can help
out.
Gifts of any size are greatly appreciated and
are put to good use. We are seeking immediately
250,000 dollars to complete the interior of
the Wounded Knee's Cultral/ Community Center.
The Centers exterior was completed in 2003 and
remains unfinished due to lack of funding.
The center will include a full size interior
basketball court, office space, musuem and gathering
place for the people. This center lies of the
heart of the communities concern which are the
children. Suicide, drug and achol abuse, gang
fights and sheer poverty are taking the lives
of Native American children every day. Because
of a lack in anything constructive, entertaining,
educational, or time consuming to do, violence
has taken precidences. Your help is needed.
If 250 thousand people donate one dollar numerous
lives can be saved today.
To make a contribution by check or money order
(Please do not send money in the mail) make
it payable to:
And mail the contribution to
the following address:
LINACHISE
PO
Box 427
Shirley NY 11967
631-772-8316
MAJOR
CORPORATE FUNDING/ASSISTANCE:
Some
corporations will make matching contributions
for their employees. So please check with your
company to see if that would be possible.
Other
ways corporations could help us would be through
donations of money, goods and or services directly
to Linacase. We desperately need vans that are
usable and dependable to transport the elderly
and other community residents back and forth
to the Pine Ridge Reservation on a daily basis
for food shopping and Doctorís appointments.
These vehicles will be driven by authorized
drivers working for the TANIF or TWEP programs
in a vehicle transport service at specific times
throughout the day resembling a taxi or bus
service and will be provided to the community
free of charge.
Companies
that have excess computer equipment and office
supplies could also donate them to the community
project. We will always want to upgrade present
equipment. Office equipment like Fax machines,
telephones, desks and so on would be welcome.
The community currently has nothing.
SUPPORT
ACTIVITIES: Always there is a need for sports
equipment and playground items. We are very interested
in organizing teams for baseball, basketball,
football, and any other sports event. Perhaps
you would like to volunteer some of your time
to come and coach and teach these young people
during the summer months.
Please
contact the above listed address via regular
mail channels if you have the time and/or any
ideas that you would like them to know about
and you think would be helpful. Right now they
do not have computers or a phone system setup
to contact them directly, but we are hoping
to have those items ready to go soon. It will
all depend on the support received over the
next few months.
Support
from those who wish to help us help the people
of Wounded Knee now in their current hour of
greatest need will be graciously accepted and
very much appreciated. Thank you.
Barb Nixon & Derek Whirlwind
On behalf of Linachise
The name of the song that you
have been listing to is
"Walk
the Talk" by Derek Whirlwind Lyrics and
music written and performed by Derek Whirlwind.
All photos ........."by Barbara Nixon"
Permission granted for use by the Oglala Lakota
representatives and the people of Wounded Knee
South Dakota
If
you would like to purchase this CD please click
here.
'Ode
to the U'
My
friends, there is strength in numbers..........
Consider the 'U'..........
The 'U' that divides, and discriminates
My brother, my sister..........my
'U.'
The 'U' like the star of the Holocaust..........
Of the German against the Jew.
The 'U' in the blud .........
guised Unity?
Keeping you, from loving you.
Brother against brother........
Pitted by the scraps.........
Of another's vicious vision
With lives, they're 'shooting craps'.
Ahhhhhh the master plan...........
Dissension from within.............
Its creators sitting back.........
With horns and eyes that grin........
Controlling lives and destinies...........
Feeding the constant spin.
The 'U' that says, 'more or less than'........
Beneath a common 'Skin'
Pedigreed....... like livestock........
Branded at your birth.............
Corralled like cattle..........
To question 'what's the worth?'
My friends the days are numbered
With the 'Elders'........go the ways
The days of the mighty Red Man
As the 'Chicken Dance' is played.
Keep the people pitted.......
By the numbers, and alone.........
Keep the People hungry..........
To throw them only bones..........
Keep the people lonely
With sadness and despair
Keep the People Labeled
Leaving nothing to repair........
Soon my friends you'll see..............
That the Black Hills will be gone
And the heart of Mother Earth
Will sing your woeful song............
Remembering the old days
and the way it used to be........
Dancing with the Spirits
Then Cut down at the 'Knee'
Your Chieftains will be sellouts,
Your struggle will be done........
Your way of life, in books .......remembered
The hunt, the kill, the run..........
People!!!! 'Daylights Burning'
We near the sunset of our times.........
Worlds, and thoughts are churning
Yours..........and theirs...........and mine.
So I say to you in truth........my friends.........
as to the bottom of the barrel you are rendered,
Time has come .........Time is up Solidarity .........or Surrender!
