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Donations of shawls, sweet grass, sage, flat cedar and Pow Wow supplies needed
From the South Dakota Prisoners Support Group:
1.) Shawl donations are needed for a women's Federal prison in
California and to help the SD women prisoners. The need is for finished shawls and shawl making supplies: fringe,
cloth for shawl making, ribbons, crochet hooks and what else may be needed when making a shawl. There are a
number of South Dakota women in the Federal women's prison in
California. We have been told they had to use sheets to dance with at
their pow wow because they have no shawls or materials to make them
with. Since we first made this need known, 12 shawls have been generously donated. But there are 30 or more Native women at this specific prison and we still need to help the SD women prisoners. If you can help with any of these items, please contact
pachecomars@rushmore.com for more information. Thanks!!!
2.) We have received letters about needing sage, sweet grass, and
flat cedar for sweat lodge ceramonies and pipe ceramonies and individual
needs. Please, If you can help with these items, contact the individual
cultural sponsors at each DOC facility which are listed below. These supplies must go in to these cultural sponsors
at each site, not mailed to individual inmates. If an individual inmate
has
need of these things, it is to be sent to the cultural sponsor at the
inmate's prison, with a notation that this sage or sweet grass or cedar is
for that particular inmate.
3.) Donations are needed by all Native American Cultural groups at all
DOC sites for their pow wows. Donations used for supplies used for making
giveaway items for pow wows, as well as food, mailing supplies etc. Please
send donations to the Culture sponsor at the DOC you are donating to. Most
groups are non-profit organizations, so donations can be tax deductable I
believe in most cases. I am not up on the IRS rulings on this ...but
certainly donations are needed and appreciated.
Contacts for the different DOC's:
SD Women's Prison
Cultural Coordinator; Aaron Miller,
3200 E. Hwy 34
Pierre, SD 57501
Phone (605) 773-4953
Fax (605) 773-6810
The Lakota, Dakota, Nakota Spiritual Group
Cultural Activities Coordinator; Malinda Johnson
SD State Penitentiary, Box 5911
Sioux Falls, SD 57117-5911
Phone (605) 367-5010
Fax (605) 367-5038
Native American Council of Tribes, Inc.
Cultural Activities Coordinator; Malinda Johnson
SD State Penitentiary Box 5911
Sioux Falls, SD 57117-5911
Phone (605) 367-5010
Fax (605) 367- 5038
Lakota Council of Tribes, Inc
Mike Durfee State Prison
C/O Jim Halsey- Sponsor
PO Box 322
Springfield, SD 57062-0322
Phone (605) 369-4450
Fax (605) 369-2813
Four Winds Cultural Group *
C/O Chaplain Hoch
FCI
5701 8th St. Camp Parks
Dublin CA 94568
* At the prison in Dublin CA the shawls and crafts supplies need to be sent in
by an organization and need to be approved by the prison. For this reason, please contact pachecomars@rushmore.com so that the SD Prisoner's Support Group may send them in.
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