It's easy to sit in your nice warm home and forget all about the people who dream of the things you take for granted.

It's easy to sit in your nice warm house and forget all about the injustice in the world, to forget all about the suffering and the hunger in countless places within the United States of America, the most prosperous country the world has ever seen.

It's easy to stick your head in the sand and claim, "I didn't know."

But, once you DO know, how can you sit there and do nothing?

Causes

Adopt a Native Elder Program - Many of the older Wisdom-Keepers of the Native Nations live in abject poverty. They could use a helping hand.

The Pine Ridge Reservation encompasses the two poorest counties in the United States. The needs of the Pine Ridge Reservation Lakota people are so great as to be staggering.

Cobell v. Norton -  A class-action lawsuit to force the federal government to account for billions of dollars belonging to approximately 500,000 American Indians and their heirs.


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