President Biden signs order to address ‘crisis of violence’ against Native Americans at White House summit
Today, President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing federal agencies, including the departments of Justice, Interior and Homeland Security, to create a strategy addressing what his administration calls an “epidemic” of missing and murdered Indigenous people – especially women and girls. While I applaud his action, it is a long time coming that the […]
Providing Food Boxes Year-Round
With Thanksgiving just a week away, we at Running Strong for American Indian Youth® are working diligently to ensure that 1,700 families – an estimated 7,000 Lakota children, parents and elders – on the Pine Ridge Indian and Cheyenne River Sioux reservations in South Dakota are able to join together for a big holiday meal […]
Giving Tuesday
Winter is coming soon, but on Indian reservations such as Pine Ridge in South Dakota and throughout Indian Country in states such as Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Utah it’s already arrived. For example, in the small North Dakota town of Mandan, where our partner, Sacred Pipe Resource Center, distributes winter coats, […]