During this coldest part of the winter, many people on Pine Ridge Reservation are without heat in their homes. The majority of the 40,000 people on Pine Ridge do not have the equipment for using wood for heat and have to rely on propane. Presently, $120. will only buy enough propane to heat a home for a week. The Tribal Energy Office has recommended that the best way to help people have heat is with electric heaters.

500 energy efficient and safe electric heaters are needed now.

$50 will provide a family with a heater that will keep them warm this winter. Please help us get as many heaters as possible.
Donations made now will provide quick delivery of a heater to a family or elder.

-- The survival of the world depends upon our sharing what we have and working together. if we don't, the whole world will die. First the planet, and next the people.

Fools Crow, Ceremonial Chief of the Teton Sioux

THE WOOD PROGRAMS:

• Stock up wood for elders and families for the coming winter.
• Ensure that people will have heat on the reservation where temperatures can dip to 40 degrees below zero.
• provide employment to Native American men and women who must support families even though unemployment is at 90%.
• Allow the Lakota People to take care of themselves and their people.

The Cheyenne River Vets deliver wood they have collected to an elder who is without heat. The temperature is forecast to be near zero during the coming night. Through tears, the elder expresses his thanks to crusty vets who struggle to hide their feelings.

These elders are real people who will benefit from the wood program being supported by ONE Spirit. The Native American Vets are cutting, hauling, and delivering the wood. WOOD ON PINE RIDGE

We are supporting a wood program on Pine Ridge. The Lakota people are cutting and delivering 200 loads of cottonwood, elm and ash wood. The cost of the manpower and tools to acquire the wood and get it to the reservation will be $10,000 or $50 per cord.

"The winter months are hard here on the reservation. Some of the men....have organized a wood project to get wood for the elderly here on Pine Ridge Reservation. We have organized a society of men to try to prepare for winter. The name is "The Men's Buffalo Society".

..... However, most of all the best accomplishment can not be measured by money alone. The men will have made a stand for their community and in a place where there are almost no chances of making a living these men will earn a few dollars for their families in a good way."

John Dubray

The wood is being distributed to elders and families who need it for heat. The current cost of a cord of wood on the reservation is between $170 and $200. If we were to pay per cord to have 200 cords of wood delivered to those in need, the cost would be $40,000. The Lakota People are working with ONE Spirit to provide the wood at a fraction of the cost.

BEST OF ALL, WE HELP TO KEEP FAMILIES AND ELDERS WARM WITHOUT ENDURING THE YEARLY FUEL CRISIS WHEN THE FIRST WINTER WEATHER APPEARS.

We also work with propane companies to deliver fuel at the lowest possible price.

YOU CAN HELP

THE EBAY YARD SALE !

The easiest way to donate items to the E-bay Garage sale is to get a flat rate box ($8.50) from USPS and fill it with whatever you feel has some value. Dennis' old R&R tee shirts did very well. Other items we've received from Friends of ONE Spirit include gold rings, mink stoles, dolls, Boyde Bears, handmade jewelry, skunk pelt motorcycle helmet, and other collectables including the closeout inventory from a high-end bead store.

A thank you is not enough to the people who have already sent us items. Please know that you are helping ONE Spirit to help others by changing the excess in your life into wood to sustain a life.

Contact James at: ; Telephone: 708-903-4150.

THANK YOU to everyone who has participated in THE EBAY YARD SALE.