One Spirit Lifting the Lakota People

While the world reels in apprehension about global markets, one North American nation experiences 87% unemployment and an average life expectancy of 50 years.  The people of the Lakota Nation live with hunger, heart disease, diabetes, cancer and malnutrition on an epidemic scale.

One Spirit works in partnership with the Lakota people on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to care for those in need through food, heat, art and youth programs..

Despite constant hardship and unrelenting adversity, the Lakota preserve their cultural and traditions for their children and the world:

• About 1/3 of the population still speak the Lakota language
• Almost all maintain their traditional spiritual and cultural beliefs
• They are leaders in knowledge of environmental preservation.
• They are a sharing society - when one eats, they all eat - or they all do without.
• Their exquisite beadwork, quillwork, quilting, sewing, painting is art at its best.
• They wish to find ways to be self-sufficient. (Source)

One Spirit provides opportunities for anyone to directly sponsor an elder, families, children and a Safe House.

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