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wotakuye = kinship
Rooted in Lakota thought and philosophy and woman led, this effort coordinates food like homemade meals and groceries to COVID-19+ families and individuals, household by household. They started with cooking for 16 people and 3 households on May 10, 2020 and have operated every single day with a long break between March and June and then once against engaging in daily work, delivering over 67, 000 meals, directly aiding over a 1,300 people in isolation or quarantine as well as delivering 350+ family aid packages of traditional medicines, hygiene and cleaning supplies.
They have also distributed over 18,000 cloth, surgical disposable and kn95 masks to the Lakota families and community in Rapid City. They provide support for healing, encouragement and stress relief. They are a grassroots community response to the actual unmet needs of the people facing this pandemic in a state irresponsibly responding to the devastating impact of this pandemic, particularly on the families of Lakota, Dakota and Nakota people indigenous to these lands. As well as other vulnerable relatives such as the elderly and disabled.
They are modeled on mutual aid approach, this is not a free giveaway - just free to the people who are coping with this pandemic, or other issues around basic necessities such as food, shelter, medicine and water. We are growing into a mutual aid society, known as Wotakuye which is the word for our kinship in our language, for the good of the urban Indian community in Rapid City and throughout our homelands. We are preparing formal gardening, foraging, hunting, harvesting and other ways of aiding each other in today’s challenging times, and want to address food insecurity, hunger and food sovereignty for our people living in our occupied homelands
They have also distributed over 18,000 cloth, surgical disposable and kn95 masks to the Lakota families and community in Rapid City. They provide support for healing, encouragement and stress relief. They are a grassroots community response to the actual unmet needs of the people facing this pandemic in a state irresponsibly responding to the devastating impact of this pandemic, particularly on the families of Lakota, Dakota and Nakota people indigenous to these lands. As well as other vulnerable relatives such as the elderly and disabled.
They are modeled on mutual aid approach, this is not a free giveaway - just free to the people who are coping with this pandemic, or other issues around basic necessities such as food, shelter, medicine and water. We are growing into a mutual aid society, known as Wotakuye which is the word for our kinship in our language, for the good of the urban Indian community in Rapid City and throughout our homelands. We are preparing formal gardening, foraging, hunting, harvesting and other ways of aiding each other in today’s challenging times, and want to address food insecurity, hunger and food sovereignty for our people living in our occupied homelands