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    Powwows and Hand Sanitizer: Native Hope Meets Needs in Indian Country

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    As we move into fall, Native Hope has been hard at work on projects in our local South Dakota community. In addition to our recent successful campaign to raise money for a baseball field for Native ch...

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    Book Donations Make a Difference for Native Children

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    In August, the Avera Health Employee Engagement Team of Sioux Falls filtered a book drive through Native Hope. Avera Health Employees donate books each summer, and the engagement team finds a partner ...

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    September 27, 2019

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    Native Hope Leaders’ Society “Siouxper Elite” Peer to Peer Impact

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    Native Hope Leaders’ Society member Ramez wants to create a positive impact on his friends and classmates from his native community. That’s why Ramez volunteers his time to teach youth and families to...

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    August 21, 2019

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    Coming Together to Build a Field for Native Youth

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    Early this spring, a group of Native parents in a remote community on the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Reservation began to dream about a baseball field for their community. They knew they needed healthy ac...

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    August 6, 2019

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    Lose the Language, Lose the Culture

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    Imagine losing the ability to question, to state, to joke, to think. Language is the core of expression and offers a unique view of the world. It encompasses a history—the history of a people and thei...

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    August 1, 2019

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    A Place to Grow

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    “If you build it, they will come.” An old adage, but according to the Crow Creek District [CCD] Representative Carla Pickner, a true one. Last summer, she saw the community come together day after day...

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    July 17, 2019

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    Summers on the Rez: Community through Baseball

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    Summertime comes with familiar sights, sounds, and smells. The feeling of the sun baking your skin. The fireworks on the Fourth of July. The thwack of bat on ball when you head to the local baseball g...

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    July 10, 2019

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    Connection and Empowerment for Native People: The Teachings of the Bow and Arrow

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    Most Americans think of the bow and arrow as a tool for hunting or sports. But writer and craftsman Joseph Marshall III has always seen the bow and arrow as a source of spiritual guidance. In Lakota c...

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    June 21, 2019

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    Purity in Pine Ridge: The Native American Bow and Arrow

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    Google “Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.” The search results may reveal the following words: broken, failing, suicide, forgotten, and third-world. However, Native Hope knows that Pine Ridge is so much m...

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    June 7, 2019

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