today we saw a note going around tumblr, that many of the human persons living on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation are going without heating oil. while the media hypes “black friday”, and from what we saw on the television today it was a dark day indeed, real human persons are having real problems, ironically coming to light the day after your thanksgiving holiday, which commemorates a day when american indian persons gave newly arrived immigrant persons a hand.
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• According to current USDA Rural Development documents, the Lakota have the lowest life expectancy of any group in America. The median income on the reservation is approximately $2,600 to $3,500 per year, with about 97% of people living far below the federal poverty line.
• Heating and fueling just one house on the reservation can easily impact 2 dozen lives, as there are an average of 17 people per family home (with up to 30 in many houses).
• 39% of the homes on the Pine Ridge Reservation have no basic water, sewage system or electricity and lack basic insulation.
and this is just one reservation in america.
we are but fish, yet many of us are bound, intrinsically and historically, to indigenous human persons from all over the world! we take pride that the orca and salmon are celebrated in song and story and art by so many american indian people, that the sturgeon was named a mighty soul by the Iroquois, and that even the catfish was honored by tribes all along the great Mississippi!
song of the day! and if you cannot give anything at this time because you are in need yourself, please reblog this post and the other posts, and post to your twitters and facebooks! thank you!
