Lotus 88 Foundation President Patricia Stout visited Brave Heart Society on the Yankton Reservation in Lake Andes, South Dakota. She met with Brave Heart Board members and discussed their programs and needs. The Brave Heart Board has developed a long-range plan and set out their vision for what they would like to achieve in the next ten years.
November, 2005
Following President Patricia Stout's trip to Tibet, Lotus 88 Foundation created the Sangyala Project which pooled the donations of other Tibet trip participants to provide support for Buddhist nuns in Lhasa to build a road to their nunnery. The road increases their ability to sustain themselves through tourism, provides access for the village people to the temple, and provides the nuns access to local markets to sell and buy goods and food.
11 March, 2005
The Lotus 88 Foundation made a grant to support the Pen Pal Program of the Marty Indian School in Marty, South Dakota by matching funds raised by the fourth grade class at St. Albert the Great School in North Royalton, Ohio. The students of St. Albert's and the Marty Indian School have been writing to each other. The St. Albert's students wanted to demonstrate their support by giving the Marty students a party and providing funds for some of their program needs. Lotus 88 Foundation agreed to match what the students raised and made a grant to the Marty Indian School to support the Pen Pal Program.
1 March, 2005
Foundation President Patricia Stout visited Yankton, South Dakota where she visited Foundation program partner Brave Heart Society. While there, Patricia saw how the Tipi provided by the Lotus 88 Foundation's Tipi Project was being used to provide much needed community gathering space. The Foundation made a new grant to support Brave Heart's "Nagi Ksapa" or Spirit Smart young program which promotes cultural knowledge, self-discipline and pride in Native identity through the creation of traditional pow wow regalia and participation in Native dances. The grant is to enable a group of Lakota/Dakota teenage girls in the program to participate in the Denver Pow Wow.
The First Tipi Projects Completed
The poles and materials for four Council Tipis were delivered to
the women and children on the Pine Ridge and Yankton Reservations
in South Dakota early in June 2004. These Tipis mark the return of the traditional
council gatherings that reflect days of the past. Everyone on the Reservations
was very happy and excited about their new sacred gathering places.
Women and volunteers erected the large 28 ft. tall structure onto the Great Plains.
Each Reservation will hold a Wopila (celebration) in recognition of Lotus 88 Foundation's grants.
August 7, 2004
Cante Ohitika Okodakokiciye, Brave Heart Society will hold the
Wopila at Lake Andes, South Dakoa at 12:00 noon.
August 13, 2004
Wakanyeja Pawicayapi Inc, Nagi Kicopi (Calling the Spirit Back)
will hold the Wopila at Porcupine, South Dakota at 12:00 noon.
