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    • Race to Winterize Pine Ridge Homes >
      • Race to Winterize Covid Safety Protocols
    • Gen7 Youth Leadership >
      • Gen7 Upcoming Events & General Info
      • Gen7 Youth Ambassadors >
        • Alumnus- Gen7 Youth Ambassadors
      • Youth Leadership Summit
    • Volunteer Service Trips >
      • Open Volunteer Service Trips
    • Lakota Language Classes >
      • registration- lakota culture classes
    • Cultural Immersion
    • Lakota Ride >
      • Lakota Ride - Moving Forward
      • Spirit of LakotaRide 2020
      • LakotaRide Gratitude
    • Trading Post
    • Reconciliation Work
    • Tiospaye Friendship Circle
    • Nagi Circle - Food,Firewood, Mattresses and More
    • Testimonials
  • HOW TO HELP
    • Covid-19 Response
    • so many ways to help
    • Program Partners
    • Donate
    • Volunteer
    • Sustained Giving
    • ENGAGING YOUR NETWORKS
    • Nagi Circle - Call to Action
    • Host a supply drive
    • Organization's Wish List
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    • The History
    • The Lakota People
    • Current Statistics
    • The Land
  • WHO WE ARE
    • Tipi Raisers Team
    • Board of Directors
    • The Organization
    • Gen7 Youth Ambassadors
    • Featured Volunteer >
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YOUR SUPPORT IS DEEPLY APPRECIATED!

CURRENT STATISTICS

MORTALITY:
  • Lakota men have a life expectancy of less than 44 years, one of the lowest of any country in the World 
  • The Lakota infant mortality rate is 300% more than the U.S. Average.
  • One out of every four Lakota children born are fostered or adopted out to non-Indian homes.
  • Teenage suicide rate is 150% higher than the U.S national average

DISEASE:
  • Cervical cancer is 500% higher than the U.S national average.
  • The rate of diabetes is 800% higher than the U.S national average.
  • Federal Commodity Food Program provides high sugar, high fat, processed foods that increase our rates of diabetes and heart disease.

POVERTY:
  • The median income is approximately $2,600 to $3,500 per year.
  • 97% of our Lakota people live below the poverty line.
  • Many families cannot afford heating oil, wood or propane and many residents use ovens to heat their homes.

UNEMPLOYMENT:
  • Unemployment rates on our reservations are 80% or higher. 
  • There is very little industry to provide jobs 
HOUSING:
  • Elderly die each winter from hypothermia (freezing).
  • 1/3 of the homes lack basic clean water and sewage while 40% lack electricity.
  • 60% of Reservation families have no telephone.
  • 60% of housing is infected with potentially fatal black molds.
  • There is an estimated average of 17 people living in each family home (may only have two to three rooms). Some homes, built for 6 to 8 people, have up to 30 people living in them.

DRUGS AND ALCOHOL:
  • More than half the Reservation’s adults battle addiction and disease.
  • Alcoholism affects 9 in 10 families.

THREATENED CULTURE:
  • Only 14% of the Lakota population can speak the Lakota language.  The language is not being shared inter-generationally. 
  • Today, the average age of a fluent Lakota speaker is 65 years.
  • Our Lakota language is an Endangered Language, on the verge of extinction and is not allowed to be taught in the U.S. Government schools. 

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7830 W. Alameda Ave. Ste. 103-186
Lakewood, CO 80226

Physical Location: Little Finger Building
29128 US-18 Oglala, SD 57764

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