TIOSPAYE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE 
(Tee-oash-pah-yay / Extended Family)

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The Tiospaye Friendship Circle (The Circle) is a sustained giving program. By contributing in this way, you are making the most significant impact on the sustainability of the organization – thus advancing our Mission.

The Tipi Raiser's Mission is:
Our mission is to be a multi-cultural and cross-generational community who work and play together to alleviate conditions of poverty, honor indigenous wisdom and begin to reconcile the tragic history of the Lakota People on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
  
Each year we strive to achieve this by providing employment on Pine Ridge, distributing needed food and supplies and hosting volunteer service groups who work alongside Tribal members to alleviate conditions of poverty while building friendships. 

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Your Membership in the Tiospaye Friendship Circle Can Help Us Accomplish So Much:

• Improve the living conditions on Pine Ridge through ongoing housing repair, renovation and construction efforts.
• Distribute firewood to families around the reservation in the Fall and Winter.
• Collect, transport and distribute food, appliances, clothing, furniture and other items to families across the reservation on an ongoing basis.
• Facilitate presentations at schools, churches and civic organizations around the country with Lakota Youth Ambassadors and Elders.
• Facilitate cultural, educational and historical events throughout the year including horseback rides, traditional skill demonstrations, inipi (sweat lodge), cultural and historical presentations, etc.
• Run year-round Gen7 Youth Leadership programs.

THE CIRCLE MEMBER BENEFITS

As a Tiospaye Friendship Circle member you can enjoy these exclusive benefits (all in-person activities are temporarily suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic):

• Horse Rides- Twice a year, you can schedule personal rides on Pine Ridge and surrounding destinations (i.e., the Black Hills, Wounded Knee, Badlands, Fort Robinson). Please give us four weeks' notice for scheduling purposes.
• More than half off LakotaRide registration.
• Free admission on Volunteer Trips (after one year as a Circle member and as long as your membership is current during that month).
• Annual Circle Gathering- Join us in building this community as we meet once a year for meaningful dialogue with each other and the Tipi Raiser's Board of Directors. Dates to be announced.
• Sign up a friend or family member for the Circle and receive a signed, original work by a Lakota artist!​

Recurring donations can be cancelled at any time through the Network for Good platform or by contacting us.

Click on " Join the Circle" below and choose $95.00/month or higher to
​become a Circle member today!

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