American Indians need donations
By Veronica Ives-Virnig | Winona

With the packages unwrapped, find room for your new “stuff” by donating duplicates of new or gently used toys and household items and help American Indian families living in poverty on reservations in North and South Dakota and Nebraska find a little more hope in the coming year.

Donations of items for all ages including clothing, (especially warm clothing, mittens, hats, shoes, boots, and coats), toys and books, household items (cooking utensils, bedding, personal care, etc.) and furniture can be delivered to Quality Inn, Highways 61 and 43, Winona, (507) 454-4390; or the Winona Mall, 1213 Gilmore Ave., (507) 454-7295.
Additional donations of cash are also desperately needed to help fill the gas tanks of the semi-trucks used to deliver the donated items to the reservations.

To make a tax-exempt contribution for gas, mail a check or money order “designated for gas” to: Diversity Foundation Inc., P.O. Box 2013, Maple Grove, MN 55311.

The Diversity Foundation (http://www.diversityfoundation.org ) is a nonprofit organization, alleviating the extreme poverty, isolation, depression, hopelessness and broken promises of our federal government inherited by Indians forced to move to reservations in our nation’s past. “Crow Creek: The Forgotten People,” a 12-minute video by the Diversity Foundation and Winona’s HBC depicting conditions on the Crow Creek Reservation, is available for viewing at www.umbsn.org/Social_Justice.html (video source: Saint Mary’s University).

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