Native American Forum
Helping our American Indian Brothers and Sisters!
Native American Forum
Helping our American Indian Brothers and Sisters!
The Native American Forum (NAF) is an organization comprised of American
Indian people practicing the Traditional Give-Away. We are dedicated to
helping others through collecting and distributing food, clothing, and
blankets for American Indians living on reservations in North and South
Dakota and Nebraska.
American Indians living on reservations have an unemployment rate between
80% and 95% and an extremely high rate of alcoholism. In the summer, floods
and tornadoes destroy farming and grazing lands. In the winter, severe
temperatures cause elders and small children to die from lack of efficient
and adequate heat and warm clothing. These things make for unlivable conditions.
The NAF tries to help alleviate these circumstances so that the people
will suffer less. We cannot do this alone.
OUR GOAL: To bring dignity back into the lives of a proud and noble
people. Your assistance through donations will help restore a sense of
well being and pride to families and communities living on the reservations.
Besides the long list of items that follow, we also accept financial donations to help supply homes with heating oil or propane and to help defray the cost of transportation of the items collected and distributed to the reservations.
Needed Items
| Baby clothing | Children's clothing |
| Adult clothing | Shoes |
| Winter coats | Blankets and bedding |
| Gloves and scarfs | Baby items |
| Baby food | Flour, sugar, powered milk |
| Disposable diapers | Small appliances |
| Hand tools | School supplies |
| Children's books | Toys |
| Bikes and wagons | Fabrics, yarn, threads |
| Sewing machines | Toiletries |
Thank you for your help
NAF
PO Box 103
Annapolis Junction, MD 20701
We leave you with this Indian Prayer:
O’ Great Spirit,
Whose voice I hear in the winds,
And Whose breath gives life to all the world,
Hear me! I am small and weak, I need Your
strength and wisdom.
Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes
ever behold the red and purple sunset.
Make my hands respect the things You have
made and my ears sharp to hear your voice.
Make me wise so that I may understand the
things you have taught my people.
Let me learn the lessons you have hidden
in every leaf and rock.
I seek strength, not to be greater than my
Brothers, but to fight my greatest enemy
So when life fades, as the fading sunset,
My spirit may come to you without shame.
Aho!
