Standing Rock Medic/Healer Camp
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I have been a nurse and a healer for nearly 20 years. I have worked in both state-of-the-art hospitals and in make-shift emergency room tents.
I am called to serve where there is suffering and injustice. This is why I am traveling to Standing Rock to assit in the Mni Wiconi (Water is Life in Lakota) Integrative Clinic. (Standing Rock MedicHealer Council)
The Dakota Access Pipeline Project is a 1,172-mile, pipeline that will connect the Bakken production areas in North Dakota to Patoka, Illinois, winding its way through four states.
Originally, the pipeline was to go through the capitol city and 90% white, Bismarck, ND. When the residents of the state’s capitol spoke out against the pipeline citing the potential contamination of their drinking water, a new route was proposed and accepted by state and federal officials.
That new plan has shifted the risks of the project away from Bismarck to Lakota Treaty Territory, endangering the drinking water of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and the Missouri River.
As you know there are thousands of people now living and camping at the frontline. They are peacefully and prayerfully protesting the construction of this pipeline that endangers the water supply for millions of people.
The frontlines have become dangerous for the peaceful protestors. I am going there to care for the injured, attend to the sick and do what I can to serve the many brave people who are living there, protecting this sacred land.
I will be supporting the herbal medics there and the indigenous medicine as it is practiced.
Winter is extremely cold there, with temperatures down to -20 at times. They will need many supplies to get through it safely.
While not everyone can physically go to ND, I am hoping you will consider supporting those standing up for the land, the water and the people at Standing Rock. I am planning on leaving November 17th and returning on November 28th.
If you would like to purchase some of the supplies needed yourself and send them, here is a link:
MedicHealerAmazonWishlist
If we can raise $2500, together we can help those who are there for the long haul do so safely and hopefully in good health.
Below is a list of the most urgent items needed at this time as the camps set up for the long, cold Winter. I have already purchased quite a few first aid supplies, and I also want to procure some of the items listed below with your help.
1. Multi-use AED with disposable pads
2. Snowmobile
3. Sled that can be pulled by a snowmobile.
4. 1500 meters of static line (rope without kernmantle)
5. Personal harness systems (x3); these can be used to connect a static line to pull a sled
6. Pull sleds x2 (these are smaller than sleds for pulling by snowmobile)
7. Snowshoes; 8 sets (any style is acceptable, but Bear Paw brand is best because it gives the wearer the ability to run–other styles have too long a base to allow a person to run; aluminum would be the lightest, but also the most expensive)
8. DC lighting system (draws less power than AC–particularly important when we consider how few hours of light are going to be available to charge solar systems)
9. Immersion tub (large enough to fully immerse a person in warm water–for treating extreme hypothermia)
10. Steri strips
11. Medi honey for treating diabetic sores/wounds
12. Non-latex gloves (2 boxes of large; 2 boxes of size small)
13. Ear thermometer
14. Glass thermometer with clip (to allow it to be clipped onto a pan of water; again, this is for prepping water for treating hypothermia)
15: FMRS/GMRS radios (walkie talkies) with recharging stations, rechargeable AA batteries (and sufficient long-range capability to reach from one camp to another)
16. Emergency beacons x 10 (lights that can be placed atop med tents and emergency shelters)
17. Retro-reflective tape (to place on shelters, and on people’s coats, for example, to help mark someone (a medic, for example) in the night
18. Emergency alarm for all camps (an alarm to send warning of an imminent storm, for example)
19. Dried herbs for herbal medicine preparation (Donations ).
I would be deeply grateful for your support.
This is how I am standing up with the indigenous people, for the land and the water. Please stand with me!
Peace to all, clean water for all, health for all.
I am called to serve where there is suffering and injustice. This is why I am traveling to Standing Rock to assit in the Mni Wiconi (Water is Life in Lakota) Integrative Clinic. (Standing Rock MedicHealer Council)
The Dakota Access Pipeline Project is a 1,172-mile, pipeline that will connect the Bakken production areas in North Dakota to Patoka, Illinois, winding its way through four states.
Originally, the pipeline was to go through the capitol city and 90% white, Bismarck, ND. When the residents of the state’s capitol spoke out against the pipeline citing the potential contamination of their drinking water, a new route was proposed and accepted by state and federal officials.
That new plan has shifted the risks of the project away from Bismarck to Lakota Treaty Territory, endangering the drinking water of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and the Missouri River.
As you know there are thousands of people now living and camping at the frontline. They are peacefully and prayerfully protesting the construction of this pipeline that endangers the water supply for millions of people.
The frontlines have become dangerous for the peaceful protestors. I am going there to care for the injured, attend to the sick and do what I can to serve the many brave people who are living there, protecting this sacred land.
I will be supporting the herbal medics there and the indigenous medicine as it is practiced.
Winter is extremely cold there, with temperatures down to -20 at times. They will need many supplies to get through it safely.
While not everyone can physically go to ND, I am hoping you will consider supporting those standing up for the land, the water and the people at Standing Rock. I am planning on leaving November 17th and returning on November 28th.
If you would like to purchase some of the supplies needed yourself and send them, here is a link:
MedicHealerAmazonWishlist
If we can raise $2500, together we can help those who are there for the long haul do so safely and hopefully in good health.
Below is a list of the most urgent items needed at this time as the camps set up for the long, cold Winter. I have already purchased quite a few first aid supplies, and I also want to procure some of the items listed below with your help.
1. Multi-use AED with disposable pads
2. Snowmobile
3. Sled that can be pulled by a snowmobile.
4. 1500 meters of static line (rope without kernmantle)
5. Personal harness systems (x3); these can be used to connect a static line to pull a sled
6. Pull sleds x2 (these are smaller than sleds for pulling by snowmobile)
7. Snowshoes; 8 sets (any style is acceptable, but Bear Paw brand is best because it gives the wearer the ability to run–other styles have too long a base to allow a person to run; aluminum would be the lightest, but also the most expensive)
8. DC lighting system (draws less power than AC–particularly important when we consider how few hours of light are going to be available to charge solar systems)
9. Immersion tub (large enough to fully immerse a person in warm water–for treating extreme hypothermia)
10. Steri strips
11. Medi honey for treating diabetic sores/wounds
12. Non-latex gloves (2 boxes of large; 2 boxes of size small)
13. Ear thermometer
14. Glass thermometer with clip (to allow it to be clipped onto a pan of water; again, this is for prepping water for treating hypothermia)
15: FMRS/GMRS radios (walkie talkies) with recharging stations, rechargeable AA batteries (and sufficient long-range capability to reach from one camp to another)
16. Emergency beacons x 10 (lights that can be placed atop med tents and emergency shelters)
17. Retro-reflective tape (to place on shelters, and on people’s coats, for example, to help mark someone (a medic, for example) in the night
18. Emergency alarm for all camps (an alarm to send warning of an imminent storm, for example)
19. Dried herbs for herbal medicine preparation (Donations ).
I would be deeply grateful for your support.
This is how I am standing up with the indigenous people, for the land and the water. Please stand with me!
Peace to all, clean water for all, health for all.
Organizer
Lynda Chickpea Chick
Organizer
Nehalem, OR