How would you like to camp out in North Dakota during the winter?

Winter can be brutal on the Standing Rock Reservation. Temperatures ranging from 17 degrees to 30 below. Snowstorms easily turn into devastating blizzards.

The Oceti Sakowin (Och-et-eeshak-oh-win) Camp which encompasses all the camps at the resistance location near Lake Oahe in North Dakota is focusing on maintaining camp through the winter. The big camp is being funded by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

The camp currently housing thousands of supporters will need to prepare for winter. Heavy duty tents, warm clothing, porta-potties, food and fuel, i.e. wood to burn in stoves. Wood fuel was the number one request.

You can help by contributing directly to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe at their homepage so they can purchase exactly what they need.

Another great project I’m supporting is the need for the Indigenous Environmental Network to own a rolling Media Communications Van to house a portable radio station, satellite capabilities, mobile & wifi boosters, and dedicated phone line. It will be a “custom bio-diesel sprinter van that can be deployed to frontline spaces to support Indigenous communities” and use solar power. You can help by sharing this link to your Facebook wall or donating money. It goes without saying that there will be more pipelines to fight as our reservations are often affected.

A common problem on our reservations is connectivity. This Media Communication Van will help IEN to get their reporting out to the world faster.

IEN’s Keep it in the Ground campaign is leading the way to our energy independence. Solar and wind energy can supply jobs as well as dirty energy can.

Help the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Indigenous Environmental Network fight big oil.

Update, Tuesday, Sep. 20: This is what I’m talking about. From Native News Online.

STANDING ROCK INDIAN RESERVATION – Lee Miller made the 650-plus trip from the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin to the Oceti Sakowin encampment near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation late last week with a truckload of firewood.