Post by sara on Apr 17, 2008 10:28:08 GMT -5
April 17th, 2008
Subject: Donation Request for
4th Dakota Prisoner Memorial and Descendant Wacipi
Dear Friend:
I am respectfully requesting a donation from you to help our committee put on the 4th and last Dakota Prisoner Memorial and Descendants Wacipi.
It will be held at Lindsay Park, East Village, Davenport, IA, on May 24-25, 2008,
Memorial weekend.
This location is historically significant because in 1863 more than 400 of our Dakota ancestors were confined there in a concentration camp, an Army stockade called Camp Mc Clellan, after the Dakota Uprising in 1862, Army trials that followed, and public hanging of 38 Dakota warriors at Mankato, MN on December 26, 1862.
More than 100 of the prisoners died during the four year internment. The surviving prisoners were released in 1866 and returned to their families who were in exile in Niobrara, NE.
Camp Mc Clellan in Davenport, is sacred to the Dakota Oyate. It holds the remains of those who died in prison there. They lie in unmarked graves, forever part of the earth. This memorial and wacipi enables all descendants to remember and honor them.
Agenda for the 4th Dakota Prisoner Memorial and Descendant Wacipi:
Saturday, May 24th: Sunrise Pipe Ceremony, Breakfast, Wiping of Tears Ceremony, Reading of Prisoner Names, Speakers, Lunch, Wacipi, Supper.
Sunday, May 25th: Same as Saturday.
I am a member of the Dakota Prisoner Memorial and Descendant Wacipi Committee. I make this request on behalf of all Dakota People.
Your donation will help pay for food, bottled water, PA System, large tent rental, chair rentals, and portable toilets.
Mitakuye owasin. We are all related.
Sara Childers
Box 812
Watertown SD
57201
1-563-370-2788
schilders2006@hotmail.com
Other members of the committee: Sara Childers. Wm. Ambrose Littleghost - Spirit Lake Nation-Ft. Totten, Eileen Littleghost - Spirit Lake Nation-Ft. Totten, Reuben Kitto- Santee Nation NE, Ramona Kitto Stately – Santee Nation, NE.
Check may be made out to Committee Chair,
Sara Childers, P.O. Box 812
Watertown SD 57201.
563-370-2788, schilders2006@hotmail.com
Subject: Donation Request for
4th Dakota Prisoner Memorial and Descendant Wacipi
Dear Friend:
I am respectfully requesting a donation from you to help our committee put on the 4th and last Dakota Prisoner Memorial and Descendants Wacipi.
It will be held at Lindsay Park, East Village, Davenport, IA, on May 24-25, 2008,
Memorial weekend.
This location is historically significant because in 1863 more than 400 of our Dakota ancestors were confined there in a concentration camp, an Army stockade called Camp Mc Clellan, after the Dakota Uprising in 1862, Army trials that followed, and public hanging of 38 Dakota warriors at Mankato, MN on December 26, 1862.
More than 100 of the prisoners died during the four year internment. The surviving prisoners were released in 1866 and returned to their families who were in exile in Niobrara, NE.
Camp Mc Clellan in Davenport, is sacred to the Dakota Oyate. It holds the remains of those who died in prison there. They lie in unmarked graves, forever part of the earth. This memorial and wacipi enables all descendants to remember and honor them.
Agenda for the 4th Dakota Prisoner Memorial and Descendant Wacipi:
Saturday, May 24th: Sunrise Pipe Ceremony, Breakfast, Wiping of Tears Ceremony, Reading of Prisoner Names, Speakers, Lunch, Wacipi, Supper.
Sunday, May 25th: Same as Saturday.
I am a member of the Dakota Prisoner Memorial and Descendant Wacipi Committee. I make this request on behalf of all Dakota People.
Your donation will help pay for food, bottled water, PA System, large tent rental, chair rentals, and portable toilets.
Mitakuye owasin. We are all related.
Sara Childers
Box 812
Watertown SD
57201
1-563-370-2788
schilders2006@hotmail.com
Other members of the committee: Sara Childers. Wm. Ambrose Littleghost - Spirit Lake Nation-Ft. Totten, Eileen Littleghost - Spirit Lake Nation-Ft. Totten, Reuben Kitto- Santee Nation NE, Ramona Kitto Stately – Santee Nation, NE.
Check may be made out to Committee Chair,
Sara Childers, P.O. Box 812
Watertown SD 57201.
563-370-2788, schilders2006@hotmail.com