"Crow Creek: The Forgotten People"
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"Bridges of Hope" are coming from schools and churches and businesses and city leaders in Winona & across southern Minnesota, with the story of the Dakota people inspiring all who hear it, help reconcile & want to help make it right.......Winona's Hiawatha Broadband Communications and the Diversity Foundation Inc have recently documented some of the conditions & outreach efforts in a production called “Crow Creek: The Forgotten People.” Crow Creek is a reservation in Central South Dakota where many of the Dakotas, once living in pre-european Minnesota, were once sent & exciled in 1863. Today the Crow Creek Reservation & Buffalo County have the highest poverty level in the entire country, and living conditions are dire! |
HBC earned an international award from the 2007 Videographer Awards for the production, which has spurred many groups to donate household goods & other items to help the people in Crow Creek. That documentary, produced by Robert Pack, received the Award of Distinction from about 2,000 entries.......Currently the City of Winona, Winona Mall,Midtown Foods, the Quality Inn & the Diversity Foundation (among others) are again sponsoring & organizing another Outreach Drive on behalf of Crow Creek & the Santee Nation! |
Past history & related news articles regarding initial collaboration of the Diversity Foundation with the City of Winona (along with the recently incorporated Winona Dakota Unity Alliance) & its involvement & outreach to & with the Dakota Nation & updated information about donations and volunteer opportunities can be found at www.diversityfoundation.org . Other ongoing "Dakota Outreach" educational & reconciliation projects, along with updated schedules of latest Winona and Rochester Drives along with another being planned later in Rushford-Peterson-Houston and other southeastern Minnesota locations in 2007! |
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