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We want to give special thanksgiving to the Wakpala Spiritual Unity Society, from a small community on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, who were the first to step forward with a generous financial gift to support our relatives in the Amazon.
This generosity of spirit is of no surprise, as the Community of Wakpala, the People of Chief Gall, have a long tradition of supporting those who were less fortunate.
During the early days of WWI, before the United States entered the war, the Community of Wakpala generously donated to Belgium and Armenian relief efforts.
They made dramatic contributions to the victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and later to flood victims in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Wakpala also donated to Chinese relief programs.
At that time, the Massacre at Wounded Knee had occurred, only a little more than 10 years before, and the Community of Wakpala was physical, not spiritually poor, as the Community is today.
The Community of Wakpala, and other communities of the Oceti Sakowin, have never lost their Spirit of Compassion, Love, Kindness, and Generosity.