
Rallying for the homeless
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Native Sun News Today Health & Environment Editor
RAPID CITY – Participants from numerous grassroots groups tackling life-or-death issues of Native homeless and other community members highly vulnerable to the Covid-19 pandemic here rallied for an autonomous “command center” at a September 11 gathering outside the civic center.
Organizers, speaking with a megaphone, pressured the Rapid City Police Department representative in attendance at the ominiciye to lobby for a meeting with the mayor and city council to collaborate on ending the suffering and deaths along Rapid Creek.
“What has been happening is death to our people and violence to our people,” said Oglala Sioux tribal member Monique “Muffie” Mousseaux, speaker for Uniting Resilience.
Participants noted that they have mounted an independent Mni Luzahan Rapid Creek Patrol to walk the riverbanks at night, interceding to prevent hunger, exposure, violence, abuse, accidents, and fatalities.
Mni luzahan Creek PatrolThe Mni luzahan Creek Patrol is a grassroots effort to protect the homeless in Rapid City, SD
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