Contacts, Research, What I helped Fund while in camp.

NOTE: I'm not using anyone's name I have not yet asked permission to use.

A big push for me wanting to go to Standing Rock is to find out what the current needs are. From afar, the needs seemed to move so quickly. I wanted to get there. Research current needs. Help fill some of those needs and learn how I could continue to help from afar.

Sunday I put on my "Protect the Bears Ears" tee shirt. This teeshirt opened doors.
It assisted in my contact with:

• The woman over all press and reporters coming to camp.
• A man over community events in camp
• The man that has set up a solar communications van--radio program and documenting interviews with those in camp.
• Ladonna (land owner where original camp was set up)
• Ladonna's Sister (Working in one of the Kitchens)
• I was also was led to a man that had prepared the ground and had designed a root cellar but needed help getting building supplies.
• A man from Seattle working on donations being stored properly.
• I also met with the man over all of the mail coming to Sacred Stone Camp
• A man that is a 6th Generation Decendant of Sitting Bull <-----with wood contacts! :)

*****all of the above people are doing way more than what's on my simplified list. 

Thru the above I learned of the following needs:

• Solar generators---I called my hardcore outdoors friends. Their opinions is best one on the market currently: Goal Zero. I was unable to find said solar generator in Bismarck as they can't keep them in stock. But I've also learned they are made in Utah! 
• Long distance radios for better camp to camp communication. 
• Batteries for the solar panels arriving to better serve the communication van.
• Shipping containers to better store donations. Currently they are stored in tents. (As of two days ago).
• Building Materials for a winter ready kitchen, a root cellar to best store winter food, etc.
• Tepees- to better house water protectors staying the winter
• Meat 
• FIRE WOOD. FIRE WOOD. FIRE WOOD! FIRE WOOD!!!!

One of the biggest needs is someone that can research the above needs, fund said needs, and coordinate getting those items on the ground. As camp has grown so fast, everyone has become stretched thin. 

I was able to help fund the following projects while in camp:

• 4 golf cart batteries to support the solar panels for the communications van ($600)
• 4 radios for camp to camp communication (they best ones available to any lay person)
• I purchased a LOT of building supplies to get the root cellar started. ($1,600)
• I left my Spring Bar Tent (10'X10') for a man and his family pulling more than their own weight.

So I now need YOUR help. Together let's pull OUR resources.

The Pictures below will show you how camp has grown. It's so very lovely but also demands more resources.

Photo Taken August 19, 2016

by Antonia Ybarra 

Photo Taken September 11, 2016

By Antonia Ybarra