Sunday, January 31, 2010
What does anyone want to know about?
I've been so busy that I haven't kept up with this blog for a while. Powwow season is fast approaching, so tell me what you want to know? Questions about powwows? Does anyone want help learning to make ribbonwork, put yarn on a boys grass dance outfit, or what??? Send me an email & let me know!
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Keep Meth Out Of Indian Country
The shocking truth is that Indian Country is being TARGETED by drug traffickers!
According to Department of Justice figures, about 70% of the methamphetamine being distributed in our communities today is being smuggled into the country. While the mom & pop cooking operations are still a serious danger to anyone who encounters them, smugglers have found much more efficient distribution methods. They are targeting Indian Country and trying to infiltrate our tribes & tribal governments, move into our Indian Housing projects, marry our tribal members, and corrupt our tribal law enforcement and justice centers.
Meth is a dangerous threat to Indian Country, and in fact all rural & urban areas. We must throw every resource possible at this problem to eliminate the market for meth as well as stop meth from coming into our communities.
One of the suggestions at a recent workshop sponsored by the Department Of Justice was to set up a coalition of regional tribes & agencies to share information between professionals on the forefront of this fight. So many of the grants are specific to a tribe, population group or geographical area, that sharing information can be tough. We want to change that.
Meth may be the biggest threat to Indian Country since smallpox. It's largely responsible for the increase in crime everywhere, and responsible for huge jumps in domestic violence & child abuse figures. This blog will be used to educate the public about the threat of meth, We need to constantly remind our youth to resist the pressure to experiment with this highly addictive drug.
Our business website regularly receives emails requesting contacts for drug & alcohol treatment centers in urban areas. People are out there looking for help anywhere they can find it, so I want to provide a resource where they can find it. I'd want to compile a list of urban Indian Centers and other agencies that offer drug & alcohol treatment services. Please help me collect information on these centers with phone, location, etc.
Our business website gets upwards of 1500 hits a day, so it's the perfect forum to educate the public about the threat of meth, list treatment resources, and give people a place to post their requests for information, Best Practices, or whatever concerns that other people in the field might have already figured out how to handle.
Let me know of other valuable websites that I should put in the "Links" section.
I'm turning this blog into a "Keep Meth Out Of Indian Country" blog, and will also host web pages on our business website to list resources, emails, contacts, etc. The links to the blog and the Community Action pages concerning meth will be placed at the top left hand corner of the home page of http://www.littlecrowtradingpost.com We'll start it out this way and I'll explore new platforms as we go.
Janet Littlecrow
Inter-Tribal Coalition Against Meth
stopndnmeth@gmail.com
According to Department of Justice figures, about 70% of the methamphetamine being distributed in our communities today is being smuggled into the country. While the mom & pop cooking operations are still a serious danger to anyone who encounters them, smugglers have found much more efficient distribution methods. They are targeting Indian Country and trying to infiltrate our tribes & tribal governments, move into our Indian Housing projects, marry our tribal members, and corrupt our tribal law enforcement and justice centers.
Meth is a dangerous threat to Indian Country, and in fact all rural & urban areas. We must throw every resource possible at this problem to eliminate the market for meth as well as stop meth from coming into our communities.
One of the suggestions at a recent workshop sponsored by the Department Of Justice was to set up a coalition of regional tribes & agencies to share information between professionals on the forefront of this fight. So many of the grants are specific to a tribe, population group or geographical area, that sharing information can be tough. We want to change that.
Meth may be the biggest threat to Indian Country since smallpox. It's largely responsible for the increase in crime everywhere, and responsible for huge jumps in domestic violence & child abuse figures. This blog will be used to educate the public about the threat of meth, We need to constantly remind our youth to resist the pressure to experiment with this highly addictive drug.
Our business website regularly receives emails requesting contacts for drug & alcohol treatment centers in urban areas. People are out there looking for help anywhere they can find it, so I want to provide a resource where they can find it. I'd want to compile a list of urban Indian Centers and other agencies that offer drug & alcohol treatment services. Please help me collect information on these centers with phone, location, etc.
Our business website gets upwards of 1500 hits a day, so it's the perfect forum to educate the public about the threat of meth, list treatment resources, and give people a place to post their requests for information, Best Practices, or whatever concerns that other people in the field might have already figured out how to handle.
I'm turning this blog into a "Keep Meth Out Of Indian Country" blog, and will also host web pages on our business website to list resources, emails, contacts, etc. The links to the blog and the Community Action pages concerning meth will be placed at the top left hand corner of the home page of http://www.
Janet Littlecrow
Inter-Tribal Coalition Against Meth
stopndnmeth@gmail.com
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Oklahoma Is Burning!
Wildfires have been burning across central Oklahoma all afternoon. The sun has just set and many major fires are still burning out of control. High winds have spread the flames faster than firefighters can stop them, and preventing Chinook helicopters from dropping water from above.
The fires range in size from major fires to huge fires burning acres-per-minute. They run all through central Oklahoma from south to north from Gainesville TX just north of Dallas on the OK/TX border, north to our area 40 miles from the Kansas border. I-35 near the Stillwater exit has been shut down since the afternoon, and I-35 has also been closed south of Oklahoma City.
Fires are showing up on satellite from TX to KS throughout central & western Oklahoma. The fires are affecting areas where many Indian families live, as well as ranchers & farmers. Sections of the state including Choctaw, Chickasaw, Kiowa and Cheyenne tribal lands are on fire, as well as other areas. There are so many areas on fire right now that we don't even know where are all them are located, but the news is reporting at least 22 MAJOR fires right now.
An unknown number of houses, estimated at 40-50 homes, have burned down in Midwest City since 6 pm. It appears hundreds of homes have been damaged. Midwest City is a large community on the eastern side of Oklahoma City around Tinker Air Force Base, near where we used to live. The Midwest City Fire Chief said the situation is worse than the May 3, '99 tornado (319 mph winds) as far as property damage. Luckily however, there is no known loss of life right now, unlike the May 3 tornado, which took many lives. That is likely to change as night falls, as firefighters battle in the dark. Several firefighters have already been reported injured, and residents treated for smoke inhalation.
People are being evacutated from homes, neighborhoods & entire towns throughout the fire zones. Fires have burned telephone & utility poles and presently at sundown some 6000+ people are without power.
Winds have been from 25 - 40 mph with gusts to nearly 70 mph all day. Winds have caused the fire west of Stillwater to jump a mile ahead at a time. A wind shift coming through the state is going to make the situation worse, as these winds shift the out-of-control fires to previously unburned areas with fresh fuel. A 4" natural gas line has broken & is flaring up at one fire.
Please keep these firefighters and families in your prayers. The situation becomes more dangerous as darkness falls and the winds are not dying down. Many people have lost everything they owned this afternoon and many Oklahoma families will be left homeless when the smoke clears. Red Cross has set up shelters in these areas and several are reported crowed already.
If you can afford to donate a few dollars to Red Cross to help the hundreds of victims, please specify your donations for the Oklahoma Wildfire victims.
The fires range in size from major fires to huge fires burning acres-per-minute. They run all through central Oklahoma from south to north from Gainesville TX just north of Dallas on the OK/TX border, north to our area 40 miles from the Kansas border. I-35 near the Stillwater exit has been shut down since the afternoon, and I-35 has also been closed south of Oklahoma City.
Fires are showing up on satellite from TX to KS throughout central & western Oklahoma. The fires are affecting areas where many Indian families live, as well as ranchers & farmers. Sections of the state including Choctaw, Chickasaw, Kiowa and Cheyenne tribal lands are on fire, as well as other areas. There are so many areas on fire right now that we don't even know where are all them are located, but the news is reporting at least 22 MAJOR fires right now.
An unknown number of houses, estimated at 40-50 homes, have burned down in Midwest City since 6 pm. It appears hundreds of homes have been damaged. Midwest City is a large community on the eastern side of Oklahoma City around Tinker Air Force Base, near where we used to live. The Midwest City Fire Chief said the situation is worse than the May 3, '99 tornado (319 mph winds) as far as property damage. Luckily however, there is no known loss of life right now, unlike the May 3 tornado, which took many lives. That is likely to change as night falls, as firefighters battle in the dark. Several firefighters have already been reported injured, and residents treated for smoke inhalation.
People are being evacutated from homes, neighborhoods & entire towns throughout the fire zones. Fires have burned telephone & utility poles and presently at sundown some 6000+ people are without power.
Winds have been from 25 - 40 mph with gusts to nearly 70 mph all day. Winds have caused the fire west of Stillwater to jump a mile ahead at a time. A wind shift coming through the state is going to make the situation worse, as these winds shift the out-of-control fires to previously unburned areas with fresh fuel. A 4" natural gas line has broken & is flaring up at one fire.
Please keep these firefighters and families in your prayers. The situation becomes more dangerous as darkness falls and the winds are not dying down. Many people have lost everything they owned this afternoon and many Oklahoma families will be left homeless when the smoke clears. Red Cross has set up shelters in these areas and several are reported crowed already.
If you can afford to donate a few dollars to Red Cross to help the hundreds of victims, please specify your donations for the Oklahoma Wildfire victims.
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