Via Cecelia's new blog, Ojibway Migisi Bineshii, the Rapid City Journal reports:
A small shelter offering a temporary haven for Native American women seeking to escape domestic violence has just six weeks to find a new Rapid City home."We're just kind of shell-shocked," Karen Artichoker, manager of Cangleska, said.
Cangleska's Ohitika Najin Win Oti (Standing Strong Woman) shelter has lost the lease on the home it has used as a shelter for the past seven years. [...]
The shelter's original intent was to provide transitional housing for women leaving the reservation for their own safety, Artichoker said.
Over the years, a growing number of local Native American women have sought refuge in the shelter. The average stay for a mother and her children is about 19 days. The shelter always has a waiting list, Artichoker said.
You can donate to the shelter here.
In happier related news, earlier this month Pretty Bird Woman House (on South Dakota's Standing Rock Reservation) opened the doors to its new shelter! (The previous shelter was burned down last year.)
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What the hell was their landlord thinking?!
W00t for the Pretty Bird Woman House. Glad to see their new beginnning.
That's awful. What happened with the lease?