1. GRANBY MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
NATIVE AMERICAN OUTREACH
GMHS is Headed to
South Dakota
April 17-23, 2010
A humanitarian team from GMHS is going
to be traveling to the Cherokee River
Indian Reservation in Eagle Butte, South
Dakota. We will be working with Habitat
for Humanity to aid in the construction of
new homes on the reservation. This trip
will compliment the 11th grade U.S.
History class. Tribal Flag of the Lakota Sioux
While there, we will be helping the Lakota
Sioux build desperately needed homes for The Lakota Sioux
The Lakota Sioux Indians were the last to give up their struggle
their people. We will also be given a
against the Americans in the late 1800s. They were a proud
glimpse into this thousand year old people who were forced into one sided treaties with the
culture and have an amazing opportunity Americans who in turn reneged on almost all of their promises.
to partake in the Lakota traditions.
In the mid 1800s, the tribe was given land that included their
We are looking for a few corporate sacred Black Hills that stretched over parts of North and South
Dakota and into Montana and Wyoming. When gold was
sponsors to make this trip a sustainable
discovered in the hills, the government asked them once again to
reality. Please read through this packet move. This time they refused thus beginning the wars against
and think about a tax deductible donation them. During this struggle, General George Armstrong Custer
to a worthy humanitarian cause. and his army were defeated by a combined force of Lakota Sioux
led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.
As always, we thank the community for
The government sent in a large force to avenge Custer and forced
their support.
Crazy Horse to surrender. Upon his surrender, the army
executed him. Sitting Bull fled to Canada with a small number of
followers and returned to lead his people when things had
calmed down. By this time the Lakota were living on a
government run reservation that operated like a prison camp.
On the reservation, the government told Sitting Bull to tell his
Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, people to stop performing a religious ceremony that they did not
nondenominational Christian housing ministry agree with. Sitting Bull refused and for that, he was shot in his
founded on the conviction that every man, own bed. The government then sent a small army to eliminate
woman and child should have a decent, safe
and affordable place to live. Through volunteer Sitting Bull’s followers, which they did in the Massacre at
labor and donations of money and materials, Wounded Knee.
Habitat and its homeowner families have built
or rehabilitated more than 350,000 houses. The Lakota have been living in squalor ever since.
Habitat invites people of all backgrounds, races
and religions to build together in partnership.
www.habitat.org

2. Rationale and Sponsorship Opportunities
Conditions on the Sioux Sponsorship
Reservations
We Are looking for some corporate sponsors to
help with the costs of this trip. This sponsorship
•Median income is approximately $2,600 to comes with a number of different advertising
$3,500 per year. possibilities.
•97% of Lakota people live below the poverty
line.
1. For a $500 donation, your business logo will
•Lakota men have a life expectancy of less than be placed on our team banner that will be
44 years, lowest of any country in the World displayed during our community events.
(excluding AIDS) including Haiti. Your business will also be listed on the
•Lakota death rate is the highest in the United sponsorship section of our group website,
States. made available to the community. Your
business will also get a framed thank you
•The Lakota infant mortality rate is 300% letter that can be proudly displayed to your
more than the U.S. Average. customers.
•One out of every four Lakota children born 2. For a $1000 donation, your business will get
are fostered or adopted out to non‐Indian everything above in addition to your
homes. company name and logo on a sponsorship
section of our video that will be shown to the
•Diseases such as tuberculosis, polio, etc. are
community and circulated on the web. Your
present. Cancer is now at epidemic
business will also receive an engraved
proportions!
hardwood plaque announcing to your
•Teenage suicide rate is 150% higher than the customers that you were a proud sponsor of
U.S national average. this trip.
•Many families cannot afford heating oil, wood 3. For a $1500 donation, your business will get
or propane and many residents use ovens to everything above in addition to a short
heat their homes. section of the video dedicated just to
thanking you for your support. Your
•Elderly die each winter from hypothermia business will also get to put its logo on the
(freezing). homepage of our website with a clickable
•1/3 of the homes lack basic clean water and link to your site. Your business logo will also
sewage while 40% lack electricity. be placed on our group T‐Shirts that will be
worn on our trip and during the community
•60% of Reservation families have no events that we will host.
telephone.
4. Any donations over $1500 will get
•60% of housing is infected with potentially everything above and will be mentioned by
fatal black molds. name as often as possible throughout our
*The most basic need on the reservation is community events.
decent housing!
Thank you so much for your consideration. Any
donations in any form will work towards
fostering a relationship between your local high
school youth and the Lakota Sioux people,
building lasting philanthropic values in today’s
youth.

3. GRANBY MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
NATIVE AMERICAN OUTREACH
CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP FORM
If you are interested in being a corporate sponsor, please complete the following form.
Company Name:_________________________________________________________
Company Address:______________________________________________________
Street
___________________________ _____________ _________________
City State Zip Code
Company Website:__________________________________________________________
Contact Person:_____________________________________________________________
Contact Phone:______________________________________________________________
Contact Email:_______________________________________________________________
Pledge Amount: $500 $1000 $1500 Other: $________________
Please make checks payable to GMHS. Remember, your donations are tax deductible.
Once your paperwork is submitted, you will receive an email from the outreach team. This
email will contain more information about the trip and will have instructions on how to
submit your company logo for display on our various advertising materials. If you do not
have a digital copy of your company logo or would rather submit a paper copy of your
company logo, please send that along with this form.
We greatly appreciate your help and support as we go out and try to touch lives. You will be
kept up to date of all of our activities.
This form can be mailed to: GHMS Native American Outreach
C/O Joe Jarvis
315 Salmon Brook Street
Granby, CT 06035
Thanks,
The GMHS Native American Outreach Team