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Tom Bee Concert at He Sapa
Tom Bee performed at He Sapa New Life in Rapid City on Thursday June 18th.
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Familiarize Yourself
Tom Bee
On location at Pine Ridge and Wounded Knee
(www.redseaministries.org)
"We're the Boyz"
Robby Bee
(www.soundofamerica.com)
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Life Initiatives is a Training and Networking resource in Rapid City, SD. We equip people to become effective mentors to help others find a better life, and to promote racial reconciliation.
This FREE TRAINING RESOURCE is used by churches, non-profit groups, government agencies, educational institutions, and individuals.
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Lakota Culture
LIFE INITIATIVES ...
...seeks to EQUIP people for fruitful lives.
No one makes it alone. We need each other. Life Initiatives helps Native and Non-Native people with different backgrounds, experiences and skills, to help one another in a lifestyle of growth and fruitfulness. Everyone has something to give; everyone has something to receive.
LIFE INITIATIVES ...
... seeks RECONCILIATION.
In a world filled with fractured relationships, we desperately need one another. Every person from every culture has a great deal to offer other people.
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Life Initiatives * P.O. Box 7505 * Rapid City, SD * (605) 430-0794
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Welcome to Life Initiatives
LIFE INITIATIVES is a Training and Resourcing non-profit organization.
We are a Christ-based organization, however many of our resources address universal issues (Lakota Culture, Poverty, Mentoring, Community Resources).
Our focus is to partner with the Native American population in Rapid City, offering support in discovering a better life. As this website has grown, it has become a resource for Native people and friends of Native people from across the United States and in many places around the world. The struggles of indigenous people are quite similar no matter where they live on the globe.
As non-native people offer friendship in this context, it is no surprise that they / we gain from Native culture as much as we give. In this, our goal and prayer is that Life Initiatives will continue to be a catalyst for racial reconciliation.
In keeping with this desire for racial reconciliation, Life Initiatives is led by Native / White Co-Presidents.
Whether we are inside the Lakota Nation, or seeking to understand it from the outside, it's imperative to know the history of the Lakota people. We must appreciate the undaunted courage, the enduring spirit of survival, and the happy spirit of laughter among the Lakota. We must also appreciate the depth and breadth of challenges this people faces:
INJUSTICE has been a crippling force – both the generations of wrongs done to the Lakota by non-native people and power structures, as well as injustice from within some Native power structures.
GENERATIONAL POVERTY (in whatever culture it is found) becomes a self-generating force for failure if not properly understood and addressed.
SUBSTANCE AND SEXUAL ABUSE also present formidable barriers to taking the initiative for a better life.
But the Lakota people are here, still proud, still strong, still surviving, in the face of inestimable difficulties. And the victory of a better life will come.
Life Initiatives, Inc exists as a partnership between Native and Non-Native people to address these challenges with confidence and realism. Few people have the fortitude to simply “will” themselves past these barriers to a better life, but with the support of one another, with spiritual strength, and with a clear strategy, we can take the initiative for a better life. Equip yourself to get involved .
