 Natures Compassion : a Service to ERADICATE 3rd world poverty condition's from the Pine Ridge reservation,
one family at a time. Healing the karmic wounds of North America! Generation's ago, our beloved Native Relative's enabled us to live. We now have the Invitation to help them in the same way! This is the Great Ever expanding Circle of Compassion............ We need a mere $15,000.00 dollars to finish off this initial project.We have helped to create a home for a family with Alternative energy power for $25,000.00!Our goal in the next year is to be able to sponsor 10 families which brings us to $250,000.00...............Please read and see below our current efforts.Feel free to contact anyone below we have listed as our supporter's.
Come Join us June 14, 2010,as Natures Compassion returns to Pine Ridge to finish the Rice Hull Insulated Eco-dome's ,as well as install the first 3.7 Sky Stream Wind Turbine with a Lakota orphan family living below the poverty line,in the history of the Pine Ridge reservation! The Lakota Elders told us generation's ago ,that the SOLUTION to the plight of the people would come with the WIND!The Turbine was Donated by founder of AEE Solar David Kats after having a heart to heart conversation with Natures Compassion founder Temba Spirit.
This is the new paridgm of wealth!Mother Nature is always in a state of Richness and Giving.She has given us all the access to Her Endlessly Abundant resources.As Her Children ,we are always supplied once we become aware.
We are the Abundance that we seek! Compassion is the first resource that we believe we must first tap into.Mother Nature is the greatest teacher of Compassion as She has never ceased to provide air for the any of us.
 Orphaned at 2 years old,Mya American Horse Now 5 has helped in building her own home made with the Good Earth under feet! She has also learned how to plant tree's,grow food and take care of a flower garden.Soon She will experience a Wind Turbine Installation and will grow up with the Awareness that the THE WIND has always been her friend. Mya is opening a door for many children to walk through. Children,teenagers and adults united with people from all over the country to Build this Rice Hull Insulated Eco Dome home.
 Supporting family's through the brutal freezing winters of South Dakota,as the propane is very expensive and without help family's will freeze to death. The Dome's have wood stove's installed in them and we are looking at Geo-thermal option's as other green-economy heating systems.
ERADICATING poverty ONE FAMILY AT A TIME.
 Right smack in our own countries backyard lives the Lakota Native Americans, an indigenous group of people who are currently living in conditions of "third world poverty". The Pine Ridge Reservation is documented as being the poorest place in this country.Some statistics say that it is Crow Creek reservation.
Either way ,it is the same group of people and if it was your family would you not help them? When we embrace the culture of compassion we realize that we are all related. People are freezing to death each year from hypothermia on the reservation, starving to death and Pine Ridge is documented as having the shortest life expectancy rate for any community anywhere in the western hemisphere next to Haiti.
When this crisis was first brought to our attention, we could not believe that we lived in a nation that would allow the Indigenous people of this land to live in conditions such as this. We spent very little time contemplating this -- our hearts were compelled to act! Thus Natures Compassion was born,a service inspired by the selfless example of your heart beat. We began asking questions, sending e-mails, doing research and making phone calls. In September 2008, we organized a trip for seven Lakota people to drive across the country from South Dakota to Hesperia, California, where we all took a training course at Cal-Earth www.calearth.org (The California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture). We learned how to build Eco-domes (earth homes) using sand bags, barbed wire, the earth under our feet, our hearts and of course our hands. While being there, Cal-Earth gave us a full commitment to come share their building expertise with us on the reservation this spring, when we will launch our first sustainable living project on the land of the American Horse Family.
 Without knowing it, but simply being guided by our heart's, the trip to Cal-Earth helped to nurture a vision to empower the American Horse family to become totally self-sustained,a vision we did not know was perfectly aligned with Ethel American Horse's dream for her family and the seventh generation prophecy. Sixty percent of the homes on the reservation need to be destroyed because of black mold infestation, along with lack of heat in winter which is killing people. Learning how to build homes made of the earth is a way to not only eradicate these condition, but also to be in harmony with nature. Along with being very practical and inexpensive virtually anyone can do it. When earth domes are made, it is a community effort which is totally in tune with the indigenous way.
Below are pictures of our wonderful experience's we had(summer 2009) as we bonded in the heart with the American Horse family and ALL united in Compassion to build the first Rice Hull Insluated Eco-dome's in the history of Pine Ridge and the world!This beloved experience was a gift to ALL of us..Mother Nature was and is the Cheif! We are so grateful to be able to particpate in this new cycle of Love ,Selfless Service .Though we are working with a beautiful urgency,we are also moving as Nature moves.Pateintly yet Persistently.We want this first project to grow as a Tree of life.We want it to give life to all other projects.We humbly request your help.    
We came to South Dakota on June 14th,2009 to start building the Eco Domes and here is some of our progress so far -
Planting the compassion garden. Starting to dig the foundation
  Three foundations four to five feet deep Laying and Tamping the foundation
 
 Mixing the Earth , Lime water, Sand, and Rice Hulls How kind Mother Earth is to Her children   Finished the foundation now our home is starting to go up Make sure you fill the bags nice and full
As the dome rises each level has to be measured Selfless Dedication
   The loft is up this makes life a lot easier
 We have committed volunteers from all over the World, including students of the world renown humanitarian Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma) , students of Maharishi's University of Management,member's of Agape Spiritual Center, descendants of Chief American Horse and Chief Red Cloud and many Lakota relative's, and many more from various culture's and tradition's. Nature's Compassion welcomes all and belongs to ALL. There is no one who is not a beloved child of NATURE'S COMPASSION!
The foundation for the second dome is now done
And the frame of our Rice Hull Tipi is starting to go up
We put up plastic sheeting and our rice hulls on the outside of the dome for insulation.
Then covered them with chicken wire and weaved rebar tie wire through the chicken wire to stablize the rice hulls to the dome.
We had the fortunate opportunity to have the Hoopa group come out and lend many helping hands
and below here is some information about the Hoopa Americorps
   Martha American Horse and her beautiful son Chief Dacian American Horse
Who is also a direct descendant of Chief Red Cloud.
Our resolve is to give the indigenous people of this country the best that the permaculture and sustainable living world has to offer , just as they did for us upon our arrival to this country Seven generations ago. This is the great compassionate circle of life. We are working towards the goal of a complete sustainability which includes purchasing and installation of solar panels, wind turbine and an earth sheltered solar greenhouse. We have already planted 37 tree's with many more on the way!  Mia Means American Horse Age 4,
Watering the beautiful trees of life we all just planted. Mia on her own went back and forth to the well for a long period of time talking to and watering the plant's. She will never see her mother again in the physical form, but we see her mother's spirit(ethel)shining through her passion to be in harmony with nature. 7th generation prophecy unfolding right before our eyes! What a great gift it is to LOVE and SERVE!
 Above is Cheif Arvol LookingHorse,his beloved wife Paula LookingHorse and their daughter,members of the American Horse family and Natures Compassion. Cheif Arvol is the 19th generation Sacred Pipe and Bundle holder passed down from THE WHITE BUFFALLO CALF WOMEN.He prayed inside the Sacred Circle of the dome with us and thanked us for our acts of Compasion and kindness towards his people.They also asked us to help them make a dome to hold the SACRED PIPE in........................
With united hands of compassion, we can help this family and many other's eradicate poverty from their lives through helping them re-unite with the wealth of mother nature! This will in turn inspire others on the reservation. We are very grateful to be able to serve in this way. The American Horse family is: Martha, who is 24 years old, and her beautiful four-year-old daughter Cadence and new born son Dacias, her 19 year old sister Angie, who recently took the Cal-Earth training, and Mia, their four-year-old sister and Armand their 16 year old brother. Their beloved mother Ethel was was killed in a car accident. This incident led to them becoming an orphan family.This project is dedicated and in honor of their Mother Ethel and Chief American Horse who they are direct descendants of.WE ARE HERE! AND YOU'RE INVITED TO JOIN US! CURRENT PROJECT ADDRESS IS HRC49 Box 82D, Porcupine, SD 57772 we are at Sharps Corner top of the Hill you can't miss us.
Our goal is to raise $250,00 to pay for the initial project and 10 other's, including an earth dome, earth shelter greenhouse, solar panels, and a 1.8 kilowatt wind turbine per family. With a minimum funding and a maximum of love along with a great awareness created on how to live in alignment with the compassion of natural law,poverty can be removed from this planet,one beloved family at a time. If you would like MAKE A DONATION, we would be very grateful, and our hearts thank you for this very kind gesture. Checks can be made out to . Donations are tax deductible. If you have any questions, please contact:Temba Spirit (Director)319-321-6650,or 530-277-0158...or email us at naturescompassion@gmail.com Please Make checks out to :
Sacred Ground international & Mail to Sacred Ground International Attn: Nature's COmpassion P.O. Box 78 Pryor MT 59066 USA |
