Did you donate to the Okiciyap quilt fund-raiser? We want your name for Cheyenne River ceremony

Georgia Little Shield
 (1959-2012)

In March and April, thanks to the craft skills and organizing efforts of the DK Quilt Guild, scores of members of the Daily Kos community raised $11,000 by bidding on a quilt at auction to benefit the Okiciyap Food Pantry and Youth Center on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation of South Dakota.

Just three weeks from now, Kossacks navajo and betson08 will travel to the reservation town of Isabel for the tribe's annual wacipi (pronounced wah-chee-pee, the Lakota/Nakota/Dakota word for pow wow). The two will present the Quilt Guild's spectacular quilt along with a plaque honoring the late Georgia Little Shield (Eagle Wings Woman) for her founding of the Okiciyap pantry and center. The wacipi itself is being held in honor of Georgia this year.

You can read a little of the history of Okiciyap here and weck's explanation of each block of the quilt here.

Here is a photo of the plaque:

Here is a photo of the quilt:

Names of the financial contributors to Okiciyap (as well as the quilters) will be included on a second plaque navajo and Betson08 will present. Thanks to the efforts of ZenTrainer, susans, 4Freedom and glescagal, who searched through all the bidding diaries and gathered the names of people who said they donated, we've collected most of the names already. But we don't want to miss anyone.

The list of names as we have it so far appears below the fold. If you participated in the auction and you don't see your name mentioned, please let us know in comments or by Kosmail and we'll be sure to add you. Also, please let us know if you'd rather have your real name on the plaque instead of your Kossack moniker.

Keeping the shelves filled.

The best reason to have a pantry in Isabel

If you would like to donate to Okiciyap, please send a check or money order here:
Okiciyap Pantry
Box 172  
Isabel, SD  57633

Or you can donate by clicking on the button at the Okiciyap web site.

The names below will go on a plaque to be hung next to the quilt in the Okiciyap Food Pantry. If you've donated and don't see your name below please tell us in the comments and it will be added.

2thanks Proud Mom and Grandma glorificus Pam from Calif Anon-27 group (need names) Radiowalla Bendygirl raina weck mollyd Meteor Blades Neeta Lind belinda ridgewood Shockwave joanbrooker dano2l winifred3 peregrine kate ProvokingMeaning Dr Erich Bloodaxe RN Deep Harm mimi fb newore Bugsby Gina Whitenight NormAl1792 YucatanMan Ninepatch broths Denise Oliver Velez Actbriniel Fiona West boadicea Steveningen Boston Beans side pocket citisven 4Freedom BeadLady LinSea Phil S 33

ZenTrainer Villanova Rhodes SilverWillow Odysseus greengemini shortgirl nomandates Burned sidnora JamieG from Md NMRed                Glen The Plumber            catilinus                remembrance TLO eeff Dave Bedini                        paradise50                        smileycreek                    PateTX                        where4art operculum                        slksfca                    Diane in NoVa                    hulibow                    Dave (in Northridge) Parker                betson08                        linkage hafnium                    asterkitty                Sybil Liberty                no way lack of brain mollyd                                                Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse        Lorikeet Bead Lady betson08 no way lack of brain PinHole maggiejean tardis10 radical simplicity Melanie in IA

DK Quilt Guild, who quilted the individual patches, will go in a category at the top of the plaque: BeadLady, Florene, Pam from Calif, frosti, kitchen table activist, Melanie in IA, glorificus, leu2500, vtgal, winifred3, Proud of My Bleeding Heart, Embee

The names of the diarists, who donated their time to promote this auction, will also be on the plaque:

Aji, BeadLady, betson08, Dave in Northridge, Denise Oliver Velez, Glen the Plumber, glorificus, GreyHawk, Grizzard, Horace Boothroyd III, leu2500, Meteor Blades, mimi, mollyd, navajo, nomandates, One Pissed Off Liberal, Pam from Calif, Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse, peregrine kate, radical simplicity, Smoh, weck, winifred3, and ZenTrainer