Past News Coverage For Operation Morning Star
Opinion in the Kansas City Star Opinion Section
Operation Morning Star Needs Help: Frank Haight Jr
Program lends hand to poor Indian tribes
Operation Morning Star Articles In Kansas City Star www.kcstar.com These are "archived" and must be "paid for" in order to see. My apologies!
Here is one from 2005 I saved about our Christmas Trip. It resulted in getting a radio program on the OOIDA radio show and a OTR driver gave me his 18 Wheeler to use! WOW! We filled it and went to Red Shirt Community on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
November
15, 1996 Page C2
Around
Kansas City
November
18, 1996 Page B2
Volunteers
gather donations for Operation Morning Star
December
17, 1996 Page B2
Around
Kansas City
October
20, 1999 Page 7
Lee’s Summit NN
Donations sought for
Indian reservation
August 3,
2000
Page B3
Area residents aid
family on reservation Group donating materials, labor to build new home
December 17, 2001 Page B1
Area man aids tribe's
survival Group seeks items for Oglala Lakotas
December 17, 2002 Page B3
Independence man
pursues donations, generosity for Indian reservation
February
26, 2003 Page C5
Independence man starts
adopt-a-family program
November
22, 2003 Page B8
Yearly collection drive
aids residents of reservation
December
6, 2003 Page H5
Local faith news
December
23, 2003 Page B2
Metropolitan digest
February
12, 2004 Page B2
Metropolitan digest
December
2, 2004 Page B3
City's ruling on
trailer puts charity in bind
December
4, 2004 Page B1
Donation trailer gets
clearance from city
December
22, 2004 Page B2
Classmates put lessons
into action; Collection drive assists tribe in South Dakota
January
6, 2005
Page
B6
Indians have borne
centuries of suffering
December
10, 2005 Page B2
Trucker hauls Christmas
help; He takes supplies to needy tribe of American Indians
March
8, 2006
Page B2
Race Hating Local Media in Kansas City Who Refused To Cover Native American Conditions of Suffering
Racist and member of the KKK Steve Curd...Publisher of the Independence Examiner DELTED the below articles out of the archive list.
Operation Morning Star Past Media Coverage Independence Examiner Stories that were deleted by Curd.
Operation Morning Star Past Work In "Indian Country"
Operation Morning Star "past trips" photo's
Tents for the Oglala Lakota Tornado Victims of 99
Reference and Referral Letters
Article in Dakota Journal about 0/6 Trip
The 06 Christmas trip to the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation was made possible by Ohev Shalom Congregation. They funded our Penske box truck and fuel costs.
It is a Conservative Jewish Congregation in Kansas City Missouri under the leader ship of Rabbi Scott White.
Thanks to Local 41 of the Teamsters and OOIDA for allowing for "radio publicity". Both organizations assistance made possible the use of TWO "18 wheelers" which were fully LOADED which totaled OVER 80 Thousand Pounds or 40 TONS of food, appliances, clothing etc!
The semi we used for the 0'6 trip, was lent to us by Dave Jungeblat of "Fright Limo" and we delivered the items to the Red Shirt Community on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation..
The other semi in 0/4 of Local Teamsters 41 was taken to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation Residents where there were 3 drop offs, one in Allen at Tribal Secretary's home, Donna Soloman, another at Porcupine at Wilson Coleman's home, and the last one at Manderson at Wilda Black Bear's home.
Over a 11 year span, at least 17 fully loaded box trucks and 7 pick up w/18' flat bed trailer loads "collectively" went to the homes of Mildred Alkire in Manderson, Babette Thin Elk in Manderson, Arlette Loud Hawk in Oglala, Wilda Black Bear, and to Loneman High School in Oglala, working with Stanley Looking Elk, to feed and "house" (with family size tents) the '99'Tornado Victims. (see below) A 22' box truck load was delivered to and distributed during Christmas of 97 in Manderson on Pine Ridge. We used the then and still vacant Episcopal church building.
(In 05, we had purchased and put money down on a like new 22' Mercedes box truck, with 68k miles, a lift, like NEW but a "CHRISTIAN" named Ken Reeder of Reeder Trucks, who I made the MISTAKE of trusting, sold it out from underneath me. Lost $2,000 and the truck!)
In June of 99, there were damaging tornados on the Pine RIdge Indian Reservation. 100 families displaced, 1 death.
Operation Morning Star raised over $6700 dollars when I was a "radio talk show host" and that money was used to purchase, deliver, and set up large 5 room family size tents for families who's homes were either destroyed or damaged by these tornados in the community of OGLALA!
We did not get a special deal from Target.
Three of our earliest deliveries of food and clothing have gone to the Community Buildings in Rosebud and Pine Ridge under the "watching eyes" of Eilene Janice and Mary Long and the late Ima Jean Charging Elk. Appliances, wood burning stoves, furniture along with food and good quality clothing were in these "give away" loads. Since we witnessed the fact that needed items were NOT taken to those in need in the poorest areas, we chose to no longer work with any "Tribal Government Entity".
Over 15,000 garden plants such as tomatoes, squash, beans, peas, watermelon, cucumbers, peppers etc., have been delivered to the CAPP office in Manderson on Pine Ridge and the Rosebud Reservations on two separate trips, one this year to Rosebud and in 2001 to Pine Ridge.
Also, gardens planted, chicken farm put in place, 1 commercial and over 3 dozen non commercial sewing machines have been given for "work", wood splitters, compressors, tools, chain saws, dozens of appliances such as stoves, refrigerators, freezers, washers and driers.
Close to 50 families and individuals who have or were "adopted" by OMS supporters and myself personally where monies were sent either to the the families direct, or to grocery stores and propane companies in the name of the families such as Wal Mart, the Sioux Nations Grocery and PTI Propane on Pine Ridge.
Also, when on radio, Operation Morning Star solicited monies from listeners which was sent DIRECT to a "Tribal Member Owned" propane company on the Standing Rock Rez during the bad winter of 98. They had run out of monies for propane for tribal members and elders, some who froze to death!
A donation in late 0/6 of 23 NEW wood burning stoves and piping allowed us to deliver "HEAT" to homes without. These were delivered using our 94 Chevy 1/2 ton van in the coldest part of o/7 in late January and were taken to the following reservations: Cheyenne River, Rosebud, and Standing Rock to Tribal Members as we were able.
During 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003, Operation Morning Star supplied 2 TONS of food for the Wounded Knee Memoriam and the Big Foot Riders and those commemorating and honoring the 300 Lakota murdered at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on Dec. 29, 1890.
