{"id":9606,"date":"2019-12-17T21:04:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T02:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/law-firm-helps-to-bring-santa-claus-to-lakota-youth-on-the-cheyenne-river-sioux-reservation\/"},"modified":"2019-12-17T21:04:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T02:04:31","slug":"law-firm-helps-to-bring-santa-claus-to-lakota-youth-on-the-cheyenne-river-sioux-reservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/law-firm-helps-to-bring-santa-claus-to-lakota-youth-on-the-cheyenne-river-sioux-reservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Law firm helps to bring Santa Claus to Lakota Youth on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Wo Otuh\u2019an Wi Toy Drive serves more than 1,700 Lakota children in South Dakota on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

LOUISVILLE, CO \u2014 Each year, the attorneys and staff at Fredericks Peebles & Patterson LLP in Louisville, Colorado, join forces with the nonprofit Cheyenne River Youth Project in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, to help bring Santa Claus to the remote Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation. Through the annual Wo Ot\u00fah\u2019an Wi Toy Drive (the name means \u201cMoon of Giving Away Presents\u201d), this herculean undertaking serves more than 1,700 Lakota youth in 20 communities across the 2.8-million-acre reservation.
\nThis fall, the FPP team in Louisville adopted approximately 40 \u201cDear Santa\u201d letters from Cheyenne River, and they ensured that each child would receive several gifts from his or her deeply personal Christmas list. On Dec. 11, they helped load a rental truck bound for distant Eagle Butte, where an army of CRYP staff and volunteers were waiting at what has become a 24-7 Santa\u2019s Workshop.
\n\u201cThis is an important project for us each year,\u201d aide Jeremy Patterson, Fredericks Peebles & Patterson attorney and spokesperson. \u201cThe Cheyenne River Youth Project is a grassroots organization\u2014by Cheyenne River, for Cheyenne River\u2014and it\u2019s now serving its second generation of Lakota children. The CRYP team has been working tirelessly for three decades to make sure that their kids get to experience the magic of the holidays, and to ease the burden at least a bit on their parents and care-givers. We\u2019re proud to be part of it.\u201d
\nThe Wo Ot\u00fah\u2019an Wi Toy Drive is unique among its contemporaries, because it is really about making dreams come true. Instead of assigning gifts to genders and ages, CRYP has remained committed to keeping its toy drive personal; the children share their own precious wishes in their \u201cDear Santa\u201d letters, and CRYP guarantees that the gifts they receive will be addressed to them personally.
\n\u201cWhen the kids open their gifts and see that Santa has fulfilled some of their wishes, they experience the true magic of the holiday season,\u201d Patterson said. \u201cAll children, everywhere, should feel the hope and joy that comes with it. And, we hope they also will feel how loved and treasured they are.\u201d
\nOne of the country\u2019s only majority native-owned law firms, Fredericks Peebles & Patterson has offices in Sacramento, California; Louisville, Colorado; Rapid City, South Dakota; and Washington, DC. To learn more, visit www.ndnlaw.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Wo Otuh\u2019an Wi Toy Drive serves more than 1,700 Lakota children in South Dakota on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. LOUISVILLE, CO \u2014 Each year, the attorneys and staff at Fredericks Peebles & Patterson LLP in Louisville, Colorado, join forces with the nonprofit Cheyenne River Youth Project in Eagle <\/p>\n

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