Wotakuye Mutual Aid Society

Covid-19 Response

Our ultimate purpose is to create new ways to utilize and retain knowledge of Oceti Sakowin birthing practices by increasing the number of Lakota and Dakota women who will educate others on the sacred nature of birth and children and the importance of nutritious food and breastfeeding.

Our purpose is to create community care through Indigenous mutual aid networks in Oceti Sakowin territory to increase and retain our effort directly aiding tribal members in COVID-19 quarantine and isolation with cooked meals, traditional medicines and foods, and supplies including PPE, 2) utilize and increase this food and medicine effort for the people with community gardens of fruits, vegetables, herbs and traditional medicines of the Oceti Sakowin (14 in progress), increase food security, leverage our base of 350+ families we have assisted over the pandemic to promote traditional and contemporary wicozani (Lakota concept for welllness) in homes and systems.