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School is starting soon! Let’s help the children have a productive year!

School supplies
School Supplies for Marty Elementary
Marty Elementary School
School Supplies
8th Grade Graduation Gifts for Red Shirt School

A large part of our mission is education. From pre-school to college and trade school, we promote self-improvement and self-reliance for the residents of the Sioux Reservations.

Oglala Lakota College Head Start

This amazing program not only prepares children for their schooling, but allow the parents to pursue their studies.
With 10 locations, 17 Head Start, and 8 Early Head Start classes, they cater to 300 children from 0 to age 5.
See the details of their work and their needs.
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The classrooms need beanbag chairs, room decorations, Native American books for preschool ages, bingo daubers.

  • 300 blankets for nap time
  • Training pants and sippy cups
  • Clothing, particularly in sizes 3T-5T
  • Footwear suitable for cold weather
  • Coats, hats, and mittens
  • School supplies such as construction paper, crayons, tissue paper
  • Learning toys such as sorting toys, sensory and manipulative, fine motor skills activities
Marty Indian School:

This Elementary school is in the Yankton Sioux Reservation. Lakota Friends Circle, in cooperation with Sew For Kids, provide supplies, healthy snacks, and clothing.

As the school year is starting August 2026, this is a great time send school supplies such as notebooks, pencils, etc. and give the students a great start. We do ask that you avoid sharp objects such as pointy scissors.
Read more about the history-rich school here: Marty Indian School

Most requested at Marty Indian School:

  • Toiletries: gentle soap such as Dove, deodorant both for boys and girls, washcloths, towels, cough drops, lip balm, full size toothpastes, lice prevention spray
  • First Aid: Calamine lotion, chewable antacids, Q-tips, gauze and tape (non latex), vitamin C lozenges, hydrocortisone 1%, teething gel
  • Composition notebooks and half-size composition notebooks, thin markers, glue sticks
  • Clothing, shoes, and toilet paper should be sent to the Kateri Center
  • Amazon Wish List
Children First Emergency Foster Home:
  • Paper products such as notebooks, graph paper, binders and folders
  • Writing instruments
  • Backpacks
  • Glue sticks, rulers, erasers, scissors
  • Towels: bath, hand, and washcloths
Current Clothing Needs

Age

Name

Pants

Shirts

Shoes

10

Jacoby

30W x 30L

12/14

Youth 4

5

Andrea

25.5 x 22

7/8

11.5

8

Analise

27 x 30

8/10

12

14

Sara

38 x 24

14/16

Women’s 7

14

Frankie

38/40 x 38

16/18

Women’s 8

14

Mahto

40 x 40

14/16

Men’s 10

Rosebud Sioux Tribe Maternal and Child Health requested that we don’t send anything as they are in the process of moving.
Sandy Wilcox is the head nurse at Rosebud Sioux Tribe Maternal and Child in Mission, South Dakota.

Read more about her work: Rosebud Sioux Tribe Maternal and Child Health

  • Larger blankets for toddlers
  • Clothing for sizes 3/4 Toddler
  • School supplies for the moms

If you are unable to send supplies, please consider making a donation to our baby programs: Recurring donations for babies