Wakanayeka's Staff

Our Phone number is (605) 455 1226

Fax number:
(605) 455 1312

101 Children's Lane, BIA Highway 27, PO Box 100
Porcupine, SD 57772

Programs of Wakanyeja Pawicayapi, Inc.

Wakanyeja Pawicayapi Inc. is a very flexible organization and the programs and services that we offer frequently change, depending on the funding. Below is a list of programs we are providing now.

Oyate Ta Woakipa Etan Woasniye

(Healing from the People's Trauma)

A SAMHSA Funded Project

The purpose of Oyate Ta Woakipa Etan Woasniye (Healing From the People's Trauma) is to develop a Community Treatment and Services Center on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that will provide effective trauma interventions for children and youth aged 3 -18 years of age.

Contact Person- Eileen H. Iron Cloud

Lakota Traditional Healing Research

A sub-contract with Black Hills Center for American Indian Health

This two year collaborative research project seeks to explore the expectations of people who seek Lakota Traditional Healing as well as those who provide the services.

Contact Person - Monique Giago

Tiwahe Wicozani Pi Kte

Toward Healthy Families

Lakota Equine Assisted Therapy

This project will provide equine assisted therapeutic services and horsemanship skills training for fifty Lakota youth, ages 11-16. Lakota culture based activities, in-school academic support, recreation and community services are the major components of the proposal. Parents and family members will be actively involved as volunteers.

Contact Person - Karen White Butterfly

Peta Ka Ilepi

Rekindling the Sacred Fire

Funded by Indian Health Service

This is a small three year grant to expand services to children who have experienced trauma. This project will work closely with the Oyate Ta Woakipa Etan Woasniye Project.

Contact Person - Denise Red Owl

Maza Tiopa

The Iron Door
Funded by Administration for Children and Families

The purpose of the Maza Tiopa Project is to design and implement a mentoring program for children on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation who have a parent in prison that will reduce and impact the cycle of incarceration through increasing each child's exposure to and understanding, the Lakota lifeways.

The program supports participatory life skills classes, recreational activities, cultural art classes, sacred site visits, information dissemination. There are plans to develop and implement Memorandums of Agreement to extend services to children who are enrolled in other Wakanyeja Pawicayapi, Inc. programs as well as tribal programs.

Contact Person - Colleen Little Moon