Care Packages for Native American Troops

[Paul G]

This year for the Holiday Charity Fund Raiser, PowWows.com would like to assemble care packages for our Native troops overseas.

Our goal is to put together packages for 20 people. But we need your help!

PowWows.com will donate the shipping costs of the packages.

First we the names of individuals serving overseas. Please send me a PM or email with thier name, address, and some info about them. We'll take the first 20 we recieve.

We also need your help putting together items for the packages.

Here is a site with suggestions of what to include:

http://www.operationsandbox.com/page3.html

The packages will be mailed on December 31. You can send the items to:

PowWows.com
109 Double Branch Court
West Columbia, SC 29169

If you can't send items, you can donate money. We'll use that to purchase items for the packages.

We are also working with some Native companies to send some special items.

Please show your support for our troops overseas!

Thanks

[Paul G]

Arbor Records helping sponsor the packages!

They are sending mucic cd's to include. They have sent 3 cd's for each one! That's 60 total! Thanks Arbor Records for the great donation!

Please visit their site:

https://www.arborrecords.com

[Paul G]

Whispering Wind magazine is sending 2 issues for each package!

Please visit thier website for your subscription:

Whispering Wind

[Paul G]

Here is a list sent to me. This was gathered from the troops.

Troops Wish List

Air Fresheners (non-aerosol)
All Occasion Cards w/Envelopes (to send back home) Antibacterial Wipes/Wet Wipes Athlete's Foot/Anti-fungal Cream/Foot Powder Bats/Gloves/Baseballs, Basketballs, Footballs (regular, Nerf or the plastic type that kids use) Band-Aids (all sizes and types) Basketballs/Footballs (Nerf type) Batteries (all sizes - ESPECIALLY AA) Blankets (fleece) Board Games (regular and travel size) Books/Comic Books/Puzzle Books Breakfast Items (Poptarts, instant oatmeal/grits, breakfast bars, cereal bars, granola bars, small boxes of cereal) Bubbles (including the plastic kind) Calendars/Day Planners (for the current and upcoming year - large and pocket
size)
Candles (scented- tea lights and votives) Candy (must be individually wrapped, NO HOME MADE) Canned Meats/Beef Jerky (tuna, chicken, Vienna sausages, Spam, potted meat, deviled ham, sardines, etc.) Canned Nuts (peanuts, cashews, mixed nuts) CD's/CD Wallets (all varieties of music) Children's Books (the troops are reading these to their kids and sending them back home on tape) Clothes Pins (wooden or plastic) Cookies (STORE BOUGHT ONLY) Coloring Books/Crayons/Chalk/Colored Pencils Cough Drops/Lozenges Crackers (Saltines, Ritz, Peanut Butter, Cheese, etc.) Dart Boards (portable) Disposable Cameras (35 mm) Dominoes Envelopes Eye drops Fan (small personal or hand-held kind) Flip-flops/Shower Shoes (men's and women's sizes) Fruit Cups (enclose plastic spoons) Gatorade Mix (can also be Powerade or Crystal Light) Hair Products (shampoo, conditioner, hair spray, gel, etc.) Hand and Foot Warmers Hand Lotion or Hand Cream Hand Cleaner/Sanitizer (waterless kind) Hand Held Games Individual Condiments (Mayo, Mustard, Ketchup, etc.) Insoles (male and female sizes) Insect Spray (WITH DEET) Instant Cocoa/Hot Chocolate Mix Jell-O Cups/ Pudding Cups (enclose plastic spoons) Junk Food (potato chips pretzels, Twinkies, cupcakes, etc.) Kleenex (boxes and individual packages) Lifesavers Magazines (NO PLAYBOY OR PLAYGIRL) Modeling Clay Nail Clippers Newspapers (sports, comics and news) Paper/Pencils /Pens Personal Hygiene Items (razors, soap, toothpaste, deodorant, body powder/spray, chapstick, Q-tips, etc.) Paddle Ball (paddles with ball attached) Playing cards (including Uno, Skip-Bo, Old Maid, Crazy Eights, etc.) Salsa in plastic bottles Socks (no funky colors) Sunscreen Sweetener (Equal, Sweet & Low, Sugar-individual packets) Toilet Paper U.S. Flags Yo-yos Zip Lock Bags/ Disposable Plastic Containers (all sizes)

[Paul G]

Soldiers

Jacob Gardner (Spotted Redtail)
Deployed August 6, 2005 to Iraq
Nez Perce and Navajo
Age: 19
Northern Traditional Dancer
TRC-170 Flash Operator.

Crystal Spick
Deployed to Guam
Navy
Age: 24
Sioux.

1LT Philip E. Crabtree
Deployed to Iraq
Oglala Lakota from South Dakota

Spec. Cozad, Leonard K.
Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma
Grandson of Leonard Cozad
Deployed out of Fort Sill Army base to Iraq on Oct. 30, 2005

SSG. ROBERT WHITEKILLER
173rd Airborne
Stationed in Vincenza, Italy
Iraq War Veteran
Seminole and Cherokee

SGT McDonald
82nd Airborne
Chicken/Traditional dancer
Salish/San Felipe Pueblo from Montana

SPC Washines
Stationed in South Korea
Deployed to Afghanistan
Yakama from Washington
Round Bustle/Traditional dancer
Age: 24

Gregory Cason
Schaghticoke Nation
Navy
Stationed in Italy
Preparing for deployment to Afghanistan

SSG R. Layton
Deployed to Iraq
Cherokee

Allen J. Webster
Deployed to Iraq
Army Reserves
Age: 25
Oneida

SSG William EagleBlanket
B co. 2-22 Inf. / 1 / 10th MTN
2nd PLT, APO AE 09376

SSgt Celeste S. Borrego
United States Air Force
Oglala Sioux
Stationed in S Korea from Jul 2004- Jul 2005
Stationed in Italy Aug 2005

Conrad Begaye
Navajo
173rd Airborne
Stationed in Vicenza, Italy
Deployed to Iraq

Sgt. Charles A. Griffith
101st Airborne Screaming Eagles
Stationed at Fort Cambell, Kentucky
Deployed to Iraq
Lenape

SPC Willard E. Henry
Tribe: Sicangu Lakota
Hometown: Rosebud, SD

PFC Andrew Kennebeck
Tribe: Ojibwa
Hometown: Cloquet, MN

SPC Kendrick K. Lapahie
Tribe: Navajo
Hometown: Farmington, NM

SPC Shondale Lee
Tribe: Navajo
Hometown: Shiprock, NM

PFC Randy Louis Mathes II
Tribe: Osage
Hometown: Bartlesville, OK

PFC Oitancan Mani Zephier
Tribe: Oglala Lakota / Yankton Sioux
Hometown: Pine Ridge, SD

[Paul G]

Donations Recieved

Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Lopez - Monetary Donation
Turtle Island Flutes - 20 CD's
Jean Schwartz - Monetary Donation

[Mezzobean]

Surely there must be others out there who can help - I can't believe there are only three of us . . . . ??

[Paul G]

Indian Country has joined our list of sponsors.

They are sending issues fo the newspaper for each person.

[tsuj510]

Surely there must be others out there who can help - I can't believe there are only three of us . . . . ??

who can checks/mo's be made out to?

[Paul G]

who can checks/mo's be made out to?

PowWows.com or Paul Gowder

[Paul G]

Please remember to send your items before December 31!

We still need a few more people to add to the list. If you have family or a friend overseas, please send us thier info!

[nativechiqui]

hi Paul, I would like to send a care package to anyone who is a screamin eagle. How do I do this. Do I send directly to them or what. I really want the screamin eagle because my dad was a screamin eagle back in the day. He is not with us anymore. So I would like to honor him and help someone who is what he used to be.

[nativechiqui]

My daddy was also a 101st airborne. So I would like to honor him by helping someone else. please get back at me Paul. thank you.

[Paul G]

My daddy was also a 101st airborne. So I would like to honor him by helping someone else. please get back at me Paul. thank you.

If you want to help you can send items to me.

To have people included on the list I need thier name and address.

[nativechiqui]

Cool, what's you're address Paul. Or which address do I use?