FEMA Trailers for Indian Country
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FEMA acquired mobile homes in 2005, for the Hurricane Katrina victims. As of June, 2006 20,000 brand new and unused mobile homes are sitting empty in a storage facility in Hope, Arkansas.
United States Senator Tim Johnson,(SD) wrote a letter to Pamela Turner, Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs Office with FEMA, suggesting the mobile homes be donated for housing and schools in Indian Country. There are thousands of Native American people that are either homeless or are living in substandard conditions on Reservations throughout Indian Country. The reservations in South Dakota have estimated up to 30\% of people are either homeless or living in substandard conditions. It is not uncommon for 20 or more residents to live in a three-bedroom, one bath home with three or four generations under one roof due to the lack of unavailable and safe housing.
FEMA's response to this request was, that these trailers would continue to be stored for disaster relief within several areas of the country.
FEMA has 20,000 available mobile homes sitting in storage, while there are thousands of homeless families living across the county. These homes were purchased with our tax dollars, the homeless people in this country should be a priority instead of letting them collect dust in a storage lot.
Please demand that our tax dollars stop being wasted by these agencies and the money actually be put to helping the people of this country!
United States Senator Tim Johnson,(SD) wrote a letter to Pamela Turner, Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs Office with FEMA, suggesting the mobile homes be donated for housing and schools in Indian Country. There are thousands of Native American people that are either homeless or are living in substandard conditions on Reservations throughout Indian Country. The reservations in South Dakota have estimated up to 30\% of people are either homeless or living in substandard conditions. It is not uncommon for 20 or more residents to live in a three-bedroom, one bath home with three or four generations under one roof due to the lack of unavailable and safe housing.
FEMA's response to this request was, that these trailers would continue to be stored for disaster relief within several areas of the country.
FEMA has 20,000 available mobile homes sitting in storage, while there are thousands of homeless families living across the county. These homes were purchased with our tax dollars, the homeless people in this country should be a priority instead of letting them collect dust in a storage lot.
Please demand that our tax dollars stop being wasted by these agencies and the money actually be put to helping the people of this country!
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Tamra Brennan
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- Stop wasting tax dollars and provide housing for people in need of this country!
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Josephine Morningstar
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Teresa Kurtzhall
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James Kurtzhall
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Steven LoneWolf Winston
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Anthony R Ward.
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- Look after our own before others ..Aho
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Gina Boltz
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Karen Hayek
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- I would say the number of homeless is a disaster and these should be used for that purpose and not just in storage.
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ShadowHawk Ellis
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- First off these trailers are yet another waste of Government spending in this Country, you would think that if there were an immediate use for these resources such as the thousands of People in Indian Country that need good , safe , Housing , that these resources be utilized as soon as possible. Further , I find no real reason why they should'nt have been distibuted to the People of the Gulf Coast, so , why not put OUR money to good use and at the same time , help out some peole who would be greatfull and deserving of this resorce........ Use your heads for a change....please
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bonniecrawford
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- this can happen , thanks
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Bruce Thompson/SoaringEagle Sr
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Mike Graham
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- United Native America supports this action 100\%
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Maakarita Paku
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- Please assist Indian Country
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Melody Cope
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- why let all these trailors sit when they could help the native americans that have to live in shantys.
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Terence Hyland
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Joelle Clark
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- Please Help,These trailers can make such a difference!
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Dorothy Valentin
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- I believe it is time that the goverment does something for our people instead of making all these broken promises...........................
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DF Ghost Bear
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- Is it not a disaster that people in our own country are having to live like this when resources are available to provide assistance? Why does the US spend more overseas in assistance than here for our own people?
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Robert Mendelson
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Nikki
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david Highum
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- Pleas give them to those in need.
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Kathleen
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karen balogh
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Robert Murchison
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- This is a small price to pay to help those families that have needed them for years and to help heal wounds caused from years of broken promises.
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george schaefer
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- I have sceen these trailers sitting in Hope Arkansas and it is a sad state of events that they cannot be used to releive some of the suffering in Indian Country
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David Gallagher
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Kim Collins
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- I was in Mississippi shortly after the hurricane that brought these trailers to be. Most have repaired their homes and the trailers should be put to good use instead of just sitting and collecting dust. United Indigenous Sovereignty Organization fully supports this effort.
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Chuck White
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- come on let help these people
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Jeanne ~Butterfly Dancer
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RED McGee
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- Our Tax Dollars Paid For These Trailers To Be Used....NOT To Sit And Rot In Storage!!! There Are 400 + Families Waiting For Housing....You Have Over 20,000 Trailers...Don't Be Greedy.
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martha h noyes
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Janice Wolfstar
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Dan Moon
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Les Bogert
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- Why waste time and money when they can be used now???
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Tanena L Davis
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Cindy Minde
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C Baldwin
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c d allen
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Tim Denis-Pollard
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- These gov't agencies are PUBLICLY funded through taxpayer dollars: as a taxpayer, I DEMAND that these unused trailers be distributed immediately to Indian Country to alleviate homelessness (#1 priority), and provide adequate school rooms for kids!
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Sheila Williams
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- It is a wastefulness common to this country that these trailers so badly needed be left to rot,when they could be put to good and immiediate use.It is a shameful thing that our tax dollars be wasted in this way,when there is such need in this country that is supposed to believe in helping people.
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Barry Tillman
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Kaela Manger
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Keith Bailey
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- These trailers are needed NOW. USE THEM and get more "just in case".
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Sandra Kusch
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- There is no "logical" reason why the mobile homes should not be used to help the Native Americans IN NEED. Please assist our Native Citizens!
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Lisa Jones
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- This is an outrage! Give the trailers to our Native Brothers and Sisters and their children, who are in desperate need of adequate housing! Do something right for once!! Our Native People deserve it!!
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Patti Watson
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Jennifer D Hudon
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Tommy Whitehead
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angela bennett
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- This is appalling, why are you not housing the needy with the resouces that you have.. its totally outrageous.
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Harmony Kieding
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- please release these trailers at once for the use of Indian Country residents!
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