Help Unci Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance

Dear Sisters and Brothers in the Four Directions:

Will you join me and Grandmother Flordemayo to help raise money for her Grandmother Sister, Unci / Grandmother Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance. We hope to raise at least $30,000 to help her with her vehicle repairs and getting a reliable used vehicle, and $25,000 for her living expenses. She is without a working vehicle at this time. All proceeds go to Unci / Grandmother Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance. We really hope to raise a total of $55,000 with half going towards a used SUV and the other portion to help her with any living expenses. 

We have updated the fundraiser since we began this during Covid and we have been helping send money monthly to Unci Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance to help with her bills and in the Winter of 2023 she was hospitalized with pneumonia and on October 24th, 2023 Unci Rita fell and broke her hip and wrist so we need to raise more funds to help her and Nathan with hospital bills, accommodations, and food during her hospital stay and rehab.

This fund raiser is to help Oglala Lakota Unci/Grandmother Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance with the needed funds for transportation repair/maintenance or in the event of a successful fund raising campaign a newer vehicle. Unci Rita has two vehicles (a f150 and a SUV), both over 20 years old. The gravel road conditions where Unci Rita lives in the Slim Buttes Community are poorly maintained and below standard. Although garage bills are a given the road conditions plus having to travel 20 miles in any direction for food, health care and other business takes its toll on the vehicles. Unci Rita is an independent elder living in her own home in her home community of Slim Buttes, which is a rural community. True to traditional cultural values when asked Unci Rita helps provide transportation for those who call on her. The past year has been a challenge w/both vehicles in the garage at the same time. And being 20 miles from town or our home agency it creates a domino effect of set backs without adequate transportation.

GRANDMOTHER RITA LONG VISITOR HOLY DANCE

Rita Long Visitor Holy Dance is a Native American spiritual elder from the Oglala Lakota tribe. Unci (Grandmother in Lakota) Rita was born in the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. She currently lives on the land that was allotted to her great grandparents more than 100 years ago. She is committed to preserving the Lakota ways of life through the preservation of the Lakota language, which she speaks fluently, education and advocacy. She works with a youth ambassador program for Lakota youth connecting them with their spiritual traditions, including Sundance. In addition she works to free youth from substance abuse. Unci Rita holds closely to her heart the hope that the work and influence of the Grandmothers Council will give a voice to the Lakota People, and bring good things to the children and the generations to come.

Unci Rita cherishes and advocates her traditional Lakota ways and language which she speaks fluently. Unci Rita is empathetic to single parents and their struggles to raise their children, because she herself was a single parent raising her children (and five of her oldest grandchildren) on her own. Unci Rita is skilled in survival knowing how to dry food and make clothing traditional Lakota style or contemporary wear. Today Unci Rita is a grandmother, great grandmother and great great grandmother. 

If you would prefer to send a check directly to Unci please make check payable to and mail to:

Rita R Afraid Of Bear

PO Box # 1756

Pine Ridge, South Dakota 57770

Please contact us if you need assistance with getting a donation to Unci or we can also send you her sons PayPal information upon request. 

Unci and my Mom talk every couple weeks, and they love each other so much. They are always laughing together and loving their friendship. If you can't donate perhaps you can share this fundraiser within your social networks we would be forever grateful.

With Love, Light, Blessings and Gratitude

Grandmother Flordemayo and Heather