Who We Are and What We Do
Congregations from virtually every denomination and tradition participate in Mission Native America. Food, clothing, furniture, household items, health, and medical supplies are distributed to the country’s most needy. Over 80 native tribes and nations from over 20 states have been served through the December distribution of gifts to the Riverside Indian boarding school at Anadarko, Oklahoma. Over 36 semi-trailers of assistance, over 1,400,000 pounds of desperately needed items, have been take to reservations and areas of native concentration in Arizona, Louisiana, Oklahoma, North Dakota, South Dakota, and New Mexico, including Cheyenne and Arapaho, Coushatta, Standing Rock Sioux, Cheyenne River Sioux, White Mountain Apache, Pine Ridge Sioux, Picuris Pueblo, Crow Creek Sioux, and Otoe-Missouri.
Mission Native America provides assistance to and receives ministry assistance from Two Rivers Native American Training Center. Per capita income levels are far below the poverty line. For example, Pine Ridge Reservation is the poorest county in America with an annual per capita income around $2,500.00. In the most prosperous nation in human history, the host peoples of the land are the most deprived. In a nation with an average life span of 73, the Native population is 45.