Tribes need help shipping bison meat to hurricane victims

[Waya]

The Fort Belknap tribes hit a snag this week in their plan to slaughter 10 bison and donate the meat to victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Coordinators of the relief effort don't have any way to ship the estimated 5,000 pounds of meat from Montana to refugee stations in other parts of the nation.

Tribal officials are looking for spare room in a refrigerated truck headed to Utah, Colorado or Texas next week.

"If anybody in the state has something going that way and had some extra space, we would appreciate being contacted," said Janice Hawley, coordinator for the tribes' relief effort.

The Fort Belknap tribes joined others across the nation last week in offering assistance to victims of the hurricane.

The Fort Belknap Human Services Department is stockpiling clothing, bedding and money to send to displaced victims.

Another tribal department is collecting school supplies and children's books to replace those destroyed in one of the nation's worst natural disasters.

The National Congress of American Indians last week set up a relief fund to assist tribes and their members in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi.

Six federally recognized tribes are located in the three states, which were hit by wind, rain and flooding.

NCAI President Tex Hall has called for a unification of Indian Country to help the displaced tribes....

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050908/NEWS01/509080312/1002


http://www.fortbelknapnations-nsn.gov

[NYC]

1. I have a feeling the meat will rot when Homeland Security's FEMA

refuses to accept it.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. It Will Rot If They DO Accept It

Everything this crowd touches rots.
The Professor

[cynatnite]

3. on edit: found a number n/t