🌿 Help This Elder Couple Continue Guiding and Sharing the Lakota Way

Jerome Kills Small and his wife Nancy are shining lights for so many. As a Lakota elder, storyteller, and spiritual guide, Jerome has dedicated his life to uplifting others through prayer songs, cultural education, and gentle wisdom that ripples far and wide. Nancy has worked with Lakota women to understand and play out their gifts.

The first time I met Jerome, he led a gathering in Vermillion, South Dakota with his prayer songs and a message about the power of connection in community. He helped us understand what it is to have one heart, one mind, one prayer. He brought his whole self to that gathering.

This past year, Jerome and his devoted wife faced uphill battles with kidney failure and cancer, with knowledge of the kind of treatments that would work for their bodies. Now the trial of sickness has passed. Jerome is feeling stronger, and Nancy is cancer free, finally. But treatment cost more than expected, and automatic withdrawals now quickly deplete accounts that typically help them pay for living costs and groceries.

Jerome Kills Small singing prayers

Help this wisdom keep flowing.

🎯 Our Goal: Raise $810 ASAP and Help Monthly Support Continue

This help will consistently keep Jerome and Nancy living in a healthy, heated trailer, with good meals and a working telephone.

All funds raised here will be sent directly to Jerome and his wife to lift this burden from their shoulders so they can focus on living in a wholesome way, with wičhózani, as the Lakota say.

🌞 Why It Matters

Jerome and Nancy take hard times and turn them into opportunities for wisdom, in the Lakota way. They live on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, where despite hardship, they always find ways to help others in tangible and spiritual ways alike.

Now it’s our turn.

Let’s make winter worry-free for this giving couple.

🧡 Give what you can. Tell others if you can’t. We all help in meaningful ways.

Jerome Kills Small teaching

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Help Jerome and Nancy Overcome the Cost of Good Health

By Clement Waters Retreat

Help Jerome and Nancy Overcome the Cost of Good Health

After successful treatment, high bills now threaten their survival.