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The Wakpamni Lake Community has developed “affiliate” commission-based relationships with these online retailers. Buy what you already buy at the exact same prices. Being located in such a rural and isolated area, we have to be creative with our “e-commerce,” internet-based businesses. eWakpamni is one of our internet-based businesses.
As an “affiliate,” when you click on any of these major retailers from our eWakpamni portal we get a small commission back from each of your purchases. Your prices are exactly the same, they just share a small marketing commission with us. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
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What do we do with the eWakpamni commissions?
Rather than asking for donations, we try to raise our own funds through economic development with our corporation WLCC and through businesses like this eWakpmani site. With the proceeds we make from the eWakpamni portal, we subsidize these projects:
Wakpamni Lake Geo Green Kitchen
The GeoGreenKitchen is a partially underground greenhouse which uses the consistent ambient temperature of the earth to keep the greenhouse at a constant temperature for year-round growth. It is based on the Greenhouse in the Snow model. The goal of our first GeoGreenKitchen is to grow food for our community.
Community & Family Gardens
Two of the primary initiatives of the Wakpamni Lake Community are to 1) create more community independence and self-sufficiency and 2) to improve the health of our community members through healthier food choices – both initiatives are addressed by the Community & Family Gardens Project.
The Community Gardens Project includes the GeoGreenkitchen but goes much further, it also incorporates outdoor gardens, cultivation of indigenous medicinal plants, hay bale gardening throughout the powwow and other community outdoor spaces, and purchasing partnerships with surrounding local farmers and gardeners.
The Family Gardens Project includes providing tiling services, vegetable starts and seeds, and gardening advice to Community Families. In addition, for the elderly we incorporate the Family Garden Project into the Elderly Ramps & Decks Project and build them waist-level raised beds on their newly built decks to facilitate elderly access to gardening.
We began these initiatives before COVID, but COVIDs highlighting of nutritional based health disparities as well as food supply chain disruptions has only intensified the importance of growing and securing our own healthy foods.
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ACCESS RAMPS & DECKS FOR ELDERS
Elders are a sacred part of any Community, and particularly so in the Wakpamni Lake Community. Our community has a disproportionate number of fluent Lakota speakers, knowledge keepers, spiritual leaders, and veterans, and we take our responsibility to keep them safe and healthy very seriously.
In addition to our commitment to the healthy foods’ projects, we also have an initiative to build accessibility ramps and decks for our elders. The accessibility ramps allow our elders to stay home and live in our community with their families longer. The decks allow our elders easier access to the healing nature of the outdoors as well as accessible participation in our Elders Gardening Program through the waist high raised beds we build for them.
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