If you can not help with your wallet....help with your voice...email our Senator, Carl Levin.
http://levin.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

Dear Sen. Levin,
As a man of conscience, I urge you to do what can be done to get some federal assistance immediately to the Native American citizens in south Dakota, specifically in the Pine Ridge and Wanblee areas. The recent and continuing blizzards have put the health and safety of the elders and the children at risk... they have very few resources on which to rely. Please step forward to lead your colleagues to do the right thing before disastrous results occur. I have friends out there, and they are in a very bad way.
Respectfully,
"your name"

for news report : http://www.indianz.com/News/2008/011884.asp