Katherine Red Feather

Her request was simple – she needed a bottle of shampoo and some aspirin. Katherine Red Feather, a 78-year-old tribal elder on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, had listed these basic items 26 years ago in her response to a letter from Robert Young. Young, a Seattle businessman, had been matched with Red Feather after volunteering in an adopt-a-grandparent program geared toward helping aging Native Americans. He had been moved to volunteer in the program after seeing a … [Read more...] about Red Feather Delivering Hundreds of Hand-Washing Stations