Let’s Work Together to Help Keep Our Navajo Sisters Warm!
This is what was stated at the end of the mission statement for this project from the site FrenchGeneral. If you have some quilting fabric, embroidery scraps, notions (including thread, scissors, etc), batting, old bits and pieces, sewing books or quilting supplies you’d like to donate, we encourage you to send them to our Navajo in need! The addresses available will be listed at the end. Taken Directly from their site, it reads:
I have been visiting the Navajo Nation since I was a little girl and my mom and dad would take all seven of us out to Arizona and Utah to camp in Monument Valley. I had no idea that seeds were being planted for a calling later in life.
Fifteen years ago, when JZ, Sofia and I moved from New York to Los Angeles, we traveled through the Navajo Nation and stopped off at the trading posts along the way. We bought Navajo rugs at Hubbell, Toadlena and Shonto. I began meeting the locals and learning about a very simple way of life. I fell down the rabbit hole. I sat with weavers and spinners and natural dyers and learned more about history, craft and landscape than I bargained for. We have continued to visit this Native American territory, covering about 17,544,500 acres, and have found it to be a place of great beauty as well as great need. The population continues to disproportionately struggle with health problems, unemployment, and the effects of past uranium mining accidents
Three years ago, I met Fannie Mae Lincoln, a Navajo grandma, at Griswold’s Trading Post in Shiprock, New Mexico while we were both buying wool. She asked me if I was a weaver and once we started our conversation, I learned that she was a weaver in the summer and a quilter in the winter. She told me that she had no access to fabric since there were no quilt shops on the reservation. I told her I would send her fabric from my collection – and that day, The Navajo Quilt Project began.
The Navajo Quilt Project gathers fabric and quilting supplies to donate to the quilters that live on the Navajo Nation. We also collect monetary donations and use it to purchase scissors, thread and batting so that the grandmas can quilt in the winter and make beautiful, warm blankets for their families.
If you would like to send quilting fabric, embroidery scraps, notions (including thread, scissors, etc), batting, old bits and pieces, sewing books or quilting supplies, please send to one of the Senior Centers below.
BE SURE TO ALWAYS SHIP USPS WHEN SHIPPING TO THE NAVAJO NATION SO THAT THE POSTMAN DELIVERS TO THE CORRECT ADDRESS.
Francine Harrison
Many Farms Senior Center
P.O. Box 1050
Many Farms, AZ . 86538
Mildred Kee
Chinle Senior Center
P.O. Box 2092
Chinle. AZ 86503
Rena Murphy
Puebla Pontado Senior Center
HCR 79
P.O. Box 3025
Cuba, NM . 87013
David Randolph, Sr.
Newcomb Senior Center
P.O. Box 7946
Newcomb, NM . 87455
Bess Seschillie
Crownpoint Senior Center
P.O. Box 1869
Crownpoint, NM 87310
Novina
Shiprock Senior Center
P.O. Box 3845
Shiprock, NM 87420
Perlina Chiquito
Kayenta Senior Center
P.O. Box 3026
Kayenta, AZ 86033
Bonnie Crank
Olijato Senior Center
P.O. Box 360442
Monument Valley, UT 84536
Susan Hudson
P.O. Box 223
Ignacio, CO 81137
Honorable Amber K. Crotty
15 West Navajo Housing Authority
P.O. Box A
Sheep Springs, NM 87364
Maggie Mae Lincoln
P.O. Box 571
Ganado, AZ 86505
Thank you for your participation and help in this very worthy cause to help keep our sisters warm and able to create quilts to trade and sell.
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of
others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope,
and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and
daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest
walls of oppression and resistance.” — Robert F. Kennedy