September 2012 | Wounded Knee Museum Blog

Museum Fire Demolition Effort Photos

Hello everyone and thank you for your support!

We have just posted some new museum demolition photos including pictures of the demolition crew and supervisors. Follow this link to our Facebook page to take a look at them! http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151030088085194.414171.167618070193&type=1&l=e2f5c4f0f6

If you would like to learn more about the fire and how you can help aid the demolition and rebuilding effort, please go to the fire fundraising page: http://blog.woundedkneemuseum.org/p/museum-fire-rebuilding-effort.html

Museum Fire Update

Update 9/18

Our demolition continues, it is going as well as it can be.

We have many, many people to thank.

We would like to give a sincere thank you from the bottom of our heart for all your prayers.

As always, if you would like to learn more about the fire, see pictures of the damage and the demolition effort, or learn how you can help, please visit this page on our blog: http://blog.woundedkneemuseum.org/p/museum-fire-rebuilding-effort.html

Museum Fire Demolition Effort Photos

We would like to thank the community for their support. In this blog post are several pictures of the museum demolition effort. If you would like to see these pictures on our Facebook page in order to like and comment on them, please follow this link:http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151015920380194.411266.167618070193&type=1

If you would like to learn more about the fire and how you can help aid the demolition and rebuilding effort, please go to the fire fundraising page:http://blog.woundedkneemuseum.org/p/museum-fire-rebuilding-effort.html

Special Thanks and Update in the Wake of the Museum Fire

THANK YOU WALL FIRE DEPARTMENT

On behalf of Wounded Knee the Museum, we would like to thank the Wall Fire Department for their dedication and heroism in suppressing the fire on September 2^nd.

As we move forward, your service to the community will serve as an inspiration to us. Additionally, the museum would like to extend thanks to all first responders, police officers and firefighters for their service in the memory of the terrorist attacks on the Trade Center in New York on September 11th, 2001.

Also, we would like to thank Marilyn Pourier of the Oglala Lakota College’s Historical Center for her words of encouragement and sharing our sense of loss as well as Eric Brunnemann of the Badlands National Park for his offer to help us in the cleanup effort.

What the museum is faced with now is the demolition of the interior walls and material, removing wiring, plumbing, drop ceiling panels and burned material and we are continuing progress in this area.

We would like to thank people from around the world for their calls and emails.

If you would like to learn more about the Wounded Knee Fire or would like to contact us about it or donate to the rebuilding effort, please follow this link to our blog page on the fire: http://blog.woundedkneemuseum.org/p/museum-fire-rebuilding-effort.html

Thank you,

Steve Wyant

SPECIAL THANKS TO JOE PASTERN

Museum Fire Video Recording

Hello all

We've posted a short video recorded live at the scene of the fire by one of the museum staff, Jacob Ireland.

If you would like to help with the rebuilding effort you may donate by contacting us at info@woundedkneemuseum.org or by going to our donation page by following this link (donation page includes photos and videos of the fire): http://blog.woundedkneemuseum.org/p/museum-fire-fundraiser-donation.html

The YouTube video can be found at the following link: http://youtu.be/lTrIsvH80hc

Wounded Knee Museum Fire

On September 2, 2012 Wounded Knee the Museum sustained a fire destroying 80% of the structure and 100% of the exhibits and contents. We thank the Wall South Dakota Fire Department for their heroic efforts in putting the fire out.

We are grateful to all our visitors and supporters who have over the past 10 years provided inspiration in our mission. We remain resolved to rebuilding the museum so that the story can be told for years to come. With your continued blessings and inspiration we will succeed in the museums mission.

Thank you for your prayers and ongoing support.

We'd like to wish grateful Thank You's to Jacob Ireland, Julia Berry, Joe Baskin and Steve Wyant for helping in our initial clean-up and dismantling of the exhibits. This should continue on for several other days.

We would like to thank Golden West Communications for reconnecting our telephone equipment as it was damaged in the fire. We would like to thank Glenn at TLC Electric and West River Electric Company for providing temporary electric power to the fire that engulfed the museum the night of september 2nd.

Thank You's continue to Billy Swifthawk and Daryl No Heart for their council and volunteer efforts to aid in our recovery. We will try to keep our friends updated on our progress with the burdens that we need to overcome. And a big thank you to the visitors of the museum that were not aware of the fire and stopped by and their words of encouragement for the future.

If you would like to help with the rebuilding effort you may donate by contacting us at info@woundedkneemuseum.org or by going to our donation page by following this link (donation page includes photos and videos of the fire): http://blog.woundedkneemuseum.org/p/museum-fire-rebuilding-effort.html

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