The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota is home to thousands of Lakota Indian people. Unfortunately, it is also home to a huge drug problem that effects everyone. Children and adults alike die from drug related causes everyday. I am apart of a small group of people here in Pine Ridge who are working towards bringing something positive to the reservation. The way that we hope to do this is through music. We would like support in putting on a drug awareness concert- free and open to everyone. We are planning to have positive messages, music, art and free food. We hope that this day of celebrating awareness will inform our youth and help them see that there is something else out there besides the use and abuse of drugs. The bands we are bringing in are: Aztlan Underground, RED, NyteLyfe, K-dog, Derelict, RipSnort. All of these bands spread a positive message, a few incorporate a cultural element in their music and all of them are friends of ours. There are also a group of guys coming from Arizona on their own free will who are gonna DJ through out the day. Totelcytol, a muralist team from LA is coming to run an art workshop and paint a mural the week before and the day of the concert. All of this the music, the food and the art is free and open to everyone. Realizing that drugs are rampant everywhere, we know we can't exterminate the use completely... But, we believe giving our youth a chance to dream of another way of living is a start.