Financial Provision

The Miraculous Provision and Completion of the Lakota M.I.A. Girls' Summer Home

Published October 22, 2026 at 7:06 PM

1920s · 1922
Lakota

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After a period of severe financial distress following the war, the M.I.A. encountered significant difficulty in completing the Lakota girls' summer home. However, renewed effort in the spring saw the financial way open up miraculously, allowing for the building to be finished and dedicated.

In Their Own Words

“During the summer of 1921, the land was purchased, the materials assembled, the building erected and covered, and plans laid for its completion early in 1922. Conditions in the fall of 1921, however, were disheartening. Crops could not be moved, the people had no available money, and the M. I. A. began to doubt the possibility of opening the camp for next summer. Renewed effort was exerted in the spring, however, and the way seemed to open up almost miraculously, so that it was completed and dedicated by President Heber J. Grant last year. — The Young Woman's Journal 34:7”

Sources & References

The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 34 no. 7 (July 1923). L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University digital collections. https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/YWJ/id/23650 (account extracted verbatim from the collection's page-level OCR; research confidence: high)

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