Thank you so much for your past support of the Crow Creek Reservation Service Project! Thanks to donors like you, Iowa State University faculty, alumni, veterinary students, and community volunteers who organize and carry out the Crow Creek Reservation Service Trip can travel to Fort Thompson, South Dakota, to offer veterinary services to tribal members of the Crow Creek Reservation. Once again, this trip is part of this year's fourth-year veterinary student rotation. To support this year's trip, please visit https://fundisu.foundation.iastate.edu/CrowCreek24

Our students are so grateful for your support that they'd like to share with you stories of their experiences in their own words (and pictures!) Here's what a few of our students have to say about the trip!

Thank you for supporting our trip to the Crow Creek and Rosebud reservations. It was a wonderful experience filled with laughs, sweet and sometimes bittersweet moments, and lots of learning about people and animals. It felt good to be able to provide our services to a community that clearly cherishes their animals so much. I hope to be involved in many more trips like this in the future. Tara Baiano

It was amazing and very rewarding to be able to serve the Crow Creek community. I've learned so much over the couple days during this trip. We were able to provide physical exams, preventative care, and spay/neuter surgery. Thank you for making this possible! Jennifer (Hsin Jung) Tsai

Thank you for providing us with all our products and sponsoring us during trip! Seeing clients faces when we handed them preventative and taking care of their animals and how thankful and appreciative, they were will be a core memory for me. I loved seeing how much these animals are loved and well taken care of. It reminded me of why we do what we do. I'll never forget this experience. Vanessa Powers

Thank you so much for your support towards this amazing experience. I learned so much during the trip to the Crow Creek Reservation—it truly was an honor to serve the community and work with my fellow team members. To see the love and compassion for animals was my favorite part of this trip, it made me even more excited to be a veterinarian.  Tarah Peterson

I loved this awesome experience with the team and I'm grateful for  being a part to it. At the same time, having the conversations with the owners, sharing the time with them made very happy. I can say that in the short time we were there, we learned about the culture, history that Crow Creek has and helped so many animals. Thank you for making this possible with all the materials, and donations you all gave . We really appreciate it. Tatiana M. Garcia Marrero

Our students are so grateful for your support that they'd like to share with you stories of their experiences in their own words (and pictures!) Here's what a few of our students have to say about the trip!

I am so grateful we had the opportunity to travel to Crow Creek and provide veterinary services to animals on the reservation!  It was humbling to experience the appreciation the tribal members expressed for being able to receive care for their animals. Not only were we able to provide care to this community, but we also advanced our education and connected with members of the veterinary community from around the country. Thank you for your generous donation, this trip would not be possible without out! Katie Nethercott

hank you for your support of the Rosebud and Crow Creek service trips! It was amazing to be able to serve the Rosebud community by providing health care to their horses. Everyone was so grateful and happy to see us! I can't wait to go back. Natalie Biddle

Thank you so much for your generation donations! I traveled to Crow Creek this summer and was able to provide preventative care and perform spay and neuters on dogs and cats. One of my favorite experiences was working with the clients and seeing how much they cared about their pets. We couldn't provide this care without your generous contributions! Rylie Frese

It's difficult to put into words how eye opening it was to be a part of the Crow Creek/Rosebud trip, however I will be forever grateful for the experience and knowledge that I gained while on the reservation. Thanks to your support and donations this was made possible and has benefited the tribal members, their animals and all the students/volunteers involved. I am looking forward to the continuation of this project in the upcoming years! Emily Humphreys

Thank you for providing the essential supplies needed for us to have a successful equine and small animal clinic! As a future mixed animal veterinarian, it was an amazing experience to serve the Crow Creek community in several different facets. I look forward to your continued support of this service trip! Sienna Piersma

Thank you so much for trusting us to provide our services to this community and their animals. It has been an amazing experience to get to know the team and tribal members and to learn from their culture. I will forever cherish the conversations with the locals and their history. To see the love that they have for their community and their animals is truly inspiring and I can only hope that someday I can teach others to do so as well. Thank you for making this possible. Glorianne Vazquez

Due to your generosity, we were able to complete:

• 317 dog vaccinations and preventative care
• 101 cat vaccinations and preventative care
• 48 dog spays
• 31 dog neuters
• 20 cat spays
• 19 cat neuters
• 236 horse vaccinations and preventative care
• 11 horse castrations
• 37 horse dentals
• 2 goat examinations and treatments

Our students are so grateful for your support that they'd like to share with you stories of their experiences in their own words (and pictures!) Here's what a few of our students have to say about the trip!

Thank you for your generous donation to this trip. Not only were we able to help so many animals and their families, but we were able to gain valuable experience that we couldn't otherwise without you! I am incredibly grateful for this opportunity and hope to attend again in the future to continue to facilitate these relationships and be involved in the community. Thank you for being a part of making a difference!  Alex Miller

We are so grateful for your support in helping us complete this service project on the Crow Creek Reservation. The thing I appreciated the most about this trip was the opportunity to connect with not only with clients but also with lots of under socialized pets. Being able to gain the trust of these animals and treat them appropriately was incredibly rewarding, and we could not have done it without your donations! Anna Fleming

While on the reservation, I appreciated how involved the children and teenagers were with their animals. They were truly invested in their care and overall, well-being. It was inspiring to see them advocate for their animals. Thank you for providing supplies and supporting our project this year! Jillian Fisher   

Being able to provide preventative care and surgery to this community was the most rewarding and fulfilling experience. Seeing and feeling the appreciation from the tribe members is something I'll never forgot. This trip also allowed me the opportunity to get to know my fellow classmates on a different level. Thank you for your continued support for this amazing service project!  Kailey James

Thank you for supporting our Crow Creek and Rosebud rotation this year. I have learned so much from this experience and have gained a significant amount of confidence in my clinical decision-making. One of my favorite moments of this trip was talking to a young girl that aspires to be a veterinarian. She has visited us every time we have been to Crow Creek in the last few years. She was very excited to watch her cat get vaccines and FeLV/FIV tested. The students and people of Crow Creek are thankful for this experience that we were able to provide with your assistance. Caetlen Gyhra

Thank you for supporting the Crow Creek and Rosebud families, their pets, and volunteers! If not for you this service and experience would not be possible. It was an incredible project to be a part of and I look forward to continuing the important work that is done. Thank you for all that you do!  Jessica Roback

Thank you for supporting the Crow Creek and Rosebud projects this year! I traveled with the Rosebud team to provide preventative care to approximately 100 horses. It was a rewarding experience and I appreciated seeing the love the owners had for their animals. Thank you for your continued support for this project! Morgan Lider