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Honoring Our Own People NEWS Archives - Dec 05
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Cherokee Nation Angel Tree, OK
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Donates $182,600 to Brighten Holidays
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Donates $800,000 to Santee Sioux Nation
SMSC Helps Memorial Blood Center Save Lives
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Donates $63,500 for Tribal Grants
Opportunities
Native Youth Cultural Exchange
Nisga'a Traditional Dancers Looking for Hopi, Apache, Zuni, Dine' Host Communities
Villanova University Looking for Native Authors
Indigenous News Network California Indian Development Council, CA
Grants Deadlines
Morongo Band of Mission Indians offers the Rodney T. Mathew Jr. Memorial Scholarship program open to any enrolled member of a California Indian tribe who is a full-time student at an accredited college or university and has a minimum GPA of 2.75, CA
Other Information
Honoring Our Own Power
IRS Office of Indian Tribal Governments (ITG) Newsletter
IRS Office of Indian Tribal Governments (ITG) Special December 05 Update
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Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
SMSC DONATES $63,500 FOR TRIBAL GRANTS
Prior Lake, Minnesota - The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community announces $63,500 in grants to the Indian Tribal Programs throughout Indian Country. The grants will be used for police equipment, an ambulance building, a playground, tobacco prevention efforts, housing, and winter clothing.
The Sioux Valley Dakota Nation in Manitoba received $20,000 for equipment, including Tasers, for the Dakota Ojibway Police Service which provides police services for eight Indian Communities in Canada.
The Eagle Nest District of the Oglala Sioux Tribe's Pine Ridge Reservation received $15,000 for an ambulance building adjacent to the Wanblee Health Center.
The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska received $10,000 for renovations and maintenance to their Senior Center.
The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa of Odanah, Wisconsin, received a grant for $7,500 to build a playground at their newly renovated daycare center, to include landscaping, ground cover, and equipment.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North Dakota Tobacco Prevention Program received $5,000 for supplies and activities to enhance their tobacco prevention efforts.
The Dacotah Tipis Habitat for Humanity, which serves the Crow Creek Reservation in South Dakota, received a $5,000 grant to help build homes.
The Elderly Affairs Program of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of South Dakota received $5,000 for miscellaneous medical expenses not covered by other service programs. The SMSC has supported this program, which provides such items as prescriptions, eyeglasses, and transportation for several years.
The Mille Lacs Band Urban TANF (Temporary Aid to Needy Families) Office of Minneapolis received $1,000 to provide hats and gloves to 109 families they serve which live in Hennepin, Ramsey, and Anoka Counties.
Major recent SMSC donations include: $1 million to the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe of Minnesota; $800,000 to the Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska for community improvements and tribal programs; $1 million to the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota for an elderly complex; $750,000 to the Upper Sioux Community of Minnesota for community improvements; $750,000 to the Mandan, Arikara, and Hidatsa Nation of North Dakota for housing initiatives; $250,000 to the Minneapolis American Indian Center for renovations; and $250,000 to the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska for an indoor aquatic center.
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s charitable giving program comes from a cultural and social tradition to assist those in need. Over the past several years the SMSC has donated more than $56.5 million to charitable organizations and Indian Tribes, including more than $14.5 million in fiscal year 2005.
Requested Post - Joanna Bigfeather
Letter to Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Requesting Efforts Toward Indian Preference Hiring Practices
"We are most concerned about the appointment of a non-Indian in the interim role of president when we have many qualified Indian people here in the local area such as Susan Williams, Sioux and Donna House, Navajo. Both head their own businesses, have been involved in management teams for years and both are known nationwide as leaders and spokespersons for American Indian culture, values and worldview."
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Helps Memorial Blood Center Save Lives
Prior Lake, Minnesota - A blood drive held by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community resulted in enough blood to benefit 264 people. The “special request” holiday blood drive was held at the request of Memorial Blood Center. Each of the 66 units collected at the drive at Dakotah! Sport and Fitness on December 13, 2005, can be divided into cryo-precipates, plasma, red blood cells, and platelets, thus saving up to four lives. Three first time donors participated in the event, and there were ten walk-ins.
Since during the holiday season folks are busy shopping, baking, attending school and church functions, and visiting relatives, sometimes the urgent need for blood is overlooked. But the 66 SMSC donors were willing to give time out of their busy holiday season to help save lives by giving blood. Donors were members of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, tribal government and enterprise staff, South Metro Federal Credit Union staff, Gaming Enterprise Team Members, Dakotah! Sport and Fitness members, and the general public.
Because life is so precious to us all, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, as an active participant in the local community, holds several blood drives each year to help save lives. The SMSC has sponsored blood drives for more than a decade.
More than 90% of Americans will require a blood transfusion for themselves or an immediate family member sometime in their life. Since blood is perishable and cannot be synthetically created, new donations are needed daily. All blood types are needed throughout the year, especially those which are less common.
Native Youth Cultural Exchange
Sponsored by LIFE (Local Indians For Education) Shasta, CA
SHASTA, CA - The Native Youth Cultural Exchange is a collaboration that serves three distinctly different Native communities; Northern California, Hopi and Hawai'i.
The organizers and participants represent the elders' wisdom, the adults' hard work and the youths' future potential. These representatives come from three islands of Hawai'i who are involved in the Hawaiian Language Immersion Schools or other Native Hawaiian Charter Schools; the villages of the Hopi reservation, and the diverse Native community residing in Shasta County, California.
The Native Youth Cultural Exchange was founded in 2003 to promote youth leadership, cultural awareness and civic engagement through a month long exchange of ideas, cultures and hands-on culturally focused community service projects. Twelve young men representing Hawai'i, Hopi and Northern California travel together to the three locations and actively participate in grassroots community revitalization projects, ceremonies, conflict resolution workshop and artist and writers workshops while learning the importance of their culture and community.
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, MN
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Donates $800,000 to Santee Sioux Nation
Prior Lake, Minnesota - The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community announces $800,000 in grants to the Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska for community improvements and tribal programs. The grants will be used for land purchase, improvements to a convenience store, youth programs, elderly programs, energy assistance, and improvements to a restaurant and bingo hall.
A Dakota nation, the Santee were forcibly removed from Minnesota after the Dakota Conflict of 1862 first to Crow Creek, South Dakota, and then to an isolated area in northern Nebraska along the Missouri River. Health care, social services, education, employment opportunities, infrastructure, and other human services generally taken for granted have not been historically available to them. The Santee have maintained close social ties to the SMSC since the late 1800s.
“We need to continue to grow beyond what we are and to become competitors in the business world outside the confines of our small isolated reservation. As you have seen during your visits to our small reservation, we have made great strides, and we hope that with your continued support we will be able to continue to pursue our dreams. My desire is to aim high not only for this generation but for the generations following us,” wrote Santee Sioux Nation Chairman Roger Trudell.
“We understand the struggles the Santee have gone through. We are glad that we are in a position to help. We appreciate their desire to make a better way for their children and their children's children,” said SMSC Chairman Stanley R. Crooks.
In fiscal year 2005, the SMSC made a donation of $425,000 to the Santee Sioux Nation for youth and senior programs and economic development including a storage facility, upgrading the RV park facility, and upgrades to a convenience store. Another grant for $527,000 was for community improvements and tribal programs. The grant was used for land purchase, a carwash, a buffalo program, and for parks and trails.Over the past four years, the SMSC has made grants totaling more than $4 million to the Santee Sioux Nation for economic development and tribal programs. Major recent SMSC donations include: $1 million to the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe of Minnesota; $1 million to the Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska for community improvements and tribal programs; $1 million to the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota for an elderly complex; $750,000 to the Upper Sioux Community of Minnesota; $750,000 to the Mandan, Arikara, and Hidatsa Nation of North Dakota for housing initiatives; $250,000 to the Minneapolis American Indian Center; and $250,000 to the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska for an indoor aquatic center. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s charitable giving program comes from a cultural and social tradition to assist those in need. Over the past several years the SMSC has donated more than $56.5 million to charitable organizations and Indian Tribes, including more than $14.5 million in fiscal year 2005.
About the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
The SMSC utilizes its financial resources from gaming and non-gaming enterprises to pay for all of the internal infrastructure of the Tribe, including but not limited to housing, roads, water and sewer systems, emergency services, and essential services to its Tribal members in education, health, and welfare. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, a federally recognized Indian Tribe in Minnesota, is the owner and operator of Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, Playworks, Dakotah! Sport and Fitness, and other enterprises on a reservation south of the Twin Cities.
Nisga'a Lava Dancers, Canada
Nisga'a Traditional Lava Dancers
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Hopi, Apache, Zuni, Dine' Cultural Exchanges
CANADA—"My name is Teresa McMillan. I am a grade 6 of Haida/Tsimpshian descent.
I manage a group of youth to elders Nisga'a traditional dance group called the Nisga'a Lava Dancers. The Nisga'a territory is about 2 1/2 hours travel time from the Alaskan panhandle. Our group has been very fortunate in being able to have cultural exchanges with the Haida and Tlingit nations of Alaska. It is our dream to have a cultural exchange with the Apache, Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni Nations. We arrange our own travel, meals, and only need help in being able to stay in a school gym, church basement, or traditional dwellings.We enjoy having an evening where we meet with children to elders sharing in a meal and sharing traditional dancing. We feel that this is important to maintaining and promoting culture of all nations. Our youth come back feeling more proud of who they are and feeling excited about their new found friends. Thank you so much for considering our request and passing on the message. I can be reached at tmcmillan@nisgaa.bc.ca ."
Black Mesa Trust, AZ
Black Mesa Trust Gains Support for Run to Mexico City
KYKOTSMOVI, (Ariz.)—Black Mesa Trust has announced that the 22-member All-Pueblo Council of New Mexico has passed a resolution in support of the Trust’s planned Hopi to Mexico City Run scheduled for March 2006, when long-distance Hopi runners as well as runners from other Southwestern tribes and nations will carry sacred messages and teachings of water to the Fourth World Water Forum in Mexico City, some 2,000 miles from Hopi.
In its Resolution, the All-Pueblo Council recognizes the impending worldwide water crisis, including the fact that by 2050 it is estimated that six billion people will experience water scarcity, affirms the duty of indigenous peoples to safeguard the earth and share teachings and knowledge with other people, and resolves that the Council endorses and supports the H2OPI Run of Respect for Water and All Life.
Run Coordinator Ruben Saufkie, Sr. said that the Council also promised to help recruit runners from their pueblos, and he pointed out that Hopi has an ancient connection to the peoples of the New Mexico pueblos. “There is a deep connection between our cultures and our water,” he said.
Saufkie said that in talking to the New Mexico pueblo leaders, he referred to the leadership of Popé, from the Pueblo of Taos, in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. “Popé was a person with a great heart and a great vision. What he did for the pueblos [masterminded a plan that ended, for a time, 140 years of Spanish occupation] is what we are now doing for the world. The pueblos once again are coming together and taking a stand,” said Saufkie.
He added, “On behalf of the run participants and organizers, I am very grateful and honored to have been in the presence of the members of the All Pueblo Council and to get their strong support.”
The Run has also recently received support from the White Mountain Apache Tribe and the Hualapai Tribe, both of which have made contributions, and run organizers will speak before the Hopi Tribal Council and the McDowell Yavapai Tribal Council next month.
In addition to delivering sacred messages and related lessons of traditional science which recognize all waters as comprising a singular life -sustaining system, the Mexico run will bring critical information to Native and non-Native peoples living along the route, renew Hopi traditions and ceremonies of distance running, reaffirm Hopi clan origins and ties to the peoples of central Mexico, and re-establish collaborative efforts of respect among Southwestern tribes.
The Run will also recognize and honor 19 Hopi leaders, who in 1890 were sent in chains to Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay. They were sent to this prison for vicious criminals by the U.S. government as punishment for “seditious acts.”
The Hopi leaders believed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo guaranteed them full rights as U.S. citizens, including the right to their land and water, the First Amendment right to worship and be free from religious persecution, and the right to educate their children in their own way. For this they were put in prison. They are examples of true leaders.
It is for this reason that the Hopi runners are honoring them as they travel to Mexico, carrying messages of peace and respect for water.
The run is undertaken in conjunction with Black Mesa Trust’s Decade of Water observances and will serve to celebrate the Black Mesa Trust’s successful grassroots campaign to stop Peabody Western Coal from pumping pristine N-aquifer water to slurry coal from the Black Mesa Mine to Mohave Generating Station in Laughlin, NV. The slurry pipeline is set to shut down at the end of this year.
For more information about Black Mesa Trust, visit www.blackmesatrust.org. For more information about the Hopi-to-Mexico run, visit www.h2opirun.org or call Vernon Masayesva at (928) 734-9255 or Ruben Saufkie, Sr. at (928) 734-5438.
Native Women in the Arts, Canada
Sky Woman - Indigenous Women Who Have Shaped, Moved or Inspired Us
A new book published by Native Women in the Arts is "Sky Woman." Edited by Sandra LaRonde, nearly 40 writers and visual artists are represented from 22 nations from across Canada, United States, Mexico, Pacific Islands and Japan. This anthology includes works from BUFFY SANITE-MARIE, JOY HARJO, LEE MARACLE, DAPHNE ODJIG, and JEANNETTE ARMSTRONG. Other contributors include: Kathy Ainsley, Christi Belcourt, Sally-Jo Bowman, Nicola Campbell, Qwo-Li Driskill, Chisato Dubreuil, Carla Gilday, Maya Gonzalez, Barbara-Helen Hill, Merlin Homer, Jessie Housty, Maria Hupfield, Debra Isabel Huron, Jane Inyallie, Nehi Katawasisiw, Birdy Market, Catherine McCarty, MariJo Moore, Gloria Okeynan Sutherland, Rafaela Perales, Beverlee Pettit, Richie Plass, Marcie Rendon, Janet Marie Rogers, Marlene Rogers, Alexis MacDonald Seto, April Severin, Moneca Sinclaire, Patricia Teichert, Ardith Walkem, and Penny E. Youngreen.
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Donates $182,600 to Brighten Holidays
Prior Lake, Minnesota - To share the holiday spirit and make the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays a little brighter for those who are less fortunate, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community awarded $182,600 in charitable donations for the 2005 holiday season. The donations, which went to 37 social service organizations mostly in the Twin Cities, are providing toys, clothing, food, and other gifts for families this holiday season. “The holiday season can be hard for those who are less fortunate so we like to help out where we can. We've been blessed, and we're grateful for the opportunity to help others,” said SMSC Chairman Stanley Crooks.
The largest amount given to one organization was $22,000 to the CAP Agency serving Scott, Dakota, and Carver counties. The money will be used for their annual Thanksgiving and Christmas programs for families needing assistance. The CAP Agency is a non-profit organization serving children, families, and senior citizens. The American Indian Family Center of Minneapolis received a Christmas donation. The Department of Indian Work in St. Paul received donations for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Little Earth Community Partnership of Minneapolis received donations for Thanksgiving and for Christmas. The Upper Midwest American Indian Center of Minneapolis received a donation for Christmas. The Dorothy Day Center of Minneapolis received donations for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The Salvation Army of Minneapolis received donations for Thanksgiving and for Christmas. Other organizations located in or near the Twin Cities receiving donations include the Union Gospel Mission, Minnesota Compassion, People Serving People, Ain Dah Yung, All Nations Indian Church, the American Indian Community Development Corporation, American Indian Services, the Division of Indian Work, Elders Lodge, Indian Family Services, Indian Fellowship, Kateri House, Maajii, the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center, St. Joseph's Home for Children, and Women of Nations Eagle Nest Shelter. The SMSC is also supporting a holiday gathering for children at St. Paul's Children's Hospital sponsored by the HHC/MMC 34th Division Support.The SMSC also made holiday donations to organizations in other areas. The Black Hills American Indian Center (Rapid City, South Dakota), St. John's Episcopal Church (Onigum, Minnesota), the Crow Creek Boys and Girls Club (Fort Thompson, South Dakota), Indian Youth of America (Sioux City, Iowa), St. Joseph's Indian School (Chamberlain, South Dakota), Native Hope (Sisseton, South Dakota), the Yankton Sioux Housing Authority (Wagner, South Dakota), Haskell Indian Nations University (Lawrence, Kansas), the St. Labre Indian School (Ashland, Montana), Browns Valley Family Service Center (Browns Valley, Minnesota), and Cass Lake Community Family Service Center (Cass Lake, Minnesota) also received holiday donations.The SMSC will also donate to low-income Native American families living in Scott County. In addition to the financial contributions, SMSC members and staff donate winter clothing to Native American families in the area. They also participated in a Giving Tree Program, which gives presents anonymously to over 100 children and Native American families in need that live in the county.
About the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
The SMSC utilizes its financial resources from gaming and non-gaming enterprises to pay for all of the internal infrastructure of the Tribe, including but not limited to housing, roads, water and sewer systems, emergency services, and essential services to its Tribal members in education, health, and welfare. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, a federally recognized Indian Tribe in Minnesota, is the owner and operator of Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, Playworks, Dakotah! Sport and Fitness, and other enterprises on a reservation south of the Twin Cities.
Paul Rosiers, Phd, Asst. Professor of History, Dept of History, Villanova University, PA
Villanova University Looking for Native Authors
"Dear Native Authors,
I write as the Consulting Series Editor of a new Chelsea House series on Landmark Events in Native American History. Chelsea House publishes books for middle - to high school students. They recently released a series called Contemporary Native American Issues as well as an update of its longstanding series on individual Native American nations. I invite you to consider writing one of the volumes in this new series.
The Chelsea House series are designed to address these students' limited exposure to scholarly work as well as to mediate their sustained exposure to stereotypes produced in popular culture and various media.
If you have an interest in contributing to the series, please send me via email a c.v. and short statement of interest. Please note that while you will be able to address copy-edited manuscripts, you will not be responsible for indexing. Additionally, the publisher finalizes compensation when the manuscript is approved, not when it is published. Many thanks,
and best wishes to all for an enjoyable and peaceful holiday season."
Paul Rosiers, PhD
Volumes in the Series
King Philip's War (assigned)
The Cherokee Removal (but it is about removal more generally)
Black Hawk's War
Battle of Little Bighorn and the Sioux Wars
The Navajos' Long Walk (assigned)
The Apache Wars World War II and American Indians (assigned)
The Wounded Knee Occupation of 1973 (assigned)
Below I list the publisher's terms:
--Compensation: $4,000 for manuscript and photo suggestions
--Length: 25,000 words [roughly 80-85 double-spaced pages] and perhaps 6-8 chapters--which includes 5 to 7 sidebars, but not back matter (bibliography, further reading, notes)
--Schedule: outline and first chapter by May 1, final ms by August 1
Paul C. Rosier, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History
Department of History Villanova University
American Indian Center, Chicago
American Indian Center Publishes "Native Chicago Book"
The American Indian Center is announcing the publication of it's new book "Native Chicago." The book is available exclusively at the American Indian Center of Chicago and costs $20.00. To order copies contact: Joe Podlasek, Executive Director at joep@aic-chicago.org or call: 773-275-5871 ext 16.
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