Sota Volume 44 Issue No. 22
Anpetu Iyamni, May 22, 2013
Inside this Edition –
SWO Veterans to hold flag ceremonies on Memorial Day
Introduction: New Wambdi football coach
Craft fairs held on the Reservation; It must be spring!
Social "helper" column dedicated to young generation Oyate – Wawokiyape
Coming next week: Highlights from Oyate graduation ceremonies
Sota deadline: 12:00 noon on Fridays
On Federal Memorial Day holiday, Monday, May 27th –
SWO UVA to hold flag ceremonies at Lake Traverse Reservation cemeteries, churches and homes
Continuing the tradition of honoring their fallen fellow service members, veterans from the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate United Veterans Association (UVA) – Dessert Storm and Woodrow W. Keeble American Legion Post 314 honor guards – will travel to cemeteries, churches and homes across the Lake Traverse Reservation on the federal Memorial Day holiday, Monday, May 27th.
Here is the schedule, with estimated times and some may be early or late depending upon weather conditions and other factors:
1. LaBelle's Cemetery 8:00 a.m.
2. St. Luke's Cemetery 8:25 a.m.
3. St. Matthew's Cemetery 8:40 a.m.
4. St. Matthew's Church 8:55 a.m.
5. Mayasan Church 9:15 a.m.
6. SWO Traditional Cemetery 9:30 a.m.
7. Long Hollow Church 10:00 a.m.
8. Rollin Ryan House 10:20 a.m.
9. Buffalo Lake Church 10:50 a.m.
10. Gill's Cemetery 11:15 a.m.
11. Sisseton Circle 12:00 noon
12. Lake Traverse Church 12:30 p.m.
13. St. John's Church 12:50 p.m.
14. Morgan Redday Home 1:20 p.m.
15. Goodwill Church 1:45 p.m.
16. St. Mary's Church 2:00 p.m.
17. Renville Cemetery 2:15 p.m.
18. Emmett Roberts Cemetery 2:45 p.m.
19. St. James Church 3:10 p.m.
20. Big Coulee Church 4:00 p.m.
Continuing the honoring, on traditional Memorial Day May 30th –
SWO Dakota Kit Fox Society Vietnam Veterans Organization Memorial Day observance
We will once again in an honorable and humble tradition, be honoring our fellow veterans and Dakota warriors on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30th (Thursday), 2013.
1. LaBelle's Cemetery 8:00 a.m.
2. St. Luke's Cemetery 8:15 a.m.
3. St. Matthew's Cemetery 8:30 a.m.
4. St. Matthew's Church 9:00 a.m.
5. Mayasan Church 9:30 a.m.
6. Sieche Hollow Cemetery 9:45 a.m.
7. Long Hollow Church 10:15 a.m.
8. Rollin Ryan Home 10:45 a.m.
9. Buffalo Lake Church 11:15 a.m.
10. Max/Gill Family Cemetery 11:30 a.m.
11. Oyate Traditional Cemetery 12:00 p.m.
12. Sisseton Veterans Circle 1:00 p.m.
13. Morgan Redday home 1:30 p.m.
14. Goodwill Church 2:00 p.m.
15. St. Mary's Church 2:15 p.m.
16. Renville Cemetery 2:30 p.m.
17. St. James Church 3:00 p.m.
18. Emmett Roberts home 3:30 p.m.
19. Moses Gill Cemetery 4:00 p.m.
20. Big Coulee Church 4:30 p.m.
21. Lake Traverse Church 5:00 p.m.
22. St. John's Church 5:15 p.m.
These are estimated times and some may be early or late depending on climatic conditions and other factors.
"Ehanna Dakota Woyakapi"
Dakotah stories feature column
By Vine T. Marks
****MOTHER EARTHS SPRING DRESS****
Omaka dehantu Unci Maka waniyetu ataya sagsanyeca tawa kaga yake,, nina owangwaste, tka ataya to. Hehan wanna wetu tokahiya hihunica, wahcahca akun ehnake ce.
Hehan iyehantu kinhan, sagsanyeca heipa hetanhan hokutkuya akahpa ce, he ataya akon wadake oyakihi,paha hokutkiya, sagsanyeca ataya wahcahca obe owas akahpe un.
He Unci Maka , waniyetu ihuniya ahtani ka sagsanyeca tawa kage.
Hece iyuskinya yakuyekte, takusica akun ehpeyayekte sni, skayena yahduhekte ,, De maka akun unmaniunyanyankapi, de Unci Maka unkitawapi…
***IESKA***
This is a Cherokee legend as was told by Edna Chekelelee.
This time of year, Our Mother Earth has worked all winter long in making her dress, beautiful dress, but it's green.
'Bout early spring she adds flowers to it.
And whenever she gets ready, she drops her skirt down the mountainside, you can see it across the mountain downhill, all her skirt is full with all the flowers-dogwood flowers, azaleas, and all kinds of flowers.
That's our Mothers skirt,,,that she worked on all winter long. So rejoice in it, and try to keep it clean- This is our Mother Earth that we walk on.
Edna Chekelelee was born in the Snowbird Community in western North Carolina in 1930 and passed away in 1995. She was descended from a famous Cherokee man: Junaluska's brother, Wachacha. Together, in the nineteenth century, they fought with Andrew Jackson at Horseshoe Bend to defeat the Creek nation. Later they helped Cherokee people stay in the Snowbird Community even through Removal and the Trail of Tears.
Edna taught Cherokee language, dances, and arts and crafts to many young people in her community. She sang gospel music with her mother. She loved to cook, and she adopted and fostered many children. She travelled all over the country sharing Cherokee culture with people.
Wanna de wetu heon de woyakapi waste kepce. Dakod owawa wanjikji bdusna kinhan, amacanzepsni, e e omakiyayap kinhan, nina pidaciyapte..
Because it's spring, I thought this was an appropriate story. If I've made mistakes in my translating the story to Dakota, I hope you'll forgive me and help me correct my mistakes.
Tanyan awaniciyapo ka unsiiciyapo.
Mitaoyate, Vine T. Marks, Sr.
PS. sob, imakiyayakapsni…
Lacey Running Hawk graduates from UM Medical School
On May 3rd Lacey Running Hawk, daughter of Ken and Robin Running Hawk and granddaughter of Blanche Heilman and Margaret Bourelle, graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School along with 225 other students. The Commencement Ceremony was held at the State Theatre in Minneapolis where Lacey was presented her Doctor of Medicine degree and the ceremonial Doctoral Hood. Also, during the Ceremony Lacey was recognized for her Leadership, Community Service, and Academic Achievement and for this was awarded the "Medical Student Achievement Award". Lacey plans to practice in Family Medicine and will complete her residency at United Hospital in St. Paul, Mn where she will practice for the next three years.
Social "helper" column dedicated to young generation Oyate –
Wawokiyape
By Sherielle "Shay" DuMarce
1. I was adopted out when I was 11 but before that I was in and out of foster homes because my mother was deemed unfit and always drank. But during that time that I was in the foster care system I endured a lot of abuse and when reported to the proper authorities nothing was done at that time. Now that I'm a grown man do you think that the abuse I endured as a child is the reason I have such anger issues?
From: Adoptee with Issues.
A. I'm sorry about the things you've had to endure as a child. Psychology shows that years of abuse whether it's sexual, emotional or physical can have lasting and devastating effects on an individual. Research I have done shows that almost 70 % of abuse in foster care homes is physical and sexual abuse and is usually committed by the caregiver or another ward in the home/facility. It's sad to say this problem happens but it is a subject that needs to be brought to light and acknowledged. As for your anger, I would say yes it more than likely is the outcome of years of abuse. I've just read an article that stated adults who were abused as children often times show signs of post-traumatic stress disorder not saying that is something you're experiencing but maybe something you would want to look into.
I won't say I have a magic remedy to make your anger subside because healing takes time and every person heals in their own ways whether it's through spirituality, therapy or whatever it may be. But I will say that the choice is yours and only you have the power to say if you're going to let your past keep you in its downward grips or if you're going to break free and move forward. Try focusing the energy it takes to get anger and putting it into something else. I would recommend things like reading, writing, drawing or whatever it is that you're good at doing. But I do hope this sheds some light on this issue as well as give you some positive ideas to redirecting your anger. God bless and good luck!
2. I have an issue with my husband's sisters and his mother. They always seem to interfere in our relationship and his sisters sit perched on his shoulder like little parrots feeding him lies so often that some days he has actually stayed away from home and stayed at his mom's house because they tell him I'm cheating, He deserves better then someone who has kids (ie., I had a child when we started dating), or that I'm just using him. Now I love this man more than anyone could I know but his family doesn't see it that way his mother at times has called me names and said horrible things about me and he doesn't want to defend me against them for fear that they will "disown" him. But I'm at my wits end and can no longer take the humiliation that his mom and sisters inflict with their venomous lies that I'm about ready to pack my bags and leave, we recently just had a child too but that still didn't change their views...
From: Cinderella and the evil in-laws.
A. Dear Cinderella:
As acting fairy godmother, this is my advice to you. Everyone has/had problems with their in-laws at one point or another that's just how marriage works a mother will always think that no woman is good enough for their sons. I know it's hard but you're going to need to sit down and have a talk with him and let him know that YOU'RE his wife and that the relationship is supposed to be about YOU AND HIM not you and him and his sisters/mom. Especially if you two have a child together he is going to need to cut those apron strings and grow up. A man who loves his wife will find a way to compromise with this mother and sisters and let them know that they cannot and should not talk about the mother of his child/wife like they have been. If they can't understand that and respect you like they should then they should keep their distance it's that simple. If something isn't done by him then sooner or later it might come to the conclusion that he will have to choose either you or his mother/sisters. It's a tough choice but its one that he is going to have to make or find a way to fix it before it comes to that. Good luck I've dealt with it myself and my husband chose his family because in his word, " my mom will always be my mother, I love my wife and children and that's were i need to be i cannot and will not lose them." ...Good luck dearie I pray things work out.
3. I get criticized a lot being a teen mom and told I don't know what I'm doing. It hurts a lot especially coming from my mother and grandmother who seem to think it's okay to just emotionally attack me and bring down my self-esteem and then wonder why I'm depressed right now. How can I make them understand that I'm trying my hardest and to make them stop telling me that I'm not a good mom when I work and provide for my baby alone. Please help.
From: Doing My Best.
A. Dear Doing My Best.
I understand what you mean about people criticizing and judging you because you're a teen mom and they think that you don't know what you're doing or you're not doing it how it should be done. I understand your anger, frustration, confusion, and hurt because I was also a teen mom. Sadly, when people see a teen mom they don't see the person, they see a statistic. And it's hard when your "support system" isn't supporting you but rather beating your self-esteem down, it feels like you have no one to turn to or no one who understands you. All you can do is sit them both down and explain to them that this is your life not theirs, it's your child NOT theirs, and YOU have the right to make the decisions in your life because chances are that your mother and grandmother weren't God's gift to parenting. No offense but there is no "Perfect Parent" regardless of what our mothers, aunts and uncles, or grandparents want to say. We all make mistakes but we learn and grow from them. So YOU do what YOU think is right and accept their advice when you feel it's needed not when its thrown at you. Voice your opinion and concerns to your family and if they can't accept it and be supportive then surround you and your child with people who will be supportive... All in all the decision is yours and your life is yours! Always remember this, "No One can make you feel inferior without your consent."- Eleanor Roosevelt.
USDA announces Conservation Reserve Program Sign-Up
Washington, DC – May 14, 2013 – Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack today reminded farmers and ranchers that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will conduct a four-week Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) general sign-up beginning May 20 and ending on June 14. Vilsack also announced the restart of sign-up for continuous CRP, including the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program, State Acres for Wildlife Enhancement Initiative, the Highly Erodible Land Initiative, the Grassland Restoration Initiative, the Pollinator Habitat Initiative and other related initiatives. Sign-up for continuous CRP began on May 13 and will continue through Sept. 30, 2013.
"As always, we expect strong competition to enroll acres into CRP, and we urge interested producers to maximize their environmental benefits and to make cost-effective offers," said Vilsack. "CRP is an important program for protecting environmentally sensitive lands from erosion and sedimentation, and for ensuring the sustainability of our groundwater, lakes, rivers, ponds and streams. Through the voluntary participation of our farmers and ranchers, CRP helps us to protect our natural resources, preserve wildlife habitat and bring good paying jobs to rural America related to hunting, fishing, and outdoor recreation.
Vilsack encouraged producers to look into CRP's other enrollment opportunities offered on a continuous, non-competitive, sign-up basis.
CRP has a 27-year legacy of successfully protecting the nation's natural resources through voluntary participation, while providing significant economic and environmental benefits to rural communities across the United States. Producers enrolled in CRP plant long-term, resource-conserving covers to improve the quality of water, control soil erosion and develop wildlife habitat. In return, USDA provides participants with rental payments and cost-share assistance. Contract duration is between 10 and 15 years. Currently, 27 million acres are enrolled in CRP through 700,000 contracts on 390,000 farms throughout the U.S., with enrollment in 49 states and Puerto Rico. Contracts on an estimated 3.3 million acres will expire on Sept. 30, 2013. Enrollment authority for all types of CRP, which had expired Sept. 30, 2012, was extended through 2013 by the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012.
Offers for general sign-up CRP contracts are ranked according to an Environmental Benefits Index (EBI). USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) collects data for each of the EBI factors based on the relative environmental benefits for the land offered. FSA uses the following factors to assess the environmental benefits for the land offered:
•Wildlife habitat benefits resulting from covers on contract acreage;
•Water quality benefits from reduced erosion, runoff and leaching;
•On-farm benefits from reduced erosion;
•Benefits that will likely endure beyond the contract period;
•Air quality benefits from reduced wind erosion; and
•Cost.
CRP soil rental rates for non-irrigated cropland were updated this year to better reflect location and market conditions. A nationwide cap was placed on the maximum amount that may be paid per acre for the general sign-up. Taken together these steps help ensure that taxpayer dollars are spent in a fiscally responsible manner while producing the maximum environmental benefits for each dollar spent.
CRP is the largest USDA conservation program and continues to make major contributions to national efforts to improve water and air quality, prevent soil erosion, and protect the most sensitive areas including those prone to flash flooding and runoff. At the same time, CRP has helped increase populations of pheasants, quail and ducks and is recognized as benefiting certain rare species like the sage grouse, the lesser prairie chicken and other grassland birds. Highlights of CRP accomplishments include:
The restoration of more than two million acres of wetlands and two million acres of riparian buffers;
•Prevention of more than 600 million pounds of nitrogen and more than 100 million pounds of phosphorous from flowing into our nation's streams, rivers, and lakes.
•Providing $1.8 billion annually to landowners — dollars that make their way into local economies, supporting small businesses and creating jobs; and
•Sequestering more carbon than any other conservation program in the country. By placing vulnerable cropland into conservation, CRP sequesters carbon in plants and soil and reduces both fuel and fertilizer usage. In 2011, CRP resulted in carbon sequestration equal to taking almost 10 million cars off the road.
USDA has made a concerted effort to deliver results for the American people, even as USDA implements sequestration – the across-the-board budget reductions mandated under terms of the Budget Control Act. USDA has already undertaken historic efforts since 2009 to save more than $828 million in taxpayer funds through targeted, common-sense budget reductions. These reductions have put USDA in a better position to carry out its mission, while implementing sequester budget reductions in a fair manner that causes as little disruption as possible.
The Obama Administration, with Secretary Vilsack's leadership, has worked tirelessly to strengthen rural America, maintain a strong farm safety net and create opportunities for America's farmers and ranchers. U.S. agriculture is currently experiencing one of its most productive periods in American history thanks to the productivity, resiliency and resourcefulness of our producers.
For more information on CRP and other FSA programs, visit a local FSA service center or www.fsa.usda.gov.
South Dakota officials miss historic meeting with Tribes
By Laura Sullivan
NPR – May 16, 2013 – Federal officials met with South Dakota's nine Sioux tribes on Wednesday for a historic summit in Rapid City. A year in the making, it was an effort to address long standing concerns over the high number of Native American children the state places in white foster homes. State officials, however, didn't show up for the meeting.
Transcript
DAVID GREENE, HOST:
This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm David Greene.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
And I'm Steve Inskeep.
Federal officials met with South Dakota's nine Sioux tribes yesterday. They were beginning a three-day summit in Rapid City. This meeting has been a year in the making. It's an effort to address long-standing concerns over the high number of Native American children that the state places in non-Native foster homes. Families testified about alleged violations by South Dakota under the Indian Child Welfare Act. There was only one problem: the state didn't show up.
NPR's Laura Sullivan reports.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: (Singing)
LAURA SULLIVAN, BYLINE: The night before the conference started, buses of tribal members from across South Dakota filed in to a hotel banquet room and gathered for a prayer dinner.
No one could remember the last time all nine Sioux tribes came together for such a gathering. Many at the dinner said they were eager to sit down with state officials and solve what they see as a growing problem: The high rate of Native children in white foster homes. The state is facing a federal lawsuit and congressional scrutiny over the issue.
Phyllis Young is a council member with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
PHYLLIS YOUNG: Those children have a right to their grandmothers and extended families.
SULLIVAN: Federal law agrees. The Indian Child Welfare Act says if children have to be removed from their parents, they must be placed with relatives, tribal members or Native American foster homes, except in unusual circumstances. State records show almost nine out of 10 native kids are placed in non-native homes.
(SOUNDBITE OF A DRUMMING)
SULLIVAN: The next morning the summit got underway
(SOUNDBITE OF A DRUMMING)
SULLIVAN: Top officials from Washington took their seats. The secretary of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, officials from the Department of Health and Human Services, staffers from three Members of Congress and two trial attorneys from the Department of Justice's Civil Rights division. But the seats for South Dakota state officials were empty.
Some tribal leaders wondered if maybe they were just late. They began introductions.
CYRIL SCOTT: My name is Cyril Scott. I come from Rosebud, I am the tribal president. What I expect to achieve from this conference is unity, to save our children...
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: ...Crow Creek Sioux Indian Tribe. What I hope to see here as much as answers and solutions (unintelligible) our people, it's time to act...
SULLIVAN: By the time they had finished, it was clear, no one from the state or South Dakota's Department of Social Services was coming. In a statement, the department told NPR that it had not been invited to the conference, and that it had only learned details about it last week.
Kevin Washburn is the assistant secretary of Indian Affairs who came from Washington. He said that is not his recollection.
KEVIN WASHBURN: I spoke with the governor and asked that we - my office asked his office to attend and he wasn't able to be here. And so, we called the chief justice and that they didn't - you know, were not able to attend either. So we reached out at very high levels, to the state, because this is, indeed, a summit. Seemed like we should be reaching the very highest levels of the state and we weren't able to get them to be here.
SULLIVAN: Washburn said that's a problem.
WASHBURN: There's some disagreements between the state and the tribes. And it seems like a dysfunctional relationship that's developed. And it's hard to find the solutions when only the tribes have come to talk.
SULLIVAN: Tribal leaders say they wanted to talk to the state about running their own social service programs. The federal government sends money to states every time they place a child in foster care. Tribal leaders say that money should be given to them, so that they can take care of their own children and ensure they are placed in Indian homes.
The state of North Dakota actually sent several state lawmakers and the state's U.S. attorney, just to sit in. That didn't surprise Terry Yellow Fat, who runs child welfare for Standing Rock Reservation, which straddles both North and South Dakota.
TERRY YELLOW FAT: Oh, I have quite a few cases up there too. But they're more cooperative. They call me immediately, email me and they're right on the phone. But they also really watch themselves, also, where I do not get that from South Dakota.
SULLIVAN: State officials have said in the past that they are working to find more Native foster homes and always try to locate family members first. Tribal and federal officials hope they can hold the state to that promise, even if they don't want to talk about in person.
Laura Sullivan. NPR News. Rapid City.
House votes again to repeal Health Law
By Jeremy W. Peters
New York Times – Washington, DC – May 16, 2013 – One by one, they queued up in the aisles of the House of Representatives, eager for their one minute to unload on President Obama's signature legislative achievement.
For many Republicans, this was one of the major reasons for coming to Washington in the first place. And they were not going to miss their chance — whether it was their 37th time voting to repeal the 2010 health care overhaul, or their first.
"Obamacare is enforced by the I.R.S., probably the most feared federal agency in the United States government," said Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, offering one of the newest and more novel reasons Americans should fear the law. The dreaded Internal Revenue Service, she said, had just been caught targeting people from all walks of life: Christians, friends of Israel, people for less debt and more jobs, to name a few.
"We're all sworn to protect and defend the Constitution, and that's why today we have to end this horrible piece of legislation," Mrs. Bachmann, the repeal act's main sponsor, added.
Other Republicans — 40 of them in all spoke on Thursday — offered fresh explanations for why the law needed repealing, reasons that moved beyond the usual Republican opposition to it.
Representative Luke Messer, a freshman from Indiana, said that he could not possibly sum up in the minute allotted all that was wrong with such a wretched law.
So he stuck with a critique declaring it "the biggest assault on the 40-hour workweek in this country in a generation." Employers, he said, were cutting employees' hours in anticipation of the new policies' costs.
Representative Robert Pittenger of North Carolina, another freshman, said the law was making medical students anxious about what awaits them upon graduation. Some undergraduates, he said, do not want to even go to medical school because of the law. (The Association of American Medical Colleges, however, has reported a steady increase in medical school enrollment every year since 2008.)
Others stuck to more general critiques, like Representative Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who called the law "abominable" and offered a suggestion to his fellow countrymen: "I urge the American people to vote out of office every politician who voted for it."
At the end of more than five hours, Mrs. Bachmann banged the gavel with a satisfied smile. The 37th effort to repeal, defund or otherwise dismantle the law had passed 229 to 195. No Republicans voted against the repeal and two Democrats voted for it. But the bill, which has no chance in the Senate, will go no further.
Note: All Republicans voted to repeal the ACA. That included the only two tribal members in Congress -- Rep. Tom Cole (R-Oklahoma), a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, and Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma), a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. The ACA includes a permanent reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. If it's repealed, tribes would have to ask Congress to renew the law, a process that took 10 years due to objections from Republicans.
Editorials –
Sota guest editorial –
Guatemala Genocide Conviction and a more just vision for American Continent
By Roberto Cintli Rodriguez
Truthout.org – May 16, 2013 – One of Guatemala's most brutal dictators has been found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity. On Friday, Jose Efraín Ríos Montt was sentenced to 80 years in prison in a decision that marks the first time a ruler has been convicted of genocide in his own country. Rios Montt oversaw an extralegal regime in the early 1980s, ordering the killing of 1,771 Ixil Mayans in the name of eradicating a guerilla movement.
Incredibly, Montt's co-defendant, José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez, who served as director of intelligence during the same time period, was acquitted of the same charges. The current president of the nation, President Otto Pérez Molina, has also been implicated in the atrocities, though not charged.
Throughout the duration of the Ríos Montt dictatorship, his regime was the bloodiest on the American continent. Why did the world permit his brutality, and why did it take more than 30 years to successfully prosecute him? His genocidal campaigns, in full view to the world, were committed in real time.
The simple answer is the actions - and inactions - of US President Ronald Reagan, the man who provided cover for every tin-pot dictator on the continent. A better answer is the preeminence of "America," with its mythological foundation and narrative. The best answer is the actions - or rather, inertia - of the citizens of the United States of America. It is we who permitted the atrocities of not simply this dictator, but all the military dictators on the continent during that bloodthirsty era.
The majority of US voters put Reagan in office, not once, but twice ... and then rewarded his imperial reign by subsequently electing his vice president, Papa Bush, into office. And then he got airports, freeways and buildings named after him.
Former Congressman Dennis Kucinich recently called for a truth and reconciliation commission to investigate how the United States got itself into Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan (plus Yemen and Somalia). That would be an important step. However, before it takes place, a commission must be created to examine the US role in Central America, primarily in the 1980s, which resulted in the deaths and disappearances of hundreds of thousands of civilians from Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras. All these wars were financed by US tax dollars. All those ruthless dictators and their leading military officers were trained by the US military. Yet in Reagan-speak, the United States was simply spreading democracy (with heavy weaponry) in Central America - the same goal Bush claimed in launching the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And from a Reagan-based perspective, the hundreds of thousands of Central American victims were little brown people whose lives were irrelevant.
In Ríos Montt, we see the legacy of Reagan's World. During Guatemala's 36-year civil war, which officially ended in 1996, more than 200,000 of its citizens were killed. Tens of thousands more of its citizens were disappeared, brutalized and tortured. Indigenous (Mayan) peoples paid the heaviest price, with entire villages being razed and women routinely subjected to rape as a component of military strategy.
During the time of Ríos Montt and a long line of dictators before and after him, the military engaged in both genocidal and brutal anti-insurgent campaigns that targeted educators, student activists, catechists, religious and union organizers – anyone not in government who was deemed to have leadership qualities or potential, and anyone deemed to be supporting the guerrilla movement.
While each war in Central America was different, a common thread ran through them all: the US penchant for propping up military dictators, supplemented by attempts to reinstall ruthless regimes with virtually the same destructive results. US interventions and US imperialism did not begin in the 1980s, but it was Reagan-speak that turned these genocidal campaigns with resultant massacres into "freedom-loving" ventures. This violent era resulted in mass migrations to the United States in quantities not seen since the time of the Mexican Revolution.
Many of the migrants now spread across the United States are family, friends, and neighbors of the victims of genocide. Many still bear the painful scars of those genocidal years - scars that can never heal. To this day, many hundreds of thousands of survivors live among us, clamoring for justice. Putting Ríos Montt away for a little time will not undo the brutal campaigns of that era.
Taking a cue from Kucinich, perhaps we should begin in this country with a truth and reconciliation commission to examine first the US role in Central America, and then, its role in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
This would be a broad endeavor: to understand the apartheid regime of Guatemala, and to understand the conditions that allowed the cycle of vicious wars in Central America, one would have to probe deeper. One would have to probe the mythology of the very idea of America. When Kucinich made his call, he said we must go back to the original idea of America, because its founders envisioned a nation of human unity. I have a different take: the original idea of America was predicated on genocide, land theft, slavery, divine providence, westward expansion and manifest destiny (imperialism) and the denial of full human rights to everyone except landowning white males.
The original idea of America was predicated on ignorance and denial, falsehoods and myths. That is what made the Iraq War possible. That is what permitted Ríos Montt to operate with impunity. It is what permitted Reagan to view bloodthirsty murderers as "freedom fighters." It is what propelled the Iran-Contra (drugs, missiles and guns) affair.
A recent conference in Phoenix, titled "Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery," examined precisely those myths - the ones that converted invaders into the legal and legitimate populations of "America," while converting the native populations into hunted aliens. It is this doctrine that provides the best explanation for the Guatemalan genocide and for the violence and oppression that have wracked Central America, Mexico and the rest of the continent north and south.
At this conference, the attendees were in agreement that until the doctrine of discovery is dismantled, indigenous peoples will continue to be subjected to apartheid regimes, land theft, desecration of sacred sites, and efforts to eradicate the original cultures, languages and knowledges of this continent. The story of Ríos Montt and Guatemala is but one sliver of the history of the nation, one small sliver of the history of the United States and one tiny sliver of the history of this continent. Until this history is reconciled, any truth commission that doesn't examine the 520 years of invasions will not ferret out the continent's actual genocidal history.
The trial of Ríos Montt has been largely symbolic. In some respects, its symbolism is troubling. Beyond the symbolism, how does one bring justicia, as the Ixil peoples chanted upon Ríos Montt's conviction, to a nation with hundreds of thousands of victims? How does one bring justicia to a continent whose nation-states are founded upon injustice? One trial at a time?
Perhaps another small answer, provided by the attendees of the Phoenix gathering, is by no longer referring to these continents in the Western Hemisphere as "The Americas," but rather as Abya Yala ("Land of Life" or "Land in Blossom," among other translations), the name given to the continents by the Kuna people of Panama long before the arrival of Columbus. Is that too difficult to pronounce? Might it conjure up bothersome memories about the land we are actually standing upon and its original peoples?
(Editor's note: A friend who lives in Guatemala gave personal testimony of some of these atrocities. Military squads [officers trained by the US] breaking into homes of villagers in the middle of the night, killing or taking fathers away from their wives and children – never again to return. Executions so brutal I cannot describe them here – done in public to put fear into the hearts of the indigenous peoples of that country.)
Sota guest editorial –
Monsanto and other GM firms are winning in the US – and Globally
The US State Department has sadly joined the push to distribute GM crops around the world, whether people want them or not
By Wenonah Hauter
(Published on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 by The Guardian.)
If you have a feeling that genetically modified (GM) foods are being forced upon the population by a handful of business interests and vociferously defended by the scientists that work in the agriculture industry or at the research institutions it funds, you might be onto something.
The zeal with which GM proponents evangelize transgenic seeds (and now, transgenic food animals) is so extreme that they are even pouring vast sums of money to defeat popular efforts to simply label GE foods – like the nearly $50m spent to defeat the popular 2012 ballot measure to label GE foods in California, Proposition 37. What's more, it's not just happening in the United States. I am the head of Food & Water Watch, and we have spent months looking at the extent to which the US State Department is working on behalf of the GM seed industry to make sure that biotech crops are served up abroad whether the world wants them or not.
Our report analyzes over 900 State Department diplomatic cables from 2005 to 2009 and reveals how far the US government will go to help serve the seed industry's agenda abroad, knowing that resistance to GMOs worldwide is high.
Here are some of the tidbits gleaned from our comprehensive look at the cables: •Between 2007 and 2009, annual cables were distributed to "encourage the use of agricultural biotechnology", directing US embassies to "pursue an active biotech agenda".
•There was a comprehensive communications campaign aimed to "promote understanding and acceptance of the technology" and "develop support for US government trade and development policy positions on biotech" in light of the worldwide backlash against GM crops.
•Where backlash was high, some embassies downplayed efforts. In Uruguay, the embassy has been "extremely cautious to keep [its] fingerprints off conferences" promoting biotechnology. In Peru and Romania, the US government helped create new pro-biotech nongovernmental organizations.
•The State Department urged embassies to generate positive media coverage about GE crops. Diplomatic posts also bypassed the media and took the message directly to the public; for example, the Hong Kong consulate sent DVDs of a pro-biotech presentation to every high school.
•The State Department worked to diminish trade barriers to the benefit of seed companies, and encouraged the embassies to "publicize the benefits of agbiotech as a development tool".
Monsanto was a great beneficiary of the State Department's taxpayer-funded diplomacy, helping pave the way for the cultivation of its seeds abroad: the company appeared in 6.1% of the biotech cables analyzed between 2005 and 2009 from 21 countries. The embassy in South Africa even informed Monsanto and Pioneer about two recently vacated positions in the agency that provided biotech oversight, suggesting that the companies advance "qualified applicants" to fill the position. Some embassies even attempted to facilitate favorable outcomes for intellectual property law and patent issues that would benefit the company.
The cables also show extensive lobbying against in-country efforts to require labeling of GM foods. In 2008, the Hong Kong consulate "played a key role" in convincing regulators to abandon a proposed mandatory labeling requirement. One in eight cables from 42 nations between 2005 and 2009 addressed biotech-labeling requirements.
What's more, the US government is now quietly negotiating major trade deals with Europe and the countries of the Pacific Rim that would force countries to accept biotech imports, commercialize biotech crops and prevent the labeling of GM foods.
The vast influence that Monsanto and the biotech seed industry have on our foreign affairs is just one tentacle of a beast comprised by a handful of huge corporations who wield enormous power over most food policy in the United States.
It's no accident that we're here: a farm policy of "get big or get out" that has been going on for decades has only benefited big companies that are becoming more and more consolidated. They wield unprecedented power over the market, at times putting small and midsized farmers out of business and favoring factory farms and the cultivation of GM commodities that fuel them – GM corn and soy, which are also the cornerstone of junk foods produced and sold worldwide.
Thanks, Monsanto. And thanks, State Department. Not only are you selling seeds, you're selling out democracy.
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Wenonah Hauter is the executive director of the consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch. She has worked extensively on energy, food, water and environmental issues at the national, state and local level. Experienced in developing policy positions and legislative strategies, she is also a skilled and accomplished organizer, having lobbied and developed grassroots field strategy and action plans.
(Editor's note: Besides standing up to exploitive mining of earth resources interests, indigenous groups are also lobbying against genetically modified seeds which threaten their traditional/safe food supplies.)
Sota guest editorial –
Food, Farms, Forests, and Fracking: Connecting the Dots
By Ronnie Cummins and Zack Kaldveer
(Published on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 by Common Dreams.)
If ever there was a time for activist networks and the body politic to cooperate and unite forces, it's now. Global warming, driven in large part by the reckless business-as-usual practices of multi-billion-dollar fossil fuel and agribusiness corporations, has brought us to the brink of a global calamity.
Greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution in the atmosphere has now reached 400 ppm of carbon dioxide (CO2), the highest level since our hunter and gatherer ancestors evolved 200,000 years ago. We are now facing, even though millions are still in denial, the most serious existential threat that humans have ever encountered. Through ignorance and greed, through unsustainable land use and abuse, through reckless deforestation, through unsustainable food, farming and ranching practices, and through overconsumption of fossil fuels, we have overloaded the atmosphere with dangerous levels of greenhouse gases: CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, and black soot.
If we look back 150 years, before the advent of modern energy-intensive agriculture, the industrial revolution, desertification and massive deforestation, there was once twice as much carbon matter or CO2 sequestered in the soil as there is right now. So where is this carbon that used to be in our soils, forests, farmlands, grasslands and wetlands? An alarming amount of GHG is up in our atmosphere right now, heating up the planet, melting the polar icecaps, and disrupting the traditional climate patterns that have enabled modern agricultural (post hunter-gatherer) civilizations to raise food, obtain water, and survive over the past 10,000 years.
Besides overloading the atmosphere, a dangerous portion of this GHG pollution has supersaturated the oceans, causing elevated temperatures and acidity to kill off coral reefs and plankton, in effect undermining the entire web of marine life. Scientists warn that these continued business-as-usual practices will, once atmospheric GHG pollution rises to 450 ppm and above, detonate runaway global warming and literally exterminate most life on earth.
So why is there 50-80 percent less carbon naturally sequestered in the plants, trees and soil relative to 150 years ago? Why are levels of methane (50-100 times more damaging per unit than CO2) and nitrous oxide (200 times more climate-disrupting per unit than CO2) steadily increasing? For starters, farmers and corporate agribusiness have ploughed up billions of acres of prairies and rangelands, destroying the deep-rooted perennial prairie grasses that sequestered billions of tons of greenhouse gases. In addition, in North America, European settlers slaughtered the vast herds of buffalo, 60 million animals, whose traditional migratory "mob" grazing preserved and maintained the perennial grasses. "Modern" agriculurists planted vast monocrops of grain and cotton, most often leaving the land completely bare between harvests. We drained the natural wetlands. Starting after the Second World War and accelerating ever since, we have allowed farmers to pour billions of tons of chemical fertilizer (the major source of nitrous oxide pollution) and pesticides on the soil, killing its natural capacity to stimulate plant growth and sequester carbon. Last but not least, we have allowed giant timber companies and now agribusiness multinationals to whack down a large portion of the world's forests, especially the tropical rainforests, the lungs of the planet.
A continuation of industrial farming, ranching and forestry practices is a recipe for disaster, not only for humans but for every living organism. It's not just the coal plants heating up the planet and creating climate chaos. It's not just the gas-guzzling cars. It's not just our poorly designed and badly insulated buildings and our overuse of heating systems, electrical appliances and air conditioning. Severe climate change is a direct result of what we eat every day and how we farm and confine and feed farm animals. We've got to get back to the traditional ways of organic farming, ranching, animal husbandry, cooking, and eating, and launch a global crash program of reforestation if want not just our children and grandchildren, but our species to survive.
Powerful, potentially world-changing grassroots movements are still for the most part working separately. If we want to solve the climate crisis, anti-GMO consumers, anti-fracking forces, the climate movement, alternative food and farming activists, animal welfare advocates, forest, wildlife and marine life conservationists, and the natural health community must connect the dots between our related issues. We must unite and create a powerful synergy between our public education and campaign efforts. Before it's too late.
Time is short. The stakes are sky high.
Scientists warn that if we don't rapidly make the transition to renewable energy, drastically limit the burning of fossil fuels, halt deforestation, and begin to naturally sequester carbon by ending our industrial farming system and shifting to a sustainable, organic alternative, we and our children and grandchildren will be forced to endure the catastrophic consequences of a 7- to 11-degree Fahrenheit rise in temperature by the end of the century.
If we fail to heed scientific research and continue to ignore the chaotic weather right in front of our eyes, we can expect permanent dust bowl conditions over the southwestern U.S., parts of the Great Plains and in heavily populated farming regions around the world. The oceans will rise by one foot by the year 2050, by 4 - 6 feet by 2100 and an additional 6 to 12 inches or more each decade, destroying our coast lines and coastal communities. The Earth will experience massive species extinction on land and sea, resulting in a 50-percent loss of biodiversity. Weather patterns will shift dramatically. We've already been hit by extreme weather events, events whose worst impacts, scientists say, will be "largely irreversible" for at least a thousand years.
It's not just a fossil fuel problem.
Industrial agribusiness and hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," separately and combined, play an even greater role in climate change than the overconsumption of fossil fuels.
Factory Farms, also called Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), are responsible for up to 51 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, more than the entire global transportation industry. Some scientists have labeled these factory farms "mini Chernobyls" for the way they pollute our air, soil, ground and surface water.
To feed the millions of tortured animals confined in CAFOs, the biotech industry supplies industrial farms with genetically engineered corn, soy, canola and cottonseed, crops that farmers douse with toxic herbicides and pesticides. This chemical-intensive, GMO industrial-model farming system threatens human health, the environment, and the livelihood of small farmers around the world. It also destroys the soil's natural ability to sequester carbon, because of massive amounts of fossil fuels used on industrial farms and the billions of pounds of climate-disrupting chemical fertilizers and pesticides dumped on these farms.
The petroleum industry's answer to reducing fossil fuel use, whether on industrial farms, on highways, or to cool or heat energy-inefficient buildings, is to sell us on its latest reckless scheme: hydraulic fracturing, better known as "fracking." Fracking involves injecting massive amounts of water, sand and hundreds of highly toxic chemicals a mile deep into the ground to fracture shale rock in order to extract oil and gas. Companies like Chevron, Exxon-Mobil, Halliburton, and BP claim this process represents a "bridge to a clean energy future." But independent scientists and informed citizens recognize extreme energy extraction for what it is: a superhighway to environmental and climate catastrophe.
Natural gas and oil development is already the second-largest contributor to greenhouse gas pollution in the U.S. The climate change footprint of natural gas, once the extraction process and the resulting methane (a greenhouse gas that is up to 105 times more powerful at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide) is factored in, is worse than coal. And, according to the U.S. Energy and Information Administration, if we pursue natural gas as a central component of our energy portfolio as planned, we'll suffer an increase in temperature of approximately 7 degrees Fahrenheit by 2060 (a shocking 660 CO2 ppm).
Many movements. One voice
The climate change movement is growing louder and stronger every day. But slashing fossil fuel use can't be our only solution to the impending climate calamity. And the climate movement can't be the lone voice for calling for change.
Fortunately, it doesn't have to be. Resistance to our out-of-control food and farming system has spawned an increasingly powerful and sophisticated alternative food and farming movement. Millions of Americans are demanding and purchasing healthy sustainable foods and are turning away from GMOs, factory farmed and highly processed foods, demanding truthful labels and a ban on harmful practices. Poll after poll show as many as 90 percent of Americans support labeling foods with GE ingredients. Some cities and counties are banning GE crops altogether. Consumers in dozens of states, through ballot initiatives or state legislation, are seeking to label foods containing GMOs. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has received over a million comments, the most ever submitted on one issue, from citizens demanding labels on GMOs.
Similarly, a powerful grassroots movement has sprung up around resistance to fracking. The movement has successfully banned fracking in Vermont and Quebec, and won temporary moratoriums in New York and New Jersey. Other states, including California, have proposed bans or moratoriums, as have cities and counties in Colorado, Oregon and other states. At last count, nearly 350 U.S. counties and cities had implemented moratoriums or outright bans.
Rethinking the solutions
We need to mobilize consciousness and action on multiple fronts to avert runaway global warming. These fronts include:
– Massive reductions (90 percent) in fossil fuel use over the next 20-30 years, not only in transportation, utilities, housing and industry, but most importantly in our food and farming sector. We must phase out GMOs, factory farms, chemical- and energy- intensive food production, processing, transportation and waste, and make the Great Transition to an organic, relocalized, humane and sustainable system of food and farming.
– Massive energy conservation through the retrofitting of buildings, transportation, utilities and industry, in order to make the transition to renewable forms of energy.
– Massive natural sequestration of excess CO2 (50-100 ppm of CO2 over next 50 years) through global reforestation, organic and no-till farm practices on cropland, and holistic grazing (carbon ranching) of animals on pastureland and grasslands.
– Bans on fracking, nuclear power, coal plants, deepwater oil exploration and other extreme energy extraction methods.
New studies indicate that organic crop cultivation and holistic rotational grazing of animals on perennial pastures dramatically increase the amount of organic carbon material in the soil. By abandoning industrial crop production, GMOs and factory farms in favor of organic and holistic farming and ranching we can accelerate plant photosynthesis on a global scale, reversing desertification and literally drawing down billions of tons of excess greenhouse CO2 out of the atmosphere. As the world's 3.5 billion acres of cropland and 8.3 billion acres of pasture and rangelands are transitioned to no-till organic farming and carbon ranching, we will be able to sequester anywhere from 1,000-7,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per acre per year, enough to restabilize the climate if we simultaneously embark on a program of global reforestation, energy conservation and conversion to renewable forms of energy. At the same time we must regenerate the 5 billion acres of forest that have been destroyed over the past 150 years.
By abolishing factory farms and industrial and GE crop cultivation, and making the Great Transition to traditional rotational "carbon" ranching and organic farming we can potentially sequester almost 100 percent of excess greenhouse gas emissions, and help bring the CO2 level back down to the safe level of 350 ppm.
The task at hand is daunting, but absolutely necessary. We need to jump start our 21st century revolution in consciousness, coalition building and action. Now. This doesn't mean we have to give up on all of our daily responsibilities and our primary passions. But it does mean that we must all, or at least a critical mass of us, immediately connect the dots between climate-friendly food, energy, transportation, forestry, media, public education, public policy, and politics. We must harmonize our discourse, broaden our alliances and bring together the myriad currents of a U.S. and global movement for survival and revival into an unstoppable force.
Starting today, not next year, we've all got to become climate hawks, forest protectors, anti-fracking activists, proponents of healthy and climate-friendly organic farming and ranching, and democracy activists, to break up corporate control over the marketplace and over our elections, media and public policy. Starting today we must move together to save our climate, our civilization and Mother Earth.
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Ronnie Cummins is a veteran activist, author, and organizer. He is the International Director of the Organic Consumers Association and its Mexico affiliate, Via Organica. http://www.organicconsumers.org; http://www.viaorganica.org
Brief editorial comments from the editor's desk –
On and Off the Lake Traverse Reservation
Congratulations to all our Oyate graduates – from the youngest pre-schoolers in Head Start to our high school and college grads!
While we may be reminded in the "news" all too frequently of the evils in society, it gives us great hope to look at our young ones. Here is the hope for restoration of the hoop, for a future where our people "are still here" and living in pride and in harmony with the Creator and Mother Nature.
Uh oh. Just looking through rose-colored glasses?
No. Just walking outdoors this morning and looking up and around at the four directions and realizing what a wonderful day has been created for us. A day of possibilities. A day filled with wonder. A day filled with hope.
This is our choice to make.
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A solution for the world's food shortage?
We were intrigued by a recent report that suggests a healthy, wholesome food supply common in some parts of the world but not in America:
Bugs. Yes, insects.
An environmentally friendly, healthy food source might be lurking in your backyard right now.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) issued a report on Monday, May 13, 2013 – Edible insects: Future prospects for food and feed security," describing how insects are an untapped resource for food.
They're healthy, environmentally friendly—in contrast to greenhouse gas-emitting livestock operations—and insect rearing can provide economic benefits to a wide range of people because of the small capital investment needed.
Two billion people in the world are already eating insects as part of their traditional diets, the FAO says, with beetles being the most consumed insect followed by caterpillars.
"Insects are pretty much untapped for their potential for food, and especially for feed," said Eva Muller, Director of FAO's Forest Economic Policy and Products Division, and report co-author.
But how to battle "the disgusting factor," especially in Western societies?
The report says that education is key to bring about public awareness of insects as a viable and tasty food source.
Also, "The case needs to be made to consumers that eating insects is not only good for their health, it is good for the planet," the report's authors write.
What may be yummy in Thailand may not seem yummy for the American tummy!
Remembering back to my old days of traveling around the world, some meals prepared by friends in Asia and Europe tasted mighty good. Even though some of the ingredients certainly couldn't have come from US supermarkets!
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We are privileged to share a column from a longtime koda Wambdi Waste Win, Angelique Eaglewoman.
Readers may see her blog at the following url:
http://lifecoacheaglewoman.weebly.com/.
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Here is a quotation we selected for this week's "Words to consider," but decided it was worth a comment from your editor.
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. James Reston (1909 - ), New York Times, June 12 1968
Without delving into the meaning of "foreign" from the perspective of our indigenous peoples, here is the comment we want to tack onto this statement.
Simply because a foreign (sovereign) people won't always conform to our (US) political and economic superpower's will, there is not much cause for consternation. As long as "we" have the CIA and black ops teams ready and willing to go anywhere to destabilize and redirect a "foreign" state, why worry?
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Words to consider (or, perhaps not!):
I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them. George Bush (1924 - )
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth! Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were. John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
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Obituaries –
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Open letter to the Oyate
Monday, May 13, 2013
Dear fellow South Dakotan,
I want Rick Weiland to be our next United States Senator for two simple reasons -- because of who he is and what he stands for.
I've known the Weiland family from Madison for over four decades. I've watched Rick grow up and get married to a wonderful woman. I've watched Stacy and Rick raise five terrific children and start two successful small businesses. I've seen him move up from handing out bumper stickers for my first campaign to directing a $50 million dollar national trade association, with lots of very challenging stops in between.
Today Rick Weiland is a capable and accomplished man, fully qualified to give our state a strong, hard-working voice in the United States Senate.
But what stands out most to me about this man is not how he changed as he became successful, but rather how he has not changed.
The Rick Weiland I met as a student and the Rick Weiland I know today are one and the same, committed to a fair shake for ordinary folks and fiercely opposed to the hostile takeover of our government by powerful special interests.
That's why I will be supporting Rick Weiland. Not because he is my friend, but because he is a friend of the things I fought for my entire time in Congress, the things Tim Johnson is still fighting for, and the things all three of us deeply believe will help the ordinary people of South Dakota.
As you and I know painfully well, though, that fight is a hard one. Rick cannot possibly win it without our help. So please, join me in becoming an early supporter of his campaign by clicking on this link and joining the most important campaign South Dakota progressives will wage in a generation.
Rick Weiland will fight with the President to preserve our hard won access to health insurance regardless of pre-existing conditions. He stands with small business and ordinary South Dakota families in our fight to take government back from millionaire political donors and huge special interests. And he is a lifetime fighter for a woman's right to choose, and for equal opportunity and equal pay in the workplace.
I also know that Rick will be a candidate with the passion, the energy and the drive to take on the establishment and demonstrate to people that we really can take government back from Tea Party extremists.
Please take a stand with Rick and me today by accessing this link and making an investment in a truly, progressive campaign. It is our government and together we can take it back.
I spoke with Rick this morning about Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin's decision not to run for the United States Senate. He told me, and he is right, that her decision puts an even heavier burden on him to be a strong, effective voice for our state, and our values, in the Senate election next year.
Rick Weiland can be that voice. He is going to win that race the same way Tim Johnson and George McGovern won theirs, the same way Jim Abourezk Dick Kneip, Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin and I did, with hard work, high energy, no apology for our true convictions, and by giving voice to the hopes and dreams of ordinary South Dakotans.
I am going to do everything I can to help Rick. I hope you will too.
Your friend, Tom Daschle.
Open letter to the Oyate
(Subject: Young Native Students Need our Help.)
I send Greetings to Tribal Leaders and Members from the ROSEBUD.
I am not sure how many people are aware of what is happening at the High School in Chamberlain SD so I will give everyone a heads up. The High School Student Body that consisted of Native and Non-Native Students wanted to have a Lakota Honor song for the Graduating students. This was also supported by the High School Principle and teachers. Needless to say the school board waited until the last minute to deny the request. Then the Superintendent Dr. Deb Johnson issues a gag order to all the staff denying their right to speak out against the School Board decision. Also instead of opposing the school board she supports them.
Bret Healy a consultant for Four Directions who is a alumni of the Chamberlain High School is ashamed of the actions of the School Board and the Superintendent. Bret has joined forces with Chairman Sazue of the Crow Creek Tribe in supporting the students. Bret on behalf of Chairman Sazue has contacted Wells Fargo and demanded they support the students, he has also met with the superintendent twice and at the last meeting requested she meet with the Crow Creek Tribal Council and to left her gag order on the staff.
Let's help these brave young people, please take the time and email Dr. Debra Johnson at deb.johnson@k12.sd.us. Let her know not only the people in South Dakota support the students but everyone throughout the United States supports the students having an honoring song for those graduating. Let's not stand idly by and let the youth fight this alone.
Pila maya pelo.
OJ Semans Sr.
Weekly Eaglewoman insights –
Rolling with the changes!
05/11/2013
Greetings, dear friend! There are many changes I have been seeing in my life recently. Change can be unsettling at times. With people who you are familiar with going on to other places or friends departing for new adventures or relatives moving across the country. Sometimes it is hard to put into words the feeling of loss and transition. I had that experience recently when I was called on to say a few words at a reception as someone was moving on to another position. My voice quavered as I spoke from the heart on how this person would be missed, the contributions he made, and the thankfulness I felt from his inspiring example. While I knew he was going to an important position and was happy for him, I also knew that there was a sense of loss with his leaving. It's okay to feel more than one emotion about an event. Happy/sad can be intermingled in our feelings as complex human beings.
Life is like that. Something ends to allow something new to begin. Being in touch with your emotions is a good way to be in order to express all you feel. When you don't deal with your emotions, they will jump out at random places to be expressed. All of a sudden you may find yourself sobbing uncontrollably when emotions have been kept down for a long time. Or you may start laughing and have a hard time stopping because your feelings need to be released and once started they go full on. The most destructive is when you have unresolved anger and let that explode over a simple little thing - this can deeply injure whoever is on the receiving end, so it is always best to deal with hurt, pain, and anger in constructive ways rather than to allow them to build to a critical point of boiling over.
How do you constructively deal with emotions? You express them. You can talk it over with a good friend, on paper with yourself, or, for the really hard ones, in counseling sessions. Taking a few deep breaths and checking in with yourself on how you are feeling is a great habit. When you feel stress building, this is a good time to check in with yourself and get in the habit of knowing what emotion you are feeling. Being honest with yourself is a must. In professional settings, you are best served by being calm in almost every situation. Once a meeting is over or you have time in your work day, then you can check in with yourself, journal or set up time to visit with a friend. Of course, no friend wants to be on the receiving end of a vent session every day. Each of us is responsible for clearing up the feelings we have had over the day and releasing negativity. Family, friends and co-workers will definitely benefit from a person's renewed start the next day with a positive view after letting go of the previous day's stresses. For the really big issues, counseling is the best route and has been very helpful in my own life when dealing with death, divorce, and family relationships.
This seems to be a big change season in my life. I am looking forward with hope that new and better things are developing on the horizon. I am honestly letting my voice quaver when I feel loss and also recognizing my happiness for those who are moving on to bigger and better opportunities. One of my favorite songs that reminds me of the cycle of change that happens all of the time in life is the Steve Winwood song - Roll With It.
Good thought for the week: I am in touch with my feelings and the changes in my life are leading to a better future. May you have a wonderful week and check in for next week's post.
Toksa ake (See you again), dear friend!
Poems from the pen of Elden Hayes
Disgraced
The lungs are filled with yesterday
the heart still remembers the sorrow,
today hangs on to the pain
the mind only dreams of tomorrow.
Skeletons hang in every closet
fear constantly tightens the noose,
Satan has a grip on us
it's so strong we could not get loose.
Rumors mingle among the memories
but the truth is something that's not faced,
the ugly events of reality
is ignorance that brings disgrace.
Reasons are lost in the liquor
and dying is not on the agenda,
there are events that are hidden
something we don't want to remember.
Lost in the pool of forever
we always drink of temptation's well,
empty foot print that leads astray
and we will follow them into hell.
03/23/13
Lifestyles
Life leads us down different roads
each of us has a path to travel
for some the journey is smooth and calm
for others the road is gravel
we can't say when lifestyles begin
or if the choices are made for us
whether there is outside influence
maybe someone close in whom we trust
stigma is a heavy yoke to carry
sometimes taking more than we can give
and it's a sad time in life
when death comes because of how we've lived
the world can be a magical place
a safety net that catches your fears
and you go through life undaunted
with someone there who will dry your tears
in some cases there is a different fate
and all we see is the negative
life can be a sad situation
when death comes because of how we've lived.
5-10-13
New campaign to help parents talk to younger children about the dangers of underage drinking
"Talk. They Hear You." a new national public service announcement (PSA) campaign that empowers parents to talk to children as young as nine years old about the dangers of underage drinking was launched today by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The kickoff occurred in conjunction with SAMHSA's 2013 National Prevention Week—an annual health observance dedicated to increasing awareness of, and action around, substance abuse and mental health issues.
SAMHSA's latest report on underage drinking shows that more than a quarter of American youth engage in underage drinking. Although there has been progress in reducing the extent of underage drinking in recent years, particularly among those aged 17 and younger, the rates of underage drinking are still unacceptably high.
"Talk. They Hear You." raises parents' awareness about these issues and arms them with information they need to help them start a conversation about alcohol with their children before their children become teenagers.
"These young people are our future leaders—our future teachers, mayors, doctors, parents, and entertainers," said SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. Hyde. "As our youth and young adults face challenges, we as a community, need to effectively communicate with them in every way possible about the risks of underage drinking so that they have the necessary tools to make healthy and informed choices.
"Talk. They Hear You." features a series of TV, radio, and print PSAs in English and Spanish launching today. The PSAs show parents "seizing the moment" to talk with their children about alcohol such as while preparing dinner or doing chores together. By modeling behaviors through these PSAs, parents can see the many "natural" opportunities for initiating the conversation about alcohol with their children.
The strength of "Talk. They Hear You." is in its diverse network of campaign partners that will help implement the campaign in local communities across the country.
Visit www.underagedrinking.samhsa.gov for more tips and information.
For more information about SAMHSA visit: http://www.samhsa.gov/.
National Women's Health Week observance
Washington, DC – May 10, 2013 – Starting with Mother's Day, next week we celebrate National Women's Health Week. As a nation, we honor the women in our lives – our mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, cousins, friends, and colleagues – by encouraging them to make their health a priority and to take steps to live healthier, happier lives.
Women are frequently the health care decision-makers in their families. We take time off from work to drive a parent to the doctor. We hold our children's hands while they get their vaccinations. We make the appointments for our spouses' checkups – and then make sure they actually go. We stretch and re-work our family budgets to pay the doctor's bills. And too often, we put our own health last.
But the truth is unless we take care of ourselves first, we cannot really take care of our families. That means we have to eat right, exercise, and get the care we need to stay healthy. Unfortunately, preventive care has not always been easily accessible or affordable for everyone, including young women.
But the health care law is helping to usher in a new day for women's health. The Affordable Care Act is making it easier for women to take control of their own health. For many women, preventive services like mammograms, Pap smears, birth control, and yearly well-woman visits are now available without cost sharing. The health care law improves women's access to appropriate preventive health screenings, which can help detect diseases early, when treatment is most effective and least costly.
Starting next year, insurance companies will no longer be allowed to refuse us coverage just because we're battling breast cancer or have another pre-existing condition – and they won't be allowed to charge us more just because we are women.
If you're one of the millions of women who are uninsured or who buy insurance on their own, more options are on the way because of the Affordable Care Act. Starting October 1, 2013, you will be able to visit a new Health Insurance Marketplace where you can compare and choose from a range of plans to find one that best fits your needs and budget. All of these plans must cover a package of essential health benefits, including maternity and newborn care.
To get more information about the Marketplace and to sign up for email and text updates to get ready for October, visit HealthCare.gov.
Being healthy starts with each of us taking control. So Monday on National Women's Checkup Day, and during National Women's Health Week, I encourage you to sit down with your doctor or health care provider and talk about what you can do to take control of your health.
There's no better gift you can give yourself – or your loved ones.
• Learn more about National Women's Health Week and find a health week event in your community.
• Follow #NWHW on Twitter
• For more information on how the health care law is addressing women's unique health needs, visit http://www.womenshealth.gov/NWHW/activity-planning/NWHW-Infographic-508.pdf
The Prairie Doc Perspective
Scratching is the culprit
By Richard P. Holm M.D.
It was a hot summer, many years ago, and the red-faced toddler was screaming bloody-murder. She was in to see the pediatrician I was following because of an intense rash occurring on her forearms, neck, and around her eyes. It was making the child miserable and appeared to be only worsened by her incessant scratching. I remember my teacher saying the words "eczema" and "atopic dermatitis," as I looked on at that uncomfortable child and sympathetically suffering mother.
The term eczema is from the Greek "to boil over," and generally is a broad term to describe a dry, scaly, itchy, and red skin inflammation or dermatitis, the cause of which is often undefined.
When eczema a broader term is more specifically called atopic dermatitis it usually starts in children under five and is something with which they will suffer all their lives. It is an allergy-type condition, which runs in families, often affects those troubled with asthma or hay fever, and can break-out over the wrists, in front of the elbows, around the eyes, on the neck, behind the knees, and on the ankles.
Whether or not an allergy is identified, the primary cause of the rash lies with skin protein defects leading to dry skin, an itch, and then scratching. This results in inflammation, cracks in the skin, invasion of bacterial or fungal infection, more inflammation, which in turn intensifies the itching, causes more scratching, and thus a vicious cycle.
Too often people worsen the inflammation with excessive scrubbing and cleansing, too-hot water, harsh soaps, and rubbing alcohol; or with creams and salves saturated with allergy triggering perfumes and chemicals.
The treatment starts with cutting fingernails and providing something to control the itch; avoiding any trauma, perfumes, or toxins; gentle cleansing without soap or by using a body wash; turning off the inflammatory cycle with topical steroid creams or ointments and/or oral steroids; and after the shower capturing the moisture while restoring and protecting the skin with a barrier such as a ceramide cream (e.g. CeraVe.) Once the rash is controlled, allergy testing might be considered.
Those years ago that red-faced toddler with atopic dermatitis was provided a similar treatment that proved very helpful. I remember when we saw the child back a few days later how the rash was almost gone, and how the child AND the mother were so relieved!
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Dr. Rick Holm wrote this Prairie Doc Perspective for "On Call®," a weekly program where medical professionals discuss health concerns for the general public. "On Call®" is produced by the Healing Words Foundation in association with the South Dakota State University Journalism Department. "On Call®" airs Thursdays on South Dakota Public Broadcasting-Television at 7 p.m. Central, 6 p.m. Mountain. Visit us at OnCallTelevision.com.
Ripple Effect -
Severe Weather Ahead: Are You Ready?
It doesn't take long in the Red River basin to transition from the annual threat of spring flooding by melting snows to a range of severe weather brought on by warmer temperatures.
We are all too familiar with these severe summer weather events. Some, such as tornadoes or flash floods, can come on quickly. Others might be lingering events such as heat waves or droughts. They might be regular events such as thunderstorms with their lightning—and sometimes hail. Or they can be more sporadic, such as fires in the basin's grasslands or forests. And we can't forget the winds accompanying many of the above.
Some years in the Northern Plains bring 'normal' numbers of such severe weather events. Other years can bring exceptional numbers of such events, such as Minnesota's 104 tornadoes in 2010, when its yearly average for tornadoes is 40.
Whatever the severe weather, it takes awareness and advance planning, together with warning systems, to help protect property and lives. For this reason, states and provinces attempt to have advance warning systems in place for their citizens. They also try to promote knowledge of severe weather so that citizens can respond in best ways.
As an example, Manitoba maintains an information website which includes current conditions and forecasts, together with ways to recognize and prepare for a variety of severe weather threats (see www.gov.mb.ca/severeweather) . A special link to Manitoba's provincial parks provides suggestions for protecting yourself when outdoors.
In the US, the National Weather Service (NWS) holds a Severe Weather Preparedness Week each March. Following this event, states, including Minnesota and North Dakota, organize their own severe weather awareness weeks (the calendar by state can be found at www.nws.noaa.gov/om/severeweather/severewxcal.shtml). ; Typically the week includes siren activation and testing together with building public awareness.
Many states also maintain severe weather websites. The current Minnesota site contains information on an experimental NWS warning enhancement program, Impact Based Warnings, being launched this season in its Central Region (see dps.mn.gov/divisions/hsem/weather-awareness-preparedness).
Wherever we live in the Red River basin, we will experience severe weather events. Although some events, such as heat waves or droughts, can develop gradually, other severe weather events can come on quickly. As the Manitoba website puts it, "thunder, lightning, hail and even tornadoes can develop quickly. . . . That's why it is important that you understand the risks created by severe summer weather and how you can protect yourself—weather or not."
Temperatures are shooting up. Are you ready?
For more information, go to the www.redriverbasincommission.org.
Until the next Ripple Effect, The Red River Basin Commission (RRBC).
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The RRBC is a grassroots organization that is a chartered not-for-profit corporation under the provisions of Manitoba, North Dakota, Minnesota, and South Dakota law. Our offices in Moorhead, MN and Winnipeg, MB can be reached at 218-291-0422 and 204-982-7250, or you can check out our website at www.redriverbasincommission.org.
Youth, school activities highlights –
Education watch on the Lake Traverse Reservation
Open letter –
TZ Football Introduction: Blair Elliott
My name is Blair Elliott and I would like to introduce myself as the new head football coach for Tiospa Zina. I wanted to take this opportunity to first thank the School Board for the opportunity to lead this team. I would also like to give a little background information about myself as a player and coach, as well as a general idea of where I'd like to take our program. The football team has already been making several changes in preparation for next season, and I am very excited to see what we can accomplish.
As a player, I have had experience being on championship teams at both the high school level and college levels. I received many individual awards as well, including Most Improved, All Conference, Academic All Conference, Team Captain, and others. I was also involved with the program off of the field, running captain's practices, work outs, and being heavily involved in the recruiting process.
As a coach, I have worked on the UMM football team as the linebacker coach, and here at Tiospa Zina as the defensive coordinator. Since the end of last season, I have worked to help bring several changes to the football program, including running the school's weight room, helping to push us to eleven man football, and working on funding to improve our weight room. These are all steps that are necessary if we want to see our performance improve.
I want to help develop a strong football program here at Tiospa Zina. Obviously, my primary goal is to win. However, there is much more behind that goal. We have been given the opportunity to reset and build towards something new. My initial goals include getting our athletes to realize that they need to work year round in order to be successful, and what it truly means to represent Tiospa Zina. I will continue to run the weight room throughout the summer, and much of our success next year will be determined by how hard our athletes work to come in and lift. We also need to increase our players' football knowledge. My plans are to introduce simple rules that can be used to create more sophisticated schemes both offensively and defensively. These and many more changes will be coming for our football program for next season. We have a great opportunity for our football team, but if we want it to be successful, we need to put in the work for what remains of the off season. We look forward to seeing you all in our first eleven man football game, August 30th, at Crow Creek.
ESDS Second Grade wishes Dr. Johnson Well with her future plans. We will miss you Dr. Johnson!
See accompanying photos.
ESDS celebrates Cinco de Mayo
Cinco de Mayo was celebrated at the Enemy Swim Day School afterschool program last week. Students made and sampled several different foods including guacamole and burritos.
They listened to Mexican music, made maracas and danced the Mexican hat dance. As a group they made and played a water xylophone.
Students also were introduced to counting to 10 in Spanish.
The group was led by Dr. Dianna Moxness, retired music professor, now an afterschool leader.
ESDS Face program takes students on a farm field trip
Submitted by Nita Rae
Here are pictures of the Enemy Swim Day School FACE children on a "farm" field trip!
The FACE program would like to thank the Jorgensen family of Waubay for inviting us and allowing us to gather eggs, go for horse rides and show us there entire farm.
We loved it!
Career Day presenter at ESDS
Kathy Prasek, Sanford Health Cultural Liaison and Kathy Husby, USD advisor in the Additions Studies Program were the May Career Day presenters at Enemy Swim Day School.
Each Kathy talked with students about the importance of always learning and keeping an open mind. Never give up an opportunity to go to school and learn something new was what Kathy Prasek, a Crow Creek member said. She also advised students to keep true to their Dakota values.
As each discussed their career path Kathy Husby noted that beginning in 2014 there will be a need for more addition councilors with new insurance laws. A quality necessary in the counseling profession is to be able to actively listen to what others are saying.
Kathy Prasek talked about the rewarding opportunities using cultural background to develop a career with a purpose and change lives. She is now and has been involved with several research projects in the Agency Village area.
Recruitment for 4-H Food, Fitness study
The recruitment for the 4-H Food and Fitness Research Study named iCook will start in July.
Youth who are 9 and 10 years old and their primary adult meal preparer are eligible to participate in the study.
The study will start in August and participants will receive up to $80 for being in the 2 yearlong research study. 4-H Food and Fitness Research Study is about learning food and physical activity habits of youth to help them grow strong and have healthy lives. Some families will be asked to attend six, two-hour long 4-H cooking classes this fall.
All families will complete surveys and have their blood pressure taken; all children will have physical measurements taken 4 times over the next 2 years.
In order to participate in this study, youth and adults will need to be free from food allergies and/or activity-related medical restrictions that would prevent face-to-face interactions in the food and fitness program.
Families will need to eat meat and dairy as vegetarian options may not be available in the food and fitness program.
Families will also need to have a computer at home with internet access.
Families do not have to be current 4-H members to be in the study.
Space is limited; families who are interested in this study can call the Roberts County Extension Office at 605-698-7627 or send an email to tracey.lehrke@sdstate.edu.
Improving Women's Financial Literacy, Worldwide
By Jason Alderman
Are the 70 percent of the developing world's adult population with no formal bank account doomed to a life of economic uncertainty and financial illiteracy? If a woman's culture dictates that she should always put her family's financial needs ahead of her own, can she learn to set aside money for her own retirement without feeling guilty?
These are just some of the complex issues raised at the seventh annual Financial Literacy and Education Summit hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Visa Inc. Renowned U.S. and international financial experts and journalists led a lively discussion – and fielded Twitter questions from roughly 2,000 participants – around the theme, "Improving Women's Financial Literacy & Capabilities Globally."
Fascinating details revealed include:
•Richard Cordray, Director of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, noted that "a large majority of K-12 teachers say that personal finance should be taught in school, yet less than a third say they've taught lessons about money, and more than half feel unqualified to teach their state's financial literacy standards."
•Linah Mohohlo, Governor, Bank of Botswana, emphasized that it's not only important to teach women about money management, but also to teach them activities to avoid – such as Ponzi schemes or lending money to people without setting repayment and interest terms.
•Bernie Ripoll, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Australia, added that women should feel empowered to ask questions or say no if they're asked to invest in something they don't understand.
•According to South African Financial Journalist Maya Fischer-French, among the biggest financial hurdles an overwhelming number of women in her country face is their status as single mothers – around 56 percent. Of those, only about 21 percent can rely on financial help from their children's fathers.
On the question of whether financial literacy hinges on access to traditional bank accounts, Egyptian Journalist Amira Salah-Ahmend said roughly 90 percent of the Egyptian population is unbanked, meaning most of their transactions are unregulated and therefore more risky.
Mexican Journalist Adina Chelminsky added that many third-world people have much easier access to credit through informal lending channels than to bank products. "The idea is not to formalize all this informal lending, but rather for banks and governments to think outside the box and develop new products that cater to women who have minimal savings," she said.
The panelists shared some alternative financing methods that are already in place and thriving:
•Microfinance, where organizations like Kiva make small loans to people who can't get credit from traditional banks, is helping women achieve financial stability in many underdeveloped nations. For example, a young woman in Pakistan or Mexico can now take out a microloan to buy a sewing machine, thereby creating her own thriving business.
•Also in Pakistan, a large telecommunications company has partnered with a microfinancer to provide "branchless banking" via mobile phone technology to people far removed from banks. "We've got 45,000 agents transacting this kind of business now compared to only 13,000 in the branch network," explained Yaseen Anwar, Governor, State Bank of Pakistan.
Bottom line: Women throughout the world face unique economic and financial literacy challenges. The key is for governments, financial institutions, educators and entrepreneurs to work together to devise financial tools and educational materials that can reach the female half of the world's population – the younger, the better.
To watch a free webcast of the 2013 Financial Literacy and Education Summit, visit www.practicalmoneyskills.com.
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Jason Alderman directs Visa's financial education programs. To Follow Jason Alderman on Twitter: www.twitter.com/PracticalMoney
Legals
SISSETON-WAHPETON OYATE
IN TRIBAL COURT
LAKE TRAVERSE RESERVATION
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
CASE NO. CS: 11-027
SWOCSE/Jace Goodsell, PLAINTIFF
VS.
RUBY EASTMAN, DEFENDANT
ORDER OF PUBLICATION &
NOTICE OF HEARING
It is hereby Ordered that due to the inability of the Plaintiff to locate the Defendant that Notice by Publication is hereby provided for a Motion to Show Cause for Failure to Pay Child Support and Notice of Hearing is hereby provided that a hearing will held at the H&HS Bldg., Rm. S-2, Agency Village, South Dakota, on the 29th day of May, 2013 at the hour of 9:00 o'clock A.M. or as soon thereafter as possible.
You are required to be at the hearing. If you fail to appear a Warrant will be issued and Bond set at the amount of the arrears. Upon request, the SWOCSE Clerk will provide you with a copy of the Motion describing the matter.
Dated this 24th day of April, 2013
BY THE ORDER OF THE COURT:
Michael T. Swallow, Presiding Judge
ATTEST: Melinda Heminger, SWOCSE Clerk of Court
19-3tc
SISSETON-WAHPETON OYATE
IN TRIBAL COURT
LAKE TRAVERSE RESERVATION
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
NO. CS: 08-076
SWOCSE/Dina Owen, PLAINTIFF
VS.
RUBY EASTMAN, DEFENDANT
ORDER OF PUBLICATION &
NOTICE OF HEARING
It is hereby Ordered that due to the inability of the Plaintiff to locate the Defendant that Notice by Publication is hereby provided for a Motion to Review Child Support and/or TANF Arrears has been filed and Notice of Hearing is hereby provided that a hearing will held at the H&HS Building, Rm. S-2, Agency Village, South Dakota, on the 29th day of May, 2013 at the hour of 9:00 o'clock A.M. or as soon thereafter as possible on the Petition.
You are required to be at the hearing. Upon request, the SWOCSE Clerk will provide you with a copy of the Complaint describing the matter.
Dated this 24th day of April, 2013
BY THE ORDER OF THE COURT:
Michael T. Swallow, Presiding Judge
ATTEST: Melinda Heminger, SWOCSE Clerk of Court
19-3tc
SISSETON-WAHPETON OYATE
IN TRIBAL COURT
LAKE TRAVERSE RESERVATION
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
CASE NO. CS: 09-022
SWOCSE/Doris Bursheim, PLAINTIFF
VS.
ERIC WANNA, Jr., DEFENDANT
ORDER OF PUBLICATION &
NOTICE OF HEARING
It is hereby Ordered that due to the inability of the Plaintiff to locate the Defendant that Notice by Publication is hereby provided for a Motion to Show Cause for Failure to Pay Child Support and Notice of Hearing is hereby provided that a hearing will held at the H&HS Bldg., Rm. S-2, Agency Village, South Dakota, on the 29th day of May, 2013 at the hour of 9:00 o'clock A.M. or as soon thereafter as possible.
You are required to be at the hearing. If you fail to appear a Warrant will be issued and Bond set at the amount of the arrears. Upon request, the SWOCSE Clerk will provide you with a copy of the Motion describing the matter.
Dated this 24th day of April, 2013
BY THE ORDER OF THE COURT:
Michael T. Swallow, Presiding Judge
ATTEST: Melinda Heminger, SWOCSE Clerk of Court
19-3tc
SISSETON-WAHPETON OYATE
IN TRIBAL COURT
LAKE TRAVERSE RESERVATION
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
CASE NO. I: 08-086
SWOCSE/Vera Heminger, PLAINTIFF
VS.
ERIC WANNA, Jr., DEFENDANT
ORDER OF PUBLICATION &
NOTICE OF HEARING
It is hereby Ordered that due to the inability of the Plaintiff to locate the Defendant that Notice by Publication is hereby provided for a Motion to Amend Child Support and/or TANF Arrears has been filed and Notice of Hearing is hereby provided that a hearing will held at the H&HS Building, Rm. S-2, Agency Village, South Dakota, on the 29th day of May, 2013 at the hour of 9:00 o'clock A.M. or as soon thereafter as possible on the Petition.
You are required to be at the hearing. Upon request, the SWOCSE Clerk will provide you with a copy of the Complaint describing the matter.
Dated this 24th day of April, 2013
BY THE ORDER OF THE COURT:
Michael T. Swallow, Presiding Judge
ATTEST: Melinda Heminger, SWOCSE Clerk of Court
19-3tc
SISSETON-WAHPETON OYATE
IN TRIBAL COURT
LAKE TRAVERSE RESERVATION
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
CASE NO. I: 13-119
SWOCSE/Ashley Blackthunder, PLAINTIFF
VS.
WAMBLI BRANT, DEFENDANT
ORDER OF PUBLICATION &
NOTICE OF HEARING
It is hereby Ordered that due to the inability of the Plaintiff to locate the Defendant that Notice by Publication is hereby provided for a Complaint to Establish Child Support and/or TANF Arrears has been filed and Notice of Hearing is hereby provided that a hearing will held at the H&HS Building, Rm. S-2, Agency Village, South Dakota, on the 29th day of May, 2013 at the hour of 1:00 o'clock P.M. or as soon thereafter as possible on the Petition.
You are required to be at the hearing. Upon request, the SWOCSE Clerk will provide you with a copy of the Complaint describing the matter.
Dated this 24th day of April, 2013
BY THE ORDER OF THE COURT:
Michael T. Swallow, Presiding Judge
ATTEST: Melinda Heminger, SWOCSE Clerk of Court
19-3tc
SISSETON-WAHPETON OYATE
IN TRIBAL COURT
LAKE TRAVERSE RESERVATION
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
CASE NO. CS: 07-145
SWOCSE/Sara Farmer, PLAINTIFF
VS.
WAMBLI BRANT, DEFENDANT
ORDER OF PUBLICATION &
NOTICE OF HEARING
It is hereby Ordered that due to the inability of the Plaintiff to locate the Defendant that Notice by Publication is hereby provided for a Complaint to Establish Paternity & Child Support and/or TANF Arrears has been filed and Notice of Hearing is hereby provided that a hearing will held at the H&HS Building, Rm. S-2, Agency Village, South Dakota, on the 29th day of May, 2013 at the hour of 1:00 o'clock P.M. or as soon thereafter as possible on the Petition.
You are required to be at the hearing. Upon request, the SWOCSE Clerk will provide you with a copy of the Complaint describing the matter.
Dated this 24th day of April, 2013
BY THE ORDER OF THE COURT:
Michael T. Swallow, Presiding Judge
ATTEST: Melinda Heminger, SWOCSE Clerk of Court
19-3tc
SISSETON-WAHPETON OYATE
IN TRIBAL COURT
LAKE TRAVERSE RESERVATION
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
CASE NO. CS: 13-056
SWOCSE/Tamara DuMarce, PLAINTIFF
VS.
WHITNEY DUMARCE, DEFENDANT
ORDER OF PUBLICATION &
NOTICE OF HEARING
It is hereby Ordered that due to the inability of the Plaintiff to locate the Defendant that Notice by Publication is hereby provided for a Complaint to Establish Child Support and/or TANF Arrears has been filed and Notice of Hearing is hereby provided that a hearing will held at the H&HS Building, Rm. S-2, Agency Village, South Dakota, on the 29th day of May, 2013 at the hour of 1:00 o'clock P.M. or as soon thereafter as possible on the Petition.
You are required to be at the hearing. Upon request, the SWOCSE Clerk will provide you with a copy of the Complaint describing the matter.
Dated this 24th day of April, 2013
BY THE ORDER OF THE COURT:
Michael T. Swallow, Presiding Judge
ATTEST: Melinda Heminger, SWOCSE Clerk of Court
19-3tc
SISSETON-WAHPETON OYATE
IN TRIBAL COURT
LAKE TRAVERSE RESERVATION
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
CASE NO. I: 11-005
SWOCSE/Terry McKay, PLAINTIFF
VS.
JOYCE DUMARCE, DEFENDANT
ORDER OF PUBLICATION &
NOTICE OF HEARING
It is hereby Ordered that due to the inability of the Plaintiff to locate the Defendant that Notice by Publication is hereby provided for a Motion to Amend Child Support and/or TANF Arrears has been filed and Notice of Hearing is hereby provided that a hearing will held at the Tribal Court, Agency Village, South Dakota, on the 30th day of May, 2013 at the hour of 9:00 o'clock A.M. or as soon thereafter as possible on the Petition.
You are required to be at the hearing. Upon request, the SWOCSE Clerk will provide you with a copy of the Complaint describing the matter.
Dated this 25th day of April, 2013
BY THE ORDER OF THE COURT:
Michael T. Swallow, Presiding Judge
ATTEST: Melinda Heminger, SWOCSE Clerk of Court
19-3tc
SISSETON-WAHPETON OYATE
IN TRIBAL COURT
LAKE TRAVERSE RESERVATION
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
CASE NO. I: 13-103
SWOCSE/Kellye Surma, PLAINTIFF
VS.
JAMES FISCHER, DEFENDANT
ORDER OF PUBLICATION &
NOTICE OF HEARING
It is hereby Ordered that due to the inability of the Plaintiff to locate the Defendant that Notice by Publication is hereby provided for a Petition to Recognize a Foreign Judgment has been filed and Notice of Hearing is hereby provided that a hearing will held at the Tribal Court, Agency Village, South Dakota, on the 30th day of May, 2013 at the hour of 9:00 o'clock A.M. or as soon thereafter as possible on the Petition.
You are required to be at the hearing. Upon request, the SWOCSE Clerk will provide you with a copy of the Complaint describing the matter.
Dated this 25th day of April, 2013
BY THE ORDER OF THE COURT:
Michael T. Swallow, Presiding Judge
ATTEST: Melinda Heminger, SWOCSE Clerk of Court
19-3tc
SISSETON-WAHPETON OYATE
IN TRIBAL COURT
LAKE TRAVERSE RESERVATION
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
CASE NO. I: 07-117
SWOCSE/Curtis Bissonette, PLAINTIFF
VS.
DUSTIN DOG EAGLE, DEFENDANT
ORDER OF PUBLICATION &
NOTICE OF HEARING
It is hereby Ordered that due to the inability of the Plaintiff to locate the Defendant that Notice by Publication is hereby provided for a Complaint to Establish Arrears has been filed and Notice of Hearing is hereby provided that a hearing will held at the Tribal Court, Agency Village, South Dakota, on the 30th day of May, 2013 at the hour of 9:00 o'clock A.M. or as soon thereafter as possible on the Petition.
You are required to be at the hearing. Upon request, the SWOCSE Clerk will provide you with a copy of the Complaint describing the matter.
Dated this 25th day of April, 2013
BY THE ORDER OF THE COURT:
Michael T. Swallow, Presiding Judge
ATTEST: Melinda Heminger, SWOCSE Clerk of Court
19-3tc
SISSETON-WAHPETON OYATE
IN TRIBAL COURT
LAKE TRAVERSE RESERVATION
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
CASE NO. I: 07-118
SWOCSE/Curtis Bissonette, PLAINTIFF
VS.
TRESSA BISSONETTE, DEFENDANT
ORDER OF PUBLICATION &
NOTICE OF HEARING
It is hereby Ordered that due to the inability of the Plaintiff to locate the Defendant that Notice by Publication is hereby provided for a Complaint to Establish Arrears has been filed and Notice of Hearing is hereby provided that a hearing will held at the Tribal Court, Agency Village, South Dakota, on the 30th day of May, 2013 at the hour of 9:00 o'clock A.M. or as soon thereafter as possible on the Petition.
You are required to be at the hearing. Upon request, the SWOCSE Clerk will provide you with a copy of the Complaint describing the matter.
Dated this 25th day of April, 2013
BY THE ORDER OF THE COURT:
Michael T. Swallow, Presiding Judge
ATTEST: Melinda Heminger, SWOCSE Clerk of Court
19-3tc
SISSETON-WAHPETON OYATE
IN TRIBAL COURT
LAKE TRAVERSE RESERVATION
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
CASE NO. I: 12-090
SWOCSE/Chalsea Cady, PLAINTIFF
VS.
DUSTIN ROBERTSON, DEFENDANT
ORDER OF PUBLICATION &
NOTICE OF HEARING
It is hereby Ordered that due to the inability of the Plaintiff to locate the Defendant that Notice by Publication is hereby provided for a Complaint to Establish Paternity and Modify Child Support has been filed and Notice of Hearing is hereby provided that a hearing will held at the Tribal Court, Agency Village, South Dakota, on the 30th day of May, 2013 at the hour of 1:00 o'clock P.M. or as soon thereafter as possible on the Petition.
You are required to be at the hearing. Upon request, the SWOCSE Clerk will provide you with a copy of the Complaint describing the matter.
Dated this 25th day of April, 2013
BY THE ORDER OF THE COURT:
Michael T. Swallow, Presiding Judge
ATTEST: Melinda Heminger, SWOCSE Clerk of Court
19-3tc
SISSETON-WAHPETON OYATE
IN TRIBAL COURT
LAKE TRAVERSE RESERVATION
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
CASE NO. I: 11-013
SWOCSE/Shannon Cordell, PLAINTIFF
VS.
ANGELO RUNNINGBIRD, DEFENDANT
ORDER OF PUBLICATION &
NOTICE OF HEARING
It is hereby Ordered that due to the inability of the Plaintiff to locate the Defendant that Notice by Publication is hereby provided for a Petition to Recognize a Foreign Judgment has been filed and Notice of Hearing is hereby provided that a hearing will held at the Tribal Court, Agency Village, South Dakota, on the 30th day of May, 2013 at the hour of 1:00 o'clock P.M. or as soon thereafter as possible on the Petition.
You are required to be at the hearing. Upon request, the SWOCSE Clerk will provide you with a copy of the Complaint describing the matter.
Dated this 25th day of April, 2013
BY THE ORDER OF THE COURT:
Michael T. Swallow, Presiding Judge
ATTEST: Melinda Heminger, SWOCSE Clerk of Court
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SISSETON-WAHPETON OYATE
IN TRIBAL COURT
LAKE TRAVERSE RESERVATION
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
CASE NO. I: 13-107
SWOCSE/Susan Pirk, PLAINTIFF
VS.
DION WHITE, DEFENDANT
ORDER OF PUBLICATION &
NOTICE OF HEARING
It is hereby Ordered that due to the inability of the Plaintiff to locate the Defendant that Notice by Publication is hereby provided for a Petition to Recognize a Foreign Judgment has been filed and Notice of Hearing is hereby provided that a hearing will held at the Tribal Court, Agency Village, South Dakota, on the 30th day of May, 2013 at the hour of 1:00 o'clock P.M. or as soon thereafter as possible on the Petition.
You are required to be at the hearing. Upon request, the SWOCSE Clerk will provide you with a copy of the Complaint describing the matter.
Dated this 25th day of April, 2013
BY THE ORDER OF THE COURT:
Michael T. Swallow, Presiding Judge
ATTEST: Melinda Heminger, SWOCSE Clerk of Court
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SISSETON-WAHPETON OYATE
IN TRIBAL COURT
LAKE TRAVERSE RESERVATION
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
CASE NO. CS: 09-035
SWOCSE/Sheila Jiminez, PLAINTIFF
VS.
JARED DORIAN, DEFENDANT
ORDER OF PUBLICATION &
NOTICE OF HEARING
It is hereby Ordered that due to the inability of the Plaintiff to locate the Defendant that Notice by Publication is hereby provided for a Complaint to Establish Paternity & Child Support and/or TANF Arrears has been filed and Notice of Hearing is hereby provided that a hearing will held at the Tribal Court, Agency Village, South Dakota, on the 31st day of May, 2013 at the hour of 9:00 o'clock A.M. or as soon thereafter as possible on the Petition.
You are required to be at the hearing. Upon request, the SWOCSE Clerk will provide you with a copy of the Complaint describing the matter.
Dated this 26th day of April, 2013
BY THE ORDER OF THE COURT:
Michael T. Swallow, Presiding Judge
ATTEST: Melinda Heminger, SWOCSE Clerk of Court
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SISSETON-WAHPETON OYATE
IN TRIBAL COURT
LAKE TRAVERSE RESERVATION
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
CASE NO. CS: 00-273
SWOCSE/Kay Bursheim, PLAINTIFF
VS.
TRACY HARWOOD, DEFENDANT
ORDER OF PUBLICATION &
NOTICE OF HEARING
It is hereby Ordered that due to the inability of the Plaintiff to locate the Defendant that Notice by Publication is hereby provided for a Motion to Show Cause for Failure to Pay Child Support and Notice of Hearing is hereby provided that a hearing will held at the Tribal Court, Agency Village, South Dakota, on the 31st day of May, 2013 at the hour of 9:00 o'clock A.M. or as soon thereafter as possible.
You are required to be at the hearing. If you fail to appear a Warrant will be issued and Bond set at the amount of the arrears. Upon request, the SWOCSE Clerk will provide you with a copy of the Motion describing the matter.
Dated this 26th day of April, 2013
BY THE ORDER OF THE COURT:
Michael T. Swallow, Presiding Judge
ATTEST: Melinda Heminger, SWOCSE Clerk of Court
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SISSETON-WAHPETON OYATE
IN TRIBAL COURT
LAKE TRAVERSE RESERVATION
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
CASE NO. CS: 06-181
SWOCSE/Tawny Anderson, PLAINTIFF
VS.
JORDAN GILL, DEFENDANT
ORDER OF PUBLICATION &
NOTICE OF HEARING
It is hereby Ordered that due to the inability of the Plaintiff to locate the Defendant that Notice by Publication is hereby provided for a Motion to Show Cause for Failure to Pay Child Support and Notice of Hearing is hereby provided that a hearing will held at the Tribal Court, Agency Village, South Dakota, on the 31st day of May, 2013 at the hour of 9:00 o'clock A.M. or as soon thereafter as possible.
You are required to be at the hearing. If you fail to appear a Warrant will be issued and Bond set at the amount of the arrears. Upon request, the SWOCSE Clerk will provide you with a copy of the Motion describing the matter.
Dated this 26th day of April, 2013
BY THE ORDER OF THE COURT:
Michael T. Swallow, Presiding Judge
ATTEST: Melinda Heminger, SWOCSE Clerk of Court
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SISSETON-WAHPETON OYATE
IN TRIBAL COURT
LAKE TRAVERSE RESERVATION
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
CASE NO. CS: 00-247
SWOCSE/Malissa Sharpfish, PLAINTIFF
VS.
JEREMY BARSE, DEFENDANT
ORDER OF PUBLICATION &
NOTICE OF HEARING
It is hereby Ordered that due to the inability of the Plaintiff to locate the Defendant that Notice by Publication is hereby provided for a Motion to Show Cause for Failure to Pay Child Support and Notice of Hearing is hereby provided that a hearing will held at the Tribal Court, Agency Village, South Dakota, on the 31st day of May, 2013 at the hour of 9:00 o'clock A.M. or as soon thereafter as possible.
You are required to be at the hearing. If you fail to appear a Warrant will be issued and Bond set at the amount of the arrears. Upon request, the SWOCSE Clerk will provide you with a copy of the Motion describing the matter.
Dated this 26th day of April, 2013
BY THE ORDER OF THE COURT:
Michael T. Swallow, Presiding Judge
ATTEST: Melinda Heminger, SWOCSE Clerk of Court
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Big Rummage Sale
Saturday, June 1st, 28 Hatle Drive, Sisseton. Los of miscellaneous items.
USED TIRES FOR SALE
4 – 205R7015 2000 miles $250. Call 605-880-8875.
Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate
Job Openings
The Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribe is seeking to fill the following positions:
Injury Prevention Coordinator, Injury Prevention Program.
Janitor II, Facilities Maintenance.
Maintenance Technician I, Facilities Maintenance.
Closing date: May 31, 2013 at 4:30 p.m.
All interested applicants may obtain application and job description information at the Human Resource Department of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate. You may contact Arnold Williams at (605) 698-3911 ext. 112.
Sisseton Wahpeton College
CFO Position
The Sisseton Wahpeton College Board of Trustees is seeking qualified candidates for the position of CFO.
Master's degree in Accounting, MBA or related field with 7 to 10 years experience is required. Indian preference will apply. Visit our website: www.swc.tc for a full job description and details. Contact HR office at 605/698-3966 ext. 1118. Closing date is June 21, 2013.
Tiospa Zina Tribal School
Employment Opportunities
VACANCY: Business Office Technician Qualifications: Associates Degree in Business Management or other directly related field and 1 year experience Open Date: May 15, 2013 Closing Date: Open until filled Start Date: 2013-2014 School Year
VACANCY: Technology Coordinator Qualifications: Associates Degree in Computer Systems Technology or other directly related field and 1 year experience Open Date: May 15, 2013 Closing Date: Open until filled Start Date: 2013-2014 School Year
VACANCY: Bus Monitor (All Routes) Qualifications: GED or High School Diploma; Holds/willing to obtain First Aid and CPR Certification Open Date: March 20, 2013 Closing Date: Open until filled Start Date: 2013-2014 School Year
VACANCY: Female Dakota Studies Teacher (1 Elementary & 1 Secondary) Qualifications: Currently Holds a South Dakota Dakota/ Lakota/ Nakota Instructors License; 3+ years experience teaching Open Date: February 14, 2013 Closing Date: Open until filled Start Date: 2013-2014 School Year
VACANCY: Elementary Special Education Teacher Qualifications: Currently Holds a South Dakota Elementary Special Education Teacher License Open Date: April 26, 2013 Closing Date: Open until filled Start Date: 2013-2014 School Year
VACANCY: Computer Support Technician Qualifications: AA in related field; or 2 yrs relevant experience Open Date: April 26, 2013 Closing Date: Open until filled Start Date: 2013-2014 School Year
VACANCY: High School Computers Teacher Qualifications: Currently Holds a South Dakota Teacher License with necessary endorsements to be considered a highly qualified teacher Open Date: May 3, 2013 Closing Date: Open until filled Start Date: 2013-2014 School Year
VACANCY: Special Education Paraprofessional Qualifications: GED/High School Diploma plus Paraprofessional Praxis score of 461+; or 48+ college credits Open Date: May 15, 2013 Closing Date: May 31, 2013 Start Date: 2013-2014 School Year
VACANCY: Business Office Technician Qualifications: Associates Degree in Business Management or other directly related field and 1 year experience Open Date: May 15, 2013 Closing Date: Open until filled Start Date: 2013-2014 School Year
VACANCY: Technology Coordinator Qualifications: Associates Degree in Computer Systems Technology or ot her directly related field and 1 year experience Open Date: May 15, 2013 Closing Date: Open until filled Start Date: 2013-2014 School Year
ATHLETIC COACHING VACANCIES FOR THE 2013-2014 SCHOOL YEAR
-Head Golf Coach Qualifications: Must show proof of completion of current South Dakota General Coaching Requirements -Head Track Coach Qualifications: Must show proof of completion of current South Dakota General Coaching Requirements -Head Cross Country Coach Qualifications: Must submit proof of completion of current South Dakota General Coaching Requirements. -Fall Cheer Coach Qualifications: Must show proof of completion of current South Dakota General Coaching Requirements -Winter Cheer Coach Qualifications: Must show proof of completion of current South Dakota General Coaching Requirements -Assistant Football Coach Qualifications: Must show proof of completion of current South Dakota General Coaching Requirements -Assistant Volleyball Coach Qualifications: Must show proof of completion of current South Dakota General Coaching Requirements -Assistant Girls Basketball Coach Qualifications: Must show proof of completion of current South Dakota General Coaching Requirements -Assistant Boys Basketball Coach Qualifications: Must show proof of completion of current South Dakota General Coaching Requirements -Assistant Track Coach Qualifications: Must show proof of completion of current South Dakota General Coaching Requirements
-Jr. High Volleyball Coach
-Jr. High Football Coach
-Jr. High Boys Basketball Coach
-Jr. High Girls Basketball Coach
-Strength Training Coach
-5th/6th Grade Boys Basketball Coach
-5th/6th Grade Girls Basketball Coach
Opening Date: May 6, 2013
Closing Date: May 28, 2013
EXTRA CURRICULAR VACANCIES FOR THE 2013-2014 SCHOOL YEAR
-AISES Adviser
-Close-Up Foundation Adviser
-Destination Imagination Coordinator
-Drum Advisor
-High School Student Council Advisor
-Middle School Student Council Advisor
-National Honors Society Adviser
-New Teacher Mentor [Must have successfully taught a minimum of 5 years.]
-Rodeo Club Advisor
-Senior Class Adviser (2)
-Student Council Adviser (MS & HS)
-Technology Mentor (4)
-School Improvement Facilitator (4) [Must be able to meet after school weekly.]
Opening Date: April 26, 2013
Closing Date: May 24, 2013
If you would like to apply to be a part of the TZ tiwahe you may pick up an application from the TZTS HR office located at #2 Tiospa Zina Dr. Agency Village, SD 57262. Applications may also be printed off the HR web page by downloading from links under employment forms to the left. Completed applications may be sent to PO Box 719, Agency Village, SD 57262. Faxed to: 605-698-7686. For further information call 605-698-3953 ext. 208. Indian Preference employer. At will employer. All applicants are subject to a Background Check and Pre-Employment Drug Test, pursuant to SWSB policy.
Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate
of the Lake Traverse Reservation
Dakota Nation Gaming Enterprise
Position: CEO
Occupation Summary: The direct primary responsibility of the Employee shall be the overall operation of the DNGE and shall include providing management oversight and directing the day-to-day business activities and the development and implementation of a long range business plan that includes a long range plan for strategic growth. Employee shall be subject to the supervision and direction of the Tribal Council.
Qualifications: BS/BA degree in business, management, marketing, accounting or related field of study. Experience:
A minimum of 10 years of management experience with at least 5 years performing at a senior level is required at a property generating over $50 million of gaming revenue. Must be capable of developing and maintaining a comprehensive business and marketing plan. Must demonstrate experience in finance, accounting, marketing, procurement, HR management, policy/procedure writing, and security/surveillance compliance. Experience and knowledge in Class II and Class III gaming is preferred. Experience and knowledge of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and other regulatory authorities. Experience with multiple-site management is preferred. Must demonstrate knowledge, skills, and ability to analyze all financial statements. Must be able to obtain a (PMO) License with the SWO Gaming Commission.
Salary Range: Negotiable based upon experience Plus an excellent benefit package.
Closing Date: June 7, 2013.
Submit resume to: Dakota Nation Gaming Enterprise Attn: Heather Roberts, 16849 102nd Street SE, Hankinson, ND 58041.
Contact information: Phone: 701-634-3000 ext. 2426. E-mail: heatherw@dakotamagic.com (Subject: CEO Applicant)
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Dakota Magic Casino & Hotel
Job Openings
Cage Department: Cashier (Full-Time) Swing
Foods Department: KCST (Full-Time) Graveyard
Closing Date: May 24, 2013 @4:00 p.m.
Starting Wage: D.O.E.
High School diploma or G.E.D. required for most positions. Two identification documents required upon hire.
If interested please submit application to Human Resources Department, 16849 102nd Street SE, Hankinson ND 58041.
For complete Job Description contact Amanda Adams at 701-634-3000 ext. 557. Indian Preference will apply/EEO. (Please Provide Tribal Enrollment.) Must be licensable by the SWO Gaming Commission.
Dakota Sioux Casino & Hotel
Job Openings
Dakota Sioux Casino & Hotel is seeking to fill the following position(s):
UNIFORMS: UNIFORM ATTENDENT (1 FULL- TIME). GENERAL FUNCTION: Responsible for all aspects of issuing, cleaning, and/or replacing uniforms for all uniformed employees. REQUIREMENTS: High School Diploma or GED. Effective communication skills. Basic skills. Ability to handle diverse situations and/or people. Lifting up to 40 pounds at a time. Pushing, pulling, turning hampers weighing up to 115 pounds. Reaching, bending, and standing. May be on feet for long periods of time. Able to work with soap and other cleaning chemicals. Must obtain a Non-Gaming license upon hire.
This position will close on May 22, 2013 at 4 pm.
Indian Preference will apply/EEO.
Contact the Human Resources Department for complete job descriptions at 1-800-658-4717 ext. 1652.
If interested please fill out an application and submit to: Dakota Sioux Casino & Hotel, Human Resources Department, 16415 Sioux Conifer Road, Watertown, SD 57201.
Dakota Sioux Casino & Hotel
Job Openings
PURCHASING: PURCHASING CLERK (1 FULL-TIME) GENERAL FUNCTION: Establish and maintain a casino purchasing and inventory system. REQUIREMENTS: High school graduate or G.E.D. equivalent. General knowledge of purchasing and inventory controls. Good public relation skills. Computer and 10 key experience. Experience in office procedures. Ability to follow directions and work independently. Must be able to do moderate lifting, bending, and twisting. Must obtain a Non-Gaming License upon hire.
Indian Preference will apply/EEO.
Contact the Human Resources Department for complete job descriptions at 1-800-658-4717 ext. 1652.
If interested please fill out an application and submit to: Dakota Sioux Casino & Hotel, Human Resources Department, 16415 Sioux Conifer Road, Watertown, SD 57201.
Dakota Sioux Casino & Hotel
Job Openings
ACCOUNTING: DROP TEAM MEMBER (1 FULL-TIME) GENERAL FUNCTION: Responsible for the inventory of Cage/Casino coin and chip assets. Assist in providing and accurate count for daily service drops. Work in accordance with all applicable policies and procedures as stated in the Dakota Sioux Casino Cage Employee Manual. REQUIREMENTS: High school diploma or GED equivalent. Accounting background, the ability to work well with numbers and computer knowledge is required as well as willingness to be trained in these areas. Detail orientated, self-starter with ability to work well with others. Ability to lift 100 lbs. or more. Must have a telephone. Heavy lifting, moving, bending, stretching, and standing for long periods of time. Must obtain a Key Gaming License upon hire.
This position will close on May 22, 2013 at 4 pm.
Indian Preference will apply/EEO.
Contact the Human Resources Department for complete job descriptions at 1-800-658-4717 ext. 1652.
If interested please fill out an application and submit to: Dakota Sioux Casino & Hotel, Human Resources Department, 16415 Sioux Conifer Road, Watertown, SD 57201. |
