13^th Annual American Indian Wellness Fair

Wednesday, April 30^th, 2008

11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

= Location has changed! =

YWCA Midtown, Minneapolis Sports Center
2121 East Lake Street

To request an Exhibitor Table Registration, Please contact Sandra Rivera at 612-625-4441.

Greetings,

One good way to work is learning a song, the drum song we were introduced too during one of the meetings.

What are the words to that song again?

The GPGPSSR 2008 start date will not change, but the daily run mileage may change as the runners adjust to their running abilities.

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WE WILL LET YOU KNOW WHEN THE NEXT CLASS IS VERY SOON.  4/29/08.

This Friday May 2nd there will be a Benefit Concert for The Longest Walk 2 Northern Route at Walker Church, 3104 16th Ave. S. Minneapolis from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m.  Jackie Bird, Darren Geffrey, Bluedog and Red Ponie are performing.  $10.00.  Hopefully many of us will be making signs that night, but some of us may want to stop by the concert afterwards.

Auntie Pauline, you will be dearly missed. Rest in peace my dear wonderful auntie, we love you, Sharon.

From all the member’s of  MMDC we give the LaClaire family all our love.

Pauline M.  ( Helseth ) LaClaire

LaClaire, Pauline M. (Helseth) Age 84, of Mpls. Survived by husband of 65 years, Russell; children, Bruce, Curt (Sandy), Vicki (Pete) Eckman, Douglas (Kathy), Susan (Charlie) Foty, Renee Foss and Dennis (Karen); also 25 grandchildren and 24 great- grandchildren. Funeral service Tuesday, 1 PM, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 100 Silver Lake Road, New Brighton, with visitation one hour prior to service at church and Monday, 4-8 PM at: Washburn-McReavy Northeast Chapel 612-781-6828 2901 Johnson Street NE, Mpls
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Ihanktowan Nation protesters arrested

Yankton Sioux Arrested For Protesting Hog Plant  -  Video Please Forward This Post to Everyone You Know.

This issue has been going on for more than a week. It is unlikely that you will see or hear unbiased reports about it in the media.
Reuben W. Kitto, Jr

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Some Minnesota Sioux asked their Chief one Autumn if the winter was going to be a very cold one or a very mild one.

Not really knowing the answer but wanting to be prepared, the chief replies that the winter was going to be cold and that the members of the village were to collect wood to be prepared.

Being a good and responsible leader, he then went to the nearest phone booth and called the National Weather Service and asked, “Is this winter to be cold?”  The man on the phone responded, “Yes sir, this winter was going certainly going to be very cold.”

So the Chief went back to speed up his people to collect even more wood to be prepared for this cold Minnesota winter.

A week later, wanting to cover all of his bases, he called the National Weather Service again, “Is it going to be a REALLY cold winter?”  “Oh yes,” the man replied, “its going to be a REALLY cold winter.”

So the Chief goes back to his people and orders them to go deep into the forests and find every scrap of wood that they can find.  Two weeks later he calls the National Weather Service again and asks “Listen, how can you be so sure that this winter is going to be so cold?”  to which the Weather man replies “of COURSE it’s going to be cold, the Sioux have been collecting wood nonstop for weeks!”

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Brad “I never heard of a Sioux Chief named “One Autumn” [WiNK]

Breaking News:
Location of Mass Graves of Residential School Children Revealed for the First Time; Independent Tribunal Established

Squamish Nation Territory (“Vancouver, Canada”)
Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:00 am PST

At a public ceremony and press conference held today outside the colonial “Indian Affairs” building in downtown Vancouver, the Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (FRD) released a list of twenty eight mass graves across Canada holding the remains of untold numbers of aboriginal children who died in Indian Residential Schools.

The list was distributed today to the world media and to United Nations agencies, as the first act of the newly-formed International Human Rights Tribunal into Genocide in Canada (IHRTGC), a non-governmental body established by indigenous elders.

In a statement read by FRD spokesperson Eagle Strong Voice, it was declared that the IHRTGC would commence its investigations on April 15, 2008, the fourth Annual Aboriginal Holocaust Memorial Day. This inquiry will involve international human rights observers from Guatemala and Cyprus, and will convene aboriginal courts of justice where those persons and institutions responsible for the death and suffering of residential school children will be tried and sentenced. . . .

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U.S. Department of the Interior On The Web Bureau of Indian Affairs on Indian Ancestry and prospective applicants.

Thousands of people throughout the United States have some degree of Indian blood. However, unless such an individual has at least one parent legally entitled to membership in a federally recognized Indian tribe, it is improbable that he/she can qualify for special federal services available to Indians or share in assets owned by an Indian tribe. The burden of proof of Indian ancestry rests with the individual claiming possession of Indian blood.

Many people are descended from eastern tribes that disbanded before the present Government of the United States came into being in 1789. As a result, there are no existing Indian groups with which these individuals can affiliate. Other, descended from western tribes, but cannot substantiate their claim to membership in an Indian tribe due to lack of early family records.

Contrary to popular belief, Indians do not receive payments from the federal government simply because they have

Indian blood. Funds distributed to a person of Indian descent may represent income from his/her own property collected for him/her by an agent of the United States. Other disbursements to individuals may represent compensation for lands taken in connection with governmental projects, comparable to payments made to non-Indians for the acquisition of land for governmental purposes. Some Indian tribes receive income from the utilization of tribal timber and other reservation resources, a percentage of which may be distributed as per capita among the tribes membership. Individual tribal members also share in the money paid to the tribes by the federal government in fulfillment of treaty obligations. Money available for payments belongs either to the tribe or to an individual and is held in trust by the federal government. In this event, Government checks are issued in making payment to individuals or to the tribes.

To be eligible to receive payment from tribal funds, a person, in addition to possessing Indian blood, must be a recognized member of the Indian tribe whose money is being distributed. Generally, responsibility for establishing this membership lies with the tribe and the individual. Indian tribes establish their own enrollment criteria.

Some early records or censuses of Indian bands, tribes, or groups are on file at the National Archives and Records Service,(WEBSITE) Natural Resources Branch, Civil Archives Division (Eighth and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20408). These records, identified by tribes, are dated chiefly from 1830 to 1940. To search records, the Archivist must be given the name of the Indian in question (preferably both his English and his Indian name), his date of birth, and the name of his tribe. Names of his parents and grandparents should also be given. If ancestry is unknown, there are private research sources that are available. The credibility of the research service should be established before securing the service by contacting local offices of the Better Business Bureau.

The Central Office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs does not maintain comprehensive lists of persons possessing Indian blood or enrollment data of every federally recognized Indian tribe. However, copies of census and membership rolls may be on file in the Bureau’s field offices. A list of these offices can be obtained from the directory “AREA OFFICES.” The Area Office list identifies the states over which a particular Area Office has jurisdiction.

If proof of membership in a particular tribe is desired, inquiry should be made to the particular tribe.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs publishes a list of federally recognized Indian tribes in the Federal Register. The latest publication was on October 23, 1997, (60 F.R. 55270), which can be obtained from most libraries, or accessed on the World Wide Web, Internet, at http://www.doi.gov/bia/tribes/entry.html, under the heading “Federally Recognized Native American Tribes, 10/23/97″.

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