Monthly Archives: January 2009
The Martha Fast Horse Show
The Martha Fast Horse Show
Sunday, February 1st, 2009
@ 6:00 a.m.
Featured Song
My First Taste of Rosebud
C.D.
Tezjon “Sugar” Duysak
Special Guests
Lucinda Shields-Ellert, Community Organizer & Lakota Elder (Sicangu Lakota)
Todd Fast Horse, Chairperson of Rosebud Community (2007-2008)
Clara Niiska, Editor of Native American Press/Ojibwe News (2001-2003),
and Co-host of KFAI’s Indian Uprising (Red Lake Ojibwe)
(Part 2 of 2)
This weeks show focuses on the issues of tribal corruption, dictatorship government, abuse of power, blanket nepotism, and the human rights and civil rights violations of enrolled members of the Rosebud Community of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, a sovereign nation within the Unitied States. We discussed the problems, brainstormed and searched our souls for proactive, positive solutions to these all too familiar problems occurring on federally recognized Indian reservations in America today. We asked ourselves what brought us to this point and how can we move forward to heal our tribal communities from historical and inter-generational trauma. Equal time has been extended to anyone wishing to express an opposing viewpoint.
Contact: Martha Fast Horse 612.619.6797
Thank You
Justin Severson, Tom Colvin, Citadel Broadcasting,
and The Institute of Production & Recording (IPR)
Contact Information
myspace.com/fasthorseproductions
A 1/2 hr Public & Cultural Affairs Program of Citadel Broadcasting – Minneapolis
Sunday Mornings @ 6:00 a.m. KQRS 92.5 FM, KXXR 93X 93.7 FM, WGVX Love 105 FM
Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition’s 3rd Annual Conference
Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition’s
3rd Annual Conference
Restoring the Sacred Trails of Our Grandmothers:
Communities Demanding Justice
April 28 – 30, 2009
Grand Casino Mille Lacs in Onamia, MN
The Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition seeks proposals for our upcoming Restoring the Sacred Trails of Our Grandmothers: Communities Demanding Justice conference, which is a 2-½ day event.
Each workshop is approximately 60 – 90 minutes in length, however, longer workshops may be considered by the planning committee. Panels are encouraged including SART teams and other multi-disciplinary panels.
As a coalition, we have had several discussions about what justice would look like for American Indian and Alaska Native victims of sexual violence and how communities can provide deterrents for this type of violence against our women and children. Therefore, we are especially interested in proposals that incorporate our theme of “Communities Demanding Justice” into their workshop proposal. The intended audience may include advocates, law enforcement, medical professionals, chemical dependency programs and various others working on ending violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women and children.
All presenters will be offered travel assistance including lodging, per diem, and mileage. In addition, the conference registration fee will be waived, and an honorarium of $250 will be given to each presenter.
If your proposal is accepted, please note that we will NOT be making paper copies of materials, but will make cd’s for all conference participants with workshop materials. Therefore, please submit ALL CONFERENCE MATERIALS ELECTRONICALLY NO LATER THAN APRIL 1, 2009
Please type or print all entries.
Proposal submissions must be postmarked by March 1, 2009. Completed proposals may be submitted via mail, fax, or on our website at www.miwsac.org. If you have questions, please contact Nicole Matthews at 651-646-4800 or 1-877-995-4800, or by e-mailing nmatthews@miwsac.org.
Mailing Address: Fax Number:
MIWSAC 651-646-4798
1619 Dayton Ave, Suite 303
St. Paul, MN 55104
Name:__________________________________________________________________
Tribe:__________________________________________________________________
Organization:____________________________________________________________
Address:________________________________________________________________
Phone:___________________________ E-Mail:_______________________________
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Presenter Bio (50 words or less):____________________________________________
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Workshop Description (50 words or less):____________________________________
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Workshop Level: _____ Beginner _____ Intermediate _____ Advanced
Intended Audience: _____ Advocates _____ Law Enforcement _____ Medical
_____ Legal/Prosecution _____ Other
Audio/Visual Needs: _____ LCD Projector _____Screen _____Whiteboard
_____ Flipchart _____ Overhead Projector _____ TV/DVD Player _____ Other
Co-Presenter Name:______________________________________________________
Tribe:__________________________________________________________________
Organization:____________________________________________________________
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First Meeting about Cold Water, public is welcome. Feb 23rd from 5-9 pm.
“The first public meeting will be Monday, February 23, from 5-9 p.m. in the
auditorium of the VA Hospital in Minneapolis. It will focus on getting
Public comment on future reuse and restoration of the Camp Coldwater
Property (former Bureau of Mines). A second public meeting is tentatively
Scheduled for April 13. A letter announcing the first meeting was mailed out..”
Tell everyone you know, to pack the room.
More informations coming ASAP.
The Shakopee tribe’s eagerness to expand its land holdings in Scott County may have a new explanation.
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Shakopee tribe’s need for land is growing
DAVID PETERSON, Star Tribune
The Shakopee tribe’s eagerness to expand its land holdings in Scott County may have a new explanation.
Newly public information stemming from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s desire to be treated for the first time as a stand-alone entity by the Metropolitan Council suggests that the tribe’s need for residential land is increasing rapidly.
Tribal officials are intensely private about their own members, forbidding media photographs of private homes and declining to say how many members the tribe has.
But in honoring a request the tribe has made to be treated separately from Prior Lake and Shakopee — the two cities in which its land is located — the Met Council has opened a tiny keyhole into the tribe’s affairs.
The tribe has informed the council that by early 2006, its population had risen to 387, and its number of households to 217.
That was not a big jump in population from the 360 reported in the 2000 census. But it was a huge increase in the number of households: 100 more in just six years, or more than double the rate of new household formation in the 1990s, based on 1990 census figures.
New households can be created when young people become adults and wish to leave home, when people marry, or when couples divorce. The tribe’s rising wealth during that same period — the total annual income of all households combined shot from about $5 million to more than $30 million during the ’90s, according to the Census — would help make it more affordable for members to buy separate homes, as opposed to living in extended families.
During the same period, the tribe has greatly accelerated its rate of land purchases, acquiring thousands of acres — to the consternation of the city of Shakopee, which is seeing its stock of developable land decline. Prior Lake, in which the vast majority of tribal members live, has been more relaxed, saying it expects to annex rural land to its south to cover its expansion needs.
Tribal officials did not respond to a request for comment for this article. But in a lengthy interview last year about the growth in land holdings, Stan Ellison, who runs the tribe’s land department, said it is critical for the tribe to act now to nail down land it will need in the distant future for an expanding population and other needs.
“The tribe can’t move,” he said. “We have to acquire enough to ensure housing for the tribal population 50 or 60 years ahead of time. And we can’t wait 50 years to buy it. We have to hold it until we need it.”
Most of the northerly land in the tribe’s hands, he said, “will be housing at some point, and not that different from Shakopee, although with less density and more parks and open space.”
As a practical matter, Ellison added, “when the tribe does acquire land, it prefers large, undeveloped tracts. We can’t buy one house at a time. That would be prohibitive” in terms of cost.
The decision to split the tribe out for statistical purposes was discussed last week before a Met Council committee. Council spokeswoman Bonnie Kollodge played down the importance of that decision.
“It is simply a matter of … record-keeping,” she said, and “not intended to signal anything more.”
But tribal officials see it as more than that. In a letter to the council requesting the change, tribal staffer Victoria Ranua warned that population, household and employment numbers that are vital to determining the future need for expensive infrastructure such as roads and sewer were being “inflated” when an increasingly self-sufficient tribe’s numbers were assigned to its neighbor cities.
The cost of tribal growth, even that of water and waste treatment, will be covered whenever possible by “tribal resources, not those of the municipalities or Scott County,” she said.
David Peterson • 952-882-9023
Community meetings to decide what happens to Coldwater Springs.
Han Mitakuyapi,
I just received an email from Steven Johnson, who is one of the officials helping to organize the community meetings to decide what happens to Coldwater Springs. They have the meeting scheduled:
“The first public meeting will be Monday, February 23, from 5-9 p.m. in the
auditorium of the VA Hospital in Minneapolis. It will focus on getting
public comment on future reuse and restoration of the Camp Coldwater
property (former Bureau of Mines). A second public meeting is tentatively
scheduled for April 13. A letter announcing the first meeting is being
mailed today.”
Pack the room. Anybody you can think of. Get them there.
Wicanhpi Iyotan Win de miye.
