Monthly Voting Membership Meeting.

Tuesday June 30, at 7:00 pm. Bring a treat if you want. Please bring a member with you. We need more members to come to our monthly meetings.

Pow Wow meeting Tuesday June 30 at 6:00 pm. If you would like to be on the Pow Wow Committee please be here by 6:00 pm.

Mendota Days is on Saturday July 11. We need volunteer ASAP. Hours are around 9:00 am-6:00 pm  maybe later?  If you could volunteer 4 hours or more that would be great!  Please call the office ASAP. Mendota Days is  only a couple of weeks from now. We need someone to organize Mendota Days.   HELP!

Pidamaya

Your Tribal Council.

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Open House   -   Sunday June 28, 1:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Celebrate Gideon’s 199^th birthday!  Tours of the house will include details of Gideon’s family and growing up years, and the two apprenticeships that would shape his missionary life. Enjoy birthday cake, and sing Happy Birthday to Gideon himself, portrayed by a costumed reenactor.  Programs and tours are free for children and high school youth and members of the Pond Dakota Heritage Society.  Suggested donation of $2 for non-member adults.

Free Band Concert                           -Sunday June 28, 7:00 p.m.

Bring a blanket or lawn chair and enjoy a concert by the John Philip Sousa Memorial Band on the south lawn of the Pond House. Formed in 1970, the band’s goal is to recapture the spirit of bands at the turn of the twentieth century, when bands were an integral part of their communities.  The John Philip Sousa Memorial Band consists of 40 Twin Cities musicians who volunteer their talents, some for over 20 years.

The Gideon and Agnes Pond House is located in Pond Dakota Mission Park, 401 East 104th St., Bloomington, between Portland and Nicollet Aves.  For more information contact Mark Morrison at Bloomington Parks and Recreation at 952-563-8693, or after hours call Jay Ludwig at 952-484-0477, or visit www.ci.bloomington.mn.us, keywords “Pond House”.

Coming soon to the Pond House:

Charles Lanman, Frontier Artist
Sunday July 5,  2 – 4 p.m.
Meet landscape painter, outdoorsman and journalist Charles Lanman, an acquaintance of Seth Eastman, portrayed by local artist Paul Boecher.  Uncover your drawing skills as you sketch with the artist, or watch as he paints “plein air” using watercolors and a paint box.  Discover the life of a frontier artist and what it was like to explore uncharted areas of Minnesota.  Sketching  materials will be supplied, or you may bring your own.

Hope you can join us for these great events at the Pond House!

Jay Ludwig

Pond Dakota Heritage Society

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Bloomington MN. Global Celebration Sat, June 20 9am – 1:00pm.

Bloomington Civic Plaza, 1800 West Old Shakopee Rd.

Becky Wiggins will be selling her jewelry.

Many culturals  will be there. Native American, Japanese, Philippine, Hmong, etc.

Brass Messengis Band.

Hayor Bibimma.

Farmer Market.

For more information, call 952-563-4957 V/tty.

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Chris has a new music C-D in Dakota,  it is wonderful.  Chris will be our language class  guess on June 24, please come and welcome him. POTLUCK

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Hello,

Some of you may remember that a little over a year ago, there was 3 days of action protesting the Minnesota Sesquicentennial and the lack of truthful history regarding the cultural, spiritual, emotional and physical cost to the Dakota and all First Nations People of the area in becoming a state, to educate about the genocide of the Dakota people and draw attention to the Treaty of 1805.   One of the actions was to meet the Sesquicentennial Wagon Train at Fort Snelling.

During that protest, several people were arrested and three of us were charged.  The case goes to trial tomorrow and we would be grateful to anyone that can turn out to support us.

Trial begins at 9:00 at the Hennepin County Courthouse Downtown.  I don’t know which courtroom, but I am including the case information below as well as a link to a you tube video of the protest…

Pidamaya ye; Pilamaya ye; Migwetch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ait0L50yA&feature=PlayList&p=49D56D0B6D2CB80E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1

Fourth Judicial District Court; Criminal Division

State of Minnesota vs.

Waziyatawin (27-CR-08-26594),

James Anderson (27-CR-08-26599)

Diane Englin-Elliott (27-CR-08-25571)

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Joann, the Mendota people want to wish you a very Happy Birthday today.

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Reclaiming Our Heritage

June 16, 2009

William Mitchell College of Law – Auditorium

875 Summit Avenue

St. Paul, MN 55105

(Corner of Summit and Victoria , Parking available in WMCL Lot )

Theme: “Reclaiming Our Heritage” – Community members and social service professionals will come together to learn how Historical Grief has impacted our Native families. Emphasis will be on how to preserve culture, mandated by ICWA and strengthen families.

PRESENTATIONS:

Nancy Bordeaux, Indigenous Consultant

Interactive Presentation on Values

Panel Presentations

Boarding School Experience

Linda Eagle Speaker – Blackfeet Nation

Louie Foote – Lakota

The Adoption Era – Coming Home

Sandy White Hawk – Sicangu Lakota

AGENDA

8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Welcome and Blessing of the day

Opening Initiative – Nancy Bordeaux

Interactive Presentation on Values – Nancy Bordeaux

Health Break

Panel Presentation – Boarding School Presentation

Questions and Answers

Lunch Break – Meal provided

Scavenger Hunt – Tonya Long

The Adoption Era – Sandy White Hawk

Questions and Answers

Health Break

Group Initiatives – Nancy Bordeaux – Sandy White Hawk

Wrap up

Closing

Please join us as we share the strengths and wisdom within our community

Applying for CEU

Sandy White Hawk
www.geocities.com/fnoac
651-442-4872

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City of Mendota Heights and Green River Greening invite you to join us in celebrating and dedication the installation of the interpretive markers.

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wodakota.blogspot.com/

Tail Feather Woman

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http://www.sctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200906090030/NEWS01/106090013
The Native American boarding schools run by religious orders and the federal government more than 100 years ago were designed to assimilate Indians into white America. Efforts to populate these schools ripped young children from their families and their cultures and left bitter memories of boarding schools in Native American communities. But one story of perseverance at such a school was uncovered recently by a St. Cloud State University adjunct history professor who researched a local boarding school with the nation’s pastime as a backdrop.

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