Officials for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe believe their plans for a casino on the shore of Lake Oahe in central South Dakota will create jobs and generate essential revenue for programs on the financially strapped reservation.
The tribe is considering several casino locations, including one in Stanley County on the west side of the massive Missouri River reservoir. That location would be on tribal trust land outside of the reservation boundaries.
“It’s near the lake. It’s a beautiful location,” Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe administrative officer Harold Condon said Wednesday.
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Explanation of Native American Spirituality
“The Indian loved to worship. From birth to death, he revered his surroundings. He considered himself born in the luxurious lap of Mother Earth, and no place was to him humble. There was nothing between him and the Big Holy (Wakan Tanka). The contact was immediate and personal, and the blessings of Wakan Tanka flowed over the Indian like rain showered from the sky. Wakan Tanka was not aloof, apart, and ever seeking to quell evil forces. He did not punish the animals and the birds, and likewise, he did not punish man. He was not a punishing god. For there was never a question as to the supremacy of an evil power over and above the power of Good. There was but one ruling power, and that was Good.”
-Chief Luther Standing Bear -
Teton Sioux, Born 1868
“Native American isn’t blood. It is what is in the heart. The love for the land, the respect for it, those who inhabit it, and the respect and acknowledgement of the spirits and elders. That is what it is to be Indian.”
White Feather, Navajo Medicine Man
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I was just sitting here thinking that I have never heard anyone say “I am part white” or “I’m 1/4 black”I thought of this after a friend of mine said “I am like 1/6 Native American”.
Who is keeping track of all these records of who is how much? Is it Whites? is it Indians?
When i was in school, my teacher asked everyone in the class as part of some project to write a paper about who they were, where they came from and what nationality they were… well in mine i wrote about being Native American. unlike every other student, the teacher asked me right then and there what Reservation I was a member of… I stammered and hemmed and hawed and said “none” the class laughed and she said “Then you are not an Indian” wow.
Who askes Tupac Shakure or Will smith what part of Africa they are from, yet there is no doubt that they are “African American”
What’s your opinion on this, please share. thanks.
Bradley Sumpter bradfromiowa@gmail.com
Enjoy this video starting with “The Talking Circle” used to solve problems like improving Tribal resources.
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Subject: [oceti_sakowin] VISIT/Ihantunwan Dakota/Resistance/Hog Farm
Hau Mitakuyapi, "Hello my relatives"
Owasin cantewasteya nape ciyuzapi do! "With a good heart, I greet all of you with a handshake."
I just returned from a visit to the Ihanktunwan Dakota Reservation, May 01-03, 2008. The purpose of the visit was to stand in support and solidarity with the Ihanktunwan against the hog farm that will soon start operations. However, it rained on Fri 5/02 so there was no standing and watching the invaders build their pig farm. I wish to share some thoughts, observations, and reactions…
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Video’s of the Dakota’s Wakan/"Rum" River Watershed traditional/ancestral homeland
(1.) The mouth of the Wakan/"Rum" River.
This sacred Dakota river flows out of Wakan/"Mille Lacs" Lake. The Dakota call this river by the sacred name for their lake [Wakan], which translated means Spirit or Great Spirit. The Dakota had a village located at this sacred site. Around the year 1750 French "settlers"/invaders tricked a newly arrived band of Ojibwe to violently forced the Dakota from this sacred site of theirs. However, the Dakota are beginning to return to reclaim this sacred site. The Dakota name for the sacred land surrounding the mouth of this river is Mdo-te-mini-wakan, pronounced Bdoh-Tay-Mni-Wah kahn, and translated as Mouth (of river) + Water + Spirit.
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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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When it comes to global warming, are we getting in too deep? Here’s a look at the top 10 U.S. cities at risk from rising sea levels.
By Shiwani Srivastava for MSN City Guides
Global warming might be the current hot topic in the news, but the threat of rising sea levels can often seem distant, uncontrollable and even abstract. Just how soon can we expect to feel the impact? And is there really anything we can do about it?
In December, the OECD – a Paris-based international organization that gathers and analyzes economic statistics and social data to benefit the global economy – released a report listing the cities worldwide that are most threatened by rising seas in the next 60 years, measured by population and property assets at risk. U.S. cities ranked surprisingly high on the list, capturing five of the top 10 spots, with all but one of the top 10 U.S. cities ranking in the top 30 worldwide.
So how did they figure out which cities are most at risk? Researchers looked at the combination of a "1-in-100 year" major flooding event (a commonly accepted risk assessment standard) with a sea rise of 1.6 feet by 2070 (caused by global warming) and calculated the effects. The one-two punch is potentially devastating, especially for several major U.S. cities.
That said, the OECD’s report isn’t meant to be all gloom and doom. Rather, it is meant to spur cities into preparedness to prevent another situation like Hurricane Katrina, which caused more than 1,800 deaths in Louisiana and Mississippi, and displaced hundreds of thousands more. In many ways, America and its economy are still feeling the aftershock of this natural disaster. But re-witnessing Katrina isn’t a sealed fate. While it could take up to 30 years for cities to set up adequate protection against rising seas, the technology exists to seriously lessen the damage that cities potentially face.
Slide show of 10 U.S. cities most at risk from rising sea levels
Coverage of Earth Day 2008
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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]
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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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This Omaha Family Lost Everything they Own in A House Fire Today at 3:00pm 4-14-08
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They are in need of any kind of help, they will need to start all over they can use: Clothes, Cookware, Bedding, Jackets, Towels, Furniture, Financial Contributions are Greatly Appreciated if you find in your heart to help financially please make checks out to Barbara Omaha This Elderly Grandmother raised 9 children and 40 grandchildren and great grandchildren in this house. She is a spiritual elder she has lived in this house for 40 years she has a sweat lodge in her backyard.
Many community members have come here to pray, over the years she has helped
many people now it is time for her to receive help, as her family is homeless with nothing, all her spiritual items may not be recovered years of photos, and memories may have been lost, we lost a one year old puppy, luckily everyone got out safe, but now she is suffering and is in desperate need of help from our community if anyone wants to donate please drop off donations to her daughter Maggie’s
house the address is 3101 34th Ave South Minneapolis, MN there will be someone there at all times collecting any donations will be greatly appreciated as well as prayers, we are coming to you in a humble way asking for assistance and for help. Wolakota we are all related Thank you in advance from the Omaha Family
She has 7 grandchildren
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HUALAPAI INDIAN RESERVATION, Ariz. (AP) - To leaders of the Hualapai Indian Tribe, opening a casino on the south rim of the Grand Canyon (PHOTOS)seemed like a great idea at the time.
They dreamed of tourists flocking to play a few rounds on a one-armed bandit before stepping outside for a spectacular, unspoiled view of America’s most famous natural wonder.
But in the rush to bring badly needed jobs and revenue to the reservation, tribal officials overlooked some serious stumbling blocks - like the fact that the road in from the nearest highway is a 14-mile unpaved nightmare of fist-sized rocks, blind turns and tire-eating ruts.
"We thought it would be successful, but we didn’t last seven months," says Hualapai vice-chairman Edgar Walema, sitting in the building that used to be the tribe’s casino before it closed in 1995. The building is now the terminal for a small airstrip where tourists fly in to see the canyon.
"Most of the tourists come here from Las Vegas," Walema continued. "Who wants to come out and play piddly machines when their main concern is visiting the natural beauty of the canyon?"
The popular image of Indian casinos is one of prosperity, of glittering lights and crowds of gamblers and wealthy tribal members.
That image is true for a select few tribes fortunate enough to be close to large cities and thousands of gamblers. Successful casinos like the Mashantucket Pequots’ Foxwoods near New York and the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux’ Mystic Lake near Minneapolis are the exception, however, tribal leaders say.
"I call it the Pequot principle," said U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs spokesman Rex Hegler. "There’s about five tribes that have done very well, but there’s 554 tribes in the country. People that think there’s nothing the tribes need now are confused."
Most other tribal casinos make little more than enough to cover their payrolls. And several tribes like the Hualapais have seen their casino dreams crushed into dust, the victims of their remote locations, competition from other types of gambling or intergovernmental squabbling.
For them, casinos have become a trickster’s gamble, another in a long string of losing bets on economic development.
"Most of the tribes (with casinos) are marginally successful at best," says Jacob Coin, executive director of the
National Indian Gaming Association. "They’re not pulling in the hundreds of millions of dollars that most people tend to think about when they think of Indian gaming."
The Hualapais had to lay off about 15 people when their casino closed - a big impact for a tribe of about 2,000 with about two-thirds of its members in poverty, Walema said.
"There were a lot of disappointments because other reservations were making it big," Walema said. "For us, it just didn’t pan out."
It didn’t pan out for the Kaibab-Paiute
tribe, either, whose casino near the Arizona-Utah border closed in 1996. Or the Lummi tribe, whose casino in Washington state closed in 1997.
The biggest factor, Coin and tribal leaders say, is the old business adage of location, location, location. Most reservations are, by design, in remote locations far from cities, freeways and airports.
"When you have a population base of 65,000 within 45 miles, you aren’t going to do as well as a Foxwoods or a Mystic Lake," said Jerry Allen, assistant general manager of the Jamestown S’Klallam tribe’s casino near Sequim, Wash.
The tribe’s Seven Cedars Casino in a remote area of the Olympic Peninsula now has about 200 employees, down from a peak of 475, Allen said. The tribe also is hurt by an agreement with Washington state that bans slot machines, Allen said.
Casinos in Canada, Oregon and Idaho do offer the slot machines, which are more popular with gamblers and less costly to run than the blackjack and craps tables at Seven Cedars, Allen said.
"We have a real slot sandwich here so it’s a real challenge to keep people at home playing the table games," Allen said.
South Dakota’s Oglala Sioux Tribe has a similar complaint. The tribe could use a bigger casino than the one it has
under a state agreement, because the tribe’s Pine Ridge reservation is home to one of the nation’s poorest counties, said tribal treasurer Dale Looks Twice.
"I wish we could make more money than we are right now, but it all depends on the machines," Looks Twice said. "If we could get the state to allow more machines, then we could bring more money into the tribe."
Poverty statistics such as unemployment and homelessness actually increased on the Pine Ridge reservation after the tribe’s Prairie Wind casino opened.
"Many of the people who live off the reservation thought, ‘Here’s my chance of getting a job,’ so they all came back home," Coin said. "So that bumped up the numbers on how many people would be counted as unemployed and homeless."
Tribal officials worry that the perception of successful Indian casinos will prompt Congress to cut funding for tribal programs. Tribes are fighting proposals this year that would cut off federal funds to relatively wealthy tribes and have successfully fought a bid to tax casinos and other tribal enterprises.
"Gaming is providing some opportunities, but tribes are still roughly 40 years behind similar communities in infrastructure needs and other areas," said Hegler, the BIA spokesman. "We have 49 percent unemployment in Indian Country right now."
The Hualapai tribe, for example, has only three police officers to patrol a reservation of 1,550 square miles.
"Unfortunately, back in Washington you have a lot of legislators making decisions about Indian Country without having any reservations in their jurisdictions," Allen said. "When you see the Pequots or some of these other ones, it overglamorizes everything and does a disservice to Indian Country in general because it is, by and large, the exception to the rule."
With the proliferation of Indian casinos, the public is beginning to view tribes as casino operators, not governments, said Hopi tribal chairman Wayne Taylor Jr.
"While tribal gaming successes have provided no direct tangible benefits to non-gaming tribes, the non-gaming tribes nevertheless share the brunt of the Congressional backlash and unfavorable public perception," Taylor told the National Gambling Impact Study Commission last summer.
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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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Oceti Sakowin Omniciye
April 11-13, 2008
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It is time, once again, for the Oceti Sakowin Omniciye – the Seven Council Fires Summit Friday, April 11 through Sunday April 13, 2008 at Maka Cokaya – the Center of the Earth. (Bdote – Mendota MN)
At this meeting we will continue the process of addressing the Colonial Celebration of the state of Minnesota’s Sesquicentennial. There was such a great turn out at our January meeting and there were so many good ideas and suggestions that we hope everyone that was there will attend this meeting and that more of you will join us so that we can follow through with what was begun.
Come and help us to firm up plans for the Protest on the Mendota Bridge on May 9th, the Walk Run
and Rally at the State Capitol on May 11th and various other events that are in the works, including the Great Plains/Great Prairie Sacred Sites Run from Crow Creek. And plan new events to carry our message through the year of colonial celebration.
During this time of the 150th Anniversary, the colonial society must be educated on the truth of OUR History! The concentration camp, the hangings, the broken treaties, the stolen land, the forced march and forced removal from our homeland…these are the truths that they must learn, acknowledge and accept. It is up to us, the Dakota Oyate, our Allies and Friends, to make this happen.
There will be an Inipi on Friday and Saturday evenings at the MMDC Center.
Clifford Canku will be Spiritual Advisor. We’re hoping that Phyllis Red Day and Mike Simon will be joining us in that capacity as well.
People will have to come on their own. We, the Mendota Dakota Community and friends, will provide the food.
There is a Marriott Courtyard and a Marriott Fairfield Inn about 5 minutes away from the Mendota Community Center.
The Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community is located at:
1324 Sibley Memorial Highway MAP
Mendota MN 55150
(651)452-4141
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On Good Friday, March 21st during a powerful snowstorm Sacred Sites Run activists participated in the 8000 Drum ceremony, a worldwide call for healing, love and peace.
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Wonderful video of Jim Anderson discussing the desecration of sacred Native Sites including burial mounds. ending with a lone sad flute playing while he reads his poem entitled “Genocide”
Thank You ladychoctaw for sharing this video, it should be a crime for them to dig up our sacred grounds where our people are buried… We all know what would happen if we did this in THEIR burial grounds of today?
i agree with walkingbear56 there arnt some thing that are not for sale!!!! Native pride all the way. stop destroying the sacred sites!
i agree with you ladychoctaw we must all pray for our heritage and hold it dear to our hearts thanks for sharing with me god bless and peace aho
It is terrible that they should be allowed to dig up these sacred sites They should be preserved for future generations to visit and remember. Just another example of how heartless and gutless the men in power are to let this happen.
thank you for this…..Yes its a disease take… take…. take..well there are some things that arent for sale…EVER
We must preserve our sacred sites always! Our ancestors blood runs thru our veins and my heart weeps when I think what happened to them! We must all pray for our heritage and hold it dear to our hearts! Aho!
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Jim Anderson, (Red Sky) of the Mendota Dakota Mdewakanton Community discusses the importance of the sacred “Cold Water” in Pike Island (big island) Minnesota. This starts out in native language and then in English. Very Interesting.
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The tribe is considering several casino locations, including one in Stanley County on the west side of the massive Missouri River reservoir. That location would be on tribal trust land outside of the reservation boundaries.
Beautiful people. Thank you for posting this so we all may be enlightened on these issues.
Much love. Many blessings~ Nicole Jetté