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		<title>Open letter to all peoples of good heart about the current situation of the MMDC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An open letter to all peoples of good heart about our current situation

   
From the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community               

   

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Many generations ago, our elders prophesized that a time would come when their descendants [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mendotadakota.com/mn/2010/03/10/open-letter-to-all-peoples-of-good-heart-about-the-current-situation-of-the-mmdc/</link>
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		<title>SMS Casino Millionaire Can&#8217;t afford to pay his victim&#8217;s family.</title>
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The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux tribe, which owns Mystic Lake Casino in Prior Lake, pays this man almost 80,000 per month.&#160; He owns multiple homes, arrives to court in a limousine with driver and yet he pleads “poverty” in court. 
What was his crime? Instead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mendotadakota.com/mn/2010/03/09/sms-casino-millionaire-cant-afford-to-pay-his-victims-family/</link>
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		<title>Melvin Grey Owl has been in an accident.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Melvin came from Crow Creek to teach a Dakota class at the Mendota office on Wednesday night March 3rd. The next day he went to visit the children at the Anishinabe School, were Brian works. The Children really enjoyed learning from him. Later that day he was on this way home when the auto accident [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mendotadakota.com/mn/2010/03/08/melvin-grey-owl-has-been-in-an-accident/</link>
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		<title>Fire Talks at ColdWater 3-6-2010</title>
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First Nations United: To ensure the prosperity of the First Nation people and to bring about unification of all tribal nations through redefining our identity and connecting with our past!
				    FIRE TALKS!
Fire represents power, strength, life, and sustainability. First Nation people have used this life source in their ceremonies as a way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mendotadakota.com/mn/2010/03/05/fire-talks-at-coldwater-3-6-2010/</link>
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		<title>Language Class every Wednesday night 6:30 – 8:30.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Language Class every Wednesday night 6:30 – 8:30.
Everyone is welcome.
Come and enjoy all the wonderful people who come to class every Wednesday night.
Learn the Dakota language at a relaxed pace. Potluck!
Pidamaya   Sharon and the tribal council 651-452-4141
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		<link>http://mendotadakota.com/mn/2010/03/05/language-class-every-wednesday-night-630-%e2%80%93-830/</link>
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		<title>Wilma Mankiller, she decided to issue this statement.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[> Chad Smith Statement: Charlie Soap regrets to announce his wife Wilma Mankiller has been diagnosed with Stage IV Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer.
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> Mankiller is an author, lecturer and former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.  Mankiller has served 12 years in elective office at the Cherokee Nation, the first two as Deputy Principal Chief [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mendotadakota.com/mn/2010/03/05/wilma-mankiller-she-decided-to-issue-this-statement/</link>
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		<title>The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe has settled its tax debt with the IRS.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe has settled its tax debt with the Internal Revenue Service and lined up a loan that will enable it to buy back the 11 square miles of land the IRS sold at auction in December, the tribal chairman said.
A stipulation filed in court last week indicates the tribe will dismiss [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mendotadakota.com/mn/2010/03/02/the-crow-creek-sioux-tribe-has-settled-its-tax-debt-with-the-irs/</link>
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		<title>Peter T. LaPointe  Obituary.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Age 62 of Inver Grove Heights Peacefully on Feb. 26, 2010 Preceded in death by father, Gerard; brothers, Michele &#038; Thomas. Survived by loving wife of 36 years, Elizabeth &#8220;Betty&#8221;; son, Brent (Misty); daughter, Renee; mother, Berniece; brothers, Nicholas (Sharon), Mark (Kay), Paul (Betty Ann); sisters, Elisabeth (Dale) Thurber, Margaret (Patrick) Hylton &#038; Ann (Daryl) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mendotadakota.com/mn/2010/02/28/peter-t-lapointe-obituary/</link>
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		<title>2010 Tsunami Videos, BEFORE, DURING and AFTER Oahu Honolulu Hawaii Cam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[here are many unedited, PRE hawaii tsunami videos from sams club, walmart and driving in the street. click here for all videos http://www.youtube.com/ckcelite
just random PRE tsunami videos from hawaii



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		<link>http://mendotadakota.com/mn/2010/02/27/2010-tsunami-videos-before-during-and-after-oahu-honolulu-hawaii-cam/</link>
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		<title>Features you may have missed on our site.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You will see many new things added, more information, educational items, downloadable materials, an interactive discussion forum, our own web store, and many many more.
We value your comments, suggestions, thoughts, and criticisms. We have had almost a million hits on our site in a little over a year, WOW.
Your tribal council.
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		<link>http://mendotadakota.com/mn/2010/02/25/features-you-may-have-missed-on-our-site/</link>
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		<title>The Endangered Language Fund.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear all,
The Endangered Language Fund is pleased to announce the availability of the handbook entitled &#8220;Grant Writing for Indigenous Languages,&#8221; by Ofelia Zepeda and Susan Penfield.  It is aimed primarily at U.S. tribes seeking U.S. funds, so we hope this will be of use to subscribers of this list.  Please feel free to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mendotadakota.com/mn/2010/02/25/the-endangered-language-fund/</link>
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		<title>11th annual Mendota Wacipi (Pow Wow)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mendota would like your input about when we should have our 11th Pow Wow.
In August or September? Please respond with your preference, and name. Check back next month for the results. The Pow Wow committee will then decide. If you would like to be on the Pow Wow committee, please send us an email that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mendotadakota.com/mn/2010/02/23/mendota-wacipi-or-pow-wow/</link>
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		<title>Ban on Native Eskimo Dance Once Considered, Evil Now Lifted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Belief that traditional dancing is evil remains deeply ingrained in many Native villages
 By Rachel D&#8217;oro &#124; THE Associated Press
NOORVIK &#8211; Bobby Wells has lived all his life in this remote Alaska village, where the Eskimo dancing of his ancestors was banned by Quaker missionaries a century ago as primitive idolatry.
Now Wells, 53, and other residents [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mendotadakota.com/mn/2010/02/22/native-dancing-ban-lifted-in-alaska-village/</link>
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		<title>Voting membership meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our next voting membership meeting is Tuesday February 23, at 7:00 pm. Please try and make the meeting, we have lots to talk about. Do you think we should change the time for the voting membership meeting? We need to see more members at the meeting.
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		<link>http://mendotadakota.com/mn/2010/02/22/voting-membership-meeting-2/</link>
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		<title>NEW LINKS ADDED!</title>
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We have added a new link. MinnesotaHistory.net&#160; to our links page at http://mendotadakota.com/mn/link_exchange/ Be sure to check it out. If you have a link you would like to see added, let us know.

    http://www.MinnesotaHistory.net is a forum for discussing current events relating to the history of Minnesota   
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		<link>http://mendotadakota.com/mn/2010/02/21/new-links-added/</link>
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		<title>1000s of Native Americans being &#8220;dis enrolled&#8221; across the US</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of Native American Indians are illegally being kicked off reservations and kicked out of tribes all over the US!
Dis enrolled, Dis enfranchised, Exiled, whatever you want to call it, it’s happening to thousands of Indians across America.  Apparently what the whites FAILED to do, money, or at least the love of it, is now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mendotadakota.com/mn/2010/02/20/1000s-of-native-americans-being-dis-enrolled-across-the-us/</link>
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		<title>These are our newest honorary members, congratulations to all of you.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Honorary People
Bruce White
Sister Jan Dawson
Sister Jane McDonald
Sister Mary O’Brien
Diane Elliott
Linda Rost
Lisa Elbert
Ron Cronick
John Gebhart
Jennifer Otto
Jeanne Hollingworth
Bob Snitgen  2009
Janet Llerandi
Faith  Bad Moccasin
Todd Heintz
Mendota is very fortunate to have people like all of you involved in our community. Pidamaya from the Mendota Community. If you would like to become an honorary member, please look on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mendotadakota.com/mn/2010/02/19/these-are-our-newest-honorary-members-congratulations-to-all-of-you/</link>
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		<title>Essays on Reorganization Act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.lotsofessays.com/essay_search/Reorganization_Act.html
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		<link>http://mendotadakota.com/mn/2010/02/14/essays-on-reorganization-act/</link>
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		<title>Various titles on American Indian Studies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Digital Librarian: a librarian&#8217;s choice of the best of the Web
Digital Librarian is maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York
American Indian Studies
See Also: Central New York: Native Americans &#124; Electronic Texts &#124; History &#124; Images &#124; Latin American Resources &#124; Southwest &#124; Yurts and Tipis
Aboriginal Canada Portal &#8211; &#8220;Links to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mendotadakota.com/mn/2010/02/14/7459/</link>
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		<title>www.rapidcityjournal.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ttp://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_95aa4610-e062-11de-aa52-001cc4c03286.html
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		<link>http://mendotadakota.com/mn/2010/02/14/www-rapidcityjournal-com/</link>
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