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• Article from Indian County Today by Jenna Kunze Aug 4th 2021.
  
• Let Us Give Thanks for this Holiday Season. With toys and gift cards for the needed this year.
  
• Special teaching in sweat lodge
  
• Honored to have Representatives from Dickinson / Carlisle Indian School website.
  
• Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribe to again seek federal recognition
  
• Donation Request Letter for our 21st Traditional Pow Wow Sept 10-12-2021
  
• If you are looking for an article and don’t see it, use our search bar.
  
• Some of Sharon’s Genealogy. Please send yours so it can be added.
  
• New Growth from Old Roots Circle News Feb 2000
  
• AN EMPLOYEE PERK THAT MAKES EMPLOYEES PERK.
  
• Document for signing up to ACH Payments.
  
• Change of address for Members.
  
• Warranty Deed Hipolite Dupuis to Octave LeClaire 4-22-1864 Page (1).
  
• Have You Been Fully Vaccinated? You must be to enter the Wacipi.
  
• Mendota’s 21st Wacipi – Pow Wow Sept 10-11-12, 2021.
  
• The Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribal Community is looking for new members.
  
• Application for those who would like to be part of our community.
  
• Hello everyone the Mendota office is closed in Mendota, because of the coronavirus.
  
• I sure hope we are back to normal by our Pow Wow Sept 11-13-20.
  
• Our Way Or The Highway: Inside The Minnehaha Free State
  
• AMAZON NOW HAS AN APP. Amazon.smile will donate to the MMDTC everytime you make a purchase!
  
• Cancelled Membership Meeting 3/29/20 – DuPuis House. May cancel Aprils meeting too.
  
• Mendota’s 21st Traditional Wacipi / Pow Wow Sept 11-13-2020.
  
• Fundraiser at the Mendota VFW to help keep our doors open June 6th, 2020.
  
• MMDTC Enrollment Consent Form Census Consent form.
  
• Federal Recognition needs some help with research.
  
• No membership meeting in December
  
• If anyone wants to donate a gift please sent to MMDC 1351 Sibley Memorial Hwy, Mendota MN 55150.
  
• Christmas party and toy drive & potluck. Dec 7th 1-4 at the DuPuis House in Mendota.
  
• Please use Amazon Smile and Our Tribe Will Earn Donations!
  
• Membership Meeting Nov 24, potluck at the DuPuis House in Mendota 1-4.
  
• Christmas Party and Toy Drive Dec 7th, 1-4 potluck at the DuPuis House in Mendota.
  
• Future Membership Meetings for 2019 – 2020.
  
• The Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribal Community is looking for a professional grant writer and professional fundraiser.
  
• Congratulations to all the winners from our pow wow raffle booth & auctions
  
• Funeral for Jim Anderson \ Red Sky: Wednesday Sept 11th at 11:00am
  
• James Kermit Anderson “Red Sky” was born May 7, 1959. He passed into the spirit world June 27, 2019.
  
• Update on Pow Wow and Membership Meeting.
  
• Membership Meeting July 29, 2019.
  
• Update about (Red Sky) Jimmy Anderson passing from a heart attack on 6-27-2019.
  
• Metro Regional Arts Council Arts Achievement Award Celebration
  
• 2019 Arts Achievement Award Celebration
  
• Dakota Tribes, Mendota is mentioned.
  
• Next Membership Meeting is Monday June 24, from 6:30 – 8:30 at the DuPuis House in Mendota. Potluck
  
• Mendota’s 20th Annual Pow Wow Sept 13, 14, 15, 2019, at St. Peter’s Church in Mendota, MN 55150.
  
• Friday, April 19, Full Moon Walk/Water Ceremony at Coldwater.
  
• Albert and Lilly LeClaire House in Mendota.
  
• Our next Membership Meeting is Sunday April 28 1-4 potluck.
  
• It’s TAX TIME & your donation toward Mendota Community Center is tax deductible
  
• Best Buy / Community Center
  
• Documents for gaining federal recognition 25CFR Part 83 2015
  
• Reminder of this Sunday February 24, Membership Meeting from 12:00 – 3:00 Potluck.
  
• Sharon Lennartson, celebrating 15 years of volunteering!
  
• Membership Meeting are on the last Sunday for the next 3 months.
  
• Next Membership Meeting Sunday Jan 26, 2020 at the DuPuis House in Mendota from 1-4 potluck!
  
• Holiday Party & Toy Drive at the DuPuis House
  
• Help us get donations.
  
• Letter from Jim Anderson, about how Mendota has been treated for years. It is time we stand up, enough is enough.
  
• Grievance Letter to MNHS & the DCC.
  
• Please read you may find your ancestors in the excerpts.
  
• Friends of the Sibley House Newsletter please read.
  
• Daughter of the American Revolution
  
• Mendota Inipi May 20, 1:30 at the Dupuis House in Mendota. Potluck
  
• WHY we are repeating our history again over and over and over?
  
• The Mayo Hospital is a fabulous hospital.
  
• The Mendota Community would like to say thank you to the State of MN.
  
• Update on my cancer, Love Sharon. 4-7-2018
  
• Drum teaching cancelled for April 3rd, at the DuPuis House because of weather. We will reschedule.
  
• Our next membership meeting is next Sunday March 25, 1-4 potluck.
  
• Cancelled Membership Meeting Monday Jan 28, 2019 due to weather. Next Membership Meeting meeting Sunday Feb 24, 2019.
  
• Mendota’s18th Wacipi Sept 8-10-2017 Supplies Help.
  
• GOFUNDME PLEASE HELP US GET A COMMUNITY CENTER.
  
• The Doctrine of Discovery May 3rd at 7PM at the DuPuis House
  
• The flowers of tomorrow are the seeds of today. April 22nd, 11am to 2pm
  
• Dakota Truth Telling Gathering. May 4th to 7th.
  
• Now is the time if you want to make a donation to Mendota by the end of the year. All donations are Tax Deductible.
  
• Christmas Party & Toy Drive Dec 3rd, 2016 – 1-4, POTLUCK! at the DuPuis House
  
• Urgent letter to all peoples of good heart about the current situation of the MMDTC.
  
• Beverly Mae Scott passed into the Spirit World Oct 5th, 2016. Memorial for her Nov 19th at the DuPuis House 1-5 POTLUCK
  
• MENDOTA NEEDS YOUR HELP! HELP US GET LAND AND A COMMUNITY CENTER.
  
• Membership Meeting & Sharon’s birthday Aug 29th
  
• Mendota’s 17th Traditional Wacipi Sept 9-11-2016. We are looking for volunteers call the tribal office if you would like to volunteer.
  
• Bdote Dakota Water Summit April 17th, 2016 – 12:30-3pm.
  
• The Battle of the Story of Taku Wakan Tipi.
  
• Membership Enrollment is now reopen. On our website go under downloads to see the application.
  
• Ceremony in Mendota for Wounded Knee on Dec 29th it will be 125 years since the Massacre.
  
• Voting Membership Meeting at the DuPuis House Sunday Nov 29th 1- 4 Potluck!
  
• Mendota Day’s July 11, 2015. Volunteers Needed. Native Dancers needed
  
• Please come and help us celebrate 20 years as a continuous community June 27th 2015 11:00am – 3:30pm at St. Peters Church, Mendota MN 55150. 
  
• Voting Membership Meeting May 31st, at the DuPuis House in Mendota 1-3:30 POTLUCK.
  
• Inipi May 17, 2015 at the DuPuis House be there by 1:30 if you want to do prayers ties, Inipi at 3:00. Potluck! Rain or Shine we will have the Inipi!!
  
• Mendota will celebrate 20 years substantially continuous basis as “American Indian as a community on June 27th 2015
  
• Honoring Our Ancestors Feb 7th 2015.
  
• Mendota has a new email – mendotadakota@gmail.com
  
• New Tribal Council Chairwoman is Sharon Lennartson, Sharon would like to thank you.
  
• We have had over 3,200,000 hits to our website since Sep 28,2008.
  
• Pamela Fagan has some really nice items for sale, please check it out – www.etsy.com
  
• Membership is now reopened as of Oct 28, 2013.
  
• Voting Membership Meeting March 25, at the DuPuis House at 7pm.
  
• Pidamaya to the person who returned the White Buffalo Calf Woman picture
  
• Language class every Wednesday night from 6:30 to 8:30 (see details)
  
• Voting Membership Meeting February 25, at 7:00pm at the DuPuis House. CANCELLED
  
• Enrollment will be closed until further notice.
  
• ACH Easy Direct Payment Plan for Members
  
• New membership applications.
  
• Rebirth of the Mendota Dakota Tribe
  
• Need help with Fed Recognition & grants
  
• No Voting membership meeting Nov 19th
  
• Looking for Mendota Wacipi Pictures
  
• Mendota’s 13 Wacipi was Wonderful the best EVER!!!!
  
• Seven Feathers Construction 612-715-3037
  
• MEMBERS PHOTOS
  
• Any events that Mendota has please check the website, and your emails for any cancellation.
  
• MMDC fundraising with Food Perspectives
  
• Coursolle Family On Sunday, January 23, 2021, from 2 to 5 p.m., at the Dupuis House at the Sibley Historic Site located at 1357 Sibley Memorial Highway, Mendota, Minnesota Jane Hayden-Hart.
  
• Marguerite / Margaret Bellcourt – Bellecourt.
  
• Clyde Bellcourt is in the spirit world 1-11-22, one of the founders of American Indian Movement.
  
• Now VIRTUAL ONLY: update about Dakota and Ojibwe Languages Symposium.
  
• Charles Napoleon Morin.
  
• LARRY LONG and TOM THIBODEAU In story & Song. Check out DRIFTLESS RADIO WDRT-FM 91.9 
  
• Rosebud, Santee Sioux celebrate childrens’ remains return. Our grandmother Lilly LeClaire came home.
  
• CROW TRIBE HUNTING RIGHTS PROTECTED.
  
• Kaposia Village Recollections.
  
• Buffy Sainte-Marie, Brule, Star Nayea, filmmaker Chris Eyre and newspaper publisher Paul DeMain
  
• TALES OF THE DAYS WHEN ST. PAUL WAS NOTHING BUT AN INDIAN COMMUNITY
  
• Minnesota History Taught Through the Lives of Hypolite & Angelique Renville Dupuis.
  
• Dakota 38+2 Memorial Ride 2021.
  
• The 2 churches we get toys from are all doing gift cards this year so much easier.
  
• Remembering Pearl Harbor Morning of December 7, 1941. Thank our veterans for protecting our country. our counity
  
• Check out SCRIBD website, I was looking for Renville Scouts and found this.
  
• Long Nights Full Moon Walk with SuSu and others.
  
• I found this post from Carl Leith 4-29-2016.
  
• Mendota is looking for a buffalo skull for our Inipi.
  
• Inipi & honoring for Joseph Bester after 34 years of sobriety & Sun Dancer for 31 years.
  
• I have been searching for a long time to see who is Wakan LeClaire?
  
• Survey coming to all members by the end of the month.
  
• Gratitude Full Moon Walk at Sacred Coldwater Springs.
  
• Jason Lambright uncle, Odelia (Matilda) LaBatte’s grandson. 
  
• Different books the Mendota people are mentioned in
  
• Mendota is looking for Honorary Members.
  
• Revoke the Medals of Honor for the Wounded Knee Massacre.
  
• This is Dakota Land By SuSu Jeffery. This is a must read!
  
• Angelique Winona RENVILLE and Hypolite DUPUIS were married on 11 Jan 1839 in Lac Qui Parle, Minnesota, USA.
  
• Brad and Sharon have posted on our website 1,739 posts.
  
• Survey coming to all members by the end of next week.
  
• The Biden administration set a Jan 4, 2022 deadline for its private-sector vaccine mandate.
  
• First Zoom membership meeting with members and honorary members Sunday Nov 28, at 6pm.
  
• Guide to work with Non Federal Recognition Tribes. Please Read!
  
• What is a Mendota Member Responsibility’s 2021.
  
• Facebook & Fundraisers & Charity. If you would like to donate to Mendota
  
• Angeline Morand Indian Princess dies.
  
• 27 years of community building and pubic education.
  
• We are looking for Lineal Members.
  
• Paul send us this, 20 Native American Women You Should Know.
  
• Old Betsey: The Life and Times of a Famous Dakota Woman and Her Family Paperback – May 1, 1995
  
• Zoom Meeting Discussion Federal Recognition Press Release on June 21, 2021.
  
• 10th Generations to Cetanwakanmami Little Crow.
  
• Some images from our Wacipi!
  
• Images on our Tipi, Coldwater, Pike Island, Pilot Knob, painted by Amy Zortman.
  
• Indigenous Peoples’ Day Oct 11-2021.
  
• Pelagie Faribault
  
• Can anyone help us find the document it is urgent.
  
• Oheyawahi / Pilot Knob.
  
• To all members please read Rule 25.
  
• Found this on the internet about my 10th grandfather Cetanwakanmani the 3rd.
  
•  Pike Island and Fort Snelling State Park.
  
• Excerpts from Hasting Newspaper 1-3-1885. Alberts LeClaire’s, LeMay’s and others are on there. Birth in on here
  
• New Mendota Heights Mayor Stephanie Levine came to our Wacipi.
  
• Information from the Shakopee Heritage Society
  
• Inipi tonight 10-1-2021 at the DuPuis House in Mendota.
  
• Mendota Dakota: Stories of Land and Leadership by Mike Klein (Author).
  
• I posted we are looking for Lineal Members on facebook and our website.
  
• Would you like to be an honorary members of the Mendota Community?
  
• Still looking for a picture of Angelique DuPuis. There are pictures Hypolite DuPuis.
  
• The Biden Administration’s Conservation Plan Must Prioritize Indigenous Leadership
  
• Mendota need someone to host the Wacipi next year. Time to move on with the younger generation.
  
• Mendota Dakota Pow Wow Videos From Many Different Years!
  
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• Now that the Wacipi is over. On to my book, once I’m feeling better.
  
• This was our most successful Wacipi ever. Thank you to everyone who came to share the weekend with us.
  
• We need tomato’s and onions. Thanks
  
• Vendors spots are full. See all our wonderful soon.
  
• Buttons Sales of $10.00 help fund the Wacipi / Pow Wow. Thank You for your donation.
  
• Covid Ready
  
• The Wacipi / Pow Wow is the weekend after Labor Day. Sep 10, 11,12.
  
• All vendors and volunteers please go tp the back of Mendota’s food both to sign in.
  
• Only service dogs allowed, no other exceptions. Please read!
  
• Discount rooms at Fairfield Inn by Marriott for Pow Wow 651-454-1978. 5 minutes from Pow Wow.
  
• Raffle Donations are needed.
  
• Welcome to all new people coming to our Wacipi what to expect.
  
• Regalia is not a costume, please never call it that.
  
• Pow Wow Etiquette.
  
• Since my 75 birthday was cancelled, because I got double pneumonia.
  
• Please have cash for food and merchandise at Wacipi. We cannot afford a POS machine.
  
• Donations for our 21 Wacipi. Pidamaya ye to all who have made a donation.
  
• New Publication: Mendota Dakota: Stories of Land & Leadership
  
• Sharon has Double Pneumonia, had to cancel my 75 birthday, very sad about that.
  
• Lawrence Dakota Irving Obituary. SACRED FIRE VIDEO Rest in peace my brother.
  
• Minnesota Governor Walz “can’t” stop line 3, by Susu Jeffrey
  
• Please RSVP for Sharon’s 75th Birthday party!
  
• Burr Oak Acorns Full Moon Walk at Sacred Coldwater Springs
  
• Address Change over a year ago.
  
• Mendota’s First Wacipi / Pow Wow.
  
• Sharon’s New Wacipi List.
  
• We are not a Competition Wacipi, we are a Traditional Wacipi, as most of you know.
  
• We still need more help with the Wacipi Sept 10-12-2021.
  
• Sharon’s 75th Potluck Birthday Party Aug 28th, VFW in Mendota MN 55150. No gifts!!