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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.
  
• Buttons Sales of $10.00 help fund the Wacipi / Pow Wow. Thank You for your donation.
  
• Only service dogs allowed, no other exceptions. Please read!
  
• Please have cash for food and merchandise at Wacipi. We cannot afford a POS machine.
  
• 10th Generations to Cetanwakanmami Little Crow.
  
• 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.
  
• Zoom Meeting Discussion Federal Recognition Press Release
  
• Excerpts from Hasting Newspaper1-3-1885. Alberts LeClaire’s Birth in on here.
  
• 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.
  
• New Growth From Old Roots, by Kim Wensaut, The Circle Newspaper
  
• 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
  
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• We need tomato’s and onions. Thanks
  
• Vendors spots are full. See all our wonderful soon.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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!!
  
• Sicangu Youth Council help provide a formal burial at the Rosebud Indian Reservation
  
• Pray for Rain Full Moon Walk at Coldwater Springs – Friday, July 23, 2021
  
• Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition Information
  
• 4 Dakota landmarks hide in plain sight along the Mississippi River.
  
• Very sad to have lost these woman within a short time of each other all good friends.
  
• Cheryl Fields May 28, 1950 – July 1st 2021 age 71. Just hear this 2 hours ago on 7-11-21 very sad.
  
• Christina J. Fowler November 19, 1971 ~ June 24, 2021 (age 49) Service in Aug.
  
• Another version of our brochure.
  
• If you are donating to the Wacipi / Pow Wow Gift Cards people seem to like.
  
• Minnesota Human Rights Act.
  
• Canton Asylum for Insane Native American Indians. Horrific Place to put our people.
  
• St Paul Globe. Date April 20, 1902. Mendota MN.
  
• Amazon Smile or Smile Amazon for your charity MMDTC.
  
• Photograph of the Frenier Sisters
  
• Announcement of our Wacipi organization and rules.
  
• Peace Pipeline Video
  
• New geneaology information for Sharon Lennartson: Great-great-grandfather
  
• Mendota Dakota Pow Wow Videos From Many Different Years!
  
• Dakota Dance Styles
  
• If you make a donation you will be added to our donation sign at the pow wow!
  
• Native News Online, has our article too, this is so awesome. Pidamaya ye Creator.
  
• Albert and Lilly LeClaire pamphlet printed by the Shakopee Historial Society.
  
• Clearwater Virtual Great Hudson River
  
• Interesting facts about Minnesota and Mendota from the Library of Congress.
  
• Theodore Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” speech at the MN State Fair – Sept. 3, 1901.
  
• Article about us on MSN News.
  
• Mendota Census files 1899-1930
  
• Mendota wants to thank military and first responders!
  
• Video about Highway 55 reroute.
  
• Star Tribune article about our press release.
  
• MMDTC declares its sovereignty: indiancountrytoday.com
  
• Congratulation on the birth of Etta! Photo of her wearing Mendota t-shirt
  
• John F. LeClaire was born on June 4, 1886.
  
• Need to rent or borrow Golf Cart for Wacipi Sept 7-13-2021. Can you help?
  
• Excelsior Coin and Collectibles come in and say hi to John Varone.
  
• MMDTC needs to move our office, and we can use your help.
  
• New Brochure and press release “About the Mendota Dakota Tribal Community”
  
• Joe got us a grant from MRAC, for new personal panels and our history for our 21st Wacipi.
  
• Ach payments
  
• We would love to add your descendances charts on our website
  
• White Earth Wacipi
  
• Good luck to Tommy, Riley and everyone helping with Mendota fundraiser
  
• Homicide body dumped in a car by Coldwater. Please come to purifying event
  
• Celebrate the Sun Full Moon Walk
  
• Vendors Application for our 21st Wacipi. Can’t wait to see you all.
  
• Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribal Community have to move.
  
• Victoria Scott has MSA and Parkinson’s disease and needs help.
  
• Wacipi 2002 with Elli and Bear.
  
• A very special Inipi with a very special woman Dottie Whipple.
  
• Dorothy Dottie Whipple has enter the spirit world on May15, 2021.
  
• Tommy’s research on president Joe Biden on how we hope he will help us.
  
• Pidamaya ye all who responded to my 3 simple questions about covid.
  
• Donations for Wacipi / Pow Wow. Volunteers needed, must have volunteers starting in July.
  
• To all members, honorary too. Just a little survey about how safe Mendota is.
  
• Let all get protected from covid. I had both of my shots I had no side effects.
  
• Gov. Walz ends state mask mandate but recommends unvaccinated still wear them, like CDC
  
• Looking for News Radio and T.V. for a press release on June 15, 2021.