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Prayers, Drums and Dance Oyate Gathering at St Peters Church Sept 11-13-2020.
This month in Sept your ACH payments will come out late.
This month in Sept your ACH payments will come out late. Sept 5 is a Saturday so we always need to wait until the following Monday. Then we have the holiday weekend so that delays it again. Your payment will come out Tuesday Sept 8th. Thank you to all who pay through ACH, it helps alot. Thank you for your patience. Sharon & the tribal council.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women USA.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women USA. This page is dedicated to helping missing and murdered American Indian women and their families and create.
http://mmiwusa.org
Please check it out, let’s end this atrocity how can this happen today. Please support the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women USA. Let’s get our missing native woman back that have not been murdered.
Sharon Lennartson Tribal Chairwoman.
MMIW USA’s number one mission is to bring our missing home and help the families of the murdered cope and support them through the process of grief. We give them hands-on support and guidance and if we don’t have the answers, we get the answers so that these families do not feel abandoned and alone in this struggle like so many have before them. Our broader goal is to eradicate this problem so that the future generations thrive. We are doing that through education of the threats that they face and self-defense. We just started a monthly program to do just that. It is called Staying Sacred and we educate and have self-defense lessons at every meeting. Our strength lies in the fact that every single one of the staff and volunteers have been assaulted or trafficked and our passion is to be the kind of organization that we needed growing up and beyond.
IMPORTANT BIA UPDATE! To all members: call the office make sure your file is in order
To all current members in good standing, please call the office make sure your file is in order and complete. If you want you file to go to the BIA.
We are working on how we are going to send in the narrative when it is done. We want you to understand what the process and when this will happen. Hope to have a meeting maybe at the DuPuis House outside? We will keep you informed.
Your tribal council
Sharon, John,Jason and Greg.
Duane Wipple, Jr. of Santee, NE passed away unexpectedly Tuesday, August 4, 2020 in Santee, NE.
Obituary of Duane Whipple, Jr.
WHIPPLE DUANE
Duane Wipple, Jr. of Santee, NE passed away unexpectedly Tuesday, August 4, 2020 in Santee, NE. Funeral services will be 2:00 PM, Saturday, August 8, 2020 at the Oyate Oyanke Community Center, Santee, NE with Rev. Pat Whitehorse-Carda officiating. Burial will be in the Santee Episcopal Cemetery, Santee, NE. Visitations will begin at 6:00 PM, Wednesday, August 5, 2020 at the Oyate Oyanke Community Center, Santee, NE and continue until service time on Saturday. There will be a Scripture service each evening at 7:00 PM at the Community Center. The Opsahl-Kostel Funeral Home & Onsite Crematory, Yankton, SD is assisting with the service details. Online condolences may be sent at: www.opsahl-kostelfuneralhome.
Duane (Porky) Whipple Jr. was born November 19, 1968 to Duane Sr. and Bernadine Whipple Moran. Duane lived most of his life in Santee Nebraska. In his younger years he loved to play basketball and softball with his brothers Don Whipple, Robert Whipple and Sam Whipple and his cousin/brother Steve. He graduated from Santee in 1987. He was our music man and was into heavy metal. Morley Cru, Cinderella and Poison was heard free from his room daily. Duane had 3 children: Dominique, Kia and Sabastion. He loved them very much and talked about them often. Duane was the life of the party. He was the joker and would have everyone laughing with his jokes and humor. He always had a smile no matter the situation. Duane became an avid pool shooter in life just like his dad. He also was the tribal historian and museum curator. Duane will be missed by all of his family.
Duane leaves behind his son Sabastion and Daughter Kia. His brothers Donnie and Robert Whipple. His sisters Patricia Beccera Whipple, Candice Anderson and Angela Anderson. His cousin/sister Stacy Jo Johnson and his cousin/brothers Steve and Joseph Moose.
Duane was preceded in death by his father, son Dominique, grandmother Bernice, grandfather Tommy, brother Alvin, sister Suzette, and uncle Robert.
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