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Sota Iya Ye YapiP.O. Box 628Agency Village, SD 57262Postmaster:Contents -- Time-Dated News Do Not DelayThis edition mailed at Wilmot, SD on August 21, 2006

No. 34

Rescuers credited with saving the life of a10-year-boy from a dog attack to be honoredS-W Federal Credit Union annual meeting highlights; Dick Stewart honored for 27 years of serviceCongressional aides tour Lake Traverse Reservation, Tribal schools, SWC, Tribal headquarters, SWHATZTS opened its doors last week; ESDS to host First Day Celebration this Wednesday, Aug. 23, Back-

to-School Wacipi Friday, Aug. 25Next week: Highlights of SWC Annual Founders Day WacipiNext week: What has UMM student Kimberly Greeley been doing during her 2006

summer vacation?

Ryan Jacobson, representing Black & Veatch Engineering Consultant Group, speaks to SWO Tribal officials and interested Oyate members about the feasibility of developing wind energy resources on the Lake Traverse Reservation.

DelRay German, standing, Reservation Planning Commission Chairman, helped to host the meeting.

Black & Veatch team gives a presentation, including overhead projections showing different phases of development. Also at the forum were local representatives of Firetail Energy Systems, Inc., with a dual-role proposal.

Oyate members listen and ask questions about how the Tribe can develop this renewable energy resource.

Pictured above are S-W Federal Credit Union President Darrell Quinn, Sr., and Dick Stewart, who was honored at the August 10th annual meeting for 27 years of service. (Sota archives photo.)

The 27th annual meeting of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Federal Credit Union was held at the Tribal elderly center on Thursday evening, August 10th.

Welcoming members to the annual meeting was Darrell Quinn, Sr., Credit Union President.

Two SWFCU Board of Director positions were up for election, with three individuals filing to fill those positions: Dick Stewart (incumbent); Crystal Owen (incumbent); and Gladys Renville.

While the ballots were being counted, Dick Stewart was presented a plaque and a star quilt for 27 years of dedicated service to the Lake Traverse Reservation from Board members Lorraine Rousseau, Michelle Seaboy, and Robin Quinn.

Election results were: Dick Stewart 35 votes; Crystal Owen 27 votes; Gladys Renville 10 votes.

Dick Stewart and Crystal Owen will remain as representatives to the SWFCU Board of Directors.

Door prizes were then drawn for (4) $75.00 and (1) 250.00.

Winning members were: Eugene (Rabbit) Crawford $75.00; Mona Renville $75.00; Teresa Peters $75.00; Robin Quinn $75.00; Geraldine Keeble $250.00.

This is not breaking news. The Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribe has been studying feasibility of developing renewable energy resources on the Lake Traverse Reservation for at least the last decade.

Due to groundwork by the SWO Planning Department, however, including a BIA grant award for $50,000 for a feasibility study, the prospect of actually seeing tall wind generators along the Coteau des Prairies harvesting this natural renewable energy seems a real possibility.

Planning officials hosted a public forum last Thursday morning, at the community center, to present options and charts showing identified potential tower sites and how the energy could be flowed into the electrical grid. Bottom line, according to handouts given to participants, is that the Tribe could generate environmental-friendly energy and do it for a profit.

Bruce Renville, SWO EDA Planner, opened the meeting, followed by SWO Tribal Chairman Jerry Flute, who provided a welcome.

Brice said that the Lake Traverse Reservation has already been identified as having “the highest wind energy potential in eastern South Dakota, a region known to have high potential all across it.”

The EDA Planner admitted the Tribe’s delay in developing wind power, but told those at the meeting the SWO Tribe is now ready to “fast track” the feasibility study and build a wind farm.

While ongoing discussions of alternative energy resources have focused largely on revenue generation, SWO Tribal Chairman Jerry Flute said he would like the focus shifted – toward helping the Oyate meet their own energy needs at less cost.

“I’d rather see us place the priority on providing low-cost energy to Tribal members rather than selling the power to a major power company just to buy it back,” he said.

Chairman Flute told those gathered at the community center that while the project originally “was looked at as an economic development project . . . I’d like to see us change the mix a little bit and reprioritize how we view the development of wind energy.”

So many of the Oyate homes have electric heat, he continued, and rates have been increasing dramatically. “People are brining in ridiculously high electric bills,” he said, “These are often fixed or low-income (households) and they can’t pay their bills.”

Besides individual households, Tribal programs – including the three casinos – also face those same skyrocketing energy costs.

The Chairman said that keeping “. . . what we produce here . . . (is) my recommendation.”

If there is surplus power available, he added, it could be sold to a power company.

DelRay German, SWO Reservation Planning Commission Chairman, gave remarks before opening the resource assessment discussion.

He praised former Planning Director LeeAnn TallBear

for her “persistence” in pursuing alternative energy projects, especially wind power.

Representatives of Black & Veatch of Overland Park, Kansas, a consultant firm, gave a presentation showing stages of developing a wind farm from feasibility planning to construction.

Lead spokesperson Ryan Jacobson talked about the proposed timeline, how his firm could monitor sites on the Reservation, using three 160 ft. towers with meteorological testing equipment strategically placed along the Coteau.

These testing sites would be in areas identified as good choices for a wind farm.

The presentation included a slide which showed the sites – the northernmost location is just north of Lake City, central site southwest of Agency Village, and the southernmost site northwest of Summit.

A BIA MAP grant of $50,000 is already in place for the first stage, monitoring wind resources at key sites along the Coteau on the Lake Traverse Reservation and providing a general assessment of the overall project.

A second stage, which would be covered under an BIA additional grant application request of $250,000, would negotiate leases, layout wind turbine sites, select turbine design that suits the environment, transmission lines, develop financing and operations plans.

Timetable for the feasibility and design stages are over the next two years.Finally, the Tribe is expected to seek grants from

the U.S. Health and Human Services Administration for Native Americans (ANA) of an estimated $1.5 million for actual construction of its wind farm.

Jacobson said that his company is equipped to assist the Tribe in all stages leading to developing the wind farm, from the technical side to finding financing.

While Black & Veatch is a global consulting, engineering, and construction firm – with 7,000 employees, with a division of 50 people devoted to Native

American energy products – it has a local rival. Firetail Energy Systems, Inc., is a fledgling company located in Bismarck, North Dakota comprised of tribal members, but a handout shows the combined experience of its principals. Firetail Administrative Secretary is SWO Tribal member Nadine German Fredericks.

Nadine said the Firetail Energy is capable of handling SWO wind farm project in tandem with Black & Veatch.

“We could be the lead company,” she said, “with Black & Veatch providing technical support.”

A noon luncheon and honoring ceremony will be held this Thursday, August 24th, 2006, at the

community center, Agency Village, for three young men credited with

saving the life of a ten-year-old Oyate Tribal member.

The incident, an attack by a rotweiller, took place on Friday, July 7th.

Coming upon the boy being attacked, brothers Jeremiah and

Maurice Johnson teamed up to pull the dog off the

victim. Jeremiah confronted the dog while Maurice managed to pull the

youngster to safety.

A third rescuer, Chadwick Adams, used a stick to get the animal’s attention away from the victim.

The Johnsons transported the severely injured boy to the Sisseton IHS hospital emergency room, where he received a number of stitches. The victim was then transported by air ambulance to a Sioux Falls hospital, where he remained in intensive care for several days.

The incident has prompted the Sisseton-Wahpeton Housing Authority to request that Tribal Council enact a vicious dog ordinance – banning certain breeds from the housing areas. (See the legal notice elsewhere in this Sota.)

Community members are invited to attend the honoring and meal on Thursday to help show support for the quick-thinking and selfless action that witnesses say certainly saved the life of the young victim.

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Sota guest editorial –

What’s really going on?The UK terror plot

By Craig Murray(Published by Counterpunch, August 17, 2006. Craig Murray served as the British Ambassador to Uzbekistan

from August 2002 to October 2004. He can be reached at: http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/index.html/.)I have been reading very carefully through all the Sunday newspapers to try and analyze the truth from all the

scores of pages claiming to detail the so-called bomb plot. Unlike the great herd of so-called security experts doing the media analysis, I have the advantage of having had the very highest security clearances myself, having done a huge amount of professional intelligence analysis, and having been inside the spin machine.

So this, I believe, is the true story.None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane ticket. Many did

not even have passports, which given the efficiency of the UK Passport Agency would mean they couldn’t be a plane bomber for quite some time.

In the absence of bombs and airline tickets, and in many cases passports, it could be pretty difficult to convince a jury beyond reasonable doubt that individuals intended to go through with suicide bombings, whatever rash stuff they may have bragged in internet chat rooms.

What is more, many of those arrested had been under surveillance for over a year - like thousands of other British Muslims. And not just Muslims. Like me. Nothing from that surveillance had indicated the need for early arrests.

Then an interrogation in Pakistan revealed the details of this amazing plot to blow up multiple planes - which, rather extraordinarily, had not turned up in a year of surveillance. Of course, the interrogators of the Pakistani dictator have their ways of making people sing like canaries. As I witnessed in Uzbekistan, you can get the most extraordinary information this way. Trouble is it always tends to give the interrogators all they might want, and more, in a desperate effort to stop or avert torture. What it doesn’t give is the truth.

The gentleman being “interrogated” had fled the UK after being wanted for questioning over the murder of his uncle some years ago. That might be felt to cast some doubt on his reliability. It might also be felt that factors other than political ones might be at play within these relationships. Much is also being made of large transfers of money outside the formal economy. Not in fact too unusual in the British Muslim community, but if this activity is criminal, there are many possibilities that have nothing to do with terrorism.

We then have the extraordinary question of Bush and Blair discussing the possible arrests over the weekend. Why? I think the answer to that is plain. Both in desperate domestic political trouble, they longed for “Another 9/11”. The intelligence from Pakistan, however dodgy, gave them a new 9/11 they could sell to the media. The media has bought, wholesale, all the rubbish they have been shoveled. We then have the appalling political propaganda of John Reid, Home Secretary, making a speech warning us all of the dreadful evil threatening us and complaining that “Some people don’t get” the need to abandon all our traditional liberties. He then went on, according to his own propaganda machine, to stay up all night and minutely direct the arrests. There could be no clearer evidence that our Police are now just a political tool. Like all the best nasty regimes, the knock on the door came in the middle of the night, at 2.30 a.m. Those arrested included a mother with a six week old baby. For those who don’t know, it is worth introducing Reid. A hardened Stalinist with a long term reputation for personal violence, at Stirling University he was the Communist Party’s “Enforcer,” (in days when the Communist Party ran Stirling University Students’ Union, which it should not be forgotten was a business with a very substantial cash turnover). Reid was sent to beat up those who deviated from the Party line.

We will now never know if any of those arrested would have gone on to make a bomb or buy a plane ticket. Most of them do not fit the “Loner” profile you would expect - a tiny percentage of suicide bombers have happy marriages and young children. As they were all under surveillance, and certainly would have been on airport watch lists, there could have been little danger in letting them proceed closer to maturity - that is certainly what we would have done with the IRA.

In all of this, the one thing of which I am certain is that the timing is deeply political. This is more propaganda than plot. Of the over one thousand British Muslims arrested under anti-terrorist legislation, only twelve per cent are ever charged with anything. That is simply harassment of Muslims on an appalling scale. Of those charged, 80% are acquitted. Most of the very few - just over two per cent of arrests - who are convicted, are not convicted of anything to do terrorism, but of some minor offence the Police happened upon while trawling through the wreck of the lives they had shattered.

Be skeptical. Be very, very skeptical.

Sota guest editorial –

Health care: It’s what ails usBy Doug Pibel and Sarah van Gelder

(Published Friday, August 18, 2006 by Yes Magazine. Sarah van Gelder is Executive Editor of YES! Magazine. Doug Pibel is Managing Editor of YES!)

For Joel Segal, it was the day he was kicked out of George Washington Hospital, still on an IV after knee surgery, without insurance, and with $100,000 in medical debt. For Kiki Peppard, it was having to postpone needed surgery until she could find a job with insurance — it took her two years. People all over the United States are waking up to the fact that our system of providing health care is a disaster.

An estimated 50 million Americans lack medical insurance, and a similar and rapidly growing number are underinsured. The uninsured are excluded from services, charged more for services, and die when medical care could save them— an estimated 18,000 die each year because they lack medical coverage.

But it’s not only the uninsured who suffer.Of the more than 1.5 million bankruptcies filed in the U.S. each year, about half are a result of medical bills; of those, three-quarters of filers had health insurance.

Businesses are suffering too. Insurance premiums increased 73 percent between 2000 and 2005, and per capita costs are expected to keep rising. The National Coalition on Health Care (NCHC) estimates that, without reform, national health care spending will double over the next 10 years. The NCHC is not some fringe advocacy group—its co-chairs are Congressmen Robert D. Ray (R-IA) and Paul G. Rogers (D-FL), and it counts General Electric and Verizon among its members.

Employers who want to offer employee health care benefits can’t compete with low-road employers who offer none. Nor can they compete with companies located in countries that offer national health insurance.

The shocking facts about health care in the United States are well known. There’s little argument that the system is broken. What’s not well known is that the dialogue about fixing the health care system is just as broken.

Among politicians and pundits, a universal, publicly funded system is off the table. But Americans in increasing numbers know what their leaders seem not to — that the United States is the only industrialized nation where such stories as Joel’s and Kiki’s can happen.

And most Americans know why: the United States leaves the health of its citizens at the mercy of an expensive, patchwork system where some get great care while others get none at all.

The overwhelming majority — 75 percent, according to an October 2005 Harris Poll — want what people in other wealthy countries have: the peace of mind of universal health insurance.

A wild experiment?Which makes the discussion all the stranger. The public debate around universal health care proceeds as if it were

a wild, untested experiment — if the United States would be doing something never done before.Yet universal health care is in place throughout the industrialized world. In most cases, doctors and hospitals

operate as private businesses. But government pays the bills, which reduces paperwork costs to a fraction of the American level. It also cuts out expensive insurance corporations and HMO’s, with their multimillion-dollar CEO compensation packages, and billions in profit. Small wonder “single payer” systems can cover their entire populations at half the per capita cost. In the United States, people without insurance may live with debilitating disease or pain, with conditions that prevent them from getting jobs or decent pay, putting many on a permanent poverty track. They have more difficulty managing chronic conditions — only two in five have a regular doctor — leading to poorer health and greater cost.

The uninsured are far more likely to wait to seek treatment for acute problems until they become severe.Even those who have insurance may not find out until it’s too late that exclusions, deductibles, co-payments, and

annual limits leave them bankrupt when a family member gets seriously ill.In 2005, more than a quarter of insured Americans didn’t fill prescriptions, skipped recommended treatment, or

didn’t see a doctor when sick, according to the Commonwealth Fund’s 2005 Biennial Health Insurance Survey.People stay in jobs they hate — for the insurance. Small business owners are unable to offer insurance coverage for

employees or themselves. Large businesses avoid setting up shops in the United States — Toyota just chose to build a plant in Canada to escape the skyrocketing costs of U.S. health care.

All of this adds up to a less healthy society, more families suffering the double whammy of financial and health crises, and more people forced to go on disability.

But the public dialogue proceeds as if little can be done beyond a bit of tinkering around the edges. More involvement by government would create an unwieldy bureaucracy, they say, and surely bankrupt us all. The evidence points to the opposite conclusion.

The United States spends by far the most on health care per person — more than twice as much as Europe, Canada, and Japan which all have some version of national health insurance. Yet we are near the bottom in nearly every measure of our health.

The World Health Organization (WHO) ranks the U.S. health care system 37th of 190 countries, well below most of Europe, and trailing Chile and Costa Rica. The United States does even worse in the WHO rankings of performance on level of health — a stunning 72nd. Life expectancy in the U.S. is shorter than in 27 other countries; the U.S. ties with Hungary, Malta, Poland, and Slovakia for infant mortality — ahead of only Latvia among industrialized nations.

The cost of corporate bureaucracyWhere is the money going? An estimated 15 cents of each private U.S. health care dollar goes simply to shuffling the

paperwork. The administrative costs for our patched-together system of HMO’s, insurance companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, hospitals, and government programs are nearly double those for single-payer Canada. It’s not because Americans are inherently less efficient than Canadians — our publicly funded Medicare system spends under five cents per budget dollar on administrative overhead. And the Veterans Administration, which functions like Britain’s socialized medical system, spends less per patient but consistently outranks private providers in patient satisfaction and quality of care.

But in the private sector, profits and excessive CEO pay are added to the paperwork and bureaucracy. The U.S. pharmaceutical industry averages a 17 percent profit margin, against three percent for all other businesses. In the health care industry, million-dollar CEO pay packages are the rule, with some executives pulling down more than $30 million a year in salary and amassing billion-dollar stock option packages.

Do those costs really make the difference?Studies conducted by the General Accounting Office, the Congressional Budget Office, and various states have

concluded that a universal, single-payer health care system would cover everyone — including the millions currently without insurance — and still save billions.

Enormous amounts of money are changing hands in the health-industrial complex, but little is going to the front line providers — nurses, nurse practitioners, and home health care workers who put in long shifts for low pay. Many even find they must fight to get access to the very health facilities they serve.

Doctors complain of burnout as patient loads increase. They spend less time with each patient as they spend more time doing insurance company mandated paperwork and arguing with insurance company bureaucrats over treatments and coverage.

Americans know what they wantIn polls, surveys, town meetings, and letters, large majorities of Americans say they have had it with a system that

is clearly broken and they are demanding universal health care. Many businesses — despite a distaste for government involvement — are coming to the same view. Doctors, nurses, not-for-profit hospitals, and clinics are joining the call, many specifically saying we need a single-payer system like the system in Canada. And while we hear complaints about Canada’s system, a study of 10 years of Canadian opinion polling showed that Canadians are more satisfied with their health care than Americans. Holly Dressel’s article shows why.

Although you’d never know it from the American media, the number of Canadians who would trade their system for a U.S.-style health care system is just eight percent.

Again, the public dialogue proceeds from a perplexing place. Dissatisfied Canadians or Britons are much talked about. But there’s little mention of the satisfaction level of Americans. The Commonwealth Fund’s survey, for instance, shows that, in 2005, 42 percent of Americans doubted whether they could get quality health care. At a series of town hall meetings in Maine, facilitators asked participants to discuss dozens of complex health care policies but excluded single-payer as an option. (See Tish Tanski’s article. Only after repeated demands by participants was the approach that cuts out the corporate middle-men allowed on the list.

The same story played out across the country at town meetings convened by the congressionally mandated Citizens’ Health Care Working Group. In Los Angeles, New York, and Hartford, participants simply refused to consider the questions they were given about tradeoffs between cost, quality, and accessibility. They insisted that there’s already enough money being spent to pay for publicly funded universal health care.

But it’s not only about the money. Comments from participants in the town meetings, from Fargo to Memphis, from Los Angeles to Providence, revealed an understanding that this is about a deeper question. It is an issue of the sort of society we want to be — one in which we all are left to sink or swim on our own or one in which we recognize that the whole society benefits when we each can get access to the help we need.

Likewise, when we asked readers of the YES! email newsletter what would make you healthier, nearly all answered in terms of “we.” Any one of us could get sick or be injured. Any one could lose a job and with it insurance. Our best security, they said, is coverage for all.

What form might this take?As elections near and the issue of health care tops opinion polls as the most pressing domestic issue, various

proposals for universal health care are circulating. The bipartisan NCHC looked at four options: employer mandates, extending existing federal programs like Medicaid to all those uninsured, creating a new federal program for the uninsured, and single-payer national health insurance. All the options saved billions of dollars compared to the current system, but single payer was by far the winner, saving more than $100 billion a year.

Meanwhile, the Citizens’ Health Care Working Group, which held those town meetings around the country, has issued interim recommendations. They state the values participants expressed: All Americans should have affordable health care, and assuring that they do is a shared social responsibility. Sadly, that bold statement is followed by inconclusive recommendations: more study, no preference for public funding, and a strong commitment to get everybody covered by 2012—but with no means to do it. The commission will make final recommendations to the president and Congress, and is accepting public comment through the end of August.

What is the obstacle?With all the support and all the good reasons to adopt universal health care, why don’t we have it yet? Why do

politicians refuse to talk about the solution people want? It could be the fact that the health care industry, the top spender on Capitol Hill, spent $183.3 million on lobbying

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SWC President Dr. Bill LoneFight gives the aides a tour of the College, pictured here in the “Magic Reading Corner.” From left, here are: Tonya Petersen, Dr. LoneFight, Elli Wicks, Kenneth Martin, Charles Galbraith, and Phil Assmus.

SWO Tribal Vice-Chairman pictured with Phil Assmus, Washington office aide to Rep. Stephanie Herseth.

The tour leads to the roof of the SWC vocational education building, with the aides pictured with Vice-Chairman German and President LoneFight under one of the drummers.

Scenes inside the Sisseton healthcare center, now under construction. IHS CEO Richard Huff leads the tour.

The Congressional aides meet in the SWHA office with Director LeRoy Quinn, Jr., learning firsthand about how the USDA Rural Development, HUD, and other “housing partners” are working with the Tribe to bring new housing units to the Oyate.

Aides to U.S. Senator Tim Johnson and U.S. Representative Stephanie Herseth toured the Lake Traverse Reservation on Friday, August 11th.

Representing Senator Johnson were: Tonya Peterson, Staff Assistant; Elli Wicks, Tribal Liaison; Charles Galbraith, Legislative Assistant, Washington, D.C.; and Kenneth Martin, Research Assistant, Washington, D.C.

Representing Rep. Herseth was: Phil Assmus, Legislative Assistant, who came from Washington, D.C.

The aides toured the new Enemy Swim Day School, where they met with Superintendent Dr. Sherry Johnson.

At noon, they were treated to Indian tacos at Tribal headquarters, hosted by SWO Tribal Vice-Chairman Scott German and Tribal Attorney Lisa Losano.

The Congressional aides toured Sisseton Wahpeton College, hosted by President Dr. Bill LoneFight.

Sisseton IHS CEO Richard Huff led them on a tour of the new Sisseton healthcare center.

Finally, the group finished the day by visiting Sisseton-Wahpeton Housing Authority, where they were given an update on housing initiatives on the Reservation by SWHA Director LeRoy Quinn, Jr.

just in the second half of 2005, according to PoliticalMoneyLine.com. And in the 2003–2004 election cycle, they spent $123.7 million on election campaigns, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Politicians dread the propaganda barrage and political fallout that surrounded the failed Clinton health care plan. But in the years since, health care costs have outpaced growth in wages and inflation by huge margins, Americans have joined the ranks of the uninsured at the rate of 2 million each year, and businesses are taking a major competitiveness hit as they struggle to pay rising premiums.

Health Care for All is holding town hall meetings throughout the United States (they’ve held 93 so far), and people are pressing their representatives to take action. Over 150 unions have called for action on universal health care, and polls show overwhelming majorities of Americans feel the same way.

Some political leaders are pressing for universal health care. Remember Joel, who was kicked out of the hospital with $100,000 in medical debt? He started giving speeches about the catastrophe of our health care system, and eventually got hired by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) to head his universal single payer health care effort. Conyers’ “Medicare for All” bill now has 72 co-sponsors. Rep. Jim McDermott’s (D-WA) Health Security Act has 62.

Around the United States, state and local campaigns for universal health care are making progress. (See Rev. Linda Walling’s update).

One of these days, the lobbyists and their clients in government may have to get out of the way and let Americans join the rest of the developed world in the security, efficiency, and quality that comes with health care for all.

It’s confession time!We admit that the photo on page one, showing Dick

Stewart with his star quilt, is actually a file photo – from our 2000 archives!

The Sota staff apologizes for failing to cover the Credit Union annual meeting and follow-up board meeting, where we were to take photos of the star quilt Dick received earlier this month at the Credit Union annual meeting.

Dick was presented with a quilt recognizing his dedicated service to the fiscal stability of the Lake Traverse Reservation and Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate over the past 27 years!

Congratulations, Dick, and thank you for all the work you have done to help improve life and prosperity for people of this community.

*****Developing wind power may seem a long-time

coming, but perhaps it is now time for the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate to build its own wind farm.

It has been a long-time coming not only for the Tribe, but for much of the country.

We remember visiting a wind turbine manufacturing plant in Aberdeen, S.D., in the early 1980s. We were impressed at the process, how a small company located right here in northeastern South Dakota, was helping our country make use of this environmentally friendly renewable energy source.

But what happened there?Months after our tour of the plant, we learned, sadly,

that due to U.S. government and market conditions, it had gone out of business and relocated to Australia. There, the government was supporting wind power – far out in front of our own!

There are other renewable sources of energy being studied by the Tribe’s Planning Department. These, too, should be viewed as potential development projects.

Thanks to Tribal officials who see the horizon of opportunities beyond the fossil fuel energy crisis!

*****Our thanks to Lanny Stricherz for forwarding two

articles of interest for readers this week: the news of remains of Korean War veterans KIA coming home to South Dakota; and the break in an impasse between the federal government and large-scale regional wind energy development projects.

*****DREAM is holding a meeting at the Spot Teen Center,

downtown Sisseton, this Wednesday evening, August 23rd.

Please come and help in this grassroots effort to make ours a safer, healthier, and more wholesome community.

*****It is always exciting to see our schools “come alive” to

welcome students to a new year of classes.Perhaps Enemy Swim’s First Day celebration – to

be held this Wednesday – speaks best about how we all ought to come to a new academic year: with hope and celebration of learning ahead.

We wish all the students and faculty the very best in the 2005-2006 year ahead!

*****Watch for photos of student activities at Tiospa Zina

Tribal School and Enemy Swim Day School in coming weeks, and throughout the 2006-07 academic year!

*****Please read John Eagle’s plea for support to help keep

Ikce Wicasta alive.We too received our last quarterly issue of Florestine’s

ground-breaking cultural magazine in the mail and were deeply disappointed to learn that its publication was being suspended.

Ikce Wicasta is most worthy of support from any and all available sources, for its outstanding and valuable coverage of Dakota and Nakota culture – past and present.

Thank you to John for calling attention to what appears a sad end to a one-of-a-kind and much-needed publication.

*****We are not so old that we cannot remember what it

was like to return to grade school in the fall each year.It seemed as though each year teachers would ask for

a report on the previous summer’s activities.Sometimes it was a paper due, entitled “What I Did

Over the Summer.”Asking students that is always appropriate, and

sometimes we get to share some exciting happenings.Well, watch next week’s Sota for a paper by one of our

Oyate Tribal members who is essentially writing to tell us what she did over her summer vacation.

Kim Greeley is going to share again, as she did a year ago – telling us about her experiences in South America. Only, this time, it’s about a summer study tour in the Italian mountains.

This is going to be worth your while to read.Next week, in your Sota.

On and off the ReservationContinued on Page �


*****Readers may already know that Angelique

Eaglewoman has joined the Hamline Law School faculty, but may not know that Angelique is being featured on the Hamline “Contracts Professor” blog on the internet.

Here is the url for anyone wishing to learn more about her biography and courses:

lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/*****

Watch in coming weeks and months for a new “Get Out The Vote” (GOTV) initiative on the Lake Traverse Reservation.

Dusty Gill, of the Tribal Planning office, has informed us that a multi-tribal GOTV training session is being arranged at Dakota Magic Convention Center.

Remember, there is power at the ballot box!*****

We recommend that people of the community take advantage of the display of JoAnne Bird’s artwork that is being featured this month at Dakota Nation Art & Gift Store.

Come to the Tribal store, downtown Sisseton, and feast your eyes on some of the very greatest contemporary Native American art you will ever see.

*****Something to think about:“Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now

it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.” – Albert Camus (whom Bush professes to be reading this summer)

And more . . .“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country

against his government.” – Edward Abbey*****

Please remember, we need to continue praying for all of our soldiers serving in all branches of the military in harm’s way today, by prayer, by letters, by sharing our concern with them and with others of the community.

We pray that their service helps bring peace and stability to the world, and that they all come home safe and sound.

We need to continue to remember our servicemen and women, because there are still many serving in the war zones.

Please pray for peace!See our Dakotah prayer for the akicita on the Sota

website.*****

We also need to pray for peace everywhere, including of course, the Middle East where the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has escalate into Lebanon.

Unfortunately, our nation’s foreign policy has failed to help stabilize this region. In fact, since Bush took office it has served to undermine earlier initiatives for peace.

*****

On and off the ReservationContinued from Page �

And while we pray for peace overseas, we must also pray for peace at home.

We are a country of violent people, in homes and communities everywhere.

Pray for non-violence and safety!*****

There is no way your Sota staff could possibly cover all the many activities in the schools and Districts of the Lake Traverse Reservation. We encourage our readers and friends to submit material and pictures whenever you can!

Submission of articles, ideas and rough drafts, and photographs, are always welcome.

If you have an interesting family story, or news you would like to share, please contact the editor.

Besides news updates of interest to the Oyate, we are always open to publishing historical features, stories, and legends. Keeping the traditions alive is one of the missions of the Tribal newspaper, and is too often ignored in the rush of current events.

*****Copy to be considered for publication – news,

advertising, editorial opinion letters, etc. – are to be submitted either to Tribal headquarters (SWO Mail Room, TiWakan Tio Tipi) or to the Sota mail box at Agency Village Community Post Office (P.O. Box 628, Agency Village, SD 57262), by 10:00 a.m. on Thursday. FAX and e-mail submissions will be accepted until 12:00 noon on Friday (with the exception of letters to the editor/Open letter to the Oyate, or “opinion” letters, which must be received no later than 10:00 a.m. Thursday).

If you are writing an opinion letter, please note that it must be signed and the author’s name will appear in print, it must not contain libelous statements, and it should be brief, ideally 500 words or less, in order to be considered for publication.

Earlier receipt of copy is always appreciated. So, if you are aware of a date or message that needs to be publicized or advertised, please let us know about it in advance of the weekly deadline.

For more information, contact Tribal headquarters, Agency Village, (605) 698-3911. Also, a 24-hour dedicated fax line is installed at the Sota production office: (605) 938-4676. Voice-mail messages can be sent to the production office at (605) 938-4452. The preferred way of the new millennium to submit typed articles and ads, art, and photos (if you happen to have access to a digital camera or scanner), is by e-mail. Sending photos as moderately compressed jpeg files, each approximately 150-300 KB in size, is preferred, attached to an e-mail message containing information about the pictures.

The editor can be reached at the following e-mail address:

[email protected] files are also accepted on disc/cd by mail and

at Tribal headquarters.CDF

Dakota Oyate:I just received my last quarterly issue, the “Ikce

Wicasta.” My subscription did not expire.My concerns are the following.Our relative, Florestine Kiyukanpi Renville, writes

in her “Editor Note,” the following. “With heavy heart I write this last editor’s note, because this is the final issue of the Ikce Wicasta, the Common People Journal. The financial plan that I was counting on to keep the magazine going did not become a reality. I loved gathering stories, discovering stories, meeting people with stories to tell and writers, too, but I did not especially like the business aspect, it took too much of my time that could have been spent on stories and writing. As I said in the last issue, my writing suffered because of having to pay so much attention to the business part of the magazine.”

Now, this Dakota oriented magazine has been in print for eight years. Throughout those years, our relative, F. Kiyukanpi Renville, gave life to Ikce Wicasta. I’m confident she enhanced the lives of many avid readers with the realism portrayed throughout the many writers and the photos in her magazine. And, on the third page of every magazine, she listed our “38” relatives, by their respected Dakota name. In doing so, she kept the memory of our “38 Ikce Wicasta” alive. Not only that, she portrayed a living tribute to the memory of our ancestral relatives. I can say without a doubt, it had always been an appreciative journey, through the past, present, and future. Certainly, I am sure there are many other appreciative readers, who are contemplating “What can I do to help F. Kiyukanpi

Renville’s Ikce Wicasta. I earnestly suggest you telephone, write, e-mail, and/or contact your District people, Council person, Tribal administrators, and especially the Tax Commission. There must be person(s) who have a Dakota heart to stand up for the Ikce Wicasta. Or will we let this be a part of the past?

I write this letter, requesting Sissetonwan-Wahpetonwan Oyate, especially the Tax Commission, to consider a percentage of our tax revenue to be allocated, allocated to assist our Sissetonwan-Wahpetonwan journalist F. Kiyukanpi Renville.

During the fiscal year 2005, the Tax Commission had netted a total of $3.9 million. In their expenditure report: $2.8 million had been allocated to “a number of Tribal positions and programs; $300,000-plus was in escrow for motor fuel and related expenditures. And the balance, a total of $800,000-plus was expended by the Tribal Council.

Within this expenditure report. our Tribal paper (the Sota) had an allocation of $31,058.04, a percentage of 0.8079% (?).

Now, can the Sissetonwan-Wahpetonwan Oyate assist in some way, our Sissetonwan-Wahpetonwan Oyate journalist F. Kiyukanpi Renville, so the Ikce Wicasta will continue to be memorialized through her Dakota oriented magazine?

I thank you for your time in reading this request.De Miye, this is me, John Eagle, “Mahpiya Akicita”

(Protector from the Sky or Cloud).

I’ve just signed the ONE Declaration committing myself to help fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty.

The first thing I’m doing is asking you to make that commitment, too.

ONE is a new effort by Americans to rally Americans

-- one by one. So far, over two million have signed the declaration in support of a historic pact for compassion and justice to help the poorest people of the world.

I think your name belongs on that declaration, too. You can put it there by visiting: www.one.org/.

Elwood Greybuffalo, Jr.

On September 21-22, 2006, the Lakota Dakota Nakota Spiritual Group in the Jameson Prison at Sioux Falls will be traditional hosts for our Spiritual Conference. The general purpose of our gathering will be about our Sacred Ceremonies, the Journey to Mato Paha, and A Blessing of Power.

Invitations have been sent to Jake and Myrna Thompson, Myron Williams, Arnold Williams, Beatrice Wanna, Wanda Thompson, Colette White, Phyllis Roberts, Barb Jens, Rose Chase, Gabrielle Tateyuskanskan, and Dianne Desrosiers.

We don’t have any finances to pay anyone for their expenses and we are asking the SWO Tribal Council, the

SWO Executive Committee Members, the SWO College, and other SWO Tribal Programs to assist our guests in any way that they can.

It would be very honorable if a bus or a van could be borrowed from one of the schools to transport our guests. Our guests would need extra money for an overnight stay in one of the motels in Sioux Falls.

Our tribal prisoners work hard on a daily basis to keep our spiritual and cultural lifeways free from oppression because this is where our ancestors would want us to stand. Our ancestors struggled to be a voice of opportunity for us and we must never forget the sacrifices they made for us.

Prison in any regard is a dark world of despair and

desolation. We need the wisdom and leadership of the people in this letter. We must never be afraid to help our tribal prisoners incarcerated in South Dakota’s prisons and in places like Leavenworth, Florence, Terre Haute, Folsom, Rawlings, Deer Lodge, Bismarck, Stillwater, and Lincoln. Our ancestors were not afraid to help our people who sat

imprisoned in Fort Snelling and Fort Robinson.We are asking all of our tribal people in the Northern

Plains to help us pray and make offerings for the success of our Spiritual Conference.

George Blue Bird.

By Steve YoungArgus Leader

August 20, 2006WHITE RIVER - In St. Mary’s Garden, a Catholic

cemetery west of Wood, there is a tombstone with no grave, and a story with no ending. For more than half a century, Orson Dale Fallis’ relatives have come to the country graveyard to spend time with his memory but not his spirit. The physical remains of the young warrior known in Lakota as Wanbli Wohitika, or Brave Eagle, do not dwell there. Until a few years ago, his relatives didn’t even know whether he was dead, let alone where his final resting place might be.

All they knew was that he went off to war in Korea in the early 1950s and never came home. But now, the mystery could be coming to an end. Earlier this year, officials with the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command - the agency charged with accounting for Americans missing as a result of the nation’s past conflicts - intensified its efforts to find relatives of missing Korean War service members.

In particular, the agency suspects it might have the remains of at least seven native South Dakota sons who were unaccounted for at the end of the Korean War. To verify that, they need DNA samples - called family reference samples - to compare to mitochondrial DNA taken from the bones and teeth of recovered remains.

Working in part through state chapters of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the agency has been publicizing the missing men’s names and asking family members who see the names to send in samples.

And in the past few months, relatives of three of those men - Gordon B. Carsrud from Minnehaha County, Arthur F. Jewett from Dewey County and Melfred N. Johnson of Lake County - have submitted samples.

But Orson Dale Fallis’ family didn’t even know the government potentially had the soldier’s remains until a newspaper reporter called.

“I didn’t know anything about this,” said Fallis’ nephew, Fremont Fallis of rural White River. “It would be something if it is true. After all these years, it would really put my mind at ease.” Though the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command - also known as JPAC - can’t be sure that it has the remains of Fallis and the others, it’s possible, said Dr. Alec Christensen, an anthropologist who works at the JPAC laboratory at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii.

“We certainly couldn’t put a percentage on how confident we are that we have them,” Christensen said. “But when we look at the number of remains we have here, and where they came from in Korea, any individual we’re requesting a family reference sample for is somebody who we think it’s quite plausible that we have their remains.”

Missing pieces from N. KoreaFrom 1990 to 1994, North Korea unilaterally

turned over 208 caskets with remains in them, Christensen said. Some had single skeletons in them. Most were intermingled with multiple sets of remains. From 1999 until late last year, American search teams also were allowed onto battlefield sites in North Korea to excavate. More remains were recovered that way.

After the war, when North Korea repatriated American soldiers, the U.S. Army conducted many debriefings with the POWs to try to learn about missing service members, Christensen said.

“They were asked to give names of everyone they saw at camp with them,” he said. “’Who you saw die. Where you saw them die. Where they were buried.’”

Similarly, in cases where they excavated remains, JPAC has at its disposal detailed records of who fought in those areas and who was unaccounted for after the battles, Christensen said.

Based on that information, JPAC now is seeking specific family reference samples for seven of the 23 South Dakotans still missing since the end of the Korean War.

It knows Arthur Jewett, Alfred L. Johnson and Robert F. Prue disappeared after battles near the Chosin Reservoir in north-central North Korea in fall 1950, and that it has excavated remains from those sites, Christensen said. It knows Melfred Johnson was lost about the same time on a battlefield near Kujang in North Korea, another site it has excavated, Christensen added.

And it suspects that Gordon Carsrud, Orson Dale Fallis and William Deer With Horns were among the 341

POWs who died at the Suan Prison Camp complex.Of the 208 caskets turned over by the North Koreans

in the early 1990s, maybe half had remains in them from the Suan POW camp complex, Christensen said. Again, many of those caskets contained remains from numerous individuals, with no dog tags or any other identifying articles.

“Most of the skeletons, we don’t have that sort of lead. ... like identification tags or a distinctive pattern of dental restoration,” Christensen said. “Most have no identification media with them.

“That’s why, since the remains were turned over in the early 1990s, we have identified four individuals. That’s also why family reference samples are so important, because in those cases, the primary form of identification is DNA.”

Such samples are acquired as simply as swiping a Q-tip inside a person’s cheek or by drawing blood, Christensen said.

Following the maternal lineMitochondrial DNA is different from nuclear DNA.

It is located outside the nucleus of a cell, preserves well in bones and teeth, and remains relatively stable over time. Unlike nuclear DNA, which exists in the cell’s nucleus and is unique to each person, mitochondrial DNA is passed directly from a person’s mother.

Thus, all persons of the same maternal line will have the same mitochondrial DNA. But to be useful in identifying remains, it must be collected from an individual’s mother, siblings or descendants of female siblings.

That maternal line is what JPAC is seeking in its collection of the DNA samples.

In Mission, Harold Compton, who works with land allotments for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, is doing research to see if he can find relatives of one of the missing seven - Robert F. Prue - who came from the Okreek area on the Rosebud Reservation. Compton is studying tribal records on land holdings to see whether he can trace Prue’s relatives.

“All kinds of people would care about identifying him and bringing him back here,” Compton said. “You know how Indians are about their warriors. Irregardless of where his family is, people would gladly do whatever they could to bring him home.”

Fremont Fallis feels the same way. But then, this 67-year-old Lakota elder has more than just a DNA connection to the young soldier staring up at him from the photograph on his kitchen table.

‘Uncle Dale’ never came backThe man he remembers as “Uncle Dale” was eight

years older than him, Fremont Fallis said. They were both born on the family place eight miles east of Wood.

His uncle used to teach him his multiplication tables in an era when school was not considered all that important, Fremont Fallis said. He also remembers his uncle as a man who seemed determined to live in harmony with the earth.

“We had a great big dam nearby where he would dig up wild onions and potatoes,” his nephew said. “He couldn’t go a meal without onions. He was always making onion sandwiches.” When his brother, Clair, joined the service, Orson Fallis didn’t want to be left alone. So he talked his father into letting him enlist three days short of his 17th birthday. Once he left, he never came back. “Most Indian people that join the military at least come home once to show off their uniform,” Fremont Fallis said. “But Uncle Dale never came back on furlough. He had a vision of having a big cattle ranch when he got done with the military. So he was saving up his money. That’s why he never came back.” His letters home suggested that he liked military life. He was stationed in Japan for a time, had a girlfriend there and even bought a moped. But when war broke out in Korea, the tone of his letters turned darker. It didn’t look good, Sgt. Orson Fallis wrote to his father. He didn’t know how long America could hold out against the Chinese and North Koreans.

Fremont Fallis remembers coming home from school one day to an eerie silence in the house. A telegram had arrived that day. Orson Fallis was missing in action.

A search for resolution“I remember my dad saying, ‘He’ll probably never

come back.’ That’s just the feeling he had,” Fremont Fallis


Health and wellness column –

August 21-25: 8:00 a.m. – All staff returns; Meet at Head Start West building.

August 28-September 1: 8:00 a.m. – Pre-service Training at Dakota Connection. (Staff: Wear expandable clothes, “We’re moving!”)

Family Services & Teachers: Will be doing home visits on August 24 and 25.

Head Start Begins: Sept. 5, 2006. Buses leave at 8:00 a.m. Drop-off is at 9:00. (If your child is under 3 years of age and is in Head Start, you must transport him/her yourself.)

For more information: Call 698-3103

Jennifer Wider, M.D.Society for Women’s Health Research

August 17, 2006Rheumatoid arthritis, one of the most common

forms of arthritis, is an autoimmune disease that affects more than two million Americans. The overwhelming majority of patients are women, according to the Arthritis Foundation. New research presented at the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology reveals further gaps between the sexes in this often debilitating disease. Swedish researchers report that women are less likely to go

into remission, or experience an absence or decrease in symptoms, after being treated for the disease.

The reason for the sex differences is not entirely understood. Although disease activity was similar between men and women in the study at the start of treatment, “women had a much lower remission

rate than men,” the researchers noted, while also calling for more research to investigate the gender discrepancy.

Rheumatoid arthritis involves the immune system, which attacks joint tissue and causes inflammation and permanent joint damage. The most common physical symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis include stiffness, predominantly in the morning or when sitting for a long time, fatigue, difficulty moving, joint swelling and pain. Patients often experience pain and swelling of joints in corresponding points on both sides of the body. In some cases, people with rheumatoid arthritis have nodules or bumps under the skin. The disease affects everyone differently and can be mild or severe.

Like other autoimmune diseases, rheumatoid arthritis predominates in women. “Women are affected with autoimmune diseases collectively more than men,” says Virginia Ladd, president and executive director of the American Autoimmune Related Disease Association. “More research is

needed to look into why women are afflicted more than men.”

Because many more women are affected by the disease, hormonal influences are likely to be involved. Most studies agree that the development of rheumatoid arthritis depends on the interplay of several factors.

“The sex ratios probably do not reflect hormones only,” explains Michael Lockshin, M.D., professor of rheumatology at the Hospital for Special Surgery at Cornell Medical Center in New York City. “There is a real possibility that exposure difference to some unknown stimulus accounts for at least some of the sex ratios.” In other words, maybe some biological or environmental trigger affects men and women differently.

Genetic risk factors make some individuals more susceptible to the disease, but genetics does not tell the entire story. Research published this month in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases indicates that smoking nearly doubles the chance that a woman who does not have a genetic risk factor for rheumatoid arthritis will develop the disease.

There is currently no cure for rheumatoid arthritis and treatment varies from person to person. One of the main objectives of treatment is to control a person’s symptoms and if possible, bring about remission. Treatment can involve medication, physical and occupational therapy, counseling and in some cases, surgery. There are new treatments on the horizon, “these are mostly biological interventions,” says Lockshin, or drugs that modify the immune system’s response.

Because women are less likely to go into remission, patients need to be followed carefully so that their symptoms are controlled. The researchers call for “reinforced vigilance in the frequency and quality of follow-up in order to achieve optimal suppression of the inflammatory process in all patients, regardless of gender.” Other studies have shown that early diagnosis and proper management can slow the progression and damage of the disease.

By Peggy Johnson, RNSisseton IHS Community Nursing

A few weeks ago we put an article in the paper in regards to West Nile Virus and ways to protect you against mosquito bites. Even though it’s been dry, there are still mosquitoes out there, and other nasty bugs that can do some harm, too.

Insect allergy is an abnormal reaction to an insect sting or bite. They can cause a rash, hives, itching, swelling, swelling of lips, tongue, face, throat, and eyelids, difficulty

breathing, shortness of breath, coughing, wheezing, dizziness, fainting, drop in blood pressure, and in the most severe cases, respiratory and cardiac arrest.

Stinging insects include: honeybees, yellow jackets, hornets, wasps, and fire ants.

Risk factors include: age, young children are most vulnerable; history of other types of allergies, including hay fever; and a family history of allergy.

If you are having trouble breathing, call for emergency medical help immediately.

Prevention. To reduce your chance of having an insect allergy reaction:

*Avoid situations where you may be around stinging insects.

*Be very careful when doing yard or garden work, or when hiking in the trees.

*Don’t walk barefoot.*Don’t wear scented products (perfumes can attract

stinging insects).*Keep exposed skin to a minimum.*Consider allergy shots (see your doctor regarding

this option).*Carry a bee sting kit with you at all times (you will

also need to talk with your doctor about this one).*Wear a medical alert bracelet or necklace to inform

others of your allergy.

Flag Football returns to Fitness Center

The SWO Health and Fitness Center will start its second year of flag football on September 6th at 4:30 p.m.

If you are interested, sign up at the Health and Fitness Center so teams can be organized for this season.

SWO Health & Fitness Center hours

The Health & Fitness Center has switched to its fall hours. Here is the schedule:

Monday-Thursday: 7:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.Friday: 7:00-5:00 p.m.Saturday: 9:00-3:00 p.m.

said. “But I don’t remember anyone ever coming and telling us that my uncle was a prisoner of war, or that he was dead.

“I think as they sat and talked, they thought maybe they had taken him into Russia, into the salt mines there as slave labor. For a long time, I don’t think anyone thought he was dead.” In fact, Fremont Fallis had dreams into the 1970s and 1980s in which his uncle would call him and speak to him Lakota. But it was difficult to converse because his uncle had been away so long and forgotten some of the language.

Those dreams had ended by the time Fremont Fallis traveled to Cheyenne, Wyo., in 2001, to attend a meeting for relatives of service members missing in the Korean and Vietnam wars. It was there that he learned his uncle had died in a

prisoner of war camp in North Korea. He also found out that a fellow POW reported after the war that he had seen Orson Fallis at the Suan camp, saw him die of ptomaine poisoning, and even saw his body before he was buried.

“It was kind of tough,” Fremont Fallis said. “You come to realize that he really will not be coming home.” Not alive anyway. But now the nephew is intent on enlisting his relatives to give DNA samples. His uncle had a sister, Leona, who had five daughters. Three of them live in the Mission area.

“I’ll get after them,” Fremont Fallis said. After all, he said, a tombstone needs a grave. A story needs an ending.

“I think many of us want that question answered,” he said. “We need to know the answer to what happened to him. We need to put our minds to rest.”

AUSTIN, Minn. (AP, with information from the Star/Tribune) -- The federal government has given the green light to a major wind energy project near Austin that had been held up over concerns that it might interfere with military radar systems.

Construction crews began building the first of 43 wind generators near Austin this month after FPL Energy received a “determination of no hazard” letter last month from the Federal Aviation Administration.

The FAA had sent FPL Energy a letter of “presumed hazard” in May that delayed the $150 million, 100-megawatt project.

The project will be built over the next six weeks, said Lanie Fagan, a spokeswoman for the Juno Beach, Fla.-based company.

Two other companies that are ready to commit nearly $600 million to capital projects in southwestern Minnesota are still waiting for approval.

The radar issue stems from a dispute that began in Cape Cod, Mass., where residents were unhappy that a proposed offshore wind project they said would spoil their coastal views. That apparently led to a provision attached to a national defense bill in January that required the Department of Defense to study whether big wind turbines interfere with military radar.

The Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security then adopted an interim policy blocking construction until the study is completed, or until specific wind projects could be reviewed and determined not to be within the fields of military radar systems.

More than a dozen proposed wind farms in the Upper Midwest were affected.

The study has not been completed, said Eileen Lainez, a Pentagon spokeswoman, but officials have been reviewing projects and allowing some to proceed.

Jan Johnson, spokeswoman for PPM Energy Inc. of

Portland, Ore., said the company’s 150-megawatt wind farm straddling Minnesota and South Dakota seems to close to approval, though PPM did not yet have approval in writing.

“We’re hopeful that we’ll get final clearance from FAA in the next week or so, and we’d like to begin construction in September,” Johnson said.

The $250 million wind farm will be built southwest of Lake Benton, with two-thirds of its turbines in Minnesota and the rest in South Dakota.

A 205-megawatt wind farm planned by North Palm Springs, Calif.-based enXco Inc. is also in the final stages of discussion, regional project development manager Ian Krygowski said.

“We’re pretty sure we’ll be able to get this squared away shortly,” he said. The $320 million to $350 million project would be built near Chandler.

Two smaller wind energy projects near Worthington also are progressing, said Kevin Walli, an attorney for their owners. A four-turbine proposal has been approved, Walli said, and a 10-turbine project might receive the go-ahead in the next week or so.

It’s welcome news for utilities that plan to buy power from the wind farms.

“We’re able to maintain national security, and we will be able to serve our customers with much more cost-effective wind power,” said Steve Roalstad, a spokesman for Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy Inc. Utilities will be able to purchase power at lower cost, he said, because wind farms up and running before the end of 2007 will qualify for a 10-year federal tax credit.

Cancer support group meetings

The cancer support group meetings are being held weekly, every Wednesday, at 4:00 p.m. at the SWO Tekakwitha conference center.

Everyone is welcome to attend.For more information, contact SWO Health Educator

Teddi LaBelle at 698-7267.


Elementary highlights –Here are photo highlights of elementary school students

during the first week back at TZ!Welcome back Tiospa Zina, K-5 families! We are looking

forward to a super year! Please feel free to visit your child anytime. We ask is that you please sign in at the office and get a badge! Any questions or concerns. Please call us!

Again Pidamiya for choosing Tiospa Zina for your child’s education!

Respectfully: Mindy Deutsch, K-2 Lead Teacher; and Robin Cook, 3-5 Lead Teacher.

The best kids around!

Thank you to all the bus drivers for your care and concern and hard work!

We did it! Pam and Johnna, Kindergarten.

Morris working hard.Nikkie and Magoo

welcome back their Kindergartners.

Mrs. Wallace’s second-graders!

Mrs. Anderson and her second grade students.

Welcome back, Kunsi Edwina!

Calling Mom: “I am fine!”Smile!

Kindergarten teacher Johnna with Jonni.

Making letters with play dough.

Smile, Kindergartners.

First grade is fun!

Kindergarten fun. Welcome back, Auntie Bea!

Hey, Noah!

Friday, Aug. 25: Wambdi football vs. Rosholt (home), 7 p.m.

Monday, Aug. 28: girls volleyball vs. Wilmot, away, 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 29: girls volleyball vs. Waubay, home, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 31: girls volleyball vs. Waverly/South Shore, home, 6:30 p.m.

From Coach Eric HeathTiospa Zina is selling family and

student athletic passes. The family passes are good for the immediate family only and cost $35. The student passes are $15.

These can be purchased the day before the game (or any day before

the game).Contact Eric Heath, 698-3954

ext. 3143.These passes are good only for

home games at Tiospa Zina. A friendly reminder: Tiospa

Zina is a smoke-free facility. Please do not smoke on the school premises.

Plans are being made for HJ ProVoice Productions to broadcast a majority of Tiospa Zina football games this fall. Games can be heard on the Internet at “hjprovoice.com” (click on the listen live link).

Wambdi basketball broadcasts – girls and boys – are also in the works for the 2006-07 season.

If your business or program would like to help sponsor the Wambdipi, contact Harold Bernard at 698-6535

for rates and availability.This is a great way to reach

S.W.O. members near and far with your message!

2006 – Tiospa Zina FootballBroadcast Schedule on HJ ProVoice

AUG 25TH- Rosholt - home - 7:00 p.m.

SEP 1ST- Grant Duel - away 7:00 p.m.

SEP 15th – Waverly/South Shore - home 7:00 p.m.

SEP 22nd – Clark - away 7:00 p.m.

SEP 29th – GPL -HC home 7:00 pm

OCT 13th - Wilmot- home 7:00 p.m.

OCT 19th – Waubay - away 7:00 p.m.

Basketball schedule: Coming soon.


Richard Auch’s Computer Class.

High School students at the flag song.

High school highlights –Here are high school photo highlights from Dr. Nadine

Eastman, High School Lead Teacher/Principal.

Chelsea Armbruster in Larson’s English 9 class.

Phyllis Roberts’ Dakota Language class (student Elsie White).

Lisa Forcier’s Communication Class.

Sarah Bensen’s Personal Finance Class.

Sarah Bensen.Moonlight Langdeaux in Art Class.

Flag Song (sung by Middle School & High School students).

Chelsea Armbruster in Larson’s English 9 class.

Tiospa Zina will be having a Fall Sports Parent Meeting. All parents must attend. We will meet at 6:30 in the school cafeteria this Wednesday, August 23rd. If you have any questions, then please call Eric Heath (Athletic Director) at 698-3954 ext. 3143.

Something exciting is in the air! Well, internet “airtime,” that is!HJ ProVoice Productions plans to broadcast most of the Tiospa Zina Tribal School football

games this fall.To “tune in” to your SWO internet radio, go to www.hjprovoice.com on the internet, then click on the “Listen Live” link.Wambdi basketball broadcasts – girls and boys – are also in the works for the 2006-07 season.If your business or program would like to help sponsor the Wambdipi, contact Harold Bernard at 698-6535 for rates and availability.This is a great way to reach S.W.O. members near and far with your message!

2006 – Tiospa Zina Football Broadcast Schedule on HJ ProVoice

AUG 25TH- Rosholt - home - 7:00 p.m.SEP 1ST- Grant Deuel - away 7:00 p.m.SEP 15th – Waverly/South Shore - home 7:00 p.m.SEP 22nd – Clark - away 7:00 p.m.SEP 29th – GPL -HC home 7:00 p.m.OCT 13th – Wilmot - home 7:00 p.m.OCT 19th – Waubay - away 7:00 p.m.Basketball schedule: Coming soon.

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Tuesday, Aug. 22: pre-service, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 23: First day of school; FACE open house; No OST.

Thursday, Aug. 24: No OST.Friday, Aug. 25: FACE Kick-Off

Activity; No OST.Tuesday, Aug. 29: volleyball at

Tiospa Zina, 5:15 p.m.Thursday, Aug. 31: volleyball vs.

Rosholt, at Waubay, 5:15 p.m.

First day of classes Aug. 23rd –

Message to parents from ESDS Principal Virginia Dolney:

Dear Parent:Enemy Swim Day School has again joined

the First Day of School campaign -- a national movement to involve families in their children’s education starting the first day of school each year. The concept behind the First Day Campaign is simple. Schools open their doors to parents and other significant adults in their student’s lives, and invite them to participate in programs designed to foster positive relationships between home and school. Thirty years of research as shown that parental involvement in education is the single most accurate predictor of children’s academic success.

Here’s what we are asking you to do: Spend the first day of school with your child. The first day of school is so exciting and a fresh start to a new year. Show that you are a caring involved parent and that you support education. Get to know your child’s teacher and what is happening in their classroom. Find out how you can volunteer or get involved throughout the school year. It is especially important that you show your child that you support their effort to get an education. We hope to see you here at ESDS on the first day of school, Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006.

The SWO resolution of support is published here. Also, area employers are volunteering to support the First Day of School initiative. Thank you to everyone for your support and commitment to education. Please contact me at 947-4605 if you have any questions.

First Day of SchoolAugust 23, 2006

Schedule8:00-8:15 Breakfast.8:20-8:45 School wide opening -

Welcome, staff introductions, flag song, announcements.

8:45-9:30 Homeroom activities - spend time in your child’s classroom, handbook, orientation and parent involvement opportunities.

9:30-11:15 Classroom activities - Follow regular schedule for 3rd hour.

11:15-11:40 Parent meeting – Commons.11:40-12:30 Lunch with your child (as

scheduled per class schedule).12:30-3:00 Classroom activities - Visit

your child’s afternoon classes as per class schedule.Below is the SWO Tribal Council resolution

supporting the celebration:Enemy Swim Day School – First Day of School

AmericaWHEREAS, The Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate

is organized under a Constitution and By-Laws

adopted by the Oyate on August 1-2, 1966, and approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs on August 25, 1966; and,

WHEREAS, The Constitution and By-laws ARTICLE VIII, Section 1, that the Oyate shall be governed by the Oyate Council, and that the Oyate Council shall have the power to: (g) to take actions by ordinance, resolution or otherwise which are reasonably necessary, through committees, boards, agents, or otherwise, to carry into effect the foregoing purposes; (h) to promote public health, education, charity and other services as may contribute to the social advancement of the members of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate; and (j)(ii) to recognize any district committees, associations or other organization open to the members of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate and to approve such organizations, subject, however, to the provision that no such committee, association or organization may assume authorities specifically granted to the Oyate Council unless by a proper delegation of authority by the Oyate Council; and,

WHEREAS, The Enemy Swim Day School has been providing quality education since 1938; and,

WHEREAS, The Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Executive Resolution No. 94-131 affirms Tribal support and approval to contract with the Bureau of Indian Affairs for basic and supplementary programs for grades pre-K to 12 pursuant to the Tribally Controlled Schools Act of 1988 (Part B - Tribally Controlled Schools Grants of Title V of P.L. 1000-417), enacted September 9, 1988; and,

WHEREAS, The Enemy Swim Day School has received authorization from the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate to operate a Grant School for students grades K-12 and is accredited by the State of South Dakota to provide educational services for K-8; and,

WHEREAS, The Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Council Resolution No. 98-156 and 98-156-A adopted the Charter and By-laws of the Enemy Swim Day School; and,

WHEREAS, The Enemy Swim Day School has joined the First Day of School America Campaign, a national movement to involve families in their children’s education starting on Day One each year; and,

WHEREAS, The concept is that schools open their doors to parents of their students and invite them to participate in programs designed to foster positive relationship between home and school; and,

WHEREAS, Thirty years of research has proven that parental involvement in education is the single most accurate prediction of children’s academic success; and,

WHEREAS, Today’s students are tomorrow’s employees, a good start in school makes all the difference; and,

WHEREAS, Parents who know their children are safe and well settled at school are better able to concentrate on their work; and,

WHEREAS, A big part of the First Day of Schools program success hinges on enlisting community partners; and,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate hereby supports the efforts of the Enemy Swim Day School to promote parent involvement in education in the schools; and,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate herein authorizes Administrative Leave for the parents who are attending the Enemy Swim Day School’s First Day of School Program and encourages the other Entities of the Tribe to participate in this innovative practice.

(Note from the Enemy Swim Day School administration, faculty, and staff: ESDS thanks the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate for their support and commitment to education, also to employers, the entire community, and parents for the continued support for the First Day of School project. It is a wonderful way to begin a new school year!)

What is First Day?First Day of School America is a grassroots

movement that brings together schools, families, and communities in joyful celebrations of education. First Day is happening in thousands of schools across America, in small towns and big cities. And it’s a movement whose message is as simple as its reach is wide:

Get parents to come to school with their children on the First Day of each school year; make them feel welcome right away; encourage their continuing involvement; then reap the benefits as parents, schools and communities team up to support their children’s education!

How it WorksSchools present First Day activities for

families, as simple as a morning assembly with refreshments, or as ambitious as a full day of workshops, picnics, and parades. Each school and each community decides what’s best for them.

Employers allow time off to working parents (paid, unpaid or flextime) who participate in First Day activities at their children’s schools.

Parents begin the school year right, building better relationships with their children’s teachers, starting on day one.

Why it WorksFirst Day attracts all parents, even those who

usually avoid parent-teacher conferences, PTA meetings, and other events which they may find

intimidating and unwelcoming. When the First Day of School turns into a community-wide celebration, everyone feels welcome!

First Day generates widespread community support of schools and education, and excitement about the beginning of another school year. It gains the attention of business and political leaders, and of the local news media, and helps generate stronger community partnerships for education.

Brief history of the First Day campaign1997: First Day of School America was

initiated by Hemmings Motor News in Bennington, Vermont. Eleven schools in the Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union tried out the idea.

1998: 62 schools in Vermont plus 17 more around the country, presented First Day programs for parents.

1999: Nearly 400 schools participated in 35 states across the nation, and Hemmings Motor News was recognized for establishing the First Day Campaign, receiving a President’s Service Award from the White House, Points of Light Foundation, and the Corporation for National Service.

2000: Over 2000 schools across America presented First Day of School family activities and held their community-wide celebrations of education. American Express joined Hemmings Motor News in 2000 as a major sponsor of the First Day of School America Campaign, helping to further accelerate the campaign’s growth and effectiveness.

2001: Close to 4000 schools in all 50 states, Canada, the Caribbean, and on military bases abroad had joined the campaign.

First Day FoundationThe First Day Foundation is a nonprofit

organization that offers free planning and other technical assistance to schools and communities, through the First Day Newsletter and First Day Activity Guide. First Day staff also offer coaching and coordinate networking efforts among participating schools. The Foundation is not a grant-making organization.

Statements by participants*”Our First Day celebration sets a positive

tone for the rest of the year.” Sue Maguire, Elementary School Principal, Bennington, Vermont.

*“When our schools are strong, when families, businesses, community agencies, and the press make a point of celebrating education, starting on day one, we all benefit. It’s that big and it’s that simple.” Edwin Canizalez, Nevada’s Parent Information & Resource Center, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Melissa Bastian (High School Science teacher)

Mrs. Bastian is a graduate of Northern State University in Aberdeen and has been teaching since 2002. She recently taught science and Henry High School in South Dakota. She now lives in Milbank and will commute to Waubay each day.

Ryan Olson (Upper Elementary

teacher)Mr. Olson is a graduate of

Northern State University in Aberdeen and most recently taught at John Paul Elementary in Mitchell, South Dakota. Mr. Olson is returning to teach in Waubay as he taught 7th/8th Grade Title I at Waubay during the 2002-03 school year when he also assistant coached boys basketball. Mr.

Olson currently resides in Webster.Bruce Spindler (Living Skills/Project

Skills coordinator)Mr. Spindler comes to Waubay

School from Webster Multi District. He will work with students in living skills and project skills. Mr. Spindler worked at the Multi District until last year. He currently resides in Webster.

Sports schedule7th and 8th Grade VolleyballHome matches are played in the

HS Practice Facility.Thursday, Sept 7, Home -

Milbank - 4:30 p.m.; 9-12 - 5:15 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 12, at Britton - 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept 19 Home - Webster - 4:00 p.m.

Thursday, Sept 21, Home - Watertown - 4:00 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 26, at Wahpeton - 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, Sept 28, at Webster - 5:00 p.m. (9-12 - 6:30 p.m.)

Monday, Oct 2, at Milbank - 4:00 p.m. (9-12 - 6:30 p.m.)

Thursday, Oct 5, Home - Britton/Hecla - 4:00 p.m.

Thursday, Oct 12, Home - Wahpeton - 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct 14, at Britton - Britton/Hecla Tournament - 10:00

7th Grade Football ScheduleThursday, Sept 7, at Groton -

5:30 p.m.Tuesday, Sept 12, at Wahpeton

- 4:30 p.m.Thursday, Sept 14, at Ortonville

- 4:30 p.m.

Monday, Sept 18, Home - Webster - 4:00 p.m.

Thursday, Sept 21, at Milbank -

AFTER SCHOOL TUTORING 2006-2007

Sisseton JOM will be offering tutoring services to students K-12. Students will receive tutoring in academic subjects they may need help with. TUTORING HOURS: Mon-Thu. 4:00-6:00 PM and the 2nd session (specifically for athletes and students in extra-curricular activities) will be from 5:30-7:30 PM. Transportation may be provided for the 2nd session from practices to tutoring. Students may ride bus #7 and will be dropped off in front of the “Papoose Building” of the old Tekakwitha Orphanage. Eligibility requirements are: being an enrolled member of a federally recognized tribe.

*Students will receive an after-school snack upon arrival to tutoring.

*Students will be responsible to bring their needed textbooks and agendas.

*Students will be expected to stay on task while in tutoring.If and when your student/s may need tutoring in their

academics, PLEASE contact our Sisseton JOM program at 698-7604 or stop by our office located in the Papoose Building of the old Tekakwitha Orphanage to register your student/s.

Tutoring services will begin on Mon. 8/28/06.

Sisseton J.O.M. Program698-7604


NOTE: All the staff at ESDS meet state qualifications and licensing criteria for the positions in which they are employed.

Flags and flora are going up at Enemy Swim Day School! The landscaping and construction is progressing as teachers get ready to welcome students for the 2006 2007 school year! The new west wing of the school will be completed by mid-September and the north wing will be done by October 15th. Six new classrooms will be added to the school and more space means a greater opportunity to serve the varied learning and interest levels of our students. Middle

scholars will benefit from a wide variety of exploratory classes that couldn’t be offered at the old campus for lack of space. Younger grades benefit by having the option of indoor or outdoor recess in the cold winter months and the use of the multi-purpose room. Remember, the first day of school is Wednesday, August 23rd and the Welcome Back Wacipi is Friday, September 1st! Hope to see everyone real soon at Enemy Swim Day School.

Wednesday, August 23rd9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Early Childhood Classroom - Enemy Swim Day SchoolRefreshments! Door Prizes!

Fingerprinting available from 10:00 AM-Noon for center-based adults.You are invited to register for the home-based or center-based programs, or just come to get more

information.The ESDS FACE Program begins September 5th.

Watertown Family Aquatic CenterWednesday, August 23rd

Leaving at NoonTo qualify for this trip, families must have all of their required paperwork completed for enrollment.For more information call 947-4605, Toll-free 1-888-825-7738.Let’s get together and off and running on a new school year!

5:00 p.m.Monday, Sept 25, Home -

Watertown - 4:30 p.m.Monday, Oct 2, at Britton/Hecla

- 4:00 p.m.Thursday, Oct 12, Home - Deuel

- 4:00 p.m.Saturday, Oct 14, at Aberdeen -

Jamboree - time TBA8th Grade Football ScheduleThursday, Sept 7, at Groton -

6:30 p.m.Tuesday, Sept 12, at Wahpeton

- 5:30 p.m.Thursday, Sept 14, at Ortonville

- 5:30 p.m.Monday, Sept 18, Home -

Webster - 5:00 p.m.Thursday, Sept 21, Home -

Milbank - 5:00 p.m.Monday, Oct 2, at Britton/Hecla

- 5:00 p.m.Thursday, Oct 12, Home - Deuel

- 5:15 p.m.Saturday, Oct 14, at Aberdeen -

Jamboree - time TBAMonday, Oct 16, Home -

Watertown - 4:30 p.m.

Sisseton-Wahpeton OyatePosition Title: Tutor Aide (2)

Location: Sisseton JOM.Supervisor: JOM Program Manager.Deadline for applying: Sept. 1, 2006.RESPONSIBILITY: Assist and empower Sisseton Public School

students in meeting their unique academic and cultural ‘leech as identified.

DUTIES: 1. Preparation of individualized student progress. report. 2. Preparation of Lesson Plans as needed 3. Maintain discipline in the classroom by using constructive methods. 4. Attend staff meetings and/or programmatic awareness sessions. 5. Provide student transportation as needed. 6. Maintain snack area in snacks and cleanliness. 7. Other related duties as directed by Program Manager.

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. High School diploma preferred but will consider GED while currently in college. 2. Must have a valid South Dakota state drivers license. 3. Must have a positive attitude and strong commitment to education. 4. Attend staff meetings and/or programmatic family awareness sessions. 5. Ability to work effectively with children, peers and adults in a cooperative and positive manner. 6. Must pass a background investigation. 7. Must be multi-cultural sensitive. 8. Must be willing to role model a healthy and positive, lifestyle.


Sisseton-Wahpeton OyatePosition Title: Peer Tutor (3)

Location: Sisseton JOM.Supervisor: JOM Program Manager.Deadline: Sept. 1, 2006.RESPONSIBILITY: Assist Tutor and Tutor Aides as needed while

tutoring students in the areas of general academic studies as identified.

DUTIES: 1, Assist the Tutor and Tutor Aides in preparation and: maintenance of progress reports and/or program files. 2. Chaperone students while in van and being transported as needed. 3. Attend all staff and programmatic meetings. 4. Assist Tutor Aides in providing snacks and maintaining cleanliness in snack area. 5. Other related duties as directed by Tutor/Aides and Program Manager.

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Minimum of 16 years of age. 2. Must currently be in High School with a CPA of 3.0. 3. Must have a positive attitude and strong commitment to education. 4. Ability to work effectively with peers, students and adults in a cooperative manner. 5. Peer Tutors must be willing to role model a healthy and positive lifestyle.


NA meetings at Dakotah Pride Center

Dakotah Pride Center is now holding NA meetings on Mondays.

The meetings begin at 7:00 p.m. in the Outreach Center (former elderly complex, Rehab Village) Conference Room.

The meetings are open to everyone.

Tobacco support group meetings

Tobacco support group meetings are being held every Thursday at 4:30 p.m. at the SWO Health & Fitness Center, Agency Village.

Everyone is invited to come and participate.

For more information, contact SWO Health Educator Teddi LaBelle at 698-7267.

“Tunkasila, Ohinniyan kuta kiya ahitonwan yaun” Sota Iya Ye Yapi - www.earthskyweb.com/sota.html - Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Coming soon on the Sota SWC news pages–New classes being offered at SWCDakota 120: Introduction to Dakota StudiesIntroduction to ActingIntroduction into Playwright(Just a few!)New faculty introductionsAlta Jaquet, Nursing Director & InstructorKarla Witt, Director of Science Programs &

InstructorIntroducing New Scholarship Drive

(Please watch for these feature articles and more!)

Thank you to the following presenters who helped make the 33rd PEP Class a success:

Ron Hill – Etta Jo Marks – Denise Kranhold – Nancy Two Stars – Beverly Gill (for the wings).

Congratulations to the PEP graduates!Thank you to all the families that attended the graduation and to all the referral sources.From: Dr. Dorry and Joyce.

Lonnie Goodsell, Jordyn Feather, Tanner Miller and Terry Heminger receiving their prizes for their participation in the Lego Club and Safety and Life Skills Class throughout the summer at the Peever club.

Tarique Owen is pictured with the completion of his umbrella for the summer reading club.

Jordan Marks displaying his project he built during Lego Club.

Submitted by Jennie Lynn Evenson

Attention, Club members—Attention club members and parents: Peever, Agency Village and Waubay

clubs are now open for after-school programming. Sisseton club will open Monday, Aug. 28. Clubs are open after-school to 6:00 p.m. for ages 6 – 18 and 7:00 – 9:00 for teens only. Parents please make your child’s school aware if they will be riding the bus to the club after-school.

Peever Club –Coloring Contest: Amber Frost, Nino Montreal, Wayne Heminger,

Marilynn Miller, Glenna Goodsell, Pasquelita Montreal, Jayden Miller, Terry Heminger, Jordyn Feather, Tarique Owen.

8-Ball: Antonio Davila.9-Ball: Jacob Owen, Tanner Miller.Foosball: Brian Kurrasch, Jr.Partner Pool Tournament: Jacob Owen and Nino Montreal.The following club members enjoyed lunch at Char’s and were given

school supplies along with a basketball for boys and a soccer ball for girls. A great time was had with the ending of the Lego Club and Safety and Life Skills classes. Members were chosen by attendance and attitudes.

Lego Club: Luke Lawrence, Lonnie Goodsell, Tanner Miller and April Ree.

Safety and Life Skills: Jordyn Feather, Terry Heminger, Antonio Pagan.

Sisseton Club –8-Ball: Hunter Watts, Jesse Watts, Ronnie Taylor, Leland Fryer, Bret

Mandan, Dana Egan.9 Ball: Hunter Watts, Ronnie Taylor, Savannah Marte.X Box contests: NFL Street: Ronnie Taylor, Leland Fryer, Bret Mandan.

Extreme Burnout: Jesse Watts, William Heminger, Kendal Marks. Madden 2006: Leland Fryer, Jesse Watts, Tyrelle Anthony.

Photo Shop: Renae Lufkins, Monique White, Emma Williams all worked on projects in the computer lab, learning how to manipulate photos.

Learning Center: July attendance awards: Demi DuMarce, first; Donna

DuMarce, second; Maycee Crawford, third. July PACE awards: Demi DuMarce, first; MaDonna DuMarce, Savannah Marte and Maycee Crawford, tied for second; Keally and Thomasena Genia, tie for third.

August attendance awards: Maraeh Good Buffalo and Kiara McConnell, tied for first; Keally Genia, second. August PACE awards: Eriel Benson, Maraeh Good Buffalo, Kiara McConnell and Bailey Thompson.

There were 54 students who took in the Boys and Girls Club summer school program this year. Good luck in your school academics from June Kasyoki, Education Director for the program.

POTENTIAL POLL WORKERS: Students attending a summer class in leadership at United Tribes Technical College heard a presentation about voting from Burleigh County Auditor Kevin Glatt. UTN photo Dennis J. Neumann.

BISMARCK (UTN) – United Tribes Technical College has been awarded a grant from the U. S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to recruit and train college students to serve as nonpartisan poll

workers and poll assistants.The award is part of the Help

America Vote – College Program, established by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA).

UTTC coordinates the North

Dakota Tribal Voter Education Project, a cooperative effort with the state’s five other tribal colleges.

This is the second election cycle where UTTC has promoted tribal college student involvement. UTTC

was awarded programmatic funds from HAVA through the North Dakota Secretary of State’s office in 2006 and 2004. The project is coordinated by Bobbi Jo Zueger, UTTC’s Student Financial Aid Director.

“Elections continue to require many more trained poll workers, and these grants will train the next generation,” said EAC Chairman Paul DeGregorio. “We encourage America’s college students to answer the call and provide the critical human resources needed to make democracy happen.”

UTTC was one of nineteen grantees selected from 55 applicants by six panels of independent reviewers from a variety of backgrounds and experience related to elections and higher education.

The EAC provided a total of $300,000 in grants to develop programs to encourage students

enrolled at institutions of higher education (including community colleges) to assist in the administration of elections. UTTC was awarded $18,000.

EAC is an independent bipartisan commission created by HAVA. It is charged with administering payments to states and developing guidance to meet HAVA requirements, implementing election administration improvements, adopting voluntary voting system guidelines and serving as a national clearinghouse and resource of information regarding election administration.

For more information, please visit www.eac.gov.

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Agency Village, S.D.Old Agency District C-StoreSWO Tribal HeadquartersSWC Bookstore

Peever, S.D.Buck’s CENEX C-StoreChar’s

Sisseton, S.D.Dakota Connection CasinoHoliday Amoco C-StoreAlco StoreCountry Co-op of Sisseton

K & K C-StoreStillson ServiceWarren’s Jack & JillPearson RexallDakota Nation Art & Gift

StoreSisseton Super Valu

Veblen, S.D.Mountainhead Angus

Watertown, S.D.Dakota Sioux Casino Gift

ShopDakota Express C-Store

Waubay, S.D.Welch’s Grocery

Wilmot, S.D.Liebe Drug

Hankinson, N.D.Dakota Magic CasinoDakota Magic C-Store

Browns Valley, Minn.Country Co-op of Browns

Valley

Happy Belated1st Birthday

Adryn

Joel & Sheila

Happy BirthdayAug. 28th

We Love & Miss YouYour Daughters Jessica

& Stephanie,& Grandkids

Monica, Sony, & Alex

Happy Belated Birthday

John IyarpeyaOn August 14th

From a Friend

The DREAM Team will host a meeting for interested community members this Wednesday, August 23rd, at 6:00 p.m. at the Teen Center, Sisseton, S.D.

Please bring your ideas and concernsDinner will be provided for those who attend.

Happy 3rd Birthday

Wakanyan Inazin!Happy 4th

Birthday Kenzie!

Love,Your Sister Kylee

Troubled tribe looks to senators –

By Peter HarrimanArgus Leader

August 18, 2006FORT THOMPSON - If Crow

Creek Sioux Tribe members were corporate stockholders, they might be tempted to write off the tribe now as a bad investment.

In July, Tribal Chairman Lester Thompson Jr. reported that the tribe is $30 million in debt and owes $4 million in unpaid taxes and penalties to the Internal Revenue Service.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs closed the tribe’s jail in January, forcing the two BIA officers working at Crow Creek to spend even less time patrolling since they have to transport prisoners 150 miles to Eagle Butte.

But Thompson has spent the summer stubbornly trying to pull the tribe back from the precipice. He pleaded with South Dakota’s congressional delegation and the BIA for help, and now U.S. Sens. John Thune and Tim Johnson and BIA corrections officials are working with the tribe to chip away at its desperate financial and public safety concerns.

There is some prospect for hope.Thompson was traveling last week

and did not take part, but Thune met with the tribe’s Vice Chairman Randy Shields and BIA officials Aug. 10, and

a Johnson staffer also was scheduled to meet with Thompson this week.

Thune spokesman Kyle Downey characterized the Aug. 10 meeting as “a good discussion that led to an understanding of exactly what the problems are.

“The first issue is security.”Thune is trying to facilitate

agreements between the tribe and nearby law enforcement agencies to provide patrol services at Crow Creek, Downey said. Ideally, Crow Creek should have five or six BIA officers assigned to it, not just two, Thompson said.

The chairman confirmed Downey’s analysis of Thune’s efforts. Thompson says no agreements with other law enforcement agencies have been struck yet, and he is leery such arrangements might threaten

tribal sovereignty. However, he acknowledges “right now, everything would be helpful.”

Johnson looked at the shortage of law enforcement officers at Crow Creek from another perspective. On Aug. 5, he sent a letter to Linda Springer, head of the federal Office of Personnel Management, inquiring whether the OPM is contributing to a backlog in filling BIA law enforcement vacancies by not completing background checks on new BIA police officers in a timely fashion.

“Because the process is so time-consuming, many of the positions are going unfilled, further exacerbating the problems that a lack of law enforcement corrections staff creates,” Johnson wrote.

In June, in a letter to Christopher Chaney, deputy BIA director, Thompson complained that the loss of the Crow Creek detention facility severely eroded both the tribe’s law enforcement and judiciary.

“By closing our jail, you are inhibiting our tribal courts from prosecuting alleged offenders. This is rendering our court system helpless. The ‘Catch and Release’ policy of law enforcement officers adds to the already stressed situation of the courts. Court actions have become merely hollow threats,” Thompson wrote Chaney.

While the Crow Creek chairman railed against the BIA closure of the jail and the agency’s laggardly pace for redressing law enforcement staffing shortfalls, BIA Supervisory Corrections Specialist Greta Baker says, “The situation is temporary. We have long-term plans for providing those services to the tribe - within the next fiscal year.”

W.P. Ragsdale, BIA director, in an Aug. 4 letter to Thompson, also says the agency’s Office of Law Enforcement Services “is in the process of creating a transportation program to address prisoner transport issues.”

However, Thompson complains he can’t get a consistent story from BIA officials on why the jail was closed in the first place. Baker said the 14-bed detention facility at Crow Creek “has both structural and staffing deficiencies” despite $2.1 million in capital improvements

made in 2000 and 2001. An inability to separate genders and adults from juveniles in the jail population is one reason it was closed, she says. The jail typically held three to four people a day when it was open. But in his letter to Thompson, Ragsdale seemed to counter Baker’s claims about the jail.

“Please note that the facility is not condemned. In fact, until a couple of years ago, it housed federal prisoners for the U.S. Marshals Service,” he wrote.

Ragsdale said the jail was closed because a Jan. 1 report on jail conditions disclosed “46 unsafe and unhealthy working conditions,” and with only two officers available to staff a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week facility, staffing had reached “a dangerously low level. These issues involving life and safety had to be addressed

immediately.”Ragsdale also said the BIA

attempted to hire two new officers to work at Crow Creek. However, neither successfully completed basic training.

Thompson is not satisfied. As part of its trust responsibility, the BIA is required to provide adequate public safety to Crow Creek, Thompson says. A tribal lawyer in a previous administration began to prepare a lawsuit claiming the BIA has been negligent in carrying out this duty.

“If nothing comes about, if the BIA does not respond to the best benefit of this tribe, I would gladly continue that lawsuit,” Thompson says.

Beyond tempering the immediate law enforcement crisis, Thune and Johnson are trying to help the tribe address its financial problems with a

bill introduced in the Senate last year by Thune. Johnson is an original co-sponsor.

In amended form, the bill was reported out of the Senate’s Indian Affairs committee Aug. 2, shortly before the Senate broke for its August recess, and it might reach the whole Senate for a vote in September. The Tribal Compensation Act would give both the Crow Creek and Lower Brule Sioux tribes additional federal money for tribal land lost when dams backed up the Missouri River. In Crow Creek’s case, it would add $69 million to an existing tribal trust fund of $28 million established in 1997 with the first federal compensation.

Rep. Stephanie Herseth introduced corresponding legislation in the House in 2005.

(Published on Indianz.com Wednesday, August 16, 2006.)

The United States is home to nearly 2.4 million American Indians and Alaska Natives, the Census Bureau reported on Tuesday, with Cherokee, Navajo, Sioux and Ojibwe the most prominent tribal affiliations.

Overall, Native Americans are only about 0.8 percent of the total population. But their ranks grew by nearly 10 percent in just one year,

according to the 2005 American Community Survey, and when mixed-raced Native Americans come into the picture, the number jumps to 4.2 million, representing an increase of nearly 4 percent from 2004.

According to the data, Cherokee is the most popular tribal affiliation, with 310,000 people claiming ancestry. Navajo came in second with 294,000 people, followed by Sioux with 120,000 and Ojibwe with

115,000.These four tribes alone made

up nearly 43 percent of the overall American Indian population, although the data may differ from the official tribal enrollment figures.

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In loving memory ofLeah, Baby Sky, SkyLynn, Leanndra, Lee Michael, and Roger

Gone but never forgottenAugust 23, 2003 changed our lives forever

After the coldest winterThe warmth of springtime beckons,And after the darkest night,The light of dawn appears once more.

After the grayest storm,A rainbow paints the sky with color,And after the strongest waves,Fragile seashells line the shore.

After the deepest loss,God gives the healing gift of memories

To comfort and bring peace of mindWhen those we love are gone....

And as long as we remember,We will never feel alone,For deep within our hearts,We know our loved ones still live on.

We miss you all so much!!!Skyman, Kathy, Josh, Bernie and Rhonda

and the rest of the family

In Loving Memory of Our“Auntie Lydia” J. Renville

May 2, 1910-September 12, 2005The Broken Chain

We little knew that morning that God was going to can your name; in life we loved you dearly, in death we do the same. It broke our hearts to lose you, you did not go alone; for part of us went with you, the day God called you home. You left us peaceful memories, your love is still our guide; and though we cannot see you, you are always at our side. Our family chain is broken and nothing seems the same; but as God calls us one by one, the Chain will link again.

Memorial Dinner & GiveawaySaturday, Sept. 2, 2006

In her honor and memory we invite all relatives and friends to a Memorial Dinner and Giveaway on Saturday, September 2, 2006 at St. Catherine’s Hall, Sisseton, SD, beginning at 12:00 noon.

Master of CeremoniesDanny Seaboy, Sr.

Honor DrumWahpekute

Arena DirectorArnold Williams

HeadMan DancerRay Shepherd, Jr.

Head Woman DancerBarbara Jens

24-Hour SecurityDuane Hislaw

Color GuardSisseton Wahpeton

American Legion Post #314Delano Renville

FridayEnemy Swim School

5:00 p.m. Supper7:00 p.m. Grand Entry8:00 p.m. Welcome Back

Saturday9:00 a.m. Flag Raising1:00 p.m. Grand Entry2:00 p.m. Horseshoe &

Moccasin TourneyRegistration

7:00 p.m. Grand Entry9:00 p.m. Frying Pan Throw

Sunday9:00 a.m. Flag Raising1:00 p.m. Grand Entry

Day money paid to alldancers & drums.

All meals provided by families of the community.

All Drums and Dancers welcome.

Bring your own chairs.

PA system provided.

Vendors welcome.

Saturday, August 26, 2006Tribal Elderly CenterAgency Village, S.D.Starting at 1:00 p.m.

All friends and relatives are invited to attend.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 Open 9-11:45 a.m.; 1-2:45 p.m.

2 Open 9-11:45 a.m.; 1-2:45 p.m.

3 Open 9-11:45 a.m.; 1-2:45 p.m.

4 Open 9-11:45 a.m.; 1-2:45 p.m.

5

6 7 Open 9-11:45 a.m.; 1-2:45 p.m.

8 Closed; Deliver Agency Village Elderly, Sisseton Elderly

9 Closed; Deliver Big Coulee a.m., Enemy Swim p.m.

10 Closed; Deliver Buffalo Lake a.m., Veblen p.m.

11 Closed; Deliver Lake Traverse a.m., Long Hollow p.m.

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13 14 Open 9-11:45 a.m.; 1-2:45 p.m.

15 Open 9-11:45 a.m.; 1-2:45 p.m.

16 Open 9-11:45 a.m.; 1-2:45 p.m.

17 Open 9-11:45 a.m.; 1-2:45 p.m.

18 Open 9-11:45 a.m.; 1-2:45 p.m.

19

20 21 Open 9-11:45 a.m.; 1-2:45 p.m.

22 Open 9-11:45 a.m.; 1-2:45 p.m.

23 Open 9-11:45 a.m.; 1-2:45 p.m.

24 Warehouse closed; office open


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27 28 Warehouse closed; office open




Sisseton-Wahpeton Commodity ScheduleAugust 2006

Warehouse closed, offices open on days commodities are delivered.

Except for the four tribes, no other tribal affiliation in the lower 48 states broke the 100,000 mark, although Choctaws came close 88,000, followed by Pueblos with 75,000.

Among Alaska Natives, Eskimo was the most frequently reported, with 52,000 claiming ancestry. Athabascan and Tlingit-Haida were nearly tied for second, with about 16,000 each.

The state percentage rankings remained largely the same, based on figures released after the 2000 Census. Alaska was first with a Native population of 14.2 percent, followed by New Mexico with 9.6 percent; South Dakota (8.4 percent); Oklahoma (7.4 percent) and Montana (6.0) rounded out the top five. All five states were in the same position following the 2000 count.

But there was a notable change further below, with North Carolina and Oregon cracking the top 10 for the first time, each with 1.3 percent. They bumped Nevada, with 1.2 percent, down one position to number 11.

There also was a shift in terms of actual population. California has been home to the largest number of American Indians and Alaska Natives since the 2000 Census.

According to the 2005 data, though, Arizona now has more Native Americans than any other state. And coming in second was Oklahoma, pushing California to the number three slot, although not by much.

Going by gender, the balance is tipped slightly in favor of Native women, who made up 51 percent of the Native population, compared to 49 percent for Native men.

Part of the reason for the difference could be attributed to the longevity of Native women. According to the data, there are more Native women 55 and older than Native men.

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Based on educational level, an equal number of Native men and women over the age of 25 completed high school. But more Native women obtained a bachelor’s degree than men, although more Native men went onto graduate school than Native women.

Veterans continue to represent a significant part of the Native population. About 19 percent of all Native males have served in the military, according to the data.

The American Community Survey was conducted for areas with populations of 65,000 or more. Officials say it helps communities plan

for the future without waiting for the full Census count every decade.

“The data are vital for the planning, implementation and evaluation of policies ranging from building new schools and roads to establishing initiatives that drive economic development,” said Census Bureau Director Louis Kincannon.

To view the data, visit the Census Bureau site and look for the American Community Survey link. It will allow you to create custom tables and maps.

Relevant link: U.S. Census Bureau - http://www.census.gov/.

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Sunday 20 August 2006There are times when Trinette

Johnson’s life seems to stall, when she finds herself staring at the ceiling fan in her bedroom, watching the blades spin, her mind hung on nothing -

- not her receptionist job, not her fiance, not her ailing father or her four children.

Not even the war.The war, of course, is always

there somewhere, she said, an unseen force in her life, sometimes producing moments of blank detachment,

sometimes stirring up anger like nothing she has ever known.

More than two years after returning from duty in Iraq, she has found herself yelling and cursing at other drivers on the road. Panicked in crowds. Seized with fear at the sight of highway overpasses and tunnels that might suddenly explode.

Doctors gave the 32-year-old Johnson, who served in the D.C. National Guard, a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder, which has plagued thousands of U.S. troops after combat in Iraq -- bringing on flashbacks, numbness, rage and anxiety and leaving many at odds with their old lives, families and jobs.

How women are affected after

combat is only starting to be probed. This is the first war in which so many women have been so exposed to hostile fire, working a wider-than-ever array of jobs, for long deployments.

“This is a really unique experience, and we just don’t know,” said Ronald C. Kessler, a Harvard University professor and author of a landmark study of post-traumatic stress disorder.

For women who are mothers, combat-related PTSD may have added significance. Often, after war, “it’s not the same mommy who left,” said Yale University associate professor Laurie Harkness, who runs a Veterans Affairs mental health clinic in Connecticut. Although the

same can be said for fathers, she said, “mothers in general are the emotional hub of a family.”

For Johnson, it was a doctor at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who first uttered the letters P-T-S-D, a defining moment that came after she spent nine months working the bomb-blasted roads near Baghdad. Her job with the 547th Transportation Company was hauling -- troops, supplies, equipment -- and security. At one point, she helped transport dead Iraqis to their wailing relatives.

In one particularly bad period, a roadside bomb claimed the life of a 21-year-old soldier in her unit, Spec. Darryl T. Dent. Later, another bomb severely wounded Johnson’s

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Award-winning Centennial, Colorado Writer/Filmmaker Donald L. Vasicek’s

award-winning documentary short about the Sand Creek Massacre is scheduled to open the Estes Park Film Festival on September 15, 2006.

The Sand Creek Massacre documentary short is an examination of an open wound in the souls of the Cheyenne and Arapaho people as told from their perspective. On November 29, 1864, Colorado 1st and 3rd Regiments savagely slaughtered over 450 peace-seeking Cheyenne and Arapaho children, women, elders, orphans,

disabled and men under its protection. This act became known as the Sand Creek Massacre. The festival will be held in Estes Park’s Historic Park Theatre September 15, 2006 through September 17, 2006. Details can be seen at http://www.sdientertainment.com/.

The documentary film project includes a trailer (completed ), the short (named Best Short Documentary Film at The American Indian Film Festival and The Indie Gathering Film Festival, Moondance International Film Festival Semi-Finalist, Hayden Film Festival Finalist and was

named as one of the best films of by the Philip S. Miller Library’s Bull Theatre Film Project), an educational video (in post production), a book, a feature-length documentary film, and Interactive Media that includes a study guide and lesson plan. Vasicek says that people have described the documentary short film and the trailer as “powerful” and “compelling,” particularly when viewed on the big screen. “The sound and images blow me away”, says Vasicek. Many others, he says, express dismay that it has taken them this long to learn about the Sand Creek Massacre.

You can contact Don Vasicek at [email protected] or go to donvasicek.com for information on how to obtain a copy of the trailer (The Videographer’s Awards Award of Excellence, film and/or educational video/lesson plans/curriculum.

The goal of this project is to educate and inform so that others can become aware of our native people. You can read the Sand Creek Massacre Documentary Film business proposal at donvasicek.com.

best friend, Spec. Antoinette Scott, a mother of four.

That fall in 2003, Johnson was riding in a truck with her M-16 rifle pointed out the passenger-side window. Out of nowhere came a deafening blast. Her five-ton vehicle swerved and nearly flipped. There was fire. White smoke. Flying debris. A bomb, hidden along a guardrail, had detonated.

Johnson received a Purple Heart for hearing loss in her left ear but stayed in Iraq for several more months, working the same roads. “It seemed like once every other or three days somebody was getting hit,” she recalled recently.

But the enemy was elusive. She never fired her M-16.

Unexpectedly, in January 2004, she was shipped home three months early, sidelined with severe kidney stones. Later, at Walter Reed, the dreams started: violent dreams, with exploding mortars and hordes of barking dogs. She mentioned them to a doctor.

This was while she was living on the hospital grounds, seeing specialists and worrying about whether anyone in her unit had been injured or killed. She called her unit in Iraq every day. But she had not seen her kids.

A counselor prodded her to visit them - three were being cared for by Johnson’s sister in Falls Church, and one was in Richmond with the child’s paternal grandmother. None of the children lived with their fathers.

“Mommy! Mommy!” her youngest daughter, then 2, shrieked during a visit in Falls Church, climbing all over her.

Johnson had been a mother since she had her son at age 14. Now she felt overwhelmed. She rose to leave.

“I can’t do this,” she told her sister.

In her car, she sobbed, wondering how she could feel so disconnected. “I realized that I just walked out on my babies.”

*****In nearly 3 1/2 years of war, more

than 137,000 female troops have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, some exposed to the most profound stresses of combat: ambushes, mortars, bombs, fallen comrades. They have fired M-16s and grenade launchers, killed people and been shot at.

As these women have returned home, Army researchers studying the psychological fallout of Iraq have noted a surprising trend in early studies: Women appear to be showing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health troubles at roughly the same rates as men.

If this result holds true, it would stand out because women studied in the overall population show markedly higher rates of post-traumatic stress disorder than men -- about twice as much.

“It’s not definitive, but it’s encouraging,” said Patricia A. Resick, director of the Women’s Health Sciences Division of the National Center for PTSD, part of the Veterans Affairs Department. Resick said more research is needed.

While studies of the war’s effects continue, one fact is clear: A generation of U.S. military women is at risk of combat-related stress disorder as never before.

A recent study showed that, overall, more than one in three U.S. troops sought mental-health care in the year after returning from Iraq. An earlier study found that about one in six showed signs of PTSD, major depression or anxiety after Iraq.

“From our data, what it looks like is that women serving in combat have

the same risk as men of getting PTSD or other mental health conditions,” said Charles W. Hoge of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

For Johnson, treatment at Walter Reed made things better, with group sessions, art therapy and combat-stress counseling. “You’re in there with other people who are going through the same things,” she said, “and you kind of feel like, ‘Okay, now I don’t feel crazy.’ “

The most wrenching day, as she remembers it, was when she was sent home: Oct. 3, 2004. No longer did she have the supportive environment of the hospital. She was on her own, medically discharged from the military because of the stress disorder.

Outwardly, Johnson looked much the same: bright eyes peering through delicate glasses, big smile, always seeming on the verge of a laugh. “Dee,” everyone called her. But much had changed. “I don’t even know this life,” she said one day.

For several months, while her fiance supported them, she could not bring herself to go to work. Finally, last year, she returned to her job as a receptionist in the National Guard building in Northwest Washington, which houses a museum lined with exhibits that depict combat.

The images did not bother her.

The hard thing was that in the life she returned to, almost no one seemed to understand Iraq. They did not know what it was like to live with hidden enemies and fatal explosions, to feel so far from family and become so attached to other soldiers.

Some people told her: “I couldn’t have left my kids like that.”

The comments upset her because they implied a choice she did not have. She was a National Guard soldier, a job she took in 1997

as a steppingstone to more financial stability at a time when she was a single mother of three. The Iraq war did not seem a possibility then. Her father had served 26 years as a guardsman without seeing battle.

In 2003, Johnson left for war as her youngest was learning to talk.

Her eldest daughter was nearly 12 when Johnson returned. The girl seemed different -- dressing in black, skipping school, no more smiles, no hugs. She wondered: Was it because of her absence?

She recalled, “I’m looking and I’m trying to figure out, ‘Where is my child?’ “

Even now, there are times Johnson feels uncomfortable talking about post-traumatic stress disorder. It’s an invisible wound in a war with daily bloodshed. At Walter Reed, she said, she saw soldiers with missing arms or legs, paralysis, shrapnel scars.

She is not so physically injured.Still, her diagnosis scares her.It took her six months after she

left Walter Reed to make herself go to a VA office and stay for an

appointment. She put it off at first, then became overwhelmed by the sight: veterans with glazed looks, some seeming at loose ends with nothing else to do.

“I would see some of the older vets sitting there,” she recalled, “and I would be like, ‘Lord, have mercy. I do not want that to be me.’ “

She gave up alcohol. Some veterans drink a lot, she said, and she does not want to “self-medicate,” as she called it. “It doesn’t make Iraq go away,” she said. “But obviously, if you pass out, then there’s nothing bothering you at that time.”

Johnson understands the danger of alcohol partly from her fiance, Mark Branch, who was her battle buddy in Iraq. He was driving the five-ton truck the day the bomb went off along the guardrail.

After Iraq, he drank so much Rémy Martin cognac that she lined up all of his empty liquor-bottle boxes along the top of their kitchen cabinets.

“How many fifths did I go through?” he asked her one day as

they thought back.He checked into a treatment

program at Walter Reed, too.The way Branch sees it, “a lot

of us, we come back, and we have to go back to work because we have families, we have jobs, we have houses.” Finding time to pursue counseling seemed impossible.

“You’re never going to be healed from it,” he said. “They just teach you how to live with it.”

In her own life, Johnson finds herself off balance in ways that have surprised her.

One day she banged up her car but could not recall how. She heard the smack, yes. But how did she get up on the curb? Did she swipe a fire hydrant? “It’s almost like I’m there but I’m not there sometimes,” she said.

Another day, she recalled, it was the usual Washington traffic as she drove her Chrysler Concorde with the

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Sisseton-Wahpeton Law Enforcement has a crime tip hotline to report any crimes. If no answer, leave a message and you may remain anonymous.

The number is . . .

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DEADLINE DATES TO REMEMBER FOR TRIBAL ELECTION 2006

The August District Meetings with the new memberships accepted at the September Council Meeting is the DEADLINE to change and/or update voting rosters prior to the PRIMARY ELECTION.

The September District Meetings with the new memberships accepted at the October Tribal Council Meeting is the DEADLINE to change and/or update voting rosters prior to the GENERAL ELECTION. Chapter 3: Election Code, Part 4, Qualifications of Voters; 03-04-02, District Registration.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 25TH, 2006, 4:30 p.m. 03-05-11Deadline for Certification of Candidates by REB.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2006, 4:30 p.m. 03-06-03Tribal Secretary posts candidates names for Primary Election.Deadline to appeal certification to the Tribal Court 03-05-10(B)

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2006 03-05-10(B)Deadline for Tribal Court determination on appeal.

PRIMARY ELECTIONMONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH, 2006, 4:30 p.m. 03-04-05(C)Deadline to request Absentee Ballots in Primary Election

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3RD, 2006 03-06-04PRIMARY ELECTION DAY, 7:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5TH, 2006 03-06-05(A)

If Run-Off for Primary Election needed, Tribal Secretary posts names.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6TH, 2006 03-10-02(A)Deadline to challenge the Primary Election.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10TH, 2006, 4:30 p.m. 03-10-02(B)Deadline for Tribal Court determination on Challenge/Primary Election.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13TH, 2006, 7:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. 03-06-05(A)Run-Off Election for Primary Election, if needed.

GENERAL ELECTIONTUESDAY, OCTOBER 17TH, 2006

03-07-02Tribal Secretary posts names for the General Election.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 23RD, 2006, 4:30 p.m. 03-04-05(D)Deadline to request Absentee Ballots for General Election.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH, 2006 03-07-01GENERAL ELECTION DAY, 7:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH, 2006, 4:30 p.m. 03-10-03(A)Deadline to challenge the General Election.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2006, 4:30 p.m. 03-10-03(A)Deadline for Contestee to file answer to complaint in five days.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH, 2006 03-07-02If Run-Off for General Election needed, Tribal Secretary posts names.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21ST, 2006, 7:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. 03-07-03Run-Off Election for General Election, if needed.

Reservation Election BoardSisseton-Wahpeton Oyate

P.O. Box 509Agency Village, SD 57262

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Reservation Election BoardYear 2006 Tribal Elections

APPLICANTS FOR TRIBAL COUNCIL POSITIONSSUBMITTED TO THE TRIBAL SECRETARY

Big Coulee DistrictGerald “Smoky” German, Sr. (Incumbent)Norma “Tiny” PerkoFran White

Enemy Swim DistrictKevin Roberts (Incumbent)Audrey BernardPrescott “Scott” DuMarce

Long Hollow DistrictCraig DuMarceJustin GermanVirginia MaxRobin Quinn

Buffalo Lake DistrictMyron Williams (Incumbent)Terri LarsenLouis “Louie” Johnson

Lake Traverse DistrictGerald “Jerry” FluteDavid RedthunderChad Ward

Old Agency DistrictSara HayesFloyd Kirk, Jr.Grady RenvilleYvonne Wynde

Veblen/Heipa DistrictVerlyn BeaudreauJonathan GillRobert LaFromboiseClifford Charles “Tuffy” MacConnellCharnel PetersenWinfield Rondell, Jr.Spencer Wanna



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Reservation Election BoardYear 2006 Tribal Elections

APPLICANTS FOR TRIBAL EXECUTIVE POSITIONSSUBMITTED TO THE TRIBAL SECRETARY

CHAIRMAN CANDIDATES

James “J.C.” CrawfordAndrew J. Grey, Sr.Alan JohnsonNorman JohnsonMichael I. Selvage, Sr.Richard Tall Bear Westerman

VICE-CHAIRMAN CANDIDATES

Floyd DeCoteauScott German (Incumbent)William “Bill” LaRoqueJacob “Jake” Thompson

SECRETARYRonald DuMarceGerald German, Jr.Delbert Hopkins, Jr.Lorraine RousseauKaren White



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DISTRICT REGISTRATIONThe August District Meetings with the new memberships accepted at the September Council

Meeting is the DEADLINE to change and/or update voting rosters prior to the PRIMARY ELECTION.

The September District Meetings with the new memberships accepts at the October Tribal Council Meeting is the DEADLINE to change and/or update voting rosters prior to the GENERAL ELECTION.

Chapter 3: Election Code, Part 4, Qualifications of Voters; 03-04-02, District Registration.



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NOTICEREGULAR 2006

TRIBAL ELECTIONSPRIMARY ELECTION DAY: Tuesday, October 3, 2006. Polling Hours: 7:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.Voting at the Respective District Center. Voting will be held at each District Center or designated

place.Ballots will be counted at the Veterans Memorial Recreation Center (Boys and Girls Club gym).RUN-OFF ELECTION in case of a TIE for the PRIMARY ELECTION: Friday, October 13, 2006,

7:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.

GENERAL ELECTION DAY: Tuesday, November 7, 2006. Polling Hours: 7:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.Voting at the Respective District Center. Voting will be held at each District Center or designated

place.Ballots will be counted at the Veterans Memorial Recreation Center (Boys and Girls Club gym).RUN-OFF ELECTION in case of a TIE for the GENERAL ELECTION: Tuesday, November 21,

2006, 7:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.

Non-Resident Voters: Registered non-resident voters must vote in person in the District of their registration. Chapter 3: Election Code, Part 4, Qualification of Voters; 03-04-03, Non-Resident Voters.



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The following Community Meetings will be held so Tribal members may review and ask questions on the proposed amendments that will be placed on the ballot to be voted on in the November General Election. Remaining dates:*Lake Traverse District Center at 7:00 p.m. on August 23, 2006.Dates for September and October Community Meetings will be added late. Also be watching for the amendments to be published in the

Tribal paper each week.If you should have any questions, please contact the Constitution

Revision Committee Secretary Lisa RedWing at 698-4901.

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The Low Income Energy Assistance Program is in the process of developing its FY 2007 plan. The public is invited to read and make comments on the proposal. The proposed plan can be read at the LIHEAP office located at the old Tiospa Zina building.

Please contact Jolene Barse at 605-698-4400, Ext. 214, if you would like to read the proposed plan or make comments. The final plan must be submitted by September 1, 2006.

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NoticeHeipa District Members

Board VacanciesHeipa District members are notified there are four Board

vacancies to be filled:*TERO.*Planning*Tribal Historic Preservation.*Sisseton Wahpeton College Board of Directors.Any District member interested in sitting on one of these

boards please call the District Center to leave your name and a phone number where you can be reached.

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Sisseton-Wahpeton OyateJob Openings

The Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribe is seeking to fill the following position(s):

Case Specialist II, Child Support Enforcement.Closing date: August 25, 2006 at 4:30 p.m.Teacher, Early Head Start.Teacher Aide, Head Start.Closing date: September 2, 2006 at 4:30 p.m.All interested applicants may obtain application

and job description information at the Human Resources Department, of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate. You may contact Jody Thompson at (605)698-3911 ext 134 or Arnold Williams ext. 140.

AttentionLake Traverse District Members

The Regular District Meeting for the month of August will be held on Tuesday, August 22, 2006, at 6:00 p.m. at the Lake Traverse District Center.

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NoticesBuffalo Lake District Members

Regular District MeetingThe next Regular District Meeting will be held on Thursday,

Aug. 31, 2006 (note this is a correction), at 6:00 p.m. at the District Center.

Please note that this will be the deadline for accepting school clothes requests.

District Elderly MeetingThe next District Elderly Meeting will be held on Friday,

Sept. 8, 2006, at 3:00 p.m. at the Roller Rink.District elders, please call Sandra White at 698-3305 to provide

updated contact information (telephone, address).

Effective AUGUST 16, 2006 all child support payments received during the proceeding week by the Sisseton-Wahpeton Office of Child Support Enforcement will be processed and mailed to Custodial parents on a weekly basis on WEDNESDAYS ONLY. This is a change in Policy & Procedure from daily disbursements to weekly disbursements of child support checks. NO EXCEPTIONS.

This change is made to eliminate confusion and uncertainty among our clients as to when payments will arrive. All recipients should expect their checks to arrive on Fridays depending on postal service delivery. For any questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact the Program Manager at 698-7131 or stop by our office at the Human Services Department, Agency Village, South Dakota.

NOTICEBig Coulee District Members

There is a District Meeting scheduled for Thursday, August 24, 2006 at 6:00 p.m.

The SWO Tribal Historic Preservation Office and the Repatriation Committee would like to say Nina Wopida Tanka to all who donated, participated and showed their respect in the recent repatriation and reburial ceremonies of our ancestors. A very special Thank you to Ambrose Little Ghost and Joe Circle Bear for their guidance and support in the care of laying to rest our relatives. There was so much support in monetary and labor from the community, without you this would not have been possible.

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with SHP Engineering & Architecture, 301 West Capitol, Pierre, South Dakota 57501, for each set of documents. The deposit will be refunded to each person who returns the Plans, Specifications and other documents in good condition within five (5) days after bid date. Checks shall be made payable to: SHP Engineering & Architecture. Partial sets may be purchased at the rate of $5.00 per drawing page and $.15 per specification page. This reproduction cost is non-refundable and the purchaser is responsible for determining which pages are to be reproduced with a written request. Addenda will not be sent to partial set holders.INDIAN PREFERENCE IN SUBCONTRACTING, EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING. The successful bidder must provide preference in its award of subcontracts, and in its employment and training. All bidders must submit with their bid a statement describing how they will provide Indian preference. Specific details are set forth in

the “Special Instruction to Bidders.”TERO. The successful bidder must comply with the Tribe’s TERO Ordinance, including any licensing requirements.RIGHT TO REJECT ANY AND ALL BIDS. This Advertisement for Bids does not commit the Sisseton Wahpeton Housing Authority to award a Contract nor to pay costs incurred in the preparation of bid(s) or to procure supplies. The Sisseton Wahpeton

Housing Authority reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive any informalities or irregularities and to re-advertise when it is in the best interest of the Sisseton Wahpeton Housing Authority.LeRoy Quinn, Executive Director, Sisseton-Wahpeton Housing Authority, Sisseton, South Dakota.

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The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community announces a grant for $850,000 for fiscal year 2006 to the Yankton Sioux Tribe of Marty, South Dakota, for a community center. Marty, South Dakota, where the tribal headquarters is located is a small village miles from the nearest town. There are little resources for the 302 youth who call Marty home. Groundbreaking for the new community center was held on July 26, 2006.

In the grant request, the YST Business and Claims Committee wrote, “The high rate of high school dropouts, substance abuse, and suicide rates among our Native children paints a compelling picture of the need for a community center.

This community center will provide a healthy and positive place to get together for recreation and structured programs. These programs will help youth and elders with social recreation as well as healing.”

The two level building will house an activity hall for wakes, ceremonies, meetings, and community sporting activities, an indoor basketball court with bleachers, an indoor walking and jogging track, locker rooms, restrooms, a weight and exercise equipment room, an office, and a kitchen. Other major areas will be for Tribal elders and a community shelter for families at risk. The community center will also house a local Boys & Girls Club.

In fiscal year 2005, the SMSC

donated $1 million for economic development for the YST’s Fort Randall Casino and $150,000 this past winter for energy assistance for families. In previous years the SMSC made these donations to the Yankton Sioux Tribe: $1 million for economic development and improvements at the Fort Randall Casino; $100,000 for a youth education and activities program through the Yankton Sioux Housing Authority; $100,000 for a diabetes integrated prevention and management program; $100,000 for a tribal college library; and $150,000 to fund equipment and operation of the Wagner Dialysis Unit housed at the Indian Health Service.

U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) has announced that the Oglala Sioux Tribe will receive a $1 million earmark for law enforcement, judicial, and victim service activities. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Johnson secured this funding in the Department of Justice Appropriations bill for this year.

“This funding will provide significant resources for the Oglala Sioux Tribe to enhance the safety and well-being of people on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation,” Johnson said. “It is essential that tribes have the tools they need to combat and prevent crime, as well as to provide

services for victims.”This earmark for the Oglala

Sioux Tribe will be used to fund the detention/detox facility, the tribal court system, the department of public safety and the Oglala Nation Tiospaye Resource and Advocacy Center (ONTRAC).

“Reservation communities have unique law enforcement needs, but face chronic under-funding,” Johnson said. “The violent crime rate in Indian country is 50% higher than the national average. Yet, Indian country has far fewer police officers per capita then the national average.”

U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) has announced that KILI-FM Lakota Communications, Inc. will receive two federal grant awards.

A $123,791 Digital Conversion Radio grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) will help enhance program service.

An emergency grant award of 138,653 from the Department of Commerce to purchase a new

transmitter, antenna, transmission line and associate equipment due to damage caused from a severe storm.

“I am pleased that Lakota Communications, Inc. is receiving this funding,” said Johnson. “It is important for South Dakotans in the Pine Ridge area listening area to have access to quality radio.”

Johnson has been in constant communication with the National

Telecommunications and Information Administration supporting funding on emergency basis for emergency repairs resulting from storm damage. As a member of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, Johnson supports this type of funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Public Communications Facilities Program.

Purple Heart license plates. Along a snarled street, a bus driver blared his horn at her.

She yelled, cursed, then hurled an empty Coke cup at the bus before she even knew what she was doing. “You don’t realize what you’re doing until after, or sometimes a lot after,” she said, later reflecting: “My temper is on a whole other level.”

Then there was the time she got stuck in traffic near a highway overpass in Prince George’s County. In Iraq, overpasses could conceal bombs. She felt a crushing sense of danger - and traffic was at a dead stop.

“I was just losing it,” she recalled.

In hysterics, Johnson phoned her fiance, who told her: Put the car in park and walk away until you settle down. When the traffic starts to move, climb back in your car.

More than 2 1/2 years after her return from war, her sense of safety has not returned. She worries as never before about terrorist attacks and suicide bombers.

“I always make sure I’m armed, regardless,” she said, mentioning a knife she keeps around. “I always make sure I have something to defend myself.”

She has had a hard time with the VA.

She applied for disability compensation, but it took 14 months, and there are still problems.

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She started mental health sessions but wound up disappointed. She said the VA canceled her appointment in October. In November. In December. Each time, there was a different reason, she said. Her therapist was sick. Her name was not on the schedule. All of that, she said, has added to her stress.

“I haven’t been there in four months, and they haven’t even noticed,” Johnson said early this year. VA officials declined to discuss her case but said that, overall, veterans get the PTSD care they need.

In February, Johnson said, her social worker made some calls and got her a 30-minute session March 8. But problems at work so consumed her that she could not remember what to tell the doctor. Usually, she makes a list of things to bring up.

Once, she asked: How long am I going to be like this?

“It could stop today, or it could go on for years,” she said she was told, which brings her to this: “That’s what scares me. I just get scared that I’ll be one of those homeless people that you see holding the signs because I’ve lost my mind.”

For now, her fate is nothing like that. She and her fiance bought a house this year, a brick rancher with a big back yard in Clinton. Her children

seem happier, planted. Her eldest daughter is 14, an honor student and soccer-team captain.

Her youngest, now 5, is still focused on Mommy, and Johnson is glad - though sometimes she still finds herself overwhelmed. On weekends, she and her fiance often have six or more children around, hers and his and often a niece or nephew.

After Iraq, she rarely goes out anymore - not to clubs, not to movies. She passed up a chance to apply for a higher-paying job in her office because she felt she could not manage additional pressure.

Some days, she feels perilously close to the edge.

If she is home, she may retreat to her bedroom. There, she can collect herself. Or she may, for a moment, lose her connection to everything, as the ceiling fan turns, as her mind goes blank.

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Open 7 a.m.-11 p.m.Video Lottery

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DAKOTAH GOSPEL ASSEMBLY

Sisseton, SDSunday 11 a.m.

Thursday Bible Study 7 p.m.605-698-3798

Pastor Bob Beasley

Roberts CountyNational Bank

Member FDIC - Equal Housing Lender

5 East Maple St.Sisseton, S.D.

Phone 698-7621

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SWO Fuel, Inc.

Commercial – ResidentialHeating & Air ConditioningLENNOX Quality products

Propane – Heating Oil – DieselBulk Deliveries

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Business Hours:Monday thru Friday 8-5;

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The Early Childhood Intervention Program provides services to children from birth to 5 years---The critical years in a child’s development.

Early intervention can enhance development and reduce the effects of developmental delays.

Early intervention services are equally available to all.

Contact information:

The Early ChildhoodIntervention Program

Phone: 698-4400 Ext. 300Fax: 698-4429Email: [email protected]

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TRIBAL COUNCIL RESOLUTION NO. SWO-06-071

Prohibition of Vicious Dogs in Public Housing

WHEREAS, The Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation is organized under a Constitution and By-Laws adopted by the members of the Tribe on August 1-2, 1066 and approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs on August 25, 2006, and as further amended; and

WHEREAS, The Constitution and By-Laws, ARTICLE VII, Section 1, states that the Tribe shall be governed by the Tribal Council, and that Tribal Council shall have the power to: (1) represent the Tribe in all negotiations with Federal, State and local governments; (d) to make rules governing the relationship of the members of the Tribe, to Tribal property, and to one another as members of the Tribe; (g) to take actions by ordinance, resolution or otherwise which are reasonably necessary through committees, boards, agents, otherwise, to carry into effect the foregoing purposes; and (h) to promote public health, education, charity, and other services as may contribute to the social advancement of the members of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation; and,

WHEREAS, The Tribal Council has been informed by the Sisseton-Wahpeton Housing Authority (SWHA) that a child was recently attacked by a rotweiller on the Lake Traverse Reservation; and,

WHEREAS, The SWHA has requested that the Tribal Council support and adopt the

policy of the SWHA prohibiting vicious dogs within the housing developments owned by SWHA in accordance with Chapter 54, Sections 54-03-1 thru 54-03-03.

WHEREAS, The SWHA has requested that the following species shall automatically considered as “vicious dogs” by the SWHA and shall be removed from the public housing developments: rotweillers, pit bulls, and dobermans. The term “vicious dog” shall also mean any other canine with vicious tendencies as defined in Chapter 54 of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Codes of Law; and,

WHEREAS, The SWHA Board has previously approved and support the policy that the particular species specified above be classified as vicious dogs for purposes of removal by the SWHA in the public housing developments; and,

WHEREAS, Upon adoption of this Resolution, the SWHA shall provide notice of this policy in the local newspaper, post the policy in public areas such as the Tribe’s headquarters, and distribute copies of the policy to the current tenants of the SWHA. The SWHA shall allow five (5) days from the date of distribution or publication, whichever is later, for the tenants to remove the vicious dogs from the public housing developments; and,

WHEREAS, The Tribal Council and SWHA has determined that failure to remove the dog shall result in proceedings against the tenant for eviction and any other appropriate action under Chapter 54.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, The Tribal Council of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation

hereby declares that rotweillers, pit bulls, and Dobermans shall automatically be considered vicious dogs by the SWHA and shall be removed from the public housing developments owned and operated by the Sisseton Wahpeton Housing Authority; and,

FINALLY BE IT RESOLVED, The Tribal Council of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation directs the Sisseton Wahpeton Housing Authority to give five (5) days notice, in accordance with this resolution, to the public of the newly enacted policy and remove the animals after the five day period has passed. The SWHA may charge the tenant for the removal of the dog if the tenant fails to remove the dog within the five (5) days allowed.

CERTIFICATION

We, the undersigned, duly elected Chairman and Secretary of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribal Council, do hereby certify that the above Resolution was duly adopted by the Sisseton-Wahpeton Cysts Tribal Council, which is composed of 10 members (representing a total of 15 Tribal Council weighted votes and two Executive Committee votes for a total of 17 votes) of whom 7 constituting a quorum, were present at a Tribal Council meeting, duly noticed, called, convened and held at TiWakan Tio Tipi, Agency Village, South Dakota on August 3, 2006 by a vote of 11 for, 0 opposed, 0 abstained, 0 absent from vote, 1 not voting, and that said Resolution has not been rescinded or amended in any way.

Dated this 4th day of August, 2006.Jerry Flute, Tribal Chairman, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate.

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Sisseton-Wahpeton OyateLake Traverse Reservation

State of South DakotaIn Tribal Court

Case No.: H-04-022-074Sisseton-Wahpeton Housing Authority, Plaintiff, vs. Christina Fuentes and Myron Eaglestar, Defendants.

ORDER FOR PUBLICATIONA Motion for Publication of Summons having come before the Court on application of Plaintiff, and it appearing to the Court that good faith effort has been made by the Court Process Server to locate Defendant and serve them with a copy of the Summons and Complaint

herein, and that there is no information available as to the present whereabouts of Defendant, now, thereforeIT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED THAT the Clerk of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Tribal Court shall cause to be published in a local newspaper of general circulation for once each week for three successive weeks, a copy of the Summons herein and upon completion of such publication, jurisdiction shall attach.Dated this 15th day of August, 2006.By the Court: B.J. Jones, Tribal Court Judge.Attest: J. Wanna, Clerk of Court.

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GARAGE SALELarge multi-family rummage sale Saturday, Aug. 26th, from 8 a.m.-2 p.m.. Infant boys 0-24 months. Some Toddler boys clothes. Juniors clothes, women’s clothes. Knick knacks, many misc. items. Two and a half miles south on Old Hwy. 81, 12088 Whipple Road. Selvage-Adams-Owen.

VEHICLES FOR SALEThe Sisseton-Wahpeton Federal Credit Union has three vehicles for sale. The fist is a 1991 Chevrolet Silverado Reg. Cab Pickup. The next is a 1998 Pontiac Montana. The last is a 1998 Ford Explorer. All vehicles are as is. There is no expressed or implied warranty with any of them. We are now accepting bids on these vehicles. If you would like to place a bid or you would like to view the vehicles before you place a bid please contact us at (605) 698-3462 and ask for Jeremy. We will be accepting bids for two weeks, starting Monday, August 21, 2006 at 12:00 p.m. and ending Friday, September 1, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.

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Sisseton-Wahpeton OyateJob Openings

The Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribe is seeking to fill the following position(s):

Case Specialist II, Child Support Enforcement.Closing date: August 25, 2006 at 4:30 p.m.Teacher, Early Head Start.Teacher Aide, Head Start.Closing date: September 2, 2006 at 4:30 p.m.All interested applicants may obtain application and job description information at the Human Resources Department, of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate. You may contact Jody Thompson at (605)698-3911 ext 134 or Arnold Williams ext. 140.

Enemy Swim DistrictJob DescriptionTNYC Director

The TNYC is hiring a director for the youth center.Qualifications are: must have a high school diploma or GED. Must have at least 1 year managing experience. Be able to maintain confidentiality and keep records/ files on youth of ESD. Must be able to discipline and keep organization/scheduling in the youth center. Must live and promote Drug and Alcohol free lifestyle. Must be able to pass a background check. Must be computer literate and kid friendly. Must be willing to work at part time hours on weekends and evenings when most of the Enemy Swim youth are unsupervised.Starting wage: $9.00 per hour.Hours ranging from. 20-32 hours per week.

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Dakota Magic Casino & HotelJob Openings

C-Store Department: Clerk (2 Full-Time) Rotating Shifts.Count Department: Team Member (1 Full-Time) 3 am to Finish.Hotel Department: Room Attendant (1 Full-Time) 9 am to Finish.Smoke Shop Department: Clerk (2 Full-Time) Rotating Shift.Closing Date: August 25, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.Starting Wage: D.O.E.High School diploma or G.E.D. required.If interested please submit application to Human Resources Department, 16849 102nd Street SE, Hankinson ND 58041.For complete Job Description contact Ramona Kirk at 701-634-3000 ext. 475.Indian Preference will apply/EEO. (Please Provide Tribal Enrollment.) Must be licensable by the SWO Gaming Commission. A Key License requires your income tax filing for the last 3 years.

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS(OPEN BIDDING WITH INDIAN

PREFERENCE) Project Number 001-06

Housing Authority Office Building P.O. Box 687Agency village, CPOSisseton, South Dakota 57262The Sisseton Housing Authority (OWNER)

will receive bids for construction of a new Office Building.SCOPE OF WORK: Complete construction of Office Building – approximately 8,300 square feet, plus site work and parking lot.PRE-BID CONFERENCE will be held on Monday, August 21, at 10:30 a.m. Central time at the current Housing Authority building.BIDDING. Bids will be accepted until 12:00 p.m. Central time, on Monday August. 28, 2006 , at the Sisseton Wahpeton Housing Authority building, after which time they will be opened, read aloud, and taken into consideration. Bids received after this time will not be accepted.INDIAN PREFERENCE. Current TERO office policy will be followed regarding Indian Preference, contact the TERO office for a copy of the policy.BID SECURITY. A Certified Check, Cashier’s Check or Bank Draft drawn on a South Dakota bank, in the amount of five percent (5%) of the bid payable to the Sisseton Tribe or a Bid Bond in the amount of 10 percent (10%) of the bid issued by a Surety Company listed in the current U.S. Treasury Circular 570 Surety Companies Acceptable on Federal Bonds.INSPECTION OF DOCUMENTS. Contract Documents, including Plans and Specifications, may be examined at the following locations: Sisseton-Wahpeton Housing Authority, Sisseton, SD 57262; Sisseton Wahpeton TERO Office, Sisseton, SD, 57262; SHP Engineering & Architecture, 301 West Capitol, Pierre, SD 57501; Bismarck-Mandan Builders Exchange, 805 Adobe Trl, Mandan, ND 58554; Plains Builders Exchange, 220 North Kiwanis Avenue, Sioux Falls, SD 57104; Sioux Falls Builders Exchange, 801 West Blackhawk, Sioux Falls, SD 57104; Aberdeen Builders Exchange, 422 fifth Ave. S.E. Suite 106, Aberdeen, SD 57401; Fargo-Moorhead Builders Exchange, 1010 Page Dr. S, Fargo, ND 58103.COPIES OF THE DOCUMENTS. Documents may be obtained by depositing $200.00

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