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PRESORTED Sota Per Copy STANDARD Inside this Edition – U.S. POSTAGE Message from SWO Meth Prevention Specialist Crystal Owen: “Always Walk in Hope” (see PAID WILMOT, SD feature on page ten) PERMIT NO. 1 Tribal Law Enforcement holds sobriety checkpoints Postmaster: Change service requested From SWO THPO: Remembering Dakota History, UM-Morris weeklong activities Sota Iya Ye Yapi, P.O. Box 5, Wilmot, SD 57279 ¢ Women’s Circle holds annual Silent Auction Contents – Time-Dated News/Do Not Delay History of Dakotah Pride Sobriety Dances Mailed at Wilmot, SD Tuesday, March 27, 2012 Johnson staffer to come to Lake Traverse Reservation 75 Sota Iya Ye Yapi distributed Tuesday mornings Publication of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribe of the Lake Traverse Reservation since 1968 Vol. 43 March - Ista Wicayazan Wi - “Moon of Snow Blind Eyes” - Anpetug de Iyamni, March 28, 2012 No. 13 nemy Swim Day School and Tiospa Zina culture clubs provided the singing and dancing. Here are photo highlights of the event (courtesy Eof Dustina Gill). Young Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota around the drum at the State capitol. Dancers from the Tribal schools pictured at the Capitol. Gov. Daugaard speaks during Tribal-State Relations Day at the Capitol. the IRS.gov, Expanded Work Opportunity Tax Credit and insure your name is on our roster if you’re a tribal Available for Hiring Qualified Veterans (http://www. member as we do not want to leave anyone off the roster. irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=253949,00.html) Thank you. There are extensive employment resources available for * NOTICE: If you request an honor guard at Veterans provided by the Federal Government. Visit any graveside funerals please contact the VSO office http://www.fedshirevets.gov/ and the Department of and I will contact the honor guard for you. We have a Labor’s http://www.dol.gov/vets to learn more. process put in place to ensure an honor guard will be in *The Veterans Opportunity to Work (VOW) to wages paid. Employers who hire veterans with service- *We want to thank Harold Lindsay, LCSW- attendance for your loved one as they deserve this honor. Hire Heroes Act of 2011 (enacted Nov. 21) provides related disabilities may be eligible for the maximum Returning Veterans Case Manager -Minority Veterans Call the office # or my cell. Thank you! an expanded Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) credit. The credit is available to qualified employers, Program who came to our office from Fargo VAMC and *REMEMBER: If anyone is receiving any bills for businesses that hire eligible unemployed veterans including qualified tax-exempt organizations that hire brought literature for our OIF/OEF Veterans. I want from the VA please bring them to my office. If you don’t and, for the first time, makes the credit available to qualified veterans be-fore January 1, 2013. So the credit all our tribal member Veterans to know that when you have transportation either mail them to me at the Tribal certain tax-exempt organizations. The credit can be may be available for tax years 2011, 2012 and 2013, go to Fargo VAMC and need any assistance or have Office or call me and I can stop by and pick them up. as high as $9,600 per veteran for for-profit employers depending on when the qualified veteran is hired. For any concerns you can ask for Harold’s office and he’d *TRIBAL OUTREACH: Jeanne Hovland, Senator or up to $6,240 for tax-exempt organizations. The more information, including how to claim the credit, go be more than happy to assist you. He’s also a Native Thune’s assistant will be doing Outreach at the Tribal amount of the credit depends on a number of factors, to IRS.gov. In the Search box use the following search American Veteran from Ft. Peck, Montana. Elderly building on 4/10/2012. Her schedule time to including the length of unemployment period before terms; Work Opportunity Tax Credit or VOW to Hire *Women Veterans: Please call our office to ensure meet with the Veterans is from 10:30AM-11:30AM; hiring, hours worked and the amount of first-year Heroes Act. For more information, click on this link to we have your name on our roster. We will be having a please stop by and share any concerns that you may have Women Veteran’s Day open house in on May 11th, 2012 with her. Commanders mark your schedule so you can from 3:00-6:00 pm. We want to ensure each Women come and represent. Veteran stops by for a packet of useful information about *The Veterans Crisis Line at 1-800-273-8255. It’s any updates for Women Veterans. We will be having open day and night. If you prefer text messaging, send a coffee and chocolate so please mark your calendars we message to 838255. are hoping to have this at the Sisseton Library again and *TAPS: Condolences go out to the Gill Family. By Shannon White is open to all Women Veterans. We will have a flyer out Gerald P. Gill, 57 of Denver, CO passed away on SWO Injury Prevention at both Veterans Service Offices. 3/15/2012, he served honorably in the US Army and was Sisseton-Wahpeton Law *VA and the Department of Health and Human a Vietnam Veteran. Enforcement conducted a sobriety Services, Indian Health Service (IHS) held face-to-face *Again, please pray for our Veterans that are ill checkpoint on BIA 700 near the consultations about VA reimbursement for services or fighting some sort of battle at this time. We have so Tekakwitha grounds on March provided by IHS and Tribal health facilities to Eligible many that are having health issues that need our prayers. 17th, 2012. Officers checked all American Indian and Alaska Native Veterans. They met *Contact information: American Legion Post #314 cars to make sure everyone was on March 13-14, 2012 in Washington, DC; we will be (Woodrow Wilson Keeble Medal of Honor Guard) driving safe and sober. Officers updating you as we get new developments. - Delano Renville, Commander Cell: # 268-0354; Isaiah Solider, Brett Price, Ross *IRAQ/Afghanistan Veterans: Our welcome home Vietnam Veterans Kit Fox Society - Dayton Seaboy, Torgerson and Cody DuMarce, K-9 honoring is tentatively schedule for May 18, 2012 it’s Commander Phone: # 698-3299; Desert Era Veterans - Gunner and Detention Officer Alex on a Friday. We are hoping to have it at DMC. I will Danielle DeCoteau, Commander Cell: # 924-1525. LaFromboise staffed the checkpoint. keep you abreast of any further developments. Please call Have a great and safe week! Geri Opsal, TVSO. Officer Torgerson and K-9 Gunner randomly checked five cars for drugs. From the SWO Tribal Historic Preservation Office – All sixteen cars that came through the checkpoint were sober and buckled up. The Injury Prevention Program Manager was also present to keep stats. Refreshments for Officers was Submitted by Tamara St. John I cordially invite you to a day-long Dakota “round provided by Codington County This year is an important year in remembering table” at the Minnesota Historical Society on April MADD. our Dakota History as it is the 150th Anniversary of 23rd, 2012. Two previous round tables were attended by Tribal Police conduct the Civil War and the Dakota Conflict that resulted in Dakota from Minnesota, South Dakota. checkpoints in an effort to get drunk the hanging of the 38 Dakota Warriors in December Nebraska and Canada included updates on 1862 drivers off of the road. Drunk driving of 1862. With this in mind, we would like to make the Projects, a review of artifacts for potential exhibition is dangerous for ALL the people who Tribal community aware of two events happening in the and review of early exhibit planning, small Dakota use our roadways. If you suspect that near future. The first is the screening of the film “The only group meetings and a question and answer session someone is driving drunk, please Dakota 38” at the University of Minnesota, Morris on with me. Please let us know of any agenda topic that call 911 and report it to the proper Tuesday the 27th of March. See the information sent by you would like to have included for discussion and as authorities. You could be saving a Tracy Peterson. we get closer to the April meeting, an agenda will be life! The second event is an invitation from the Minnesota Historical Society. The letter reads as follows: Introducing K-9 Gunner! Officer Ross Torgerson and Gunner THPO THPO news will be randomly checking cars for drugs. Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Continued on Page 3 Page 2 “Wo’okiye was’te qa wico zani o’wacin yuhapo” Sota Iya Ye Yapi - www.earthskyweb.com/sota.html - Anpetu Iyamni, March 28, 2012 Here is the link to the SWO Tribe’s official website: http://www.swo-nsn.gov/Home.aspx Sota guest editorial – The link is also available on the Sota website. Check it out! ‘A test you need to fail’: A teacher’s Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983) that it must be signed and the author’s name will appear open letter to her 8th grade students I have come to the conclusion that politics are too in print. Letters must not contain libel and must be By Ruth Ann Dandrea serious a matter to be left to the politicians. Charles De brief, ideally 500 words or less. Letters may be edited (Published on Friday, March 23, 2012 by Rethinking Schools.) Gaulle (1890 - 1970) for content. Omissions will be identified with periods .