MOHICAN NEWSNEWS the People of the Waters That Are Never Still
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STOCKBRIDGE-MUNSEE COMMUNITY Band of Mohicans MOHICANMOHICAN NEWSNEWS The people of the waters that are never still Vol. XXVII No. 11 N8480 Moh He Con Nuck Road • Bowler, WI 54416 June 1, 2019 North Star Mohican Casino Resort’s 27th Year Holsey Key Note at WIEA and Burr is Teacher of the Year By Jeff Vele – Mohican News Editor This year the Wisconsin Indian Education Association (WIEA) Awards Banquet was held at the Hotel Mead and Conference Center in Wisconsin Rapids, WI. The theme this year was “12 Nations, 2 Worlds, 1 People”. The Stockbridge-Munsee Community was well represented at the conference with President Shannon Holsey as the keynote speaker and several people from North Star Mohican Casino Resort general manager Michael Bonakdar, the area being recognized at the center, cuts into a cake for the resort’s 27th anniversary. (L to R):Terrance Indian Educator of the Year is Ms. awards banquet at the end of the Lucille Burr Stockbridge–Munsee Miller, Tammy Wyrobeck, Jachim Jaddoud, Bonakdar, Kirsten Holland, event, including Lucille Burr being and Brian Denny. Casino continued on page Four: Community Tribal member and, recognized as Teacher of the Year. Title VI Teacher, Shawano School District Whose homeland is the Mohawk Trail? President Holsey addressed a those advertised today to tourists roomful of teachers, students and you are really, truly the people coming to the Berkshires. family members, and educational that educate our children. It is so They hiked the woods and hunted leaders. Holsey started by saying, important to support you, as we black bear, deer and turkey. “I’m very humbled to be here and speak to the future of Wisconsin, They fished the waterways, and want to take this opportunity to we also need to speak to the future they planted the soil with corn, thank each one of you that are of our infrastructure and growing beans and squash. They created here today because I recognize that infrastructure in a profound beautiful, artisanal things, from the important work that you do way. That means supporting our pottery to decorated clothing. In on our tribal nation’s behalf. It’s educational institutions, and wintertime, they hunkered down in not quite that simple, in terms WIEA continued on page Six: their wigwams and told stories. In spring, they emerged and gathered A Street Named Mohican sap to make maple syrup. Native scholar Dorothy Davids, By Terry L. Shepard The Mohawk Trail, or a member of the People of the Special to the Mohican News Massachusetts Route 2, is a Waters That Are Never Still — also roadway between Williamstown known as the Mohican tribe — Just as “Mohican” is used in com- and Montague. described their way of life in her mercial products around the world, Elodie Reed - Special to The Eagle 2004 booklet, “A Brief History of it is a widespread street name here the Mohican Nation Stockbridge- in the United States. Mohicans and the Mohawk Trail - Munsee Band.” Davids’ narrative Part I recounts her tribe’s long-ago arrival Sometimes it appears in parts of A look at the erased history in North America, its settlement in towns that employ multiple tribal of the trail and the native the valley along the Mahicannituck names. In DeForest, Wisconsin, people who once used it River, and its encounter with Henry Mohican Pass runs into Mohawk Hudson, who sailed up that river Trail. (A historian would wonder if By Elodie Reed, Eagle in 1609 and provided its eventual there are a lot of violent collisions correspondent new name. at that intersection). In Redwood When they lived in the western- Following decimation by disease, City, California, Mohican Way There are nearby streets named most parts of what’s now known conflicts with Mohawks over the merges with Seminole Way. for Indian nations but Mohican as Massachusetts, the People of fur trade, fighting for the American Drive somehow never connects the Waters That Are Never Still In a subdivision in Bakersfield, with Chippewa Street or, a few blocks over, Iroquois, Nez Perce, kept busy with activities similar to Trail continued on page Five: California, Mohican Drive is only 3 blocks long and surrounded by Pawnee and others. The final PRSRT STD home for sale on the cul de sac US POSTAGE PAID showy horse names: it intersects SHAWANO, WI end of Mohican Drive is advertised PERMIT NO. 135 with Secretariat Lane & Bronco Lane, and is near Dressage, Stee- as “The Last Mohican.” plechase and Polo Club Drives. Mohican cont on page Four: What’s Inside? Ads pg 14-15 Elders pg 4 Directives pg 10&13 Health pg 11 Education pg 12 Family pg 7 Community pg 10 Voices pg 3 MOHICAN NEWS June 1, 2019 Page 2 Kãawãakoomneʔnã Brothertown, beaten out of their Nebraska are removal victims from land with the citizenship clause Wisconsin, the returnees are now (We give you our greetings) to supposedly evade having to known to us as the Ho-Chunk. Another six week session of fifties and sixties. Think how proud go Kansas, have held onto their beginner Mohican classes draws they would be to know we still care history and struggle to maintain The Ouu-taa-Gaa-mii were to a close, held on wednesday enough to practice and learn them. their place in Indian country. pushed out and on to Tama, Iowa. nights. Point being we have to do all we In our everyday hustle and bustle Our benevolent Algonquin can for our coming generations of Everyone is welcome to attend, it’s not hard to by-pass this project, neighbors who granted us our Mohican Nation people. enjoy some community and but with our Blood Quantum proud homeland, awoke one day mispronounce our way through questions and deliberations, to the government telling them Exercising sovereignty starts with to success. Starting at everyday exasperated by an unstable they weren’t even Indians. They language, water and land rights greetings between neighbors and political situation concerning all had never sold land to French, and the list goes on….let’s start relatives, we work through simple Indians in Washington D.C. This British, nor Americans and yet small...drop by on a Wednesday commands from drink some water just kind of ammo we need to they to were bullied, cheated and at the Arvid E. Miller Library & to asking if someone is hungry. show...we are who we are in 2019 suffered genocidal practices to Museum, from 5-6 pm. you will be and we plan on staying vibrant and end up where they live today. The doing more than just having a little Children are welcome and colors relevant in the future. Winnebago now located in fun. and paper are there for them to draw and play. Realizing this Speaking to Ms. Noondin from NOTICE OF INTENT TO FILE APPPLICATION is a busy time of year, sports, the Milwaukee Indian school, our gardening and all the other things children are waiting to have their we shake off winter with... let’s turn day in the sun...they practice Stockbridge-Munsee Community intends to file this into a fun hour on wednesday. Menominee, Oneida, Ho-Chunk an application for federal financial assistance and Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe, I am just getting back into the Odawa, Potawatomi) lunch with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural community again; I enjoy the hours. Our Stockbridge-Munsee Development, Rural Utilities Service. The visiting and meeting new relatives thirst for their turn. and neighbors. We can turn this project includes replacing lift stations, security into a little happiness on a usually After conferring with my colleague fencing installation and additional sewer quiet night of the week. Jeremy Mohawk, both Mr. Mohawk and myself agree that improvements. Any comments regarding May 15th ended the six week run... their importance is paramount. this application should be submitted to the so next week we start over again. Let’s face it, pride is a cornerstone Come on out and honor your of Indian existence, if not, the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Tribal Office ancestors...just by sending these poor beaten down NEW YORK located at N8476 Moh He Con Nuck Rd, words, these vibrations, shows INDIANS would have packed and respect. Our last fluent speakers faded long ago. Bowler, WI 54416 or call Public Works Director passed on in the thirty’s and words at 715-793-4854. were tossed around still into the One of our closest relatives, the Express your thoughts and opinions. Let your voice be heard. STOCKBRIDGE-MUNSEE The Mohican News is published We welcome your letters to the Editor and the Community. 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