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OFFICERS Shakopee Mdewakanton Stanley R. Crooks Chairman Sioux Community Glynn A. Crooks Vice-Chairman 2330 SIOUX TRAIL NW • PRIOR LAKE, MN 55372 PHONE: 952-445-8900 • FAX: 952-445-8906 Keith B. Anderson Secretary/Treasurer Here at the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, we are firm in our commitment to help others; this is ingrained in us as Dakota people from a young age. It is our tradition, our cultural responsibility, to help those who have not been as fortunate as we have been. We get no incentive or tax breaks because of our chari- table giving. It is just the right thing to do. Over the past sixteen years we have given away more than $229.3 million in grants and chari- table donations and made more than $396 million in loans to other tribes for economic development projects. In total, we donated $28,722,550 this past fiscal year. Stanley R. Crooks Glynn A. Crooks Keith B. Anderson Chairman Vice-Chairman Secretary/Treasurer Twenty tribes received grants from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community totaling $16,042,848 in fiscal year 2011 to help improve life for their members. These larger economic development grants helped stimulate tribal economies and create jobs on reservations where poverty and unemployment are often the norm. As it was designed, Indian gaming has been successful in helping us to become self-sufficient. Now that the basic needs of our tribal members for health, education, and housing are met, we use our resources for the greater good. Indian gaming helped us not only provide these grants and others but also to provide more than 4,130 employees with jobs with good benefits. In this year’s report, we are presenting an overview of the donations that were made in fiscal year 2011. More information about specific donations is available on our website along with our recently released report, Omakatob Wowapi: Four Year Report 2008-2011. We appreciate your time in looking at this report, and we invite you to visit our website for more informa- tion: www.shakopeedakota.org. Stanley R. Crooks Glynn A. Crooks Keith B. Anderson Chairman Vice-Chairman Secretary/Treasurer 2 Native American Tribes ..........................................................................4-7 Native American Organizations ...................................................8-9 Charitable Organizations ............................................................... 10-11 Education and Youth Organizations ................................12-13 Holiday Donations .......................................................................................14 Pow Wows............................................................................................................15 Mdewakanton Life Program .............................................................16 Mobile Unit .........................................................................................................17 Photos .................................................................................................................18-19 The new Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Business Council members began their four–year term in office at their Inauguration on January 31, 2012. Pictured are Chairman Stanley R. Crooks, Vice-Chairman Charles R. Vig, and Secretary/Treasurer Keith B. Anderson. 3 epressive government policies over the past 200 years have resulted in many unmet needs in RIndian Country. Economic development and community infrastructure grants and loans from the SMSC help stimulate tribal economies and provide much needed jobs on reservations where poverty and unemployment are often the norm. Twenty tribes received grants from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community totaling $16,042,848 in fiscal year 2011 to help improve life for their members. Below are details about the impact these grants had on other Tribes. ois Forte Band of B Chippewa Indians used their $1 million grant to complete construction of their new 47,000 square-foot administration building in Nett Lake, Minnesota, to replace one destroyed by fire. The new building houses the tribe’s administration and finance offices; its leasing, grant administration, and language preservation programs; planning, fuel assistance, information technology, a registrar, and the tribal council chambers. An $8 million loan from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community for the same project was made in August 2009. 4 he Yankton Sioux Tribe of Marty, South Dakota, T received $1 million from the SMSC for a new tribal hall to replace the previous building which was severely damaged in a flash flood. n addition to severe structural damage to the I already aging building, the flood ruined computers, kitchen and office equipment, files, and furniture and displaced 63 families on the reservation. A small portion of the fiscal year 2011 grant funds was used for pre-construction funds for a youth treatment facility, the Lake Andes Community Center, and to build a new football field at the Marty Indian School complete with seating and concessions. $1 million grant to the Red Cliff A Band of Lake Superior Chippewa from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community enabled completion of the new Legendary Waters Resort and Casino, which opened in the fall of 2011. The project was previously funded by a $23.5 million loan from the SMSC. Located on the shores of Lake Superior and adjacent to the Apostle Islands, the new resort provides 300 slot machines, eight table games, 60 seat Tribes bar and restaurant, 24 seat snack bar, 50 room hotel with swimming pool, and entertainment and conference center. Native American 5 row Tribe of Indians of Montana received a grant for $1 million for a new casino which Copened in May 2011. Phase one featured a new gaming floor with an updated ventilation system, new slot machines, upgraded poker and bingo areas, and new foodservice amenities. Phase 2 will include a hotel, swimming pool, convention center, and RV Park. The previous tribal gaming facility was in danger of closure by the National Indian Gaming Commission due to its dilapidated condition. The SMSC also helped fund the casino in fiscal year 2010 with a $2.5 million loan. grant for $500,000 to the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of South Dakota A supported construction of a new community center in the Enemy Swim District, which is located about an hour from the tribal headquarters at Agency Village. In previous years, the SMSC funded six similar district centers in other areas of the reservation. In addition to committing tribal funds for the project, the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate tribal government has made a commitment to operate, maintain, and repair the district centers and to utilize them on a full- time daily basis over the course of a 30-year period. pirit Lake Tribe of North Dakota used their $1 million grant for S community improvement programs and infrastructure development, including corrals and fencing for the buffalo herd; construction materials for wheelchair ramp construction and repairs to assist the elderly and disabled; three playgrounds; remodel of a recreation center; purchase of a new garbage truck, motor vehicle license plates for tribal members, and a rock crusher for tribal sand and gravel operations. 6 Yankton Sioux Tribe Santee Sioux Nation Native American Tribes Donated* Bois Forte Band of Chippewa $1,000,000 Crow Creek Sioux Tribe $1,000,000 Crow Tribe of Montana $1,000,000 Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe $1,000,000 Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe $500,000 Lower Brule Sioux Tribe $1,000,000 Northern Cheyenne Tribe $448,000 Upper Sioux Community Oglala Sioux Tribe $1,000,000 Omaha Tribe of Nebraska $1,000,000 Ponca Tribe of Nebraska $350,000 Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa $1,000,000 Red Lake Nation $200,000 Rosebud Sioux Tribe $1,000,000 Tribes Oglala Sioux Tribe Santee Sioux Nation $1,000,000 Sisseton Wahpeton Nation $500,000 Spirit Lake Nation $1,000,000 Upper Sioux Community $1,000,000 White Earth Band of Chippewa $1,000,000 Yankton Sioux Tribe $1,000,000 Native American * Not a complete list of donations in this category. 7 he Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Community Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Tmakes donations to organizations which primar- house the Running Wolf Fitness Center. A partner- ily serve Native American clients and reservation ship between the Indian Health Board and the Native communities. Native American organizations are American Community Clinic, Running Wolf provides chartered by individuals, Indian tribes, churches, their patients access to free exercise programming and schools, and groups of like minded individuals united equipment. by a common goal of improving living conditions for Indian people. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux ith a $50,000 grant to the American Indian Community donated $2,805,745 to 40 Indian organi- WCommunity Housing Organization (AICHO) zations in fiscal year 2011. of Duluth, Minnesota, the SMSC fulfilled its commit- ment for $100,000 over two years for a housing proj- he SMSC and the National Indian Gaming ect and an American Indian cultural and community TAssociation (NIGA) of Washington, D.C., have resource center. Along with other funds, the SMSC had a longstanding relationship to grant was used to build 29 units of housing for Native support the cause of Indian gam- American families and single people who have expe- ing nationally. In fiscal year 2011, rienced long term homelessness, are fleeing domestic NIGA received grants for several violence, are projects. A new building with meet- elders, precari- ing space for 150 tribal lead- ously housed, ers,
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