June 2016 Nnaahhggaahhcchhiiwwaannoonngg (Far End of the Great Lake) Ddiibbaahhjjimimoowwiinnnnaann (Narrating of Story)
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June 2016 NNaahhggaahhcchhiiwwaannoonngg (Far end of the Great Lake) DDiibbaahhjjimimoowwiinnnnaann (Narrating of Story) U.S. Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell admiring the Fond du Lac Ojibwe School during 1720 BIG LAKE RD. Presort Std her tour with Superintendent Jennifer Johnson before heading off to the Fond du Lac CLOQUET, MN 55720 Tribal and Community College to deliver the Commencement speech. 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Dunaiski While on the Fond du Lac its kind (a Tribal Reservation Secretary Jewell college and com- raduation is a special dropped by the radio station munity college as time for many people for a quick interview with Dan one), as people Gevery year, but this year Huculak, and proceeded to were packed in to at the Fond du Lac Tribal and resource management to meet see her as well as Community College com- with the staff there as well as the graduates. mencement it was even more our council members to discuss During her special, even for those who environmental issues. commencement weren’t graduating. According to this excerpt from address, she spoke U.S. Secretary of Interior, the Department of Interior’s passionately about Sally Jewell, who is the 51st website this is exactly the type her own life and Secretary of Interior and only of conversation that Jewell how the unknown the second woman, as well as should be having with our after college can White House Special Assistant elected officials. In nominating lead anyone, any- to the President for Native Jewell, President Obama said, where. She started American Affairs Karen Diver, “She is an expert on the energy out her college ca- came to speak during the com- and climate issues that are reer wanting to be mencement. going to shape our future. She a dental hygienist, Hours before giving her com- is committed to building our but when “my boy- U.S. Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell and White House Special Assistant to the mencement speech, Jewell met nation-to-nation relationship friend’s homework President on Native American Affair Karen Diver tour the Fond du Lac with FDL officials and directors with Indian Country. She knows looked more fun to learn more about what Fond the link between conserva- than mine,” she de- Reservation. du Lac has done and where it tion and good jobs. She knows cided to switch fields for advice. But it’s that type of Jewell’s stay here was short plans on going in the future. that there's no contradiction and began working towards her mindset that has made Jewell lived, around 36 hours, Fond Her trip started at the Ojibwe between being good stewards engineering degree. successful her entire career; du Lac must have had a big School where she met with of the land and our economic What many love about Jewell working her way from Mo- impact on her as she said she teachers, staff, and students. progress; that in fact, those is her outside the box thinking. bil, to banking, to Recreation really enjoyed her time here. After the tour of the school two things need to go hand in When she first started out after Equipment Inc (REI) and then She even said that when she’s ended, she stopped to speak hand.” college she was a petroleum all the way up to Chief Execu- done at the end of Obama’s with Superintendent Jennifer But the main reason that engineer with Mobil who did tive Officer of REI. While at term she would really like to Johnson about the Math scores Jewell was here was to speak the unconventional thing of REI she initiated giving all em- visit this area again. posted on the wall. She also to the graduates of the Fond “talking to the ‘pumpers’ to ployees healthcare, no matter had an opportunity to hear the du Lac Tribal and Community learn how to increase produc- how many hours they worked, drum song by the same group College. The college gymna- tion.” Although it seems obvi- which caught the attention of that would later perform at sium showed just how big of a ous, not many people will go to President Obama. graduation. moment it was for the first of an employee lower than them The mission of this publication is to end, we do not publish editorials, opinion provide the Anishinaabeg community of pieces or letters to the editor. There is an Nahgahchiwanong Dibahjimowinnan the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior abundance of opportunity for the publish- Translation: Far End of the Great Lake; Narrating of Story Chippewa, Fond du Lac Reservation, with ing, airing and dissemination of material TABLE of CONTENTS news and information that will be of help of personal opinion in other communica- Local News........................................................2-3 Published monthly by the Fond du Lac to them in their everyday lives. In addi- tion vehicles available throughout the RBC Thoughts ...................................................4-5 Reservation Business Committee. tion, our goal will be to highlight many of area, region and state. Etc ....................................................................5-9 Subscriptions are free for Fond du Lac the honors, accolades, accomplishments Our mission is to provide for Fond du Election News ................................................ 10-12 Band Members. To inform us of a change and awards that are earned by community Lac Anishinaabeg a publication that will August 18, 1853 – of address, write to: Arrival at the old village of Fond du Lac-Part 2 ..13 members but are mostly overlooked by not dismiss their culture, heritage, hopes School News .................................................. 14-20 Fond du Lac News, Tribal Center, the mass mainstream media. and dreams. We are striving to make this Legal New .......................................................... 21 1720 Big Lake Rd., It is our hope that through greater infor- newspaper fill that role. Health News .................................................. 22-23 Cloquet, Minn. 55720. mation about the activities of our people, 13 Moons ...................................................... 24-25 Community News .......................................... 26-27 Editor: Zachary N. Dunaiski this publication can be an instrument of Corporate Member of the Calendar ............................................................28 true community. It is not our intention Native American Journalists to be a vehicle of divisiveness. To that Association June 2016 | Nah gah chi wa nong • Di bah ji mowin nan | Page 3 Local news 2016 Annual Women’s Wellness Gathering Dennis Banks leads By Marcia Kitto cludes with singing led by the Oshkii nal. Ling from Hong Kong Spa will Giizhik Singers and a Solidarity join us again with her gift of mas- march to D.C. he annual Ziigwan Women’s Shawls Round Dance. A Sweat Lodge sage. Wellness Gathering will be with Roxanne Peterson will be held ennis Banks, who is the co- Theld on Monday and Tuesday, after closing Tuesday. For further information or ques- founder of the American Indian June 6 and 7 at the Cloquet Forestry During the gathering, women will tions, call Marcia Kitto at (218)878- DMovement (AIM), has been Center. The theme this year is “Ni- have the opportunity to learn about 3782. Bring your drums, stories, involved with the longest walk before, iwin Mashkikiwan: Four Medicines”, and work on the Solidarity Shawls, skirts, and positive thoughts. Dress and this year he leads the Longest finding our own personal “medicine as well as make a Medicine Wheel for the weather, as much of the gath- Walk 5 as part of the war on drugs. bundle” to help with our healing. and create their own personal jour- ering will be held outside. The original longest walk in 1978 Registration with refreshments be- was to bring attention to the Native gins at 8am. American Equal Opportunity Act which At 9 a.m., the Opening Pipe Cer- You are invited to a: would have eliminated all treaties emony with Rose Marie DeBungie, between the U.S. Government and any Red Lake Elder, will include the Indian Tribe. That bill obviously didn’t Four Grandmothers sharing our pass, and it is largely believed that the healing medicines with the women march’s attention helped put an end attending. Presentations will fol- low, on topics geared towards to it. women’s healing and growth. Our Back in 2011, the Longest Walk 3 “Re- first speaker, Maria McCoy, of the versing Diabetes” was organized. Dia- American Indian Family Center, St. betes, as many of us know, is a huge Paul, will present “Healing Through epidemic all over Indian country across Time—String of Lives”, about heal- the country. No one suffers a higher ing ourselves through the ancestors. rate of diabetes than Native Americans After lunch, beginning at 1 p.m., we and it’s something that has affected all will hear from Ida Downwind on Hosted by: The Fond du Lac Head Start Programs of us in one way or another. “The Seven Grandmother Teachings This year’s walk as part of the war on through the Stars”, followed by a drugs, which started back in February “Making Medicine Wheels” activity Thursday, June 23rd 2016 in San Diego, Calif. will be 3,600 miles with discussion of how we can use and finish in Washington D.C. July 15. the teachings of the medicine wheel 4:00-7:00 Banks also said that this year’s walk for holistic healing and self care.