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Published Bi-Weekly for the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska • Volume 47, Number 19 • Saturday, September 7, 2019 Tribal Farmer's Market Grand Opening A Success! Bago Bits… The results are in from the primary elec- tion! Did everyone get a chance to vote? If you didn't, you know what Gaga Anna The Village Market is a 4,644-square-foot indoor farmer's market on the north edge of town. There's plenty of space for farmers and other Queen would say... vendors to sell their products, including sweet corn, popcorn, arts and crafts. The markets grand opening held free food, kids activities and an honoring for two key supporters of the Village Market and the tribe's agricultural efforts. Donors step up after fi eld of corn destroyed on Winnebago Reservation About half of the Winnebago community traveled to the Hochunk Nation Labor Day Powwow this past weekend. A few of them even brought home some zura from the dance contests. Monday, September 2, 2019 However, two days after the mowed effort and serves to cement relation- By Kevin Abourezk field was discovered, a Winnebago ships among community members, Public Schools alumnus launched a she said. A Nebraska farmer’s decision to mow GoFundMe page to raise money for the She said most people in Winnebago down a 2-acre plot of Indian corn on Academy’s scholarships and fi eld trips. know the farmer who mowed the fi eld. the Winnebago Reservation has had As of Friday afternoon, the fundraiser They said he has lived in the commu- unintended consequences for some had generated nearly $17,000. nity for many years and even attended students. “I was pretty pleasantly surprised Winnebago Public Schools. An employee of Ho-Chunk Farms, that it had this type of outcome,” “He should know whose land that a tribal-owned agricultural company, said Emmy Scott, a Winnebago tribal was and that we do that every year and Tribal "Husker" fans went to go repre- discovered the mowed fi eld near the citizen and recent law school graduate. especially the signifi cance of it because sent at the fi rst home game held this past community’s school the morning of “I didn’t anticipate people caring that he’s lived among Winnebagos for a long, Saturday. Go Big Red! August 22. much about it.” long time,” Scott said. While a perpetrator has not been She said bad things often happen to Fehringer said the corn planted in named, someone sent an apology let- Native people, and most people don’t pay the fi eld generated $3,000-$4,000 last ter this week to the Winnebago Public any attention. year, and he expected it to generate Schools, said Superintendent Dan But when people started posting com- twice that amount this year after more Fehringer. ments on social media criticizing the corn was planted there. “We did receive an apology, but it was farmer’s decision to mow the cornfi eld, He said he was shocked to learn not in my mind genuine because it was she decided it might be worth starting the GoFundMe page had raised nearly signed ‘anonymous farmer,’” he said. the GoFundMe page. $17,000. Ho-Chunk Farms had planted the She said the corn planted in the fi eld “It’s amazing,” he said. “I found out field of Indian corn on land owned serves another purpose besides generat- when I was traveling last week that it by St. Augustine Indian Mission this ing revenue for the Academy. It serves was even set up.” past spring. Revenue generated from as a means of educating the Academy’s Fehringer said a private donor also gave the sale of the corn was supposed to students about the cultural signifi cance $1,000 to the school to fund the Academy’s benefi t about 70 students of the Win- of their tribe’s corn and about the tra- costs. In addition, a farmer in a nearby nebago Public Schools Academy, a col- ditions that accompany the planting, community donated 1 acre of unharvested lege preparatory program. That revenue harvesting and processing of the corn. corn to the school, and a farmer in Iowa would have paid for college scholar- Scott said specifi c Winnebago songs, offered to donate Indian corn seed to the ships and costs associated with fi eld prayers and dances are sung, spoken school for next spring, he said. trips hosted by the Academy. and performed during the planting, har- “The kids harvested that yesterday,” Now the future of that scholarship vesting and processing of the corn. The he said of the 1-acre plot of donated corn. and fi eld trip funding is in question. maintenance of the corn is a collective “They’re fi nishing it up today.” Kiss my Ace! The Lady Indians volleyball Indianz.com… Presidential hopefuls embrace Indigenous movement season started off with a "W" this week. Good job girls! Way to start the season! against unwanted pipelines their water, treaty rights and ways of life. ing to rescind the presidential permits But for the party hoping to reclaim for both the Keystone XL Pipeline and the White House, engaging in consulta- the Dakota Access Pipeline. tion with Indian Country isn't enough. Both projects were approved by the Tribes must have a decision-making Trump administration with little to no role in pipelines and other energy infra- input from those affected in Indian structure that affects their communi- Country. The fi nal Dakota Access per- ties, several Democratic candidates for mit in North Dakota, for example, was president are asserting as they seek the approved while the leader of the Stand- Native vote. ing Rock Sioux Tribe, whose reservation "As President of the United States, lies next to the $3.8 billion pipeline, Winnebago's very own Hujop singers, Cory Booker will ensure that all people was on a plane on his way for a meeting placed 2nd in the singing contest at the and all communities, especially those at the White House. The meeting was Wednesday, September 4, 2019 HoChunk Nation Labor Day powwow who have been traditionally left behind canceled since the decision had already with only fi ve guys. By Acee Agoyo like indigenous communities, share in been made. our progress," the U.S. Senator from Likewise, the fi rst time Trump ap- The Indigenous-led movement New Jersey's campaign told Indianz. proved Keystone XL, he did so with- against pipelines, waged against Key- Com on Tuesday. out conducting additional consulta- stone XL and Dakota Access for years, Though Booker wasn't able to attend tions among tribes along the route in has fi nally emerged as a critical compo- the Frank LaMere Native American Pres- Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska. nent of the 2020 presidential campaign. idential Forum in Iowa last month due And after Indigenous activists won a At least among Democrats, that is. to a scheduling confl ict, he's joined his major court decision, he simply went President Donald Trump, who is run- colleagues in adopting a pro-Indigenous around the judiciary and issued an- ning for re-election, and his Republican viewpoint in his climate change and other permit rather than address the allies continue to support both projects environmental justice platform. He is despite widespread objections from Cont. on page 4... Local families shared stories of loved among several hopefuls who are promis- tribes who fear negative impacts on ones at the Missing and Murdered Indig- enous Women & Girls Conference held South Sioux City. Visit us at www.winnebagotribe.com Page 2— Winnebago Indian News, Saturday, September 7, 2019 BAGO NEWS Hō cąk Corner Wonįgixete ną. (woh-nee-ghee-xay-tay nah) I love you. Ci eja hįkere kjawi ną. (chee ay-jah hee-kay-rday kjah-wee nah) Let's go home. Winnebago Indian News, Saturday, September 7, 2019 — Page 3 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Thoughts on a Moratorium... By Lance Morgan JESUS OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN OUTREACH Pastor Ricky Jacob out of existence. However, the tribal "Slavery to Sin or to Righteousness" “We are not illegitimate children,” membership is a political classifi cation they protested. “The only Father we not a genetic. So we can defi ne our- One day Jesus was talking with the have is God himself.” [St. John 8:31- selves anyway we please. Eventually we descendants of Abraham. Abraham was 41 NIV] will likely have to shift to a direct deca- the patriarch of the tribe of Israel. He Did you catch what Jesus said re- dency model without blood quantum, was the grandfather of Jacob. It was garding what everyone who sins is? but we are still a generation or two from through this grandson that the twelve Every one who sins is a slave to sin. And having to worry about that issue. In the clans Israel would come. Today they are since you will no doubt agree that every meantime, we need to do something. sometimes referred to as 'Jews' since person sins, than that Jesus is saying I suggest we put 3/16 on the ballot most of them can trace their roots to that we are all slaves to sin. I do not and remove the complicated and con- the tribe of Judah. want to agree with such an assessment troversial effort to track the blood of Now in the days of Jesus these people of my condition, but this is the truth. other tribes. This can be done by the were having an identity crisis and did The apostle Paul wrote about our upcoming election if we hurry.