PRESORTED STANDARD Inside this Sota Sota Per Copy U.S. POSTAGE TZTS Wambdi boys and girls teams return from Dakota Oyate Challenge with championship trophies! PAID Next cooperative land buy-back set for Flathead, Northern Cheyenne reservations; Oglala, WILMOT, SD PERMIT NO. 1 Makah application periods have closed; Rosebud’s ends next Monday, Feb. 10 Postmaster: Change service requested Next week: Winter 2013 General Council; Part Six in a Series Sota Iya Ye Yapi, P.O. Box 5, Wilmot, SD 57279 ¢ Dustina Gill announces candidacy for SD Legislature Contents – Time-Dated News/Do Not Delay Report to Akicita; Tentative date for Code Talker Honoring Ceremony Wednesday, March Mailed at Wilmot, SD, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014 12th Suicide Prevention: Community Forum, Training event Feb. 15th 75 Weekly deadline for copy is 12:00 noon Friday Publication of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribe of the Lake Traverse Reservation since 1968 Vol. 45 February - Anpetu Numpa Wi - “Moon of Two Days” - Iyamni, Wed., Feb. 5, 2014 No. 5 ongratulations to the TZTS Wambdi boys and girls basketball teams for capturing the top place trophies in last weekend’s Dakota Oyate Challenge tournament in Huron. Both Wambdi teams won the leadup and championship games, Cwhich were broadcast by Tribal radio station KXSW on 89.9 FM and online. Watch next week for stats from all the games, plus information and photos of the Dakotah Language Bowl, cultural events and archery competition, which included youth and adult SWO Tribal participants. Congratulations to the TZTS athletes, language students and adults who participated and accompanied them. Wambdi athlete Demi DuMarce has some special fans -- mom Lennie Peters and grandpa Maynard Bernard! In Huron to cheer her and her fellow Wambdi teammates to the championship. (Editor’s note: SWO Tribal member, Tribal Chairman’s Administrative Assistant Dustina Gill has formally announced plans to run for state office. We ask for others, Oyate and others, to support her candidacy Here is her announcement.) Eight years ago I decided on a goal that I knew would take some time to achieve. I spent the past 8 years of homework on educating myself on the politics, needs, resources and operations of tribal government, state government, national government, foreign governments. The networking, relationships, understanding and time *President Obama Signs Bill for Native Veterans date scheduled for the Code Talker Honoring Ceremony it takes to make things happen. Eight years of learning, Memorial at the National Museum of the American which is on Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at 10:00 experiencing and meeting leaders who have improved Indian President Barack Obama signed AM. We are planning for either the their communities, tribes, states and countries. H.R. 2319, the Native American SWCC Auditorium or the DCC. I believe in nothing less than 110% and know I am Veterans’ Memorial Amendments Mark your calendars and we will have ready reach out for this goal. Act of 2013, into law on Thursday, updates and agenda soon. We also To run for the South Dakota District 1 House of December 26. The bill authorizes the gave out information for those of Representatives. District 1 is comprised of the Counties National Museum of the American you that may have Labor questions Indian to raise funds and start work on a memorial for for the SD Dept. of Labor. Rick Gully 1-605-882-5152 of Roberts, Day, Marshal and Brown. Dustina Gill, Administrative Assistant to Pidamiyaye to everyone who helped me become American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian stopped by my office and said if you are a Veteran and the SWO Tribal Chairman, has announced her veterans. The memorial will be located on the museum’s need an appointment with him please contact him and the candidate I am today to run for this seat and ask for candidacy for a seat in the SD Legislature from your support. property on the National Mall. The House passed the he would be happy to schedule an appointment to see District 1. bill on December 11 by a vote of 398 to 0. The Senate you the next time he is in Sisseton. Wednesday, Feb. 5, approved it by unanimous consent on December 20. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. CST, Sisseton - at 205 East Oak. For “I have heard from people I represent and from outside more information or to schedule an appointment, please our district that the construction of this memorial call Rick Gully at 605-882-5131 or 605-698-3964. means a great deal to Native Americans who served this Additional information is also available at www.sdjobs. nation and to their families,” Rep. Markwayne Mullin org. (R-Oklahoma), a member of the Cherokee Nation *Valentines for Veterans Concert: The Sioux Falls who co-sponsored the bill, said in a press release. “It is Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA) has announced that the important that we properly honor these brave soldiers Grass Roots rock band will star in the second annual and tell their stories for generations to come. *UVA Meeting: Thank you for those of you that Report to Akicita attended. It was a good meeting. We have a tentative Continued on Page 15 settler colonialism, heteronormativity, capitalism and more, we know that such a place doesn’t actually exist. More importantly, what we have seen over the years is that “safe spaces” usually mean excluding us. They sometimes mean using “safety” as a substitute for “never uncomfortable spaces.” In this conceptualization, safety is often used as a cudgel to silence and to further marginalize. Christina Hanhardt’s important new book Safe Space, addresses some of these concerns: “I, too, am not convinced that safety or safe space in their most popular usages can or even should exist. Safety is commonly imaged as a condition of no challenge or stakes, a state of being that might be best described as protectionist (or, perhaps, isolationist)…The quest for safety that is collective rather than individualized requires an analysis of who or what constitutes a threat and why, and a recognition that those forces maintain their might by being in flux. And among the most transformative visions are those driven less by a fixed goal of safety than by… freedom.” (p. 30) Sota guest editorial – Those of us committed to an inclusive and revolutionary feminism value liberation and freedom over safety With Review in hand, Obama must now because we know that struggles against oppression are always perilous. Addressing structures of oppression generally leads to conflict because these structures shape our ideas, our values, our everything. We don’t know how to live reject dirty pipeline: Groups outside of oppression because it is like the weather, ever-present and so we replicate it, all the time. But we want McKibben: “The State Department has given Obama liberation and so we must work towards it. And that work involves criticism, analysis, and grounded practice. As all the room he needs to do what he promised in people who have and will continue to build projects and organizations, we understand that discussion/analysis and both campaigns: to take serious steps against global grassroots organizing are co-constitutive. Also, there isn’t a neat separation between the online world and a separate warming.” - Jacob Chamberlain, staff writer place called the “real world.” In the 21st century, these places are one in the same. As such the concept of “twitter (Published on Friday, January 31, 2014 by feminism” strikes us as dismissive and probably a misnomer. Common Dreams.) Anyone can identify as feminist because it’s a label that one adopts and is not bestowed. This has and will The State Department released its Final continue to cause all manner of consternation because some are invested in being gatekeepers. Mainstream Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) of the Keystone feminism (MSF) has traditionally operated under a politics of inclusion. It benevolently offers to “include” the XL pipeline on Friday. Environmental groups and voices of some who are marginalized, particularly women of color. The problem MSF faces, however, is that you climate activists are saying that given Obama’s promise cannot substantively “include” women of color and/or trans women into feminism without radically transforming to judge the project on its climate impacts there is no it. And basically, this is what we are seeing today, the backlash that results when increasingly more Black, Native, way—given the review’s contents—he can possibly Protestors demonstrated against the Latin@, Asian, Trans women claim the term “feminist” and in doing so, radically change what feminism signifies. approve it now. Keystone XL pipeline in San Francisco last year. As the power and control of white feminist gatekeepers diminish, they have rushed to individualize women of In a press call following the release of the review, (Photo: Getty Images) color’s critiques. The trope of the “bad feminist” has been deployed as a disciplinary mechanism for re-establishing 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben said that a close and maintaining power and control. Rather than substantively engage Black feminist critiques, for example, reading of the report shows that the climate impacts it recognizes are undeniable. gatekeepers demonize the bad Black feminist who is not nice to white women. The analysis of “twitter” wars then “The report concluded that in a scenario where we take climate change seriously and regulate climate quickly devolves into a battle among individual personalities. [Feminism actually needs less focus on individuals and pollution, this pipeline will indeed have a ‘significant impact’ on climate change,” said McKibben. “So now we’ll more on the collective struggle to uproot oppression.] Ideological differences are painted as hysterical grievance.