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A Monthly Chronicle of White Earth Reservation
Vol. 25 No. 2 White Earth, Minn. [email protected] Wednesday, February 5, 2020
RBC hosts consultation meeting with Minnesota DNR, PCA White Earth candidates certified On Monday, Feb. 3, the White Earth Reservation Business Committee held a Special Meeting to certify candidates for the March 31 White Earth Primary Election.
Certified for Chairperson: Michael Allen Fairbanks (incumbent), Joshua Vincent Kent, Martha Louise Williams, Pamela Rose Aspinwall, Patricia Ann Moran and Kenneth Ralph Fox Jr.
Certified for District III Representative: Eugene Raymond Tibbetts (incumbent), Laurie Lynn York, Char Marie Ellis, Ralph Edward Goodman Jr., Cheryl Jackson, Mary Jo Otto, Joseph Daniel Rousu, David Eugene Greene Jr., Amelia Darlene Bray, David Allen Englund and Leigh Anna Harper.
Each candidate will be offered the opportunity to submit an article expressing their views and platforms in the March 4 paper.
Council passes key resolutions The White Earth Reservation Business Committee passed sev - eral key resolutions benefitting White Earth membership on Jan. 6 Photo by Gary W. Padrta and Jan. 13 at special meetings held at the White Earth RBC Headquarters. The White Earth RBC recently hosted a government-to-government consultation with leadership from the White Earth Elders Snow Removal Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR). In order to support strong, ongoing commitment to the care of The group discussed concepts of a Wild Rice Stewardship Council and how this could provide a working White Earth Elders, the White Earth RBC approved winter 2020 relationship focused on the protection of wild rice. Other topics of discussion included Line 3 and manage - budgets to continue the Elder Snow Removal Program. This pro - ment of the White Earth State Forest. From left are Helen Waquiu - MPCA Director of Public Engagement & Tribal Liaison, Sarah Strommen - Minnesota DNR Commissioner, Kathy Goodwin - District II gram will benefit Tribal Elders this winter through protection and Representative, Michael Fairbanks - Chairman and Laura Bishop - MPCA Commissioner. maintenance of the roof of their homes due to the heavy snowfall recent storms have brought to the region. 2020 White Earth Reservation Election WE establishes warming site for Minneapolis homeless The White Earth RBC also passed a resolution easing financial burden of RBC employees who may be potential candidates running for tribal office. The move by the RBC revises an out-of-date policy
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Anishinaabeg Today A Champion The Anishinaabeg Today (AT) is the offical publica - Remembering Marvin Manypenny tion of White Earth Reservation and is published once a By Winona LaDuke were our trees. month. Editorials and articles appearing in the AT are Honor the Earth Not content to steal only the trees, the state of Minnesota, the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily counties and land swindlers like Lucky Waller and Fred AT reflect the opinion or attitude of the staff or the White Pillars of courage hold up the justice we know we Sanders set their eyes upon the White Earth people. The sto - Earth Reservation Business Committee. deserve. The passing of Marvin Manypenny a lifelong cham - ries are heartbreaking, land stolen from blind women, veter - The AT reserves the right to reject any advertising pion of the rights of the Anishinaabe reminds us of our respon - ans, swindles for a bag of groceries. So egregious, that the or materials submitted for publication. The submission sibility to make our country and nations stronger. Detroit Lakes newspaper referred to the orgy of theft and of articles, and photos is encouraged, however, they are In l988, the legal cases Manypenny and Fineday were destruction as “fleecing the Indians.” By l904, 99 percent of subject to editing for grammar, length, and malicious/ decided against the White Earth Ojibwe in federal court in the reservation was allotted, and 10 years later, less than 14 libelous content. The Editor makes the sole decision of Washington, D.C. In those lawsuits, Marvin Manypenny lead percent of the homeland was still in our hands. By l934, only what is published in the AT and will not assume any plaintiff sought justice for the theft of land from the White 7,890 acres of the 837,000 acre reservation was still held by responsibility for unsolicited material nor will the AT Earth Reservation.” The only compensation for land is land,” the White Earth tribe, epidemics of tuberculosis and trachoma guarantee publication upon submission. Deadlines are Onondaga Faith keeper Oren Lyons would say. Marvin had ravaged our community, and half of the tribal members strictly enforced! Deadline dates are printed on Page 2 Manypenny and George Fineday Sr., were the first-named had moved off reservation, literally refugees in our own land. in each issue. plaintiffs in two consolidated lawsuits brought by a total of That is legally genocide, “bringing about conditions intended thirty-five enrolled members of the White Earth Band of in whole or in part to destroy a people.” The AT is distributed at no charge to all postal Chippewa. A third case called Littlewolf v. US was also filed. In l966, the federal government decided to look in on patrons living on White Earth Reservation, and by mail Justice was denied. what had happened at White Earth, and indeed other reserva - to White Earth Reservation members (who request the Our land was once covered with trees, buffalo and the tions nationally. As the trustee of the Indian land, it was clear newspaper) living within the United States. One per most plentiful of wild rice. Our wealth becomes our poverty, that the federal government had lost all the assets. Sadly, it household. The cost of a newspaper subscription is $12 and indeed, the White Earth Reservation was stolen, land and took tribal members to stand for our land, meanwhile the theft per year for non-members (including descendants) liv - trees, people made into refugees in our own land. As oil was had continued. The can be read online for ing off the reservation. AT to the Osage nation, ultimately source of much violence, our In the l970s, Clearwater County sought to clear title to no cost at www.whiteearth.com. trees were the source of violence in law and in practice. That some land held by descendants of Zay Zah, or Charles Aubid. For more information call 218-983-3285 Ext. is the history of how mansions and Minneapolis were built off That’s called a quit claim deed. On Oct. 21, l977, the 5903, email: [email protected], fax: 218-983- the blood of the Ojibwe. Minnesota Supreme Court ruled in favor of George Aubid Sr., 3641, or write to: Our Treaty of l867 was intended to secure a homeland for the sole heir of defendant Zay Zah. The court ruling found that the Anishinaabe who were being forced off our lands, a place in l940, Clearwater County had illegally executed a tax forfei - Anishinaabeg Today full of white pine, great prairies, lakes and maples. As ture on a tribal trust allotment owned by ZayZah, taking that PO Box 418 Frederick Weyerhauser and other lumber barons looked to the land. The Court returned the land to the Aubid family. Based White Earth, MN 56591 vast white pines of the reservation, they had Senator Knute on the Zay Zah case, federal investigators commenced the Member of the Nelson pass a law. The l889 Nelson Act opened up the reser - 24l5 Land Claims research project. That research found that v Native American Journalist Association vation to sale and took the best trees- the four northeast town - vast land tracts in Minnesota, and nationally had been taken v Minnesota Newspaper Association ships of the reservation. That’s Clearwater County today. A from Native people by states, counties, and private citizens year later, Minnesota ranked first in logging. In l889-l890, illegally. WER Business Committee over 11 million board feet of lumber was taken from the White It’s a tragic reality that if you ask a thief to return some - Earth Reservation, building the mansions of Minneapolis and thing stolen, they will lash out at you. With the 24l5 investi - the Congden Mansion of Duluth. The next year l5 million gation, the federal government was forced to acknowledge Michael A. Fairbanks board feet were cut, the following year l8 million board feet. gross mismanagement of Indian trust responsibility, and also Chairman Weyerhauser’s Little Falls based logging company in one year, sawed enough timber to circle the globe six times. Those See Marvin Page 22 Leonard Alan Roy Secretary-Treasurer Raymond Auginaush Sr. District I Representative Kathy Goodwin District II Representative Eugene “Umsy” Tibbetts District III Representative Editor
Gary W. Padrta Future Issues * Deadline Issue Date
February 26 March 4
March 25 April 1
April 29 May 6
May 29 June 5
June 24 July 1 Submitted photo
* Deadline and issue dates subject to change Marvin Manypenny (holding brief case) was one of serveral people that attended Federal Court in Washington, D.C., in l984 to oppose the White Earth Land Settlement Act. From left are Dale Hanks, Jerry Rawley, Winona LaDuke, Marvin Manypenny, Roberta Brown, Danny Kier, Vernon Bellecourt, John Morrin and Beebz Keezer. Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Anishinaabeg Today 3
News From Chairman Michael Fairbanks
Gaawaabaabiganikaag Namebini-giizis Aaniish inaa akawe ninga-gaagiizomaag aadi - zookaanag noongom. Boozhoo Tribal Family, I’d like to start this month’s update with by hon - oring the spirits of season… Namebini Giizis or the Sucker Fish Moon is our Ojibwe name for February. Namebini is the Suckerfish and this month is named in honor of the sucker fish because it sacrifices its life to sustain the Anishinaabe people. As the month of January becomes February, historically in many communities the burden of hunger afflicted them. It was a difficult time because food and game and were scarce during Gichi Manido Giizis – The Great Spirit Moon, January. It was at this time that manido Namebini, June 2020 sucker fish, seeing the Anishinaabe suffering, decided tiative, “to introduce an amendment to the Minnesota to give his life so that the Ojibwe may live throughout Constitution to guarantee quality education for all Pow Wow Poster Contest February and winter months. This is the story told by children. The goal: to close Minnesota’s statewide our elders. MiiGwech Namebini Manido. education achievement gaps”. It is with profound sadness that I begin this article The importance of education cannot be understat - THEME : What a Pow Wow is with the news of the passing of a great leader, Marvin ed, it is one of the primary drivers of success, oppor - Manypenny. It is a loss that our Nation, our commu - Open to : WE enrollee or 2nd descendant - ages 6 to 18. tunity and achievement for our people. Investments in nities and his family and friends will continue to be education will improve our quality of life, promote Any medium : Crayon, paint, charcoal, or markers. affected and impacted by. His voice was and is such a economic growth, and enable us to achieve our long- strong and loving one for us all. Deadline: Monday, February 17. term goal of self-sufficiency for our nation— educa - Marvin once stated, “It’s my belief and convic - tion is the foundation of our future. Mail to (or drop off) : White Earth Pow Wow Committee tion that all of the problems our reservation com - I urge all of you reading this to learn more about Attn: Ayecia Kemp (Administration) munities are facing can only be resolved through this important initiative and make an effort to support PO Box 418 the full enjoyment of our collective rights to sover - it in whatever way you can, because it affects all of White Earth, MN 56591 eignty and to our collective right to self-determina - our futures. I have provided a link to the meeting Include : Family information on a separate sheet for verification tion.” I am inspired by his words and guided by his agenda, from which you can link to the report as well and a parent/guardian phone number . wisdom as I work each day on your behalf as as Youtube videos of presenters: www.minneapolis - Chairman. Winner will be asked for the original upon decision. fed.org/events/2020/children-first-a-community-con - The New Year on White Earth began with the versation-on-educating-all-children#agenda Prizes : 1st: Drawing on Poster - sweatshirt & $50, 2nd: T-shirt New Year’s Eve Pow-Wow, with the Pow-Wow Related to education is the importance of our & $30, 3rd: $20 Committee doing an excellent job providing a safe Anishinaabe culture as expressed through our lan - and traditional New Year’s Eve activity for our com - Judging : Will be done by the RBC council by sight only, no guage. I met with community members on the subject munities. Miigwech! names will be included with drawing. of Ojibwe Immersion/Language Revitalization in On Jan. 13, I met with Neel Kashkari, President January. Among other items of discussion, I and com - Winner will be notified by phone . and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minnesota munity members had a conversation about the lack of along with business and community leaders, educa - speakers and the fact that so much of our living cul - tors, and policy makers from throughout the state of ture, language and history is lost when our elders and Minnesota. Our conversation focused on a report the native speakers begin their journey back to the spirit Bank had recently released regarding the state-wide world. Currently, White Earth has been awarded achievement gap. The purpose of this meeting was to launch an ini - See Chairman Page 8
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Chairman Michael Fairbanks recently met with Neel Kashkari, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minnesota, left, along with business, tribal, community leaders, educators and policy makers from throughout Minnesota to discuss the state-wide achievement gap. 4 Anishinaabeg Today Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Naytahwaush Nightriders Snowmobile Club completes 16th Annual Hospice ride The Naytahwaush Nightriders Snowmobile annual Nightriders Snodeo event March 7-8 at Club held thier 16th annual Hospice Ride on Feb. 1- Pinehurst Resort. The event has been voted the U.S. 2. The snowmobile ride was open to the public, and X-Country Snowmobile Racing organization’s race there was no cost to participate. Riders were asked to of the year the last three years. gather pledges to benefit Hospice of the Red River About the Naytahwaush Nightriders Valley. For more than 40 years, the Naytahwaush The round-trip ride started Saturday at 9 a.m. at Nightriders Snowmobile Club has been working to Pinehurst Resort in Naytahwaush and traveled to promote and advance the sport of snowmobiling. The Northern Lights Casino in Walker, Minn., for an Naytahwaush Nightriders Snowmobile Club works overnight stay. Pizza was provided by the club for with snowmobilers, resorts, businesses, government dinner. Riders returned to Naytahwaush on Sunday units and local land owners to develop, build and morning. maintain a network of snowmobile trails for recre - For more than 15 years, participants have raised ational use. The Naytahwaush Nightriders are proud $117,082 for Hospice of the Red River Valley to be affiliated with MnUSA (Minnesota United through the Hospice Ride, which covers a different Snowmobiling Association). area each year. The money raised helps provide med - About Hospice of the Red River Valley ical, emotional, spiritual and grief support for Hospice of the Red River Valley is an indepen - Hospice patients and their families. dent, not-for-profit hospice serving more than 30 “We started the event as a way to remember counties in North Dakota and Minnesota. Hospice Naytahwaush Nightriders members who have passed care is intensive comfort care that alleviates pain and away while also supporting a local organization,” suffering, enhancing the quality of life for patients said Tom McArthur, the event’s organizer. “We hope with life-limiting illnesses and their loved ones by riders from across the region will come out to partic - addressing their medical, emotional, spiritual and ipate in this fun and meaningful event again this grief needs. For more information, call toll free 800- year.” 237-4629, email [email protected] or visit The Naytahwaush Nightriders will host its 50th www.hrrv.org. Program provides support for overwhelmed parents
v Parenting can sometimes be a demanding job, Parenting v especially for families with young children. If you Transportation v are feeling overwhelmed and are pregnant or parent - Child care v ing a child age 10 or under, and finding it difficult to Financial needs (budgeting and financial be the kind of parent you would like to be, this pro - assistance) v gram may be right for you. Overall support. The Parent Support Outreach Program is an The Parent Support Outreach Program focuses early intervention program that provides short-term on a family’s strengths and needs, and helps parents voluntary support for at risk children and families who want to do what is best for their children. This identified through screened out child maltreatment program can connect families with community reports, community or self-referrals. resources that provide the specific kind of help fam - This voluntary services program can connect ilies may want or need. you to support and assistance for many types of Participation is voluntary. Getting help to meet issues, which may include: your family’s needs, even for a short period of time, v Basic needs (food, clothing and housing) can make a difference to you and your family. v Family health concerns (medical care, mental For more information, call Intake at 218-983- and chemical health services) 4647.
Re-elect Eugene “Umsy” Tibbetts for District III Representative
v I am a lifelong resident of District III v If I am re-elected as White Earth’s District III Representative, I will continue to work on the following priorities:
• Housing • Education • Law Enforcement • Tribal Veterans • Land Recovery • Employment / White Earth “Thank you for letting me represent the people of District III and the • Elder Programs Enrollee Preference White Earth Nation these past four • Health Care/IHS • Drug Epidemic / Treatment years! We’ve made great strides. I • Economic Development Center here on the Reservation White Earth Nation has a Facebook community page! respectfully ask for your support in Miigwetch for your vote on Tuesday, March 31 the Primary Election on March 31.” Feel free to visit us at:
Paid for by Eugene “Umsy” Tibbetts www.facebook.com/WhiteEarthNation Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Anishinaabeg Today 5
News From Secretary-Treasurer Alan Roy Rez Briefs
My Fellow Anishinaabeg, White Earth RBC offices closed for holiday We remain one people with one destiny. Since White Earth RBC offices will be closed on Monday, Feb. 17 my last report, the RBC and I have been hard at work for Presidents Day and will reopen on Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 8 a.m. on various projects to better serve our Band. At the Special RBC Meeting, held on Jan. 6, the RBC WELRP hosting storytelling event approved the Resolution and Budget for the Elder The White Earth Land Recovery Project will host the Snow Removal Program. This will keep the program “Anishinaabeg Anang Gikendaasowin/Anishinaabe Star operational for the Winter. As heavy snowfall has Knowledge” and storytelling event with “Mishiikehn” Abe posed a risk to Elders in our communities, this is a Sutherland and “Bwaananaabekwe” Mary Moose on Saturday, Feb. vital service I am proud to support as it ensures the 8 at 2 p.m. at the White Earth Community Center. Bring your safety of our Elders. favorite traditional dish to share with your community as we wel - At the Special RBC Meeting, held Jan. 13, anoth - come Mishikehn and Bwaananaabekwe to present on the White er key resolution was passed, approving RBC plans to Earth Reservation. This is a drug and alcohol free event. All ages move forward on the establishment of the White welcome. This event is funded through the Community Creativity Earth Reservation Youth Council. This will provide grant by the Bush Foundation. our youth an opportunity to obtain a better under - standing of RBC operations while providing unique, St. Joseph’s is celebrating 125 years eignty and their lives. We should consider supporting hands-on leadership opportunities. St. Joseph’s Catholic Church of Beaulieu is celebrating 125 the Prairie Island Community’s efforts to move to a years on Saturday, July 18. Registration is at 10 a.m. and Mass is at Following the Special RBC Meeting on Jan. 13, location away from hazards they identify: flooding, a 11. Lunch and socializing to follow. Everyone is welcome who is the RBC issued the announcement for the 2020 nuclear reactor, and increased railway traffic. I know a member, was a past member or who have family who were mem - Election. The filing period for office closed on Jan. that this move is in the best interest of Prairie Island bers that contributed to our St. Joseph’s parish history. Pre-regis - 24. Important Election Deadlines for the month are as it is for the betterment and longevity of their peo - tration is not required but encouraged so we can plan accordingly. listed below: ple. Any questions or to pre-register contact JoAnn Kersting at 218- • Feb. 10 - Deadline for Notice of Certifications In this addition of the Anishinaabeg Today, you 473-2510. to TEC will find letters from the RBC related to the MCT • Feb. 13 - Deadline for Appointment of Election Land Transfer along with a letter of response from the VFW Post 9880 Auxiliary meets Feb. 10 Boards Non-removable Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. Like a Ogema VFW Post 9880 Auxiliary will meet on Monday, Feb. • Feb. 13 - Deadline for Appointment of Contest mother that protects her family, so shall the White 10 at 9 a.m. at Ogema VFW Hall. Following the meeting we will Judge and Alternate Contest Judge Earth Nation hold the MCT and all her bands to her be preparing valentines for veterans. All members invited to attend. Within this issue, you will find a copy of the bosom in perpetuity. Until the People disunion the absentee request form (Page 21). This form can be MCT, it is our belief that we remain one people with Community invited to use school forest trails filled out, signed and scanned to the following email one destiny. The Volunteers of the Waubun Community School Forest address: [email protected]; alternative - Project invite you to come and use the trails. You can cross country The next RBC Regular Meeting will be held Feb. ly, it can be mailed to the Election Board. In order to ski, walk, snow shoe or use the sledding hill. It is open every week - 28 at the Pine Point Community Center. better serve our community members living on the end and school holiday. We try to have someone there on Sunday Iron Range, the RBC has decided to open a polling afternoons to help new skiers get started. The forest is located at Miigwech, place in Marble, Minn., for the upcoming election. 2541 State Hwy 113 (9.2 miles east of Waubun). We don’t open if I had the opportunity to visit with the Prairie Alan Roy it is less than -10. Call 218-473-2575 or 218-734-2228 if you have Island Community Tribal Council. This community is Secretary/Treasurer questions. faced with a trifecta of issues that affect their sover - White Earth Nation Niijii radio sponsors Native speaker/flutist KKWE 89.9 FM Niijii Radio’s Minnesota Music Mixdown Roy announces run for State Senate presents speaker, educator and Native American flutist, Darren Thompson of the Lac Du Flambeau Ojibwe Reservation. Darren will perform and speak on his music, career and the importance of White Earth Nation Secretary/Treasurer Leonard Freedom, and he currently drills as a Reservist in the mental health at Detroit Lakes Middle School, Mahnomen School, Alan Roy, 35, officially announced his run for State United States Army Reserve. and Naytahwaush Community and Charter School on Feb. 14. This Senate District 2 during a campaign kickoff held in Roy is a White Earth Reservation native and he is event is funded through the Minnesota Arts, Legacy and Heritage Jan. 12 in Waubun holds a Master of Public Affairs degree from the Fund as well as the White Earth Land Recovery Project. Minnesota Surrounded by family and supporters, Roy, also Humphrey School of Public Affairs in Minneapolis. Music Mixdown is a project aimed to bring art and culture into rural known as Alan Roy, stated that he was running He and his wife, Henny, have been married 11 years communities across KKWE’s listening region. because, “we live in an uncommon time that requires and are raising three children in the Detroit Lakes uncommon leadership. Friends and neighbors asked Public School District. WE program moving back to old CD building me to run because I understand the economic and White Earth Substance Abuse will be moving back to old CD social challenges of the district. We need someone building on Richwood Road (Hwy 21). Call for appointments or if that will work for all Minnesotans.” He will be seek - you need an assessment please continue to call 218-982-3285 Ext. ing the Democratic Farmer Labor nomination. 1297. At the campaign event, Roy focused on the economy, healthcare and natural resources. He also Caring for Kids Store touched on Veterans and stated, “it is important that The Caring for Kids Store is open every Tuesday and we take care of our service members when they Wednesday from noon to 4:30 p.m. We are located next to the old deploy and our Veterans when they return home.” Circle of Life school building in White Earth. When speaking to supporters on next steps, he stated that, “right now we need to focus on securing VA seeks to house Native veterans the DFL nomination and meeting voters at their The Fargo VA and the White Earth Housing Authority are col - doorstep. We will build a better future for everyone. DJ laborating to house qualifying Native American veterans. Veterans I see only one way forward—together.” who are homeless, or living with family or friends and have no Roy currently serves as the Secretary/Treasurer Music home of their own may be eligible. For more information contact of the White Earth Nation—a position he was elected Food Tribal HUD VASH worker, Joe Robillard, at 701-200-7688 or call to by Tribal members in 2018. A Veteran of the Dancing the White Earth Housing Authority at 218-473-4663. United States Army, he served in Operation Iraqi 6 Anishinaabeg Today Wednesday, February 5, 2020
17th Annual Great Lakes Indigenous Farming White Earth tribal offices Conference is March 5-8 at Maplelag Resort closed for the holiday The 17th Annual Great Lakes Indigenous ering and learning event for the whole family! Farming Conference, Mino-Bimaadiziwin- We will be awarding limited scholarships on a White Earth RBC offices will be closed on Gikendaasowin-Oodenang , (Living the Good Life case-by-case basis only to locals, tribal members and Monday, Feb. 17 for Presidents Day and will through Knowledge and Community), will be held students. For more information and to apply please repoen on Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 8 a.m. March 5-8 at Maplelag Resort in rural Callaway. visit the White Earth Land Recovery website at This conference is sponsored by the White Earth welrp.org and for questions please email Land Recovery Project. [email protected] . Information to apply to be a vendor, Join us and learn about a wide array of topics volunteer and presenter is also there. and discussions on food sovereignty initiatives, tribal Early bird registration has begun and will run food and farm policy, native agricultural techniques, through Feb. 7 . research and seed protection, traditional ecological For more information please contact the White knowledge and much more! We also feature a youth Earth Land Recovery Project at 218-375-2600 or go track with various activities and story-telling, films, online to [email protected] and hands-on demonstrations. A long-awaited gath -
RBC creates program to help homeless WE members As part of the White Earth Reservation Business stability, safety, and peace of mind to make a positive Committee’s commitment to addressing the home - change. less issue impacting tribal members, the White Earth The goal of this program is to break the cycle of Human Services and Behavioral Health Programs homelessness before it begins by reaching as many have developed the Emergency Hotel Voucher & individuals as possible and providing access to sup - Emergency Assistance Program. portive services. Those that meet the criteria will be This program is part of a comprehensive strate - provided short-term accommodations at the Shooting gy to address both emergency and existing situations. Star Casino Bagley Hotel and coordination of sup - It has been determined that the Bagley Hotel can be portive services from the White Earth RBC’s Human a part of this strategy through the Emergency Hotel Services, Behavioral Health and Health Divisions. Voucher Program. The urgent needs of our people are Due to limited accommodations, the Emergency complex and will require several approaches to meet Hotel Voucher Program will be on a first-come first- these needs. served basis. To access this service, please contact The Emergency Hotel Voucher Program is not a the Human Services Homeless Program at 218-935- permanent solution; it offers individuals short-term 5554 Ext. 3212. Coronavirus? No thanks!
By Carson Gardner, M.D. may have come from an animal, bird, or reptile carcass White Earth Nation Tribal Health Department sold at a food market in the big city of Wuhan, China. At first it looked like only people who worked or “Why should I worry about some virus in China? shopped at the market would get sick; but now their We’ve got our hands full here with lots of more imme - family members, the hospital doctors and nurses who diate-and-dangerous problems! And what the heck is a cared for them, and even strangers who stood by them coronavirus, anyway?” True we shouldn’t be worry - when they were coughing, are starting to get sick. The ing. But also true we should know something about new coronavirus has already spread to several coun - the attack of this new virus pneumonia, starting last tries. The first patient in the USA was diagnosed on 1- month in China; that’s now spreading to other coun - 21-20, on the pacific northwest coast. So far over 600 tries. We Anishinaabeg believe in learning from the people have been diagnosed with the new crown-virus past to survive in the present. And we know about get - infection, and at least 17 have died. ting dangerous infections from across the ocean! The virus is spread when people who are carrying Corona means “crown.” This new virus looks it in their body cells—especially their nose, throat, and crown-shaped under a very, very powerful microscope. lungs— cough, sneeze, or touch their nose or mouth Remember SARS, Serious Acute Respiratory and then touch something with unwashed hands. The Syndrome? It started in China in about 2003, spread virus is spread in mucus droplets in the air or on virus- all over the world, infected many thousands of people, contaminated surfaces. The USA Centers for Disease and killed over 800 people. Remember MERS, Mid- Control and the World Health Organization are work - East Respiratory Syndrome? In 2012, about nine years ing with the public health systems of China and other after SARS appeared, the new MERS virus spread countries with infected citizens. Several laboratories around the mideast and to some other countries, infect - are working on quick tests to diagnose infection with ing thousands and killing hundreds of people. Both the new coronavirus, and vaccines to prevent the infec - those viruses were crown-shaped cousins in the coron - tion from being spread. And many countries’ airports avirus family. are screening travelers from China for infection symp - This family includes some viruses that only cause toms—and isolating them in a hospital if they are sick. mild common cold symptoms; or that only infect ani - Most people who get the new coronavirus infec - mals, birds, or reptiles and not people. But SARS, tion develop fever, chills, cough, body aches, and some MERS, and the new 2020 Chinese coronavirus are the shortness of breath—sounds a lot like the seasonal flu, bad-acting cousins in the coronavirus family! The new doesn’t it? It may take from two days to two weeks coronavirus is spreading through public-transit trav - after a person is exposed to the virus before symptoms el—trains, planes, boats, buses—by people who are develop. Many healthy people who catch the new infected with the virus but not yet sick. They don’t virus can probably stay at home and will get over the know they are carrying the virus. This new crown-virus cousin of SARS and MERS See Virus Page 14 Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Anishinaabeg Today 7 Enbridge Line 3: The long and winding road White Earth Council of Elders By Winona LaDuke company and PUC have come back with a very light- Honor the Earth handed statement. More people testified this last By Lucille Silk, Chairperson month in Duluth about why this supplemental envi - White Earth Reservation Council of Elders Enbridge’s 7-year battle for a new pipe line has ronmental impact statement was faulty. Then in The weather is always nasty during these winter months, worn us all thin. We have poured out by the thousands, January, the Appeals Court also told the PUC that it with roads closed, schools shut down, and business facilities not in fact 68,000 people went to testify against the must do an environmental impact statement for the Enbridge tar sands pipeline. We have driven thou - Nemadji Trails Power Plant, a core part of new power able to be at their work stations. This is the major reason why sands of miles. We have cried, talked about how much needs for the new pipeline. our Elder Council does not meet, as we will not risk the lives of we love our water, and we have faced gauntlets of It would appear that the PUC perceives it can just our Elders. police. We’ve been turned away by state officials, and approve projects without a rigorous environmental The snow is packed all around our homes and places of then we’ve seen our prayers for a system which works assessment, because this is the third time that the business and our roofs are covered or full of icicles that can be for the people, not the corporations, trampled. That’s Commission has been court ordered to do a statement dangerous to others. We do appreciate the RBC for their efforts Enbridge’s Line 3 Battle. prior to approving a project: It failed to prepare an EIS in cleaning the roofs and plowing our driveways. It is difficult Here we are in 2020 and the Public Utilities for the proposed Sandpiper crude oil pipeline; it failed to find someone that is willing to get up on those roofs, especial - Commission and Enbridge are still trying to shove a to prepare an adequate EIS for Line 3; and it failed to ly when there is a lot of ice to content with too. pipe down our throats through 44 wild rice water - conduct an environmental review for NTEC. sheds, crossing the Mississippi, and all to bring the In early February, the Minnesota Public Utilities The Elder Council has been busy with making decorations, dirtiest oil in the world to some tankers and sell this Commission will likely approve this EIS again, and and little gifts for our Elders for Valentines Day. We want those stuff overseas. It’s called regulatory exhaustion. In the certificate of need for the Enbridge Line 3 Elders that are homebound to know that we do not forget them early February, the Minnesota Public Utilities pipeline, as well as the route. This forces the White and have decided to honor them with these little gifts. We have Commission (PUC) reviews again the Environmental Earth, Red Lake and Mille Lacs bands of Ojibwe to paid for the items that were needed to make the decorations and Impact Statement (EIS) it has modified. This is sup - sue the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission again. all the sewing was done by hands of those Elders that again vol - posed to talk about the actual impact of putting the This forces more tribal members and Minnesota citi - unteered their time and love to the project. Mii gwetch for all equivalent of 50 new coal-fired power plants on line, zens to file lawsuits and attend court, to make sure that those Elders that give of their time. using 400 more megawatts of power to move some the state of Minnesota does something right for the We have lost a good man in Marvin Manypenny, and we sludge across the north, and poisoning the fragile people. It should matter that 500 religious leaders sent social graces of the north, by encouraging racism, a letter to the Governor saying that this pipeline is want to extend our sympathies to his family. Marvin was a man Indian hating, and threats. wrong for Mother Earth, as well as the people. As of many talents and he knew the Tribal Constitution thoroughly. The PUC was court-ordered last June to fix this Australia and the Amazon burn, it’s time to do the He was a fighter for tribal rights and expressed those concerns EIS by including the impact of a possible oil spill on right thing for future generations, not for a Canadian with dignity. He walked his path with honor and now has gone Lake Superior and the Lake Superior Watershed. The pipeline company. on with that same fortitude. Mii gwetch for all that you have done to bring pride back to our Tribal members, and may the Bemidji State names new AIRC director Great Spirit walk with you on your new journey. Those Elders that have met their requirements to attend the Bemidji, Minn. -- Chrissy Koch, the former out - from St. Mary’s University of NICOA conference later this summer have been busy making reach specialist for BSU’s American Indian Resource Minnesota, and is currently their preparations. It is necessary to get the registrations in early Center, has been named as the center’s new executive enrolled in a doctoral program in or we will have to pay extra fees. Also, we need to hold the hotel director, the university recently announced. education with an emphasis in reservations. There is still a lot to do with the upcoming confer - Koch began as the outreach specialist for the cen - leadership and management from ence, but we are actively getting ready. ter in July 2019. She began her responsibilities as Capella University. Many Elders have begun an exercise and nutrition regime executive director on Jan. 8. In her role as the center’s out - with our Elder Nutrition Program to better our health and to The executive director position at the AIRC had reach specialist, Koch hopes to meet the needs of the Wisdom Steps Program. We meet every been vacant since the former director, Bill Blackwell draw on her own experiences as a Tuesday and Friday at the Congregate in White Earth right after Jr., resigned in August. Since then, other staff mem - student, her heritage and her Chrissy Koch lunch. This program is also being offered at the other nutrition bers from the center had filled in to cover the director's strong community connections to sites throughout the reservation. responsibilities. recruit students to BSU, the statement from the uni - The statement from the university said Koch versity said. She worked to bring American Indian stu - We pray that the New Year will bring health and happiness “identifies as Ojibwe and Lakota” and that before dent groups to campus and guide them through the to all our families. Take care of each other and remember our coming to the AIRC, she spent a decade in a number application process. She also spent time building rela - Veterans both living and deceased. of “American Indian student support roles in northern tionships with BSU’s tribal college partners at Red Thank you for your confidence in allowing me to serve as Minnesota K-12 schools.” Lake Nation College, White Earth Tribal and your Chair for another two years. Koch has a bachelor’s degree in Indian studies Community College, Leech Lake Tribal College and from BSU, a master’s degree in educational leadership Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College. Lucille Silk
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grants to address our needs in this area and I together, we can effect positive change for will be working to get these new programs the White Earth Band and all of my White off the ground in the months to come. Earth Brothers and Sisters. Over the com - Finally, after much thought, prayers ing months you will hear more from me, and talking with my family, I would like to and I look forward to meeting with as many formally announce that I will be seeking of you as I can, as I continue to work hard another four years as your Chairman. I as your Chairman. have been fortunate and honored to have Miigwech Giga-waabamininim naagaj! been allowed to fill the remainder of Thank you See you all later! Chairman Tibbetts’ term. I can tell you that the job is humbling, and with my time as Michael Fairbanks Chairman I have a clearer vision of how, White Earth Nation Chairman Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Anishinaabeg Today 9
WERBC votes to establish Elders Commission THE DOCTOR’S CORNER The White Earth RBC, committed to the quality management of Commission funds and make monthly of life for Tribal elders, recently passed a resolution budget reports to the Commission and quarterly bud - creating a White Earth Elders Commission. The fol - get reports to the RBC. Keep yourself healthy this year lowing is a DRAFT of the by-laws. Individuals may ARTICLE III / DECISION MAKING PROCESS send comments to: elizabeth.stclair@whiteearth- By Angela Tucker 3.1 Decision Making nsn.gov. Deadline : February 28. Infection Prevention and Control Specialist The Elders Commission will make every effort to White Earth Health Center White Earth Reservation Business Committee reach a consensus in its decisions. If, however, it is Elders Commission By-Laws not able to do so, as the Chairperson determines, a Every year there are people who get sick with the flu or some (Draft * Draft * Draft * Draft * Draft) vote will be taken by a show of hands. The minutes other bug. The “bug” in the news today is the Coronavirus that orig - I. Name shall reflect any minority position. The ultimate deci - inated from China. Just some background of the virus: The name of this commission is the White Earth sion on programming will be made by the White Earth A novel (new) coronavirus is causing an outbreak of respiratory Reservation Elders Commission. It is established and Reservation Business Council. illness that began in the city of Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. This recognized per Resolution #001-20-023 of the White ARTICLE IV / MEETINGS outbreak began in early December 2019 and continues to grow. Earth Reservation Business Committee (RBC). 4.1 Meeting Schedule Initially, some patients were linked to the Wuhan South China Seafood City (also called the South China Seafood Wholesale II. White Earth Reservation Elders Commission The Commission shall hold regular meetings no less Market and the Hua Nan Seafood Market). Purpose than quarterly as determined by the Chairperson. The 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is a virus (more The Elders Commission is established by the White Special meetings must be called by the Chairperson. The RBC and/or the Executive Director may request specifically, a coronavirus) identified as the cause of an outbreak of Earth Reservation Business Council to provide advice respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan. Early on, many of the and recommendations concerning Tribal elder pro - the Chairperson to call a special meeting. 4.2 Notice patients in the outbreak in Wuhan reportedly had some link to a large gramming; the ultimate decision on elder program - seafood and animal market, suggesting animal-to-person spread. ming will be made by the White Earth Reservation Notice of meetings shall be made public. The Elder’s Advocate shall ensure notice is provided However, a growing number of patients reportedly have not had Business Council. In addition, the White Earth exposure to animal markets, indicating person-to-person spread is Reservation Business Council recognizes the need for 4.3 Quorum Requirement A quorum of the committee is two officers and two occurring. At this time, it is unclear how easily or sustainably this the White Earth Reservation Tribal elders to address virus is spreading between people. and decide their specific needs. Members-at-large. The Officer in charge of running the meeting will wait a reasonable time (no less than Six updates: III. Authority 15 minutes) before cancelling the meeting due to lack 1. The CDC has confirmed five U.S. coronavirus cases in The White Earth Reservation Elders Commission is of quorum. Arizona, California (2), Illinois and Washington as of Jan. 27. authorized to provide advice and recommendations to 4.4 Conduct Thirty-two tests have come back negative for coronavirus, while 73 the White Earth Reservation Business Council. The Meetings will be conducted in a cooperative and are pending. Investigations of potential cases are being conducted in Commission may hold public meetings as approved respectful manner. Meetings are most productive 26 states. by the Executive Director to solicit community com - when the meeting time is devoted to, and remains 2. More than 100 total deaths have been reported, all in China, as ments on topics and issues. The Commission is not devoted to, the items on the agenda. Meetings will of Jan. 28. Sixty-three patients sickened by coronavirus have recov - authorized to give direction to any staff members or focus on agenda items. The agenda will be developed ered. independently establish policies. the Chairperson in consultation with the Elders 3. U.S. citizens are urged to avoid all nonessential travel to China. The U.S. State Department issued a level 4 travel warning for IV. Relation between White Earth Reservation Advocate. Discussions will occur on each item; the Chairperson will call for outcome/decision. the Hubei province on Jan. 27, and the CDC issued a level 3 travel Elders Commission and White Earth Council of warning, its highest alert level. Elders ARTICLE V / MINUTES 4. Three patients with coronavirus never visited China, Paul The White Earth Reservation Elders Commission is 5.1 Minutes Hunter, MD, a professor of medicine at the University of East distinct from the White Earth Council of Elders. The Secretary shall ensure that minutes are taken that Anglia's Norwich Medical School in the U.K. This backs the theory ARTICLE I / MEMBERSHIP include any matter approved or rejected, and any tasks that the disease is spread via human transmission. 1.1 Eligibility or assignments to be completed, by whom and by 5. Everyone is now legally required to wear facemasks in South Members of the Elders Commission are those enrolled when. Draft minutes will be presented to the Elders China, according to The Guardian. members of the White Earth Tribe who are age 55 Commission for review and approval at each subse - 6. HHS Secretary Alex Azar held a press conference on Jan. 28 years and older and are not an active member on the quent meeting. Upon Commission approval, copies of advising providers to ask patients exhibiting respiratory symptoms if White Earth Council of Elders. the minutes will be given to RBC Secretary-Treasurer they travelled to China. 1.2 Appointment and the original files will be maintained by the Elders CDC Director Robert Redfield, MD, also spoke, identifying 18 Selection of Elders Commission members shall be by Advocate in the Human Services Division. international locations with confirmed coronavirus cases. He said the CDC will now screen travellers at 20 U.S. airports, but added that appointment of the White Earth Reservation Business ARTICLE VI / VACANCY Committee. the immediate risk in the U.S. is low. 1.3 Resignation 6.1 Vacancy The CDC is also conducting national contact investigations, trac - Any member may resign at any time by delivering If an Officer resigns or passes, the remaining Officers ing anyone in direct contact with the virus, according to Nancy written notice to the Chairperson or the White Earth shall select a member to fill the remainder of his/her Messonnier, MD, director of CDC’s National Center for Executive Director or the White Earth Reservation term. Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. She said there is no evi - dence of human-to-human transmission in the U.S. Business Committee. ARTICLE VII / REPORTING Officials said antiviral drugs and a preventative vaccine are ARTICLE II / OFFICERS 7.1 Reports required by the Elders Commission being developed, but that could take months. 2.1 Officers The Secretary, in cooperation with the Elders Prevention: How to protect yourself… There shall be a Chairperson, Vice Chairperson, Advocate, shall prepare and submit the annual report • Avoid close contact with sick people. Secretary/Treasurer, and three Members-at-large from to the RBC Secretary-Treasurer and Executive o Restrict visitors who do not have an essential need to be in each district. Director on or before October 1st of each year. the home. 2.2 Terms ARTICLE VIII / STIPENDS o Keep elderly people and those who have compromised The terms of Officers shall be two years/no term limit. immune systems or chronic health conditions away from the person. 8.1 Stipend 2.3 Duties of the Officers This includes people with chronic heart, lung or kidney conditions, Member shall not receive any stated salaries for their The Chairperson shall call regular and special meet - and diabetes. services but may be paid a stipend and reimbursement ings, chair the meetings, and serve as liaison with the • Wash hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. for their expenses, if any, for attendance at each Board White Earth Reservation Business Council. Use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer if soap and water are not avail - meeting. The Vice Chairperson shall serve as Chairperson when able. 8.2 Stipend/Reimbursement Amounts the Chairperson is unavailable. • Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or your sleeve (not The Secretary/Treasurer shall ensure minutes are kept Regular Quarterly Meeting: $1,500 for each regular and special meeting and making Special Meeting: $50 reports required by the Elders Commission and RBC. Local Training: $75 See Health Page 22 In addition, the Secretary/Treasurer shall oversee the Mileage: .57.5/mile 10 Anishinaabeg Today Wednesday, February 5, 2020 The Ways of the Mind
By Evelyn Bellanger level, to dehumanize and in many cases, demonize Pine Point, Minn their victims. One of the more controversial topics is that some In the 7 Prophecies of the Anishinaabe, (900 Indigenous people believe that Christianity was the A.D), the Prophets told of the coming of the light-skin greatest enemy of our nations while others believe it people. The prophesy stated that the future of the has brought fulfillment in their lives. It is important Anishinabeg would be known by the face the light- to note that the purpose of this is NOT to criticize skinned people would wear. If they come in brother - Indigenous people who have accepted Christianity as hood there would be a time of wonderful change. their doctrine of faith, but rather to focus on how the New knowledge would be joined with the old knowl - activities and methods of Christian missionaries edge and the two peoples would join to make a mighty sometimes had a detrimental effect on Indigenous nation or “if they come carrying a weapon and if they people. seem to be suffering, beware. Behind this face is The Europeans who first settled along the East greed.” Coast of the U.S. believed it was their Manifest One of the most difficult topics is the magnitude Destiny, or God-granted right, to claim territory for of genocide upon Indigenous people with the arrival themselves and their posterity. The book of Genesis, of European colonizers. 100 percent of the population 1:26 in the Hebrew Torah and Christian Bible explains in what is now the continental United States was God gave man “dominion” over every other creature Indigenous people. Estimates are that there were on earth. The Colonists believed God made the earth between 10 and 18 million Indigenous people living in for their use and pleasure. It was made to be con - this area. The First Contact period was one of devas - sumed, usually without long term thought to future tation for most Indigenous people. Most tribes were impacts. Entire forests were destroyed, species of ani - welcoming of the new arrivals from Europe, and the mals became near extinct from over-hunting, rivers colonizers were grateful for assistance; they depended were polluted, and hordes of domestic animals were on Indigenous people for food, trade and information slaughtered. As the colonizers’ population exploded about the geographic area. As the colonists’ demands their impact on the earth become more profound. In for more land increased, the relationship soon soured. the early 1800s, “every acre,” wrote historian James Indigenous people were either killed or forcibly Kates, would yield some sort of benefit, whether in moved out of their ancestral areas. Entire tribes the form of timber, tourist dollars or simply a breath became extinct within a short period of time. By of pine-scented air”. A social engineer wrote, “These 1900, there were only 250,000 Indigenous people left forests will pay’ even if not a stick of timber is sold in the United States. In a matter of 300 years, 98 per - from them.” All of the land was to be used as a means cent of the population had died. to generating profit. The Doctrine of Discovery (title to the U.S.) was In 1502, a Spanish Colonist, Bartolome de Las a Christian invention, was a Papal Bull, or type of Casas came to the Americas and would write two public decree, issued by Pope Alexander VI in 1493, short books of his eye witness accounts of the destruc - to claim territories uninhabited by Christians which tion of Indigenous people. These unexplainable types justified dispossessing Indigenous people of their of intentional cruelty used by the colonizers is beyond land, parceling it out among emerging nation-states our belief or capacity to fathom. They would go to and turning it into private property for settlers. In this, great lengths in order to survive their own horrific Indigenous people were left with either extermination behavior. Chattel slavery and genocide of the or assimilation. It is still in place. Indigenous people population were so un-Christian that the only way they could make their actions acceptable was to relegate their victims to a subhuman See Mind Page 28
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WOWE Spelling Bee champs Achieving the Dream announces local schol ar Jacob McArthur of White Earth Tribal and him to go back to school Community College (WETCC) has been awarded a and pursue his degree so he DREAM Scholarship as a part of WETCC’s partici - could set a good example pation in Achieving the Dream (ATD). and do something special As a DREAM Scholar, students will have the with his life. After working opportunity to significantly engage with the efforts for 11 years in the Human both at their institution and across the National Services field for the White Reform Network that impact the student success and Earth Reservation, completion agenda. McArthur, 34, returned to Chosen through a competitive application WETCC to further his edu - process, selected students will participate in a learn - cation and has maintained ing experience that culminates in attending DREAM a 4.0 GPA. Jacob McArthur 2020 from Feb. 18-21 in National Harbor, Md. McArthur, also a DREAM Scholars will stand to make a difference for Cobell Scholar, spoke at the 2019 WETCC gradua - their local communities, gaining in-depth insight on tion ceremony and has represented WETCC in the complexities of community college reform and Washington, D.C., advocating with members of learning from national student success leaders. Congress; he recently attended a two-week Costa Students will be expected to critically respond to Rica research internship and was the 2019 Coca-Cola reform efforts from their unique vantage point in Student of the Year for WETCC. McArthur enjoys preparation for closing remarks they will deliver dur - spending his free time tutoring fellow students and ing the DREAM final plenary session. DREAM is being active outdoors behind his camera; he is com - comprised of 277 colleges within 44 different states, mitted and determined to set a good example for his only eight students throughout the US were selected son Jacob, his inspiration. for the honor. WETCC joined ATD in 2017. White Earth Tribal and Community College is a McArthur has been the President of the WETCC two-year institution located in Mahnomen. The Student Senate and active in the AIHEC Club. He is College is dedicated to academic excellence ground - currently completing his last classes at WETCC ed in Anishinaabe culture, values, and traditions and while he has started to pursue a bachelor’s degree in has an open enrollment policy where anyone from Submitted photos Business Administration at Bemidji State University. PSEO to elders can attend. For more information McArthur says his son, Jacob, and the passing of contact Jennifer McDougall at 218-935-0417 or The Waubun-Ogema-White Earth annual Spelling Bee was held his mother a few years ago created an urgency for [email protected] Jan. 22 at Waubun School. It took 22 rounds to declare Jacob Burkhart the District Spelling Bee Champion. Jacob’s final word was “equator.” The runner-up was Isaiah Schultz and third place Virus from Page 6 went to Scarlette Boudreau. Jacob will now move on to the Regional Spelling Bee Wednesday, Feb. 5 at Northland infection without hospitalization, though they will throw the tissue in the trash. Then wash your hands! Community and Technical College in Thief River Falls, Minn. Top feel sick for days to a week or more. But people with • Clean and disinfect frequently-touched items photo : Front row from left are Karleon Bellcourt, Marcus Gary, chronic health problems—like heart disease or dia - and surfaces. Use products from the store that Chloe Smith, Drayton Tibbetts, Beau Somdahl, Tanner Stech, betes or emphysema or kidney failure—often end up promise they are safe for human contact, and that they Anthony Malmo and Scarlette Boudreau. Back row from left are in the hospital and can get very sick or even die of the kill more than 99 percent of germs on surfaces. Cleighton Hoban, Isaiah Schultz, Tatianna Larson-Butcher, new crown-virus infection. The death rate so far for Follow the product directions. Check the label to Raylyn Peterson, Jacob Burkhart, Connor Adams, Kiearra Keezer the new coronavirus, in people who need hospitaliza - make sure it kills cold and flu viruses. Especially dis - and Wyatt Keezer. Bottom photo : Isaiah Schultz, left, Scarlette tion, is about 3 percent. Remember that the death rate infect the phone, the remote control, the bathroom Boudreau and Jacob Burkhart. for SARS patients in the hospital was about 12 per - surfaces, tables and counters, computers (be sure the cent, and the death rate for MERS patients in the hos - disinfectant won’t damage the computer!), bedding, WE New Years Sobriety Pow-Wow pital was about 37 percent. So this new coronavirus, and kids toys/stuffed animals. so far, doesn’t seem as bad as either SARS or MERS. • If you have to go to a clinic or emergency However, that may not be much comfort if you get the room; when you arrive, let the staff know you might infection! have something “catchy” (contagious) with coughing What can you do to dodge this coronavirus if and sneezing. They should offer you a mask to wear, cases start being diagnosed in Minnesota, or if you and a place to wash your hands. have to travel to a place where cases are reported? • Tell your family and friends about these ways Well, there is no vaccine right now; and antibiotics to avoid spreading respiratory infections. don’t work for virus infections like this new coron - • Now is a good time to at least consider not avirus. So here’s what you can do: traveling to the area of China near the city of Wuhan, • Wash your hands frequently, with soap and where the virus first appeared; or to countries that water, for at least 20 seconds (about as long as it takes have infected citizens, like Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, to slowly sing the Happy Birthday song) each time. If South Korea, and pacific northwest USA. No fun to soap and water are not available, use an alcohol-based spoil travel plans, though; and some people have to hand sanitizer; or even just plain water if that’s all you make such trips for work or personal reasons. have! • Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth • If you traveled to China in the last several Submitted photos when you haven’t just washed your hands. And wash weeks, and now feel sick with fever, cough, or diffi - culty breathing; you should go to a clinic or emer - The White Earth New Years Sobriety Pow-Wow was held Dec. 31 - your hands after touching your eyes, nose, mouth, or Jan. 1 at the Naytahwaush Sports Complex. There were more than anything you have coughed or sneezed on. gency room right away. Before you go to a doctor’s 200 dancers and 18 drums. The biggest feature of the event was • Avoid close contact with people who are sick, office or emergency room, call ahead and tell them honoring two of the community’s exceptional youth. Carmen especially those who got sick after traveling to China about your recent travel and your symptoms. Avoid Mason, left, Naytahwaush, was crowned Miss Aatebiiwin 2020. or southeast Asia countries in recent weeks. contact with others. Don’t travel while sick. Proud parents are Tara and Thomas Mason. Waabano Dahl, • Stay home when you are sick, especially if you If you want more information on the new coron - Naytahwaush, was chosen Aatebiiwin Brave 2020. Proud parents have chilling, fever, coughing, runny nose, and sneez - avirus from China, you can go to the US Centers for are Crystal Littlewolf and Michael Dahl. Aatebii is the Ojibwe word ing. Probably have your home family not hang too Disease Control website, at www.cdc.gov/coron - meaning that he or she “is sober.” From this, we get Aatebiiwin, the state of being sober = sobriety. close while you’re coughing or sneezing. avirus/2019-nCoV/index.html to get up to date • Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue, then details. 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Top : Several RBC employees recently attended the Fatherhood Is Sacred, Motherhood Is Sacred training at the White Earth Tribal and Community College.
Right : Angela Soyring, left, Lori Fairbanks, and Sue Heisler with Albert M. Pooley, founder and president of the Native American Fatherhood and Families Association.
Submitted photos Staff trained to address parenting skills
In August 2019, Angela Soyring and Lori Albert M. Pooley, founder and president of the Native Submitted photos Fairbanks with White Earth Project LAUNCH along American Fatherhood and Families Association, on There was a great turn out for the Pine Point Bean Bag tourna - with Sue Heisler with the White Earth Child Jan. 21-23 at the Customized Education department at ment held Jan. 11 at the Pine Point Community Center. Care/Early Childhood Program traveled to Mesa, the White Earth Tribal and Community College in Congratulations to Jeep Roberts and Squid Miller - first place, Ariz., to attend the Fatherhood Is Sacred, Motherhood Mahnomen. Nicki and Matt Dewey - second place and John Pete Robbins and Is Sacred curriculum training for facilitators. There were 16 employees from the White Earth Duane Fineday - third place. Congratulations to Jen Mely for win - It was identified from Project LAUNCH’s RBC departments with one or more attendees from the ning the set of boards in the free will donations. All the proceeds Community Needs and Readiness Assessment con - Boys and Girls Clubs, Child Care, Circle of Life went to Butch Roberts. Thank you to everyone who came out! ducted during the summer of 2019, that there were no Academy, Head Start, Indian Child Welfare, Mental classes being offered for parenting skills training on Health, Oshki Manidoo Center and Tribal Court. White Earth Reservation. It was also identified that There were also four attendees from the Mille Lacs there was a definite need for it. As a result, Project Band of Chippewa and one person from Manitoba, LAUNCH under the White Earth Home Health Canada that traveled to join the training. Agency, worked with key partners, including the White Earth Child Care/Early Childhood Program in Project LAUNCH will be facilitating a planning planning and collaborating to bring the training to our meeting this month for all those now trained as facili - reservation for more persons to become facilitators. tators on the next steps in offering the Fatherhood Is The Fatherhood Is Sacred, Motherhood Is Sacred Sacred, Motherhood Is Sacred course for parents and curriculum training for facilitators was taught by caregivers throughout the White Earth Reservation.
IHS invites community to Children’s Oral Health Day As part of National Children’s Dental Health will be dental-related games and a prize box for chil - Month, the White Earth Health Center Dental dren. Program invites you to attend their Children’s Oral “Children’s teeth are meant to last a lifetime, and Health Day on Thursday, Feb. 6 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 a healthy smile is important to a child’s self-esteem. During February, those wishing to apply can use the White Earth Tribal and Community College p.m. at the dental clinic. on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. There will be Census staff members there to assist with With proper care, a balanced diet, and regular dental the applications. If hired, Census workers could be paid up to $19 per hour and receive mileage. During the program, parents and children will visits, their teeth can remain healthy and strong,” said learn about topics such as ways to prevent early Dr. Toby Imler, the White Earth Health Center Dental childhood caries, when to expect changes from pri - Director. mary to permanent teeth, proper brushing and floss - ing techniques, dental sealants, and choosing the If you have a child that is due for a dental exam, right mouth protector for active children and adoles - please call the dental clinic at 218-983-6285 to cents. schedule an appointment. Walk-in patients are also To make the day exciting for everyone, there welcome. We hope to see you for this special event!
The WE Reservation Primary Election is Tuesday, March 31 16 Anishinaabeg Today Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Anishinaabeg Today 17
2020 White Earth Reservation Committee Regular Meeting Schedule Date District Community Location Time Election Calendar Dec. 27, 2019: Last day for a sitting RTC member to give notice of resignation to file for other RTC office. Jan. 9 : Last day for a sitting RTC member to give notice of resig - nation to file for vacated seat. Jan. 13 : Election Announcement Jan. 14 : 8 a.m. - Opening of period for filing for office. Jan. 24 : Close of filing period Feb. 3 : Selection of Election Court of Appeals Judge (For certification of candidate) White Earth Urban Office Next White Earth RBC Feb. 10 : Deadline for Notice of Certifications to TEC The White Earth Urban Office is located at Regular Meeting Feb. 12 : Challenge certification or non-certification to MCT by 214 West Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis. 4:30 p.m. on the second business day following receipt of certifica - When : Friday, February 28 tion. The phone number is 612-813-1590 Ext. 6634 and the office hours are weekdays from 8 a.m. Time : 9 a.m. Feb. 13 : Deadline for appointment of Election Boards. to 4:30 p.m. Location : Elbow Lake Community Center Feb. 13 : Deadline for appointment of Election Contest Judge and alternate Election Contest Judge.
Feb. 14 : Complete record of all documents related to challenge sub - mit to Minnesota Chippewa Tribe by 4:30 p.m.
Feb. 14 : Answer to challenge from the person whose certification is being challenged to the MCT by 4:30 p.m.
Feb. 18 : Decision of certification or non-certification or within 48 hours of appeal
Feb. 20 : Notice of Primary Election and Posting
Feb. 21 : TEC provides ballots for Primary Election
March 27 : Notify MCT on choice of appellate forum White Earth Veterans News
March 31: Primary Election (Polling place open from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m.) By Tom Spry TVSO works with Veterans on the Reservation they White Earth Tribal Veteran Service Officer represent. The TVSO has POA with the American April 1 : General Reservation Election Board certifies Primary Legion and can view all correspondence done with Results. (Prior to 8 p.m.) The White Earth Veteran Association will meet the VBA on behalf of the Veteran. If a Veteran uti - on Tuesday, March 3 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at the lizes the VFW or DAV as POA, the tribal Veteran April 2 : General Reservation Election Board publishes Primary Mahnomen Center. The White Earth Veterans cannot view the VBA correspondence. The Service Results. Association meets the first Tuesday of each month. offices cannot view each other’s VBA correspon - Please contact the White Earth Veterans Association April 3 : Deadline for Request for Recount. (Filed with General dence, but they do communicate with each other in if interested in being involved with the Honor Guard. Election Board prior to 5 p.m.) the Fargo Regional Office, if a question arises. The White Earth Veteran’s Honor Guard is available Now that I have given you all the acronyms and April 7 : 4:30 p.m. - Deadline for Contest of Primary Election. for funerals. confused you more. Just give us a call if something (Filed with Reservation Election Judge and Executive Director of A Veteran working with the Veterans Affairs comes up with the VA and we will investigate it. the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe). (VA) office needs to know which office they are Make sure to have a copy of your Military working with. If the Veteran is receiving medical Discharge Papers (DD214). When a Veteran dies it is April 8 : Deadline for Decision on Request for Recount and Results care from the VA and has issues, they need to contact up to his or her family to retrieve the appropriate doc - of Recount, if allowed. (If allowed or 6th or 7th if earlier request) the VA Medical Center (VHA). If the Veteran has a uments. Don’t let this painful experience happen to Service-Connected Disability and has issues, they April 17 : Deadline for Decision on Contest your loved ones. Have a copy of your Discharge need to contact the VA Benefits Center (VBA). The with your will, estate papers or other medical and April 20 : 4:30 p.m. - Deadline for Appeal to Court of Election Fargo Regional Office has three Service offices for legal documents. The Tribal Veteran Service Officer Appeals. (Filed with the Executive Director of the Minnesota Veterans to utilize as Power of Attorneys (POA) who can get a copy of your Discharge papers. The Chippewa Tribe and with Reservation Tribunal rendering Decision. work with the VBA - the American Legion, Veterans Veteran’s spouse and/or dependents may be able to Or within 3 days upon receipt of Notice to Appeal) of Foreign Wars (VFW) and Disabled American file for Death Pension or Dependency and Indemnity Veterans (DAV). The Minnesota Department of Compensation (DIC). April 27 : Last Day for Hearing on Appeal. (Hearing within 7 days Veterans Affairs (MDVA) is a POA and utilize the If the family would like a Headstone or on appeal) American Legion. Gravestone Marker, we will need the Discharge May 7 : Last Day for Decision on Appeal. (10 days of hearing on If the Veteran is using the VHA and VBA they papers. For a White Earth Veterans Honor Guard appeal). need to notify both offices of any changes to address burial service, we will need the Discharge papers. So or telephone number. When a Veteran goes into a please think of your loved ones before it’s too late. May 8 : Notice of General Election County Veteran Service Office (CVSO) they can White Earth Tribal Veteran Service Officer is request one of the three POA’s to represent them in located at the White Earth Veterans Association May 8 : TEC provides ballots for General Election their Disability or Pension claim. If a Veteran is building, 2219 College Road in Mahnomen, MN. June 9: General Election going to a Tribal Veteran Service Office (TVSO), the Work number: 218-936-5650, Fax number: 218-936- (Polling Place open from 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.) POA will the MDVA and the American Legion. The 5651. Email: [email protected]. Office hours CVSO works with their County Veterans and the from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. 18 Anishinaabeg Today Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Obituaries
Clayton James Lehrke Thomas William Jones III July 4, 2001 ~ Dec. 27, 2019 (age 18) Thomas William Jones III was born March 10, 1964 in Park Rapids to Thomas Jr. and Not so long ago in a galaxy far, far away... Clayton James Lehrke lived a unique and Corrine (Goodman) Jones. He passed away Dec. 24 at Oak Crossing Nursing Home in amazing life. As if proving he was the firecracker that he was, it was appropriate he was Detroit Lakes. born on the 4th of July 2001 in Fargo, N.D. He grew up and attend school in Minneapolis graduating from the Heart of the Earth Clayton lived with autism and was exceptionally intelli - Survival School. Thomas worked as a delivery driver before gent. At a very young age he could explain in vivid detail the learning a trade as an electrician. He has worked the last several differences in F1 through F5 tornados, the complete history of years in patience at Shooting Star Casino. the Godzilla movies, or the release dates of any film. Thomas enjoyed working on cars, listening to classic rock He brought so much laughter to those whom were lucky music and spending time with his children. He was known to enough to know him. He was well known for his inappropriate take care of people’s families during difficult times. jokes at inappropriate times. He is survived by his children: Tamika Norcorss, Charles He spent this last summer ranching in North Dakota with Jones, Cassity Jones, Thomas Jones IV, Michael Jones and his cousin Cody. Although having the time of his life, he Logan Jones; grandchildren, Milli Smith and Caylee Basswood; quickly discovered the cowboy lifestyle may not be for him. and siblings: Matt Goodman, Nora Jones, Charles Jones, Clayton attended seminary camps, considering a vocation Lenora Jones and Robin Jones. in the Catholic Church. Thomas was preceded in death by his parents, Thomas and He recently passed his driver’s test, fulfilling his dream of Corrine Jones; children, James Denomie and Celeena Basswood; and siblings, Lorena Jones and George Goodman. driving to school independently, “Because seniors don’t ride Arrangments: David-Donehower Funeral Home of Detroit Lakes. the bus.” He took it upon himself that the ‘04 hand-me-down Buick was now his, spiffed Online: www.daviddonehower.com it up from top to bottom, and drove it with pride (at 30 mph top speed). He enjoyed fishing, family gatherings, and fighting with his brother and sisters. Clayton died peacefully at home on Dec. 27, 2019. He was preceded in death by his grandfather, James Lehrke. He is survived by his par - Laura Nancy Wind ents, Timothy and Angie Lehrke; siblings: Annalise, Weston and Wren Lehrke; grandpar - Laura Nancy Wind, 66, of Mahnomen, passed away Jan. 16 at the Essentia Health ents: Bonnie Lehrke (Art Yliniemi), Darlene and Curtis Ballard; and numerous aunts, Hospital in Fosston, Minn. uncles, and cousins. Laura Nancy Chesley was born July 11, 1953, to Lawrence Adams and Georgianna He taught us all how to love in a whole new way. He was his mama’s boy and his Chesley in White Earth. She was raised in Ponsford and attend - dad’s world. He loved his siblings and idolized his uncle John, cousin Cody and grandpa ed Pine Point School and Park Rapids High School. Laura Curt. Clayton will be dearly missed by all those who were lucky enough to know him and moved to Minneapolis after high school and worked as a house - being the mannerly person, he was, he’d want to let everyone know, “Thanks, I appreciate keeper for numerous families. She was also known to be a great it.” cook and was sought after by the local bars to help cook for spe - A funeral Mass was held Jan. 4 at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Ogema. cial events. Laura moved to Cass Lake and worked as the bingo Arrangments: David-Donehower Funeral Home of Detroit Lakes. manager before moving back to White Earth due to health Online: www.daviddonehower.com issues. Laura loved to cook, sew, create crafts, play bingo and trips to the casino. She enjoyed attending pow-wows and spending time with her large family. Carol “Pud” Neeland Laura is survived by her mother, Georgianna; children: Carol “Pud” Neeland, 56, of Fargo, N.D., died Jan. 8 at Essentia Health in Fargo. Laurel Jolene Chesley, Bridget Ann Rock, Timothy Bellanger, Carol Neeland, the daughter of John and Doris (Dunkley) Neeland, was born May 17, Cindy Bellanger and Leon Bellanger; 18 grandchildren and one 1963, in Bagley, Minn. Growing up she attended school at Circle of Life in White Earth. great grandchild; sister, MaryAnn Columbus; brothers: Ken (Wayne) Chesley, Mike Chesley Following graduation, Carol moved to western North Dakota with her sister, Linda, and and Gerald Adams. entered the work force. She never shied away from hard Laura is preceded in death by her father, Lawrence; son, John Lee Rock; and three work. She spent some time living in Alaska where she enjoyed grandchildren. trapping and hunting, before moving back to the area. Arrangments: David-Donehower Funeral Home of Detroit Lakes. Over the years, Carol worked various jobs including sev - Online: www.daviddonehower.com eral temp services and telemarketing for the North American Research Group. She also worked at the lefsa plant, the potato plant, the dehydrated food plant and American Crystal Sugar Mary A. Stout beet piler, to name a few. Carol met Steve Holm and together they were blessed with a son, Ivan. Mary A. Stout, 83, of Mahomet, Ill., and formerly of Pekin, Ill., passed away Jan. 22, at Carle Foundation Hospital in Champaign, Ill. She has spent the last 15 years living and working in She was born Dec. 25, 1936, in Minneapolis to James and Lelia (Sweet) Harris. She Fargo. Throughout her life, Carol faced many challenges, but married David Stout on Aug. 31, 1957. always remained positive and was very adaptable. She will Mary graduated from Pekin High School in 1954. She forever be cherished in the hearts of those who loved her. retired from Pekin Hospital as Director of Volunteers. Carol enjoyed beading, sewing, working with birchbark, Mary was a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Pekin wood burning, and anything that kept her hands busy. She was a kindhearted, generous, Women’s Club and Pekin Hospital League. She and Dave adventurous, fun-loving individual, who always saw the good in everyone. Family was enjoyed playing golf and many summers in Minnesota with her greatest joy and she cherished their time together. their children, grandchildren, family and friends. Carol is survived by her son, Ivan (Indiana) Holm of Ulen, Minn.; sisters, Cheryl She was preceded in death by her parents. Neeland of Ebro and Linda Ames of Mahnomen; twin brother, Daryl Neeland of Bagley; Surviving are son, Steve Stout of Los Angeles; daughter, and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Doris Jill Butcher of Mahomet; granddaughters, Sara and Anna Neeland; brothers: Albert, John and William Neeland; half-sisters, Joyce and Beverly; Butcher; sisters, Helen (Todd) Keck of Mesa, Ariz., and Betty nephew, Alvin Neeland; and other expended family. (Larry) Collier of Groveland, Ill. A funeral service was held Jan. 16 at Rice Lake Community Center. Cremation will be accorded with a memorial service and inurnment at Lakeview Cemetery to take place in the spring. Interment: St. Philips Episcopal Cemetery in Rice Lake at a later date. Memorial contributions may be made to Tazewell Animal Arrangements: Anderson Family Funeral Home of Mahnomen. Protective Society or the American Heart Association. Online guestbook: www.andersonfamilyfh.com Online condolences: www.hendersonfuneralcare.com. Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Anishinaabeg Today 19
WE TRIBAL COURT WE TRIBAL COURT WE TRIBAL COURT WE TRIBAL COURT CHILDREN’S COURT CHILDREN’S COURT CHILDREN’S COURT CHILDREN’S COURT In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child(ren) of: In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: “Any Man Coming Forward” as the Father Jonathan Whitefeather Casey Wheeler Dussi Kier of the Child(ren) of Natasha Thompson Summons of Petition and Hearing Notice Summons of Petition and Hearing Notice Summons of Petition and Hearing Notice Summons of Petition and Hearing Notice Court File No. CC18-0582 Court File No. CC18-0787 Court File No. CC18-1117 Court File Nos. CC18-0581; -0591 YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on May November 4, 2019, a Suspension of October 30, 2019, a Suspension of Parental October 22, 2019, a Child in Need of 24, 2019, a Suspension of Parental Rights Parental Rights Petition was filed with the Rights Petition was filed with the White Protection and/or Services Petition was Petition was filed with the White Earth White Earth Tribal Court regarding your Earth Tribal Court regarding your child in filed with the White Earth Tribal Court Tribal Court regarding your child(ren) in child in file CC18-0582. A pre-trial hearing file CC18-0787. An Admit or Deny hearing regarding your child in file CC18-1117. A file(s) CC18-0581; -0591. A pre-trial hear - on the matter is scheduled for April 3, 2020 on the matter is scheduled for March 6, pre-trial hearing on the matter is scheduled ing on the matter is scheduled for March 4, at 9:30 A.M. You are asked to contact White 2020 at 11:00 A.M. You are asked to contact for March 19, 2020 at 9:30 A.M. You are 2020 at 1:00 P.M. You are asked to contact Earth Tribal Court Administration located at White Earth Tribal Court Administration asked to contact White Earth Tribal Court White Earth Tribal Court Administration the RTC in White Earth, Minnesota at 218- located at the RTC in White Earth, Administration located at the RTC in White located at the RTC in White Earth, 983-4648. If you fail to appear for this hear - Minnesota at 218-983-4648. If you fail to Earth, Minnesota at 218-983-4648. If you Minnesota at 218-983-4648. If you fail to ing the Court may find you in default and appear for this hearing the Court may find fail to appear for this hearing the Court may appear for this hearing the Court may find enter an order. you in default and enter an order. find you in default and enter an order. you in default and enter an order. Dated : January 29, 2020 Dated : January 29, 2020 Dated : January 29, 2020 Dated : January 29, 2020 Veronica Newcomer Veronica Newcomer Veronica Newcomer Veronica Newcomer Attorney for WE Indian Child Welfare Attorney for WE Indian Child Welfare Attorney for WE Indian Child Welfare Attorney for WE Indian Child Welfare
WE TRIBAL COURT WE TRIBAL COURT WE TRIBAL COURT WE TRIBAL COURT CHILDREN’S COURT CHILDREN’S COURT CHILDREN’S COURT CHILDREN’S COURT In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: “Any Man Coming Forward” as the Jason Thompson Craig Larson Jandy Frederick Father of the Child of Jandy Frederick Summons of Petition and Hearing Notice Summons of Petition and Hearing Notice Summons of Petition and Hearing Notice Summons of Petition and Hearing Notice Court File No. CC18-1117 Court File No. CC19-0059 Court File No. CC19-0059 Court File No. CC19-0059 YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on October 22, 2019, a Child in Need of September 3, 2019, a Suspension of September 3, 2019, a Suspension of September 3, 2019, a Suspension of Protection and/or Services Petition was Parental Rights Petition was filed with the Parental Rights Petition was filed with the Parental Rights Petition was filed with the filed with the White Earth Tribal Court White Earth Tribal Court regarding your White Earth Tribal Court regarding your White Earth Tribal Court regarding your regarding your child in file CC18-1117. A child in file CC19-0059. A pre-trial hearing child in file CC19-0059. A pre-trial hearing child in file CC19-0059. A pre-trial hearing pre-trial hearing on the matter is scheduled on the matter is scheduled for March 6, on the matter is scheduled for March 6, on the matter is scheduled for March 6, for March 19, 2020 at 9:30 A.M. You are 2020 at 10:00 A.M. You are asked to contact 2020 at 10:00 A.M. You are asked to contact 2020 at 10:00 A.M. You are asked to contact asked to contact White Earth Tribal Court White Earth Tribal Court Administration White Earth Tribal Court Administration White Earth Tribal Court Administration Administration located at the RTC in White located at the RTC in White Earth, located at the RTC in White Earth, located at the RTC in White Earth, Earth, Minnesota at 218-983-4648. If you Minnesota at 218-983-4648. If you fail to Minnesota at 218-983-4648. If you fail to Minnesota at 218-983-4648. If you fail to fail to appear for this hearing the Court may appear for this hearing the Court may find appear for this hearing the Court may find appear for this hearing the Court may find find you in default and enter an order. you in default and enter an order. you in default and enter an order. you in default and enter an order. Dated Dated Dated : January 29, 2020 : January 29, 2020 : January 29, 2020 Dated : January 29, 2020 Veronica Newcomer Veronica Newcomer Veronica Newcomer Veronica Newcomer Attorney for WE Indian Child Welfare Attorney for WE Indian Child Welfare Attorney for WE Indian Child Welfare Attorney for WE Indian Child Welfare
WE TRIBAL COURT WE TRIBAL COURT WE TRIBAL COURT WE TRIBAL COURT CHILDREN’S COURT CHILDREN’S COURT CHILDREN’S COURT CHILDREN’S COURT In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: Victoria Blackburde Muriel Thunder Robin Heinonen Leona Onefeather Summons of Petition and Hearing Notice Summons of Petition and Hearing Notice Summons of Petition and Hearing Notice Summons of Petition and Hearing Notice Court File No. CC19-0344 Court File No. CC19-0811 Court File No. CC19-0811 Court File No. CC19-0952
YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on November 21, 2019, a Suspension of October 11, 2019, a Child in Need of October 11, 2019, a Child in Need of December 9, 2019, a Suspension of Parental Parental Rights Petition was filed with the Protection and/or Services Petition was Protection and/or Services Petition was Rights Petition was filed with the White White Earth Tribal Court regarding your filed with the White Earth Tribal Court filed with the White Earth Tribal Court Earth Tribal Court regarding your child in child in file CC18-0344. A pre-trial hearing regarding your child in file CC19-0811. An regarding your child in file CC19-0811. An file CC19-0952. An Admit or Deny hearing on the matter is scheduled for March 5, pre-trial hearing on the matter is scheduled pre-trial hearing on the matter is scheduled on the matter is scheduled for March 13, 2020 at 3:30 P.M. You are asked to contact for March 12, 2020 at 1:30 P.M. You are for March 12, 2020 at 1:30 P.M. You are 2020 at 1:00 P.M. You are asked to contact White Earth Tribal Court Administration asked to contact White Earth Tribal Court asked to contact White Earth Tribal Court White Earth Tribal Court Administration located at the RTC in White Earth, Administration located at the RTC in White Administration located at the RTC in White located at the RTC in White Earth, Minnesota at 218-983-4648. If you fail to Earth, Minnesota at 218-983-4648. If you Earth, Minnesota at 218-983-4648. If you Minnesota at 218-983-4648. If you fail to appear for this hearing the Court may find fail to appear for this hearing the Court may fail to appear for this hearing the Court may appear for this hearing the Court may find you in default and enter an order. find you in default and enter an order. find you in default and enter an order. you in default and enter an order.
Dated : January 29, 2020 Dated : January 29, 2020 Dated : January 29, 2020 Dated : January 29, 2020 Veronica Newcomer Veronica Newcomer Veronica Newcomer Veronica Newcomer Attorney for WE Indian Child Welfare Attorney for WE Indian Child Welfare Attorney for WE Indian Child Welfare Attorney for WE Indian Child Welfare 20 Anishinaabeg Today Wednesday, February 5, 2020
WE BAND OF OJIBWE WE TRIBAL COURT WE TRIBAL COURT WE TRIBAL COURT TRIBAL COURT CHILDREN’S COURT CHILDREN’S COURT CHILDREN’S COURT In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: Derek Blakely Jamie Urban and Jonathan Robert Zach Sarmiento Darin Stone Davis, Parents Summons of Petition and Hearing Notice Summons of Petition and Hearing Notice Summons of Petition and Hearing Notice Summons of Petition and Hearing Notice TP20-0017 Court File No. CC19-0952 Court File No. CC19-0963 Court File Nos. CC19-0190 YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on January 7, 2020 a Petition for Termination of YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on April December 9, 2019, a Suspension of Parental December 3, 2019, a Child in Need of Parental Rights was filed with the White 26, 2019, a Petition to Suspend Parental Rights Petition was filed with the White Protection and/or Services Petition was Earth Tribal Court regarding the child of the Rights was filed with the White Earth Tribal Earth Tribal Court regarding your child in filed with the White Earth Tribal Court above-named parent. An initial hearing will Court regarding your child in file CC19- file CC19-0952. An Admit or Deny hearing regarding your child in file CC19-0963. A commence on February 27, 2020, at 2:30 0190. A hearing on this matter is scheduled on the matter is scheduled for March 13, pre-trial hearing on the matter is scheduled p.m. at the White Earth Tribal Courtroom for February 14, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. You are 2020 at 1:00 P.M. You are asked to contact for February 28, 2020 at 1:00 P.M. You are located at 35500 Eagleview Rd., Ogema, asked to contact White Earth Court White Earth Tribal Court Administration asked to contact White Earth Tribal Court MN. The telephone number is (218) 983- Administration offices at (218) 983-4648 to located at the RTC in White Earth, Administration located at the RTC in White 4648. You are served with this notice receive a copy of the petition and orders Minnesota at 218-983-4648. If you fail to Earth, Minnesota at 218-983-4648. If you because you are a party to this proceeding, or issued by the Court. If you fail to appear for appear for this hearing the Court may find fail to appear for this hearing the Court may you are a person whose presence is important this hearing, the Court may find you in you in default and enter an order. find you in default and enter an order. to a determination concerning the protection default and enter an order. of your child. If you fail to appear for this Dated : January 29, 2020 Dated : January 29, 2020 hearing the Court may find you in default Dated : January 29, 2020 Veronica Newcomer Veronica Newcomer and enter an order. Rebecca McConkey-Greene, Attorney for WE Indian Child Welfare Attorney for WE Indian Child Welfare Attorney for the WE Band of Chippewa Dated : January 13, 2020 Indian Child Welfare Department Court Administrator MN I.D. 0388656 WE TRIBAL COURT WE TRIBAL COURT CHILDREN’S COURT CHILDREN’S COURT In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: WE TRIBAL COURT WE TRIBAL COURT TRAFFIC COURT TRAFFIC COURT Nakita Eischens Trenton St. Clair Summons of Petition and Hearing Notice Summons of Petition and Hearing Notice In the Matter of: Victoria Rea Azure; In the Matter of: Sharon Marie Jackson; DOB: 09/08/1996 DOB: 07/26/1965 Court File No. CC19-0965 Court File No. CC19-0965
Summons for Appear in Court Summons to Appear in Court YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on Court File No. T19-0677 Court File No. T19-0009 December 4, 2019, a Child in Need of December 4, 2019, a Child in Need of Protection and/or Services Petition was Protection and/or Services Petition was YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on filed with the White Earth Tribal Court filed with the White Earth Tribal Court February 19, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. an Order to February 19, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. an Order to regarding your child in file CC19-0965. A regarding your child in file CC19-0965. A Show Cause Hearing on the traffic citation Show Cause Hearing on the traffic citation pre-trial hearing on the matter is scheduled pre-trial hearing on the matter is scheduled will be held at the White Earth Tribal Court will be held at the White Earth Tribal Court for February 28, 2020 at 11:00 A.M. You are for February 28, 2020 at 11:00 A.M. You are at 35500 Eagle View Road Ogema, MN at 35500 Eagle View Road Ogema, MN asked to contact White Earth Tribal Court asked to contact White Earth Tribal Court 56569. You are asked to contact Court 56569. You are asked to contact Court Administration located at the RTC in White Administration located at the RTC in White Administration at 218-983-4648, ext. 5757 Administration at 218-983-4648, ext. 5757 Earth, Minnesota at 218-983-4648. If you Earth, Minnesota at 218-983-4648. If you to receive a copy of the citation. If you fail to receive a copy of the citation. If you fail fail to appear for this hearing the Court may fail to appear for this hearing the Court may to appear for this hearing, the Court may to appear for this hearing, the Court may find you in default and enter an order. find you in default and enter an order. find you in default and/or held in contempt find you in default and/or held in contempt of court. of court. Dated : January 29, 2020 Dated : January 29, 2020 Veronica Newcomer Veronica Newcomer Dated : January 10, 2020 Dated : January 14, 2020 Attorney for WE Indian Child Welfare Attorney for WE Indian Child Welfare
WE TRIBAL COURT WE TRIBAL COURT WE TRIBAL COURT TRAFFIC COURT TRAFFIC COURT TRAFFIC COURT WE TRIBAL COURT CHILDREN’S COURT In the Matter of: Shannon Marie In the Matter of: Samantha Jo Fox; DOB: In the Matter of: Dylan Michael Burnette; Burkhart; DOB: 08/31/1981 06/19/1985 DOB: 12/13/2000 In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: Summons for Appear in Court Summons to Appear in Court Summons to Appear in Court Barbara Armstrong Court File No. T19-0793 Court File No. T19-0993 Court File No. T19-0946 Summons of Petition and Hearing Notice Court File No. CC19-0996 YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on February 19, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. an Order to February 19, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. an Order to February 19, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. an Order to YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on Show Cause Hearing on the traffic citation Show Cause Hearing on the traffic citation Show Cause Hearing on the traffic citation January 6, 2020, a Suspension of Parental will be held at the White Earth Tribal Court will be held at the White Earth Tribal Court will be held at the White Earth Tribal Court Rights Petition was filed with the White at 35500 Eagle View Road Ogema, MN at 35500 Eagle View Road Ogema, MN at 35500 Eagle View Road Ogema, MN Earth Tribal Court regarding your child in 56569. You are asked to contact Court 56569. You are asked to contact Court 56569. You are asked to contact Court file CC19-0996. An Admit or Deny hearing Administration at 218-983-4648, ext. 5757 Administration at 218-983-4648, ext. 5757 Administration at 218-983-4648, ext. 5757 on the matter is scheduled for March 13, to receive a copy of the citation. If you fail to receive a copy of the citation. If you fail to receive a copy of the citation. If you fail 2020 at 1:00 P.M. You are asked to contact to appear for this hearing, the Court may to appear for this hearing, the Court may to appear for this hearing, the Court may White Earth Tribal Court Administration find you in default and/or held in contempt find you in default and/or held in contempt find you in default and/or held in contempt located at the RTC in White Earth, of court. of court. of court. Minnesota at 218-983-4648. If you fail to appear for this hearing the Court may find Dated : January 6, 2020 Dated : January 6, 2020 Dated : January 27, 2020 you in default and enter an order.
Dated : January 29, 2020 Veronica Newcomer You can reach the Anishinaabeg Today at 218-983-3285 Ext. 5903 or [email protected] Attorney for WE Indian Child Welfare Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Anishinaabeg Today 21
Voting eligibly for White Earth Primary Election
Please send me an absentee ballot for the 1.6(A) Judging Qualifications illness or physical disability, an eligible voter is not upcoming White Earth Primary Election to be Each Band governing body will be the sole judge able to vote at the polls and notifies the General held March 31, 2020 of the constitutional qualifications of its voters and Election Board consistent with this Ordinance, he/she may, by official action, delegate this responsibility to will be entitled to vote by absentee ballot in the man - its General Reservation Election Board. ner and under the procedures as provided by Section 2.2(B). 1.6 (B) Eligibility to Vote: Generally To cast an absentee ballot for Committeeperson, Eligible voters are enrolled members of the Tribe, an eligible voter must have resided within that district 18 years of age or over. All Eligible voters shall vote for a period of at least 30 days as his/her last reserva - by secret ballot. To be eligible to cast a ballot a voter tion residence. In the event an eligible voter has never must meet all constitutional requirements. In addition, resided on the reservation of his/her enrollment, to be eligible to cast a vote for Committeeperson, a he/she must declare in his/her request which district voter must have resided within that district for at least has been selected in which to cast the ballot for thirty (30) days immediately preceding the election, Committeeperson. unless the voter casts an absentee ballot as permitted A voter may not thereafter change his/her district by this Ordinance. for absentee voting purposes without actually residing within a different district on his/her reservation of 1.6 (C) Eligibility to Vote: Absentee enrollment for at least thirty (30) consecutive days Whenever, due to absence from the reservation, immediately preceeding the elections.
PRIMARY ELECTION NOTICE
A Primary Minnesota Chippewa Tribal Election of the White Earth Reservation Business Each request must have an individual signature. Committee will be held on March 31, 2020 to fill the following positions: Absentee voters in the Primary Election will be automatically mailed a ballot for the General CHAIRPERSON - WHITE EARTH RESERVATION BUSINESS COMMITTEE Election to be held June 9, 2020 . FOUR (4) YEAR TERM DISTRICT III REPRESENTATIVE - WHITE EARTH BUSINESS COMMITTEE FOUR (4) YEAR TERM
White Earth General Election Board Shooting Star Casino RV Office, 777 SE Casino Drive ***ABSENTEE BALLOT VOTING*** PO Box 10 Absentee ballot requests can be mailed, emailed Mahnomen, MN 56557 or faxed to the White Earth Election Board POLLING PLACES :
DISTRICT I: Bejou - Community Center, Main Street Beaulieu - Mary Lou Crandall Residence, 2125 220th Street Pine Bend - Robin Ankeny Residence, 1130 320th Avenue Rice Lake - Community Center (Rice Lake Village)
DISTRICT II: WE General Mahnomen - Old Tribal College Library, Main Street Naytahwaush - Old Community Center, 2nd Avenue Election Board Waubun - Community Center, 1004 Central Avenue DISTRICT III: Callaway - Community Center, Highway 59 Shooting Star RV Office Ogema - VFW Hall, Main Street East 777 SE Casino Drive White Earth - Community Center, Martin Drive Mahnomen, MN 56557 Elbow Lake - Elderly Nutrition Center, (Elbow Lake Village) Pine Point - Elderly Nutrition Center (Pine Point Village) [email protected] 218-936-5622 or 1-866-211-9154 MARBLE, MN Marble City Hall (Community Center) Fax : 218-936-5623 302 Alice Avenue
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Marvin from Page 2 Health from Page 9 to notify present non Indian landholders that their title actually returned, nor has any of the remaining 240,000 was faulty. That fueled a huge amount of Indian hating, acres of federal, state and county land, procured illegal - your hands) when coughing or sneezing. and the rise of anti Indian organizations like Protect ly. • Stay home when you are sick American Rights and Resources, the United Townships Marvin continued to challenge the White Earth • Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands. Association, and the Interstate Congress on Equal Land Settlement Act as unconstitutional. • Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces. Rights and Responsibilities. Those organizations, some That lawsuit, Manypenny v. US, argued that you Clean all “high-touch” surfaces, such as counters, tabletops, doorknobs, of them headquartered on the White Earth Reservation can’t take tribal land in l986 for market value of land in bathroom fixtures, toilets, phones, keyboards, tablets, and bedside began a full scale campaign to discredit Native legal 1900, nor can you take tribal land without due process. tables, every day. Also, clean any surfaces that may have blood, body rights, and indeed Native people. This fueled more anti Marvin filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., fluids and/or secretions or excretions on them. Indian legislation, and then District 7 Representative Michael Ratner from the Center for Constitutional • Eat well • Get rest Arlan Stangland said that the White Earth people Rights was our Attorney, a renowned international • Stay hydrated…drink lots of clear fluids would get our land back when hell froze over. legal expert. The second lawsuit was called Fineday v. • Wash laundry thoroughly. In general, wash and dry with the Stangeland, eventually proposed a White Earth Land US, and argued that the land should not be taken, and warmest temperatures recommended on the clothing label. Settlement Act, with a final offer of $3 million to the that allotments had been illegally stolen. All of this Why is hand washing important? tribal council. The anti Indian movement continued to work was done by tribal members, not the tribal coun - You have been told to wash your hands your whole life, from child - flourish in Minnesota. cil. Marvin Manypenny and others worked together to hood to adulthood, but lately it seems like hand hygiene is spreading as The Wadena Administration was in power during find the plaintiffs, the legal angles, hire the attorneys fast as the infections it is trying to prevent - hand washing has become that era. Accustomed to being treated like third class (Kurt Bluedog) and seek justice. That’s courageous. citizens in our own land, the administration bowed to the new hype. Stangeland. Anishinaabe Akeeng, the White Earth land In 1988, Manypenny was quoted in the New York • Hands are responsible for the spread of 80% of common infec - rights organization was formed, and Marvin Times accusing federal officials of “dereliction” of tious diseases and hand washing remains one of the easiest and cheap - Manypenny and Dale Hanks were lead organizers chal - their responsibilities on White Earth land: “They est ways to prevent the spread of bacteria. However, 1 in 5 people do lenging the White Earth Tribal Council. Hundreds of screwed up, and consequently our estate was stolen out not wash their hands and of those that do only 30% use soap. people would show up at the Council meetings, ulti - from under our noses.” • So if keeping our hands clean is key in preventing illness, why do mately postponing and increasing the settlement offers Colonization brings you to your knees. That’s gen - not more people do it, and do it right? The answer may be as simple as from the federal government, as they saw that the erally what happens to a people. We have a huge that most people do not know how. Natives were restless. After a hundred years of theft, amount of historic trauma, yet somehow, from the Hand washing technique people were tired of being victims. ashes, our people rise up and say, enough. That’s the The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends 15-20 sec - As monetary offers grew, the Tribal Council story of White Earth. The American Indian Movement onds of hand washing, using the following steps: became increasingly corrupt, and Chairman Wadena rekindled organizing and pride amongst the White 1. Wet hands with water 2. Apply single shot of soap flew to Washington to endorse the White Earth Land Earth people, the formation of Anishinaabe Akeeng, 3. Rub hands palm to palm Settlement Act under a “ suspension of the rules,” the struggle for constitutional reform on White Earth, 4. Rub back of each hand with the palm of other the hand with fin - against the wishes of his people. A few years later, the and ultimately the struggles to protect wild rice from gers interlaced US Attorney for Minnesota, levied corruption charges genetic engineering and now oil pipelines. 5. Rub palm to palm with fingers interlaced against the Wadena administration including - Jerry People do their best, and after the courts ruled 6. Rub with backs of fingers to opposing palms with fingers inter - Rawley, Danny Stevens for which all would serve fed - against Manypenny, Fineday, and a related case, locked eral prison time. A jury convicted Wadena in 1996 of Littlewolf, Anishinaabe Akeeng formed the White 7. Rub each thumb clasped in opposite hand using rotational move - conspiracy, bribery, money laundering, theft and Earth Land Recovery Project. That was based on the ment embezzlement and he was sentenced to four years and need to secure land, by any means possible. Essentially 8. Rub tips of fingers in opposite palm in circular motion three months in prison. An appeals court ordered the after exhausting all legal recourse, the board of 9. Rub each wrist with opposite hand sentence reduced, saying it was too harsh, and Wadena Anishinaabe Akeeng created a mechanism to seek 10. Rinse hands with water served more than two years. (Mike Swan then head of return of some lands, l,400 acres are held by that orga - 11. Dry thoroughly Biology Department testified for the White Earth peo - nization. Those board members included Andy The Happy Birthday song, or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, should ple, noting that there was no White Earth Fish Favorite, Winnifred Jourdain, George Aubid, Ted be sung (twice) as you wash your hands! When water is not available, Commission and the $70,000 a year being taken by Hoagland, and others, who have since passed to the use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer to kill common bacteria. Council members for their work at that Commission Spirit World. Marvin continued to push back against The skin should always be properly dried to avoid risk of chapping was in fact fraudulent). That’s all last century history. government abuses, whether tribal, state or county, and particularly during cold weather. Clean towels should be available at all But it informs us today. remained a leader in the work on constitutional reform. times – dirty towels mean exposing the skin to more dirt and the risk of Anishinaabe Akeeng was formed, a citizens group He helped form the Public Defenders Legal Defense infection. Ideally, disposable paper towels should be used, as the use of of tribal members who demanded return of land. Those for tribal members, and to advocate for treaty rights ‘communal’ towels can lead to contamination. brave people included Dale Hanks, John Morrin (now through the l855 Treaty Commission and more. “Marv Knowing how to wash your hands properly is an important step in on the Council at Grand Portage), Marvin Manypenny, was always a brave voice and stood with the people preventing the spread of infections in the workplace, home or schools. Charlotte Jackson, Winnifred Jourdain, Margaret which is always inspiring and helpful,” Frank Bibeau, Also important is knowing when to wash your hands. Here are the Smith, Vernon, Richard and Raymond Bellecourt, and l855 Treaty Commission Executive Director remem - key times when hand washing should be conducted: many more. We organized and turned people out. bers. • At the end of each work/school period The final WELSA settlement was $l7 million or Joe Plumer, Red Lake Tribal Attorney remem - • Before each break so, some to be allocated to the tribal members whose bers,“he had a true Anishinaabe heart.” • Before eating or preparing food land had been stolen, some to the Tribal Council. • After going to the restroom That’s how the Shooting Star Casino was built, with The White Earth people still do not have justice. • Whenever hands are dirty or contaminated the money from WELSA. It was more than a bitter set - Most of our people remain refugees in the twin cities, tlement. In the meantime, the Federal Court lauded that and across the state, we have some of the highest rates “the state of Minnesota had donated land back to the of every social and health problem imaginable. That’s tribe,” that’s l0,000 acres, and not all of that has been the result not just of historic trauma, but of theft and dispossession of a people. Marvin’s Midewin wake and funeral, was widely attended by tribal leaders from most of the reservations in the state, and also by his daughter Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. There, tribal leaders like Fond du Lac Tribal Chairman Kevin Dupuis, White Earth Chairman Mike Fairbanks, with whom, Manypenny had many times sparred at tribal meetings, came with so many others to send off a hero of the modern day Indian Wars. In the time ahead, we hope that Marvin’s descendants will see justice. It is about time. Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Anishinaabeg Today 23
Pine Point School Meeting Minutes WE TRIBAL COURT WE TRIBAL COURT TRAFFIC COURT TRAFFIC COURT Funds Transfer & Credit Card Transactions In the Matter of: Carolyn Anne DeGroat; In the Matter of: Shayne Renee King; PP Regular School Board Meeting DOB: 04/30/1982 DOB: 12/24/1999 Monday, Dec. 2, 2019 @ 4:30 p.m. – Motion by Michael Swan to approve the payment of bills for the month of Pine Point School Staff Room Summons to Appear in Court Summons to Appear in Court November 2019 in the amount of Court File No. T19-1020 Court File No. T19-0960 1.0 Roll Call – Meeting called to order by $57,897.13 for check #30084 through Chairman Gerald Adams at 4:34 p.m. check #30162 and the EFT for YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on Members present – Michael Swan, Sara Federal/State/TRA Payroll Tax & Credit February 19, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. an Order to February 26, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. an Order to Card Transactions, seconded by Sara Hunt. Show Cause Hearing on the traffic citation Hunt, Gerald Adams, Sara Clark, Anthony Show Cause Hearing on the traffic citation All in favor. Motion carried. will be held at the White Earth Tribal Court will be held at the White Earth Tribal Court Clark, Teresita Diaz at 35500 Eagle View Road Ogema, MN at 35500 Eagle View Road Ogema, MN Ex-officio – Chris Schulz, Principal 6.0 Unfinished Business 56569. You are asked to contact Court 56569. You are asked to contact Court 2.0 Recognition of Visitors – Bonnie 6.1 No unfinished business Administration at 218-983-4648, ext. 5757 Administration at 218-983-4648, ext. 5757 Meeks 7.0 New Business to receive a copy of the citation. If you fail to receive a copy of the citation. If you fail 3.0 Approval/Amendment of Agenda – 7.1 Policy #535 – Service Animals in to appear for this hearing, the Court may to appear for this hearing, the Court may Motion by Sara Hunt to approve the agenda find you in default and/or held in contempt School + Form – Motion by Michael Swan find you in default and/or held in contempt as presented, seconded by Sara Clark. All of court. of court. to approve the MSBA policy, seconded by in favor. Motion carried. Sara Hunt. All in favor. Motion carried. Dated : January 16, 2020 Dated : January 29, 2020 4.0 Approval/Amendment of Minutes – Motion by Michael Swan to approve the 8.0 Principal’s Report – Discussion on November 6, 2019 minutes as presented, Staff Inservice; Science Fair; TNT field seconded by Anthony Clark. All in favor. trip; Christmas movie; Christmas Program. Resolutions from Front Page Motion carried. No action needed. 5.0 Finance 9.0 Public Participation – Community to allow employees to continue supporting than 7,300 cords of various species of wood 5.1 Treasurer’s Report – Motion by Christmas Program – Saturday, December their families monetarily by continuing to will be available for purchase through an Anthony Clark to approve the Treasurer’s 21, 2019. work in their position. Previously, the poli - upcoming auction process. Report for November 2019 as presented, 10.0 Adjournment – Motion by Teresita cy stated that “successful candidates of the seconded by Sara Clark. All in favor. Diaz to adjourn the meeting at 4:55 p.m., Primary Election will be placed on an Forest Development Projects Approved Motion carried. seconded by Sara Hunt. All in favor. unpaid leave of absence as of the date of the The White Earth RBC authorized the 5.2 Payment of Bills & Electronic Motion carried. Primary Election Certification.” request from its Natural Resources Forestry Program to seek more than $78,000 in fund - White Earth Deer Hunting Season ing from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to con - Extended duct four forest development projects across Waubun Honor Roll - Semester 1 The White Earth RBC passed a resolu - the White Earth Reservation. The projects tion approving an extension to the 2019- A Honor Roll Alaina Bevins 9 Chance DeGroat-Larson 12 will create, manage and protect planted pine Taylor Johnson 9 Donald Hennicker 12 2020 White Earth Reservation Deer Hunting Gabrielle Bellanger 12 and spruce trees in order to promote healthy Kia Keezer 9 Brittany Lefebvre 12 Season. The season was extended through Sydney Bly 12 growing. Tyson McArthur 9 Alyssa Anderson 11 Jan. 31. Proper management of both game Jordan Johnson 12 Leah Olson 9 Estella Heisler 11 species and the habitats in which they live White Earth RBC Approves EPA/ Levi Mertens 12 Kendra Syverson 9 Laylah Keezer 11 will ensure the proliferation of all wildlife Minnesota Department of Agriculture Molly Mertens 12 Connor Adams 8 Adam Kologi 11 for generations to come. Proper manage - Partnership Nathan Nelson 12 Tia Bevins 8 Brandon Swedberg 11 ment ensures that Tribal members will be The White Earth RBC passed a resolu - Emily Olsen 12 Jacob Burkhart 8 Virginia Baker 10 able to harvest game species during hunting tion approving its Pesticides Program to William Oshkinowe IV 12 Cadence Clark 8 Neegonee Burnett Jr 10 seasons for many years to come. seek funding from the Environmental Noah Paul 12 Protection Agency in order to continue their Brooklynn Hoban 8 Loden Clark 10 Youth Council Logan Stech 12 work conducting surface water sampling for Leah Kent 8 Nindonnis Englund 10 In order to give young White Earth Jonah Steffl 12 pesticide residue. Under a new 5-year Calais Olson 8 Ayva Jackson 10 enrolled members a better working knowl - Nicole Swedberg 12 agreement, White Earth will collaborate Nicholas Baker 7 Amber Kologi 10 edge of the inner workings of the RBC, as Jasmine Vanderplaats 12 with the Minnesota Department of Gabriella Dinh 7 Tanner Pazdernik 10 well as provide them with an opportunity for Ozaawaa Burnett 11 Agriculture on analysis of sample results. Owen Drinkwine 7 Nevaeh Roy 10 “hands-on” involvement in tribal govern - Alayna Gary 11 Aden Hoban 7 Carson Zima 10 ment, the White Earth RBC approved plans Katelynn Keezer 11 Cleighton Hoban 7 Samuel Zima 10 to move forward with the creation and sup - Carissa Kent 11 Porsha Keezer 7 Eric Beaupre 9 port of the White Earth Reservation Youth Noah Schneck 11 Roni Keezer 7 Deiland Bigbear-Engelke 9 Council. Additionally, White Earth was cho - Jayzee VanPelt 11 Savannah Keezer 7 Dakota Nelson 9 sen as one of only 12 groups in Minnesota Sofia Bly 10 Brynn McArthur 7 Nevaeh Williams 9 selected to become a “Youth Move Kendrick Connor-Walker 10 Jada Nelson 7 Madeline Bass 8 Minnesota” local chapter. This honor gives Elayna Toczek 10 Alexis Pazdernik 7 Malachi Brower 8 White Earth Youth Council members oppor - Jordyn Zima 10 Dakiya Smith 7 Kiearra Keezer 8 tunities to network and collaborate with Logan Adams 9 Jayla Bellanger 7 other Youth Councils across the state, partic - Justice Alvarado 9 B Honor Roll Tayshaun V. Bray 7 ipate in community outreach events, as well Abigail Baker 9 Kylia A. Jackson 7 as providing other unique learning opportu - Donald Baker 9 Dominic Baity 12 Emma Lhotka 7 nities. Alyssa Berry 9 Savanna Charette-Gonzales 12
White Earth RBC Approves the 2020 Forestry Harvest Plan White Earth Urban Office The White Earth RBC also passed a res - olution authorizing the White Earth Natural Resources Forestry program to move for - The White Earth Urban Office is located at 214 West Franklin ward with their 2020 Harvest plan. The Avenue in Minneapolis. main focus of the plan is to regenerate tribal forests through timber cutting, in order to The phone number is 612-813-1590 Ext. 6634 manage the forest resource in a healthy, pro - Office hours are weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ductive and sustainable condition. More 24 Anishinaabeg Today Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Request for Proposals
Business Development Services Proposals are sought from qualified, experienced individuals or organizations to provide non-legal business development services to prospective new, emerging, or expanding business - es within the White Earth Reservation. Service delivery is to be provided primarily in person primarily from tribal facilities at Mahnomen or White Earth, Minnesota with an emphasis upon meeting the entrepreneurial development needs for Native or other minority businesses or local business expan - sions for businesses that will employ Natives. These services are intended to be delivered at a moderate to high technical level based upon referral from tribal business development intake staff. Interested respondents are requested to send a Statement of Qualifications, resumes of key personnel and estimated hourly or daily consultant fees. These services are being provided via a state government grant available to be expended until the end of the fiscal year on June 30, 2020. Entreprenial Boot Camp Proposals are sought from qualified, experienced individuals or organizations to provide a one-day entrepreneurial boot camp at the White Earth Tribal and Community College, Mahnomen, Minnesota on a Saturday in May or June 2020. The purpose of the event is to provide non-legal business development services to prospective new, emerging, or expanding businesses within the White Earth Reservation with an emphasis upon meeting the entrepreneurial develop - ment needs for Native or other minority businesses or local business expansions for businesses that will employ Natives. Interested respondents are requested to send a Statement of Qualifications, resumes of key personnel and a detailed bud - get justification not to exceed $18,000. Cost of meals, refreshments, gratuities, and legal services are not eligible expenses. These services are being provided via a state gov - ernment grant available to be expended until the end of the fiscal year on June 30, 2020. School-Based Entrepreneurship Training Proposals are sought from qualified, experienced individuals or organizations to provide a middle/high school-based entre - preneurship curriculum – a multi-meeting entrepreneurial boot camp – at two or more middle/high schools serving the White Earth Reservation before the end of June 2020. The purpose of the funding is to provide business development training to prospective middle and high school students living within the White Earth Reservation with an emphasis upon stimulating and promoting Native or other minority devel - oped businesses. Interested respondents are requested to send a Statement of Qualifications, resumes of key personnel, out - line of proposed curriculum over multiple sessions, and a detailed budget justification not to exceed $18,000. There is an option for this to be a temporary grant-driven part-time tribal staff member. Cost of meals, refreshments, gratuities, and legal services are not eligible expenses. These services are being provided via a state government grant available to be expended until the end of the fiscal year on June 30, 2020. All proposals are to be addressed to Mike Triplett via email to [email protected], to be received by 4:30 p.m., Thursday, February 20, 2020 . Anishinaabeg Today Subscribers
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Howah Ads WE TRIBAL COURT WE TRIBAL COURT CHILDREN’S COURT CHILDREN’S COURT In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: In the Matter of the Welfare of the Child of: Happy 18th Birthday Beth Hill George Burnette Tiana Rae Bevins EMINDER Summons of Petition and Hearing Notice Summons of Petition and Hearing Notice R ! Court File Nos. CC19-0781-0783 Court File Nos. CC19-0781-0783 Howah Ads are $5 with a YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on January 30, YOU ARE HEREBY notified that on January 30, picture or $4 without. “We all 2020, a Transfer of Permanent Legal/Physical 2020, a Transfer of Permanent Legal/Physical love you Custody Petition was filed with the White Earth Tribal Custody Petition was filed with the White Earth All payments must very Court regarding your children in files CC19-0781- Tribal Court regarding your children in files CC19- be made in advance . much!” 0783. An Admit or Deny hearing on the matter is 0781-0783. An Admit or Deny hearing on the matter scheduled for March 19, 2020 at 10:00 A.M. You are is scheduled for March 19, 2020 at 10:00 A.M. You Your asked to contact White Earth Tribal Court are asked to contact White Earth Tribal Court No exceptions Administration located at the RTC in White Earth, Administration located at the RTC in White Earth, Family Minnesota at 218-983-4648. If you fail to appear for Minnesota at 218-983-4648. If you fail to appear for this hearing the Court may find you in default and this hearing the Court may find you in default and enter an order. enter an order.
Dated : January 30, 2020 Dated : January 30, 2020 Veronica Newcomer Veronica Newcomer Attorney for WE Indian Child Welfare Attorney for WE Indian Child Welfare
Fergus Falls 218-736-5673 *Licensed in Minnesota and White Earth Tribal Courts
The Naytahwaush Community Charter School Is hiring enthusiastic and responsible people to join our team for the following positions: • Special Education Paraprofessional • Regular Education Classroom Paraprofessional • Paraprofessional Substitutes All positions must be able to pass a background check and drug test. Interested people must work well with others, enjoy working with children, be positive, hard-working and reliable with good attendance. Applications can be found on our website at naytahwaush.org and can be returned to our secretary, Lori Lang, at loril@nay - tahwaush.org or picked up at our school and returned there.
Positions are open until filled. 26 Anishinaabeg Today Wednesday, February 5, 2020
In Need of ROOF CLEARING PROVIDERS NEEDED For the White Earth Elder Program Septic Pumping? If you need your septic system pumped call the White Earth Public Works Department at 218-983-3202.
Enrolled elder (55 years & older) - $25 Enrolled member (54 years & younger) - $80 Non-enrollee (any age) - $115 Non-White Earth Businesses - $120
(Must live on White Earth Reservation)
Attention New Homeowners & Existing Homeowners
NOTICE OF TOWNSHIP ELECTION If you are in need of a Well and Sewer System Township of SUGAR BUSH for your house/ trailer home you can contact Notice is Hereby Given, that a March Election will White Earth Water & Sewer for an application as NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING AND be held in Sugar Bush Township located at County we receive grants. ELECTION OF OFFICERS Hwy 34, Becker County on Tuesday, March 10, Notice is hereby given to the qualified voter(s) of Lake 2020 , for the purpose of electing candidates for the Requirements to qualify for the grants are: Grove Township, County of Mahnomen, State of following offices. Minnesota, that the Annual Election of Town Officers One (1) Supervisor - 3 Year Term * Tribal Enrolled member and Annual Town Meeting will be held on Tuesday, One (1) Treasurer - 2 Year Term March 10, 2020 . In case of inclement weather, the One (1) Clerk - 2 Tear Term * Reside on the White Earth Reservation meeting and election may be postponed until the third Tuesday in March 17,2020. Please note the polls will be open for voting from 5 * Show proof of land (Land Deed/Tribal Land p.m., and will remain open until 8 p.m. The Election Poll hours will be open from 5 p.m. – 8 agreement) and proof of homeownership p.m., at which time the voters will elect: To obtain an Absentee Ballot please contact the Becker County Auditor-Treasurer, 915 Lake * 18 years of age or older One Supervisor (3 year term) Avenue, Detroit Lakes, MN 56501 or 218-846-7311; One Clerk (2 year term) Monday through Friday 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. * Must have electricity, heat source, and interior The Annual Meeting will commence at 8 p.m. to con - Contact Janice Chilton, Township Clerk if you have plumbing to the home duct all necessary business. any questions regarding the upcoming March The Annual Election and Meeting will be held at the * Income verification (some existing home owners Township Election at 218-983-3485. following location: Waubun Fire Hall grants require) Lori Tibbetts Contact us at 218-983-3202 Town Clerk, Town of Lake Grove You can reach the AT at 218-983-3285 Ext. 5903 Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Anishinaabeg Today 27
Keenie’s Korner White Earth Home Health Blood Pressure & Blood Sugar Clinics Pickled Catfish or Northern Pappy’s Café (Waubun) Here is what you will need: February 5, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Quart jar, lid and ring Catfish or northern cleaned and ready to be pickled Shooting Star Casino (Mahnomen) Canning salt February 10 and 24, 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. White onion White vinegar Elbow Lake Center ½ cup sugar Februry 11, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m 1 Tbsp. canning salt 2 Tbsp. pickling spice White Earth RBC Headquarters February 18, 10 a.m. to noon Before pickling the catfish or northern soak the fish overnight in a bowl of cold water and canning salt Biimaadiiziiwiin (White Earth) strong enough to float an egg. Really, I want you to float February 18, 1 to 3 p.m. an egg in salt water, but make sure the egg is fresh as a spoiled egg will float without the salt. Food Distribution (East of Mahnomen) Start out with a clean quart jar. I like to boil the jar, February 19, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. lid and ring for a few minutes and set them on a clean towel, so they are cooled before filling White Earth Tribal & Community College The next day rinse the fish with cold water five to February 20, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. six times. Cut the fish up into bite size pieces. Fill a quart jar ¾ full of fish and fresh sliced white onions. Rice Lake Center Alternate the fish and onion. Fill the jar with white vine - February 24, 10 a.m. noon gar and add ½ cup of sugar, one tablespoon of canning Congregate Housing (White Earth) salt and two tablespoons of pickling spice. Put cover on February 25, 10 a.m. to noon Classified Ads jar. Shake the jar each day to get the sugar, salt and spices mixed. The pickled fish will be ready within two Pine Point Elder’s Center Tire King Motors : Cheapest tires around $20-$35. weeks. Keep in refrigerator. February 26, 10 a.m. to noon Enjoy!! Located in Ponsford. Contact Ivan Diaz at 612-600-9415.
I retired on Jan. 31, so this will be my last recipe. I Stump grinding : Call Gary Borgrud at 218-473-2563. want to thank each and every one that has read my arti - Storage units for rent : 8’-12’ storage units for rent; cost cles and recipes and had given me wonderful feedback. is $100 for 3 months, or $40 per month. Location: 2 miles It has been great to work with the RTC staff (and now west of Mahnomen on Hwy 200, Fire #1235. For more RBC staff) over the past 17 plus years. I will miss the information call Dan at 218-261-0674. clients that I have served over the years, but I am not going far and will see you around the communities on and off of the White Earth Reservation. Accepting Bids Love, hugs and God Bless!! The White Earth LTCC program is accepting bids for a Home Colleen Blattenbauer Modification to be done at an individual home located on the White Earth Food Distribution White Earth Reservation. Modifications must be performed Nutrition Educator by a Minnesota licensed contractor and per MN State Code. All contractors must pass both White Earth RTC background and drug testing. Modifications must follow State guidelines, including cost effectiveness. Payment will be made in full after final inspection, review of receipts, and approval of completed job. Bid specifications and locations are available at the White Earth Tribal Health Building, 26246 Crane Road, White Earth, MN 56591. All BIDS submitted MUST include a diagram/blue print of the proposed project and a list of materials, labor, equipment, etc. or they will be considered incomplete and will not be accepted. Due to client confiden - tiality the bid description must be picked up in person at the White Earth Tribal Health Building. We are open Monday- Friday 8 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Bids will be accepted until 4:30 p.m. on 2/28/20.
Lake Grove Township Monthly Meeting Notice Notice is hereby given to the citizens of Lake Grove Township, County of Mahnomen, State of Minnesota, that the monthly Township meeting will be held February 18, 2020 . The meeting will commence at 7:30 p.m. at the Jerome Wolbeck residence.
Lori Tibbetts Clerk,Town of Lake Grove 28 Anishinaabeg Today Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Where are they now?
Marilyn Ellis College transferred to : Haskell Indian Nations University Program Major : Environmental Science Expected graduating date : Spring 2022 Honors received at White Earth Tribal and Community College : President’s List part-time Fall 2017 and Spring 2018, Ojibwe Quiz Bowl 3rd place in Division 1 and 2 for Leech Lake Quiz Bowl in 2017, Ojibwe Quiz Bowl WETCC 2nd place in 2018. Extra-curricular activities at WETCC : AIHEC Club. How did attending WETCC help you with your career path - way : White Earth Tribal and Community College has helped me seek out opportunities that come my way and to take a chance. I was able to get a summer internship with the Niizho-gwayakochigewin program at Bemidji State University and it was a major confidence boost. I always thought I wasn’t smart, so I was happy another col - lege allowed me to intern with them for the summer. Attending WETCC I got to see passionate people who wanted to give their chil - dren or community something to look forward to even in the darkest of times. It was really inspiring to keep going. Were there any major obstacles that you overcame : D’s get degree’s but C’s transfer. I had to really stop myself from procrasti - Award winner Anne Ballard Champa with the fourth grade class at Ogema Elementary School. nating and get in all my late work since I was going to be a transfer student with already 60 credits. My acceptance was based on if I passed all my classes. That was a lot of pressure! Last year my mom Minnesota teacher receives 9th District VFW Award passed away and even though we weren’t close I still mourned her The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Medley song. During this song veterans in the audi - death. I basically threw myself into club activities because I had a Department of Minnesota 9th District recently ence stand and are recognized. Veterans are given a goal that I wanted to go to the AIHEC Student Conference. announced that Anne Ballard Champa, a music thank you card drawn by the students. What are you doing outside of college : I was planning on teacher at Ogema Elementary School was a local win - Members of the Ogema VFW Post 9880 and working again for the summer and I’m hoping I can get an internship ner of this year’s Smart/Maher VFW National Auxiliary are very proud of Anne and all of the work working with plants again or something closely related. There’s not Citizenship Education Teacher Award. she does for the Veterans Day program and throughout much I do outside of school. I either apply for scholarships, grants or Anne was selected from entries submitted to the year. Thus, we nominated Anne Ballard Champa internships available. During winter break I spent my time sewing VFW Posts across the 9th District VFW Department for the Smart/Maher VFW National Citizenship bags to help AIHEC club raise funds to go to Albuquerque, N.M., for and was nominated for this award by VFW Post 9880 Education Teacher Award. next years conference. and its Auxiliary in Ogema. The Teacher of the Year award program was Working with the fourth graders on her recent enacted in 1999 as a way to identify and recognize Veterans Day program, Anne explains the reason and America’s best educators who instill a sense of nation - meaning of Veterans Day. She has students memorize al pride in students by teaching citizenship education the words to the Star Spangled Banner, read Veterans topics regularly and promoting America’s history and Day poetry and sing the Salute to our Armed Forces traditions effectively.
Mind from Page 10
In the late 1700s Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish biolo - cover much by examining a person’s skull for intellect gist defines the different races totally based on obser - and personality, so IQ testing became popular. It is vation, using skin color, moral, and intellectual capac - still used, and the thing with this is that IQ is a mean - ities. He describes African as black, cunning, lazy, ingless number, scientifically speaking but it is widely lustful, and governed by caprice; Asians as sallow, accepted as science. There is no objective way to grave dignified, and ruled by opinion; Europeans as measure intelligence in the first place, it is impossible white, fickle, blue-eyed, gentle and governed by law; to ever validate such a test. (Degruy) Natives as reddish, obstinate, contented and regulated In 1916, Dr. Hrdlicka and Dr. Albert Jenks, by customs. Linnaeus wrote this with no scientific anthropologist, tested individual Indigenous people on proof and there was no testing to see if this was cor - the White Earth Reservation to distinguish between rect. He wrote this in a book as facts and truths and mixed-bloods and full-bloods. This consisted of others believe him. Other researchers used this to scratching of the skin, supposedly mixed bloods skin develop their own theories of race classifications. reacted more vividly, paying special attention to the (Degruy) nails, gums and teeth, measuring of the skull and other In the late 1700s to early 1800s, German scientist scientific testing for blood status. These Dr.’s all Johann Blumenbach had his classifications using skin lacked adequate education and training. color, hair, skull and facial characteristics, to group These beliefs and opinions are destroying our people into categories; Caucasian, Mongolian, world. Today, we see the ever-expanding impact of American, Ethiopian and Malayan races. The name these attitudes on the proliferation of toxic waste Caucasian comes from Mount Caucasus, the slope of dumps, poisoned water, massive oil spills, and global where the biblical ark came to rest after the flood. He warming. The prophecies talk about how the light- felt it was deemed appropriate for the original race of skinned people will be given a choice between two man, white in color and white as superior. These ideas paths. If they choose the right path, the 7th fire will continued to be referenced in scientific communities light the 8th fire and final fire of brotherhood and sis - without evidence to support their opinions. These terhood. If they choose the wrong path, remaining on Submitted photo types of opinions are the foundations of racism and the path of the mind, then the destruction they brought Marilyn Ellis, who recently graduated from White Earth Tribal and why the belief in racial superiority continues to exist. with them will come back to destroy them. Everyone Community College and is now attending Haskell Indian Nations (Degruy) should know the earth provides everything essential to University in Lawrence, Kansas. In the 1800s, Phrenology claimed you could dis - life. America has to wake up.