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PRESORTED Inside this Sota Sota Per Copy STANDARD U.S. POSTAGE Winter won’t let go of its grip! PAID Council reviews Tribe’s for-profit businesses ORTONVILLE, MN PERMIT NO. 3 Report to Akicita from VSO Geri Opsal Change service requested Special feature: VA-NADL housing opportunity Sota Iya Ye Yapi, P.O. Box 5, Wilmot, SD 57279 ¢ January 2019 Tribal Council proceedings Contents – Time-Dated News/Do Not Delay Sota mailed on Tuesday, Feb. 19th due to Treaty Day holiday Mailed at Ortonville, MN, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019 75 Reminder: Deadline for receiving copy is noon on Friday Publication of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribe of the Lake Traverse Reservation since 1968 Vol. 50 February - Anpetu Numpa Wi - “Moon of Two Days” - Anpetu Iyamni - February 20, 2019 No. 8 By CD Floro financial information; and Wade Sukut, who was hired Sota Editor last year as General Manager. Wade has nearly 40 years *UVA MEETING TUESDAY 2/19/2019 @ 5 uniform and their increased role in military operations, Financial data reported to Tribal Council last in the grocery produce business. PM: Please attend whether you are in any of the Honor it has never been more important that we ensure women Monday afternoon, February 11th, in an open session, Jerry Eastman, Chairman of the Board, spoke on guards or not as we will be discussing all upcoming veterans have a VA that is ready and able to care for was either incomplete or not current for the for-profit behalf of DNI. issues! them when they transition back to civilian life. If you enterprises operating under Dakota Nation Industries The current plan is that once the grocery store is *DAKOTA SIOUX CASINO 2/22/2019 @ have any questions or concerns please call the Women’s (DNI). running smoothly – Sonny told Council that Dakota 10 AM SHARP! VETERANS PLEASE ATTEND: Call Center at 1-855-829-6636 (VAWOMEN). They DNI was created in July 2015 when Tribal Council Crossing is “almost at the break-even point” – Wade As part of the overall scope of work for the Veterans are ready to respond to your concerns. The call is free, moved to separate Dakota Nation Development Corp. would transition back into the General Manager Housing Needs Survey, there will be a planning to and you can call as often as you like until you have the (DNDC) into two distinct entities – one non-profit, the position. conduct 2-hour veterans focus group for each of the answers to your questions. The Call Center is available other for-profit. DCA had been invited and District officers were three participating tribes in order to get a bit more Monday through Friday 8 AM - 10 PM ET, and on DNDC was designated as the Tribe’s non-profit present and active in the discussion. concern about veterans needs and concerns than just Saturdays from 8 AM - 6:30 PM ET. corporation and kept in place to take advantage of Chairwoman Robertson commented, “We can the answers to survey questions can provide. As Big *TAPS: To the family of Bob St John, US tax credit financing to assist in bringing much-needed focus on how we got to this point, but how do we move Water Consulting only gets one visit to South Dakota Army Vietnam Veteran who made his journey - our housing to the Lake Traverse Reservation. forward?” budgeted for this project, we would like to present the condolences are with you! To the family of Elwood DNI was established as a division of the Tribe to Despite expressing a strong desire to see the grocery primary tribe-specific results of our survey so it will be Grey Buffalo Sr., USAF Korean War Veteran who made “create a self-sustainable economy … by positioning store become profitable, Council was given a formidable held on 2/22/2019 @ 10 AM sharp in the old casino his journey on 2/16/2109 who served his God and his its businesses in the marketplace to sustain long-term set of deficiencies. area of DSC. We will serve buffalo chili, fry bread and Country with Pride! Salute to both of our Veterans! profitability.” These include: communications (especially between Wojapi for lunch. Please attend we need representation *GI Bill Info: 1-888-442-4551, ask any questions As the new Council heard last week, there are some management and department heads/employees); as the information shared will be important for each check eligibility! hiccups in that mission. accounting; ordering; tracking sales and inventory; and every one of us. Please mark your calendars! They *Crisis Line: 1-800-273-8255 Press 1 for Veterans. DNI CEO Josh Flute sat alongside the managers to employee training; advertising/promotions (especially will meet with these other tribes prior to coming to *Make the Connection: 1-888-823-7458 answer questions when asked. targeting Tribal members, encouraging them to shop at us. February 22 (Friday): Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate (inspiring stories about Veterans). Dakota Western Corporation was first, with their own store). (Sisseton) *SERVICE CONNECTION FUND ISSUES: Manager Robert Huff reporting. Following discussion, Council went into executive *CONTRACTOR TRAINING RAPID CITY, 1-800-827-1000. And although revenue has dipped, Robert had session. SD March 12, 2019: This is the 2nd annual training; Contact information: American Legion Post #314 some good news. Earlier in the day, there were monthly reports for mark your calendars! I will post details in the next Woodrow Wilson Honor Guard: Clayton Ellingson, While current numbers are not available – tracking January from Realty, Planning, Youth Department, article. Commander 1-605-924-1266 / Vietnam Veterans Kit invoices for the final months of 2018 is not finished – Head Start/Early Head Start, Enrollment, and the Dept. *Women Veterans: Ensuring women veterans Fox Society - Doc Wanna, Commander Phone:# 698- the Tribe’s bag manufacturing plant has been making of Transportation. receive veterans’ benefits and services that honor their 3299 / Desert Era Veterans - Jesse Chanku, Commander money. Afterwards, Tribal Council heard reports from brave military service is one of the VFW’s top priorities. 1-605-956-0197: Geri Opsal, TVSO 698-3388 or 268- Enough so that Dakota Western provided Dakota Nation Gaming Enterprises and the casinos. Currently, women comprise 15 percent of the active- 0502. GABE: 1-605-419-1007 - PLEASE SCHEDULE distribution to the seven Districts last year. The session lasted until 6:30 p.m. duty military and 18 percent of the Guard and Reserve. IN ADVANCE AT LEAST 5-7 DAYS AS HE MAY BE Dakota Western also had enough resources to help With the steady increase of women wearing our nation’s BOOKED. out Dakota Crossing when the grocery store needed it. DNI Board members Members of the Dakota Nation Industries Board That said, Dakota Western joins SWO Fuels Inc. administrative problems at IHS the Senate Indian Affairs Committee worst health care disparities of all the are: and Agency Village C-Store in being at least two years have resulted in tribal members with bipartisan support. We’re IHS regions, including the lowest Jerry Eastman, Chairman. behind in being audited. receiving misdiagnoses, waiting too optimistic we can bring it past the life expectancy, highest diabetes Garryl Rousseau Sr. Dakota Crossing has not yet had an audit long in emergency rooms, and in finish line this Congress. death rate, highest tuberculosis Christine Fineday. performed, nor has it produced comprehensive profit- some cases dying due to inadequate An assessment will allow us death rate and highest overall age Garrett Renville. and-loss statements since start-up. care. There is no excuse for hospitals to take a close look at the failures adjusted death rate. Milton “Nippy” Owen, Old Agency District James Bird, Manager, gave the report for SWO not to reach basic benchmarks for of IHS so we can work in close A recent report from the Wall Councilman, ex-officio. Fuels Inc.; while Sonny LeBlanc, Temporary General providing proper care and protect consultation with the tribes to Street Journal and FRONTLINE Lisa Jackson, Big Coulee District Councilwoman, Manager, gave the Dakota Crossing report. Sonny patients and tribal members. immediately solve these problems PBS shed light on the failure of the ex-officio. was joined by Kristi Kirk, bookkeeper, who presented IHS has a trust and treaty and begin providing the reliable care federal government to stop a child responsibility to provide proper our tribal members deserve. During predator—an IHS pediatrician— health care to tribal members and our research of the agency, we found in Indian Country. IHS moved it has failed in its duty. To help that despite a large user population this person from reservation to get the agency on the right path, I and an annual appropriation of reservation, covering up decades of By U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds Indian Health Service (IHS). and blatant corruption. In one recently reintroduced legislation that more than $5 billion, IHS does not sexual abuse of Native American (R-S.D.) For far too long, tribal members outrageous case, a woman gave birth would require the Department of have a funding formula. There are children in Pine Ridge and Feb. 15, 2019 who rely on IHS for health care to her baby on a bathroom floor Health and Human Services (HHS) also no qualitative measurements elsewhere. This is appalling. Failing Tribal members have been have faced unimaginable horrors. with no nurses or doctors around Secretary to contract an assessment to gauge quality of care. This to protect these vulnerable children in the midst of a government- Troubling reports from a number to help her. Many of these horror of IHS’ health care delivery and mismanagement has taken a toll on is unacceptable.