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

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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. induced health care crisis for of IHS facilities have found gross stories happen right here in South financial management processes. tribal members, especially those in Rounds: On IHS decades due to poor leadership mismanagement, dirty medical Dakota. This is the same bill I introduced the IHS’ Great Plains Region, which Continued on Page 2 and mismanagement at the equipment, broken sanitizers The financial, structural and last Congress, which passed out of includes our state. We have the

All of the students that attended the Afterschool at the Capitol program. Talking with Gov. Noem about importance of Afterschool. Explaining to Govenor Noem how the Tasiha game works. tudents from Toka Nuwan Wayawa STipi visited the state capitol in Pierre to attend the Afterschool at the Capitol event on Wednesday, February 6th. This event is held each year to share with the state government the importance of continuing to support and fund Afterschool programs across the state. Memory BlackThunder, LeiAuna Bugg, Vydalia Redday, and Isabelle Flute were chosen to represent the Enemy Swim Day School Out of School Time Program. The girls had the chance to visit with Govenor Kristi Noem, Secretary of Tribal Relations Dave Flute, Senator Red Dawn Foster, Senator Reynold Nesiba, Representative Shawn Bordeaux, Representative Tamara St. John, Representative Sharing information Michael Saba, and others. with Sioux Falls students. Group with SD Secretary of Tribal Relations Dave Flute. LeiAuna, Isabelle, Vy, and Memory with Rep Tamara St. John. Page 2 “Wo’okiye was’te qa wico zani o’wacin yuhapo” Sota Iya Ye Yapi - www.earthskyweb.com/sota.htm - Anpetu Iyamni - Feb. 20, 2019

doesn’t comment on pending unnecessary patient deaths and accountable for its failure to protect legislation. turning away gravely ill patients. Native children.” The Wall Street Journal – Feb. Health The agency’s current head, Rear The agency’s intractable problems However, Mr. Udall last year 15, 2019 – Sen. Mike Rounds, Service Adm. Michael Weahkee, ordered were highlighted in a Journal raised concerns about the cost of a South Dakota Republican, mishandled an external review of the case and investigation in 2017. the sort of broad assessment Mr. introduced legislation Thursday allegations said he implemented several policies In 2010, a Senate investigation Rounds is proposing. calling for a broad assessment of of sexual to help prevent any repeats of the showed sweeping deficiencies at the The bill would require the the U.S. Indian Health Service, assault by a episode. agency’s hospitals in the Dakotas Department of Health and Human following an investigation of the pediatrician One of the new policies states, and Nebraska, but when the senator Services to enlist a contractor to agency by The Wall Street Journal it employed according to the agency’s online who spurred the probe retired perform the review and would cost and the PBS series Frontline. for decades more than 18 years in prison. He manual, that “providers should months later, the effort sputtered. roughly $56 million, according to The bill calls for a sweeping and routinely hired physicians with faces another trial later this year under no circumstances engage in This time, Mr. Rounds, who Mr. Rounds. He said existing HHS evaluation of the agency’s troubled backgrounds to fill slots on allegations he abused Native sexual activity… with current or was elected in 2014, says it will be funding would pay for the cost. performance, including its long- at its remote hospitals on Native American boys while working former patients under the age of 18, different. “Come hell or high water, An HHS spokesman declined to term vacancies, how it allocates American reservations. at another hospital run by the whether such contact is voluntary or we’re going to get to the bottom of comment on pending legislation. money to its more than two dozen The doctor, Stanley Patrick agency—this time in Pine Ridge, forced.” what the problems are,” he said. On Wednesday, HHS Secretary hospitals and the competency of the Weber, was convicted of sexually S.D., the seat of one of the nation’s Adm. Weahkee briefed the “The committee is aggressively Alex Azar in a speech asked the agency’s leadership. assaulting two patients while poorest Indian reservations—after Senate Committee on Indian Affairs working with the Indian Health department’s watchdog arm to The Journal/Frontline working at a Montana IHS hospital officials transferred him there about the agency’s response to the Service to determine the full conduct a separate review of IHS investigation revealed the Indian and was sentenced in January to despite their concerns about his scandal at the committee’s request magnitude of this problem and policies for handling sexual-abuse conduct. Wednesday, Senate staff members what further action needs to allegations. The investigation brings “to said. immediately be taken,” said Sen. Mr. Rounds also said he close look into the operations, Rounds: On IHS light something that should never (Editor’s note: Rear Admiral John Hoeven (R., N.D.), chairman wanted to examine alternative ways Continued from Page 1 funding, quality of care and have happened in the first place,” Weahkee is the subject of an of the Indian Affairs committee, of of financing care on reservations management at the agency. My Mr. Rounds said in an interview interview in the documentary.) the scandal around Mr. Weber. He in South Dakota, such as grants to Following the news report, IHS assessment bill is a necessary Thursday. “It might very well help Mr. Rounds, a former two- called the legislation introduced by tribes that run their own clinics and HHS Secretary Azar announced first step toward making real us in getting some stuff done that term South Dakota governor, Mr. Rounds “a first step” toward hospitals, an arrangement that has an investigation into IHS’ policies changes so the IHS can deliver the we have been trying to do for the had previously called for a broad improving the agency’s performance. become more widespread in some regarding abuse allegations, which timely, adequate care the federal last three years,” he said. assessment of the agency in 2017, Sen. Tom Udall (D., N.M.), parts of the country. we welcome. However, IHS has government has a trust and treaty A spokeswoman for the and while the bill was approved vice chair of the Indian Affairs “I just don’t know that IHS is had problems with abuse and other obligation to provide to tribal Indian Health Service said, “We by the Indian affairs committee, it committee, said in a statement to ever going to be the right avenue atrocities for decades. The problems members. look forward to continuing to didn’t advance from there. the Journal that the fact that Mr. to provide quality health care,” Mr. are systemic. We need an assessment (Editor’s note: The work with tribal leadership and Lawmakers have grappled Weber “was allowed to remain a Rounds said. of the direct-service facilities within documentary is available online at community members, Congress intermittently for years with federal employee for so many years IHS as soon as possible. the following url – https://www.pbs. and other stakeholders to improve concerns that the IHS’s care has after IHS became aware of his IHS will continue to fail our org/wgbh/frontline/film/predator- the quality of care across Indian fallen short, with hospitals facing despicable conduct is intolerable,” tribal members unless we take a on-the-reservation/) health facilities.” She said the agency regulatory sanctions and causing and that the agency “must be held Sota Iya Ye Yapi - www.earthskyweb.com/sota.htm - Anpetu Iyamni, Feb. 20, 2019 “Wo’okiye was’te qa wico zani o’wacin yuhapo” Page 3 affect me as much.” He did not go to Pierre at that time. However, Dickman said that he intends to use his voice in the future and may travel to Pierre for testimony, if needed. “A lot of my friends that came out as trans are scared to do so, and if nobody is going to, then who else?’” he said. “I’m really into theatre and public speaking, so I figured that maybe this is something that I’d like to do.” Dickman said the sort of legislation being proposed in Pierre has detrimental consequences for the people it targets. “It greatly impacts transgender health — (that’s) the main thing I’d like to focus on,” he said. “A lot of us fear what society is trying to do to our community. It can be difficult to spread awareness to people. To bring this to publicity is a step in the right direction.” Sota guest editorial – Ask Questions Dickman is aware that many people may have questions about the community itself or what it means to be March through downtown Fargo puts focus transgender. on violence facing indigenous people “Since I came out, a lot of people seem to be unsure of whether I’m male or female,” he said. “I just encourage By Kim Hyatt people to ask questions as long as they aren’t being rude and they aren’t asking very private questions. It’s more than Fargo, ND – InForum – Feb. 14, 2019 – In the arms of her grandmother and holding her mother’s favorite OK to ask what my pronouns are, what I identify as or even my name.” flower, 17-month-old Haisley Jo was surrounded by demonstrators wearing red, a color associated with a movement He said that this education has a purpose. raising awareness of the violence facing indigenous people. “I try to help people understand the community more, because that will help prevent things such as (these Like the sunflower in her hands, others were displayed throughout a room in the Fargo Civic Center Thursday, bills),” he said. Feb. 14, in honor of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, who was killed in 2017 and Haisley Jo was cut from her Still, Dickman said he still hears derogatory language hurled at the community, and at himself. womb. “A lot of people that aren’t aware of the struggles of the LGBT community … will say very unacceptable While the grisly crime resulted in convictions, hundreds of indigenous families across the U.S. and Canada are comments to me or they’ll say slurs to my friends or myself — even just in the hallways,” he said. still searching for missing loved ones. He said there have been some instances of harassment in the past. “What we’re dealing with here is not new. It’s been going on for a long time,” said tribal activist Bob Shamek. “If I tend to be in larger groups with my friends, it’s not as bad,” he said. “I have been singled out by some of Shamek, of Bemidji, Minn., said he was conflicted about attending the march in Fargo when a similar one my peers.” was being held in Bemidji that day, just as there were marches in Minneapolis and throughout the country. But he Open Options traveled here to share his message to “stop this genocide.” Where the legislation currently under consideration in Pierre goes from here is uncertain. Of the red silhouette cutouts representing missing indigenous women, one was for Shamek’s niece, 21-year-old Skarin said that, in spite of the additional legislation, there may be a silver lining as half of it has already been Alyssa McLemore, who disappeared in 2009 from Kent, Wash. defeated. It’s widely reported that indigenous women are murdered at a rate more than 10 times the national average. “I think the encouraging thing is what we’ve seen is really a shift in the way people are discussing these issues,” But the U.S. lacks data on the scope of the problem. she said. “Some legislators are approaching them. The hearing on SB 49 really made me feel like legislators are “No more stolen sisters!” was shouted by more than 100 people marching in downtown Fargo, as well as starting to understand transgender people and the struggle that they face, and they’re really starting to say, ‘We’re “Support Savanna’s Act!” not voting for this bill because we know it hurts transgender kids, because we know it’s the wrong thing to do.’” The pending federal bill aims to combat violence against indigenous people by requiring better data collection As for Dickman, he said he’ll make a positive impact in any way he can. and reporting. Along with Savanna’s Act, there are statehouse bills in the Dakotas and Minnesota that would “I’m going to keep my options open for if any future bills try and pass and will try and prevent them,” he said. mandate law enforcement training and data collection on missing and murdered indigenous people. “I’m debating going into psychology as a major to help counsel those who are LGBT in the future.” On Thursday, LaFontaine-Greywind’s parents, Joe and Norberta, led the march carrying a banner with their (Editor’s note: Please let your state legislators know that you value those of our families and of our daughter’s face. Despite a stinging windchill and blowing snow, a crowd followed the family with signs of support. communities who identify themselves as LGBT and not with a political agenda – especially a partisan agenda.) “I’m here to support the LaFontaine-Greywind family,” said 27-year-old KalynnAnn Anderson, who had a red handprint across her face. “I’m just hoping people will open up their hearts more and see how tragic it is, the Native American genocide, and how big of a deal it actually is.” Melanie Moniz’s 4-year-old daughter, Angelina, wore a yellow poster board with the words “Am I Next?” “We must come together,” Moniz said. “Please, if you are sleeping, I ask you today wake up, wake up, my people .... When we leave this world, we leave this world to our children. If we cannot protect them, who will?” Moniz said two weeks after she moved to Fargo with her four children, they saw flashlights outside. “Right in the lot of our backyard, they were searching for our sister, Savanna Greywind. Right in our backyard.” The march was hosted by a local task force on missing and murdered indigenous people, which works to prevent further tragedies and build safer communities through education. Sota guest editorial – Another winter storm shut down schools and for decades, as this medical doctor was moved from one SD legislative bills aimed at transgender businesses again. IHS unit to another across the Great Plains. After a second round of winter storms a week ago, Senator Rounds refers to the documentary in a community stir fresh worries the region was pummeled again on Thursday, February news release elsewhere in this Sota. By Rob Nielsen 14th. Yes, Valentine’s Day! Here is a link to watch the video online: Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan – Feb. 15, 2019 – Yankton High School senior Oliver Dickman is, by all Conditions were pretty good at the start of the day https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/predator- means, a normal high school student. and children were bussed to the schools on time. on-the-reservation/ He enjoys theater and has played soccer in the past. Tribal employees came in to work. Many thanks are due to Mark Butterbrodt for Dickman is also beginning to speak out on a personal matter. Offices were open. continuing to call attention to what was going on at “I came out before my freshman year as transgender male to my family,” Dickman told the Press & Dakotan. But by the noon hour conditions had deteriorated. the Pine Ridge service unit. He did so even though it “Then I came out publicly the year after that. I used to do soccer and then I quit once I came out.” So much that schools were called off and Tribal offices damaged his career. Dickman is one of a number of transgender youths in the state of South Dakota who are facing a harsh truth, closed. We need more people like Mark to call attention to as legislation in Pierre currently singling them out in a manner that many find alarming. New snowfall combined with light fluffy snow wrongdoing – not only in IHS, but everywhere. During the 2019 legislative session, four total pieces of legislation have been proposed in the South Dakota accumulated on the ground, was whipped by strong They are called whistleblowers, and without their Legislature targeting transgender youth. According to one human rights official, this is more than any other state winds. willingness to speak out, little changes. this year. Gusts created whiteout conditions on and off ***** • Senate Bill (SB) 49 would have voided the South Dakota High School Activities Association’s policy throughout the area, and drifting made travel difficult – We share always in prayers for all the Oyate who on transgender student participation. The Senate Education Committee voted 5-2 to defer the bill to the 41st especially on secondary roads. leave us on their spiritual journeys, and for their loved legislative day, effectively killing it. Friday, fortunately, allowed for school and work as ones who remain. • House Bill (HB) 1225 is the House’s attempt at SB 49 and has been assigned for a hearing in the House usual – despite continued cold temperatures. Whenever there is a loss. Health and Human Services Committee next Tuesday. Not looking forward for more, although the Sometimes it hits close to home, and this week we • HB 1205 reads, “A parent has a right to refuse consent to health care treatment of a minor child if the forecast doesn’t rule it out! mourn the loss of Elwood Greybuffalo Sr. parent believes that the treatment would induce, confirm, or promote the child’s belief that the child’s sex or gender ***** Elwood was someone you couldn’t help but want identity is different from the child’s sex presented at birth. No public authority or official of this state may take We recommend readers who have internet to be around, to share space with … for his humor. He any adverse action against a parent for exercising this right.” The bill was heard in the House Health and Human access watch the Feb. 12th PBS Wall Street Journal usually excelled at bringing out a smile on faces near Services Committee, where it was deferred to the 41st legislative day. and FRONTLINE documentary “Predator on the Reservation.” On and off the rez • HB 1108 reads, “No instruction in gender dysphoria may be provided to any student in kindergarten Continued on Page 4 through grade seven in any public school in the state.” The bill passed the House 39-30 on Tuesday and has been It chronicles a legacy of abuse and cover-up lasting referred to the Senate State Affairs Committee. Libby Skarin, policy director for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of South Dakota described the Sota Iya Ye Yapi situation as concerning. “Having four bills this session that target transgender kids has been really difficult,” Skarin told the Press Official newspaper of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribe & Dakotan. “I see the impact of that reflected when I talk to parents of transgender kids and transgender kids Of the Lake Traverse Reservation themselves. Since 1968 She said the legislation has parents and transgender youth alike worried about the worst. Sota Iya Ye Yapi Staff Notice to subscribers: A handy clip-out form is available “When we see these bills filed, we get flooded with calls and we’re having conversations with people who say, C.D. Floro...... Managing Editor for your convenience. ‘These bills hurt me. I feel like I’m discriminated against,’” Skarin said. John Heminger...... 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Rate, per column inch...... $2.50 Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the “That was in 2016 when we saw HB 1008, which was the bathroom bill,” she said. “In that session, we also Notice to Contributors Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair saw a bill to change the Activities Association’s policy. That year, there were two bills and most of the energy was Submit news and advertising copy, as well as subscription use for purposes such as criticism, comment, focused on 1008, and that ultimately led to a veto. This year feels like really doubling down on that effort. Each of orders, to: Sota Iya Ye Yapi, P.O. Box 5, Wilmot, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and them take up committee time, testimony and time for public debate. In some regards, this year is worse than in the SD 57279. Deadline for receipt of all copy to be research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright past.” considered for publication is 12:00 noon on Friday statute that might otherwise be infringing. Dickman said the ACLU first reached out to him as the current legislative session moved along. prior to the week of publication (with the exception Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the “Right around when this bill was proposed, they were trying to find trans students that were willing to go to of letters to the editor/Oyate, or “opinion” letters, balance in favor of fair use. Pierre to talk about it,” he said. “At first, they asked me, but because I’d quit sports when I came out, it didn’t really which are to be submitted by 10:00 a.m. Thursday.) Page 4 “Wo’okiye was’te qa wico zani o’wacin yuhapo” Sota Iya Ye Yapi - www.earthskyweb.com/sota.htm - Anpetu Iyamni - Feb. 20, 2019

Eastman Hall. Crow, Zach Crow, Billy Morris, C J Williams and Honorary Casket Bearers will be: All his family Nathaniel Graves. and friends, All of Gordon Weston Post, Dawn Bucher, The Chilson Funeral Home in Winsted, Minnesota Delores Allen, Annie Gargia and Lavonna “Bunny” is serving the family. Online condolences may be made Allen. to www.chilsonfuneralhome.com Casket Bearers will be: Jason Stansbury, Darwin Drum group and traditional Services held for services will be from the On and off the rez as we get copies. Robert St. John Cook Family. Pianist is Billy Continued from Page 3 ***** Elder’s Meditation: Robert Edward St. Kohl. Military Rights will be him. “One of the essential characteristics we need to John, Napa-Sni-Duta “Not from the Woodrow Wilson His friendship has been a blessing, and we will miss learn as men is to be gentle, and to be gentle means to Afraid of Red,” age 72, of Keeble American Legion him. be serene, to enter meditation or a prayerful state in the Moorhead, MN journeyed Post #314. Years ago, we worked together on an economic morning and evening.” to the Spirit World on Pallbearers will be development project for the Tribe. It involved some –Larry P. Aitken, CHIPPEWA February 10, 2019. Brian Qualley, Lloyd travel and research. The most important talk we can do during any He was born on May LaBelle, Clinton Sederberg, Elwood had a keen mind, and it showed in his day, is to start the day with prayer and meditation. We 27, 1946 in Sisseton, SD, Aaron Schiembeck, work. need to ask the Creator to be in our lives. We ask Him the son of Edward St. John Jay Greybuffalo, Caleb It was fun to do, even though Council at that time to direct our thinking. We ask Him for the courage and and Celesta LaBlanc. Greybuffalo, Timothy did not take advantage of the plan. the power to be gentle. In the morning quiet time, we He attended grade Nowick Jr., William Varns. Honorary pallbearers will be Our prayers to Elwood’s family, and to all who make our request for guidance using our spiritual tools. school at the Stephan Indian Rosie Maskewit, Mitchell Maskewit, and all of Elwood’s have lost loved ones. We pray for the people and we pray for ourselves. In the School in Stephan, SD and friend, family, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. ***** evening we thank the Creator for the day, for the lessons Tekakwitha in Sisseton, SD. Interment will be at the Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Watch for results of last Saturday’s annual ice and for the opportunity to be of service to others. Then He graduated high school from North High in Veterans Cemetery, Sisseton, SD. fishing derby to come from Fish & Wildlife Manager we go to sleep. Minneapolis, MN. He then attended college at North The Cahill Funeral Chapel, Sisseton, SD is in Charlene Miller. ***** Dakota State University in the Veteran’s Outreach charge of funeral arrangements. This year’s derby was dedicated to the memory of Words to consider (or, perhaps not!): Program in Fargo, ND. Elwood Levi Greybuffalo, son of the late John Alvah Quinn Sr. A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a Robert worked as a Native American Outreach Greybuffalo and Goldie Varns was born June 29, 1933, Originally scheduled the previous weekend, one of man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. - Joseph Counselor at North High School in Minneapolis and at Whitestone Lake Sisseton, South Dakota. the winter storms caused a postponement, but Saturday, Roux the Gilfillin Center in Bemidji, MN. He attended country school for 4 years at February 16th turned out to be a pretty good day. Either the United States will destroy ignorance or He went on to work as a bus driver, secretary and Drywood Lake and then Sisseton public school Temperatures got up to 20 above, and the winds ignorance will destroy the United States. - W.E.B. Du teacher’s aide (all at one time!) at Ponemah Elementary graduating in 1951. He was united in holy matrimony were not a problem. Bois, Speech at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, August 1906 School in Ponemah, MN. to Sharon Curry July 1, 1961. This union was blessed There was a lot of snow on South Buffalo Lake, We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to Robert then worked as a Dietician at the VA with five children. but early reports are that the event went on without others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. Medical Center in Fargo, ND where he retired in 2015. Elwood also started the first Native American Boy problems and the turnout was great. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680) He enlisted in the United States Army on January Scouts in Sisseton. ***** A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such 18, 1968 and served with the 82nd Airborne Division On Oct. 29, 1956 Elwood joined the Air Force Tiospa Zina held parents night this past week for a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - with specialized Pathfinder, LRRP training. and was based in Holloman AFB, New Mexico. There its Wambdi basketball players. Ludwig Erhard (1897 - 1977) He is survived by his wife Andrea Sigana-St. John; he worked as a crew chief working on all types of air We hope to bring photo highlights by John Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right children “Chaske” Andrew Lee St. John, Hupan Edith craft’s and was honorably discharged Oct. 28, 1960. Heminger Photography in the next issue. person. - Ethel Mumford St. John and Owi-dusna-waste-win Esther St. John; six After his discharge, he worked as a social worker Watch for them! We are here and it is now. Further than that all grandchildren; step-children Richard L. Defoe Jr. and and worked in child protection he retired from as the Also, please note that our Sota picture picks of the human knowledge is moonshine. - H. L. Mencken Brooke L. Defoe; brothers Phillip St. John, Rodney St. planning director with the Sisseton-Wapheton Oyate week are in full color online as well as in saved albums. (1880 - 1956) John, Theodore St. John, Kenneth St. John, Roger St. where he full-filled his career. He maintained multiple Check them out at … ***** John and Jack Jeffers; many other relatives and friends. positions throughout the tribe in his retirement. http://www.earthskyweb.com/news.htm The Sota is always looking for news of the Oyate. Preceded in death by his father Edward Moses St. When he was younger his hobbies were being a ***** If you have information and/or photos of John; his mother Celesta La Blanc-St. John; maternal pitcher for the American Legion of Sisseton; he also Tiospa Zina Tribal School has a new website! newsworthy happenings in your family or community, grandmother Grace Wanna; maternal grandfather Peter played basketball with the FFA when he attended Here is the url: please consider sharing with your Sota staff. La Blanc; paternal grandmother Elizabeth Nelson; Sisseton High School. He attended college where he https://www.tzts.us/o/tzts If you are writing an opinion letter, please note paternal grandfather Moses St. John; brothers Timothy received his BA in Sociology and Political Science from If you don’t want to type in this link, just click on that it must be signed and the author’s name will appear St. John, Edward St. John, Sanford Jeffers, Marlin the University of Minnesota in the year 1985. One of the graphic link on our Sota website. in print. Letters must not contain libel and must be Smith and Jeff Jeffers; sisters Louise St. John, Patricia St. his greatest life accomplishments was helping bring There is also an app for keeping updated on school brief, ideally 500 words or less. Letters may be edited John; Yvonne St. John and Jennifer St. John; daughter collegiate education to the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate. news and events on your smartphone and/or computer. for content. Omissions will be identified with periods Opoganwin Celeste St. John; granddaughter Siha-duta- As a result of his generous spirit and pleasant Just check out the TZ App on your device’s App . . . editor’s explanations will be provided in [brackets]. wiin St. John and step-son O’oschiicha Defoe. personality, he was loved by many. Store. Readers who want access to unedited versions will need Funeral services for Robert St. John were held He quietly departed this life in his home ***** to contact the authors. Friday morning, February 15, 2019 at the SWO surrounded by loved ones. We have completed our series of articles on the Earlier receipt of copy is always appreciated. So, community center in Agency Village. He was preceded in death by his Father John Grey available Winter 2018 general council reports, with the if you are aware of a date or message that needs to be Spiritual leaders were Arnold Williams and Tom Buffalo, mother Goldie Ella Varns, daughter Anna seventh one. publicized or advertised, please let us know about it in Bullhead. Dakota Nation was the Drum Group. Marie Greybuffalo, a baby sister and his brothers Duane Hopefully, the effort helped bring useful advance of the weekly deadline. Interment at St. Matthew’s Cemetery in Veblen, John Greybuffalo, Henry Orville Greybuffalo great information to the Oyate about operation of their Tribal The preferred way to submit typed articles and ads, SD. grand-daughter Mayah Rae Greybuffalo. programs. art and photos, is by e-mail. All night wakes were held Wednesday and His beautiful life will forever be cherished in The Sota will share program reports throughout the The editor can be reached at the following e-mail Thursday at the community center. the lives of his wife Sharon Greybuffalo; children: year, as they become available from programs and from address: Honorary casket bearers were Nettie Kirk, Stacy Alice Greybuffalo, Elwood Greybuffalo Jr., Leslie Tribal Council meetings. [email protected] Alan Wanna, Perry Lufkins, Tom Bullhead, Doug (Carol) Greybuffalo both of Sioux Fall, SD, Ella Last week, Council received January reports from For more information, leave a message on the Sota Herman, Duane Wanna, Terry and Marcy Fiddler and Mae Greybuffalo of Rosholt, SD, Rhonda (Clinton) Realty, Planning, Head Start, Youth, and Department of production office voicemail (605) 938-4452, or send a Family, Joe Running Bear Family, The Sandman Veteran Sederberg of South Shore, SD; twelve grandchildren; Transportation, and we hope to bring highlights as soon fax to the 24-hour dedicated line (605) 938-4676. Honor Guard, Willard Yellow Bird and the entire twenty-five great-grandchildren; sisters, Lorraine Yellow Bird Family, Francis Mazawasicuna Family, (Darryl) Rousseau of Sisseton, SD, Betty Lou Terry and Adeline Dixon and Family, Lee and Nelda Greybuffalo of Deer Creek, Minnesota; Goodman Family, Bob Jenkins, Jimmy Phillbrick, For Elwood’s obituary and on-line registry, please visit Robert Grant, Donald “Jughead” Hill, Oliver Gourd, www.cahillfuneralchapel.com The South Dakota Symphony Center. The concert will be followed by Larry and Charlene Cozad, Louis and Maybelle Cozad, Funeral for David Orchestra and the Sisseton Arts The theme of the concert, a community meal in the Sisseton Greg and Janet Bass, Ronald Goodeagle Sr. and Family, Council invite the community to Wisdom and Leadership, will be Middle School Multi-Purpose Odell St. John and Family, Jim St. John and Family, Williams attend a concert aimed at creating portrayed through a song cycle that Room. Kelly St. John and Family, Cody Seaboy, Michael David Lawrence cultural understanding through features four great warriors: Red The concert and meal are free Fairbanks, Charging Brothers, all his friends and Williams, age 71, of music on Sunday, March 10, at 3:00 Cloud, Two Strike, Sitting Bull, and and open to the public. relatives across the nation not mentioned here. Flandreau, South Dakota, p.m. at the Sisseton Performing Arts Crazy Horse. Casket Bearers were Jameson Cozad, Anthony St. journeyed to the Spirit John, Peter Bass, Brandon St. John, Sequoyah St. John, World on Wednesday, Kyle Jeffers, Andrew St. John-Jeffers, Carlos Casarez, February 13, 2019 at Julio Casarez and Robert White Mountain. Sanford Hospital in Sioux Chilson Funeral Home, Winsted, MN served Falls, South Dakota. the family. On-line condolences can be made at www. He was born on chilsonfuneralhome.com December 14, 1947 in Wagner, South Dakota the Services Monday for son of Leonard Stansbury Kim Lawrence and Vivian M. Williams. The Catholic Community Kim Lawrence, 72, of He grew up in Sioux Falls, Center (office for St. Peter’s and St. Peever, SD passed away on South Dakota and attended Sioux Falls Public School. Kateri Tekakwitha Churches) has Sunday, February 10, 2019 He honorably served his Country in the United moved to its new office. at her home. States Army serving in Vietnam from 1967-1969. The office is now located in Funeral service will be He moved to Flandreau, South Dakota in 1979. St. Peter’s new building at 525 E. Monday, February 18, 2019 He was formerly employed as a custodian at Chestnut St., Sisseton. at 2:00 p.m. at the Peever The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe. He worked a good The phone numbers have Community Center in portion of his life for FSST. remained the same. Peever, SD. David played softball and was a fan of football. He Visitation was Sunday lived for his grandkids! He loved to travel with Wacipi’s evening at the Peever Community Center. . Cahill Funeral Chapel, Sisseton, is in charge of Survived by his wife: Gina Williams; sons: Carlton Dedication of new arrangements. Williams and William “Billy” Morris; daughters: Cyndi Williams, Samantha Williams and Candice Lindgren; Services for Elwood many grandchildren and great grandchildren; brothers: St. Peter’s Hall Russell, Rick and Leonard Stansbury and by a sister: Friday, Feb. 22, 2019 Greybuffalo Sr. Tina M. Crow (Stansbury); other relatives and friends. Elwood Greybuffalo, 85, of Rosholt, SD passed Preceded in death by a daughter Kristi Williams, away on February 14, 2019 at his home. his parents Leonard & Vivian Stansbury and by a Dedication ceremonies for the new St. Peter’s Hall/Catholic Community Office/Religious Funeral service will be Monday, February 18, 2019 brother Dennis Stansbury. Education Annex will be held on Friday, Feb. 22. at 1:00 PM at the SWO community center in Agency Funeral services for David Williams will be held Bishop Paul Swain will celebrate Mass at St. Peter’s Church (525 E. Chestnut St.) at 5:30 p.m. Village, SD. on Monday, February 18, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. at the Following the Mass there will be a procession to the hall where Bishop Swain will bless the new A family wake service was held Saturday evening, Eastman Hall in Flandreau, South Dakota. Officiating building and an all-night wake Sunday, at the community center. will be Joe Circle Bear, J C Crawford and CRE, Gerald An Open House with hors d’oevres and beverages will follow the blessing. Officiating are Pastor Morgan Redday, Pastor Heminger Jr. The public is welcome to attend. Nippy Owen, and Lay Reader Michael LaFontaine. An all-night wake was held on Sunday at the Sota Iya Ye Yapi - www.earthskyweb.com/sota.htm - Anpetu Iyamni, Feb. 20, 2019 “Wo’okiye was’te qa wico zani o’wacin yuhapo” Page 5

By Seth Tupper October showing she is between tweeting and using 9/11 as a Rapid City Journal – Feb. 12, 1/64th and 1/1,024th Native political pun,” Semans said. 2019 – A controversial tweet by American. Congress passed a resolution in President Donald Trump could be a Trump’s tweet referencing 1990 expressing “deep regret” about catalyst to rescind medals that were Wounded Knee has been widely the massacre, but multiple efforts awarded for the 1890 Wounded criticized. Sen. Mike Rounds, to rescind the medals awarded to Knee Massacre, a South Dakota R-S.D., tweeted on Jan. 15, “The soldiers who participated in the organization hopes. Wounded Knee Massacre was massacre have failed. Four Directions Inc. sent one of the darkest moments in The massacre happened on letters last week to Trump and other our history. It should never be Dec. 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee federal officials. The letters ask for used as a punchline.” Rounds’ Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian the removal of 20 medals of honor fellow Republican South Dakota Reservation. A force of 490 U.S. that were awarded to soldiers who congressional delegates, Sen. John soldiers — armed with four rapid- participated in the massacre, which Thune and Rep. Dusty Johnson, fire, wheeled artillery guns — was killed perhaps 250 or more Native also criticized the Trump tweet. attempting to disarm a camp of Americans, including many women Thune and Rounds were about 370 Lakota Sioux Native and children. among the recipients of last week’s Americans when a shot rang out and Specifically, Four Directions is letters from Four Directions. chaotic firing ensued. asking for language rescinding the Monday, in response to Journal A total of 31 soldiers died medals to be included in the next questions, spokespeople for the during the massacre or from National Defense Authorization Act two senators reiterated their earlier wounds afterward, compared to passed by Congress. criticisms of Trump’s tweet but took the estimated 250 or more Native The letters are signed by O.J. no position on the Four Directions American deaths. Some of the Semans, a Rosebud Sioux Tribe request, saying they are still Native American dead were left on member who serves as co-executive reviewing it. the frozen massacre grounds for director of Four Directions with Johnson, after being shown several days before a military-led his wife, Barb. Four Directions the Four Directions letters by the burial party dumped the bodies describes itself as a 501(c)4 Journal, replied with a written into a mass grave. Today, that grave organization, a type of tax-exempt statement. is marked by a small, weathered entity that is allowed to engage in “Wounded Knee left behind monument that was erected in political activities. one the darkest stains in our 1903. “No earthly power can bring nation’s history,” Johnson said. “If According to historical sources, my ancestors back to life,” says medals were awarded to soldiers the Army awarded 20 medals of one of the letters signed by Seman. who massacred noncombatants honor to soldiers who participated “But the United States can stop at Wounded Knee, that was a in the massacre, varying in rank honoring the men who butchered grave mistake. We need to have a from privates and a musician to those defenseless Lakota women and conversation about how we can lieutenants. The citations ranged children in cold blood.” rectify that.” from the ultra-brief — including Trump referenced the Meanwhile, O.J. Semans one for unspecified “bravery” — to Wounded Knee massacre in a Jan. confirmed by phone Monday that the more descriptive, including 13 tweet. The tweet mocked a video Trump’s tweet was the spark that citations for assisting fallen shared earlier by Sen. Elizabeth motivated the Four Directions comrades, dislodging Native Warren, D-Mass., who is seeking letters. Americans from a ravine, and killing the 2020 Democratic nomination “What he’s doing and how a “hostile Indian” at close quarters. for president. it affects us is like if he started Trump’s tweet said, “If Elizabeth Warren, often referred by me as Pocahontas, did this By Rep. Dusty Johnson I’m eager to share where my commercial from Bighorn or February 15, 2019 knowledge falls short and Wounded Knee instead of her I came to Congress to solve how learning from others can kitchen, with her husband dressed real issues for South Dakotans. help fill in those gaps. The a primary concern, which is all in full Indian garb, it would have This office has awarded me the relationships I’m building with been a smash!” opportunity to meet and engage Indian Country emphasizes the too common throughout South Dakota. Economies can only grow Trump has repeatedly chided with constituents that perhaps I importance of jointly recognizing Warren for her claim to Native would not have otherwise had the our complicated history. We and develop if our communities, both on and off tribal lands, American ancestry, especially since opportunity to know. Every meeting must work together through our she released DNA test results in that comes through my door is differences to make South Dakota, have reliable roads, bridges and important, but I am particularly and our country, better for all telecommunications systems. We impressed with the purpose of South people. can do better. Dakota’s tribal members. Earlier this week, I was made As one of 435 members Since being sworn in on aware that U.S. soldiers from the of Congress, I know I can’t fix January 3, I’ve had the privilege and Wounded Knee Massacre received everything. Here’s what I do know – honor of meeting with Rosebud Congressional Medals of Honor. I’ll continue to build a meaningful Sioux President Rodney Bordeaux, This is yet another dark stain on our and productive relationship with Feb. 22-24, 2019 Oglala Sioux President Julian Bear nation’s past. The time has come tribal members and tribal leadership throughout South Dakota. Joy Ranch Runner and Cheyenne River Sioux for all of us to learn more about Call us: Chairman Harold Frazier. Dozens what happened, come to grips with 1.605.880.6201 of tribal program administrators, that truth and get a better sense of Find us: tribal educators and tribal citizens what should have happened in the 525 South Lake Drive have also traveled to Washington aftermath and what should be done February 2019 Watertown, SD 57201 to discuss education and healthcare going forward. Among the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh is the equality shortfalls and opportunities. Despite the tragedies of our Registration is open for the 3rd Annual Hope In of women and men. The world of humanity God Winter Retreat @ Joy Ranch for Women & Meeting with tribal leaders almost past, tribal members are resilient and has two wings - one is women and the other men. daily leaves me with even more determined. They are not interested Teen Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse & Sexual Not until both wings are equally developed Assault. Lodging & Meals are provided: FREE questions and the urge to research in the dependency the federal can the bird fly. Should one wing to women and teen survivors. Register here: solutions. If one thing is clear, it’s government tends to give. Instead, remain weak, flight is impossible. \https://www.divineprovidencesd.com/hig- this – I’ve got a lot to learn. they want an opportunity to build (Bahá’í writings) I’ve certainly never pretended the capacity needed to create jobs offerings to know everything. If anything, and prosperity. Infrastructure is Road to Recovery For anyone that has hurts, habits, or unmanageable life issues from substance or alcohol abuse, the Road to Recovery support group is for you. As we make our Journey on the Road to Recovery there are Eight principles based on the Beatitudes 12 Steps and their biblical teaching that will give you the tools to help you live a life free from addiction. Place: Family Life Church, 404 West Hickory (across from the Dollar Store) On Wednesday(s) from 6:30 – 7:30 pm. Supper at 6:00pm Adults $3.00, Children eat free. For more information call: Pastor Vern Donnell 605-698-7631 or Kristi Richards 605-237-0168, 605-698-3941 or 605-742- 3648 Page 6 “Wo’okiye was’te qa wico zani o’wacin yuhapo” Sota Iya Ye Yapi - www.earthskyweb.com/sota.htm - Anpetu Iyamni - Feb. 20, 2019 Experience of Aging and Mortality Sonia J. Magat D.O., Ph.D. is more life sustaining than apathy and engagement Life expectancy in the United States continue to more than indifference according to the authors. We increase from the current age of 79 years due largely to learn that keeping active and regular exercise have scientific advances in genetics and technology as well as psychological and physical benefits. Many people are the greater understanding of many diseases and illnesses, changing their lifestyles and eating healthy. including Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases which affect However, even with people adapting lifestyle the senior population. changes and living healthy lives, there are inevitable The experiences of aging and dying are now changes such as increase of frailty and disease risk treated as medical and their management are left to together with decline in cognitive abilities. We can delay the healthcare professionals (Atul Gawande in “Being the chances of their occurrence, but sooner or later, a Mortal”, 2014). Hospitals and Nursing Homes are person’s independence will become impossible as well as delegated with the routine procedures aiming to save the loss of active engagement. At this point the care of and extend lives with whatever means available. Most of the individual is shifted to hospitals and nursing homes. these procedures are done without consideration of the Some individuals will have a choice to sacrifice safety individual person’s goal of what matters most in his life and survival for something that matters to them. Simply and how to make his life worth living in spite of frailty, existing is meaningless. serious illness and infirmity. It is possible to seek for a better life in the face of Many medical providers are not prepared to physical deterioration (Atul Gawande, Being Mortal, address the subject of death with their patients. A 2014). It is important for seniors to find choices of physician’s identity is now defined by their competence alternative places to live, which can address their in the use of modern technology to solve and fix needs and interests before frailty sets in. They need to problems, not considering whether procedure is recognize their priorities other than being safe and living unnecessary or may cause extraordinary suffering, as longer. Autonomy is the “freedom to be the authors of long as there is a small chance of benefit. our lives” according to Dr. Atul Gawande. We need to Are there other approaches to treating health maintain some “integrity in our lives before we become decline and death? How should people live successfully disconnected from whom we want to be”. It is advised to the very end of their lives? to have a will and have conversations with our family There are numerous articles and books on and providers to let them know whether to avoid suggestions to live longer meaningful lives. Even people prolonging suffering or shortening a valued life. When with positive gene variants linked to certain diseases the time comes, let the physicians, palliative healthcare are able to help decrease the likelihood or prolong the or hospice teams understand that our goal is to have a development of the illness by just practicing positive life as rich and meaningful to the very end. attitudes. Having strong friendships and social networks (Editor’s note: We appreciate Dr. Magat’s aside from their families contribute to better health continued valuable insights and input to the Sota after and happiness (Jeffrey Kluger and Alexandra Sifferlin, her retirement from the Early Childhood Intervention TIME, February 26, 2018). Likewise, having passion Program and move to Washington state.) Prairie Doc® Perspectives –

By Richard P. Holm, MD practicing internal medicine told me curing what ails you. During the People are drawn to sail in I had better do my favorite things two-week-time on our sailboat, I the British Virgin Islands (BVI) for while I can. This time, I went sailing was always moving: clambering different reasons. Some go there to for the love of family and friends to tighten some line, drop a sail, prove to themselves, or to someone and for the sense of eternity that the lower the dinghy, or maneuver the else, that they have the moxie, sea provides. I also went to heal. I boat to anchor. I was moving even sailing knowledge and finesse to sail hoped that the warmth, salty sea, as I sat there. For two weeks every on the ocean. Others go vertebra, joint, ligament and to find excitement, beauty, muscle danced with a shifting, peace, or just to escape the rocking, repositioning boat. I Sioux Falls, SD – Feb. 12, in Sisseton and St. James. cold of a northern winter. didn’t realize the extent of the 2019 – Lewis Drug announces Lewis Drug is also opening a When I started traveling motion until I sat still for an that they have purchased pharmacy new location in Aberdeen, SD down from South Dakota hour in the airport on the way assets, including prescription files where Shopko Stores ceased its in the late ‘80s, I did so home. After this short period and records, from Shopko Stores pharmacy operations in January. CEO. for a number of those of immobility, when rising in the following six communities: “These transactions demonstrate our Once the new locations are purposes. This year, I went to buy a final island chicken Madison, Mitchell and Sisseton, continued commitment to serving opened, Lewis Drug will operate for different reasons. roti, I noticed that I was “old nurturing nature of wind, fun of the SD; Luverne and St. James, MN our patients in the Tri-State area. As 58 pharmacies in South Dakota, More than two years ago, I was man” stiff again. The rigidity had islands and spiritual connectedness and Ida Grove, IA. we celebrate our seventy-sixth year Minnesota and Iowa. diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, magically been gone for two weeks! would provide a mending milieu for Lewis Drug currently operates in business, I’m proud to say that and six months ago the cancer had Boat living was a healing potion, a me. in four of the communities and is in Pharmacy is still our cornestone” spread to one spot in the liver. After lotion of motion, which provided I was feeling pretty frail in the the process of opening new locations said Mark Griffin, President and another four months of chemo, a potent remedy and recuperation the cancer surgeon cut out that weeks leading up to the trip but for this guy in need of generous spot with the outside chance he realized anew an oft quoted wisdom: portions of both. might “get it all.” My 40 years of “Motion of the ocean is lotion” for I believe embracing motion

Washington, DC – Feb. 14, deserve. I look forward to working IHS direct-care facilities. Rounds 2019 – U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds with my colleagues to move it across first requested an assessment of IHS (R-S.D.) today reintroduced the the finish line this Congress.” in 2016. He introduced legislation Assessment of the Indian Health Rounds’ legislation calls for for an assessment of IHS in 2017. Service Act of 2019. He previously the Secretary of the Department of South Dakota’s tribal chairmen have introduced this legislation during Health and Human Services (HHS) shown continued support for this the 115th Congress, where it to contract an assessment of IHS’s measure. advanced out of the Senate Indian health care delivery systems and Affairs Committee with bipartisan financial management processes at support. “Tribal members in South Dakota and across the Great Plains Region are in the midst of a health care crisis,” said Rounds. “For far too long, tribal members who rely on Indian Health Service (IHS) for health care have faced unimaginable horrors. The financial, structural and administrative problems at IHS have resulted in tribal members receiving misdiagnoses, waiting too long in emergency rooms, and in some cases dying due to inadequate care. IHS has a trust and treaty responsibility to provide proper health care to tribal members and it has failed in its duty. An assessment will allow us to take a close look at the failures of the IHS so that we can work in close consultation with the tribes to immediately solve these problems and begin providing the reliable, adequate care our tribal members Sota Iya Ye Yapi - www.earthskyweb.com/sota.htm - Anpetu Iyamni, Feb. 20, 2019 “Wo’okiye was’te qa wico zani o’wacin yuhapo” Page 7

Han, Shobi emakiyapeye. Mazahdahdawin miye. Cante napeciyuzapi ye. Sissetowan ed wati ye. Heipa hematahan. He nana apekta. Hello they call me Shobi, I am Iron Jingle Woman, I greet you with a happy heart, I live in Sisseton, I come from Heipa. That is all I have to say.

The Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate was awarded a five-year Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) federal grant. This grant allows the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate to provide Mental Health Services and Substance Use Treatment for youth and transitional youth age 12- 25 years old.

I really do appreciate all of the referrals we have received this far. Behavioral Health Department is pleased to have served our Tribal youth and we look forward to continue serving the Oyate.

I am the direct day-to-day point of contact for these operations regarding our SWO Tribal Youth. If you or your youth member are in need of chemical dependency and mental health services please call us at 605-698-2106. The services that we ensure to provide will be starting January 1st, 2019. However, all applications will be taken at this time and placements for treatment, pre-treatment and continuing care will be given. The referral process is as followed:

*Pre-treatment (SWO-Behavioral Health) *In-patient care (e.g. Dakotah Pride, Chief Gull, etc.) *Outpatient care (SWO- Behavioral Health-Youth and Family TREE) *Individual counseling and or other appointments (e.g, SWO Behavioral Health, Human Service Agency, Indian Health Services, etc.) *Continuing Care services

We are located at the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Behavioral Health Department (this is right behind the Veterans Memorial Youth Center in Agency Village). Here is a list of services the Youth and Family TREE provides:

*Chemical Dependency Evaluations for adolescence (age 12-17) and transitional aged youth (age 18-25) *Pre-treatment services (Group therapy) *Outpatient (Non-residential) Substance Abuse Treatment *Referrals to inpatient treatment *Continuing care services *Court ordered treatment *Youth involved in tribal probation and or drug court *Prevention services (Substance use and mental health education) *School-Based substance use treatment *Tobacco prevention and intervention *Case management and treatment for pregnant mothers with Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) and change is important as we grow (frozen) selves” too early. p.m. central on SDPTV and follow *Family Therapy older, keeping us from prematurely Motion is the lotion. the Prairie Doc® on Facebook and aging, from congealing. Author Gail ***** YouTube for free and easy access to *Cultural Based Treatment Godwin says a willingness to change Watch On Call with the the entire Prairie Doc® library. helps us from turning into our “final Prairie Doc® most Thursdays at 7 If you have any questions regarding our services, please do not hesitate to call. Thank you. Sincerely, Shobi Zetina, MSW, ACT Project Director Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Behavioral Health Provides long-term but not automatically, enacted each budget-neutral and will provide Youth and Family TREE certainty for America’s year and is already anticipated in disabled veterans additional the Congressional Budget Office’s certainty from year to year. disabled heroes baseline, which means this bill is Washington, DC – Feb. 7, 2019 – U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) today reintroduced the Veterans’ Disability Compensation Automatic Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) Act, bipartisan legislation that would require the federal government to provide disabled veterans with an automatic COLA in years when there is an increase in benefits payable under title II of the Social Security Act, which sets the requirements for disability insurance benefits. “We owe our veterans a debt of gratitude, and providing them with this additional certainty is the least we can do,” said Thune. “Every year Congress has to pass legislation to make sure disabled veterans receive a COLA. Enacting this bill would remove the need for this annual exercise and insulate this important benefit from any potential congressional inaction. It would also allow Congress and Veterans Service Organizations to focus their efforts on other needed reforms to deliver for our veterans.” “The benefits of veterans who are disabled should not have to fly with the political winds,” said Schatz. “Our bill keeps these veterans from waiting in suspense, giving them the certainty of knowing their benefits will stay current with the cost of living.” The veterans’ COLA is usually, Page 8 “Wo’okiye was’te qa wico zani o’wacin yuhapo” Sota Iya Ye Yapi - www.earthskyweb.com/sota.htm - Anpetu Iyamni - Feb. 20, 2019

all this number to report meth dealers Cor meth users to the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Tribal Law Enforcement Officials. You can leave information anonymously. Sota Iya Ye Yapi - www.earthskyweb.com/sota.htm - Anpetu Iyamni, Feb. 20, 2019 “Wo’okiye was’te qa wico zani o’wacin yuhapo” Page 9

Tiospa Zina Tribal School Has a brand new website!

Watertown Public Opinion in the Class B polls, joining third- received votes in the class. – Feb. 11, 2019 – Two area boys ranked Clark-Willow Lake in the On the girls side, De Smet basketball teams have joined the rankings. The Cyclones received five remains at No. 3 in the Class B South Dakota media prep polls for first-place votes. rankings. the first time this season. In Class A, the Tiospa Zina (South Dakota Media Prep De Smet comes in at No. 5 boys are ranked fifth. Sioux Valley Basketball Polls.) Here is the new url: https://www.tzts.us/o/tzts Dr. Nadine Eastman and Ms. interested in joining our fantastic 605-947-4605 If you don’t want to type in this link, just click on the Jeannine Metzger are attending school family then contact us at … Or check us out at esds.us teacher job fairs to add 1-2 top [email protected] (job application is online) graphic link on our Sota website. teachers to our great staff at Toka [email protected] Nuwan Wayawa Tipi. If you are Or call us at … There is also an app for keeping updated on school news and events on your smartphone and/or computer. Just check out the TZ App on your device’s App Store.

Dr. Nadine Eastman and Ms. Jeannine Metzger are attending teacher job fairs to add 1-2 top teachers to our great staff at Toka Nuwan Wayawa Tipi.

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Susquehanna University Political Science Department –

Feb. 11, 2019 This week we will be highlighting the achievements of our students. Each day we will feature a student or group of students who are doing amazing things as members of our departments! Malia Simon is a sophomore Environmental Studies and Public Policy double major, with minors in Political Science and History, from Carson, New Mexico. She is passionate about honoring her heritage as a member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Sioux tribe and the Navajo Nation by working Malia Simon. to protect the sacred lands that generations to come through policy. belong to her community. Simon The Cultural Vistas Fellowship was awarded The Cultural Vistas will shape my life through the Fellowship, during which she will cross-cultural experience I will travel to Hong Kong this summer. gain, but this opportunity will “The Cultural Vistas also shape my vision for my future Fellowship sends 15 fellows to as a tribal policy-maker through take part in a multinational interning nationally in Hong Kong, professional development program China. I am extremely thankful to for eight-week summer internships represent my Native Nations and in either Germany, Argentina, Susquehanna University abroad!”- or Hong Kong. I am excited to Malia Simon spend my summer in Hong Kong, Malia is the daughter of where I will grow and gain the Forrest Simon and granddaughter of necessary professional skills and Clayton Simon. knowledge to further impact my tribal communities for future Page 10 “Wo’okiye was’te qa wico zani o’wacin yuhapo” Sota Iya Ye Yapi - www.earthskyweb.com/sota.htm - Anpetu Iyamni - Feb. 20, 2019

By Demi Dumarce Dave Flute, SD Secretary of in South Dakota’s government, Middle School Tribal Relations, visited the Enemy Secretary Flute also spoke about Social Studies Teacher Swim Day School 8th grade class on Dakota history and the Treaty of Enemy Swim Day School February 14th. 1867. ESDS 8th graders have studied He explained the upcoming Secretary Flute guiding the 8th graders to show how Dakota people would maneuver through the Tribal Government and Tribal Treaty Day (this Monday, February tall grasses and how we got the name “Sioux.” History – working directly with the 18) and the significance of that date. SWO Constitution and Bylaws and Secretary Flute explained to the the 1867 Treaty, so inviting Dave students the name Sioux and how it to speak on Tribal Government came to be. and History fit well into our overall We finished with a Q&A curriculum. session about proposed legislation Dave Flute spoke about his concerning Indigenous languages. experiences as the Tribal Chairman The students enjoyed their time and his current job as the Secretary with Secretary Flute. of Tribal Relations. Pidamaya to him for sharing After explaining his role his knowledge with us all! Secretary Flute with the ESDS 8th grade class.

Toka Nuwan Wayawa Tipi honors one student from each grade for Waunsida: Be Caring dinner hosted by ESDS. each full month that school is in session. Woohoda: Be Respectful The January 2019 Students of the Month are: Kindergarten – Wicahpi The Students of the Month are chosen because they demonstrate the Home room teachers choose the Students of the Month in BlackThunder, 1st Grade – Quentin Owen Jr., 2nd Grade – Nyomi four school wide expectations consistently or have shown great progress collaboration with the paras and other teachers who serve a particular Eagle, 3rd Grade –Lorelei Gill, 4th Grade – JJ Redday, 5th Grade –Talan toward them. candidate. Tulowetzki, 6th Grade – Serenity Squirrel Coat, 7th Grade – Jourdes The school wide expectations are … Students of the Month are honored during opening ceremony on the Chanku, and 8th Grade – Raelon Grant. Awanicihdka: Be Safe first Monday following each full month of school. Waokihi: Be Responsible Students of the Month receive a student of the month shirt and a

4th Grade Student of the Month JJ Redday. 7th Grade Student of the Month Jourdes Chanku. 6th Grade Student of the Kindergarten Student of the Month Month Serenity Squirrel Coat. Wicahpi Black Thunder.

8th Grade Student of the Month Raelon Grant. 1st Grade Student of the Month Quentin Owen Jr. 5th Grade Student of the Month Talan Tulowetzke.

2nd Grade Student of the Month Nyomi Eagle.

The Bush Prize for Community Innovation celebrates organizations with a track record of successful community problem solving. Bush Prize winners are extraordinary not 3rd Grade Student of the Month Lorelei Gill. only in what they do, but in how they do it. They work inclusively, in may receive the grant. partnership with others, to make our The Foundation accepts region better for everyone. Bush Prize applications from than existing approaches? Winners receive a package fiscal sponsors. The fiscal sponsor Did these innovative solutions of recognition, including a organization must submit the grant make a significant difference? flexible grant of 25 percent of the application and, if the grant is Could the organization inspire organization’s last fiscal year budget, approved, becomes the grantee and or inform others? up to $500,000. receives the funds. The Foundation Does the organization have Each year we award the Bush fiscal sponsorship overview provides a pattern of using inclusive, Prize in each of the three states we additional information. collaborative and resourceful serve: Minnesota, North Dakota Prize winners must be located processes? and South Dakota, including the 23 in Minnesota, North Dakota, Inclusive: meaningfully Native nations that share the same South Dakota or one of the 23 engaging key stakeholders, geography. Native nations that share the same thoughtfully identifying those Eligibility geography. The specific community needed to create the intended Bush Prize grants must be used innovations highlighted in the Bush change and, whenever possible, for a charitable purpose. Prize application must also have including those directly affected by Organizations that are 501(c) occurred within that geography. the problem. (3) public charities or government Selection Criteria Collaborative: a true joint entities (including schools) are Does the organization have a effort, with partners willing to share eligible for the Bush Prize. Groups pattern of innovative solutions? ownership and decision-making as of organizations (such as coalitions Are these breakthroughs in they pursue an innovation together. or collaboratives) are eligible to addressing community needs more Resourceful: using existing apply, but only one organization effective, equitable or sustainable resources and assets creatively Sota Iya Ye Yapi - www.earthskyweb.com/sota.htm - Anpetu Iyamni, Feb. 20, 2019 “Wo’okiye was’te qa wico zani o’wacin yuhapo” Page 11 to make the most of what a of the following features: Initial Review: (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Richter, to develop and advertise a Request for Crawford, to approve the Dakota Language community already has. At least half of the Board of We conduct an initial review Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. Proposals (RFP) for the demolition of the former Institute budget for FY 2019, as presented by MOTION PASSED. Tiospa Zina Tribal School building, the removal Budget Supervisor Lexie Fancher. Does the organizational Directors self-identifies as being of applications and select finalists of the concrete pad, and the removal of the WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 18: 17 For: leadership foster a culture of from the community served to move forward with in-person MOTION NO. 7: made by Francis Crawford, foundation and footings, and to present the Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield innovation? At least half of the supervisory interviews and reference reviews. second by Milton Owen, to adjourn. bids to Tribal Council for review, as presented Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Is the organization stable and staff self-identifies as being from the Finalist Review: MEETING ADJOURNED 3:38PM. by Project Manager Scott German. Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 13: 17 For: Tribal Vice-Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary (1). strong in terms of governance and community served The Community Innovation Respectfully Submitted, Verlyn Beaudreau, Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 finance? The Executive Director/CEO/ Team will conduct site visits and Recording Secretary Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. Additional Considerations President self-identifies as being review references. Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); MOTION PASSED. We seek a portfolio of Bush from the community served A panel of community leaders REGULAR TRIBAL COUNCIL MEETING Tribal Vice-Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary (1). Prize winners with balance across: People who identify as being will review and recommend Bush Wednesday, January 9, 2019, 9:00 AM 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 MOTION NO. 19: made by Francis Crawford, TiWakan Tio Tipi Council Chambers Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. second by Curtis Bissonette, question by Milton Size of community from the community served are Prize winners from the Minnesota MOTION PASSED. Owen, to approve the Community Health Size of applicant organization integral in both creating and leading applicant pool. The Foundation’s TRIBAL COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Education - Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Demographics of communities the work of the organization. North Dakota Advisory Committee BIG COULEE: Lisa Jackson MOTION NO. 14: made by Milton Owen, second Detection Initiative budget for FY 2019, as served How to Apply and South Dakota Advisory BUFFALO LAKE: Louis Johnson by Cheryl Owen, question by Winfield Rondell presented by Budget Supervisor Lexie Fancher. ENEMY SWIM: Cheryl Owen Jr., to approve the Tribal Chairwoman report, WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 19: 17 For: Minnesota, North Dakota, We will accept applications for Committee review and recommend HEIPA/VEBLEN: Winfield Rondell Jr. as presented by Tribal Chairwoman Ella Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield South Dakota and the 23 Native the 2019 Bush Prize from March 5 Bush Prize winners from the other LAKE TRAVERSE: Francis Crawford Robertson. Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton nations through noon Central on April 11, two respective applicant pools. LONG HOLLOW: Curtis Bissonette WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 14: 16 For: Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Type of issue addressed 2019. For more information, see the Bush Foundation Board members OLD AGENCY: Milton Owen Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Tribal Vice-Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary (1). At least 50% of Bush Prize 2019 Bush Prize Info Packet (pdf). may also participate in the selection Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 TRIBAL EXECUTIVES PRESENT: Tribal Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. winners will be organizations that We use an online application process. Chairwoman Ella Robertson, Tribal Vice- Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 1 MOTION PASSED. advance racial and/or economic system. We understand this may It is important to us that our Chairman Floyd Kirk Jr., and Tribal Secretary Absent From Vote: Tribal Vice-Chairman (1). 1 equity in our region. For the present a barrier to some applicants, processes are transparent. If any of Myrna Thompson Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. MOTION NO. 20: made by Francis Crawford, purposes of this grant program, and we will make reasonable efforts our selection committee members MOTION PASSED. second by Winfield Rondell Jr., question by CALL TO ORDER: Tribal Chairwoman Ella Milton Owen, to approve the Law Enforcement the Bush Foundation defines this to accommodate particular needs has a conflict of interest with an Robertson called the meeting to order at 9:18 MOTION NO. 15: made by Winfield Rondell COPS Grant budget for FY 2019, as presented as organizations whose primary on a case-by-case basis. Please organization being considered for AM with three (3) Executives and seven (7) Jr., second by Cheryl Owen, question by Lisa by Budget Supervisor Lexie Fancher. purpose is to improve access, contact us as soon as possible, but the Bush Prize, they will not be a Council members from seven (7) Districts Jackson, to approve the Keepseagle Funding/ WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 20: 17 For: outcomes, opportunities or no later than one week before the part of any selection discussions answering Roll Call. Opening Prayer for the Farm Incubator Project budget for FY 2019, as Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield treatment based on race and/or application deadline, to discuss your or decisions for that year. The Heipa District said by Heipa Tribal Council presented by Budget Supervisor Lexie Fancher. Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Member Winfield Rondell Jr. WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 15: 16 For: Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); economic standing. specific circumstances. We cannot Foundation defines “conflict of Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Tribal Vice-Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary (1). Over time we seek a portfolio make accommodations after the interest” as being a staff or board MOTION NO. 8: made by Francis Crawford, Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 of Bush Prize winners that represents application deadline. member of, or having a contractual second by Winfield Rondell Jr., question by Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. the full diversity of this region. URL: relationship with, an organization. Cheryl Owen, to approve the Regular Tribal Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 1 MOTION PASSED. Council Meeting Minutes of Tuesday, December Absent From Vote: Tribal Vice-Chairman (1). 1 That includes representation across https://www.bushfoundation. Winners will be notified in the 4, 2018. Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. MOTION NO. 21: made by Francis Crawford, Minnesota, North Dakota, South org/grants/bush-prize-community- fall. WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 8: 17 For: MOTION PASSED. second by Winfield Rondell Jr., question by Dakota and the 23 Native nations innovation All selections are based on Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Cheryl Owen, to approve the Law Enforcement and includes a variety of: Applications that are started program eligibility requirements and Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton MOTION NO. 16: made by Francis Crawford, Work Release budget for FY 2019, as presented Applicant organization sizes but not submitted within 24 criteria. Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); second by Winfield Rondell Jr., question by by Budget Supervisor Lexie Fancher. Tribal Vice-Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary (1). Cheryl Owen, to approve the Tribal Court ADA WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 21: 17 For: Communities served (both in months of being started will be Next Opportunity to Apply 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 budget for FY 2019, as presented by Budget Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield terms of size and demographics) deleted from our system. We will accept applications Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. Supervisor Lexie Fancher. Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Types of issues addressed We recommend using Chrome from March 5 to noon Central on MOTION PASSED. WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 16: 14 For: Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); We also seek representation or Firefox as your web browser to April 11, 2019. Cheryl Owen (3); Milton Owen (2); Winfield Tribal Vice-Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary (1). MOTION NO. 9: made by Francis Crawford, Rondell Jr. (3); Curtis Bissonette (2); Francis 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 of community-led organizations— complete the online application. second by Winfield Rondell Jr., question by Crawford (2); Louis Johnson (1); Tribal Secretary Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. organizations that have at least two Selection Process Floyd Kirk Jr., to approve the Special Tribal (1). 0 Opposed. 2 Abstained: Lisa Jackson (2). 1 MOTION PASSED. Council Meeting Minutes of Wednesday, Absent From Vote: Tribal Vice-Chairman (1). 1 December 26, 2018. Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. MOTION NO. 22: made by Lisa Jackson, second WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 9: 17 For: MOTION PASSED. by Francis Crawford, question by Winfield Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Rondell Jr., to approve the Early Childhood Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton MOTION NO. 17: made by Francis Crawford, Intervention Program budget for FY 2019, as Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); second by Winfield Rondell Jr., question by presented by Budget Supervisor Lexie Fancher. Tribal Vice-Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary (1). Milton Owen, to approve the Dakota Language WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 22: 17 For: 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Institute - Program and Accounting Code Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. budget for FY 2019, as presented by Budget Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton MOTION PASSED. Supervisor Lexie Fancher. Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 17: 17 For: Tribal Vice-Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary (1). MOTION NO. 10: made by Francis Crawford, Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 second by Winfield Rondell Jr., question by Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. Lisa Jackson, to approve the draft resolution, Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); MOTION PASSED. “Authorization of Signatures for Bureau of Tribal Vice-Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary (1). CALL TO ORDER: Tribal Chairwoman Ella BUFFALO LAKE: Louis Johnson Indian Affairs (BIA)”. 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 MOTION NO. 23: made by Francis Crawford, Robertson called the meeting to order at 7:26 ENEMY SWIM: Cheryl Owen January 2019 WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 10: 17 For: Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. second by Winfield Rondell Jr., question by PM with three (3) Executives and three (3) HEIPA/VEBLEN: Winfield Rondell Jr. Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield MOTION PASSED. Cheryl Owen, to approve the Diabetes/Fitness Council members from seven (7) Districts LAKE TRAVERSE: Francis Crawford Tribal Council Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Center - Community Directed Program budget answering Roll Call. Opening Prayer said by LONG HOLLOW: Curtis Bissonette Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); MOTION NO. 18: made by Winfield Rondell Jr., Old Agency Tribal Council Member Milton OLD AGENCY: Milton Owen proceedings Tribal Vice-Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary (1). second by Lisa Jackson, question by Francis Tribal Council proceedings SPECIAL TRIBAL COUNCIL MEETING Owen. 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Continued on Page 12 Wednesday, January 2, 2019, 1:17 PM TRIBAL EXECUTIVES PRESENT: Tribal Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. TiWakan Tio Tipi Council Chambers MOTION NO. 3: made by Winfield Rondell, Chairwoman Ella Robertson, Tribal Vice- MOTION PASSED. second by Floyd Kirk Jr., question by Cheryl Chairman Floyd Kirk Jr., and Tribal Secretary Resolution No. SWO-19-001 TRIBAL COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Owen, to accept the 2019 SWO Special Election Myrna Thompson BIG COULEE: vacant voting results from the Big Coulee District, MOTION NO. 11: made by Winfield Rondell BUFFALO LAKE: Louis Johnson with 1,025 registered voters and 200 voting CALL TO ORDER: Tribal Chairwoman Ella Jr., second by Francis Crawford, question by ENEMY SWIM: Cheryl Owen for the position of Tribal Council Member, and Robertson called the meeting to order at 3:32 Milton Owen, to approve the draft resolution, HEIPA/VEBLEN: Winfield Rondell Jr. to seat Lisa Jackson as the Big Coulee Tribal PM with three (3) Executives and seven (7) “Authorize Executive Officers to Conduct LAKE TRAVERSE: Francis Crawford Council Member, as presented by Big Coulee Council members from seven (7) Districts Business with the Office of the Special Trustee LONG HOLLOW: Curtis Bissonette District Election Board members; Rolanda answering Roll Call. Opening Prayer for the (OST)”. OLD AGENCY: Milton Owen Quinn, Billy Kohl, Megan Cook, and Susie Heipa District said by Heipa Tribal Council WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 11: 17 For: Amos: Member Winfield Rondell Jr. Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield TRIBAL EXECUTIVES PRESENT: Tribal Big Coulee District - Tribal Council Voting Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Chairwoman Ella Robertson, Tribal Vice- Results MOTION NO. 5: made by Winfield Rondell Jr., Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Chairman Floyd Kirk Jr., and Tribal Secretary Danielle DeCoteau – 17 second by Lisa Jackson, question by Floyd Kirk Tribal Vice-Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary (1). Myrna Thompson. Viva Dubois - 19 Jr., to allocate $232,968.19 to Dakota Crossing 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Destry Heminger – 52 Grocery Store and $169,929.45 to SWO Fuel, Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. CALL TO ORDER: Tribal Chairwoman Ella Lisa Jackson - 60 Inc., with the Tax Gold Money Market Account MOTION PASSED. Robertson called the meeting to order at 1:17 Daniel White - 51 as the funding source, as presented by Tribal Resolution No. SWO-19-002 PM with three (3) Executives and six (6) Council WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 3: 15 For: Vice-Chairman Floyd Kirk Jr. members from seven (7) Districts answering Cheryl Owen (3); Milton Owen (2); Winfield WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 5: 17 For: MOTION NO. 12: made by Winfield Rondell Jr, Roll Call. Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Curtis Cheryl Owen (3); Lisa Jackson (2); Winfield second by Milton Owen, question by Francis Bissonette (2); Louis Johnson (1); Tribal Vice- Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Crawford, to approve the draft resolution, MOTION NO. 1: made by Francis Crawford, Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. Owen (2); Louis Johnson (1); Curtis Bissonette “Authorization of Signature Authority for second by Winfield Rondell Jr., question by 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: (2); Tribal Vice-Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary United State Department of Agriculture (USDA) Floyd Kirk Jr., to declare the Big Coulee Tribal Tribal Chairwoman. (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Programs”. Council Member position vacant, and to direct MOTION PASSED. Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 12: 17 For: the Reservation Election Board to conduct a MOTION PASSED. Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Special Election on Thursday, January 3, 2019, MOTION NO. 4: made by Francis Crawford, Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton to fill the vacant Big Coulee Tribal Council second by Milton Owen, to adjourn. MOTION NO. 6: made by Francis Crawford, Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Member position. MEETING ADJOURNED 8:09PM. second by Winfield Rondell Jr., question by Tribal Vice-Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary (1). WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 1: 15 For: Cheryl Owen, to add Tribal Chairwoman 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Cheryl Owen (3); Milton Owen (2); Winfield Respectfully Submitted, Lindsey Abraham, Ella Robertson and Tribal Secretary Myrna Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Curtis Recording Secretary Asst. Thompson to all SWO bank account signature MOTION PASSED. Bissonette (2); Louis Johnson (1); Tribal Vice- cards, as presented by Tribal Vice-Chairman Resolution No. SWO-19-003 Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. SPECIAL TRIBAL COUNCIL MEETING Floyd Kirk Jr. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Friday, January 4, 2019, 3:32 PM WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 6: 17 For: MOTION NO. 13: made by Winfield Rondell Tribal Chairwoman. TiWakan Tio Tipi Council Chambers Cheryl Owen (3); Lisa Jackson (2); Winfield Jr., second by Milton Owen, question by Lisa MOTION PASSED. Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Jackson, to authorize Justice Center Project TRIBAL COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Owen (2); Louis Johnson (1); Curtis Bissonette Manager Scott German, DOT Manager Cliff MOTION NO. 2: made by Francis Crawford, BIG COULEE: Lisa Jackson (2); Tribal Vice-Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary Eberhardt, and Field Supervisor Randy second by Winfield Rondell Jr., to adjourn. MEETING ADJOURNED 1:18PM.

Respectfully Submitted, Verlyn Beaudreau, Sota Subscription Order Form Recording Secretary REVISED I would like to subscribe to the Sota Iya Ye Yapi. Sisseton-Wahpeton Housing Authority SPECIAL TRIBAL COUNCIL MEETING Thursday, January 3, 2019, 7:26 PM Enclosed is $______for ____ year(s). Annual Inspections SWO Admin Building Rotunda (Annual subscription rate is $46 for enrolled members of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Low Rent Annual Inspections will start in January Oyate living in South Dakota and in Minnesota and North Dakota counties on and and February 2019 at the Sisseton Housing Site TRIBAL COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: adjoining the Lake Traverse Reservation; $40 for enrolled members incarcerated BIG COULEE: vacant and/or elderly on fixed incomes; $56 for all others living in the United States; and and Buddy Nelson Apartments. BUFFALO LAKE: Louis Johnson (7:27) $96 for first class subscribers.) Inspections for February and March will be ENEMY SWIM: Cheryl Owen Crawfordsville site and Crawfordsville Elderly HEIPA/VEBLEN: Winfield Rondell Jr. Name ______. LAKE TRAVERSE: Francis Crawford (7:27) Complex. Mailing Address ______LONG HOLLOW: Curtis Bissonette (7:27) Inspections for April 2019 will be at Old Agency site, OLD AGENCY: Milton Owen City ______State ____ Zip ______Rehab site, and Old Agency Elderly Complex. Please mail this subscription form (or a photocopy) to: If you would like to be present, please call and TRIBAL EXECUTIVES PRESENT: Tribal Sota Iya Ye Yapi Chairwoman Ella Robertson, Tribal Vice- P.O. Box 5 schedule it with Mike Selvage Jr. or Ryan Chairman Floyd Kirk Jr., and Tribal Secretary Wilmot, SD 57279 German 605-698-3901 ext. 33. Myrna Thompson. Page 12 “Wo’okiye was’te qa wico zani o’wacin yuhapo” Sota Iya Ye Yapi - www.earthskyweb.com/sota.htm - Anpetu Iyamni - Feb. 20, 2019 Enemy Swim District Minutes for meeting held Note: Long Hollow District did not have a Chairman. WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 46: 16 For: Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Tribal Council proceedings December 15, 2018: District meeting in December 2018. MOTION PASSED. Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Continued from Page 11 1. Approve the 3 youth members off the youth Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); roster to include: Tristin B.J Firesteel, Destiny Note: Old Agency District did not have a MOTION NO. 43: made by Winfield Rondell Jr., Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. for FY 2019, as presented by Budget Supervisor Wynde Miller, Matthew Gill-Goodsell. District meeting in December 2018. second by Lisa Jackson, question by Cheryl Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Lexie Fancher. 2. Approve Chapter 67, Tax Code Part X, Owen, to have the Legal Office work with the 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Chairman. WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 23: 17 For: Calorie Sweet Beverage and Energy Drink Tax MOTION NO. 37: made by Francis Crawford, Realty Office and the Bureau of Indian Affairs Chairman. MOTION PASSED. Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Ordinance. second by Winfield Rondell Jr., question (BIA), to follow up on the matter of an adjacent MOTION PASSED. Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton 3. Judicial, Constitution Revision, REB, by Cheryl Owen, to approve the District land owner building on Tribal land (Alto MOTION NO. 51: made by Winfield Rondell Jr., Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Planning and DCA address and develop the off Chairman’s Association (DCA) report, as Township, SWSE Sec. 15-123-52, T568-A), as MOTION NO. 47: made by Winfield Rondell Jr., second by Lisa Jackson, question by Milton Tribal Vice-Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary (1). reservation voting criteria. presented by DCA Members; Karen White, Jesse presented by Realty Manager Jerry Eastman. second by Lisa Jackson, question by Cheryl Owen, to approve the revisions to the Little 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 32: 16 For: Larsen, Duane Hislaw, Jessie Chanku, Lynn WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 43: 16 For: Owen, to approve the Planning Department Steps Daycare Application form, as presented Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Halbert, Allen White, Chanda Joseph, Sherilyn Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield report, as presented by Economic Development by Daycare Supervisor Leona Iyarpeya and ET MOTION PASSED. Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Marks, and Jacky White. Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Planner Harold Hill Jr. Services Manager Elias Mendoza. Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 37: 16 For: Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 47: 16 For: WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 51: 16 For: MOTION NO. 24: made by Francis Crawford, Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield second by Lisa Jackson, question by Milton 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Owen, to approve the Tribal Vice-Chairman Chairman. Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Chairman. Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); report, as presented by Tribal Vice-Chairman MOTION PASSED. Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. MOTION PASSED. Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. Floyd Kirk Jr. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 24: 17 For: MOTION NO. 33: made by Louis Johnson, second Chairman. MOTION NO. 44: made by Curtis Bissonette, Chairman. Chairman. Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield by Lisa Jackson, question by Francis Crawford, MOTION PASSED. second by Francis Crawford, question by MOTION PASSED. MOTION PASSED. Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton to acknowledge the receipt of the Buffalo Lake Winfield Rondell Jr., to approve the Realty Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); District Minutes for the meeting held December MOTION NO. 38: made by Francis Crawford, Office report, as presented by Manager Jerry MOTION NO. 48: made by Lisa Jackson, second MOTION NO. 52: made by Francis Crawford, Tribal Vice-Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary (1). 30, 2018. second by Winfield Rondell Jr., question by Eastman. by Winfield Rondell Jr., question by Cheryl second by Lisa Jackson, question by Cheryl 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Buffalo Lake District Minutes for meeting held Lisa Jackson, to approve the Contract with WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 44: 16 For: Owen, to approve the Sponsorship Agreement Owen, to approve the Employment Training Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. December 30, 2018: Lori Bird, to submit a bid on a jet fuel delivery Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield with Sky’s the Limit, LLC, for the Sioux Falls Services report, as presented Manager Elias MOTION PASSED. 1. Approve Adult Membership: Zonaree Brave, proposal, with the Tribe to receive 51% of the Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Sky Force, in the amount of $10,000.00, with Mendoza. Kaleb Brushbreaker, Kassy Crawford, Joseph proceeds, and to authorize Tribal Chairwoman Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); the Youth Dept. budget as the funding source, WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 52: 16 For: MOTION NO. 25: made by Winfield Rondell Jr., Dunkley, Jr., and Tanner Owen. Ella Robertson to execute the contract, pending Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. and to authorize Tribal Chairwoman Ella Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield second by Francis Crawford, question by Louis 2. Demand Greg Benidt provide a full financial legal review, as presented by DNI CEO Josh 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Robertson to execute the Agreement, pending Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Johnson, to authorize Tribal Chairwoman report on the Dakota Crossing Grocery Store. Flute. Chairman. legal review, as presented by Youth Coordinator Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Ella Robertson to sign for the purchase of the This should include but not limited to the WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 38: 15 For: MOTION PASSED. Derrick McCauley. Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. tractors referenced in Tribal Council Motion Profit and Loss of the grocery store since it Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 48: 14 For: 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- No. 31, of 12/4/18, as presented by Tribal Vice- opened. Any other reports that would show the Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton MOTION NO. 45: made by Winfield Rondell Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Chairman. Chairman Floyd Kirk Jr. capability and the disadvantages of the store Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2). Jr., second by Milton Owen, question by Rondell Jr. (3); Milton Owen (2); Lisa Jackson MOTION PASSED. WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 25: 17 For: should be added as well by Mr. Benidt. 1 Opposed: Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Abstained. Francis Crawford, to authorize the payment (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Tribal Secretary (1). Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 33: 16 For: 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- to J&J Earthworks, Inc., for services provided 2 Opposed: Francis Crawford (2). 0 Abstained. MOTION NO. 53: made by Winfield Rondell Jr., Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Chairman. on the lagoon for the Barker Hill Phase II 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- second by Lisa Jackson, question by Milton Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton MOTION PASSED. Improvement Project, in the amount of Chairman. Owen, to authorize the Employment Training Tribal Vice-Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary (1). Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); $9,095.49, with the Section 7 budget as the MOTION PASSED. Services Office to purchase office equipment 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. MOTION NO. 39: made by Francis Crawford, funding source, as presented by Economic for the Little Steps Daycare, form Business Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- second by Milton Owen, to adjourn. Development Planner Harold Hill Jr. MOTION NO. 49: made by Francis Crawford, Essentials, in the amount of $5,924.14, with MOTION PASSED. Chairman. MEETING ADJOURNED 3:46PM. WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 45: 16 For: second by Cheryl Owen, question by Lisa the ET Services budgets as the funding source, MOTION PASSED. Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Jackson, to approve the Youth Department as presented by ET Services Manager Elias MOTION NO. 26: made by Lisa Jackson, Respectfully Submitted, Verlyn Beaudreau, Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton report, as presented by Director Derrick Mendoza. second by Cheryl Owen, question by Milton MOTION NO. 34: made by Winfield Rondell Jr., Recording Secretary Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); McCauley. WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 53: 16 For: Owen, to approve the Tribal Secretary report, second by Milton Owen, question by Francis Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 49: 16 For: Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield as presented by Tribal Secretary Myrna Crawford, to acknowledge the receipt of the REGULAR TRIBAL COUNCIL MEETING 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Thompson. Heipa District Minutes for the meeting held Thursday, January 10, 2019, 9:00 AM Chairman. Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 26: 17 For: December 16, 2018. TiWakan Tio Tipi Council Chambers MOTION PASSED. Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Heipa District Minutes for meeting held Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton December 16, 2018: TRIBAL COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: MOTION NO. 46: made by Winfield Rondell 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Chairman. Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); 1. The Attorney’s Office has 30-days to BIG COULEE: Lisa Jackson Jr., second by Lisa Jackson, question by Chairman. MOTION PASSED. Tribal Vice-Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary (1). establish a Civil Rights Office pursuant to BUFFALO LAKE: Louis Johnson Milton Owen, to approve the Addendum to MOTION PASSED. 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Tribal Council motion. ENEMY SWIM: Cheryl Owen the Contract with Short Elliot Hendrickson, MOTION NO. 54: made by Winfield Rondell Jr., Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. 2. Any revisions of the Tribal Personnel Policy HEIPA/VEBLEN: Winfield Rondell Jr. Inc. (SEH), for the Master Plan for Dakota MOTION NO. 50: made by Milton Owen, second by Cheryl Owen, question by Francis MOTION PASSED. be brought to all 7 districts before tribal LAKE TRAVERSE: Francis Crawford Connection Casino, in the amount of second by Cheryl Owen, question by Lisa Crawford, to approve the COLA match of council approval. LONG HOLLOW: Curtis Bissonette $10,000.00, with the Section 7 budget as Jackson, to approve the revisions to the Little $7,579.00 for Head Start and Early Head Start, MOTION NO. 27: made by Milton Owen, second 3. Any Tribal Executive leaving office, their OLD AGENCY: Milton Owen the funding source, and to authorize Tribal Steps Daycare Handbook, and to approve the with the Tribal Vice-Chairman to determine by Cheryl Owen, question by Winfield Rondell political appointees are not given a regular, Chairwoman Ella Robertson to execute the revised Fee Schedule, as presented by Daycare the funding source, as presented by Director Jr., to approve the Tribal Employment Rights permanent position with the Tribe but must TRIBAL EXECUTIVES PRESENT: Tribal Vice- Addendum, pending legal review, as presented Supervisor Leona Iyarpeya and ET Services Lynn Halbert. Office (TERO) report, as presented by Director go through the regular hiring process just like Chairman Floyd Kirk Jr. and Tribal Secretary by Economic Development Planner Harold Hill Manager Elias Mendoza. WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 54: 16 For: DelRay German. everyone else. Myrna Thompson Jr. WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 50: 16 For: Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 27: 17 For: 4. All political appointees shall not receive Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield severance pay. TRIBAL EXECUTIVES ABSENT: Tribal Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton 5. Invite the Dakota Crossing General Manager Chairwoman Ella Robertson (travel) Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); to our next District meeting. Tribal Vice-Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary (1). 6. Every non-native person hired in a CALL TO ORDER: Tribal Vice-Chairman Floyd 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 managerial position MUST receive cultural Kirk Jr. called the meeting to order at 9:08 AM Not Voting: Tribal Chairwoman. awareness training, an orientation on the with one (1) Executive and seven (7) Council MOTION PASSED. Tribal Policies, and to follow the hiring policies members from seven (7) Districts answering of the tribe. Roll Call. Opening Prayer for the Heipa District Note: Tribal Chairwoman Ella Robertson 7. Accept Membership: Thomas William said by Heipa Tribal Council Member Winfield excused from meeting to attend the South Machgan, Robert Christopher Machgan. Rondell Jr. Dakota State of the Tribes Address. 8. Approve Nicole Dumarce’s enrollment effective as soon as relinquishment letter from MOTION NO. 40: made by Francis Crawford, MOTION NO. 28: made by Winfield Rondell Jr., Buffalo Lake is submitted. second by Milton Owen, question by Winfield second by Lisa Jackson, question by Cheryl 9. Find grants to open/build a nursing home Rondell Jr., to authorize the purchase of the Owen, to authorize the LAUNCH Program to for our tribal elderly. tracts of land offered for sale by: Elizabeth purchase two (2) Microsoft Surface Pros, one (1) 10. Reaffirm our motion to dissolve Dakota Cook Lynn - 23.66 acres, in the amount of Surface Book, and accessories, from Connecting Nation Industry. $50,666.66; Mary Daily - 7.54 acres, in the Point, in the amount of $9,224.00, with the WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 34: 16 For: amount of $13,119.60; Ione Lufkins - 8.75 LAUNCH Grant as the funding source, as Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield acres, in the amount of $11,812.50; Virginia presented by LAUNCH Director April Eastman. Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Max - 15.57 acres, in the amount of $34,543.50; WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 28: 14 For: Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Leona Jones Kitto - 38.42 acres, in the amount Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. of $108,953.96; Janet Blackthunder - 2.667 Rondell Jr. (3); Milton Owen (2); Lisa Jackson 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- acres, in the amount of $8,560.13; Rodney St. (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Tribal Secretary (1). Chairman. John - 7.44 acres, in the amount of $21,106.37; 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 2 Absent From Vote: MOTION PASSED. Eugene Hastings - 8.61 acres, in the amount Francis Crawford (2). 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- of $13,800.43; Jacqueline Kampeska - 3.33 Chairman. MOTION NO. 35: made by Winfield Rondell acres, in the amount of $6,000.00; Leslie MOTION PASSED. Jr., second by Cheryl Owen, question by Lisa Kampeska - 3.33 acres, in the amount of Jackson, to establish a seven (7) member $6,000.00; Kimberly Cloud - 33.38 acres, in the MOTION NO. 29: made by Milton Owen, Reservation Election Board (REB), one member amount of $89,804.13; and Marita White - 20.0 second by Winfield Rondell Jr., question by from each district, as recommended by the acres, in the amount of $96,000.00, with the Lisa Jackson, to approve the 2019 SWO Spring District Chairman’s Association. Cobell Lease Account as the funding source, Spearing/Stream Fishing Season and Fact WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 35: 13 For: as recommended by the Reservation Planning Sheet, as presented by F&W Manager Charlene Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Commission, and presented by Realty Manager Miller. Rondell Jr. (3); Milton Owen (2); Lisa Jackson Jerry Eastman. WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 29: 16 For: (2); Curtis Bissonette (2). 3 Opposed: Francis WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 40: 16 For: Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Crawford (2); Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Abstained. Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Chairman. Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. MOTION PASSED. Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Chairman. MOTION NO. 36: made by Winfield Rondell Chairman. MOTION PASSED. Jr., second by Milton Owen, question by Lisa MOTION PASSED. Jackson, in resolution form, to amend the MOTION NO. 30: made by Curtis Bissonette, Legislative Policy and Administrative Policy: MOTION NO. 41: made by Winfield Rondell second by Cheryl Owen, question by Milton to keep the current salary and severance Jr., second by Francis Crawford, question Owen, to approve the 2019 SWO Spring Turkey structure for Tribal Council and Tribal by Lisa Jackson, to approve the home site Season and Fact Sheet, as presented by F&W Executives; to decrease the Social Security/ leases for Dean Renville and Clarine White, as Manager Charlene Miller. FICA benefit to 7.5%; to eliminate any leave recommended by the Reservation Planning WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 30: 16 For: accruals or payments; to eliminate the no cost Commission, and as presented by Realty Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Family Health Benefit Package; and that Tribal Manager Jerry Eastman. Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Council and Tribal Executives may utilize other WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 41: 16 For: Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); benefits that are available to Tribal employees, Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. (i.e.; health, vision, dental, 401k), provided Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- that Tribal Council and the Tribal Executives Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Chairman. pay the same premiums and/or contribution Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. MOTION PASSED. rates that Tribal employees are charged, 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- as presented by the District Chairman’s Chairman. MOTION NO. 31: made by Cheryl Owen, second Association. MOTION PASSED. by Lisa Jackson, question by Winfield Rondell WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 36: 12 For: Jr., to approve the Fish & Wildlife Office report, Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield MOTION NO. 42: made by Francis Crawford, as presented by F&W Manager Charlene Miller. Rondell Jr. (3); Milton Owen (2); Lisa Jackson second by Cheryl Owen, question by Winfield WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 31: 16 For: (2); Tribal Secretary (1). 4 Opposed: Francis Rondell Jr., to approve the land exchange with Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Crawford (2); Curtis Bissonette (2). 0 Abstained. Paula Horne Mullen, and to authorize the Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- payment of $4,388.89 to Paula for the balance Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Chairman. of this exchange, with the Lease Income budget Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. MOTION PASSED. as the funding source, as recommended by 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Resolution No. SWO-19-004 the Reservation Planning Commission, and as Chairman. presented by Realty Manager Jerry Eastman. MOTION PASSED. Note: Big Coulee District did not have a District WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 42: 16 For: meeting in December 2018. Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield MOTION NO. 32: made by Cheryl Owen, second Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton by Milton Owen, question by Winfield Rondell Note: Lake Traverse District did not have a Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Jr., to acknowledge the receipt of the Enemy District meeting in December 2018. Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. Swim District Minutes for the meeting held 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- December 15, 2018. Sota Iya Ye Yapi - www.earthskyweb.com/sota.htm - Anpetu Iyamni, Feb. 20, 2019 “Wo’okiye was’te qa wico zani o’wacin yuhapo” Page 13 Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield MOTION PASSED. $3,958.00 to the Enrollment Office for FY 2019, to transfer the Community Health CALL TO ORDER: Tribal Chairwoman Ella Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Resolution No. SWO-19-005 with the Tribal Vice-Chairman to determine Representative (CHR) Program, Maternal Child Robertson called the meeting to order at Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); the funding source, and to authorize the Health (MCH) Program, Procurement Office, 1:44 PM with three (3) Executives and four 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. MOTION NO. 64: made by Francis Crawford, Enrollment Office to purchase Progeny10 Property Management, and Veterans Service (4) Council members from seven (7) Districts Chairman. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- second by Winfield Rondell Jr., question by software updates and licensing from Tribal Office (VSO) under the Tribal Vice-Chairman; answering Roll Call. Opening Prayer for the MOTION PASSED. Chairman. Lisa Jackson, in resolution form, to enroll Data Resources, Inc., as a sole source vendor, and to transfer the Human Resources (HR) Heipa District said by Enemy Swim Tribal MOTION PASSED. into the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate the six (6) in the amount of $3,958.00, as presented by Department and the Information Technology Council Member Cheryl Owen. MOTION NO. 55: made by Francis Crawford, applicants as listed in Exhibit B, as presented Enrollment Officer Zelma Flute. (I.T.) Department under the supervision of all second by Winfield Rondell Jr., question by MOTION NO. 60: made by Lisa Jackson, second by Enrollment Officer Zelma Flute. WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 67: 16 For: three (3) Tribal Executives. MOTION NO. 74: made by Curtis Bissonette, Milton Owen, to approve the December 2018 by Cheryl Owen, question by Milton Owen, Hare, Magazu Ob He Lee Adam Heinecke, Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 71: 16 For: second by Lisa Jackson, question by Cheryl CACFP Food Report for Head Start & Early Head to appoint Education Director Dr. Sherry Torryn Richard Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Owen, to subside the shortfall of Law Start, as presented by Director Lynn Halbert. Johnson as the SWO Delegate on the Pierre Heminger, Nation Charles Hill, Heavenlee Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Enforcement salaries and Foster Care WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 55: 16 For: Indian Learning Center Board, with Tribal Sunshine Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Subsidized adoption and group care costs for Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Secretary Myrna Thompson as the alternate, Molina, Tatyana Eustolia Phelps, Lucas Loyal 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. one month, due to the Federal Government Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton as presented by Education Director Dr. Sherry WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 64: 16 For: Chairman. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Shutdown, in the amount of $110,000.00, with Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Johnson. Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield MOTION PASSED. Chairman. the Tribal Vice-Chairman to determine the Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 60: 16 For: Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton MOTION PASSED. funding source, with the understanding that 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); MOTION NO. 68: made by Francis Crawford, these funds will be reimbursed when the 638 Chairman. Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. second by Cheryl Owen, question by Lisa MOTION NO. 72: made by Winfield Rondell funds are available for drawdown. MOTION PASSED. Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Jackson, to approve the Enrollment Office Jr., second by Francis Crawford, question by WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 74: 10 Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. Chairman. report, as presented by Enrollment Officer Milton Owen, to seat Old Agency Tribal Council For: Cheryl Owen (3); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis MOTION NO. 56: made by Francis Crawford, 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- MOTION PASSED. Zelma Flute. Member Milton Owen, Big Coulee Tribal Bissonette (2); Louis Johnson (1); Tribal Vice- second by Winfield Rondell Jr., question by Chairman. Resolution No. SWO-19-006 WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 68: 16 For: Council Member Lisa Jackson, and J. Garret Chairman (1); Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. Lisa Jackson, to approve the December 2018 MOTION PASSED. Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Renville on the Dakota Nation Industries Board 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Attendance Report for Head Start & Early Head MOTION NO. 65: made by Francis Crawford, Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton of Directors. Tribal Chairwoman. Start, as presented by Director Lynn Halbert. MOTION NO. 61: made by Myrna Thompson, second by Lisa Jackson, question by Cheryl Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 72: 16 For: MOTION PASSED. WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 56: 16 For: second by Lisa Jackson, question by Francis Owen, in resolution form, to enroll into Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Crawford, to have the Tribe pursue funding to the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate the nine (9) 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton MOTION NO. 75: made by Lisa Jackson, second Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton expand Tiospa Zina Tribal School and Enemy applicants as listed in Exhibit C, as presented Chairman. Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); by Curtis Bissonette, to adjourn. Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Swim Day School. by Enrollment Officer Zelma Flute. MOTION PASSED. Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. MEETING ADJOURNED 1:54 PM. Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 61: 16 For: Amos, Harmony Flora Beaulieu-Weston, Jaidyn 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Rose MOTION NO. 69: made by Francis Crawford, Chairman. Respectfully Submitted, Verlyn Beaudreau, Chairman. Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Beaulieu-Weston, Madison Storm Benjamin, second by Winfield Rondell Jr., question MOTION PASSED. Recording Secretary MOTION PASSED. Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Nicholas Matthew by Milton Owen, to have the Tribal Vice- Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. Bertsch, Waniya Snow Chanku, Jasper Justice Chairman locate a funding source for loans, of MOTION NO. 73: made by Francis Crawford, MOTION NO. 57: made by Francis Crawford, 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Jones, Ariana Maxine Roach, Julius Baine up to $1,000.00, to assist SWO Tribal Members second by Winfield Rondell Jr., to adjourn. second by Cheryl Owen, question by Winfield Chairman. Douglas who have been furloughed due to the U.S. MEETING ADJOURNED 12:04PM. Rondell Jr., to approve the Health Data Report MOTION PASSED. Thomas, Adriel Lorenz Government Shutdown, and to have the Legal for Head Start & Early Head Start, as presented WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 65: 16 For: Office draft a payroll deduction form to make Respectfully Submitted, Verlyn Beaudreau, by Health & Nutrition Manager Tim White. MOTION NO. 62: made by Lisa Jackson, second Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield the SWO the first priority for repayment when Recording Secretary WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 57: 16 For: by Cheryl Owen, question by Milton Owen, Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton these employees return to work, with the Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield to approve the Education Office report, as Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); loans to be paid back in five (5) installments. SPECIAL TRIBAL COUNCIL MEETING Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton presented by Education Director Dr. Sherry Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 69: 16 For: Friday, January 25, 2019, 1:44 PM Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Johnson. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield TiWakan Tio Tipi Council Chambers Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 62: 16 For: Chairman. Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield MOTION PASSED. Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); TRIBAL COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Chairman. Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Resolution No. SWO-19-007 Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. BIG COULEE: Lisa Jackson MOTION PASSED. Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- BUFFALO LAKE: Louis Johnson Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. MOTION NO. 66: made by Winfield Rondell Jr., Chairman. ENEMY SWIM: Cheryl Owen MOTION NO. 58: made by Winfield Rondell Jr., 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- second by Lisa Jackson, question by Francis MOTION PASSED. LONG HOLLOW: Curtis Bissonette second by Curtis Bissonette, question by Lisa Chairman. Crawford, in resolution form, to relinquish Jackson, to approve the Head Start and Early MOTION PASSED. from enrollment with the Sisseton-Wahpeton MOTION NO. 70: made by Francis Crawford, TRIBAL COUNCIL MEMBERS ABSENT: Head Start report, as presented by Director Oyate the one (1) applicant as listed in Exhibit second by Winfield Rondell Jr., question by HEIPA/VEBLEN: Winfield Rondell Jr. Lynn Halbert. MOTION NO. 63: made by Francis Crawford, D, as presented by Enrollment Officer Zelma Cheryl Owen, to approve the Ex-Officio list for LAKE TRAVERSE: Francis Crawford WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 58: 16 For: second by Lisa Jackson, question by Winfield Flute. SWO Boards and Committees. OLD AGENCY: Milton Owen Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Rondell Jr., in resolution form, to enroll into Lopez, Jr., Jose Antonio WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 70: 16 For: Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate the seven (7) WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 66: 16 For: Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield TRIBAL EXECUTIVES PRESENT: Tribal Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); applicants as listed in Exhibit A, as presented Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Chairwoman Ella Robertson, Tribal Vice- Visit the Sota online Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. by Enrollment Officer Zelma Flute. Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Chairman Floyd Kirk Jr., and Tribal Secretary http://www.earthskyweb. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Acosta, Abel Alejandro Burrage, Amirrah Jean Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. Myrna Thompson. com/sota.htm Chairman. Wanyeca Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- MOTION PASSED. Cornejo, Azrael Michael Robertson, Cecelia 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- Chairman. Diane-Joyce Chairman. MOTION PASSED. MOTION NO. 59: made by Lisa Jackson, Robertson, Milton Daniel-Moshe Wilson, Josie MOTION PASSED. second by Milton Owen, question by Francis Rose Resolution No. SWO-19-008 MOTION NO. 71: made by Francis Crawford, Attention Crawford, to nominate Tribal Secretary Myrna Wilson, Pearl Darlene second by Milton Owen, question by Myrna BUFFALO LAKE DISTRICT MEMBERS Thompson for the Administration for Children WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 63: 16 For: MOTION NO. 67: made by Francis Crawford, Thompson, to amend the SWO Administrative and Families (ACF) Tribal Advisory Committee Cheryl Owen (3); Louis Johnson (1); Winfield second by Winfield Rondell Jr., question Flow Chart: to transfer the Dakota Language FEBRUARY DISTRICT NOTICE (TAC) Great Plains Area representative, with Rondell Jr. (3); Francis Crawford (2); Milton by Lisa Jackson, to allocate an additional Institute (DLI) under the Tribal Chairwoman; February’s District meeting will be held on Sunday Education Director Dr. Sherry Johnson as the Owen (2); Lisa Jackson (2); Curtis Bissonette (2); alternate, as presented by Education Director Tribal Secretary (1). 0 Opposed. 0 Abstained. February 24th at 1:00p.m. at the bowling alley. All Dr. Sherry Johnson. 0 Absent From Vote. 1 Not Voting: Tribal Vice- boards and committees should submit 10 copies WEIGHTED VOTE ON MOTION NO. 59: 16 For: Chairman. Notice of your minutes. The move from the District Heipa District Members Center to the bowling alley is due to sewer issues. The Heipa General Election is Saturday, March DISTRICT VOTING Attention 2nd, 2019 with voting hours 7:00 am-7:00 pm District voting will take place on Saturday, March 2, Lake Traverse District Members at the District Center. 2019 from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. at the bowling District Election for District Executives alley. Chairperson: Allen White or Brenda Bellonger Election will be held Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019 from The following are the District Executives that need to Vice-Chairperson: Lisa LaBelle or Karen White 7:00 am -7:00 pm be voted on. Also boards that need to be voted Treasurer: Gypsy Wanna or Buffy Nanaeto Candidates are as follows: on. District Chairman: District Election Board – Cassandra Mason If the weather is bad, the election will be in Michael Selvage Sr. (incumbent), Santana Fuentes, Wicanhpi Red Sisseton. Watch for Facebook updates and Darwin James Wing (incumbent), Sara Lincoln, Darla King listen to KXSW 89.9 FM. Raymond Wilson (incumbent), Elizabeth Hosie (incumbent), There will be a Special Meeting immediately after Sylvana Flute Jessica Cloud (incumbent) the election to count the ballots. District Vice-Chairman: Natural Resources – Mel Huff, Justin White, Norman Charles Jacky White Johnson Benjamin Thompson SWO Pow Wow – Lacyjay Red Wing, Arnold White Jr., Bruce German Jr. Kenneth Johnson, Ronald Brant (incumbent) District Treasurer Notice SWO Hiring – Sara Lincoln, Debra Heminger Charles James Old Agency District Members SWO Housing Authority – Mel Huff, Lacyjay Red Colleen Cloud 2019 Executive, Board, Commission and Wing, Kenneth Johnson Chad Ward Committee Positions: TERO – Arnold White Jr., Kenneth Johnson, Miranda District Secretary: Chairman White, Norman Johnson Janel Manylghtnings Vice-Chairman SWO THPO – Santana Fuentes, Debra Heminger Teresa Thompson Secretary TZTS – Arnold White Jr., Kenneth Johnson, Norman Ronald Goodsell Treasurer Johnson Jamie German Sergeant At Arms District Vice-Chairman – John Lincoln (incumbent), Jessica RedThunder SW College Board Arnold White Jr. You may submit your letter of intents for boards and SWO Personnel SWO Tax Commission – Lisa Red Wing (incumbent), committees.deadline will be Feb22,2019 @ 4:30 SWO Human Services Nadine Eastman pm SWO Pow Wow Committee Birthday Funds for 18-54 Boards and Committees are as follows: OAD Election Board-3 Given out only at the monthly District meeting. You Tax Commission OAD Pow-wow Committee-3 must pick up your own birthday money. None will Pow-Wow Committee SWO Elderly Advisory be mailed out. You must provide a copy of your Fish & Wildlife SWO Environmental Protection ID. Human Service Board SWO Fish & Wildlife TELEPHONE NUMBERS Sisseton Wahpeton College Board SWO Constitution Revision · Chairman Dickey Johnson – Cell #605-924-6215 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) SWO Tax Commission · Councilman Louie Johnson – Cell # 605-951-4960 Reservation Planning Commission (RPC) SWO Judicial Committee · Vice-chairman John Lincoln – Cell # 605-924-0563 District Election Board SWO Reservation Planning · Treasurer Kayline LaBelle – Cell # 605-927-9018 Tiospa Zina School Board TERO · Secretary Lisa Red Wing – Cell # 605-237-3521 Personnel Committee THPO · Elderly Chairman – Geno DeMarrias – 698-4024 or Judicial Committee TZTS 268-1858 TERO Deadline to submit your application: March 1. · Elderly Vice-chairman Ronald Brant – 605-419-1191 Police Commission 2019 4:30 p.m. · Elderly Treasurer Wanda Johnson – Cell # 605-924- Housing Board OAD Election Board Members: 1575 THPO Brandon Adams 605-228-7290 · Elderly Secretary Deborah Heminger – Cell # 605- Elderly Board Laura Henninger 605-268-0345 268-1791 Constitution Revision Kathy Adams 605-268-0399 · SWO Elderly Cynthia Starr – 605-467-9954 District Coordinator Brenda Solberg 605-698-4391 · The Buffalo Lanes – Kayline LaBelle - 605-927-9018 Page 14 “Wo’okiye was’te qa wico zani o’wacin yuhapo” Sota Iya Ye Yapi - www.earthskyweb.com/sota.htm - Anpetu Iyamni - Feb. 20, 2019

Pierre, SD - KSFY - Feb. 11, industrial hemp. She says questions (Editor’s note: Developing 2019 – State representatives have remain about enforcement, taxpayer industrial hemp products and overwhelmingly advanced legislation costs and effects on public safety. markets is a high priority for the to legalize industrial hemp in South The 2018 federal farm bill SWO Tribe, which has already Dakota days after Gov. Kristi Noem legalized the cultivation of industrial done research and planning over asked lawmakers to shelve the efforts hemp. the past several years. Last year, in By Wakinyan Waanatan (Matt Act, this session. Jarrod Otta, plant manager for cooperation with the state of North Remle) named The House voted 65-2 Monday Glanbia Nutritionals in Sioux Falls, Dakota and in partnership with Pierre, SD – Last Real Indians after to send the bill to the Senate. House recently told lawmakers that the University of Minnesota researchers, – Feb. 12, 2019 – On February 22-year- Majority Leader Lee Qualm says it’s company has been contacted by two SWO planted, grew, and harvested 12th, the South Dakota Senate old time to move forward with hemp. “very large customers” to process a successful industrial hemp plot in Judiciary Committee unanimously Savanna The vote comes after Noem hemp protein. He asked lawmakers North Dakota.) approved a bill that seeks to remedy Greywind said Friday that South Dakota to legalize hemp so the company can the inadequate data collection of who was isn’t ready for the production of expand in South Dakota. missing and murdered Indigenous killed women. in 2017 lifetimes. Senate Bill 164, SB 164, in Fargo, ND when she was Savanna’s Act is being held up is an act to provide uniform eight months pregnant, seeks to by one lawmaker, Republican Rep procedures for the reporting of diminish crime in Native American Bob Goodlatte of Virginia. and investigation of missing and communities by improving how SB 164 received the Pierre, SD – Feb. 5, 2019 into law today.” SB0011 – An act to revise murdered indigenous women. data on crime victims is reported unanimous support of the Senate – Governor Kristi Noem today Noem signed the following certain provisions regarding the If passed, it would require and how missing persons cases are Judiciary Committee and now goes approved legislation to expand pieces of legislation this afternoon: granting of work?permits to minors the state’s Division of Criminal handled. to the Senate floor for a vote. South Dakota renewable energy HB1014 – An act to repeal who refuse to submit to chemical Investigation to standardize the According to the Indian ***** production. HB1031, which Noem certain provisions regarding analyses reporting and investigation of Law Resource Center, Native Matt Remle (Lakota) is an signed today, will streamline wind payments of the tax imposed on SB0020 – An act to update missing and murdered Indigenous American women have an estimated editor and writer for Last Real and solar development on state- financial institutions and banks certain provisions regarding women. murder rate that is 10 times the Indians and LRInspire and the co- owned lands. The bill will go into HB1015 – An act to revise consumer protection. According to Rep St. John, national average and according to founder of Mazaska Talks. Follow @ effect July 1, 2019. ? certain references to the Internal SB0021 – An act to authorize SB 164 is being done, in part, as a the National Institute of Justice wakiyan7 “Our economy and security Revenue Code certain tobacco manufacturers to response to the failure of Congress indicated that 84 percent of Native are reliant on an energy supply HB1031 – An act to authorize assign to the state the interest of the to pass the Savanna’s Act. Savanna’s women endure violence in their that is accessible, abundant, and certain wind and solar easements manufacturer in any money in a affordable,” said Noem. “This bill and leases by the commissioner of qualified escrow fund takes a step toward expanding the School and Public Lands SB0035 – An act to revise potential of South Dakota wind and SB0005 – An act to codify and repeal provisions regarding solar energy. I’m proud to sign it legislation enacted in 2018 revocation of occupational licenses

By Lisa Kaczke his fellow committee members that children and families right now,” he Pierre, SD – Argus Leader the state needs to take action if there said. – Feb. 11, 2019 – Outbursts are victims who feel they haven’t “The entities and issues are no concluded nearly an hour of been able to pursue justice because longer the same except in name,” testimony over a bill that would of the state’s actions. Bell said. “If you’re looking 30 years allow a two-year window for A group of women pushing in the past, the officers and directors alleged child sexual abuse victims for the bill cried and hugged in the and members of that organization Pierre, SD – Feb. 13, 2019 provides up to $6,500 over four and purchase of big game animal to sue entities who employed their Capitol’s hallway after its defeat, are entirely different. The people – Governor Kristi Noem today years to qualifying students who parts perpetrators. then stood in a circle to pray and who were members of St. Joseph’s signed a bill to make homeschool attend colleges, universities, or tech HB1033 – An act to revise Similar proposals have been sing in Lakota. Wiping away tears, Indian School or members of the students eligible, on an equal basis, schools in South Dakota. provisions regarding transaction of repeatedly filed and defeated in the they concluded, “We will be back.” church are no longer the same.” for the South Dakota Opportunity Noem approved the following business by trust companies Legislature, and it was defeated for What does it mean that the bill Commentary from Scholarship. pieces of legislation this afternoon: HB1038 – An act to authorize another year in the House Judiciary failed? “Empowering families means HB1007 – An act to revise the demolition of a South Dakota Committee on Monday on a 7-3 No alleged victims testified 9littlegirls (advocacy supporting each family’s decisions certain provisions regarding the State University building and to vote. during the committee hearing, for education,” said Noem. “This exemptions from the twelve-month make an appropriation therefore group) legislation levels the playing field residency requirement for university HB1040 – An act to establish Attorneys for alleged victims but two women stormed out in Facebook – Feb. 12, 2019 – argued that people need a chance to frustration after Rep. Jon Hansen, for all South Dakota students students certain provisions regarding the “Rep. Jon Hansen, R-Dell Rapids by removing an unnecessary HB1011 – An act to revise opportunity scholarship program pursue justice, while lobbyists for R-Dell Rapids testified. Hansen testified. Hansen said there wasn’t churches and schools argued that said there wasn’t any proof in the scholarship barrier imposed on certain provisions relating to the HB1048 – An act to authorize any proof in the cases victims are homeschool families. I am pleased South Dakota Retirement System a public body to conduct certain entities shouldn’t be responsible for cases victims are bringing, and he bringing...” decades-old abuse. portrayed alleged victims as setting to sign this bill into law today.” HB1012 – An act to revise deliberations in an executive or The statements by Rep. Hansen HB1040 lowers the required certain provisions regarding state closed meeting House Bill 1269 sponsor Rep. out with a goal to destroy churches. were a slap in the face to those who Tamara St. John, R-Sisseton, told Attorney Michelle Dauphinais ACT score for homeschool students laboratory services SB10 – An act to update have survived child sexual abuse. to 24, the same score required for HB1018 – An act to transfer references to certain federal motor the committee that the bill doesn’t Echols said she was disappointed in The state’s own Task Force have anything to do with politics the bill’s defeat, but believes they public and private school students the collection of various fees from carrier regulations under Jolene’s Law found that 73% applying for the Opportunity the Department of Revenue to the SB25 – An act to revise the and is for people wanting justice and will eventually see the bill pass in of survivors do not report the abuse acknowledgement of their abuse. the Legislature. The committee Scholarship. Currently, homeschool Department of Environment and authority of Department of Revenue when it happens. students must score a 28 to qualify Natural Resources special agents “Every day that we stand in members didn’t seem to understand What message does Rep. the Legislature and say the Pledge the unique nature of child sexual for the scholarship. HB1023 – An act to revise Hansen’s. statements send to The Opportunity Scholarship certain provisions regarding the sale of Allegiance, at the very end, it abuse, which can take a person children and their families about says, ‘For liberty and justice for all.’ much longer to tell someone about reporting when he would not even It doesn’t say, ‘Except for if you’re or report than other crimes. acknowledge abuse that has been over 40 and have been abused in a The annual defeat of the bill well-documented. Catholic boarding school,’” St. John means that it has stalled for so long The politics and the media said. in the Legislature that most of the continue to cast this bill as an Where does this bill come alleged perpetrators have now died, attack on the church. The fact is Pierre, SD – Feb. 15, 2019 – relocation. pending military relocation to apply from? the plaintiffs are now in their 60s that it is a bill to protect children Governor Kristi Noem yesterday Noem approved the following for enrollment in a school district The bill is in response to a and the organizations can argue that from child sexual abuse by holding signed legislation to streamline pieces of legislation: HB1045 – An act to revise the 2010 state statute change on civil they’re no longer responsible for any all organizations accountable for school enrollment processes for HB1008 – An act to revise definition of campus security officers lawsuits that now prohibits anyone abuse, Echols said. covering up abuse. military families relocating to a new certain provisions regarding the for purposes of the South Dakota from filing a lawsuit after they turn It’s “nearly impossible” to find Child rape is wrong period. school district. required notice for biennial state Retirement System 40 alleging that they were abused as old records about abuse, making Politics continue to spin the “The men and women of our political party conventions HB1052 – An act to revise a child. The statute changed blocked it difficult to disprove sexual abuse focus away from the children and military serve sacrificially, but they HB1020 – An act to revise certain provisions regarding lawsuits from proceeding that were allegations if the victim is older onto their own self-interests. We all don’t do it alone. Their families serve certain provisions regarding state the notice given to county filed in the early 2000s alleging than 40, said Justin Bell, a lobbyist know the fundamentals of right and beside them,” said Noem. “Too building committees for capital commissioners for special sessions sexual abuse that occurred decades for Catholic-affiliated St. Joseph’s wrong. Use that as your guide as often, military kids unintentionally improvement projects HB1075 – An act to revise earlier, although they were within Indian School, who is a defendant you evaluate what Rep. Hansen and bear the brunt of a military transfer. HB1024 – An act to authorize certain provisions regarding the the statute of limitations and the in the lawsuits. St. Joseph’s would others are saying about survivors of I’m proud to sign this bill that certain species of game fish to be authority of conservation district perpetrators were alive at the time be “bogged down” in litigation that child sexual abuse and trafficking. streamlines and simplifies the used as bait governing boards they were filed. would detract from its mission of process of transferring schools for HB1043 – An act to require SB32 – An act to revise the Rep. Isaac Latterell, R-Tea, told “improving quality of life for Lakota children of military personnel, the Department of Social Services composition of the South Dakota further ensuring their education to collect and report certain Board of Social Work Examiners remains on track.” information regarding the military SB37 – An act to revise certain HB1044 will allow an active affiliation of a parent whose child provisions regarding association military parent to enroll their child is subject to a report of abuse or health plans in school while pending transfer and neglect SB51 – An act to revise certain By Lee Strubinger grandchildren. native language was frowned upon prior to establishing residency in the HB1044 – An act to authorize provisions regarding trusts Pierre, SD – SDPBS – Feb. 8, “Finally, the white people in South Dakota,” Heinert says. “I district – providing for a smoother certain children who are subject to a 2019 – A state senate committee of this land called ‘Dakota’ the got a text from one of the senators is advancing a bill that codifies plurality of—all over the world that was on the committee and the official indigenous language of people speak many different he said, “You can feel the pain of South Dakota. languages. Finally, they’ve accepted not being acknowledged for who It’s the first step in the this language of whose land that we you are. This bill will help ease legislative process to codify the live on. Finally, they understand. that pain.” And that—that’s pretty By Lori Walsh & Steve Zwemke bill. the indigenous language bill and official indeginous language of the That makes me happy.” emotional right there.” SDPBS – In The Moment – Transcript of the radio show: other issues, we have David Flute. state as the language of the O’ceti Testimony on Senate Bill 126 If passed and signed by the Feb. 11, 2019 – One of Governor Lori: Welcome to In The He is Secretary of the South Dakota Sakowin, or the Seven Council was at times emotional. Supporting governor, Heinert says South Kristi Noem’s early plans is to move Moment. I’m Lori Walsh. One of Department of Tribal Relations. Fires, which is comprised of three testimony went for over an hour, Dakota becomes the first state the state’s Indian Education Director Governor Kristi Noem’s plans for Secretary Flute, welcome back to In dialects: Dakota, Lakota and and featured fluent Dakota, Lakota in the continental US to codify from the Department of Education her fledgling administration is to the Moment. Nakota. and Nakota speakers—from elders indigenous language. The bill passes into the Office of Tribal Relations. move the state’s Indian Education Dave: Good morning and Faith Spotted Eagle is to children. The bill’s prime sponsor, unanimously out of the Senate State David Flute, Secretary of the Director from the Department thank you for having me. Ihanktonwan Dakota and Nakota Democratic State Senator Troy Affairs committee and heads to the South Dakota Department of Tribal of Education into the office of Lori: So the last time we from the Yankton Reservation. Heinert, says to hear testimony in Senate floor. Relations, discusses the planned Tribal Relations. Joining In the spoke was in Pierre right at the ... She says she testified in favor of native language was important. move. He also visits about Senate Moment from Pierre today to beginning of the session. A lot’s the bill to show support for her “For years, speaking your Bill 126, the Indigenous Language discuss that plan, Senate Bill 126, happened between now and then Sota Iya Ye Yapi - www.earthskyweb.com/sota.htm - Anpetu Iyamni, Feb. 20, 2019 “Wo’okiye was’te qa wico zani o’wacin yuhapo” Page 15 already. How are you sort of finding Lori: Yeah, and I think that’s Dave: You know I’ve heard a issue. I can respond to you most to my state email address: susan. $250,000 for veterans that are rated the new role and getting settled in? important to sort of ... to focus on lot of good positive reaction from efficiently if you send me an email [email protected] as permanently and 100% disabled. Dave: You know I think I’m because there are some challenges Yankton Sioux Tribe. We met with We received a fiscal note on the adjusting well and just looking to moving that position away from some of the leaders here the other bill to tell us what the economic forward to advancing the governor’s the Department of Education and day and (are) reaching out to some impact of raising this exemption enhancing tribal relations plan and then there’s some advantages. So you of the other tribes. I’ve heard some would be, and we found that this working with the tribes and doing anticipate a lot of collaboration in good optimism and just that they’re bill wouldn’t cost a county anything, the best we can to foster those new that regard, right? looking forward to being engaged What I’ve Learned for abuse purposes.” It’s good that we can take advantage of the crop but would shift some of the cost to relationships. Dave: I do. and just looking for … better ways this Week other taxpayers. This shift would be Lori: What are some of the Lori: Yeah. Let’s talk a little bit to enhance the relationships between because it grows in dense clusters I was able to visit with a few minimal because not many veterans early efforts? When you talk about about some of the things that are the tribes. I think it is a little too and requires little pesticide or experts on Alzheimer’s this week qualify for this program in the first her enhancing tribal relations plan happening in the legislative session. early with new leadership in the herbicides, minimal fertilizer, it is and I wanted to share with you place. The total number of qualified and the very beginning stages of We’ll talk about this tomorrow as tribes and they themselves getting a one of the best photo-remedative what I was able to learn. Right now, veterans is 1,241, many of whom that. What are we looking at? well on In The Moment, but Senate feel for what direction they want to plants available and absorbs 17,000 people in South Dakota can’t be homeowners due to their Dave: Well we’re looking at Bill 126 was a bill that looked at go and I respect that. They’re quasi- contaminants out of the soil, it has have Alzheimer’s, and that number disability level anyway. This cost will reaching out to new tribal leadership the official language and the official sovereign nations and they choose a deep taproot that reaches up to 8 is expected to rise to 20,000 people be extraordinarily low, and I think and just getting to know some of the indigenous language of the state what direction they want to go. We or 9 feet that will break up compact by 2025. In 2018, the Medicaid it’s important to do what we can to new leadership and listening to what of South Dakota. Tell us a little have to respect that. I respect that, soil, aerate the soil and aids in the cost for caring for people with help the brave men and women who their needs are and you know we’ve bit about the value of having a but I do see some positive traction nutrient absorption. Industrial Alzheimer’s was $167 million, which served our Country. had some good initial response, conversation about our indigenous out there with keeping pressure hemp is predicted to be the next is expected to increase 24.3% from We passed up an opportunity mainly from Standing Rock. We languages in the state. on Indian Health Service, looking big agricultural profit maker, and in 2018 to 2025. In 2015, 378 people that could have helped us keep more did a visit up there to the Standing Dave: Well as a language to find ways to help tribes grow 2017 we had $820 million in hemp were in hospice with the primary of our rest areas open. HB 1266 Rock Sioux Tribe and they sent a speaker of our Dakota Language economically, and improving public based product sales. diagnosis of Alzheimer’s and 421 would have allowed us to allow for very kind message, very respectful it’s very passionate on the issue safety on the tribes. Legislation: people died from Alzheimer’s private sector commercialization of message to our governor, delivered and I appreciate the passion that Lori: Let’s talk about public Earlier this session, I brought in South Dakota, making it 5th rest areas that are being shut down through me that Standing Rock Senator Heinert has displayed safety a little bit. Is that something a commemoration honoring Myron leading cause of death in South in an effort to keep them from just looks forward working with the and those that came to testify and that’s coming in legislation? It’s that Floren who was born in Roslyn, just Dakota and the 3rd highest rate of shutting down. The bill would have state of South Dakota and being a just the reception that the Senate something ... what are some of the 30 miles west of Sisseton, he would Alzheimer’s death rate in America. given up to 2 years for a private little more involved and a little more committee had in listening to the opportunities for improving those have been 100 years old this year. I was also able to learn a organization to pick up the rest active in building new partnerships. testimony that was given. You public safety partnerships? Many of us still remember all the little bit more about the State’s area if they wanted to before letting Initially it’s gone well and with the know I understand the goal and the Dave: Well, we need to look at joy he brought us as the accordionist education system. We have 133,861 the rest area close down. This bill session we have going on we have administration continues to review law enforcement agencies and how on the Lawrence Welk show, but students spread over 149 total could have kept more of our rest upcoming State Tribal Relations ... will continue to review the bill we can help to bring them working unfortunately, my bill that would school districts in the State of South areas open and allowed our state Day, February 26 and 27, and the and hear from all those involved and together a little more closely with have designated the accordion as the Dakota. Of those students, 4% to potentially make a little money theme this year that was established will go from there. respect to each other’s jurisdiction State instrument failed. We put up are homeschool students, who, do back from a dying rest stop, but was education, so it’s ironic how that Lori: All right. So the bill and sovereignty, but the problem a good fight though, and we even to new legislation that I helped to unfortunately that isn’t going to ties into the governor’s plan to move passed out of the Committee of is common amongst the state and received an endorsement from the pass, are now eligible for the South happen this session. the office of Indian Education to the State Affairs, so now it’s headed the tribes and it needs to be fixed, American Accordionist Association Dakota Opportunity Scholarship, We were able to successfully Department of Tribal Relations. over to the house. Do you think it needs to be addressed. I plan on who even offered to place a copy helping those students who meet kill a bill that could have cost South Lori: Let’s talk about that Governor Noem … that this is doing anything and everything I can of the legislation, had it passed, in the requirements to pursue a more Dakota a lot of money. HB 1226 a little bit. She mentioned that something she’ll be behind and sign to help with the governor’s plan to “A World of Accordions” Museum affordable higher education. This is would have revised the distance during, I think it was her state into law? get those areas fixed. Those places in Superior Wisconsin. In the end, a big deal for those students, because that a wind turbine tower had to be budget address where she talked Dave: You know respectfully that need to be addressed and it’s it wasn’t enough, but we put up a 69% of our students enroll in higher from a property line, increasing it about reorganization and different I support whatever decision the just going to help build a better good fight. education. by almost 3 times. The arguments highlights. Sort of an executive governor makes and stand in community for everybody. Unfortunately, my anti- The Legislature was also visited against the bill concerned health reorganization. What exactly does support of any decision the governor Lori: Are those legislative fixes, corruption bill also died in by Midco representatives who issues that people said they were that role do, the state’s Indian makes…. policy fixes, relationship fixes? committee. The bill would have shared some information with us. having trouble sleeping and they Education Director, and how might Lori: It’s a bit early to Dave: I think they’re to start prohibited county commissioners Midco employs 928 people across were getting migraines from the it change as it moves to the Office of speculate. That’s a too-soon question would be. I don’t think it’s fair for from holding municipal office. South Dakota, pledged more that vibrations and noise the windmills Tribal Relations? I just threw at you. Sorry about that. me speak ... with respect to the state Some of the people arguing against $165,000 for communities in were producing. These are valid Dave: Well the Indian Lori: We have to even see lawmakers, that’s an area I’m not ... the bill said that it was hard to the region, has given or matched concerns, but there are also avenues Education Coordinator enhances how, you know, if there’s any the right person to talk about. find people who want to run for over $4.2 million through the at the local level to make sure that opportunities for American Indian amendments or things that sort of Lori: Sure, yeah. all of the open offices and to get Midco Foundation, and helped local concerns are handled in the youth to achieve educational come next. That’s too soon. Dave: But, for the governor those positions filled as is, but we more than 3,700 low income appropriate way for that specific excellence, to improve academic Dave: Well, I know the and representing the governor should ask ourselves if convenience households by offering reduced community. Another problem with achievement and just helping the governor’s very passionate about and being that ambassador, it’s is worth corruption. Not every monthly internet or home phone this is that some of the people in Native American students, the state tribes and she’s ... you know the working on those relationships person who double dips like this rates. Over the last year, Midco put favor of this bill were located outside of South Dakota. We look forward governor’s looking for innovative and being able to find ways where is going to abuse their power, but $91.3 million into capital projects the revised boundary anyway, so this to filling that position and staying ways to enhance those relationships the state and the tribes can come there are some people who will take in the region like giving 92% of bill wouldn’t help them. There are focused on the needs of American and build better partnerships and together on common ground and advantage of their ability to enact South Dakota customers access to potential health issues with these Indian students. I’ll tell you public safety is number find ways to work with each other. the same ordinances they help to internet, establishing a new data windmills and the energy companies Lori: Who is the ideal one and I think it’s been reiterated You know Crow Creek’s got a joint pass. This bill didn’t pass this time, center, constructing new facilities do need to take heed of this, but we candidate for that? What do you a couple of times and I’m focused powers agreement down there but the issue is on the radar now, to produce a better experience for don’t know enough at the moment think the right person is going to on it. I know the governor’s focused and it’s worked well. I know my and as your Representative, it is my customers, and acquiring InvisiMax about what the potential health bring to that role? on it too, so you know enhancing tribe had attempted a joint powers job to do everything in my power to so that they can deliver connectivity issues are, so we’re going to look into Dave: Well … the job those partnerships and making sure agreement and unfortunately there make the government work better to more rural areas and businesses. this more and do some research to advertisement should be out this public safety is ... it’s got to be there were some miscommunications, for you and that’s what I tried to do Hemp: figure out what the potential health week. I guess just briefly having you know before we can really build misunderstandings of the here and what I do every day, and I We did it, we passed the hemp issues might be. As it stands right a knowledge of South Dakota on anything else we got to get the sovereignty and jurisdiction of the plan to keep working on legislation bill in the house with a vote of 65 now, if we over regulate the distance Indian tribes, state government public safety and better standing in tribe, but I think entering into those that will help all of you. yays and only 2 nays. Now it’s on its of the wind turbines, if we have to policies, procedures, K12 education, the tribes and on the reservations. partnerships would be a great start We did get a bill passed way through the Senate where it will continue to expand the range these including programs, trends, rules Lori: Yeah. When you look at in getting a better handle on public through the house that adds value to hopefully fly through committee turbines have to be from property and laws, and just having some some of the new tribal leadership, safety. agriculture, supports South Dakota and be approved by the Senate lines, then at some point we will skills to communicate and be what are some of the things that (Editor’s note: This “In The businesses, and helps to get the wine chamber. Hopefully the Governor kill wind energy in our State. There able to contribute with ... in the you’re hearing that they are saying Moment” segment is available at industry more in line with alcoholic will be onboard when this happens is not a price tag on public safety, direction that we’re going to be that they want to hear from the http://listen.sdpb.org/post/sb- beverage manufacturers. This bill, as her farm bill that she touts about which is why we’re going to look taking. We need to sit down and ... administration? Are they optimistic? 126-and-plans-indian-education- HB 1185, address the rising demand is what gives us the hemp provision into this more, and this an issue we’re looking forward to continuing Are there challenges that need to be director) for wine, and not just any wine, and our ability to pass legislation that will come up again, and we are to work with the Department of overcome? … What are some of the but our locally made South Dakota to grow industrial hemp in the going to do our best to be prepared Education and just looking forward. things that you’re hearing them say? wine. This bill makes it so that farm first place. I’m hopeful that it will wineries will have their capacity for when we see a bill like this again. The final bill I want to talk the funding requested equaled go through smoothly, but I will expanded from 150,000 gallons to about is a lemon law bill for farm $18.7 million. Brown County be keeping you all updated as the 350,000 gallons of wine per year. machinery. HB 1103 would create Commissioner Duane Sutton and bill continues to move through the With this increased cap will come process. It’s exciting to think about a law that ensures that when you for SB 160 because if taxes are to Highway Superintendent Dirk increased demand for agricultural Senate Committees everything hemp will be able to do buy a new piece of equipment and be lowered we should start with the Rogers testified for the bill, as did products that are gathered here for our State, industrial hemp has it breaks down within the first year Week of Work taxes that impact our poorest the representatives of the Township in South Dakota, in fact, a single over 25,000 USDA Value Added Ag of you having it do to no fault of Pierre, SD – Feb. 9, 2019 – most. No other state around us taxes Association. The numbers show we South Dakota winery has purchased Products, including such things as yours, that you can get it repaired Senate Bill 86 passed in the Taxation groceries, so grocery stores close must do better, and this bill will well over a million dollars worth of CBD oil, fabrics, insulation, animal or replaced. This is a good bill that Committee this week on a 4-2 vote. to our borders are at a competitive help increase the funds available to agricultural products over the past bedding, paper, protein powder, and protects our farmers in the case of SB 86 will provide for an accurate disadvantage because of this tax. do so. 20 years from farmers and fruit cosmetics. There is great opportunity a bad piece of equipment, because measurement of the “new money” An interesting bill in Local Another colleague, Senator growers all over South Dakota. The for economic growth as farmers and if something goes wrong and it’s coming from our internet sales tax Government last week was Senate Heinert, passed two exciting bills in other part of this bill deals with businesses in South Dakota enter the manufacturers fault and not the and implement a decrease in taxes of Bill 103. This bill provides for an the Senate Education Committee. labels. We have had some wineries this emerging and rapidly growing consumer, then the manufacturer one-tenth of one percent for every annual transfer of unobligated Senate Bill 140 will provide for that have labeled their products with market. In fact, FDA Assistant should be responsible for the piece $20 million per year collected from state general funds at the end of the increase of higher education South Dakota images like Mount Secretary Brett Giroir to the U.S. of equipment. This bill passed sales tax on internet sales. The bill the fiscal year into the local bridge enrolled members of the nine Rushmore and then marketed their Drug Enforcement Agency set through the floor of the house and gives the Appropriation Committee improvement fund. Pierre likes to federally recognized tribes in South wines that were not brewed in forth that after a thorough scientific is now on its way to the Senate, the responsibility for determining brag about our balanced budget and Dakota at our state universities. South Dakota. This isn’t right, so we review and analysis, the FDA hopefully this passes through their when the tax cut could be done. low tax rates, and rightly so. What Senate Bill 146 will revise certain are going to make sure that in the argues: “There is little indication chamber too so that we can all rest Another bill heard in Senate they don’t like to talk about are the provisions regarding licenses for future our South Dakota products that CBD has abuse potential or more easily the next time we buy a Tax was Senate Bill 160, which unmet needs around the state, like speech-language pathology services. are differentiated from these out presents a significant risk to the new piece of expensive equipment. is from my democratic colleague crumbling bridges. As of March In small towns it is hard to attract of State products that try to use public health.” “No evidence for a Senator Nesiba. This bill takes 2018, there were 5,695 bridges in the numbers of Speech Pathologists landmarks from our beautiful State classic drug withdrawal syndrome the enacting language of SB 86 South Dakota. Of these bridges needed in the public schools. This for their own profits. This is a pro for CBD, and no evidence that and allows for the Appropriation 1,794 were classified as state bridges bill allows for paraprofessionals business and pro agriculture bill, CBD causes physical or psychic Committee to decrease taxes on while the remaining 3,901 fell who have been acting in the role and I support its passage through dependence.” “CBD does not food by one percent for every under city, county, or Game, Fish of a speech pathologist assistant the Senate and the Governor. appear to have abuse potential under $20 million of new money from and Parks. Collectively the non- to continue in that role. The We also sent a bill from the the CSA.” “There is no signal for internet sales. We were only able state bridges had 910 structurally paraprofessionals deliver services Military and Veterans Committee the development of substance use to hear proponent testimony last deficient bridges and 125 under the direct supervision of to floor of the house that would disorder in individuals consuming week, so this week we will hear functionally obsolete bridges. Only a licensed pathologist and are increase property tax exemptions CBD-containing products.” and “It from the opposition. I voted for SB eight replacement project grants indispensable in their rural schools for disabled veterans. We are is unlikely that CBD would act as 86 because it makes the Partridge were approved last year. However, across the state. attempting to raise the property an immediate precursor to THC Amendment workable. 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in South Dakota to hopefully Sisseton-Wahpeton prevent future loss of loved ones. As I share with you every Federal Credit Union week, I love seeing familiar faces 45665 Veterans Memorial Drive – P.O. Box 627 certain child sexual abuse cases, HB Reflecting on loved in Pierre. Having friends from 1269, which I shared with you last Agency Village, SD 57262 back home journey to support my ones this Valentine’s week, failed in committee by a vote Phone: (605) 698-3462 legislation was appreciated and of 7 to 3. The bill was intended Day special. The Governor’s Awards Fax: (605) 698-3907 to provide an avenue for victims Feb. 14, 2019 in the Arts was held this week in www.sisseton-wahpetonfcu.com to seek resolution through a civil The cold weather continues! I Pierre in conjunction with the lawsuit by temporarily amending guess it really is winter after all. I’d South Dakota Arts Council visiting storytelling. I’m proud to be a part the statute of limitations. Although like to thank those of you who have session. During the award banquet, of this organization. the bill was defeated again this year, shared condolences and prayers with Governor Noem recognized Markus It is great to see friends and SD Humanities I stand ready to work with key me about some family issues we’ve Tracy for his amazing work and community members visit Pierre Council Board Member stakeholders and legislators to find been dealing with. Seeing loved talent. You might know Markus during session. If you or someone Rep. St. John, SD a common sense solution that can ones in pain or ill is never easy. A from his beautiful designs and you know are planning on visiting Humanities Council provide closure to victims. close relative of mine continues work in Sisseton over the past Pierre this legislative session, please staff member Jennifer The other bill I’m leading their recovery and is improving in year. Sisseton Art Council’s Jane send me a note so we can meet up. Widman, and House focuses on missing and murdered health thanks to the prayers and the Rasmussen and her husband John I continue to be grateful for those Page passing out books indigenous women, also known medical professionals in our area. were in Pierre this week too. In of you who write or email me on in the SD Capitol. as MMIW. SB 164 is led in the For that we are thankful. addition to the arts, South Dakota legislation important to you. Your Senate by Senator Lynne DiSanto Unfortunately, my family Humanities Council was here voice is important. Please continue from Rapid City. This legislation suffered the loss of a relative this passing out books from their 2018 to keep in touch with me through will require the state to improve the week unexpectedly. My uncle, and 2019 “One Book” selections whatever means work best for you. I collection of data, standardize the Robert “Bob” St. John, is making to legislators. The South Dakota can be reached by email at Tamara. reporting, and better investigate his journey to the spirit world this Humanities Council is a non-profit [email protected], by phone missing and murdered indigenous week to be with our relatives on the organization in South Dakota at 605-268-0920, or by mail at Over the coming year, I’m assistance for workers who are women. The under reporting and other side. He was a legend in the that promotes the celebration of 500 E Capitol Avenue, Pierre, SD asking school leaders to work with seeking additional education. It lack of adequate investigations Powwow world, an “akicita” – or literature, civil conversations, and 57501. me to increase work experience in does not extend to individuals who warrior – from the Vietnam era, and on indigenous women is far too our high schools.? I want to see have already incurred student loan a loving soul with a large sense of widespread and occurring far more CTE and skills training in debt during their undergraduate or humor. He will be greatly missed. too often. This legislation would high school, as well as bolstered graduate studies. As Valentine’s Day arrives this week, also direct the state Division apprenticeship programs. Students Additional cosponsors of the give your loved one an extra hug of Criminal Investigation to need the chance to step outside the bill include U.S. Sens. Angus King while you can. establish training programs for By Governor Kristi Noem healthcare and business to skilled classroom and put their knowledge (I-Maine), Shelley Moore Capito In Pierre, legislation is moving law enforcement officers to better February 15, 2019 trades like plumbing and welding. to work. (R-W.Va.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), in full force with packed committee conduct investigations into missing Growing up, I loved working Earlier this month, dozens of That’s why I’m partnering with Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Chris agendas. One bill that’s making its persons. The MMIW movement has on the farm with my dad. It’s a good students from all over South Dakota local businesses and administrators Murphy (D-Conn.), John Hoeven way through the process this week been growing in recent years across thing, too, because there was plenty gathered in Pierre to celebrate to hold a “Week of Work.” This (R-N.D.), Doug Jones (D-Ala.), is the legislation on authorizing North America, and I’m pleased of work to get done. We’d stay in February as Career and Technical will be a special week when every Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), industrial hemp production in Senator DiSanto and I are bringing the fields from dawn to dusk, but Education (CTE) Month. It was high school student will get out Susan Collins (R-Maine), Jon South Dakota. Despite the concerns this change to South Dakota. On we didn’t know any other way. There incredibly encouraging to talk with of the classroom-to-experience a Tester (D-Mont.), Roy Blunt (R- of Governor Noem, this hemp Tuesday, we testified in front of the was no Facebook or Instagram, so them and hear about the skills day on the job. I hope this can Mo.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), bill which I am a cosponsor of Senate Judiciary Committee on why I didn’t know what my classmates they’re learning. Programs like 4-H, lead to schools coordinating more Todd Young (R-Ind.), Jacky Rosen – HB 1191 – passed the House this legislation is needed and shared were doing after school or in the Future Business Leaders of America internships and experience-based (D-Nev.), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) of Representatives 65-2 and now the case of Lakota Renville. This summers. I just knew that my (FBLA), FFA, Family, Career, and classes. and Kyrsten Sinema (D-N.M.). heads to the Senate Agriculture and bill is also a reminder to the world siblings and I were expected to work Community Leaders of America Learning about the world The legislation has also Natural Resources committee for that these individuals are loved. Like hard. And I’m glad we did. That (FCCLA), and the Civic Air of work helps our young people been introduced in the House of consideration. Shelly Amos. They ARE important. early experience taught me lessons Patrol give young people hands-on figure out what fields aren’t for Representatives by Reps. Scott Two of my bills received their I was pleased when the committee that have served me well in life. experiences in leadership, problem them and the areas in which they Peters and (D-Calif.) and Rodney first hearings this week, allowing me unanimously passed our bill, I know many of you share that solving and communication – excel. Perhaps more importantly, Davis (R-Ill.) and has support the opportunity to testify before my sending it to the full Senate for their same background and work ethic. translatable skills that students can though, work experience teaches from numerous educational colleagues. My bill to temporarily consideration. We’re now one step It’s our South Dakota way, and it take with them regardless of where students the people skills they need. organizations. revise the statute of limitations on closer to making the change needed must be something we pass down the job market may lead. Work experience teaches young to the next generation. I strongly In addition to offering people to show up on time, to dress believe that the best way to prepare opportunities for young people professionally, and to interact with our young people for their careers is to pursue good-paying jobs in customers. We do a disservice to our through work experience. industries that are critical to our students if they graduate high school Much of this job-ready economy, a strong CTE program without these skills. teaching is done through Career equips employers with a skilled The work ethic of South Inconvenient and Technical Education (or CTE) workforce, ready to fill the jobs that Dakotans is second to none. I’m programs in high school. Shop and are available. proud of that. Investing in CTE home-economics were the CTE I want more South Dakota programs means we’re investing classes of my generation – and student to embrace opportunities into that work ethic and equipping maybe yours – but today, South like this – opportunities that young people with the skills needed Looking for a copy Dakota’s young people have access open doors to new passions and to be successful in whatever career to courses that offer job-ready equip businesses with a strong and they choose. Rep. St. John testifying before the House Judiciary Committee. training in everything from IT and dependable workforce. of the Sota BIG COULEE DISTRICT EXECUTIVES Lisa Jackson, Chairwoman: 605-467-9739 Washington, DC – Feb. 13, attract and Lynn Halbert, Vice-Chairman: 605-268-3035 2019 – U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds retain talented each week? Susie Rivera, Treasurer: 605-924-0956 Cell/Text (R-S.D.) joined his colleagues in employees. 605-637-5155 introducing legislation to help “With the Billy Kohl, Secretary: 605-268-0620 or 605-268- Americans tackle their student loan cost of education burden for families seeking a college 3136 Cell/Text; Email: bigcouleesecretary@ debt. Led by Sens. John Thune skyrocketing, student loan debt is education.” (R-S.D.) and Mark R. Warner (D- at an all-time high,” said Rounds. gmail.com According to reports, one in Subscribe Now Va.), the Employer Participation “Our legislation would open up four Americans have student loans, in Repayment Act would allow additional tools to help both and student debt in the U.S. reached employers to contribute up to students dealing with education $1.5 trillion in 2018. Student debt $5,250 tax-free to their employees’ loans and employers seeking to is a significant financial burden that Notice student loans – providing employees attract new hires. I’m pleased to not only influences the way our & Receive Your Copy with much-needed relief and join Sens. Thune and Warner in Siceca Iyakaptapi Youth Board workforce saves and spends, but also employers with a unique tool to this effort to ease the financial Day time contacts: has a stifling effect on the economy. 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Notice Notice NOTICE Big Coulee District Members Lake Traverse District Members The Lake Traverse District meeting is Saturday, Old Agency District Members Lisa Jackson, Big Coulee District Councilwoman February 23, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. Hours of operation: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. weekdays. has called for the BCD Executive positions. Potluck to be served. Doors open at 9:00 a.m. each day. Any BCD member interested in running for any district executive position - Chairman, Vice- District Executive Officers & Coordinators Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary - will need to District Center 698-7747 submit a letter of intent no later than Tuesday, Jesse Larsen, Chairman: 605-924-1635 February 19, 2019. ATTENTION Sherilyn Marks, Vice-Chair: 605-268-2024 Please submit letters to Billy Kohl, BCD LAKE TRAVERSE DISTRICT MEMBERS Secretary via hand delivered, faxed to the DISTRICT EXECUTIVES TELEPHONE NUMBERS Dani Two Stars, Secretary: 605-419-1109 district center @ 605-938-5475, or emailed to District Chairman-Darwin James - 268-3743 Louella Cloud, Treasurer: 605-268-5015 [email protected]. Reminder the Vice-Chairman-Jacky White - 268-0726 Milton “Nippy: Owen, Councilman: 605-924-6023 BCD Secretary’s cell/text number is 605-268- Treasurer-CR James - 419-1661 Sara Hayes, Coordinator: 605-742-0075 3136. Secretary-Janel Many Lightnings - 268-1802 Page 18 “Wo’okiye was’te qa wico zani o’wacin yuhapo” Sota Iya Ye Yapi - www.earthskyweb.com/sota.htm - Anpetu Iyamni - Feb. 20, 2019

NPR – Jan. 23, 2019 – For forth across the border for domestic, one Native American tribe whose religious and cultural purposes — land straddles the U.S.-Mexico after Border Patrol agents check border, President Trump’s proposed their IDs and backgrounds, he says. border wall would, literally, divide Supporters of a wall see that its people. section of the border as vulnerable: The Tohono O’odham a rural and desolate place where Nation stretches through the desert any number of people can slip from just south of Casa Grande into the U.S. without proper in southern Arizona to the U.S. documentation. They point to border — and then beyond, into the the thousands of migrants picked Mexican state of Sonora. This means up each year while trying to cross that if Trump gets his $5.7 billion into the U.S. illegally through the border wall, it would cut right Tohono O’odham nation, as well as through the tribe’s land. the area’s drug smuggling problem. “It would be as if I walked into “We share that concern, but your home and felt like your home a wall is not the answer to stop the was not safe, but I want to build a drugs or dangerous people from wall right smack in the middle of coming to America,” he says. your home and let me divide your It is not entirely clear whether family,” Verlon Jose, vice chairman President Trump has the authority of the Tohono O’odham Nation, to just take land from the Tohono with migrants trying to cross tells NPR’s David Greene. “It is O’odham tribe to build a wall. through the Tohono O’odham putting a blockage into our way Monte Mills, co-director of the nation illegally: of life, into things that we’ve been Margery Hunter Brown Indian Law We have a ranch a few miles doing for hundreds and hundreds of Clinic at the University of Montana, just north of the international years. And when you interrupt those says that would most likely take an border, and they come by the ranch things, bad things happen.” act of Congress. way too often. There’d been a Jose also notes that his nation “The law basically requires decrease over the years, but they still has been in existence long before that there be some clear statement come by and if we’re not there ... the Gadsden Purchase, which drew — usually by Congress — if tribes they’ll break in and help themselves the border between the U.S. and are going to be deprived of certain to food and water. Mexico. rights,” he tells NPR. The Tohono O’odham have Plans for the exact wall route Interview Highlights always been hospitable people have not been released, but because How building a border wall — even with [the] first European its nation spans both countries, the would affect the Tohono O’odham contact. So that’s just our thing. tribe is concerned; Jose has been nation: Nowadays it’s gotten where a lot of lobbying congressional lawmakers. It was affect it greatly — more drugs are being involved. They seem Jose says the Tohono O’odham so because we don’t know what that to just want to go in and destroy land in the U.S. totals 2.8 million actually means. Are you building your homes, and that’s what we feel acres, home to around 32,000 tribal a 30-foot concrete wall? A 30-foot that we’re being disrespected and citizens. About 2,000 tribal citizens steel wall? How are the people going that we’re being violated by these live in Mexico, he says, though it’s to be able to cross? How are the migrant crossers. But at the same unclear the exact boundaries of that animals going to be able to cross? time there are two probably different land. It is within our responsibility that groups of people that come through For a long time, there was just we also have to be in consider the the border. You got the migrants a four-strand barbed wire fence wildlife and we cannot interrupt that are coming looking for the marking this stretch of the border. migratory flows of the wildlife. So, American dream and then you got But after the U.S. government yes, it will have a major impact on those who are hauling drugs. struck a deal with the Tohono us. It does so now even with the On the relationship between O’odham in 2006, Jose says vehicle vehicle barriers. There are traditional tribal police and Border Patrol going to be the eyes out there. ... tragedies that happen in America, The IRS urges people with a barriers made of heavy steel were routes that we use for our sacred agents: So that’s why we believe that a wall and I have not done any research filing requirement and a balance due installed across most of the 62-mile ceremonies and that people have We have hundreds of Border would not work. Yes, one terrorist on this myself, but if you look at to file by the April 15 deadline even divide. Now the Tohono O’odham used for many, many years. When Patrol on patrol on our nation. could come through there, but how [much] devastation America if they cannot pay in full. Taxpayers only have three specific points where we negotiated our compromise I’d like to say that we have an look at how many terrorists that has faced, how much is caused by in this situation should pay what they can cross, he says. with the vehicle barrier, we’re still OK relationship. Sometimes it’s we already have in America. When people coming across the border? It’s they can and consider a payment A more permanent barrier, able to somewhat go in those areas. good, sometimes it’s bad. I can’t you look at when you look at all the America killing America. plan for the remaining balance. however, would affect the tribe and But a wall? Would totally stop us say it’s a great relationship, but Taxpayers who owe taxes could “totally” stop the Tohono from going in either direction. we work together [to stop illegal can choose among the following O’odham from being able to That would certainly interrupt the border crossing]. Our local law payment options: move in either direction, Jose says. traditional practices of our people. enforcement works with the Border IRS Direct Pay allows payment Currently, citizens go back and On his experiences dealing Patrol on securing the border. Our directly from a checking or savings local law enforcement spent about account. This service is free. Washington, DC – Feb. 13, Underpayment of Estimated Tax by 60 to 70 percent of their time on Electronic Federal Tax Payment 2019 – As the 2019 tax filing season Individuals, Estates and Trusts, and ENEMY SWIM DISTRICT border issues, and about $3 million System, or EFTPS. Pay by phone or gets into full swing, the Internal its instructions for details. annually on border issues. So we online. This service is free. Job Opening Revenue Service reminds taxpayers “The IRS understands there work hand-in-hand with them. Debit or credit card payment. Part Time Janitor who owe of the many easy payment were many changes that affected On the argument that a border This service is free, but the options. people last year, and the new Three (3) days a week. wall would address concerns of processing company may charge a The IRS anticipates that penalty waiver will help taxpayers Deadline: Friday, March 1st, 2019 - 4 pm illegal immigration and national fee. Fees vary by company. most taxpayers will be affected by who inadvertently had too little tax Applications available at the District Center. security: Check or money order made major tax law changes. While most withheld,” said IRS Commissioner For more info you can call the Enemy Swim District I believe that working together payable to the United States will get a tax refund, others may Chuck Rettig. “We encourage Center: we can do more. Treasury (or U.S. Treasury) either in find that they owe taxes, many of people to check their withholding Technology is a key. Right now person or through the mail. Office: (605) 947-4319; Fax: (605) 947-4873. whom may qualify for a waiver again this year to make sure they 8-2tc they’re proposing the integrated Cash payments at some of the estimated tax penalty that have the right amount of tax fixed tower – that’s a virtual wall IRS offices or at a participating normally applies. See Form 2210, withheld for 2019.” that’s going to be out there that’s PayNearMe location. Some

Job Vacancy The Farm Service Agency has a Temporary Program Technician vacancy in the Roberts County Office located in Sisseton, SD. Opening date is February 25, 2019, and the closing date is March 1, 2019. A copy of the vacancy announcement and application packet can be obtained by contacting Sharon Rolstad, CED at 605-698-7639. FSA is an Equal Opportunity Provider, Employer and Lender. 8-2tc Sota Iya Ye Yapi - www.earthskyweb.com/sota.htm - Anpetu Iyamni, Feb. 20, 2019 “Wo’okiye was’te qa wico zani o’wacin yuhapo” Page 19

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Emergency SWHA No.’s for furnace calls Emergency preparedness message – (605) 880-2049 on call (605) 237-0035 Ephriam Redearth, Maintenance Supervisor (605) 467-1824 Kris Kohl, IHS Housing (605) 237-0030 Patrick Deutsch Jr (605) 419-1570 Eric Shepherd, Executive director

SWO Tribal members are 96.1, KXSW 89.9, and tv stations Radio Station KXSW, B103 KBWS NOTICE asked to please contact Tribal Law KELO and KSFY. radio station, KELO and KABY TV Enforcement at 698-7661 in the Above all, employees are asked stations. event of an emergency, and to be as to please use their best judgment 3. Head Start-The SWO The Sisseton Wahpeton Housing Authority is looking for specific as possible concerning the when traveling in winter weather Head start will not run buses if the nature of the problem. and avoid traveling during winter temperature is -20 degrees or colder. SWO members interested in applying for the Lease-to- Tribal officials ask that anyone Parents must transport away from home during a storm, if and pick up their children Own Program. you find shelter, please notify Tribal if no buses run. Children Law Enforcement that you are safe. will be considered That could prevent rescue workers excused for that day. Location: Long Hollow II Development Site from endangering themselves out Tribal Law looking for you. Enforcement The public is asked to plan Winter storm statement ahead when the forecast calls for a In the event of possible winter storm. This includes inclement weather (i.e., checking to make sure there is ample blizzards, power outages) heating fuel, food, and drinking the Sisseton-Wahpeton water. For those with serious storms except in emergencies. Tribal Police and Emergency medical conditions, be certain there (And then, please let others in your Management will do their best to is ample medication on hand. family, or friends, and Tribal Law ensure your safety. In some cases, dialysis patients Enforcement, know your plans.) Please call should you have any Design: 3-bedroom units with crawl spaces. and others with acute health If possible, everyone is asked to questions or concerns about friends problems should contact Sisseton please check on your elderly family or relatives. IHS about staying in a “swing bed” members and friends during such If need be, emergency shelters or with family or friends close to times. will be set up at designated areas. Base Income: $48,000 combined annual household the health care center. Telephone SWO Head Start closings policy The Tribal Police will be the income (minimum) number is 698-7606. (Here is the school closing only ones who can authorize a room Tribal office business hours policy as stated in the Head Start at I-29 and those rooms will only on winter storm days parent handbook.) be given to those who need it for Closing of Tiospa Zina Tribal 1. Facility -The SWO Head medical reasons (respirators, dialysis, Term: 36 months lease-to-own. At the end of School and Sisseton Public Schools Start will close if the facility etc.). It will be a first come, first the term, applicant must have in place will be taken into consideration becomes unsafe for the children. serve basis. when making a final decision to This includes a water break, furnace If you are unable to drive due a mortgage loan to purchase the house. close Tribal offices, but they are no breakdown, or any health hazard to weather or a medical condition, longer the determining factor. declared by The Director of Head please feel free to call and Law T Yamni ~ SWHA provides assistance The decision to close Tribal Start, Dept. of Health or by the Enforcement will gladly arrange offices due to weather will remain SWO. transportation for you. with the mortgage lending process. at the discretion of the Tribal 2. Weather-The Head Start Should you have any questions Executives. and Early Head Start will close if or concerns, please don’t hesitate In the event of a closing, the the public or Tribal schools remain to contact: SWO Tribal Law Applications of Interest available at the SWHA announcement will be made on FM closed due to the weather. Notices Enforcement, (605) 698-7661. radio stations KBWS 102.9, KIXX will be given out over SWO Tribal Administration Office (605) 698-3901