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PRESORTED Sota Per Copy STANDARD Inside this Sota U.S. POSTAGE From the office of Tribal Chairman Flute: SWST acts to stop meth epidemic PAID WILMOT, SD Tribal Self-Governance of IHS public meeting next Wednesday, Aug. 16th PERMIT NO. 1 Special feature: Trauma Informed Training comes to Lake Traverse Reservation Change service requested Update on Dakota Crossing grocery store project, Dakota Magic, and Dakota Connection Sota Iya Ye Yapi, P.O. Box 5, Wilmot, SD 57279 ¢ Sisseton Public Schools Superintendent resigns Contents – Time-Dated News/Do Not Delay June 2017 Tribal Council proceedings Mailed at Wilmot, SD, Monday, Aug. 7, 2017 75 Reminder: Deadline to submit copy for consideration in the Sota is Friday noon Publication of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of the Lake Traverse Reservation since 1968 Vol. 48 August - Canpa Sapa Wi - “Moon of Black Chokecherries” - Anpetu Iyamni - August 9, 2017 No. 32 Agency Village, SD – Aug. 2, 2017 – In 2013 people from our Reservation that contribute to the newly elected 2017 Tribal leadership. However, upon completion of serving time, and 2014, many headlines were created that recognized methamphetamine problem. Today, the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe’s completion of treatment, completion of community the methamphetamine problem in Indian country. In 2016, Tribal leadership took an active Tribal Council passed a new Tribal law, the Controlled service hours and all fines paid in full the Tribal member The Lake Traverse Reservation also created headlines and aggressive approach against hard drugs in our Substance Act. will be given an opportunity to be accepted back into that echoed the problem and there was an attempt to community by requesting assistance from the Bureau of This new law will give SWST Tribal Justice the Tribal community and allowed on Tribal properties. take assertive action but resulted in little to no impact Indian Affairs Mobile Enforcement Team to assist Tribal Department the ability to execute sentences from six Public safety is a top priority on the Lake Traverse on reducing the methamphetamine endemic on the law enforcement and their efforts combating meth. This months up to three years depending on the offense, and Reservation, and on behalf of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Reservation. action resulted in tens of arrests, large quantities of meth require mandatory treatment for those that continue to Sioux Tribe, we will continue to do our part, as a In 2015, respectively, the Standing Rock Sioux taken off the Reservation and community awareness manufacture, distribute, possess and ingest hard drugs. sovereign nation, to assert our authority and jurisdiction Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe enacted tribal that the SWST is active in combating meth coming Also, on a third offense of possession, distribution, on the Lake Traverse Reservation, and continue our council resolutions to “banish” people that contribute onto the Lake Traverse reservation. manufacturing or ingestion Tribal members will be efforts combating controlled substances that are to the methamphetamine problems on their respective The 2016 Tribal leadership also began building a excluded from all Tribal properties. Third offenses destroying our Tribal community and surrounding reservations. Months later, upon the request of the foundation for a new code that would strengthen the carry a minimum three-year jail sentence, a fine of communities in Northeast South Dakota. SWST elderly affairs committee, and Tribal community SWST Tribal Court and give them the ability to deliver $15,000, mandatory one-year treatment, 320 hours of Dave Flute, Chairman. elders in general, the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux sentences that reinforce the Tribe’s and Tribal elders’ community service and exclusion from the Tribe and all Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe. Tribe’s Tribal Council passed a resolution to “banish” request for exclusion. This initiative continued with the Tribal property. (Editor’s note: The following is taken from our Tribal Council, pursuant to the amended Constitution social costs of drug trafficking and use will spiral out of provisions that impose the penalty of banishment, and September 2nd, 2015 issue of the Sota. Despite being of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Art. VII Sec 1 (a) is control, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the passed, the resolution has never been followed up with a empowered to negotiate with Federal, State, and local NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, any Chairman and Secretary of the Oyate are hereby code for implementation – until now.) governments and others on behalf of the Oyate, and individual 18 years or older convicted in Tribal, State or authorized and instructed to sin this resolution for and The Elderly went before Tribal Council on August WHEREAS, the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Federal Court of dealing, distributing, manufacturing, behalf of the Sisseton Wapeton Oyate. 4, 2015 with a request to banish meth dealers from the pursuant to the amended Constitution of the Sisseton or trafficking methamphetamine or any narcotic drug, ***** Tribe. Wahpeton Oyate, Art. VII Sec. 1 (h) is empowered to including any substance containing opium, heroin, In passing the banishment resolution, the SWO Council listened and passed the resolution, making promote and protect the health, education and general isonipecalne, amidone, isoamidone, ketoemidone, Tribe joins sister tribes Cheyenne River and Standing banishment a consequence for drug dealers convicted of welfare of the members of the Oyate, and lysergic acid, diethylamide, coca leaves, any opiate or Rock Sioux Tribes that have called for a similar solution a felony. WHEREAS, the trafficking and use of any compound or derivative of a controlled substance for ending the meth epidemic on the reservations in Here is an excerpt from the resolution: methamphetamine on the Lake Traverse Reservation has will be immediately excluded and banished according to South Dakota and North Dakota. WHEREAS the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate is a skyrocketed, and the customary laws of Oceti Sakowin: and The measure, which may seem extreme, is being treaty tribe and has according to the Sisseton Wahpeton WHEREAS, the increased drug use has resulted in BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Sisseton undertaken in step with Dakota tradition according Oyate Constitution, the authority to promulgate and increased domestic abuse/violence, child abuse/neglect, Wahpeton Oyate Tribal Council hereby enacts the to the SWO resolution: Banishment is being used enforce ordinances governing the conduct of Persons of assault and property crime, and customary and uwritten laws, and “according to the customary laws of Oceti Sakowin.” the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and WHEREAS, without focused, purposeful action BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Sisseton WHEREAS, THE Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate by the people of the Lake Traverse Reservation, the Wahpeton Oyate Tribal Code will be amended with that the VCL be given a dedicated button that is stop in the office daily to check emails and messages. immediately identifiable upon visiting the VA’s website, I am not leaving town but am spending time with my including its mobile version, or displayed in the first grandkids before they return to school. Again, my cell of four rotating banners (as opposed to the second). is: 268-0502. Please call if you need anything. Thune hopes this modest change could make the VA’s *VETERANS: PLEASE CALL OUR OFFICE resources more readily identifiable to veterans who have IF YOU NEED ASSITANCE; WE ARE HERE TO decided to turn to help, when seconds count the most, SERVE! We are asking that you get your appointment and reduce the rate of 20 daily veteran suicides. The slips turned in as soon as you get your slip - do not wait SWST Chairman Dave Flute has called for IHS? Veterans Crisis Line is a critical resource for veterans the day before or 2 days before. We have other avenues a community meeting to be held next week, on If you have any more questions regarding self- in crisis and their family and friends. Call 1-800-273- that we can utilize and if we have at least 4-5 days in Wednesday, August 16th, on tribal self-governance of governance, this is the time to ask them. 8255 and press 1 or send a text to 838255 to receive advance that will give us plenty of time. Thank you. health services. Because of the critical nature of this decision, last confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 *WOMEN VETERANS CALL CENTER: The Oyate are invited to attend and participate week the Sota published of the SWO Self-Governance days a year. 1-855-VA-WOMEN. Crisis Help Line: 1-800-273- in what should be a wrap-up of the past two years of Working Group’s summary of its research. Upcoming Veteran Events: 8255, available 24/7, and tell them you are a veteran. meetings on this issue. Copies of that information, printed in a special *Aug 10-Veterans Town Hall Meeting-Senior All calls are confidential. The meeting will take place at the Tribal Elderly section, will be available at next week’s meeting. Center- Contacts: Nutrition Center at Agency Village, from 1:00-3:00 The summary, in its entirety, is available on the Aberdeen-6:00 Woodrow W. p.m. There will be snacks, juice and coffee provided. Sota website: pm (CT) Keeble Memorial On the agenda: www.earthskyweb.com/sota.htm *Aug 10- American Legion *What does self-governance mean? or 13-The Vietnam Post 314 – Delano *What could it mean for the Oyate if the Tribe www.earthskyweb.com/news.htm Wall-I-90 Information Center-Chamberlain Renville, Commander Cell # 268-0354 & Clayton chooses to self-govern IHS? or *Aug 14-17-SDDVA Annual Benefits School- Ellingson 1-605-924-1266; Vietnam Veterans Kit Fox *How will this transition benefit Tribal members at http://www.earthskyweb.com/sg_articles.pdf Pierre-Ramkota Society - Doc Wanna, Commander Phone # 698-3299; *Aug 16-Sioux Falls VA Show and Shine-VA Desert Era Veterans - Jesse Chanku, Commander Parking Lot-5:30 pm (CT) 1-605-956-0197; and Geri Opsal, TVSO 698-3388 or *Aug 31-Veterans Day at the South Dakota State 268-0502.