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Community meeting set April 19th to get input on new SWO detention center PRESORTED STANDARD Per Copy Dept. of Labor project coordinator meets with Tribal officials, visits YouthBuild Program U.S. POSTAGE Chairman Crawford announces special BIA funding for Child Protection Program services PAID Sota Iya Ye Yapi SISSETON, SD Tom Daschle “Wopida” community dinner this Wednesday noon; All are welcome PERMIT NO. 6 SWO YouthBuild, Tribal Realty offer to plant a tree in memory of a loved one at park P.O. Box 628 ¢ Planning underway for traditional Dakota spiritual ceremony welcoming home soldiers Agency Village, SD 57262 50 April 17th at Dakota Magic Convention Center (note change of date) Postmaster: Tiospa Zina Tribal School observes “Week of the Young Child” throughout this week Contents -- Time-Dated News Do Not Delay Sisseton Wahpeton College hosts RSI science fair winners highlighted This edition mailed at Sisseton, SD on or before April 4, 2005 Serving the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate since 1968 Vol. 36 April - Maga Okada Wi - “Moon When Geese Lay Eggs” - Wednesday, April 6, 2005 No. 14 SWO YouthBuild Coordinator Susan TallBear introduces Richard Morris of the Department of Labor to Tribal Council last Thursday, March 31st. Richard Morris, of the U.S. Department become acquainted with the staff and see how he leadership, it will be a success with support of of Labor, Washington, D.C., visited the Lake might “help make it (YouthBuild) a success.” Tribal Council.” SWO Tribal Chairman James “J.C.” Crawford welcomes Traverse Reservation last week to meet with the Morris said he was “not coming out of the He spoke of the program’s “viability and Department of Labor YouthBuild project officer Richard Morris to Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate YouthBuild program bureaucracy, but personally . .” and that he fundability” and said he is personally looking for the Lake Traverse Reservation. staff. He also met with SWO Tribal Chairman found it “a humbling experience.” funds for its continuation, possibly with support James “J.C.” Crawford and was introduced to He said the SWO YouthBuild program for additional, innovative options. Tribal Council by YouthBuild Manager Susan “could very well serve as a model for other SWO YouthBuild was established with a TallBear. communities.” $3.25 million grant from the Department of Morris is project officer for the DOL’s He wanted the Tribe to know that the Labor last year, and is charged with providing YouthBuild programs. Department “is committed to this project being education and work experience for youth and In remarks to Council, he said his mission a success.” young adults on the Lake Traverse Reservation. here was not “to make an assessment,” nothing The DOL official told the Oyate leaders formal at all. Instead, he said he wanted to that “with the committed staff and committed (Editor’s note: The following comes to Sota readers “How are we going to prepare for this coming storm office,” he said, “has resulted in $295,000 in special A list of winners, and photo highlights of both events, from interviews with SWO Tribal Chairman James “J.C.” . if General Assistance is wiped out, burial funds, cuts funding for the Oyate’s Child Protection Program.” will be featured in next week’s Sota. Crawford by the Sota editor.) to policing, hunting and fishing, and (we anticipate) cuts The Chairman had special thanks for Floyd DeCoteau, Dakota Training Institute Tom Daschle Wopida in economic development down to nothing?” who accompanied him to the area BIA meeting, also Chairman Crawford announces that Charnelle Gill SWO Tribal Chairman James “J.C.” Crawford plans Other programs are already in financial trouble, for Superintendent Russell Hawkins and Julie Bird, of has been hired to serve as coordinator of the Sisseton to attend former U.S. Senator Tom Daschle’s Wopida this including the SWO Child Protection Program, said the Sisseton BIA office, who attended the area meeting Wahpeton College Dakota Training Institute, and that Wednesday, April 6th and formally thank him on behalf Chairman Crawford. “Our social problems are squarely in and were instrumental in helping secure this additional the Institute offers outstanding training programs. He of the Oyate for all he has done over many years while front of us. We need to be more responsible, parents must funding. encourages Tribal program managers, staff, and any of the serving in Congress, for the Tribe. be more responsible.” “The money will be used to cover counseling, inpatient community interested, to attend. Please read about the Wopida elsewhere in the Sota, And when it comes to funding and administering and outpatient services, and placement of abused and These are top quality leadership and management and plan to come if you can Wednesday noon, April social, educational, and economic programs on the neglected children in Child Protection for the remainder programs, hosted by nationally known experts from 6. Purpose of the event, which is being hosted by Tom Lake Traverse Reservation, he said, “The Tribe must be of this fiscal year,” he said. diverse fields. Daschle, is to allow him an opportunity to thank the responsible for reprioritizing and maximizing use of its Taking care of these children, providing needed See the advertisement for the next program, scheduled Oyate for their support. discretionary funding resources.” counseling services and foster homes, and bringing healing for April 29th, elsewhere in the Sota. Meetings with local and area BIA staff BIA meetings not all about budget to families, are a top priority of the Tribe, according to the Spring fever is around the corner Chairman Crawford has held two local preliminary Chairman Crawford emphasized that not all of the Chairman. And recently, the need for child services has Time to think about Dakota Winds meetings with Sisseton BIA Superintendent Russell meetings with the local and area BIA staff have focused outpaced the Child Protection Program’s budget. Dakota Winds driving range open Hawkins and other Sisseton BIA personnel to discuss the on the budget. “The program’s budget for FY 2005 has been coming “funding storm.” Last Friday, the agenda included the transfer of federal insufficient to handle the need for our children,” he said, now; Golf course opens April 15th Last Friday, April 1st, the Chairman traveled to property to the Tribe. “and the Tribe has been subsidizing the program for Actually, according to the Chairman, spring is already Aberdeen for a meeting with the BIA area staff to discuss Two properties were involved in this discussion. several months.” here. He has been out fishing in open water and enjoying the FY 2006 budget. The first is the property where the Community Post “This good news shows what can happen – even in it. Watch for more specific information about the cuts as Office is located at Agency Village. difficult times – when we put aside conflicts and resolve He wants the community’s golfers to think about the soon as it is available. The second is the former Peever School site in the city to work together for the common good of the Oyate.” fun available at Dakota Winds Golf Course, located at Here is what is already known: of Peever. “It shows us a way to weather the (funding) storm,” Dakota Magic. With an estimated loss of more than $139 million in According to the Chairman, the Tribe has the option he added. The driving range was scheduled to open to the public this year’s annual BIA budget, he said, “We need to take to assume title to both properties, and he expects the title “I especially appreciate the support and joint advocacy last weekend, while the spring opening of the course is set a hard look at which programs will be affected, by how transfers to be approved. provided by Sisseton BIA Superintendent Hawkins,” he for April 15th much, and which programs are slated to be eliminated.” Also on the agenda was the need for additional said. The Chairman says, Come out and enjoy the sport “And we must ask how is the Tribe going to subsidize funding for the Tribe’s Child Protection Program “This is really good news,” he said, especially good at of golf! these programs . or is the Tribe not going to subsidize Funding news not all bad! a time when most federal funding news has been bleak. SWO meetings with YouthBuild staff these programs?” Chairman announces $295,000 Week of the Young Child Chairman Crawford has said that Tribal Council will He spoke, as an example, about the burial fund. “We from BIA for Child Protection Tiospa Zina Tribal School is observing the “Week of be holding a series of meetings with the SWO YouthBuild recognize how important the burial fund is. But it is an the Young Child” this week, and Chairman Crawford is program staff over the coming week. unknown.” Program; Will cover placement planning to spend time with staff and students. He said the purpose is to assess how the program is “We cannot plan for its funding.” costs for remainder of FY ’05 He supports this and other efforts to improve the doing after last week’s visit by U.S. Department of Labor “But with the loss of this source (BIA), what is our The Tribal Chairman had some good news for the education of the Oyate’s young people. project officer Richard Morris. plan going to be?” Oyate after returning home from his meeting at the area Read more about the week-long observance elsewhere The Chairman believes strongly in the program’s “How are we going to address this, and other program BIA office last Friday. in this edition of the Sota. mission, to provide educational and trade/job options to losses?” “Working together with the local and area BIA Congratulations to Oyate athletes the community’s youth and young adults.