Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community 2013 DONATION REPORT SMSC 2013 Donation Report 7 27 8 Native American Tribes $13,212,681 Health & Wellness $6,616,700 Education and Youth $2,815,410 14 9 23 Intergovernmental Aid/Payments $1,992,901 Mental Health & Social Services $1,541,480 Native American Organizations $966,107 17 13 Charitable Organizations $470,223 At the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community we are Native American Tribes Page 4-5 Holidays $144,650 unwavering in our commitment to help others, from Indian Education and Youth Page 6-7 tribes to educational institutions; hospitals to Pow Wows. It Indian Organizations Page 8-9 AEDs $62,157 has been ingrained in us as Dakota people from a young age Charitable Organizations Page 10-11 that it is our tradition and our cultural responsibility to help Page 12 those who have not been as fortunate as we have been. In Holidays Pow Wows $49,250 keeping with our traditions, we donated $27,916,775 in fiscal AEDs Page 13 year 2013, including more than $13 million to other tribes. Pow Wows Page 14-15 MPS Mutual Aid $45,215 Over the past 22 years we have given more than $290 mil- Health Services Page 16 lion in grants and charitable donations. Thank you for your Steward of the Land Page 17 interest in our 2013 Donation Report. We invite you to learn Good Neighbor Page 18-26 Total $27,916,775 more about the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Good Employer Page 27 Fiscal Year 2013 Totals by visiting our website at www.shakopeedakota.org. 2 SMSC 2013 Donation Report 3 Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma Native American Tribes Native American Tribes The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community supported the Pon- ca Tribe of Oklahoma with a grant for $325,000 for a restorative and $13,212,681 clean food tribal agriculture program. The grant funded staff, an office, Bois Forte Band of equipment, 90 fruit trees, and much more. Headquartered in White Ea- Chippewa Indians $1,000,000 gle, Oklahoma, the Ponca Tribe started an agriculture program in 2012 with a goal of providing healthier food for their members. The program Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe $500,000 has since grown to 350 acres, with 40 acres in vegetable production, 50 Crow Creek Sioux Tribe $650,000 acres in corn production, 50 acres in wheat, and 210 acres in pasture. Eastern Shawnee Tribe of One thousand chickens produce 40 dozen eggs daily. The corn harvest- Oklahoma $400,000 ed is used fresh for food, handmade into hominy, and dried for use in Red Cliff Band of soups. Cows and pigs are also being bred. Another 350 acres will also go Flandreau Santee Lake Superior Chippewa into production in the near future. Sioux Tribe $1,000,000 Keweenaw Bay Indian The Shakopee Mdewakan- To assist other Indian nations to grow and prosper while protecting their tribal sovereignty, the Shakopee Community $92,200 Mdewakanton Sioux Community supports economic development through tribal grants and loans. The SMSC ton Sioux Community has Lac Courte Oreilles Band of has made $536 million in loans to other tribes for economic and infrastructure development projects since helped the Ponca Tribe of Lake Superior Ojibwe $500,000 1996. In fiscal year 2013, the SMSC made $13,212,681 in grants to 28 tribes. Oklahoma with grants to- taling $908,473 for debt Lac du Flambeau Band of Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe reduction, economic de- Lake Superior Chippewa $150,000 Grand Opening Held for Wicoicaga Otipi - “A Place for the Generations” velopment, and for expert Lower Brule Sioux Tribe $500,000 witnesses in a lawsuit which Wicoicaga Otipi, the new Flandreau erings, $1 million of the SMSC loan sponse to a new gaming compact was ultimately successful Lower Sioux Indian Santee Sioux Community Center, and two $1 million grants (for fis- with the state of South Dakota. against a chemical manu- Community $250,000 opened with a special event on cal year 2013 and fiscal year 2012) facturer who polluted tribal Oglala Sioux Tribe $500,000 September 18, 2013, with tribal were used to fund the new com- Since 2004 the SMSC has provided lands. The 17,000-acre res- leaders, dignitaries, and elected munity center to provide space for $10.35 million in grants and loans Ponca Tribe of Nebraska $500,000 ervation in Ponca City, Okla- officials present. A loan and grant events like wakes and funerals, trib- to the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe homa, is currently home Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma $325,000 package totaling $5 million from al meetings, and activities for youth for economic development efforts to more than a third of the Red Cliff Band of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux and elders. The Moody County Boys and a senior independent living 3,200 Ponca Tribe of Okla- Lake Superior Chippewa $750,000 Community helped pay for the new & Girls Club, which has 80% Native project. The Flandreau Santee homa members. facility as well as upgrades to their American children enrolled, is also Sioux Indian Reservation is com- Red Lake Nation $750,000 housed in the new community cen- Royal River Casino. prised of 2,500 acres of land locat- Rosebud Sioux Tribe $500,000 ter. From the $3 million loan, the ed along and near the Big Sioux Riv- Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of South Dakota Since the FSST had no facility to remaining $2 million went towards er in Moody County, South Dakota. Santee Sioux Tribe of The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of South Dakota used their $650,000 grant house community events and gath- upgrading the tribe’s casino in re- Nebraska $550,000 from the SMSC for the tribe’s farm. Specifically, capital improvements Shinnecock Indian Nation $20,000 Sokaogon Chippewa Community of Mole Lake to the irrigation system; the purchase of corn and soybean seed; tilling, A $1 million grant from the Shakop- business plan for Mole Lake Casino grant,” wrote Tribal Chairman Chris planting, spraying and harvesting expenses; crop insurance; and labor Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe $250,000 ee Mdewakanton Sioux Communi- and Bingo; weatherization upgrades; McGeshick in a letter. “The timing of and trucking of grain to market were funded. The Crow Creek Sioux Sokaogon Chippewa Tribe of ty helped fund several community the Sokaogon Chippewa Elderly Pro- the grant and your willingness to help Tribe partnered with a local farmer to custom farm the land, which was Mole Lake $1,000,000 planted with 3,135 acres of corn and 1,289 acres of soy beans in the improvement and economic devel- gram; the second phase of a new fish our Tribe is truly an honor. I would Spirit Lake Nation $700,000 opment projects for the Sokaogon hatchery complex; and a new gym sincerely like to thank you for the in- summer of 2013. Chippewa Community of Mole Lake, floor and kitchen area partition in the terest you have shown in rebuilding St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Previous to the $650,000 grant, the SMSC made a $1 million dollar grant Wisconsin $80,000 Wisconsin. The grant funded a num- Cultural Youth Education Resource our community.” to the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe in fiscal years 2011 and 2012 to fund ad- ber of tribal projects: road, water Center. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe $500,000 About one-third of the Sokaogon ministration and other costs, a $2.7 million loan in 2010 to buy back and sewer infrastructure for a new “On behalf of the entire Sokaogon Chippewa Community’s 1,270 mem- 7,200 acres of tribal land, and an associated $1 million grant for taxes Upper Sioux Community $1,000,000 housing area; construction of ener- Chippewa Tribal Community, I would bers live on a 1,700-acre reservation and expenses relating to that land. With approximately 3,000 members White Earth Nation $250,000 gy-efficient housing units; a needs like to thank you for your generosi- in northeast Wisconsin. and 225,000 acres, the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe consists of the members assessment and comprehensive Yankton Sioux Tribe $415,000 ty and assistance with the $1 million of the Isanti and Ihanktowan divisions of the Great Sioux Nation. 4 SMSC 2013 Donation Report Native American Tribes 5 Augsburg College Education and Youth Back in 1991, the SMSC chose Augsburg College in the Education and Youth Twin Cities to receive funding for scholarships. The $2,815,410 $100,000 was invested into two scholarship funds, one from the Gaming Enterprise and the other from the trib- American Indian College Fund ........................ $150,000 al government. A fiscal year 2013 grant for $250,000 American Indian OIC ......................................... $25,500 was added to this previous funding to generate revenue Augsburg College ............................................ $250,000 to support scholarships for Native American students in Blackfeet Community College ........................ $300,000 perpetuity. Over the past 30 years, 225 Native American Boys & Girls Club of the Flathead Reservation ... $5,000 students have graduated from Augsburg College with help from this scholarship. Boys and Girls Clubs of the Leech Lake Area .... $30,000 Catching the Dream .......................................... $10,000 Notah Begay III Foundation Cheyenne River Youth Project ......................... $75,000 The Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community has com- Circle of Nations Wahpeton Indian School ......... $8,000 operates the Cherish the Children Learning Center. mitted $750,000 over two fiscal years to the Notah Begay Division of Indian Work .................................... $35,000 III Foundation (NB3F) to support the national center, Na- Dunwoody College of Technology ...................... $7,500 Since the youth of today will be the leaders entrusted with protecting their people and resources for future tive Strong; Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures.