PRESORTED SWC Auditorium ribbon-cutting scheduled for STANDARD Inside this edition – Sota Per Copy U.S. POSTAGE Search underway for missing SWO man May 7th PAID Oyate Job Fair May 13th at WILMOT, SD SWC President sets record straight PERMIT NO. 1 Off limits – HazMat cleanup underway at former Dakota Magic Postmaster: Change service requested Tekakwitha site Report on Roberts County Sota Iya Ye Yapi, P.O. Box 5, Wilmot, SD 57279 ¢ Highlights of OEP “Ina Makoce” Earth Day audits courtesy of Contents – Time-Dated News/Do Not Delay event Wilmot Enterprise This edition mailed at Wilmot, SD on April 26, 2010 75 Serving the Sisseton and Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation since 1968 Vol. 41 April - Maga Okada Wi - “Moon When Geese Lay Eggs” - Wednesday, April 28, 2010 No. 17 40th annual Earth Day event – There are rumors that the Sisseton Wahpeton College is under some type of investigation regarding our financial condition. This is absolutely untrue! Our audits for the past three fiscal years are all unqualified which is the highest rating we can get. Our financial condition, according to the auditors, is the best it has been in the history of SWC. If anyone would like to see copies of our audits, please stop by my office or the office of the Chief Financial Officer and we will gladly show them to you. As for the issue of an investigation, SWC was asked to supply information on any transactions we may have had with an individual Tribal member. The College did not have any transactions with the individual so is not involved in that issue. If you have any questions, please feel free to call me. I will answer any questions you have regarding the College. Thank you. Diana Canku, Ph.D., SWC President. Veterans carry the eagle staff and flags and the TZTS drum group rides in a pickup in advance of the walkers last Thursday morning, during the Earth Day walk. (More photo highlights of the event inside this issue of your Sota.) he SWO Office of Environmental Protection Presenter Bruce Martin spoke in the morning about Tsponsored its annual Earth Day event last Thursday, “Kangen Water – A healing living water that helps re-balance April 22nd, at the community center, Agency Village, SD the body,” and a public forum was held on environmental while the SWO Head Start Program held its annual Earth Day issues in the afternoon. Walk in the morning. There was a good crowd for the annual Head Start There were exhibits on clean water and environmental walk around Agency Village, and for the noon meal at the he Sisseton Wahpeton College will hold a ribbon-cutting for the new auditorium on Friday, clean-up projects on the Lake Traverse Reservation, as well as community center. TMay 7th, at 11:00 a.m. Following the ribbon-cutting a meal will be served, and campus tours how individuals can protect themselves from radon and other Ina Makoce (Mother Earth) t-shirts were distributed to will be provided. pollutants. participants. The Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate’s Tribal Employment If there are lodging needs, please contact the hotel at Right’s Office is sponsoring a Job Fair on Thursday, May 1-800-325-6825 for reservations at your expense. 13th, at Dakota Magic Convention TERO is requesting that Center. The Convention Center exhibitors contact their office by April he former Tekakwitha Orphanage property, will be providing tables, chairs 26th. There is no cost to participants. all buildings, are off-limits to the public. and power cables for computers. This should be a great opportunity T HazMat (hazardous materials) clean-up crews If there are any special needs, for employers and persons seeking let TERO know so they can employment on the Lake Traverse are working on the site under direction of the contact the Convention Center for Reservation. SWO Office of Environmental Protection. First requirements. For more information, contact TERO at (605) 698-3549. phase, underway now, is to remove asbestos There will be a complimentary continental breakfast and Watch for more information in upcoming issues of the and other dangerous materials from inside the lunch for all participants provided by the TERO office. Sota. buildings. After the removal, all structures will be demolished. Here is a photo of one of signs posted at the site. Volunteer crews have been gathering daily over the past week, searching for a missing SWO Tribal member, Andrew Jon “AJ” Lufkins. AJ is the son of Sheila Lufkins, and he has been missing since April 7, 2010. The search involves many law enforcement jurisdictions, including the Codington County Search and Rescue squad from Watertown. Anyone able to assist in the search, or with any information about Andrew’s whereabouts, please contact Tribal Law Enforcement at (605) 698- 7661, or Sheila at (605) 268-0066. According to law enforcement, AJ was last seen between 9:00 p.m. and 12:00 midnight April 7th, on foot near the American Legion Club in Sisseton. He was reported to be wearing khaki pants, a dark colored sweatshirt with South Pole lettering on the front, dark undershirt, and a pair of blue-and- white shoes. Tammy DeCoteau, Manager, Association on the program office, located in the SWO Human American Indian Affairs (AAIA) Native Language Services Building (former Tiospa Zina Tribal Program, is asking the Oyate for input into a Dakota School). Language project. If you’d like to share your ideas about what The program is putting together a CD of the should be included, please visit the office (use the most commonly used phrases used in everyday “main” entrance) or call Tammy at (605) 698-4400 conversation. There are, of course, many to choose extension 367. from. Here are photos of the phrases posted on the Several hundred are written on the wall outside hallway wall, and request for help. and Amara Traxler, and one adopted son, Ray Palacio. Olivia raised two grandchildren, Jerome and Lenore Palacio of Sisseton. She has 13 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Funeral services for Olivia Palacio were scheduled for Monday, April 26th at 10:00 a.m. Olivia Jean Palacio (Hill), 67, of at the Community Center in Agency Sisseton, South Dakota died on April Village, South Dakota, with interment 21, 2010 in her son’s arms at the Kateri following at Goodwill Presbyterian Tekawitha Living Center. Cemetery. Olivia was born to Martha Barker Pastor Robert Beasley and Reverend Hill and Samual Hill. She attended Enright Bighorn officiated. Sota guest editorial – Flandreau Indian School, then went to Kay Bursheim was the pianist. Minneapolis, MN where she met and Special music was provided by Butch The Open Veins of Climate Change married Julian Bascillo Palacio. She Felix. By Eduardo Galeano worked at Augustana Nursing Home for All night wakes were held on (Published on Friday, April 23, 2010 by YES! Magazine.) many years and various other jobs Friday, Saturday and Sunday, at the Sadly, I will not be able to be with you. Hopefully, all that is possible, and also the impossible, will be done so that the Olivia moved back to Sisseton after Community Center in Agency Village. Summit of the Mother Earth becomes the first phase towards the collective expression of people who do not direct world polices, her husband passed in August 1999. Honorary Casket Bearers were but suffer from them. Olivia attended Cook College in Diane Mireau, Michelle Farmer, Connie Hopefully, we will be able to carry forward the two initiatives of companion Evo [Morales, president of Bolivia]: the Climate Arizona for two years where she studied Brown, Carole Iron Moccasin, Barbara Justice Tribunal and the World Referendum against a system of power founded on war and on waste, which scorns human life ministry. She returned in 2001 where she King, Christina Simon, Mary Bear, all and auctions our worldly goods. attended Sisseton Wahpeton College to of her friends and family, Tekakwitha Hopefully, we will be able to speak less and do much. The wordy inflation, which in Latin America is more damaging than finish her ministry studies. She was a devout Christian, Nursing Home and staff. monetary inflation, has done us, and keeps inflicting, grave damages. And also, and above all, we are fed up with the hypocrisy of loved to read her bible and sing Christian songs. Casket Bearers were Kingsley, Jerome and Ray the rich countries, which is leaving us without a planet while it delivers pompous discourses to conceal the hijacking. Olivia is survived by one brother, John Hill of Palacio, Chaske, Kenny and Richard Hill, Aron There are those who say that hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. Others say that hypocrisy is the only proof of Minneapolis; three sisters Richanda Hill, Mavis Hill, DeMarrias, Rayce Hill, Benny Cloud, Decotah Cloud the existence of the infinite. And the babble of the so-called “international community,” that club of bankers and war-makers, and Christine Hill of Sisseton; four children Linda and Purvis Wounded Arrow. proves that both the definitions are correct. Palacio of Sisseton, Kingsley Palacio of St. Cloud, MN, The Chilson Funeral Home in Winsted, Minnesota I want to celebrate, for a change, the force of the truth that words radiate and the silences born of human communion with Renee Cunningham and her husband James and three served the family. Online condolences may be made to Nature. And it is not by chance that the Summit of the Mother Earth is being realized in Bolivia, this nation of nations that is sons (James III, Clint, and Hunter) of Durham, North www.chilsonfuneralhome.com.