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FSST Newsletter April 2006
Maga’Okada Wi ( Moon of Geese)
April- geese have returned and built
their nest, lining their nest with soft
down feathers.
FSST Newsletter April 2006
Council from Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska
Meets With FSST
Pictured above left to right: Robert Campbell -SST Treasurer, David Henry-Vice Chairman, Wyatt Thomas-Secretary, Roger
Trudell-Chairman, Raymond Redwing-FSST Trustee IV, Darlene Bernard-FSST Trustee-III, Sam Allen-FSST Economic
Development Resource Coordinator. photo by Carol Robertson
The Santee Sioux Tribal Council of
Niobrara, Nebraska, traveled to
Flandreau on March 15-17, for
their semi-annual retreat. They
stayed at Royal River Casino/Motel.
Their retreat and meeting was for
budgeting and planning. They also
visited with the FSST Executive
Committee, Sam Allen-Economic
Development Resource Coordinator, Dakota Journal newspaper
staff, and the FSST Program Departments.
SamAllen met with the Council from
Niobrara on economic and hunting/
fishing seasons on tribal lands.
Sam gave the Nebraska Dakota
Tribal Council a “windshield” tour
(due to the snowy weather) of the
Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe’s
trust land, home sites, Buffalo
Herd/Program, Fitness Center,
Bowling Center, Tribal Courts,
Tribal Health Clinic, Pow Wow
Grounds, First American Mart, Fee
Land Acquisition, Bowling Center,
Eastman Hall, Counseling Center,
First Presbyterian Church,
Flandreau Indian School, Natural
Resources and other programs.
The SST Council members also
visited with the Tax Commissioners and Tribal Attorney Rollyn
Samp.
Their Tribal Council and Maza
Kute Drum Group will be attending the same Dakota Events this
spring and summer as Flandreau
such as the 2nd Annual Dakota
Prisoner/Memorial & Descendant
Wacipi, May 27-28, 2006, at
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Lindsay Park, Davenport, Iowa,
Winona Dakota Homecoming,
Winona, Minnesota, June 3-4,
Lower Sioux Wacipi, Morton, Mn,
June 9-11, and the Santee Sioux
Pow Wow June 16-18.
Wyatt Thomas, Secretary, also visited with Amber Allen, Web Editor,
about website development, computer software and updating procedures for websites and linking our
websites together.
The Tribal Council from the Santee
Sioux Tribe of Nebraska are: Roger
Trudell-Chairman, David Henry,
Vice Chairman, Wyatt Thomas, Secretary, and Robert Campbell, Treasurer.
-Editor
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RELATIVES & FRIENDS VISIT FLANDREAU
Pictured above: Ella (Robertson) Boutwell, Ogema, MN and Charlene (Zephier) & Don Wince,
Pine Ridge, SD (all retired now)
Pictured above: Crystal Eagle Elk-Treasurer, Oglala Sioux Tribe, & Charlene
Eagle Elk-TERO & Transportation Dept.-Oglala Sioux Tribe
The Royal River Casino Motel was
the place to see relatives and friends
the week of March 14th. Visitors
from Rapid City, Pine Ridge,
Niobrara, Nebraska and White
Earth, MN were staying here.
Charlene (Zephier-Andy’s sis) and
Don Wince of Pine Ridge, South
Dakota were in town to visit and
see the casino since they were attending the Class AA Basketball
Tournaments. They had two grandsons playing for the St. Thomas
More School, Rapid City, SD. St.
Thomas finished the basketball season undefeated and remained undefeated to take the championship
at Sioux Falls State AA.
Eleanora ( Ella Robertson)
Boutwell, Ogema, Minnesota came
to Flandreau on the Mehnomen,
Minnesota casino bus for an overnight stay at Royal River Casino
March 15th.
Ella came in on a Wednesday afternoon at 2 pm and was in
Flandreau until noon the next day.
Ella was able to visit with her son
Bobby & Judy Peters and grandchildren Dylan and Jade, her sisters Nancy Herrick, Wanda
Cadotte and Carol Robertson.
The casino bus from MN picks up
people from Mahnomen (Ojibway
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for wild rice), Waubun (Ojibwaymorning), Ogema (Ojibway-chief
or leader) on the White Earth Indian Reservation, Callaway, MN,
Dakota Magic Casino, Hankinson,
ND and Wahpeton, ND.
The casino bus stops for lunch and
gaming at the Dakota Connection
Casino, Sisseton, South Dakota.
Visitors from the Oglala Sioux Tribe
were: Crystal Eagle Elk, Treasurer,
and her daughter Charlene Eagle
Elk-Dept. of Transportation, and
Emmy Lou Gallego (sister to Crystal Eagle Elk) and Pine Ridge Community College Director. They
were overnight visitors at the Royal
River Casino also. The Oglala
group were on their way back
from the Oneida Nation, Wisconsin and hit some snowy and icy
roads in Minnesota and decided to
get off the roads and stay one night
in Flandreau and travel on the next
day to Pine Ridge.
It is a good thing the Oglala visitors left for home just before the
blizzards hit west river.
The Casino had great compliments
on the accomodations and buffet
meals.-Editor
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Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe
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Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe.
Editor: Carol Robertson
Assistant: Amber Allen
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Primary Date for FSST 2006 Elections
FLANDREAU SANTEE SIOUX TRIBE
ELECTION NOTICE
The Election Board of the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe
hereby gives notice that the Primary Election for 2006
shall be held on Thursday, June 15, 2006. Polling hours
and place to be announced at a later date.
A Primary Election will be held for the following positions on the Executive Committee:
President
Secretary
Trustee I
Trustee III
In order to be considered for certification as a candidate
for office you must submit a nominating petition to the
Election Board no later than Wednesday, May 10, 2006,
along with a one hundred dollar ($100) filing fee. Nominating petitions can be picked up a the Tribal office
beginning Friday, March 31st, 2006. Nominating petitions received after the May 10th deadline will not be
accepted.
FSST ELECTION BOARD
(Notices will be in the May & June FSST Newsletters, flyers and on the Tribal website at
www.santeesioux.com)
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FSST Newsletter April 2006
Tribal President
Mark Allen Invited
to Cheyenne River
Chairman Harold Frazier invited the
FSST Chairman to Cheyenne River
for the 2nd State of the Cheyenne
River Sioux Tribe Address, on
March 15th at 6 p.m. at the High
School Auditorium. The report
Chairman Harold Frazier presented
was on the progress the Tribe has
made locally, regionally and on the
national level, future projects and
the goals he hopes to achieve during his term.
President Mark Allen was an invited guest and was introduced by
Chairman Frazier. President Allen
thanked the Cheyenne River Sioux
Tribe for the invitation in his speech.
There were other invited guests
and Tribal representataives in attendance also. Laureen Allen also attended the Address.
Open House for Newly Remodeled Police
Department Offices-April 5
The Flandreau Police Department
will host an Open House to the
General Public on Wednesday,
April 5th, from 8 am
to 12 pm at their
offices located at
200 N. Crescent.
Chief of Police Ken
James (Santee
Sioux Oyate of
NE) invites the
community of
Flandreau to stop
by and see their
newly remodeled
and renovated
offices.
The City of Flandreau funded the
remodeling project of the offices
(former City Offices) that presently
houses the Police Department staff.
There will be coffee and cookies
and the staff will be glad to sit down
with visitors and answer any
questions or
concerns.
Chief Ken
James states:
“This is a time
we have set
aside to visit
with
the
community and
answer any
questions or
get ideas and
input about police services we
provide.”
The Public Safety Commissioners
that are Tribal representatives are:
Gordon Jones, Sr., Randy Wade,
Jim Bill Ross and Jeanette Allen.
Attention Tribal Elders:
T he monthl y Elder ly
Comps will be given out
Saturday, April 1st at the
Guest Services desk at
Royal River Casino.
Guest Ser vices is located on the north side
of the casino and is
where you receive your
players card.
The hours at Guest Services are from 8 am to 12
pm. The comps will be
available on the 1st, not
before. -Submitted by
Frank Wakeman III-Marketing Manager
Bunnie Allen recently celebrated her 27th year of
employment as Community Health Representative
(CHR) for the FSST Health Clinic. Thank you
Bunnie for your dedication and service to the Tribal
community!
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Journey to the Spirit World-Peggy Sue Jones Shopbell
The family of Peggy Sue Shopbell
On March 6, 2006, Peggy Sue
(Jones) Shopbell went to be with
the Creator after a long struggle
with
complications after surgery. She was
born in Everett, on June 11, 1958, to
Lawrence and Etta Jones.
She leaves her husband and
soulmate of 30 years, Rockey, their
nine children, Winona (John),
Monique (Ed),Beatrice, Hazen
(Marin), Cecelia (Chris), Santee,
Kathy, Santana and Dominic. She
had one special niece, Jessica,
whom she had been raising as her
own along with nine grandchildren
and another on the way. Also surviving are her mother, Etta; sisters,
Rita (Dana) Matta, Nancy (Ron)
McClellan, Val (Art) Matta, Bonnie
Jones, and Georgia Bridges; brothers, BJ Jones and Kirk Jones. She
was preceded in death by her father, Lawrence Jones; sister, Juanita
Morales; brother, Dale Jones; and
her grandma, “Ma” J , Peggy’s pas-
sion was always her family, especially her nine grandchildren. She
loved to pick berries with all the kids,
and made it yearly to the Puyallup
Fair with them. She was an avid
beach seiner with her dad. She
made sure all the kids were always
taken care of. Kids were her life.
Among all her own kids she was a
foster mom for many years. She
loved to cook, especially her Peggy
Sioux’s chili and fry bread that everyone will miss. She was a flagger
for Wilder Construction for a number of years and recently had taken
time off to get her CDL license.
Viewing will be from 1 to 2 p.m.,
today, Thursday, March 9, 2006, at
Schaefer-Shipman Funeral Home,
804 State Avenue, Marysville,
Washington. An interfaith service
will be held at 6 p.m., today, March
9, at the Tulalip Tribal Center, 6700
Totem Beach Road, Tulalip, Washington. Funeral services will be held
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at 10 a.m., Friday, March 10, at the
Tribal Center, with burial to follow
at Mission Beach Cemetery.
Published in The Herald Net,
Newspaper, Washington, from 3/
8/2006 - 3/9/2006.
FSST Newsletter April 2006
Needle in a Haystack
By Daniel Kraker
In August 2004, after months of
complaining about fatigue and body
aches, David Lister, a 16-year-old
Navajo, was diagnosed with
leukemia, a cancer of the white
blood cells. Less than a week after
the diagnosis, he underwent an
aggressive round of chemotherapy,
and the cancer went into remission.
By winter of this year, Lister told
his father, Ernie, that he thought the
cancer was back.”
I would say, “Don’t even say that.
“ Traditionally, we don’t talk
negative. “Say that you’re okay,” he
remembers telling his son. But
Lister would say to his dad, “No I
can feel it. It’s in my bones again.
I can feel it.”
Lister endured another round of
chemotherapy in March, 20 times
the amount administered to him the
previous year. This time doctors told
him he would need a bone marrow
transplant to survive. With a
transplant, Lister would have
received
high
doses
of
chemotherapy and radiation. That
would have wiped out the leukemia,
but it also would have destroyed
Lister’s normal blood cells. A
marrow transplant would have
replaced the damaged cells with
normal cells. Eventually his marrow
would have started producing
healthy cells on its own, red, white,
and clotting.
Doctors contacted the National
Marrow Donor Program, a database
of 5.5 million donors, but no tissue
match was found. They set up bone
marrow drives in Phoenix and across
the Navajo reservation in the Four
Corners area, but, again after
developing a lung infection, Lister
died. He was 17.
The unforgiving reality that Lister
ran into, and that other Native
Americans with fatal blood diseases
like leukemia also face, is that it’s
much easier to find a bone marrow
transplant if you’re white. Because
tissue types are inherited the same
way hair or eye color are, tend to
cluster by ethnic background. But
of the millions of donors in the
National Marrow Donor Program,
only about 69,000 are Native
American. “That’s a very small
number,” says Oscar Correa, the
program’s Arizona recruiter.” A
Native American patient really has
some long odds here.”
A patient’s best chance of finding a
match, about 25 percent, is from a
sibling. After that, the odds drop
significantly, especially for ethnic
minorities, because of the
predominance of Caucasian donors
(about 80 percent) in the national
program. “I think the need for
donors like this has been more
advertised
in
Caucasian
community,” says Dr. Roberta
Adams, medical director of the bone
marrow transplant department at the
Phoenix Children’s Hospital.” And
it’s only as families like Lister’s
family, who clearly have a need and
are willing to put the work into
making the need known publicly that
non-Caucasian communities are
more aware of the need to donate.”
The donor drives that Lister’s family
organized were not in vain. They
signed up hundreds of potential
donors and helped raise awareness
about the need for more Native
American Donors. With the help of
Correa and the National Marrow
Donor Program, the Lister family
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had teamed up with the family of
Matthew Shebola, a Hopi boy, then
6, with leukemia, to host drives on
the Hopi reservation.
Shebola’s mother, Carrie, was at a
drive at the Hopi tribal government
complex in Kykots-movi earlier this
year helping would-be donors
complete their paperwork. She
organized four drives on the
reservation, signing up more than
100 people. “I’m praying that we
find a match,’ she says. “It’s like
finding a needle in a haystack.”
The actual process of becoming a
bone marrow donor only takes a few
minutes. After Anita Lomytema fills
out a few forms, she sits down in
front of Kimberly Tom, a lab worker
at the Hopi Health Care Center.
Tom gently pricks Lomtewa’s finger
and fills five small circles with her
blood. In a few days, her tissue type
was registered in the national
registry. “My daughter’s in his
class,” she replies when asked why
she became a donor.” I really felt
bad when she was upset about him
missing school.”
Shebola was diagnosed with
leukemia when he was two. He’s
seven now, and the cancer has
returned. Doctors told his mother
early this year that her son would
need a bone marrow transplant. She
says she’s proud of the Hopi people
for trying to help her son. “Because
I need him here with me,” she says.
“He’s just a little boy, and he hasn’t
lived. I don’t think it’s that difficult.
If I matched anybody, I’d give it
without any hesitation because it’s
helping somebody.”
It clearly isn’t that difficult to
become a bone marrow donor, but
Correa
says
there
are
misconceptions about the process of
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actually donating marrow, especially
in minority communities. He says
the “old way” of extracting marrow,
which involved a patient being
knocked out, a giant needle stuck
into the pelvic bone, a night in the
hospital and a sore back for a week,
has scared people away from
becoming donors.
But Correa explains that there is a
new procedure, done about 75
percent of the time now, that is
really no more than a blood donation,
lasting only four hours. With this
procedure only about a pint of blood
is withdrawn. A machine spins the
blood and separates the stem cells,
and the blood is returned to the
patient. “Simple as that,” says
Correa. “The biggest challenge to
me as a recruiter is getting the word
out and educating people about this
process.”
The other challenge is superstition.
Correa says that some people are
just afraid of hospitals; others are
superstitious of giving a blood
sample, afraid that their blood is
going to be used for something else
or won’t be kept confidential.
Correa also says some people have
religious reasons for not signing up
for the marrow donor registry.
Lister’s father says traditional
Navajo beliefs made his effort to sign
up donors more difficult.
“Traditionally, it was everyone was
real afraid about body parts,” he
explains. “A long time ago, they
didn’t like to comb their hair and
leave their around for fear of
somebody bewitching them. So, a
lot of times they’ll become fearful
that the same thing will happen with
donating blood, that somehow it’s
going to come back on them.”
Lister’s dad, who has lived off the
reservation for mush of the past two
decades, says he was encourages
by the response at the marrow
drives on the Navajo reservation.
Despite their traditional beliefs,
elders would tell him.” How can
we say no? Because David came
from our bones anyway, he came
from our bloodline, he came from
our eyes, he’s from us.” Many
were willing to set aside their
fears and religious beliefs.
But James Peshlakai, a traditional
Navajo healer and indigenous
studies professor at Northern
Arizona University, says Navajos
who refuse to donate because of
religious beliefs don’t really
understand the traditions. “In our
oral history it’s permissible,” he
explains. “It’s been done by the
people, the holy people, in the
olden days even before great
medical science developed. Way
back in pre-history, our people
have done these things.”
Correa says it takes children like
Lister and Shebola to put a face
on the problem to really recruit
marrow donors. He says the
Shortage of Native American and
other minority donor’s hits home
when it’s someone in your own
family or community who needs a
transplant. That’s exactly what
brought Correa to his current job
four years ago. That’s when his
mom, who was Puerto Rican, died
of leukemia. She was one of
thousands who die every year
while waiting for a matching
donor.
Source: American Indian Report
If you would like to learn more
about becoming a marrow donor
please
visit:
http://
w w w. m a r r o w. o rg / D O N O R /
donor_information_idx.html
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Children Learn What
They Live
By Dorothy Law Nolte,
Ph.D
If children live with criticism, they
learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility, they
learn to fight.
If children live with fear, they learn
to be apprehensive.
If children live with pity, they learn
to feel sorry for themselves.
If children live with ridicule, they
learn to feel shy.
If children live with jealousy, they
learn to feel envy.
If children live with shame, they
learn to feel guilty.
If children live with
encouragement, they learn
confidence.
If children live with tolerance, they
learn patience.
If children live with praise, they
learn appreciation.
If children live with acceptance,
they learn love.
If children live with approval, they
learn to like themselves.
If children live with recognition,
they learn to have a goal.
If children live with sharing, they
learn generosity.
If children live with honesty, they
learn truthfulness.
If children live with fairness, they
learn justice.
If children live with kindness and
consideration, they learn respect.
If children live with security, they
learn to have faith in themselves and
in those around them.
If children live with friendliness,
they learn the world is a nice place
in which to live.
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Indian Frybread
When the buffalo were all gone
from the prairies, and the plains
tribes were confined to the reservations, the starving Indians were
issued “commodities” to survive.
That’s history.
But here’s an interesting twist; out
of the wheat flour that was so alien
to their cook fires, these ingenious
people created a wonderful new
concept for bread. No yeast, no
shortening, and no salt: it’s delicious,
versatile and easy to make. Every
Indian mother has her own special
recipe for “Indian Fry Bread.”
Timpsula: Prairie Turnip
Psoralea esculenta
Also known as prairie wind turnip,
Indian breadroot, and several other
names is one of the ingredients used
in our Fry Bread Mix. The Prairie
Turnip was probably the most important wild food gathered by Indians who lived on the prairies. In
1805 a Lewis and Clark expedition observed plains Indians collecting, peeling, and frying prairie turnip. The Lakota women told their
children, who helped gather wild
foods, that prairie turnips point to
each other. When the children
noted which way the branches were
pointing, they were sent in that direction to find the next plant. This
saved the mothers from searching
for plants, kept the children happily busy, and made a game of their
work. Prairie turnips were so important, they influenced selection of
hunting grounds. Women were the
gatherers of prairie turnips and thier
work was considered of great importance to the tribe.
Source: WoodenKnife Mfg. Co,
Interior, SD
Frybread Recipe
Pictured above: Helena
Thompson’s famous frybread for
Indian tacos and for soup. Taken
at the Grace Moore Senior Citizens Center.
5 cups flour
6 tablespoons Baking Powder
1/3 cup sugar
2 teaspoons salt
3 c. milk mix till dough is
sticky (add a little more if
needed)
let rest 15 minutes
roll on floured board-1/2
inch thick, fry both sides
Source:Helen Gilbert’s (tribal
member) recipe. Try this recipe,
it never fails, tastes good and is
sooo good dipped in soup or for
Indian Tacos. Yes Yes!-Editor
7th Annual Veterans Fun-Bowl Tournament
Locally Sonsored by the Sioux Falls Vet Center and the North Central Chapter Paralyzed
Veterans of America
When: Saturday April 8th 2006
Registation 11:30-12:45
Bowling --1:00p.m. - 5:00p.m.
Where: Empire Bowl
3800 S. Westport
Sioux Falls, SD
For Who: The 1st 100 veterans and their adult
family members who sign up by March 31st 2006.
Cost: Zero, Nothing!!!
A free lunch will be provided for veterans and
family members, shoes and bowling balls are
included in this free afternoon bowling tornament.
Door prizes can also be won all afternoon.
Completed entry blanks(available at tribal office
front desk) Must be mailed or dropped off at the
Sioux Falls Vet Center, 601 S. Cliff Ave., Suite C,
Soux Falls, SD 57104 NLT March 31st, 2006 Call
605-330-4552 for futher information
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U.S. -Canadian Native Students Play Scrabble Tournament In
Dakota Language
word.”
Mar 25, 2006
HANKINSON, N.D. (AP) - Teams
from Sioux reservation schools in
North Dakota, South Dakota and
Manitoba have been competing in
Scrabble, using the Dakota Sioux language. The tournament made its debut Friday at the Sisseton-Wahpeton
Tribe’s Dakota Magic Casino pavilion near Hankinson.
The game is part of the Tribe’s campaign to revitalize the Dakota language, now spoken fluently by a
dwindling number of elders. One survey predicted the last fluent SissetonWahpeton Dakota speaker would die
in 2025.
“With these efforts, we’ll try to prolong that,” Darell DeCoteau, a school
board member of the Enemy Swim
Day School, said as he gestured to a
nearby Scrabble board.“This will
probably push that back a little bit.”
“Start in the middle,” David Seaboy
told a group of middle-school students
from the Enemy Swim Day School
at Waubay, S.D.
“Everybody help somebody make a
The first word to take shape was
sa, pronounced “shah” - the color
red.
After a few minutes of frantic consultation with The Official Dakotah
Scrabble Dictionary, a team built on
the base to form the word sapa, pronounced “shah-pa,” or dirty, a word
worth seven points.“This is a good
stimulant for the mind,” said
Seaboy, 63, one of a group of
Sisseton-Wahpeton elders, all fluent in the language, who wrote the
207-page Dakota dictionary.
The Dakota Scrabble initiative was
authorized by Hasbro, the maker
of Scrabble, and supported financially by the company’s chairman,
Alan Hassenfeld. Hasbro gave permission for 30 educational versions
of the game. Each set was handcrafted by tribal members. The
tiles were made of stone mined
from a quarry near Milbank, S.D.
Unable to find a maker of a leather
board, the creators settled on a vinyl version made in Fargo, N.D.
Otherwise, all the materials are natural and native to the area.
Project organizers obtained permission from Hasbro to make up to 500
home versions of Dakota Scrabble,
Tammy DeCoteau said. There has
been much interest in the game on
reserves, she said.
Seaboy, who grew up with Dakota
as his first language, was pleased by
what he saw Friday. The Scrabble
tournament was the culmination of
a scholastic Dakota
language bowl, now in its fourth year.
“What strikes me is the reaction of
the kids,” he said. “How hungry they
are to learn and understand their
native language.”
-Information from: The Forum, http:/
/www.in-forum.com (Fargo,ND)
Happy Birthday Wishes To
Authur Allen Long!
April 29th, 2006
Spring should be a joyful time filled with happiness &
flowers. Unfortunately, April seems to have more
clouds & showers.
As the rain falls from the cloud, April showers us with
pain & hurting, then our soul does shroud & on down
comes the rain. As the rain falls from the skies, showers
fall upon our faces, teardrops running from our eyes,
each moving at a different pace. Remembering you on
your birthday & missing you very much.
Pictured above: Authur Allen Long
-Your brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews & Tokojas
(written and ubmitted by Shannan Turner, a niece)
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Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska Celebrates “Retro”
The Santee Sioux Tribe of
Nebraska invited Tribal
Leaders and Tribal members
to a special
celebration
regarding the
T r i b e ’ s
Retrocession
from the State of
Nebraska.
Now, the civil &
c r i m i n a l
jurisdiction will
rest with the
Santee Sioux
Tribe. This is a
victory for the Santee Sioux
Tribe. This means that they
are no longer under Public
Law 83-280, which means
the Tribe has their own civil
& criminal jurisdiction and
the State of Nebraska can
not come in with their law celebration started at 10 a.m.
enforcement, except as with a Grand Entry, Flag
Song, Prayer, Traditional/
agreed by the Tribe.
English,
Welcome
Address by
T r i b a l
Chairman
Roger Trudell,
Speakers,
Press
&
photos, Santee
Elementary
Dancers. The
theme
was
“one heart”
The Council sent out “one mind” “one nation.”
invitiations for a celebration The Tribal Council for the
held on March 14, 2006, at Santee Sioux Nation of
the Community Center. The Nebraska are: Chairman
celebration was called Roger Trudell, Vice
“Santee Sioux Nation Retro Chairman David Henry,
Celebration.”
The Treasurer Robert Campbell
and Secretary Wyatt
Thomas.
Attending from Flandreau
were: Ray Redwing-Trustee
IV, Darlene Bernard-Trustee
I, Gina Williams, Amber
Allen, Ernestine Chasing
Hawk and members of the
Gordon Weston Indian
Veterans Post: Martin
Bernard, Sam Allen, Dave
Williams, and Leonard
Johnson.
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Santee pics cont...
Attention: Tribal Member Parents
Elizabeth Wakeman, Solid Waste
Coordinator, FSST Natural Resources Department, wants to get
a count of TRIBAL children between the ages of 13 years and
18 years of age for the Summer
Youth Work Program.
Ms. Wakeman hopes to develop
a list of youth that will participate
in the summer program from June
to August of 2006. If you are interested in having your child participate, please call Elizabeth
Wakeman at 997-5123.
The Peer Focus Group, under the
Solid Waste Program and representing various agencies are:
Warlene Yellow Cloud-Public
Schools, Leah Fyten-FSST Housing, Dolores Allen-FSST Clinic,
Carolin Simon-Secretary of the
Peer Focus Group, Darlene Bernard-FSST Executive Committee,
Don Johnston-City of Flandreau,
John Bechen-Director of Natural
Resources, and Elizabeth
Wakeman-Solid Waste Coordinator.
The next meeting for the Solid
Waste Program and Peer Focus
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Group will be held Monday, April
3rd, at 5 pm in the FSST Natural
Resources Departments’ conference room. The group will meet
and make preparations for “Earth
Day,” April 22nd, 2006.
If you have any questions, please
call 997-5123.
FSST Newsletter April 2006
FYI: Mold Course Now Available on the Net:
Learn more about mold, FREE, now on the EPA site!
http://www.epa.gov/mold
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FYI-the Seth Eastman (Artist) collections
are on the Frontier exhibit available on the
web at www.mnhs.org/exhibits/eastman/
index.htm
check it out and enjoy!
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Dameon Anthony was
born March 14th,
2006 1:49 P.M. His
Proud parents are
Shaylene Montoya
and Robert Cournoyer
Baby News...
Dameon Anthony
Cheyenne Mercedes Lynn
Cheyenne Mercedes Lynn
Allen was born February
26, 8:03 A.M. Her
proud parents are
Shyleena Whiteman and
Charles Allen.
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Aaden Gayde
Aaden Gayge Brown was born on March 12,
2006 at 5:52 P.M. weighting 7lbs. 6 oz. and 20.7
inches long. Proud mommy is Casey Marie
Brown, Grandparents-Kim Brown & Art
Schmidt, Great Grandparents-Betty Harwig &
Buzz Rederth, Uncles Nate Gould and Josh
Brown and many Aunties-Uncles and Cousins
all welcome you safely into our lives. Thank
you, My Girl, for giving us the most precious gift
imaginable. We love you!
Teagan David Herrick
Teagan David Herrick was born February 9, 2006, at Luverne, Minnesota. He was 6 pounds and 20 inches long. His mother is Kassandra
Herrick, daughter of the late David Herrick and Tina Halling. Kassandra
is a granddaughter to Darlene (Allen) Bernard. Pictured (left to right)Gina
Herrick-Williams (Auntie), Kassandra Herrick & Baby Teagan David
and his great grandmother Darlene Bernard.
Welcome Teagan and congratulations to the Mommy, Gramma’s and
Great Auntie.
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Check out the FSST
website at:
www.santeesioux.com
We still need “Memory
Lane” pictures. Have
any old photos of the
comm unity or Tribal
members? Let us publish them on the
website or in the
monthly newsletter.Editor
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Tribal Courts Phone - 997-3593
Probation Phone - 573-5044
Social Service Phone - 997-5055
Tribal Court hearings are usually held on Thursdays, unless otherwise scheduled. Office hours
for Tribal Court
Monday-Friday 8:30 am - 4:15 pm
George Carlin on Indians
“…Now the Indians. I call them Indians because that’s what they are.
They’re Indians. There’s nothing wrong with the word Indian.”
“First of all, it’s important to know that the word Indian does not derive from Columbus mistakenly believing he
had reached India. India was not even called by that name in 1492; it was known as Hindustan.”
“More likely, the word Indian comes from Columbus’s description of the
people he found here. He was an Italian, and did not speak or write very
good Spanish, so in his written accounts he called the Indians,’Una gente
in Dios.’ A people in God.
In God. In Dios. Indians. It’s a perfectly noble and respectable word.”
“As far as calling them ‘Americans’ is concerned, do I even have to point
out what an insult this is?——
We steal their hemisphere, kill twenty of so million of them, destroy five
hundred separate cultured, herd the survivors onto the worst land we
can find, and how we want to name them after ourselves?
It’s appalling. Haven’t we done enough damage? Do we have to further
degrade them by tagging them with this repulsive name?..
“You know, you’d think it would be fairly simple thing to come over to
this continent, commit genocide, eliminate the forests, dam up the rivers,
build our malls and massage parlors, sell our blenders and whoopee
cushions, poison ourselves with chemicals, and let it go at that.
But no. We have to compound the insult.”
“…I’m glad the Indians have gambling casinos now. It makes me happy
that people are losing their rent money to the Indians. Maybe then Indians will get lucky and win their country
back. Probably they wouldn’t want it. Look at what we did to it.”
Source:George Carlin comedy excerpt
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Attention
Tribal Elders:
The monthly Elderly
Comps will be given
out Saturday, April
1st at the Guest Services desk at Royal
River Casino.
Guest Services is located on the north
side of the casino
and is where you receive your players
card.
The hours at Guest
Services are from 8
am to 12 pm. The
comps will be available on the 1st, not
before.
Omaha Proverbs
“Stolen food never satisfies hunger.”
“A poor man is a hard rider.”
“All persons dislike a borrower.”
“No one mourns the thriftless.”
“The path of the lazy leads to disgrace.”
“A man must make his own arrows.”
“A handsome face does not make
a good husband.”
Laws of the Lodge-the teachings of Wabasha
In another man’s lodge, follow his
customs, not your own.
Never worry your host with your
troubles.
Always repay calls of courtesy; do
no delay.
Source:The Gospel of the
Redman-A way of life, compiled
by Ernest T. Seton
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The Four Directions
In their worship
Dakota Indians (Sioux) are
very attentive to the Four
Directions. When praying
with the Sacred Pipe, both in
private and public ceremony,
they face each direction
successively, beginning with
the West.
In worship the color of
the West is Black. Evil is Black.
Danger is Black. Black is the
condition of Man as he stands
before Wakantanka (WakanMystery—Tanka-Great).
The color of North is
Red. Red is conflict. Red is
tension. Red is decision, as
Man determines whether to
revert to Black or go on to
White.
The color of east is
White. White is victory. White
is purity. White is life. The
rising Sun eliminates redness
and brings clear sky.
The color of South is
yellow. Yellow is Peace.
Yellow is fruitfulness. Yellow
is warmth. Whatever danger
or tension or conflict there
might have been, it is now all
past; now the Camp can rest.
Unfortunately, every
man knows that at another
time, in his prayer, he will
have to begin again and will
have to face the Black.
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The Teachings of Wabasha
So live your life that the fear of
death can never enter your life.
Thank the Great Spirit for each
meal; cast a morsel of meat into the
frie and pray, “Great Spirit, partake
with us.”
Sin is to trespass against the laws
of the Great Spirit; it brings its own
punishment, for sin is its own punishment. Crime is trespass aganst
the laws of the Tribe; and may be
punished by the Tribe.
No man shall suffer for the sin of
another. No man can take the punishment of another, and so make
the sinner guiltless.
Only a coward ends his life by suicide; a brave man dies fighting.
Do not speak of dead expect to
recall their good deeds.
When you address the council,
carry a green bough in your hand,
that yours may be living words.
Never force your conversation on
anyone.
Let silence be your motto till duty
bids you speak.
Source:The Gospel of the
Redman-A way of life, compiled
by Ernest T. Seton
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Use of school land sought for Vietnam memorial dedication
By Chuck Clement Capital Journal Staff
The Pierre Board of Education received
a request on Monday from the
organizers for the dedication of the
South Dakota Vietnam War Memorial
to use Pierre School District property
and facilities for some events planned
on Sept. 15-16.
John Moisan and Jeff Bloomberg, both
organizers for the dedication ceremony,
presented the plans for the event’s two
days and told the school board members
that 3,300 South Dakota Vietnam-era
veterans have registered
Their names for the dedication. Moisan
said organizers expect 2,300 veterans
to visit Pierre during the ceremony,
bringing about 7,000 to 8,000 family
members with them.
The event organizers have included
among their requests that they lease
Hollister Field, the district’s football
field, for evening concerts planned for
the two nights of the celebration. They
expect more than 9,000 people will
attend both the Red Willow Band and
Beach Boys concert on Sept. 15 and
Creedence Clearwater and the Steve
Miller Band concert on Sept. 16. The
organizers want to allow the veterans
to attend the concerts for free, and
other concert-goers will purchase
tickets.
Bloomberg said logistics and Hollister
Field’s proximity to the dedication site
make the football field a good choice
for the concert venue, since most of the
dedication attendees will have their
vehicles parked on the outskirts of
Pierre. He added that the Riggs High
School football team will play on the
road the weekend of the dedication
ceremony.
In leasing the field, the Vietnam War
Memorial Committee will pay for any
and all repairs to the football field and
track, pay for cleanup and trash
removal, and expenses such as
electricity. The committee will assume
all liability associated with the concert
use of the field and has offered a
negotiated price for its use of $1 per
sold concert ticket. The committee
wants to provide five food vendors for
the concerts and school clubs will have
the first right to provide refreshments
with waivers for any vendors’ fees.
One complication to holding the
concerts at Hollister Field is related to
the district’s ban on alcohol and
tobacco use on school district property.
Superintendent John Pedersen said the
school board could legally allow
alcohol and tobacco use during the
concert since no state law requires their
prohibition.
Nicole Nordbye, school board
president, expressed some concern
about damage to the turf on the football
field if there was any rainfall. Nordbye
asked Moisan and Bloomberg to give
the board members some time between
meetings to consider the proposal to
lease Hollister Field.
The dedication committee also made
other requests to use district property,
including:
• Use of the front driveway at Morse
Middle School for vendors.
• Using parking lots at the middle
school for buses and other vehicles.
• Using parking lots at Riggs High
School for disabled parking and parking
other vehicles.
• Use of the Church Street practice
football field for band practice after the
parade and using another practice field
for a balloon release during the
dedication ceremony.
• Borrowing chairs and moveable
bleachers from the district.
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• Use of the high school and middle
school as emergency shelters in case
of severe weather.
• Use of the Riggs Theater to conduct
volunteer training.
• Use of the middle school lobby for
possible dignitary functions or
assemblies.
Moisan and Bloomberg also provided
a list of the events planned for Sept.
15-16, including:
• A dedication ceremony that includes
aircraft flyovers by Huey helicopters,
F-16s, B-1Bs and B-52s.
• A parade featuring the Budweiser
Clydesdales and the S.D. Rolling
Thunder Motorcycle Club.
• The Traveling Vietnam Wall and a
Find-a-Buddy tent for veterans.
• Two USO tents with live music.
• Huey helicopter rides for veterans and
attendees.
• An exhibit of the Agent Orange Quilt
of Tears.
• A 1960s-1970s muscle car show and
displays of modern military equipment.
The dedication committee has also
asked Adrian Cronauer, a Vietnam-era
veteran, to serve as the master of
ceremonies. Cronauer’s service as a U.S.
armed forces radio deejay in Saigon
during the war was recounted in the film,
“Good Morning Vietnam.”
Source: http://www.capjournal.com/
main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=2&ArticleID=14743
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Meth blamed for increased in child abuse on reservations
Thursday, March 16, 2006
The methamphetamine epidemic in
Indian Country has contributed to
an increase in child abuse cases,
tribal and federal officials said on
Wednesday.
At a hearing before the Senate
Indian Affairs Committee, witnesses
cited a rise in the number of child
abuse, neglect and endangerment
cases on reservations. Although
limited data exists, they attributed
the problem to meth, a drug that is
ravaging tribal communities across
the nation.
“Generally speaking, there is a
definite increase,” testified Robert
McSwain, the deputy director of the
Indian Health Service.
In addition to child abuse cases,
Ron Suppah, the Chairman of the
Confederated Warm Springs
Tribes of Oregon, said the number
of youth suicides among tribes in his
state has increased. From 2002 to
2005, the suicide rate increased by
50 percent on his reservation, he
told the committee.
“A lot of it,” he said, “is because of
the meth epidemic.”
Meth is a nationwide problem but
the drug, often manufactured in
Mexico but also produced in labs
in reservations, has hit tribes
especially hard. Inadequate
funding, limited law enforcement
and jurisdictional issues pose special
concerns usually not seen elsewhere
in the U.S.
“It’s my view that we do not have
enough adequate resource in law
enforcement and health services to
treat the victims of not only child
abuse but the epidemic of meth and
other dangerous substances in
Indian Country,” said Pat Ragsdale,
the director of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs.
“I know that from personal
experience,” he said, as a former
law enforcement official for his tribe,
the Cherokee Nation, a tribe that
has broken up meth drug rings on
its lands in northeastern Oklahoma.
James Burrus, an assistant director
with the FBI’s criminal division, said
unemployment, poverty and despair
are known to contribute to child
abuse. But Sen. John McCain (RArizona), the chairman of the
committee, said there’s another
explanation for the rise in abuse
cases.
“Those problems, tragically, have
been with Indian Country for a long
time but now we’re seeing another
increase in child abuse cases,”
McCain observed. “So it seems to
me there’s an added factor there
and
that
may
be
methamphetamine.”
Citing the recent New York Times
articles on drug trafficking, McCain
said meth affects communities
nationwide but impacts tribes more
directly. “The burden is falling
disproportionately on Indian
reservations,” he said.
McCain has scheduled a hearing on
April 5 to address meth use in
Indian Country. Tribes have already
placed the issue at the top of their
agenda.
“Meth is killing our children,
affecting our cultures and ravaging
our communities,” Joe Garcia, the
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president of the National Congress
of American Indians, said last
month.
Yesterday’s hearing was called to
hear testimony on S.1899, the
Indian Child Protection and Family
Violence Prevention Act.
Introduced on October 20, 2005,
the bill would reauthorize funds for
child sexual abuse prevention and
treatment grants, identify the scope
of child abuse and family violence
in Indian Country through annual
data collections and to share
incidents of child abuse among law
enforcement agencies.
The two tribal representatives at the
hearing supported the goals of the
legislation. Terry Cross, the
executive director of the National
Indian Child Welfare Association,
said tribes need more funding for
child protection services.
“The fact that there are children’s
trust funds for child abuse
prevention in every state in this
nation but not one of them available
to Indian children is not
acceptable,” Cross testified.
Suppah said more and more
children on the Warm Springs
Reservation are being placed under
child protection services. The tribe’s
19 caseworkers each handle more
than 100 case a year, he said.
“We need assistance almost across
the board,” Suppah told the
committee.
Source: http://www.indianz.com/
News/2006/013012.asp
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Per-Capita News...
Just a reminder to On and Off Reservation Tribal members:
Quoted from Section 19-3-2 of Tribal Gaming Ordinance
“Qualification for on Reservation Per-Capita Payments”
In order to fairly satisfy the needs of Tribal members who contribute to the advancement and self-determinantion of the Tribe by residing on the Flandreau Santee Sioux
reservation within Moody County, and to provide incentives to members to return to
the reservation community to further the advancement to Tribal self-determination and
to enhance the reservation community socially, economically and culturally.
Submitted by: Per-Capita Committee
What’s behind the VA hospital turnaround?
Once derided, the system is now the envy of health care administrators
By Robert Bazell
The film “Born on the fourth of July”
portrayed VA medical care as many
saw it in the years after the Vietnam
War.
VA surgeon Thomas Gauge
remembers those times all too well.
The system was overwhelmed,”
says Dr. Gauge. “It wasn’t capable
of dealing with the problems that it
faced at that time.”
But under a major restructuring that
began during the Clinton
administration, the VA has
undergone
an
amazing
transformation. It now offers what
several surveys show to be the best
medical care in the country.
“The VA health care system in the
past few years has been rated
exceptionally high in their quality of
care,” says Peter Gaytan with the
American Legion. “And that rating
comes form the patients
themselves.”
Patients like Frank Murino, who
first entered the VA system after he
was injured in Vietnam in 1968.
“You were a number,” he
remembers. “You were the last four
digits of your Social Security
number then.”
Murino, like all patients, now has a
personal physician who knows him
well.
“You got respect today,” he says.
And much of the care has shifted
from hospital to outpatient services,
with an emphasis on preventionincluding checkups to prevent
complications from diabetes and
heart disease.
A big advantage for the VA is
electronic medical records. The VA
has the largest, and on the most
modern systems in the world.
When a VA patient visits any facility
in the country, the records are there.
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Indeed, after Hurricane Katrina,
many VA patients received
uninterrupted care even as they
were forces to move.
“All of the information I need about
any of my patients, including their
X-rays and their tests, are always
available, always accurate, always
there in a legible form,” says Gauge.
The electronic records also allow
the VA to track its performance-to
quickly learn what works and what
doesn’t-providing what many say
could be a model for health care
nationwide.
Source: MSNBC Interactive
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Grandma’s Sunshine is
turning 3 years old
Happy Birthday Trinity
Rose on March 22nd
We Love you with all our
Hearts
Love Always, Mama &
Papa Redday
March 2006 FSST Employee Birthdays
Deb Wakeman, Human Resource Director for FSST, organized and hosted a March Employee Birthday
Party and luncheon on Tuesday, March 21st. Tribal employees celebrating a March 2006 birthday were:
Amber Allen, John Bechen and Randy Schmidt.
The meal was catered in by Annie Garcia, RN at the FSST Health Clinic. Annie is famous for her Pilipino
dishes and delicious egg rolls. Annie’s menu for the catered meal was home made egg rolls, fried rice,
menudo pork, michado beef, adobo chicken, Lo mien noodles with chicken and pork, and chocolate bundt
cake.....so yummmy!!
Everyone enjoyed a meal together at noon at the Tribal Office. The birthday people got to spin the “cash
wheel” for their prize. Randy Schmidt won $30, Amber Allen won $60 and John Bechen won $70.
John Bechen tries to stop
munching down but can’t
since he loves ethnic
foods. Bill Beane looks on.
Annie Garcia caters in “tons” of
Philipino food.
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Healthy Start
At Healthy Start on Tuesday March,
21st Vickie Anderson Healthy Start
Coordinator, had the group watch a
video on the importance of
breastfeeding, along with the proper
foods young children should eat to
hopefully lessen the chances of obesity
later in life.
We discussed the nutritional aspects
of breastfeeding such as, decreases the
child’s risk of getting diarrhea, ear
infections, respiratory infections,
meningitis and allergies. Other factors
help to protect a breastfed baby from
infection by contributing to the infant’s
immune system by increasing the
barriers to infection and decreasing the
growth of organisms like bacteria and
viruses.
Nutrition and ease of digestion. Often
called the “perfect food” for a human
baby’s digestive system, breast milk’s
components - lactose, protein (whey
and casein), and fat - are easily digested
by a newborn’s immature system.
As a group, formula-fed infants have
more difficulty with digestion than do
breastfed infants. Breast milk tends to
be more easily digested so that
breastfed babies have fewer incidences
of diarrhea or constipation.
Breast milk also naturally contains all
the vitamins and minerals that a
newborn requires. The Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) regulates formula
companies to ensure that they provide
all the known necessary nutrients in
their formulas. Commercial formulas do
a pretty good job of trying to duplicate
the ingredients in breast milk - and are
coming closer - but haven’t matched
their exact combination and
composition. Why? Because some of
breast milk’s more complex substances
are too difficult to manufacture and
some have not yet been identified.
Free. Breast milk doesn’t cost a cent.
And because of the immunities and
antibodies passed onto them through
their mothers’ breast milk, breastfed
infants are sick less often than infants
who receive formula. For example,
researchers
have
determined that infants
who are exclusively
breastfed for 4 or more
months have 40% fewer
episodes
of
ear
infections. That means
they make fewer trips to
the doctor’s office, which
equates to fewer co-pays
and less money doled out
for prescriptions and
over-the-counter
medications.
Likewise, women who
breastfeed are less likely
to have to take time off from work to
care for their sick babies. In a cost study
published in the April 1999 issue of the
journal Pediatrics, researchers
determined that infants who were never
breastfed would incur additional
medical costs of $331 to $475 per year.
Different tastes. A nursing mother will
need 500 extra calories per day to
produce breast milk, which means that
she should eat a wide variety of wellbalanced foods. This introduces
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breastfed babies to different tastes
through their mothers’ breast milk,
which has different flavors depending
on what their mothers have eaten.
Convenience. With no bottles to mix and
sterilize and no last-minute runs to the
store for more formula, breast milk is
always fresh and available. And
because breast milk is always the right
temperature, there’s no need to warm
up bottles in the middle of the night.
It’s also easy for breastfeeding mothers
to be active - and go out and about with their babies and know that they’ll
have food available for whenever their
little one is hungry.
Obesity prevention. Recent studies
indicate that breastfeeding might help
prevent childhood and adult obesity.
According to the National Women’s
Health Information Center (part of the
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services), babies who are breastfed tend
to gain less unnecessary weight, which
may help them be less overweight later.
Smarter babies. Recent studies suggest
that children who were exclusively
breastfed for 6 months have IQs 5 to 10
points higher than children who were
formula fed.
“Skin-to-skin” contact. Many nursing
mothers really enjoy the experience of
bonding so closely with their babies.
And the skin-to-skin contact can
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until 12 months (and beyond) if both
the mother and baby are willing.
But breastfeeding (or nursing) may
not be possible or preferable for all
women. The decision to breastfeed
or formula feed your baby should
be based on your comfort level with
breastfeeding as well as your
lifestyle.
enhance the emotional connection
between mother and infant.
Beneficial for mom, too. The ability to
nourish a baby totally can also help a
new mother feel confident in her ability
to care for her baby. Breastfeeding also
burns calories and helps shrink the
uterus, so nursing moms may be able
to return to their pre-pregnancy shape
and weight quicker. In addition, studies
show that breastfeeding helps lower
the risk of premenopausal breast cancer
and also may help decrease the risk of
uterine and ovarian cancer.
Breastfeeding: The Challenges
Although it is the best nutritional
source for babies, breastfeeding does
come with some concerns that many
new mothers share. Whereas it’s easy
from the get-go for some, it can be
challenging. Sometimes, both mother
and baby need plenty of patience and
persistence to get used to the routine
of breastfeeding. But all the effort is
often worth it in the long run - for both
the mother and her baby.
Choosing whether to breastfeed or
formula feed your baby is one of the
first decisions expectant parents will
make. Although there’s no right or
wrong choice, the American Academy
of Pediatrics (AAP) joins other
organizations such as the American
Medical Association (AMA), the
American Dietetic Association (ADA),
and the World Health Organization
(WHO) in recommending breastfeeding
as the best for babies. Specifically, the
AAP says babies should be breastfed
exclusively for the first 6 months and
that breastfeeding should continue
Grantham University Offers
Scholarships to Wounded
Soldiers and Family Members
Arlington, Va. – February 15, 2006 Grantham University, specializing in
educating working adults, today
announced it is offering Military
Severely Injured Scholarships in 2006
to U.S. service members from any
branch of the United States Military. In
order to qualify, scholarship applicants
must have received a 60 percent or
higher disability rating from the
Veterans Administration as a result of
being wounded in Operation Enduring
Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom and
have been retired from active military
duty.
“Grantham University has been meeting
the educational needs of the military
community for more than fifty years,”
said Roy Winter, president of Grantham
University. “The Military Severely
Injured Scholarship Program was
created to honor the service members
who in their course of duty have
preformed meritorious acts of service
for our country.”
The four-year scholarship program
provides tuition and fees to pursue any
Grantham University degree program.
The estimated value of a bachelor’s
degree is $28,000 with an additional
value of approximately $11,000 for a
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master’s degree. Required textbooks
and software are the responsibility of
the student. The estimated textbook
costs are $80 to $120 per course.
Grantham is also extending its 2006
Military Severely Injured Scholarship
program to spouses and children of
severely injured service members. This
scholarship program provides a 25
percent tuition discount on any
Grantham University degree program
and includes the cost of required
textbooks and software. The estimated
cost for a bachelor’s degree is $21,000,
and for a master’s degree, $8,000.
Wounded service members applying
for these scholarships are required to
provide a copy of the “Rating Decision”
memo issued by the Veterans
Administration, verifying their
disability related retirement/discharge.
Eligible family members must possess
a high school diploma or GED and a
valid Military Identification Card.
Applications
and
eligibility
requirements are located on the
Grantham University website at
www.grantham.edu/msi.htm.
Currently, Grantham University is
working with the Military Severely
Injured Center and the Department of
Defense, Military Community & Family
Policy Office to offer career
opportunities to severely wounded
soldiers and their family members in its
Kansas City office.
The Military Severely Injured Center’s
mission is to “prepare severely injured
service members to return to duty or to
reintegrate successfully into their home
towns.” The Center provides
personalized assistance, tailored to
meet an individual’s and family
member’s unique needs during recovery
and rehabilitation. Other services
include: financial resources; education,
training and job placement; mobility
and functioning; home transportation
and workplace accommodations; and
personal, couple and family issues
counseling. For more information,
contact the Center at 1-888-774-1361.
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