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Written by Circle News - Staff
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Tuesday, May 05 2009 |
A federal appeals court has ruled against a large group of Mdewakanton Dakota Indians attempting to claim a share of the lands and gambling revenues from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota, Prairie Island Dakota and Lower Sioux Dakota bands in Minnesota.
The lawsuit, Wolfchild vs. U.S., was filed in 2003 by the Minnesota Mdewakanton Dakota Oyate (MMDO), and claimed that as descendants of Mdewakanton Indians who helped white settlers during the 1862 Dakota rebellion in Minnesota, it has legal rights to the Shakopee and Prairie Island casinos and lands.
The descendants, numbering more than 20,000 in the United States and Canada, were bolstered in recent years by decisions in the Federal Court of Claims’ finding that some of the lands forming part of the present-day Mystic Lake and Treasure Island casinos were intended for their use.
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Written by The Circle Staff
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Tuesday, May 05 2009 |
 The Corporate Commission of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe has become a major investor in a wind turbine project that could create up to 15 jobs in District II of the Mille Lacs Reservation in Minnesota, which includes areas near McGregor.
The Corporate Commission’s investment in Mariah Power – a manufacturer that provides low-cost, vertical wind turbines for residential and commercial use – allows it to have a three-year contract to assemble wind turbine parts at a facility located in District II.
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A lot of things had happen to the Native children during the Boarding School era. They been taking away from their family and put into boarding schools. They would become Christianized and forget their traditional ways. The children would be beaten and punished if they talked the native languages. After the children achieved and learned the white man ways, they were adopted into white man homes.
Many people suffered physically from diseases such as: smallpox, influenza, and tuberculosis. Emotionally they suffered by having their children taken away. They suffered spiritually from having their culture taken away. Our ancestors suffered emotionally as well. How would you feel if your children were taken away from you?
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Native American people had to be courageous because of the false promises the white man gave them like telling them that material possessions would lead to happiness and fulfillment. They were told to forget their own cultural ways and claim the white man ways. So I know they had to be courageous to survive. And to have their Native ways survive too.
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A lot of things happened to Native American people during the Boarding School era that required them to be courageous. They needed to be courageous to get through all the things they were put through. The people were suffering from many things. They were dying. Their rights were being taken away from them left and right. What happened to them was wrong and very dehumanizing.
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![]()  The new owners of the Minnesota Swarm professional lacrosse team in St. Paul build outreach program to the Native people in the Twin Cities and Minnesota.
Baseball might be the all-American sport, but lacrosse is a game that can only be called the First American sport. Eastern nations such as the Cherokee and the Haudenosaunee (people of the Iroquois Confederacy) consider lacrosse to be a game given to them by the Creator. Lacrosse still enjoys deep religious and cultural ties to these First Nations.
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REQUEST FOR GENERAL CONTRACTOR QUALIFICATIONS
American Indian Community Development Corporation is soliciting General Contractor qualifications for the construction and general contracting services in connection with the renovation of two community rooms at the Many Rivers East Apartments located at 1518 East Franklin Avenue. These community rooms will be converted into three efficiency apartments.Selected general contractor must comply with all applicable funding requirements. Interested General Contractors may obtain a qualification packet and questionnaire from DJR Architecture, Inc., 333 Washington Ave. N., Suite 210, Minneapolis, MN 55401, (612) 676-2700. Submission qualifications must be received by 4:30 PM Friday May 1, 2009 at AICDC, 1404 E. Franklin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55404, (612) 813-1610. AICDC and DJR are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers. AICDC and DJR reserve the right to reject late submissions.
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