Published Bi-Weekly for the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska • Volume 45, Number 2, Wednesday, January 25, 2017

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The Calm Before the Snow Storm

Bago Bits…

Winnebago Indian Senior utility man David Wingett hit the 2000 career point last

week when the Indians traveled to west

end of the Rez to take on Emerson.

We were waiting for these to be set, but

the Wildlife & Parks Department are still

showing off their new Hunting Cabins

outside their office building.

Students of the Winnebago Public School enjoy a day out on the playground before the weather turns bad again. Last week it was Ice Storm

& Dense Fog, this week it’s time for the white stuff again. Bundle up, won’t be long before you’re all sweaty & miserable again.

Bago Boyz Even Season Record with Ponca

Just doing their jobs like they do at every

home Ponca basketball game, regardless

of their opponents.

The HoChunk Village is growing. Work

continues on this new home with the

plumbing going in this week.

The Winnebago Indians evened their season record with rival Ponca last weekend, when the Indians traveled to hometown Ponca to make

up a game postponed due to bad weather. The Indians won the first match-up on December 29th at Wisner, 60-57 on their way to claiming that Holiday Tournaments 5th straight championship. The Indians last weekend came up short against a physical Ponca team, 48-53.

This the second time in a week the Indians scored only 48 points, the last time with the W against a scrappy #6 D-1 Blue Devils team from

Wynot. The Indians will be home to Wakefield next Tuesday night, it’s Senior & Parents Night. The WIN will be there, will you? Go Big Blue!

Indianz.com… Standing Rock Sioux Tribe focuses on Dakota

Access battles as President Trump takes office

Monday, January 23, 2017

The Obama & Downes era is over in

Washington D.C., congratulations Anne

Marie for representing you people well.

Who can guess what this is and where

its at on the Winnebago Rez, if you guess

right, we got a small prize for you.

The LPTC Warriors on a streak, come

support them this weekend at WHS, bring

your clappers with you.

An electronic billboard in T imes

Square in New York City promotes

#DefundDAPL, a campaign to divest the

Dakota Access Pipeline of its funding

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The largest #NoDAPL encampment

is making plans to leave North Dakota

as the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe focuses on the legal and political fight

against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Camp residents had been in talks

with tribal leaders about moving Oceti

Sakowin to the reservation in order to

avoid expected flooding in the spring.

But representatives from the Cannon-

V i s i t

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ball District voiced concerns about the

presence of a large group of people in

their community, prompting the council to reject the proposed relocation.

"Councilmen from across the reservation, including Cannonball, described the hardships and strain on the

citizens and resources of our nation,"

the tribe said in a statement posted on

Facebook on Saturday.

Organizers of the camp, which is

located on federally-managed property

near the Cannonball District, immediately heeded the directive and announced plans to evacuate "as soon as

possible." Those remaining on site are

being asked to help clean up an area

that saw as many as 12,000 residents,

visitors and supporters pass through

since last summer.

"We are calling you warriors to go in

a good way now, and if you have the

spirit to fight, turn it to clearing and

cleaning the land we have defended,

for the sacred act of protecting these

waters from the materials left here,"

the camp said in a statement.

The tribe's action doesn't appear to

affect the Sacred Stone Camp, which

is located on land owned by LaDonna

Brave Bull Allard, a Standing Rock

citizen. She said people living on her

property will remain as long as the

pipeline remains a threat.

"We stand for the water, we stand

for healing, we will not back down

until our people have healed from the

abuse of this world that healing comes

from the water," Allard said on Monday

as she vowed to maintain the camp

until the pipeline is officially defeated.

Allard started the camp in April

2016 with just a handful of residents

but with the help of youth and allies on

social media, the #NoDAPL movement

grew into an international cause in

just a few months. The unprecedented

level of support prompted the Obama

administration to delay the controversial project amid concerns about

sacred sites, burial grounds and water

resources.

A portion of the 1,172-mile pipeline

runs through land that was promised

to the Sioux Nation by treaty and Allard's ancestors and family members

are among those who are buried within

the corridor. The tribe's former historic

preservation officer identified significant cultural sites in the area but most

of those properties, which are now

held by non-Indians, have already

been bulldozed by Dakota Access conCon’t. on page 3 ...

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Winnebago Basketball

The dunk known as the “Donkey Dunk” on Maxpreps has made its rounds on Social Media with Frosty Clips getting well over 10,000 views. The dunk was made by Winnebago Senior,

#50 David Wingett off a pass from Senior, Cedrick Blackdeer. The photos are courtesy of my Grand daughter and under study, ayez, Tiana Janelle. The Indians won this game against the

Blue Devils from Wynot. WHILE: the girls had a tough time with rated, Guardian Angel Cedar Catholic from West Point. The girls hung with them for the first few quarters, but foul trouble

put the more experienced players down while the young girls gained some playing time.

ZAGURSKI IS FIRST CONFERENCE

CHAMP FOR WRESTLING TEAM

The Winnebago Wrestling team

traveled to Winside on Jan 19th for

the Lewis and Clark Conference Tourney. The a few wrestlers short on

the day had the coaches wondering

how it was going to go but the team

rallied together to put together one

of the best team performances of the

year. The Indians finished 5th out of

10 with 100 points with 3 Conference

placers. Jeremy Bear at 126 finished

in 3rd place. Kiylista Harden finished

3rd at 182 despite a pretty gnarly arm

injury. Josh Miles normally at 152

jumped up to 160 seeing a great opportunity and took advantage of it and

pinned 3 guys on his way to a 3-1 day

to finish as Runner-up at 160. Derrell

Zagurski continued his dominance at

285 with 4 pins on the day scoring 34

team points and finished as the 2017

Lewis & Clark Conference Champion

at 285.

Derrell is the first Conference

Champion in school history. He is

25-6 on the year and has his sights set

on qualifying for State. Other wrestlers that competed were 132 Jamisen

WolfLeader going 0-4, 138 Tyrese Gorring went 2-2, 195 Nick Painter went

0-4, and Brendan Catches at 220 was

1-3 on the day.

Winnebago Indian News, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 — Page 3

In My Opinion

JESUS OUR SAVIOR

to work across the nation during his LUTHERAN OUTREACH

Indianz.com… Con’t. from front page

struction crews.

As a result, the firm has all but

completed the pipeline except for

the crossing at Lake Oahe along

the Missouri River, less a half-mile

from the Standing Rock reservation

border. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers never issued a formal easement

for the wealthy backers of the project

to build on federally-managed land

near the #NoDAPL campsites.

The Department of the Army has

since taken the lead on the matter and

has initiated an environmental review

of the pipeline crossing near Standing

Rock. Public comments are now being

solicited and meetings are expected in

North Dakota as part of the process.

"The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is

grateful to all who have stood with us

during our efforts to secure a thorough

review of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Because we worked together, the

federal government will prepare an

environmental impact statement,"

the tribe's statement on Saturday

read. "Moving forward, our ultimate

objective is best served by our elected

officials, navigating strategically

through the administrative and legal

processes."

The administrative front includes

ensuring that Republican President

Donald Trump, who was sworn into

office on Friday, does not stop the

environmental impact statement, or

EIS. His new team, which includes

a paid backer of the pipeline supports

completion of the project, according

to a spokesperson for thegreatagain.

gov transition.

It would be difficult, though not impossible, for the Trump administration

to pull back the EIS. If that happens, it

could open a new front in the ongoing

#NoDAPL litigation in federal court.

Dakota Access made a last-minute

attempt to block the publication of

an important government notice that

announced the EIS. But a federal

judge rejected the attempt and the

document appeared in the Federal

two days before Trump was sworn in

as the 45th president of the United

States.

Trump has embraced large-scale

infrastructure projects like Dakota

Access and vowed to put Americans

inaugural address on Friday.

"We will build new roads, and

highways, and bridges, and airports,

and tunnels, and railways all across

our wonderful nation," Trump said in

his remarks as the U.S. Capitol. "We

will get our people off of welfare and

back to work – rebuilding our country

with American hands and American

labor."

Regardless of the path Trump takes,

Dakota Access insists it has already

been granted approval to finish the

pipeline. A federal judge is expected

to convene a hearing in February for

arguments on the firm's cross-claim

regarding the easement at Lake Oahe.

A decision could take weeks or longer

but there is no timeline for action.

Before T rump came on board,

the Department of Justice filed papers dismiss the cross-claim. So did

the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and

the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, which

has intervened as part of the ongoing

lawsuit.

The two tribes are preparing for

additional legal actions in the event

the Judge James E. Boasberg allows

construction at Lake Oahe. And the

firm is expected to fight if the decision

doesn't go its way.

The lawsuit already made one trip

to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals as

the tribe sought to halt construction

on culturally significant sites. With the

work all but finished in those areas,

that legal battle is effectively over.

The D.C. Circuit in fact dismissed

the appeal in an order on Thursday but

opened a different door for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. At issue is the

Judge Boasberg's September 9, 2016,

decision that denied the tribe's request

for a preliminary injunction. The higher

court said the tribe can seek to have

that decision vacated, or removed from

the record.

Federal Register Notice:

Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement in Connection With Dakota Access, LLC's Request

for an Easement To Cross Lake Oahe,

North Dakota (January 18, 2017)

“Why? Why not?”

Have you ever asked yourself ‘why?’

Why has this happened to me? You have

heard that God does not make mistakes

and yet stuff happens. In some cases

maybe the only answer is ‘God only

knows.’ That knowledge is not very

comforting.

Or maybe the other question comes

to mind ‘why not?’ Why not me, why

didn’t I get the job? Why didn’t I find

the one who would love and support

me and our child(ren)? God only knows,

however at times He reveals His good

and gracious will to us in spite of our

hardships.

Take the story about the young girl

who was taken from her family, her

tribe, her land in a raid by her tribe’s

enemies. You would expect her to be

bitter, angry and spiteful due to the

trauma that she endured through no

fault of her own. You might even her to

be angry with her Creator. She might

have asked the questions ‘why? and

‘why not?’

Instead, this young girl became

even closer to her Creator and trusted

in Him all the more. The warrior who

‘robbed’ her of so much and held her

captive could not take away her faith.

The faith of this slave girl was evident in

that when she saw her master afflicted

with a skin disease she had compassion. She said to her master’s wife, “if

only my master would see the prophet

who is in Samaria! He would cure him

of his skin disease.”

This warrior took heed to this young

girl’s word and her faith. He traveled a

great distance, back to this girl’s country land. This victorious and powerful

warrior came with his horse and stood

outside the door of the prophet’s house.

The prophet did not come out. Instead

the prophet sent a messenger to say to

him, “Go, wash yourself seven times

in the Jordan, and your flesh will be

restored and you will be cleansed.”

The warrior took offense at this offer of healing. He is quoted as saying,

Pastor Ricky Jacob

“I thought that he would surely come

out to me and stand and call on the

name of the Lord his God, wave his

hand over the spot and cure me of my

leprosy. Are not Abana and Pharpar,

the rivers of Damascus, better than

any of the waters of Israel? Couldn’t

I wash in them and be cleansed?” So

he turned and went off in a rage. [2nd

Kings 5:11-12 NIV]

In a way this warrior was asking

the ‘why’ and the ‘why not’ questions.

I wonder how many people who are offered to be cleansed by God on a daily

basis respond in the same way.

The story does not end here. This

warrior’s servants go to him and say,

“My father, if the prophet had told

you to do some great thing, would you

not have done it? How much more,

then, when he tells you, ‘wash and be

cleansed’!”

The warrior swallows his self-centered sinful pride and dipped himself

in the Jordan seven times, as the man

of God had told him, and his flesh was

restored and became clean like that of

a young boy. [2nd Kings 5:13-14 NIV]

Our Creator continues to use water

to cleanse people. One does not have to

go to the Jordan to be cleansed. No, as

the Creator’s Son gave the command to

his disciples to go and keep on going in

all four directions, baptizing with water

in the name of the Father and of the

Son and of the Holy Spirit. The water

of baptism cleanses an individual from

all sin and restores one’s relationship

with his/her Creator.

It is at one’s baptism, no matter

one’s tribe, language, or sinful past

that our Creator places His name on

him or her and is adopted into God’s

family. There is only One begotten Son

of God, Jesus our Savior, all the rest of

us have been cleansed by His bloody

sacrifice and welcomed into His family.

Why? Often the answer is in our

Creator’s compassion and grace alone.

Why not? God truly knows what is

best for you.

For this and more stories from around

Indian Country visit us at www.indianz.

com

Letter To The Editor…

Culinary Arts School

Hocaks do you think a Culinary

Arts School in Winnebago is a good

idea? It is possible if the young people

want it to happen. If you young Bago’s

would get together and decide you

want a culinary school, let the Tribal

Council know.

A culinary school here on the rez

will be very good for a lot of Hocaks.

This will get a lot of students interested. Every year a lot of young people

will sign up for the school.

Culinary Arts LPTC sounds good.

P.S. Anyone signing up for Tribal

Council elections, what do you think

about this?

WinnaVegas Casino Resort

I gave an idea to one of the employ-

ees of the WinnaVegas Casino. The idea

of a way to advertise our casino. The

casino manager does not seem to be

interested in it.

The idea is all other casinos do not

invest in businesses in the Siouxland

area. Winnebago Tribe has been investing for many years. It’s like that

song years ago, part of it said “All the

gold is in California in a bank in someone else’s name.”

The Winnebago Tribe instead invests in this area. Everyone has seen

this over many years. This is something other casinos can not truthfully

claim. We can! Why our casino manager does not use this I don’t know …

why? Whose side is he on anyway?

Thanks, Pat Greyhair

maxiska

The next issue of the WINNEBAGO INDIAN NEWS will be published on February 8, 2017.

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Winnebago Wrestling

The Winnebago Indians Wrestling Program is kicking…it, and taking names. Last weekend two team members placed at the Oakland-Craig Invitational, Derrell Zagurski, 3rd and Zena

Davidson took 2nd. Keep at it Indians! Go Big Blue!!!

Winnebago Indian News, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 — Page 5

Bago News

TAX BLOW OUT!!!

2010 Chevy Tahoe 4x4

2010 Chevy Malibu ................................... $10,000

2001 Chevy Silverado ................................ $9,000

2010 Ford F-150 ....................................... $10,000

2009 Dodge Ram 2WD .............................. $16,000

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Leather Loaded, NICE!

84k miles

2010 Keystone

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WOW Like New!

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2014 Dodge Challenger

$19,000

WOW Like New, Rally Redline!

19k miles

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Community Notices

Winnebago Sports Schedule

Indians Basketball

January 30

February 2

February 4

February 6

February 7

February 11

February 17

February 21

February 27

March 8

Lewis & Clark Tourney 1st Round

Lewis & Clark Tourney 2nd Round

Lewis & Clark Tourney Semi Round

Lewis & Clark Tourney Finals @ Laurel

Wakefield (Parents/Senior Night)

Heartland Hoops Classic/Grand Island

GACC

Sub-Districts (13-16)

Districts

State Basketball Tournament (8-10)

TBA

8:00

5:45

8:00

TBA

Lady Indians Basketball

January 28

Lewis & Clark Tourney 1st Round

January 31

Lewis & Clark Tourney 2nd Round

February 3

Lewis & Clark Tourney Semi Round

February 6

Lewis & Clark Tourney Finals @ Laurel

February 7

Wakefield (Parents/Senior Night)

February 13

Sub-Districts (13-16)

February 24

Districts

March 1

State Basketball Tournament (1-3)

TBA

6:00

6:15

TBA

Indians Wrestling

January 26

February 3

February 4

February 10

TBA

6:00

4:30

9:00

TBA

Wakefield Duel

Pender Tourney

Wakefield Invite

Districts (10-11)

Home Games

01/11

01/14

01/18

01/23

01/28

02/01

02/08

02/16

02/25

Iowa Western

Wentworth Military Academy

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This institution is an equal opportunity provider

Early Release of

Minor Trust Funds

Recent news from the Tribal Enrollment Department is meant to help High

School Seniors meet their last year in High School obligations. Enrollment Specialist, Phyllis Ware shared, “You may withdraw up to $2500 if you have that

much in your account. Paperwork must be submitted no later then Wednesday

afternoons and checks would be available on Fridays. The application must be

notarized, a competed W-9 Tax form and school verification signed and notarized

by the Principal/Superintendent that you are on track to Graduate in 2017”.

NF4NC

NF4NC (Native Families 4 Native Children) will be having an

orientation night for prospective

foster families

What: Orientation for prospective

foster families

When: February 8th, 2017

Time: 5-7 p.m.

Where: EduCare building

Food will be provided

If you are interested in learning about becoming a foster family please R.S.V.P. Wilhelmena (402)878-2379 by 1-31-17

Masthead

Scene

The HoChunk Village is

under construction again.

This time in the heart of

the business area. Work

just completed on the

Warriors Apartments &

new live and work space

across from the Dollar

General Store.

New Deadline ! ! !

for Winnebago Newspaper

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Winnebago Indian News, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 — Page 7

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Winnebago Indians senior #50 David Wingett, is now “Mr. 2000”

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