Published Bi-Weekly for the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska • Volume 48, Number 35

Published Bi-Weekly for the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska • Volume 48, Number 35

Saturday, May 5, 2018

Winnebago Tribe names executives for takeover of troubled

Indian Health Service hospital

Bago Bits…

Winnebago Indians Class of 2017 David

Wingett, Jr. has finished his year at Bull

City Prep and maybe heading to a Division I school as we speak. David is visiting with a narrowed down list of schools

this weekend as Winnebago graduates

it’s 2018 Class.

The month of April is Autism Awareness

Month. The Self-Contained with Integration staff at WPS work with a variety of

students with special needs including

students with Autism. Autism is a condition, present from early childhood, characterized by difficulty in communicating

and forming relationships with other people and in using language and abstract

concepts. Our staff works diligently with

all of our students as advocates assist in

increasing independence for our students

in daily activities along with increasing

self-esteem in the mean time!

SCI staff include: Katy, Brittany, Henrietta, Elaine, Brenda , DeeAnn, Stephanie

& Lola.

WIN Sports reporter…hard at it.

“This is a major step for the Winnebago Tribe and I am honored to be

a part of it,” she said. “We are focused

on creating a high quality healthcare

system that truly meets the needs of our

community. I look forward to the many

opportunities ahead.”

Indian hospital in Nebraska heads

into new era

Winnebago T ribe taps leadership for new health care system

By Kevin Abourezk

As a July 1 deadline looms, the Winnebago Tribe has named two executives

who will manage the troubled hospital

on the reservation after taking it over

from the Indian Health Service.

The tribe has named its longtime legal

counsel, Danelle Smith, to serve as executive director of the newly established

Winnebago Comprehensive Healthcare

System (WCHS), which will be the name

of the tribe’s new hospital. The tribe also

has named Gary Wabaunsee, a citizen of

the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma,

as hospital administrator.

Winnebago Tribal Councilmember

Victoria Kitcheyan said the hiring of

Smith and Wabaunsee demonstrates the

tribe’s commitment to improving patient

care at the hospital.

"Ms. Smith and Mr. Wabaunsee bring

a wealth of knowledge and experience

that will serve the Winnebago tribal

hospital well,” she said.

Smith, a citizen of the Winnebago

Tribe, has served for 14 years as the

tribe’s general legal counsel and spent

the past 2 ½ years on the tribe’s selfgovernance steering committee, which

has carried out planning and implementation of the tribe’s assumption of

the Indian Health Service hospital on

its reservation.

Dannelle Smith, the new executive director

of the Winnebago Comprehensive Healthcare System, and Gary Wabaunsee, the

new hospital administrator. Photos: Winnebago Tribe.

Smith served as a former partner

with Fredericks Peebles & Morgan LLP,

a law firm that represents tribes and

Native organizations. She worked on the

administrative team for nine years for

the Winnebago Tribe’s college, first at

the Nebraska Indian Community College

and later at Little Priest Tribal College.

She has also served on the governing

boards for a variety of organizations,

including the Ho-Chunk Community

Development Corporation, Nebraska

Justice Center and Legal Aid of Nebraska.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in

business administration from Wayne

State College and a law degree from the

University of Iowa.

Wabaunsee has almost 40 years of

experience in health care management,

having retired from the U.S. Public

Health Service Commissioned Corps

at the rank of captain in 1995. He also

served as health director for federal

Tribal Health Programs operated under the Indian Self Determination and

Education Assistance Act and as CEO

at several IHS locations.

He earned a bachelor’s degree from

Northeastern Oklahoma State University and a Master of Public Health in

health administration and planning

from the University of Oklahoma.

He said his goal is to “provide quality

health care service in a compassionate,

caring and culturally relevant environment with the focus first and foremost

on patient satisfaction.”

The IHS hospital in Winnebago has

struggled following the July 2015 decision by the Centers for Medicare and

Medicaid Services to terminate the facility's certification due to serious lapses

in patient care. The hospital, already

suffering from inadequate funding, can

no longer bill Medicare and Medicaid

for services.

Almost three years later, the IHS

remains unable to say when the hospital might regain certification, despite

repeated questions about the substandard level of care.

“This is the worst kind of chicken

and egg problem,” Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Minnesota) said at a March 20

hearing on Capitol Hill that focused on

the IHS, arguing that the agency faces

an uphill battle in correcting problems

at Winnebago and other facilities in the

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Indianz.com… Winnebago Tribe fights back in court after ‘attack on

sovereignty’ ‘A critical source of revenue’ Raid of tribal

tobacco operations at issue in new lawsuit

Tu e s d a y , A p r i l 2 4 , 2 0 1 8

B y

K e v i n

A b o u r e z k

Stop by the BHCC lobby and register to

vote.

Summer enjoys the day at one of WHS’s

last Track & Field meets.

Winnebago Spring Clean Up was a success.

A little fire in town had the nosey people

out blocking up the alley ways.

WINNEBAGO, Nebraska – With his

dying words, Chief Little Priest implored

his people to seek a better future for

their children.

“Be strong and educate my children,”

he said.

His words inspired the Winnebago

Tribe to establish Little Priest Tribal

College on the tribe’s northeast Nebraska reservation in 1996.

Maunka Morgan, the college’s president, still quotes the phrase as he attempts to describe the college’s mission.

“It’s part of this long vision that

our ancestors had for us to be selfsuf ficient and independent and

not beholden to others,” he said.

Like so many institutions on Winnebago Reservation, the college works

to make the tribe more independent by

educating future leaders and workers.

In order to do so, however, the college

leans on revenue generated by tribal

tobacco taxes.

For the fiscal year ending June 30,

2017, the tribe provided $151,029 in

tobacco tax revenue to the college. And

while that amounted to only about 2.1

percent of the college’s general fund, it

is a flexible revenue source that allows

the college to fund its priority programs,

Morgan said.

He said both the federal government

and state of Nebraska fail to equitably

fund the college compared to non-reservation-based colleges, and the college

has been historically underfunded as

a result.

“Utilizing these resources in our own

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tribal economies, it’s vital,” he said. “It’s

vital to the survival of the tribal college

and fulfilling its mission.”

But the tribe’s tobacco taxes have

come under attack in recent years,

culminating in a January 30 raid by

federal agents on the offices of HoChunk Inc. (HCI), the tribe’s economic development corporation.

Morgan said the college expects to see

a nearly $40,000 loss in tobacco tax

revenue as a result of the raid.

“It’s a conservative number,” he said.

“We don’t really know.”

But the Winnebago Tribe is fighting

back.

On Friday, two HCI-owned subsidiaries, HCI Distribution and Rock River

Manufacturing, filed a lawsuit against

the state of Nebraska seeking to prevent

the state from forcing the tribe to abide

by a legal agreement between the state

and a variety of tobacco manufacturers.

The lawsuit stems from the raid,

during which nearly 50 armed agents

of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and

Explosives confiscated dozens of boxes

of documents, office equipment and

cigarettes.

HCI Distribution purchases tobacco

products from tribal-based manufacturers and resells those products exclusively to reservation-based wholesalers

and retailers. Rock River is a federally

licensed cigarette manufacturer whose

products are distributed by HCI Distribution and other national distributors to

retailers throughout the country.

The lawsuit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Omaha, alleges the raid

constituted an attack on the tribe’s

status as a sovereign nation. It names

Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson and Tony Fulton, state tax commissioner, as defendants.

In a January 31 statement, Winnebago Tribal Chairman Frank White

said the tribe believes the state of

Nebraska convinced the ATF to investigate Ho-Chunk Inc. in order to “gain

advantage in an ongoing tax dispute.”

The lawsuit alleges the state of Nebraska has sought to force the Winnebago

Tribe to participate in a 1998 settlement between the four largest tobacco

manufacturing companies and 46

states, which had sued those tobacco

companies in order to recover healthcare costs related to smoking. The resulting legal agreement, known as the

Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement

(MSA), required the tobacco giants to

make payments to the states each year.

Other tobacco manufacturers later

became participants to the agreement.

The tobacco giants became concerned

that the payments they were being

forced to make to states would require

them to increase the price of their

products, and that price increase would

cause them to lose market share as

their product prices soared higher than

those of tobacco products being manufactured by companies that weren’t

required to make payments to states.

As a result, the tobacco giants renegotiated the MSA in order to require

states to force all tobacco manufacturers that operate within their borders to

either participate in the agreement or

begin paying fees in order to sell cigarettes in the state. States that failed to

do so would face the threat of losing

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Winnebago News

Click It or Ticket Campaign

Starts May 21

Winnebago Tribal law enforcement

and BIA will show zero tolerance

Winnebago, NE— as the unofficial

st art of summer, the Memorial Day

holiday weekend is a busy time for

Americans. Each year, the highways fill

with families in vehicles, on their way to

start their summer vacations. To help

keep drivers and passengers stay safe,

Winnebago Tribal Officers and BIA Officers are reminding motorists to Click

It or Ticket. Aimed at enforcing seat

belt use to help keep families safe, the

national seat belt campaign will take

place May 21 through June 3, concurrent with the busy travel season.

“Buckling up is such a simple task

that can keep you and your family safe

in the car,” said Chief of Police Jason

Lawrence. “But it’s more than that.

Buckling up is the law. Our law enforcement personnel see the consequences

of not buckling up. We see the loss of

life and pain in our community. Often,

it could have been prevented with the

simple click of a seat belt. This should

be automatic for all passengers in a

vehicle regardless of age.”

“As the Memorial Day weekend approaches and the summer vacation

season ramps up, we want to keep our

community members safe, and make

sure people are doing the one thing that

can save them in a crash: buckling up,”

said BIA Officer Gordon Rave. “If the

enforcement crackdown wakes people

up to the dangers of unrestrained driving, we’ll consider it a success.”

According to the National Highway

Traffic Safety Administration, nearly

half (48%) of the passenger vehicle occupants killed in crashes in 2016 were

unrestrained. At night from 6 p.m. to

5:59 a.m., that number soared to 56

percent of those killed. That’s why one

focus of the Click It or Ticket campaign

is nighttime enforcement. Participating

law enforcement agencies will be taking

a no-excuses approach to seat belt law

enforcement, writing citations day and

night. On the Winnebago Reservation,

the maximum penalty for a seat belt

violation is $25 plus a $50 court cost

for a total of $75. “I could think of better things to spend $75 on instead of

having to pay a traffic ticket,” said BIA

Officer Tony Walker

“If you know a friend or a family

member who does not buckle up when

they drive, please ask them to consider

changing their habits,” said K9 Officer

Matt Benson. “Help us spread this

life-saving message before one more

friend or family member is killed. Seat

belts save lives, and everyone—front

seat and back, child and adult—needs

to remember to buckle up—every trip,

every time.”

For more information on the Click It

or Ticket mobilization, please visit www.

nhtsa.gov/ciot.

Kelly Pond Update

Spring is here once again, temperatures are warming up and folks are getting

back to their summertime activities. This being the case, it is a good time to remind everyone that there is still a ‘Fish Consumption Rate’ posted at Kelly Pond.

Please look at the table below to find out what fish are safer than others to eat.

JESUS OUR SAVIOR

LUTHERAN OUTREACH

'Every good gift comes from above'

Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers. Every good and perfect gift is from

above, coming down from the Father of

the heavenly lights, who does not change

like shifting shadows. [James 1:16–17

NIV84]

James, the half-brother of Jesus,

same mother - different father, wrote

these words about A.D. 48. Some have

referred to the book of James as the

book of 'Proverbs of the New Testament.' He wrote to the descendants

of Abraham, the patriarchal father of

Israel as well as of all true believers. It

was through Abraham that all people

would be blessed from above. It was

through the offspring of Abraham that

the Messiah, the Christ, would be born.

James warns his dear brothers,

meaning his dear blood brothers and

sisters who were related to him through

their faith in Jesus who shed his blood

to pay for their sins. James warns them

not to be led astray, but rather to trust

in the Word of God and the good gifts

that come down from above.

One such gift is wisdom. In chapter

three James writes: 'Who is wise and

understanding among you? Let him

show it by his good life, by deeds done

in the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you harbor bitter envy and

selfish ambition in your hearts, do not

boast about it or deny the truth. Such

“wisdom” does not come down from

Pastor Ricky Jacob

heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, of

the devil. For where you have envy and

selfish ambition, there you find disorder

and every evil practice' [James 3:13–16

NIV84].

Take a moment to reflect on which

'wisdom' you are experiencing? Is it the

'wisdom' of the world, the self-centered

survival of the fittest type of 'wisdom?'

Or is it wisdom that comes down from

above - Godly wisdom?

James goes on to write: 'But the

wisdom that comes from heaven is first

of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good

fruit, impartial and sincere' [James 3:17

NIV84]. This type of wisdom is full of

blessings, blessings from Creator God.

We return to chapter one and read:

'Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and

the evil that is so prevalent and humbly

accept the word planted in you, which

can save you' [James 1:21 NIV84]. Good

gifts come through the proclamation,

study and meditation of God's Sacred

Word, as well as the sacred gifts of Holy

Baptism and the Lord's Supper, and

the forgiveness of sins given freely by

God's grace!

Each and every Sunday Creator God

offers you gifts, good gifts through His

Divine Service held at Jesus Our Savior

Lutheran Church at 11 a.m., preceded

by the study of God's Word at 10. Or

attend of one our Raising Up Spiritual

Warrior classes on Wednesday evenings

at 6 p.m.

Little Priest Tribal College Campus Scouts

Event

Native Students’ College Vision Quest (NSCVQ) held an event for 5th and 6th

graders of Winnebago Public School Friday, April 13th at the Little Priest Tribal

College (LPTC). The purpose of the NSCVQ event is to provide 5th through 8th

grade students with an introduction to college and career readiness. Visiting

LPTC campus is one event among many!

Students participated in a campus tour, M&M ice breaker, and Campus Bingo

where students roamed the campus learning about the school, staff, students,

and instructors. Bingo winners won a gift certificate to the LPTC Bookstore! Other

students were awarded for good behavior, leadership, and participation. All students present received a Campus Scouts t-shirt, catered lunch, and a goodie bag!

7th and 8th grade Campus Scouts are included in the coming weeks!

Note: Consumption limits for Non-Cancer Health Endpoints are based on an

adult weight of 150 pounds eating a one-half pound or an 8 ounce (precooked

weight) meal. To adjust the meal size for a lighter or heavier weight just subtract

or add an ounce of fish for every 20 pounds of body weight.

Example: 170 lb. Adult = 9 oz.

80 lb Child = 4 oz.

Even though, the guidelines recommend 1 meal per month, you can divide by

four to get rates in meals per week or eat smaller sized meals over the month.

Also, be sure to space out meals throughout the month. For example, don’t eat

all your fish meals for the entire month within a few days.

Please, don’t throw fish caught in other areas into Kelly Pond. Please, don’t

use fish caught in Kelly Pond for fish fries or selling to the community.

Also, please remind children that Kelly Pond is not a safe place to swim. Many

areas along the shore have water plants growing that can tangle and trap a child

and there are several places were the water gets deeper quickly.

Awards photo, courtesy of Harold Dean Ross :

Left to right, back row: Mateo Canales, Oscar Earth, Fiona Soap, Melodine Earth, Misty

Eagle, Caly Wolfleader, Tylie Chilson,

Left to Right, Middle Row: Stevi Raye Wolfe, Amiah Tyndall, Charlize Frenchman

Left to right, Front Row: Jacobe Rice, Sky Zach, Shyleigh Horn

If you have any questions please call Denise Jensen, Environmental Protection Department at 878-4060 Ext: 1002. Thank you for your cooperation. Have

a great summer.

SAVE THE DATE TUES. MAY 8TH 1-4PM

AT LITTLE PRIEST TRIBAL COLLEGE

ELK CLAN AUDITORIUM

In this documentary by KPJR Films, follow six students over the course of a

school year as a new trauma-sensitive program is implemented. The principal of

Lincoln High School changes his school's approach to discipline to help students

overcome traumatic events. 102 MINS.

RESILIENCE is a one-hour documentary that delves into the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the birth of a new movement to treat

and prevent Toxic Stress. The film traces the developments in the field, featuring

two of the doctors who pioneered this work and the health care professionals that

are running the evidence. A simple survey initiates the discussion and provides

the basis for a new understanding of what our culture is facing and how to best

treat families dealing with "toxic stress." Animation and well-placed statistics

punctuate the thoughtful film's message that, now armed with this information,

we can act quickly to mitigate the effects of a public health crisis. 60 MINS.

To RSVP to this screening of these 2 documentaries, please email Donna

Wolff, Native Connections Project Coordinator, at donna.wolff@ihs.gov or call

1-402-878-3659. Trauma Informed Care practices in action and a better understanding of how our childhood traumas truly effect our health and well-being.

The next issue of the WINNEBAGO INDIAN NEWS will be published on May 19, 2018.

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their sizeable settlement payments.

For Nebraska alone, that payment was

$37.7 million in 2017.

Fees paid by tobacco manufacturers

who weren’t participants in the MSA

were meant to ensure price parity with

manufacturers who were participating

in the agreement.

To meet the requirements of the

renegotiated MSA, states – including

Nebraska – drafted legislation imposing fees on tobacco manufacturers who

aren’t participants of the MSA.

“From the perspective of Big Tobacco, the MSA is essentially a federated

agreement ensuring that Big Tobacco

enjoys a level playing field across the

MSA-settling states despite their previous bad actions,” the lawsuit states.

Eric Littlegeorge, an employee of HCI

Distribution, adjusts a packaging machine

inside Rock River Manufacturing on Friday, April 20, 2018.

However, neither states’ attorney generals nor the big tobacco companies

invited tribes to participate in the

MSA, and they also failed to seek the

involvement of Congress, which exercises “exclusive and plenary control

over sovereign tribes within its borders

independent of state jurisdiction,” according to the lawsuit.

Despite these failures, states have

attempted to force tribes to abide by the

requirements set forth in the MSA and

the state legislation they’ve enacted to

enforce that agreement.

“As a result, Big Tobacco has exerted pressure on states to continue

to pursue unlawful regulation of tribal

tobacco trade in Indian Country,” the

lawsuit states. “Indeed, Big Tobacco

has improperly withheld payments

from many states alleging failure to

‘diligently enforce’ their MSA Laws with

respect to the Indian Country activities

of tribes.”

No federal statute currently gives

states the power to regulate tobacco

in Indian Country, the lawsuit states.

Indeed, federal statutes that address

tribal tobacco routinely reassert tribal independence from state tobacco

regulatory authority, including the

Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act

of 2009, according to the lawsuit.

The Winnebago Tribe has exercised

its “retained sovereignty to regulate

tobacco” on its reservation, creating

its own Universal Tobacco Settlement

Agreement that imposes fees on participating tobacco manufacturers and

distributors. In 2017 alone, that agreement generated $31,681 in fees and

$122,658 in cigarette taxes for the tribe.

In March 2014, Nebraska issued tax

assessment against several reservationbased cigarette retailers, prompting HCI

Distribution and Red Rock Manufacturing to begin negotiating a possible

tobacco compact.

But those negotiations ended in

June 2016 when the two sides failed to

agree on a compact that would protect

the Winnebago Tribe’s right to regulate

tobacco sales on its own reservation, the

lawsuit states.

HCI Distribution and Red Rock

Manufacturing have operated under a

cloud of uncertainty since March 2014,

the lawsuit alleges.

“This uncertainty and threat of penalty and retaliation has created a serious

impediment to their business operations

and, thus, the ability to expand economically,” the lawsuit states.

The two companies are asking

the U.S. District Court to prevent

the state of Nebraska from attempting to force the Winnebago T ribe

from abiding by terms of the MSA.

White, the tribe’s chairman, said the

state’s efforts to impose the MSA on

the tribe is an attack on the tribe’s

sovereignty.

“This attack has damaged our tribal

economy and in turn threatens our

sovereignty, self-determination and

self-governance,” he said in a statement.

Ho-Chunk Inc. was launched in 1994

to spur economic development activity

on the tribe’s reservation, and Indianz.

com is one of its subsidiaries. HCI said

in a statement Monday that tobacco

sales and regulation have helped generate significant revenue for the tribe,

which has struggled for decades to

establish a healthy economy.

The tribe’s tobacco sales and tax revenue have provided funding to community development efforts, scholarships,

internships and educational endowments. Tribal institutions such as Little

Priest Tribal College, the Community

Development Fund, Tribal Health Department and Language Revitalization

Department, as well as the tribe’s roads,

have benefited from those revenues.

Maunka Morgan, Little Priest Tribal

College president and a tax commissioner for the tribe, said tax revenue

has helped the tribe build all of its

institutions.

“We have been pretty good at implementing specific types of tribal taxes,

such as the tobacco taxes, and then putting them toward our strategic initiatives

to help fund our institutions,” he said.

“It’s a tool in the nation-building tool box.”

Tobacco taxes even helped 40 families

purchase new homes through a down

payment assistance program in recent

years, according to HCI.

Ann Marie Bledsoe Downes, vice

president for community impact and

engagement for HCI and a board member for the award-winning Winnebago

Community Development Fund, said

the fund has provided matching funds

to projects ranging from infrastructure

for the Ho-Chunk Village commercial

and housing development to language

preservation projects, renewable energy

expansion and community gardening

efforts.

“It has been a critical source of revenue to make sure we can bring outside

dollars to our reservation and maximize

the dollars we do have to improve the

lives of our tribal members,” she said.

“It is concerning to think that all

our progress could be slowed because

tobacco sales on our own reservation

would be further restricted for reasons we still don’t fully understand.”

In addition to the new lawsuit, HCI is

suing the federal government in connection with its tobacco business. As part

of the dispute, the corporation agreed

to hand over records related to its sales

to non-Indian individuals or entities.

But the gover nment contends

the Contraband Cigarette Trafficking

Act requires tribes to hand over all of

their tobacco sales records. In May

2016, a federal judge agreed and ruled

that HCI must comply with the law.

HCI has mounted an appeal of the

decision. Oral arguments took place on

March 15 before the D.C. Circuit Court

of Appeals, with judges agreeing that

the case represented a novel legal issue.

"Not once, until now, have they

sought records from my clients, instrumentalities of the Winnebago Tribe of

Nebraska," attorney Ben Fenner, who

is representing HCI and its tobacco

companies, told the court last month.

"Not once, to our knowledge, have they

sought records from any tribal instrumentality."

A decision is pending from the D.C.

Circuit.

Ho-Chunk Inc. owns Indianz.Com.

The website is operated by a different

subsidiary and is not involved with the

tobacco operations.

For this and more stories from around

Indian Country visit us at www.indianz.

com

WINNEBAGO TRIBE OF NEBRASKA

SPECIAL MEETING WITH BIA –

LAND TRANSACTIONS

March 28, 2018

TRIBAL COUNCIL PRESENT:

Frank White

Coly Brown

Roland Warner

James Snow

Vincent Bass

Isaac Smith

Kenneth Mallory

Victoria Kitcheyan (via phone)

OTHERS PRESENT:

Frankie Smith

Sheila Corbine

Keith Chamberlain

Lorali DeCora

Kelly Snow

Shelly Bear

Tonia Keller

Dulcie Greene

James Kawahara

Ruby Bellanger

Sarah Snake

Qui-Qui St. Cyr

Sharon Redhorn

Gloria Eagle

Benny Eagle

Tony Wood

Leotis Bigbear

Thelma Whitewater

Kenny Walker

Jeff Thomas, Sr.

Aaron LaPointe

Jason Lawrence

Felix White, Jr.

Anne BigBear

Tiffani Warner

Sandra Whitewater

Garan Coons

Crystal Ross

LaDonna Holstien

Nila Soloman

Monica Flores

Ireta Blackbird

Greg Broulard

Nikki Soloman

Trina Soloman

Lily Snow

Royce Payer

Cece Earth

Wanda Lewis

Melanie Parker

Barbara Eagle

Lance Morgan

Damon Picotte

Anna Bess Preston

Jason Hulit

Marcella Picotte

Crystal White

Esther Warner

Lea Hunter

Misty Jefferson

Avis Rice

TRIBAL COUNCIL ABSENT:

Curtis St. Cyr (sick leave)

CALL TO ORDER: Chairman

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Tribal Council Minutes

White called the meeting to order at

10:13 a.m.

OPENING PRAYER: James Snow offered the opening prayer.

AGENDA:

Vincent Bass motioned to add the

add Winnebago Land Corporation

Items/Agenda. Victoria Kitcheyan seconded (via phone call).

Roland Warner objected. Chair calls

for vote.

VOTE: (3) yes (4) no (0) abstain

Motion failed.

James Snow motioned to approve

the agenda. Roland Warner seconded.

VOTE: (4) yes (2) no (0) abstain

Motion carried.

NEW BUSINESS:

RESOLUTIONS: Agricultural, Business, and Home Site:

Roland Warner motioned to adopt

resolution #18-50: (HOCHUNK FARMS)

Ref: Agricultural Lease Bid – Tribal

Land – T2064. Coly Brown seconded.

VOTE: (4) yes (2) no (1) abstain

Motion carried.

[Victoria experiencing phone problems,

left meeting]

Coly Brown motioned to adopt resolution #18-51: Ref: Agricultural Lease

Bid- Tribal land – T2083. Roland Warner seconded.

VOTE: (5) yes (0) no (1) abstain

Motion carried.

James Snow motioned to adopt resolution #18-52: Ref: Winnebago Wildlife

& Parks Land Use – Tribal Land –T904

& T2021. Roland Warner seconded.

VOTE: (5) yes (0) no (1) abstain

Motion carried.

James Snow motioned to adopt

resolution #18-53: Ref: Agricultural

Lease Bid –Tribal Land – T186L. Coly Brown

seconded.

VOTE: (5) yes(0) no(1) abstainMotion

carried.

Roland Warner motioned to adopt

resolution #18-54: Ref Agricultural

Lease bid -Tribal Land – T360 – 1 & 2.

Coly Brown seconded.

VOTE: (5) yes (0) no (1) abstain

Motion carried.

Kenneth Mallory motioned to adopt

resolution #18-55: Ref: Jesus Our Savior Lutheran Ministry Lease. James

Snow seconded.

VOTE: (5) yes (0) no (1) abstain

Motion carried.

[Victoria reconnects through phone

call]

James Snow motioned to adopt

resolution #18-56: Ref: WinnaVegas

Outdoor Festival Ground Lease – Tribal

Land – T2051. Coly Brown seconded.

VOTE: (4) yes (2) no (1) abstain

Motion carried.

James Snow motioned to adopt

resolution #18-57: Ref: Ho Chunk Inc.

Headquarters – Tribal Land -T2068.

Roland Warner seconded.

VOTE: (5) yes (1) no (1) abstain

Motion carried.

Roland Warner motioned to adopt

resolution #18-58: Ref: Ho-Chunk Inc.,

Economic Development – Tribal Land –

T164L-A. James Snow seconded.

VOTE: (4) yes (2) no (1) abstain

Motion carried.

(4-26-18 Mid-Month Tribal Council Meeting)

Kenneth Mallory motioned to amend

page 2 of the March 28, 2018 Special

meeting with BIA – Land Transactions

minutes for resolution #18-58: Ref:

Ho-Chunk Inc., Economic Development – Tribal Land – T164L-A to read

“resolution #18-58: Ref: Heritage Mall

NE – Tribal Land – T164L-A”. Roland

Warner seconded.

VOTE: (5) yes (0) no (0) Abstain

Motion carried.

[Kenneth out]

Coly Brown motioned to adopt resolution #18-59: Ref: Louis LaRose Home

Site add land – Tribal Land – T2032.

James Snow seconded.

VOTE: (4) yes (1) no (1) abstain

Motion carried.

Roland Warner motioned to adopt

resolution #18-60: Ref: Frank & Elizabeth White Home Site Lease – Tribal

Land – T2083. Coly Brown seconded.

VOTE: (2) yes (3) no (1) abstain

Motion failed.

James Snow motioned to adopt resolution #18-61: Ref: Cancellation of Home

Site Lease, Terry Snowball – Tribal Land

– T2036. Coly Brown seconded.

VOTE: (4) yes (1) no (1) abstain

Motion carried.

MODIFICATIONS: No action taken.

LAND EXCHANGE/LAND SALE:

James Snow motioned to use Cobell

appraisal’s for the Land Exchange and

Land Sale items. Coly Brown seconded.

VOTE: (4) yes (0) no (2) abstain

Motion carried.

[Vincent out]

WINNEBAGO LAND CORPORATION REVIEW FINDINGS: No action taken.

ADJOURN:

Roland Warner motioned to adjourn

at 12:41 p.m. Coly Brown seconded.

VOTE: (5) yes (0) no (0) abstain

Motion carried.

Chairman White adjourned the meeting at 12:41 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Coly Brown, Secretary

Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska

WINNEBAGO TRIBE OF NEBRASKA

REGULAR TRIBAL COUNCIL

MEETING

April 2, 2018

TRIBAL COUNCIL PRESENT:

Frank White

Curtis St. Cyr

Coly Brown

James Snow

Vincent Bass

Kenneth Mallory

Victoria Kitcheyan (in late)

OTHERS PRESENT:

Jack LaMere

Sharon Frenchman

Keely Purcell

William DeCora

Ilona Maney

Cece Earth

Garan Coons

Ruby Bellanger

Tonia Keller

Tiffani Warner

Jerry LaMere

Alan Post

Randy DeCora

Corbin Thomas

Kelly Snow

Judy Marcy

Sharon Chamberlain

Jamie Typaptaner

Pam Mahkuk

TRIBAL COUNCIL ABSENT:

Roland Warner (leave)

Isaac Smith (Water Rescue T raining)

CALL TO ORDER: Chairman White

called the meeting to order at 9:08 a.m.

OPENING PRAYER: Coly Brown offered the opening prayer

AGENDA:

James Snow motioned to approve the

agenda. Curtis St. Cyr seconded.

VOTE:(5) yes (0) no(0) abstain Motion

carried.

READING OF THE MINUTES:

MARCH 19, 2018 MIND-MONTHLY

MINUTES

James Snow motioned to approve

the March 19, 2018 Mid-monthly meeting minutes. Vincent Bass seconded.

VOTE: (5) yes (0) no (0) abstain

Motion carried.

MARCH 21, 2018 GENERAL COUNSEL MINUTES

Curtis St. Cyr motioned to approve

the March 21, 2018 General Counsel

meeting minutes. Vincent Bass seconded.

VOTE: (5) yes (0) no (0) abstain

Motion carried.

MARCH 28, 2018 SPECIAL MEETING

WITH BIA-LAND TRANSACTIONS

James Snow motioned to approve the

March 28, 2018 Special meeting with

BIA – Land Transactions minutes. Coly

Brown seconded.

VOTE: (2) yes (0) no (4) abstain

Motion carried.

[Victoria in]

MARCH 30, 2018 TREASURER’S

REPORT MINUTES

James Snow motioned to approve

the March 30, 2018 Treasurer’s Report

minutes with the addition of the Powwow budget amount of $218,400.00.

Coly Brown seconded.

VOTE: (2) yes (0) no (4) abstain

Motion carried.

RATIFY FIVE SIGNATURES:

NONE

OLD BUSINESS: NONE

NEW BUSINESS:

RESOLUTION: ERIC LITTLEGEORGE

LEASEHOLD MORTGAGE LAND LEASE

Victoria Kitcheyan motioned to

adopt Resolution #18-62: Ref: Eric

L i ttl egeor ge L easehol d M or tgage

Land Lease Thunderway Addition

Lot 75. Vincent Bass seconded.

VOTE: (6) yes (0) no (0) abstain

Motion carried.

RESOLUTION: ALEXANDRIA HUNTER LEASEHOLD MOR TGAGE LAND

LEASE

Victoria Kitcheyan motioned to adopt

Resolution #18-63: Ref: Alexandria

Hunter Leasehold Mortgage Land Lease

Thunderway Addition Lot 78. Vincent

Bass seconded.

VOTE: (6) yes (0) no (0) abstain

Motion carried.

RESOLUTION: Ref: Hochunk, Inc.,

Economic Development – Tribal Land

– T164L-A

Victoria Kitcheyan motioned to adopt

Resolution #18-64: Ref: Ho-Chunk Inc.,

Economic Development – Tribal Land –

T164L-A. Vincent Bass seconded.

Discussion on resolution already

completed.

Victoria motioned to rescind the previous motion. No further action.

RESOLUTION: REF: LATEASHA

BASS LEASEHOLD MORTGAGE LAND

LEASE

James Snow motioned to adopt

Resolution #18-64: Ref: Lateasha Bass

Leasehold Mortgage Land Lease Thunderway addition Lot 74. Kenneth Mallory seconded.

VOTE: (4) yes (0) no (2) abstain

Motion carried.

PLANNING DEPT: RESOLUTION

LPTC BASIC LIBRARY GRANT PROJECT (IMLF)

Vincent Bass motioned to adopt

Resolution #18-65: Basic Library grant

Project.

Curtis St. Cyr seconded.

VOTE: (6) yes (0) no (0) abstain

Motion carried.

TRIBAL COUNCIL ITEMS:

NIHB 9TH ANNUAL TRIBAL PUBLIC

HEALTH SUMMIT TRAVEL APPROVAL

James Snow motioned to approve

Travel for any Tribal Council member

to attend the 9th Annual Tribal Public

Health Summit at Prior Lake, MN on

May 21-24, 2018.

Vincent Bass seconded.

VOTE: (6) yes (0) no (0) abstain

Motion carried.

GPTCA 2nd QUARTERLY MEETING

TRAVEL APPROVAL

Victoria Kitcheyan motioned to

approve the Travel for Frank White

to attend Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association 2nd Quarterly Meeting in Rapid City, SD on April 1113, 2018. James Snow seconded.

VOTE: (6) yes (0) no (0) abstain

Motion carried.

POW-WOW COMMITTEE APPLICANTS

Kenneth Mallory motioned

to accept the resignation of Maxine Rice from the Pow-wow Committee. Victoria Kitcheyan seconded.

VOTE: (6) yes (0) no (0) abstain

Motion carried.

Victoria Kitcheyan motioned to accept and appoint the four applicants

that applied to the 2018 Pow-wow Committee (Nicole Redhorn, Lucy Bigfire,

Gordon Rave, and Joi Long). Kenneth

Mallory seconded.

Curtis St. Cyr motioned to amend

the motion to accept and appoint the

four applicants that applied to the 2018

Pow-wow Committee (Nicole Redhorn,

Lucy Bigfire, Gordon Rave, and Joi

Long) and to give Winnebago Veterans Association/Post 363 First right

of refusal to participate and help the

2018 Pow-wow Committee organize this

years 2018 Veterans Pow-wow. Vincent

Bass seconded.

VOTE: (6) yes (0) no (0) abstain

Motion carried.

ADJOURN:

Victoria Kitcheyan motioned to

adjourn at 10:38 a.m. Vincent Bass

seconded.

VOTE: (6) yes (0) no (0) abstain

Motion carried.

Chairman White adjourned the

meeting at 10:38 a.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Coly Brown, Secretary

Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska

WINNEBAGO TRIBE OF NERBASKA

CEO REPORT

April 11, 2018

TRIBAL COUNCIL PRESENT:

Curtis St. Cyr

Coly Brown

Roland Warner

James Snow

Victoria Kitcheyan (via phone)

Kenneth Mallory

Isaac Smith

OTHERS PRESENT:

Victor Bird, Jr.

Lilly Snow

Joy Johnson

Tina Lewis

Sharon Frenchman

Tara Hernandez

Danelle Smith

Randy Teboe

Alan Post

Amy LaPointe

Mona Zuffante

Peggy LaRose

Lewis St. Cyr

TRIBAL COUNCIL ABSENT:

Vincent Bass

Frank White (sick leave)

CALL TO ORDER: Vice-Chairman

St. Cyr called the meeting to order at

1:11 p.m.

OPENING PRAYER: Roland Warner

offered the opening prayer.

APPROVE AGENDA:

Victoria Kitcheyan motioned to approve the Agenda with the addition

of Region Travel HHS 5/15-16/18.

James Snow seconded.

Vice-Chairman votes to break tie.

VOTE: (4) yes (3) no (0) abstain

Motion carried.

[Isaac out 1:35 pm]

WINNEBAGO COMPREHENSIVE

HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

BOARD OF DIRECTOR APPOINT MENTS

Kenneth Mallory motioned to table

the Board of Director appointments.

Roland Warner seconded.

VOTE: (3) yes (2) no (0) abstain

Motion carried.

NAMING OF FACILITY

James Snow motioned to name the

Facility “Twelve Clans Unity Hospital”.

Victoria Kitcheyan seconded.

VOTE: (2) yes (3) no (0) abstain

Motion failed.

Kenneth Mallory motioned to finalize

the naming of facility at Mid-Monthly

meeting. Roland Warner seconded.

VOTE: (4) yes (1) no (0) abstain

Motion carried.

ADOPTION OF PAY SCALE FOR

WINNEBAGO COMPREHENSIVE

HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

Kenneth Mallory motioned to apCon’t. in next issue...

Page 6 — Winnebago Indian News, Saturday, May 5, 2018

Community News

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LEGAL NOTICE

LEGAL NOTICE

LEGAL NOTICE

LEGAL NOTICE

Notice of Hearing

Case No. CV18-093

In the Matter of the

Name Change Petition of:

MISTY DAWN MARIE EAGLE

to MISTY DAWN MARIE DOENHOEFER

To: ANY INTERESTED PARTIES

You are hereby notified that a petition

for Name Change has been filed and a

hearing concerning the above referred

Individual in case no. CV18-093 has

been scheduled and will be heard in the

Winnebago Tribal Court of Winnebago,

Nebraska on the 4TH day of JUNE, 2018

at the hour of 10:00 A.M.

RE –ELECT ROBIN CHRISTIANSEN,

THURSTON COUNTY TREASURER

THURSTON COUNTY RESIDENT FOR 36 YEARS

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LEGAL NOTICE

Notice of Hearing

Case No. CV18-084

In the Matter of the Custody Petition of:

THOMAS SNOWBALL JR.

vs.

SHANAE Q. SECRIST

To: SHANAE W. SECRIST,

You are hereby notified that a

Custody petition has been filed and a

hearing concerning the above referred

Individual(s) in case no. CV18-084 has

been scheduled will be heard in the

Winnebago Tribal Court of Winnebago,

Nebraska on the 5TH day of JULY, 2018

at the hour of 9:30 A.M.

Notice of Hearing

Case No. CV18-072

In the Matter of the

Guardianship Petition of:

MARIA SCOTT

In Re:

A. S. (DOB 12/2009)

TO:

JENNIFER DREW, Mother

BIOLOGICAL FATHER

You are hereby notified that a petition

has been filed for Guardianship and a

hearing concerning the above referred

Individual(s) in Case No. CV18-072 has

been scheduled and will be heard in the

Winnebago Tribal Court of Winnebago,

Nebraska on the 24TH day of JULY,

2018 at the hour of 9:30 A.M.

LEGAL NOTICE

Notice of Hearing

Case No. CV18-081

In the Matter of the

Guardianship Petition of:

KARLA LAPOINTE

In Re:

A. C. (DOB 06/2005)

TO:

AARON CURRY, Father

You are hereby notified that a petition

has been filed for Guardianship and a

hearing concerning the above referred

Individual(s) in Case No. CV18-081 has

been scheduled and will be heard in the

Winnebago Tribal Court of Winnebago,

Nebraska on the 21ST day of JUNE,

2018 at the hour of 9:00 A.M.

Notice of Hearing

Case No. CV18-065

In the Matter of the

Guardianship Petition of:

SERENITY DREW

In Re:

R. M. S. (DOB 09/2013)

TO:

JENNIFER DREW, Mother

BIOLOGICAL FATHER

You are hereby notified that a petition has been filed for Guardianship

and a hearing concerning the above

referred Individual(s) in Case No. CV18065 has been scheduled and will be

heard in the Winnebago Tribal Court of

Winnebago, Nebraska on the 24TH day

of JULY, 2018 at the hour of 9:30 A.M.

Notice of Hearing

Case No. CV18-091

In the Matter of the

Name Change Petition of:

MIKAH KEOKUM DOXEY

to MIKAH WAYNE DOENHOEFER

To:

ANY INTERESTED PARTIES

You are hereby notified that a petition for Name Change has been filed

and a hearing concerning the above

referred Individual in case no. CV18091 has been scheduled and will be

heard in the Winnebago Tribal Court of

Winnebago, Nebraska on the 4TH day

of JUNE, 2018 at the hour of 9:30 A.M.

LEGAL NOTICE

Notice of Hearing

Case No. CV18-055

LITTLE PRIEST APARTMENTS, LLC

vs.

LOYLEE KENNEDY

To: LOYLEE KENNEDY:

You are hereby notified that a Small

Claims Petition, in the amount of

$1392.50 plus Court costs, has been

filed and a hearing concerning the

above referred Individual(s) in case no.

CV18-055 has been scheduled and will

be heard in the Winnebago Tribal Court

of Winnebago, Nebraska on the 7TH day

of JUNE, 2018 at the hour of 9:00 A.M.

LEGAL NOTICE

Notice of Hearing

Case No. CV18-065

In the Matter of the

Guardianship Petition of:

SERENITY DREW

In Re:

R. M. S. (DOB 09/2013)

TO:

JENNIFER DREW, Mother

BIOLOGICAL FATHER

You are hereby notified that a petition

has been filed for Guardianship and a

hearing concerning the above referred

Individual(s) in Case No. CV18-065 has

been scheduled and will be heard in the

Winnebago Tribal Court of Winnebago,

Nebraska on the 24TH day of JULY,

2018 at the hour of 9:30 A.M.

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LEGAL NOTICE

Notice of Hearing

Case No. CV18-076

In the Matter of the

Name Change Petition of:

IRETA BLACKBIRD-MORRISON

to IRETA HUNTER

LEGAL NOTICE

Notice of Hearing

Case No. JFJ18-014A

The People of the Winnebago Tribe

In the Interest of:

L. M. (DOB 03/2018)

MARY MORRISON, Mother

To:

ANY INTERESTED PARTIES

To:

You are hereby notified that a petition

for Name Change has been filed and a

hearing concerning the above referred

Individual in case no. CV18-076 has

been scheduled and will be heard in the

Winnebago Tribal Court of Winnebago,

Nebraska on the 21ST day of MAY, 2018

at the hour of 10:30 A.M.

LEGAL NOTICE

Notice of Abandonment/Consent Hearing

Case No. CV18-037

In the Matter of the

Adoption of:

A. X. L-W (DOB 11/2015)

A. X. L-W (DOB 02/2017)

TO:

VALLENE BELL, Mother

KYLE ADAMS, Father

You are hereby notified that an Adoption Petition has been filed and a

Hearing concerning the above referred

Individual(s) in case no. CV18-037 has

been scheduled and will be heard in the

Winnebago Tribal Court of Winnebago,

Nebraska on the 7th day of JUNE, 2018

at the hour of 10:00 A.M.

RICHARD GALVIN, Father

You are hereby notified that a hearing for Initial Appearance concerning

the above referred minor individual(s)

in case no. JFJ18-014A has been

scheduled and will be heard in the

Winnebago Tribal Court of Winnebago,

Nebraska on the 22ND day of MAY,

2018 at the hour of 1:00 P.M.

LEGAL NOTICE

Notice of Hearing

Case No. JFJ18-015AB

The People of the Winnebago Tribe

In the Interest of:

E. S. (DOB 03/2015)

J. S. (DOB 11/2012)

SHANELLE HORN, Mother

To: JAMES SAUNSOCI, Father

You are hereby notified that a hearing for Initial Appearance concerning

the above referred minor individual(s)

in case no. JFJ18-015AB has been

scheduled and will be heard in the

Winnebago Tribal Court of Winnebago,

Nebraska on the 22ND day of MAY,

2018 at the hour of 2:00 P.M.

LEGAL NOTICE

LEGAL NOTICE

You are hereby notified that a hearing for Initial Appearance concerning

the above referred minor individual(s)

in case no. JFJ17-044 has been scheduled and will be heard in the Winnebago

Tribal Court of Winnebago, Nebraska on

the 3RD day of JULY, 2018 at the hour

of 9:00 A.M.

You are hereby notified that a Application to Modify the Divorce Decree

has been filed and a hearing concerning

the above referred Case No. CV03-150

has been scheduled and will be heard

in the Winnebago Tribal Court of Winnebago, Nebraska on the 7TH day of

JUNE, 2018 at the hour of 9:00 A.M.

Notice of Hearing

Case No. JFJ17-044

The People of the Winnebago Tribe

In the Interest of:

I. R. (DOB 05/2002)

ROSALIND HAVLISH, Mother

To: LINO BROTHERS OF ALL, Father

Notice of Hearing

Case No. CV03-150

In the Matter of the

Petition of:

BRIAN KENNEDY

vs

LOYLEE KENNEDY

To: LOYLEE KENNEDY:

Winnebago Indian News, Saturday, April 21, 2018 — Page 7

Bago News

...Con’t. from front page

Great Plains.

The Winnebago Tribal Council voted

last November to pursue self-governance

after failing to see improvements at the

hospital. The tribe plans to take over the

hospital by July 1.

The move to self-governance – as set

forth by Title V of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act

of 1975 – allows tribes to assume control

over health care funding and programs

that the IHS would otherwise provide. A

tribe must enter into a compact, as well

as a funding agreement, with the federal

government that sets forth the terms of

their nation-to-nation relationship.

The effort, though, is seeing some

resistance. The Winnebago Tribe shares

the hospital with the neighboring Omaha

Tribe, whose leaders have raised questions about the initiative.

“I feel that IHS has failed us, has

killed our people, has not fulfilled their

obligations to the people,” Omaha Chair-

man Michael Wolfe told Indianz.Com in

January. “Now they’re bailing out, and

they’re just happy and tickled pink that

Winnebago wants to take this hospital

over. They broke it. Why should the Winnebago want to come and fix it?”

The Winnebago and Omaha tribes

would need to agree to move forward with

self-governance if they wanted to offer

all of the same programs with the same

level of funding. But the self-governance

process could still move forward with just

one tribe on board.

Wolfe has said the Omaha Tribe is

still considering whether to join the Winnebago Tribe in its effort to take control

of the hospital.

On Tuesday, Wolfe declined to comment, saying he wanted to wait until

the Omaha Tribal Council voted on the

self-governance initiative.

“I’m not going to have any discussion

about this until council is solidified in

every option that we want to address,”

he said.

Hope

By Amiyah Kuntz

In need of a new world.

In need of healing.

In need of equality.

In need of hope.

In a world full of racism

We as a society need to come together to end it all.

The saying “sticks and stones may break my bones,

But words will never hurt me”-It’s a lie.

The things racist people say

Stick to us and that’s not okay.

We as a society need to

Come together to end it all.

David Wingett could be right fit for final

Memphis basketball roster spots

Published: USA TODAY NETWORK

Memphis Tigers basketball coach

Penny Hardaway gives an update on

the program.

If David Wingett ultimately fills the

final scholarship available on next season’s Memphis men’s basketball roster,

the story of how it happened will begin

at Friday Night Lights, the Tigers’ spring

football game.

Bull City Prep coach Daryl Harris was

there at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium

on April 13, behind the east end zone

on an official visit with former player

Isaiah Maurice. The 6-foot-10 forward

had toured campus and eventually committed and signed with Memphis before

leaving town the next day.

But as the Tigers’ new coaching staff

wooed Maurice, their other recruiting

needs came up in conversation. Assistant coach Mike Miller told Harris

that Memphis wanted another player

to stretch the floor from 3-point range

next season, and so Harris pulled out

his cell phone.

“Hold up. You got to see David Wingett,” he said. “I showed him the film then

and he said, ‘You need to send that to

[Hardaway].’ ”

Why Memphis likes Wingett

A little more than two weeks later,

Memphis officially offered Wingett

(pronounced Win-jit) a scholarship on

Sunday.

Harris said Hardaway watched Wingett play three games this past weekend

with Team Loaded (NC) at an Adidas

Gauntlet event in the Atlanta area as

part of college basketball’s final spring

evaluation period. Memphis has one

scholarship remaining for next season

after losing three players to transfer following former coach Tubby Smith’s firing

and adding five players in Hardaway’s

first recruiting class.

Hardaway said last month that he

would like to bring in another shooter

to fill the last open scholarship on the

roster. But the Tigers aren’t the only ones

interested in adding a player of Wingett’s

caliber late in the recruiting process.

Auburn, Missouri and Wichita State all

recently joined more than 20 mid-major

schools that have offered Wingett.

The 6-foot-7 wing averaged 14.8 points

and 7.2 rebounds and had two doubledoubles over five games this past weekend. He also shot 61.5 percent from the

field and hit 8 of his 15 3-pointers.

Harris said Wingett is expected to make

a college decision soon and Memphis will

be one of the favorites to land him. “He

plays the game the right way,” Harris

added. “Obviously he can shoot, but he’s

efficient. He doesn’t have to get up a ton

of shots. He plays with that passion and

that’s what Penny was telling him in their

conversation. ‘You play with passion and I

just love the way you play so hard.’ That’s

what he liked about him.”

Wingett’s Native American background

would make him a unique addition at

Memphis. He’s from Winnebago, Neb.,

and a member of the Winnebago Tribe.

Wingett became a local sensation

while starring at Winnebago High School,

finishing as the second-leading scorer in

Nebraska high school history after registering more than 2,200 career points. But

exposure to college coaches proved more

difficult, even when Wingett played for

Chauncey Billups’ grassroots basketball

team last year.

For recruiting purposes, Wingett

elected to reclassify to 2018 after his senior season at Winnebago and played at

Bull City Prep in Durham, N.C. this past

school year. The lefty went on to average

24.5 points, eight rebounds and three assists per game while shooting 47 percent

from beyond the arc, according to Harris.

Harris noted that Wingett is more athletic than he appears at first glance, with

the ability to run the floor, finish at the

rim and score off the catch-and-shoot.

He’s also developed a Dirk Nowitzki-like

stepback jumper in recent years.

“He’s a matchup nightmare,” Harris

said. “He’s tough enough to guard someone in the post up to a four, but a four can

not guard him, most threes can not guard

him and he’s too tall for a two.”

Harris said Wingett plans to narrow

down his list of schools in the next few

days.

There’s close to 30 scholarship offers to

sift through all of a sudden. A lot changed

in just a couple weeks.

“Memphis is obviously one of the

schools that’s at the top of the list for

him,” Harris said. “It’s a great chance that

he’ll be visiting soon.

In need of a new world.

In need of healing.

In need of equality.

In need of hope.

Amiyah Kuntz, student

Winnebago Public High School

Jenni Malsam, teacher

Reconnecting Youth/Jackson Recovery Centers

Winnebago Public High School

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