пятница, 14 сентября 2012 г.

SHAKOPEE MDEWAKANTON SIOUX COMMUNITY SUPPORTS POW WOWS ACROSS INDIAN COUNTRY - US Fed News Service, Including US State News

The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux (Dakota) Community, a federally-recognized Native American tribe, issued the following news release:

The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community supports cultural celebrations throughout Indian Country with donations to local events. In fiscal year 2006 the SMSC donated a total of $83,550 to 74 cultural events and Pow Wows mostly in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

A Wacipi or Pow Wow is a traditional Native American cultural celebration where the generations gather to socialize, dance, and sing. In the Dakota Language, the Dakota word 'Wacipi' [wah-chee-pee] means 'they dance.' Often held over a weekend, a Wacipi is filled with songs and dances, singers with their drums, and dancers in their colorful regalia.

The largest donation of $15,000 went to the Mahkato Mdewakanton Association for its annual traditional Pow Wow in Mankato which honors the 38 Dakota hanged there in 1862, the largest mass hanging in U.S. history. 'Mahkato,' the Dakota word for the town, translates as 'Blue Earth.' Community members from the SMSC helped found the Mahkato Pow Wow 34 years ago.

Here is a list of Pow Wows supported by the SMSC with donations in fiscal year 2006: Ain Dah Yung, Albert Grass American Legion Post 173, American Indian Center of Rochester, Inc., American Legion Auxiliary for Cherry Creek, American Legion McBride Post 257/VFW Blacksmith Post 1353, Antelope Pow Wow, Arikara Celebration, Bear Soldier Pow Wow, Big Bend Pow Wow, Bismarck-Mandan Mid-Winter Wacipi, Black Hills American Indian Center, Black Hills State University, Black Hills Pow Wow Association, Blackfoot Pow Wow, BSU Council of Indian Students, Canupawakpa Dakota Nation, Centennial Schools, CRST Fair and Rodeo Labor Day Celebration, Cherry Creek Pow Wow, Circle of Nations Indian Association, Circle of Nations Wahpeton Indian School, Creighton University Native American Association, Crow Creek Pow Wow, Eagle Nest District Veteran's Day Celebration, Eagle Plume Cultural Club Celebration, Enemy Swim Wacipi, Flandreau SST Healthy Start Program, Gathering of Nations Pow Wow, General Beadle Elementary, Greenwood Community Pow Wow, Haskell Indian Nations University, Hastings Veterans Pow Wow, Kenel Pow Wow, Kicking Bear Wacipi, Kiyaksa Waci Okolakiciye, Kyle Fair, Leech Lake Tribal College Pow Wow, Little Earth Residents Association, Maajii, Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nations, Minnesota State University Mankato Pow Wow, Maria Sanford Middle School, Minnesota State University Bemidji Inter-tribal Indian Club, Native American Center of Southeast Minnesota, Northern Ponca Pow Wow, Nux-baa-ga Pow Wow, Oglala Lakota Nation Celebration, Omaka Teca Wacipi, O'osica Pow Wow, Osseo Area Schools ISD 279, People of the Plains Wacipi, Pipestone Dakota Wacipi, Porcupine District Annual Pow Wow, Porcupine District Labor Day Pow Wow, Rainy River Community College, Southwest Minnesota State University, Teca Wacipi Okolakiciye, Thunder Butte Pow Wow, Turtle Mountain Pow Wow, Twin Buttes Pow Wow, United Sioux Tribes of South Dakota, University of North Dakota Indian Association, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, USD Tiospaye Student Council, UTTC International Pow Wow, Wakpala Pow Wow, Wakpamni Lake Fourth of July Pow Wow, Wanbli Wakanyeja Wacipi, Warroad Pow Wow, White Horse Pow Wow, WOJB-FM Radio Hand Drum Contest, and Woodland and High Plains Pow Wow.

About the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community The SMSC utilizes its financial resources from gaming and non-gaming enterprises to pay for all of the internal infrastructure of the Tribe, including but not limited to housing, roads, water and sewer systems, emergency services, and essential services to its Tribal members in education, health, and welfare. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community has a charitable giving program which comes from a cultural and social tradition to assist those in need. Over the past several years the SMSC has donated more than $56.5 million to charitable organizations and Indian Tribes, including more than $15.7 million in fiscal year 2005. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, a federally recognized Indian Tribe in Minnesota, is the owner and operator of Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, Little Six Casino, Playworks, Dakotah! Sport and Fitness, The Meadows at Mystic Lake Golf Course, and other enterprises on a reservation south of the Twin Cities.