FACING AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE, DR.TERRY SAMUELS IS AT PEACE · 2 ODAWA TRAILS JANUARY 2007 DEPARTMENTS...

On October 31, the NationalEndowment for the Arts (NEA) an-nounced the Little Traverse BayBands of Odawa Indians was one

of 72 communities selected na-tionwide to receive a $20,000grant for the Big Read initiative.

LTBB was the only Indian tribe

selected, and one of only threecommunities selected in the stateof Michigan. LTBB and the GreaterCommunity Big Read Project 2007will run from January to June. Ed-ucation Director Melissa Clara-munt is the Project Director.

The Big Read is an initiative ofthe NEA designed to restore read-ing to the center of American cul-ture. The NEA presents the BigRead in partnership with the In-stitute of Museum and LibraryServices and in cooperation withArts Midwest. The Big Read bringstogether partners across the coun-try to encourage reading for pleas-ure and enlightenment. Ten com-munities participated in the initialBig Read initiative in 2006.

Reading at Risk: A Survey ofLiteracy Reading in America, a2004 report by the NEA, found notonly is literary reading in America

declining rapidly among all groups,but the rate of decline has accel-erated, especially among theyoung. The Big Read aims to ad-dress this crisis squarely and ef-fectively. It will provide citizenswith the opportunity to read anddiscuss a single book with theircommunities.

Communities choose from thefollowing books: A Farewell toArms, Fahrenheit 451, My Antonia,the Grapes of Wrath, the GreatGatsby, the Joy Luck Club, TheirEyes Were Watching God, and ToKill a Mockingbird. LTBB chose ToKill a Mockingbird because of itssocioeconomic, racial and inter-generational issues.

Programming is expected torun from April to June. There areseveral types of activities beingconsidered by the planning com-mittee.

The project is intended toreach the tribal and non-tribalcommunities in the northern Michi-gan area as well as people of allages. Copies of To Kill a Mocking-bird in various forms will be dis-tributed throughout the northernMichigan area free of charge.

In addition to the grant, NEAhas created a package of educa-tional and supportive materialsfor each community’s use duringthe Big Read. Educational materi-als include a 16-page Reader’sGuide to help guide book discus-sions, a 28-minute CD Audio Guideformatted for classroom or indi-vidual use to provide additional in-formation on each book, a 28-pageTeacher’s Guide featuring key in-formation for teachers, and an100-page Organizational Guide

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What’s InsideDepartments and Programs 2-7

January Elder Birthdays 3

Language Program 4

Judicial Branch 5

Communications Department 5

Executive Branch 5-7

Native News 7-9

Winter Solstice Party 2006 10

Elders Christmas Luncheon 11

Waganakising Martial Arts Update 14

On the Pow Wow Trail 15

Events Calendar 16

Tribal Council Meeting Minutes 17-18

Lines from the Membership 19

Elders Visit Construction Site 20

Construction Update 20

FACING AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE, DR.TERRY SAMUELS IS AT PEACEBy Annette VanDeCar, Communications Coordinator

A motorcycle accident MedicalDirector Dr. Terry Samuels suffered25 years ago has altered the courseof his life.

Samuels never sought medicaltreatment after the accident, and heendured what he called “tolerable”pain on and off as a result of it. Un-known at the time, he broke hisspine.

“Prior to the accident, I had noback pain,” said Samuels, a 52-year-old LTBB Tribal Citizen. “I’ve had backpain ever since the accident, but itwas manageable. I took Ibuprofen forit, and I was fine. Apparently, I havea very high tolerance for pain.”

In June 2006, Samuels col-lapsed after one of his legs became

numb and one foot became partiallyparalyzed. He saw a doctor who or-dered a MRI (magnetic resonanceimaging). Magnetic resonance im-aging is the use of nuclear magneticspectrometer to produce electronicimages of specific atoms and mo-lecular structures in solids, especiallyhuman cells, tissues and organs.The MRI revealed two completelycrushed or herniated disks pressingon the nerves going down his legs.

“The doctors were surprised Iwas even walking, and they said itwas likely I would need surgery,”Samuels said. “I knew it was serious,but I elected to try conservativemeasures because it was a 25-year-old injury.”

Samuels received an epiduralinjection, but it lasted only nine days.He said it typically lasts six weeks. Atthat point, his MRI images were sentto Dr. Paul Park, a University of Michi-gan neurosurgeon and a formermedical school classmate ofSamuel’s.

“He strongly urged me to takethe next flight to Ann Arbor (wherethe University of Michigan Hospitalsis located in Michigan) because Iwas at risk for paralysis from thewaist down,” Samuels said. “Heurged me to immediately have sur-gery and felt the minimally invasiveapproach provided the best oppor-tunity for a timely recovery.”

On July 6, 2006, Dr. Park per-formed lumbar L5-S1 spinal fusionsurgery with a cage on Samuels.Here is how Samuels described thesurgery: First, a disk was removedbetween L5 and S1 vertebrae; sec-ond, holes were drilled for the nervesto exit; third, two titanium rods withlong screws were inserted to holdhis spine in place; and finally, a roundcage was placed where the disk was.Minimally invasive spinal fusion is arelatively new procedure.

“Successful fusion requires twovertebrae fusing to become one,”Samuels said. “Bone fragments andmedicines were put in the cage tostimulate bone growth.

“All procedures involve risks.However, I was confident in the skillsof Dr. Park.”

Samuels still experiences pain,but he stopped taking pain medi-

cine two weeks after having surgery. “Physical therapy has helped

tremendously,” Samuels said. Samuels returned to work at the

LTBB Health Clinic in early October2006, first working part-time for fiveweeks and then working full-time.His future at the health clinic hingeson his recovery and healing processwhich typically takes 6-12 months.

“If the procedure is successful,I will only have some residual paral-ysis in my left foot,” Samuels said. “Ifit is not successful, I will be looking atan uncertain future that would in-clude repeat surgeries. How manysurgeries I would need depends on

Dr. Terry Samuels (on the right) faces an uncertain future after having lumbar L5-S1 spinalfusion surgery with a cage performed last July. Photo by Annette VanDeCar.

(L to R) Education Director Melissa Claramunt, Librarian Francine Thuston, Grant WriterHeidi Yaple and Vice Chairman Bill Denemy, Sr. Photo by Annette VanDeCar.

LTBB AWARDED $20,000 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE ARTS BIG READ GRANTBy Annette VanDeCar, Communications Coordinator

CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 “BIG READ”

CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 “DR.SAMUELS”

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DEPARTMENTS AND PROGRAMS

TRIBAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORYAND WEBSITE INFORMATION

LTBB Governmental Website www.ltbbodawa-nsn.gov

Tammy Gasco, Receptionist 231-242-1400

Tribal AdministrationMelissa Wiatrolik, Administrative Assistant 242-1420

Tribal Council/Legislative OfficeMike Smith, Administrative Assistant 242-1406

Tribal Chairman’s OfficeEllie Payton, Administrative Assistant 242-1401

Accounting DepartmentKathy McGraw, Accounting Assistant 242-1441Kristina Baller, Staff Accountant/Contracts 242-1443Archives and Records DepartmentMichael L. Lyons, Administrative Assistant 242-1450

Commerce DepartmentTheresa Keshick, Assistant 242-1584

Communications DepartmentAnnette VanDeCar, Communications Coordinator 242-1427

Education DepartmentBeverly Wemigwase, Administrative Assistant 242-1480

Elders ProgramTina Sutton, Elders Program Assistant 242-1423

Enrollment DepartmentLinda Gokee, Administrative Assistant 242-1521

Environmental Services DepartmentRegina Gasco, Environmental Assistant 242-1574

Facilities DepartmentSteve Clausen, Facilities Manager 242-1532

GIS DepartmentAlan Proctor, GIS Director 242-1597

Health DepartmentGwen Gasco, Administrative Assistant 242-1611Owen LaVeque, Transportation 242-1602Gina Kiogima, Maternal Child Health Outreach 242-1614

Housing DepartmentMargaret Gasco, Administrative Assistant 242-1540

Human Resources DepartmentMelissa Colby, Administrative Assistant 242-1555

Human Services DepartmentTheresa Chingwa, Administrative Assistant/Intake Worker 242-1621

Legal DepartmentSu Lantz, Legal Assistant 242-1407

Law Enforcement DepartmentTribal Police 242-1500

MIS DepartmentEd Nephler, MIS Technician 242-1534

Natural Resource DepartmentFiona Banfield, Administrative Assistant 242-1670

Odawa Enterprise ManagementSusan Swadling, OEM Assistant 242-1582

Planning, Zoning and Building DepartmentBryan Gillett, Planning Director 242-1580

Substance Abuse/Mental Health DepartmentPat Boda, Administrative Assistant 242-1640Jennifer Wilson, Office/Intake Coordinator 242-1642

Tribal CourtLinda Harper, Court Clerk 242-1462

Tribal Health ClinicDawn Kilpatrick, Receptionist 242-1700

Youth Services DepartmentR.J. Smith, Youth Coordinator 242-1593

Department of Commerce

Resident Tribal Member Tax Information

Cross Village (all) Bear Creek (all)Readmond (all) Resort (partial)Friendship (all) Bay (partial)West Traverse (all) Hayes (partial)Little Traverse (all)City of Harbor Springs (all)City of Petoskey (all)City of Charlevoix (only NORTH of the bridge)

Resident Tribal Members are exempted from the following Michigan taxes:

1. Sales Tax (6% of retail price)2. Use Tax (6% of purchase price)3. Income Tax (4% of Adjusted Gross Income)4. Single Business Tax (1.9 % of the applicable tax base)5. *Motor Fuel Tax (32 cents per gallon unleaded and 28

cents per gallon on diesel)6. *Tobacco Product Tax ($2 per pack of cigarettes)

* All LTBB Tribal Members are entitled to the exemption on fuel and tobacco.

• The Motor Fuel and Tobacco Product Tax exemption is available atBiindigen (Tribal convenience store) located at 2169 U.S. 31 Northin Petoskey, MI.

• The Motor Fuel Tax exemption is also available at the BP station on the south side of Petoskey, MI, near the Big Boy restaurant.

Please note: Exemption for tobacco and fuel is for LTBB Tribal Mem-bers' sole consumption ONLY!

IMPORTANT REMINDER: TRIBAL MEMBERS ARE NOT ALLOWED

TO USE THEIR TRIBAL ID SWIPE CARDS FOR PURCHASES OF NON-MEM-

BERS NOR ARE THEY ALLOWED TO LEND THE SWIPE CARD OUT TO

ANYONE.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

TAX AGREEMENT INFORMATIONBy Theresa Keshick, Department of Commerce Assistant

The Department of Com-merce would like to remind themembership about a few itemspertaining to the Tax Agreement.First of all, I cannot express howimportant it is to keep your ad-dress updated.

The first step in becoming aResident Tribal Member (RTM) isto officially change your addresswith the Enrollment Departmentlocated in the LTBB GovernmentalCenter in Harbor Springs, MI. Thismust be done in writing.

Being an RTM will allow youto purchase large items such asvehicles, boats, motorcycles andoff the road vehicles tax exempt.There is a form that needs to befilled out, Tribal Form 3996, whichis available at our office located at1345 U.S. 31 North in Petoskey,MI; and for those RTM’s with In-ternet access, on the State ofMichigan website noted at theend of this article. These aremailed out on a quarterly basis tothe State of Michigan during thefirst week of January, April, Julyand October. Being an RTM willalso allow you to be tax exempt onutility bills such as phone, cable,gas, propane, electricity, satellite,and cellular service. If you havenot filled out a Utility Provider Sur-vey, please contact our office andwe will be happy to get one to you.These are available on LTBB’s P-Drive, so any Tribal GovernmentEmployee can print one for you.

Another important thing to re-member is if you do move into theTax Agreement Area, your RTMstatus does NOT take effect untilthe first day of the followingmonth. Example: I moved toPetoskey, MI, which is in the TaxAgreement Area, on September5, 2006. My RTM status beganOctober 1, 2006. All updates aresent to the State of Michigan asclose to the end of the month aspossible. If you plan to purchase avehicle or remodel, please waituntil after the first of the followingmonth in which you moved. Oth-erwise, your refund will be deniedby the State.

The LTBB Tax Agreement isviewable on the State of Michigan’swebsite at: http://www.michi-gan.gov/treasury/0,1607,7-121-1748_23287---,00.html

If you have any other ques-tions pertaining to the Tax Agree-ment, I may be reached at my of-fice at 231-242-1584 or [email protected].

The Tax Agreement Area mapappears courtesy of GIS DirectorAlan Proctor.

Effective January 1, the cost of Little TraverseBay Bands’ Inland Hunting and Fishing

Licenses go from $3 to $5.

ODAWA TRAILS 3JANUARY 2007

HEALTH DEPARTMENT

ELDERS PROGRAM

I.H.S. - CHS coverage is notautomatic. You must be regis-tered with CHS. Should you havean emergency situation requiringyou to obtain care at a non- I.H.S.facility such as urgent care or theemergency room, you must notifythe CHS office at 231-242-1600within 72 hours of that visit. If youfail to do so, you will be held re-sponsible for the bill.

Eligibility Criteria:

• You must reside in theContract Health Service

Delivery Area (CHSDA). • Be an enrolled member

or descendent of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians or be able to prove social or economic ties to the community.

• A Native American claiming eligibility for CHS has the responsibil-ity to furnish the tribal program with documen-tation to substantiate the claim.

• You must have an active and complete file with

Contract Health before a reference number can be given.

Remember!!!!Indian Health Service Con-

tract Health is not an entitlementprogram - not everyone is eligible.Know your status before obtain-ing services.

Referrals:Physicians write referrals

when patients need medical carethat is not available in the TribalClinic. A referral is not an implica-tion the care will be paid by CHS.A patient must meet eligibility cri-teria, medical priorities and useall alternate resources available.

If a referral is denied for CHSpayment, the patient may elect toobtain medical services at his orher own expense. In most cases,an approved referral is limited toone medical appointment. Pleasecall Contract Health Services at231-242-1600 prior to any follow-up appointments for approval tomake sure your coverage is still ineffect.

Alternate Resources:Contract Health Service is

the payer of last resort. When apatient has Medicare, Medicaid,Veterans Assistance, Workman'scompensation, private insuranceor any other coverage, it is con-sidered the primary carrier.

Priority system:Medical referrals are ap-

proved for payment by a prioritysystem.

The system has highest pri-ority to approve conditions relatedto life saving or potential deaththreatening situations, then weapprove by severity of condition.

The amount of funding we re-ceive for CHS services is limited.When we run out of money to-ward the end of the year, then wehave to be very strict on referralapprovals and may only have thefunds to pay for emergency con-ditions.

IMPORTANT FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT INDIAN HEALTHSERVICE CONTRACT HEALTH SERVICE

Elder BirthdaysJanuary 1

Janice BeckhornJohn Deckrow, Sr.

Leslie Flint

January 2Margaret Ortner

January 3Patricia Kaat

January 4Leon Bailey, Jr.

Nancy HoneysetteVerna Jeanotte

January 5David AdamsMonica Baker

Jay HarringtonBetty Hoffman

Lawrence PetoskeyJohn Shonibin, Jr.

January 6Marie Bowers

January 7Jane Martell

January 8Rosemary Knapp

James SmithChristine Thomas

January 9Rosalie Parsons

Virginia Von der Lippe

January 10Steven Melancon, Jr.

January 11Clara Roussain

January 12David DeMoines

Nivia Paul

January 14Sophie Conlin

Penelope Griffin

January 15David Vincent

Curtis Willis

January 16Patricia AlsipAndrea Cagle

Judy Field

January 17Carole Prior

January 18Mary Rittase

January 19Rosanna Givens

January 20Clifford Cutler

January 21Christine Merrill

January 22Robert KiogimaAndrew Lasley

January 23John Chisholm, Sr.Marilyn McDonald

Adeline NoackCarolyn Taglauer

January 24Richard Gould

January 25June Carey

Glenna Kimball

January 26Joseph Dayson Jr.Ronald Mulholland

January 27Edward BurchDiane Curtiss

Dee Dee GascoJesse King

Theodore Sky-Eagle, Sr.

January 28Richard Petoskey

Catherine RossRichard Wilburn

January 29Catherine Schwiderson

Rita ShananaquetSamuel Shananaquet

Cecil Taylor

January 30Donna Shlechter

Mary Steffes

January 31Shirley DunkleyRuth EaglemanJennie HeeresAnn McClellan

FOUR DIRECTIONS

DISTRIBUTIONOn December 6 at the LTBB GovernmentalCenter in Harbor Springs, MI, copies of thefilm “Four Directions” arrived. The distribu-tion of the complimentary DVDs to eachtribal citizen was overseen by the TribalChairman’s Office. The film premiered totribal citizens during the 12th Annual Sover-eignty Day Celebration on September 23. Photo by Communications Coordinator An-nette VanDeCar.

4 JANUARY 2007ODAWA TRAILS

LANGUAGE PROGRAM

Giizisak(Moons - Months)

Mnido Giizis Mkwa Giizis Naabdin Giizis BopogimenhGiizis

ZiisbaakdakiGiizis

Nmebine Giizis

Waabgonii Giizis

Spirit Moon Bear Moon SnowcrustMoon

Broken Snow-shoe Moon Sugar Moon Sucker Moon Blossom Moon

January February March 13th MoonFalls ~ Here April May June

Miin Giizis Mnoomin Giizis Waabagaa Giizis Bnaakwii Giizis Baashkaakodin Giizis

Mnido Giizisoonhs

Berry Moon Rice Moon Autumn Moon Falling LeavesMoon Snowcrust Moon Little Spirit Moon

July August September October November December

RECALLING A NEW YEAR’S TRADITIONBy Isabelle Osawamick, Lead Anishnaabemowin Language Instructor

Aanii! Mno Nimkoodaadin!Miisa zhaazhigo miinwa ngodi-

ing giigwaboongak. Aapiji gii-wewiiptaamgad. Mii maanda piizhaazhigo kina gwaya gaapaan-imkaaget. Gichi-zhaazhigo gwabimaadzijik giipaanimkaagewokngoname-giizhigak. Binoojiinhakmiinwa eshkiniigjik giibshigen-daanaa’aa maanda pii. Gi-ipaazhaawok kina wiigwaamiingpaaboozhookewaad. Mshiiminanmaage ezaamingaanh’in giimji-gaazawok pii paanimkaakewaad.Miigweta giibiindigewaad, giizhk-injiingewaad, giinimkaagewaad,giidebinaamwaad gego, miidashmiinwa giinimaajaa’aad. Epiidsijikgweta gnezh gaanbwaachwejik.

Pii giiniibaanamaang kina gwaenchiiyiing giikchiwiisinimi. Mi-idash aabdeg nangwa wiigjitowiingnoonj bangii wiiwiisini’iing giishpinwiimnomaadzii’iing. Aapiji gwa

znagad. Miinwa pii nimkoodaadi-ing mii maanda pii bimaadzijik wi-igjitowaad wiiboontowaad gegoenishisnok. Miinwa baatiinwokmaanda pii emaajtaajik gego. Kinagwaya minendam maajtaadzhichiged gego enishiing.

Aanin bimaadzijik maawnjidi-wok jiibwaa aaptaadibikak.Zhaazhigo baatiinwok emaamwi wi-isinijik maanda pii. Kina gwayamnendaagwazi. Noonj zhichige-wok bimaadzijik maanda pii wiin-saakanimwaad nimkoodaading.

TranslationHello! Happy New Year! Another year has passed. It

went by really fast. This is wheneverybody used to wish each oth-er Happy New Year. Long ago,people used to go “Happy NewYearing” for a week. Children andyouth enjoyed this time. They wentto all the houses saying “Hi” to

everybody. They were treated withapples or oranges when wishingHappy New Year. They just went in,shook hands, said their “HappyNew Year,” got something andthen, they left again. Adults werethe only ones who visited for a longtime.

During Christmas, all of usate a lot. Now, we have to try to eata little if we are to have a healthylife. It is hard. When it is NewYear’s, this is also when people tryto quit things that are not good.There are also many who startthings. Everybody feels good whenthey start doing good things.

Some people get together be-fore midnight. There are alreadylots of people who eat together bythis time. Everybody has fun. Peo-ple do different things to open theNew Year.

ATTENTION ALL GIRLS VOLLEYBALL PLAYERSFor girls 13-18 wishing to play on aLTBB Team at the Native Ameri-can Girls First Annual VolleyballTournament on February 10 in Mt.Pleasant, MI, practices are January9, January 16, January 23, January30 and February 6 from 6 p.m. to 8p.m. at North Central MichiganCollege in Petoskey, MI. If youhave any questions or would likemore information, contact CathyGibson at 231-242-1601.

Fifteen LTBB Community Citi-zens recently finished 40 hoursof peacemaking and mediationtraining sponsored by the LTBBTribal Court.

The training was essentialpreparation for facilitating circlesin the new Peacemaking Programdeveloped by the Tribal Court. Ini-tially, the Peacemaking Programwill focus on juvenile cases suchas truancy, runaway, curfew andincorrigibility.

In the photo by Communica-tions Coordinator Annette VanDe-Car, pictured left to right in thefront row are Anthony Davis,trainer Kathy Lame, trainer DaveKeller, and Bill Nash. Pictured leftto right in the back row are PeghiParkey, Francine Thuston, RitaGasco-Shepard, Will Espey, Na-

talie Sova, Clayton Mooney andAndrea Otto.

Marie “Tootsie” Miller, MikeLyons, Matt Davis, Kevin Gasco,

Joe Mitchell and Jannan Cornstalkalso completed the training, butthey are not pictured in the photo.

JANUARY 2007 ODAWA TRAILS 5

COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT

JUDICIAL BRANCH

BREAKING NEWS FROM THECOMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENTBy Annette VanDeCar, Communications Coordinator

LTBB COMMUNITY CITIZENS COMPLETEPEACEMAKING TRAININGBy Dave Keller, Civil Court Development Specialist

The Communications Depart-ment has some exciting news toshare with the LTBB Tribal Com-munity.

Starting with the February is-sue of Odawa Trails, our monthlynewsletter will be printed andmailed locally by the PetoskeyNews-Review in Petoskey, MI.

I believe the Petoskey News-Review is a good fit because we willbe putting money back into the lo-cal economy; the News-Reviewhas high quality reproduction; it ismore cost effective; and we willhave significantly more colorpages.

Because of the switch, ourdeadline for submissions will be aweek sooner than in the past be-cause the newsletter must be sentto the News-Review a week soon-er. Instead of the deadline beingthe first Monday of every month, itwill be the last Monday of everymonth. This means you will receiveyour Odawa Trails a week sooner.

We will also be welcoming anew employee to our department.

Starting January 8, Sara Wil-son will join the department as aCommunications Assistant join-ing myself and CommunicationsAssistant Aaron Wayne Otto, aLTBB Tribal Citizen.

Since starting as the Com-munications Coordinator in May,Otto has been largely responsiblefor making Odawa Trails more vi-sually appealing, for designing anew masthead for the newsletter,for designing visually appealinggraphics and ads, and for ensuringthe newsletter gets to the tribe’swebsite every month. You can viewOdawa Trails on the tribe’s website,www.ltbbodawa-nsn.gov. Once youare on the website, click onnewsletter and then click on themonth of the newsletter you wouldlike to view.

I have focused on improvingthe content of the newsletter. I amconfident the addition of Wilson will

allow us to further improve the con-tent of the newsletter.

Wilson will bring experienceand education in the journalismfield to governmental operations.You can read more about her in theFebruary issue of Odawa Trailswhen she introduces herself bywriting her own new employee ar-ticle. If you are a Tribal Elder whoattends the Elders Luncheons heldat the LTBB Governmental Centerin Harbor Springs, MI, you will beintroduced to her at a luncheonshortly. Wilson will write articles,cover tribal community events,proofread copy, edit copy and takephotos as needed.

As a department, we will con-tinue to strive to produce a betternewsletter. I am excited to seewhere the future takes us. If youhave any story ideas, suggestionsor submissions, you can e-mailthem to us at [email protected] or call 231-242-1427.

EXECUTIVE BRANCH

Three brief thoughts: We gath-ered at a small riverside site on agrey autumn day with intermit-tent sprinkles of rain blessing us.After a pipe ceremony and to theaccompaniment of sacred songs,we each released into central Low-er Michigan’s Manistee River six-inch sturgeon that had beenreared through a restoration proj-ect by the Little River Band of Ot-tawa Indians’ Natural ResourcesDepartment. The incredible spiri-tual strength and power in that an-cient fish I placed in the river wa-ter with my bare hands movedsomething deep within my spiritthat may never be the same again.That sturgeon may live 150 years,and I could imagine someday mygreat-great-great grandchild mightexperience that same fish in the

river.From ancient fish to the In-

ternet: At http://www.mothere-arthwaterwalk.com, you will findthis message: “A group of Anishi-naabe-kwe and supporters havetaken action regarding the water is-sue. With a bucket of water, theywalked around Lake Superior inspring 2003, and plan to walkaround the remaining great lakesof North America. This walk is toraise awareness how, we, the hu-man beings on this planet need toknow, and take care of our pre-cious resource, the water.” TheseNative grandmothers have nowcompleted walking for each of theGreat Lakes in Michigan.

And, yet a third thought/im-age: We are taught by our Eldersto think through the effects of our

actions to the seventh genera-tion. Some think of this as a spe-cific place in time, but I like to thinkof seven generations as a buffer intime, similar to driving your cardown the road at night with yourlights shining ahead of you. Foreach 100 feet you drive, yourlights move out ahead of you an-other 100 feet. Seven generationsis a continuously moving distanceinto our future we never reach.

Aanii, Hello, Pipigwa Ododem,Waganakising n’doonjiba. Naak-wegeshik n’diznikaaz. SparrowHawk is the mark of my family. I amfrom the Crooked Tree Place. Noon-day is my name. I am also knownas Frank Ettawageshik, a citizen ofthe Waganakising Odawak, or theLittle Traverse Bay Bands of OdawaIndians from northern Lower Michi-

gan. Today, I want to build upon thethree thoughts I’ve just presentedand to talk about the negotiationand exercise of sovereignty by ourTribal Nations.

Sovereignty is not somethingsomeone gives to anyone. A peo-ple are either sovereign or they arenot. While our Tribal Nations haveinherent sovereignty, the exerciseof that sovereignty is affected bywhether or not the other sovereignsaround us recognize our sovereignrights. We must constantly be ne-gotiating with other governmentsaround us. When the United StatesSupreme Court makes a rulingthat limits Tribal sovereignty, it ac-tually has not limited us at all.Rather, it limits the United Statesgovernment and its citizens and po-litical subdivisions in how they

can recognize sovereignty of theTribes. It clearly does make it moredifficult for Tribes to exercise theirsovereign rights but only if we letit does it limit our own concept andunderstanding of the inherent sov-ereignty of Tribal Nations.

Sovereignty is the freedom togovern ourselves. But, having andexercising sovereignty doesn’t nec-essarily convey wisdom to thosewho wield it. We have the right tobe as wise as we can be or to beas unwise as we wish. It is up to usas a people and as leaders tochoose wisely, to choose wisdomas we move through the difficulttasks of governing, as we movethrough negotiations with the oth-

Water, Treaty Rights, and Native Traditions in a Multi–Sovereign EnvironmentPresented by LTBB Tribal Chairman Frank Ettawageshik on November 17, 2006 at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, NY.

Native Water Law and Public Policy: Critical Issues in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Watershed Conference

FROM THE DESK OF THE TRIBAL CHAIRMAN FRANK ETTAWAGESHIK

CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 “WATER”

JANUARY 20076 ODAWA TRAILS

EXECUTIVE REPORT FROM THE TRIBAL CHAIRMAN’S OFFICEEach month, the Tribal Chair-

man’s Office prepares a writtenExecutive Oversight Report for theTribal Council. This is one of theduties of the Tribal Chairman listedin the Waganakising Odawa Con-stitution adopted on February 2,2005. Starting this month, we willprepare an article from this over-sight report to include in theOdawa Trials. The following articleis from our December 2006 re-port to Tribal Council.

Ambassadorial ActivitiesBurt Lake Letter Published in

Congressional Record: In 1997,Carl Frazier, the former Burt LakeChairperson, gave testimony inCongress that put forth an erro-neous Burt Lake claim to much ofthe Little Traverse Bay Bands’ ter-ritory. The LTBB Tribal Council with-drew its Resolution of Support forBurt Lake’s recognition after theterritorial claim was made to theU.S. Congress. Several times since1997, the leadership at Burt Lakehas promised to withdraw that tes-timony, but failed to follow throughon its promise. They met with LTBBRepresentatives during my previ-ous term as Chairman in 1998and 1999. While Chairman (Gerry)Chingwa was in office, they metwith LTBB again, and at least twicesince I took office in 2003, theyhave again met with us, all to noavail. Recently, I’ve been con-tacted again to speak with BurtLake about their formal denial ofrecognition by the Office of FederalAcknowledgement. I said I reallydidn’t see any need to meet untilthey followed through on their pre-vious promises. Finally, on No-vember 13, 2006, CongressmanBart Stupak read into the officialrecord and a copy was published

in the Congressional Record of aletter from Burt Lake ChairpersonCurtis Chambers disavowing Chair-man Frazier’s testimony as “fac-tually inaccurate.” We thank themfor correcting the record, and now,we will no longer be in oppositionto their pursuit of recognition.

St. Mary’s River Treaty: Anoutgrowth of the Tribal and FirstNations Great Lakes Water Accordis the formal work being done bythe Sault Ste. Marie Tribe and BayMills with Garden River andBatchewana First Nations. I wasinvited to speak at, and be a wit-ness to, the signing of a treaty be-fore these four sovereign govern-ments recently at Bay Mills. Withmore than 75 people present, fourleaders signed this treaty after apipe ceremony and songs. Womenhand drum singers sang while theleaders and all the witnessessigned. A feast followed. Theysigned five original copies: One foreach of the signing nations, andone for LTBB because of the lead-ership we’ve provided regardingprotection of the sacred water. TheLTBB original and a copy of thewitness list will be placed in ourarchives. We also received an en-graved pen used by the witnessesto sign the witness list that will bein our archives.

Resolution of Support for theHavasupai Tribe: At the NationalCongress of American Indians, Iheard a presentation by represen-tatives of the Havasupai Tribe wholive in the Grand Canyon. Theyhave a lawsuit against ArizonaState University regarding misrep-resentations made by a re-searcher from the university duringa supposed diabetes researchproject. The Tribe feels betrayed

and abused because they laterfound out their blood sampleswere used for studies on migra-tion, inbreeding, and schizophre-nia without their consent.

They are seeking supportfrom other tribes across the coun-try. So far, they have received sup-port from NCAI, Arizona Inter-TribalCouncil, and several individualtribes. I recommend LTBB adopt aresolution of support for the Hava-supai.

United Tribes of Michigan:Tribal Resolution 102206-02 au-thorized LTBB membership inUnited Tribes of Michigan andmade a pledge of $2,000 per yearfor five years to support the ad-ministration of this organization.A draft resolution for Tribal Councilconsideration was submitted withthis report appropriating $2,000for fiscal year 2007 and approvinga budget modification placing thefunds in the Executive Budget, sowe will be able to pay this pledgefor 2007. We are placing the fundsin our 2008 Executive Budget re-quest, so we will not need to comeback for a special appropriationand budget modification againnext year.

NCAI Dues Increase Proposal:At the fall meeting in Sacramento,CA, a proposal was put forward toincrease the dues for the NationalCongress of American Indians. Ipointed out many tribes have al-ready adopted their 2007 budg-ets and to raise the dues without along lead time would create budg-etary problems. I led an effort topostpone this issue for considera-tion until at least the ExecutiveSession in February in Washing-ton, DC. This effort was successful.LTBB would be impacted substan-

tially by this increase. Many tribeswere opposed to the changes, butall spoke highly of their supportfor NCAI. I am asking for thoughtson this dues increase in order toprovide guidance for me during thedebate in February.

Speaking Engagements: OnNovember 17, I spoke at a confer-ence at the Cornell University LawSchool in Ithaca, NY. The confer-ence topic was water law. The titleof my presentation was “Water,Treaty Rights, and Native Tradi-tions in a Multi-Sovereign Environ-ment.” A copy of this presentationis in this Odawa Trails in a sepa-rate article.

Chippewa Ottawa ResourceAuthority/Great Lakes ResourcesCommittee Meetings: Our GreatLakes fishing issues are discussedwith the other four tribes in the1836 Treaty Area at these meet-ings. This past month, we havehad several conference calls onvarious issues, including person-nel and budgets. On December 14at Grand Traverse Resort in Tra-verse City, MI, we held a regularmeeting.

Lobbying Reports: We receivea written report each month fromMichigan Tribal Advocates, our lob-byist in Lansing, MI. Additionally,we talk with or e-mail our lobbyistin Washington D.C. regularly aboutactivities in the U.S. Congress. Themain topic for discussion in bothLansing and Washington D.C. rightnow is the restructuring going onwith the Democrats taking theMichigan House and the U.S.House and Senate.

Implementation of Statutesand Resolutions

Budget Policy Revision: TheCFO (Chief Financial Officer), the

Tribal Administrator and the Exec-utive Office have been working onrevising the existing budget policyin light of the new constitution. Wesubmitted a revised policy to TribalCouncil for approval in December.

2007 Liquor Licenses forTribal Enterprises: We submitted adraft resolution with copies ofthree 2007 licenses for TribalCouncil’s approval.

Odawa Register: Updates tothe Odawa Register are comingalong well. We expect to have thebeta version of the front pageready soon with full implementa-tion around January 1. Eachbranch of government will have itsown page linked directly to thefront page. The Executive page willbe more user friendly, hopefully,making it easier to navigate and tomake online comments on postedregulations.

Oversight of Commissionsand Programs

Economic Development Com-mission, Education Commission,Housing Commission, GamingBoard of Directors, Gaming Regu-latory Commission: Vice Chairman(Bill) Denemy (Sr.) and I attendedmeetings of several commissionsand boards this past month aswell as the meetings for the work-group for the community centerand pump house.

Support Resolutions for GrantFunding: Our Grant Writer, HeidiYaple, submitted several resolu-tions for consideration by TribalCouncil in support of new grantfunding requests, including a fund-ing request from the Tribal Court.

Enterprise OversightVictories Casino: During the

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er sovereigns with whom we in-teract.

I have with me here my per-sonal pipe bag and a copper cupfilled with water. I am a tradition-al Odawa man, aware of the manysacred duties that are gifts fromour Creator. I am also an electedleader of a constitutional tribalgovernment. These are not in-compatible positions. I amstrengthened in performing myconstitutional duties by my un-derstanding of the sacred. Thecopper cup was left with me byJosephine Mandamin, the origi-nator of the grandmother waterwalkers, when she and the othersvisited our tribal community ontheir walk for Lake Michigan. Sheasked me to use it in ceremonyand to bring it out when working toprotect the waters.

As demonstrated by the sac-rifice these women made in walk-ing for all of the Great Lakes, noone alone can achieve the fulfill-ment of our sacred duties. Equal-ly, no Tribal or First Nation gov-ernment alone can do so either. Weshare a common creation andthus, we also share common re-sponsibilities and challenges witheach other and with those othersovereigns such as the UnitedStates and Canada.

In the same way that we lookahead seven generations, we canalso look back. Each of us is some-one’s seventh generation. We arethe product of what these ances-tors left for us. Throughout the his-tory of our Tribal Nations, we havemade agreements or treaties be-tween ourselves, and subsequentlywith the many European nationsthat vied for influence on this con-tinent. More recently, we heldthese negotiations and treaties

with the United States. As we con-tinue to honor our sacred duties torespect the waters of creation,we have at our disposal teachingsand documentary tools handeddown to us by our ancestors. Wecontinue to negotiate new agree-ments as well. An outline of someexamples of these documentarytools will follow.

Dakota, Lakota, Nakota—Ot-tawa and Chippewa (Anishinabeg):In 1992, Vine Deloria sought andsecured a resolution from the tra-ditional leaders of the Dakota,Lakota, Nakota in support of theLittle Traverse Bay Bands of OdawaIndians (Waganakising Odawak)and the Little River Band of OttawaIndians in our 120-year struggle foracknowledgement of the govern-ment-to-government relationshipbetween the United States and ourTribes. They gave their support inrecognition of a treaty relation-ship between our peoples thatdates from 1781. Their resolutionconcludes, “Further resolved thatthe bands of Lakota nation con-tinues to recognize treaty of 1781and other treaties made by Lako-ta Nation with other Indian Na-tions.”

1836 Treaty of Washingtonand the subsequent 1855 Treatyof Detroit: Both of these treaties towhich my Tribe was one of the sig-natories with the United States, re-served rights to lands and re-sources that have been upheld incontinuing court battles over the in-tervening years. We have had vic-tories on some issues and in oth-ers, we are currently actively en-gaged such as the Inland Rightsphase of United States vs. Michi-gan Hunting and Fishing RightsCase.

Grand Traverse Band of Ot-

tawa and Chippewa Indians, LittleTraverse Bay Bands of Odawa In-dians and Little River Band of Ot-tawa Indians Agreement: On De-cember 11, 1997, three Tribessigned an agreement that “recog-nized the boundaries of their reser-vations set out in the Treaties,and the rights of the Tribes to ex-ercise exclusive jurisdiction overhunting, fishing and gathering ac-tivities within their reservationboundaries.”

Intergovernmental Accord be-tween the Federally Recognized In-dian Tribes in Michigan and theGovernor of the State of MichiganConcerning Protection of SharedWater Resources: Signed on May12, 2004, concludes by saying:“Now, Therefore, the Governor andthe undersigned Tribes affirm theirjoint commitment to the preser-vation, restoration and enhance-ment of the Great Lakes ecosystemand pledge to work together toclean up the pollutants now pres-ent, eliminate exotic species, main-tain and preserve diverse water re-source habitats, and prevent futurecontaminants, exotics and deple-tion of these waters. They furthercommit to sending representa-tives to meet at least twice a yearto review the quantity and qualityof our water resources and to de-velop strategies for protectingthose resources including recom-mendations for state, federal andtribal legislation, and internation-al treaties, coordination of per-mitting activities, and cooperationon enforcement of water protectionlaws.”

Tribal and First Nations GreatLakes Water Accord: By this accordsigned on November 23, 2004, atSault Ste. Marie, MI, the tribes andFirst Nations of the Great Lakes

Basin do hereby demand our rightsand sovereignty be respected, thatany governmental effort to protectand preserve the Waters of theGreat Lakes Basin include full par-ticipation by Tribes and First Na-tions, and we also hereby pledgewe share the interests and con-cerns about the future of the GreatLakes Waters, further pledging towork together with each other andwith the other governments in theGreat Lakes Basin to secure ahealthy future for the Great Lakes.This Accord was signed by 73 in-dividual Chiefs, Ogemak and Trib-al Chairmen representing over120 Tribes and First Nations with-in the Great Lakes Basin. In addi-tion, 65 attendees signed as wit-nesses at the Water Accord gath-ering.

Great Lakes Declaration:Signed on December 3, 2004 inChicago, IL, at a conveners meet-ing for the Great Lakes RegionalCollaboration. Tribes, states, citiesand Congress along with privatesector organizations pledged todevelop a plan to preserve and re-store the Great Lakes. In the yearfollowing the signing of this decla-ration, a comprehensive plan wasdeveloped by more than 1,500volunteers from all walks of life rep-resenting the many sovereigns inthe Great Lakes Basin. More in-formation on this process and thefinal report is available atwww.epa.gov .

Annex 2001 ImplementingAgreements: Interstate Compactbetween the eight Great Lakesstates, and an International Agree-ment between the Great Lakesstates and Ontario, Canada, andQuebec, Canada. While not signa-tories to these documents, Tribesand First Nations were able to

join in the discussions and wereable to have meaningful input inthe process that developed the fi-nal language that was signed bythe State Governors and ProvincialPremiers on December 13, 2005.These documents are availableat www.cglg.org .

St. Mary’s River Treaty: Re-garding the preservation, protec-tion and enhancement of the wa-ters of the St. Mary’s River ecosys-tem. Signed on November 8, 2006at the Bay Mills Indian Reservationin Brimley, MI, between the SaultSte. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indi-ans, Garden River First Nation,Bay Millis Indian Community andBatchewana First Nation.

We have been taught we havea sacred responsibility to honorand respect all of creation, all ofthe wonders of Mother Earth, andthat we are intricately connected toall of creation. We need to use thetools left for us by our ancestors aswe prepare for those coming gen-erations.

I’ve outlined some of theagreements, some of the toolsleft for us and some of the tools weare leaving for the coming gener-ations. While we talk about the sev-en generations to come, nothinggets to the seventh generationwithout us teaching and transfer-ring to the next generation the ac-cumulated wisdom and experi-ence that has served us in gettingto the present day.

The challenge for each of ushere today is to ensure we choosewisely and we counsel our leadersto choose wisely. For when wehonor and respect creation, wehonor and respect ourselves, ourfamilies and our Nations.

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last month, we’ve had several is-sues and happenings at Victories.First, we have a new Chairpersonfor the Gaming Board of Directors,Carol McFall. Carol has served onthe Board since 2004 and alsopreviously served on the GamingAdministration in 1999 and 2000.

Second, we have posted for anew Marketing Director. Our for-mer Marketing Director’s employ-ment with us ended on November15, 2006.

New Casino Project Report:At this point, we are still ahead ofschedule and under budget for theconstruction. Several of the roomsin the lower level have beenpainted already. The waste watertreatment building is coming alongnicely, and the water tower foun-dation is completed.

Odawa Enterprise Manage-ment: We continue to work on thequota issue for cigarettes underthe tax agreement with the Stateof Michigan. Our reporting showswe had not yet exceeded our quotafor 2006, and our end of the yearreport for 2005 shows we did notexceed it for 2005 either. However,since we have had to place re-strictions on the amounts of pur-chase at the end of each year, itseems we do need to discuss in-creasing our quota with the State.We are continuing to investigatethe sales and reporting from 2003and 2004. In discussions with theCFO, it appears an initial study ofthe invoices paid and the tax re-imbursements received for 2003and 2004 revealed we did exceedthe quota in those years, and thus,

were not able to be reimbursedfor a portion of the sales and ex-cise taxes we had not charged toour citizens.

On another tax agreement is-sue, we have also had discussionsthis past year about switching fromreimbursement of sales tax on ve-hicles and building supplies to avoucher system similar to whatother tribes are using. We are in-vestigating switching to this sys-tem by April 1, 2007. Switching tothis voucher system has been rec-ommended by both the Depart-ment of Commerce and the Eco-nomic Development Commission.We will be working on this issue inthe next month.

Respectfully Submitted,Frank Ettawageshik, Tribal

Chairman

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NATIVE NEWSUP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH THE NEW EMPLOYEES SERVING OUR COMMUNITY

Bob BatemanBob Bateman, a 35-year-old

LTBB Tribal Citizen, started October30, 2006 as the General Manag-er of Biindigen Gas Station andConvenience Store in Petoskey,MI.

He works under EnterpriseManager Chuck Schofield in OdawaEnterprise Management (OEM).OEM reports directly to the Eco-nomic Development Commission.

Prior to taking his current po-sition, Bateman worked 10 years inthe casino industry. He worked intable games at Victories Casino inPetoskey, the MGM Grand DetroitCasino in Detroit, MI, and TurtleCreek Casino in Williamsburg, MI.He worked as the Table Games Di-rector for Victories Casino and Ho-tel from October 2000 to Novem-ber 2005.

Bateman grew up in the EastLansing (Michigan) area. Aftergraduating from high school, he at-tended Lansing Community Col-lege, Michigan State University,Central Michigan University andNorth Central Michigan College.

He moved to the northernMichigan area six years ago.

“I enjoy living in the area andworking for the tribal community,”Bateman said.

“I am looking forward to meet-ing and getting to know everyonein the tribal community.”

His parents are Mike and Arvil-la (McMillan) Bateman. His grand-parents are the late Archie McMil-lan and the late Esther (Evans)McMillan. His siblings are MichaelBateman and the late David Bate-man. He has a son, Anthony, 16,and a daughter, Amy, 6.

Bateman enjoys spending timewith his children, family and friends;watching movies; spending time onthe computer; and watching sports.

He is a fan of all the sports teamsin Michigan.

R.J. SmithR.J. Smith started as the Youth

Services Coordinator on November13, 2006. The Youth Services De-partment was created earlier thisyear, and it is located at 1345 U.S.31 North in Petoskey, MI. LTBB hasalways offered many youth activi-ties, but in the past, LTBB lacked aplace where all the information re-lated to youth activities could be ac-cessed.

“I have enjoyed meeting withand talking with everyone involvedwith youth services for the tribe, es-pecially the youth themselves,”Smith said. “We have talked abouttheir hopes and dreams for the fu-ture.

“Everyone’s biggest hope anddream for the future is a youth cen-ter, including myself.”

Smith, who is Lac Courte Or-eilles Band of Ojibwe on his moth-er’s side and Fort Peck Assini-boine on his father’s side, grew upin Chicago, IL. After graduatingfrom high school, he attended Loy-ola University and the School of theArt Institute of Chicago.

He is currently finishing hisBachelor of Arts Degree in Com-munity Studies/Public Policy.

Prior to taking his current po-sition, Smith was the cultural co-ordinator at the Boys and Girls Clubof LCO in Wisconsin for 2 ½ yearswhere he said his biggest accom-plishment was founding the youthdrum, the Grindstone Lake Singers.While in Chicago, he started ayouth group, the Urban Natives ofChicago Youth Council and DanceTroupe. He has been working withyouth for the past 18 years. Ironi-cally, Smith brought youth from

both of the communities he workedin previously to visit and sharewith the LTBB People.

His wife is Netawn Kiogima, aLTBB Tribal Citizen. His children areMiigwaans (Little Feather), 8, andZhaawon (Bluebird), 3.

“I miss my grandmother (Beat-rice Stewart) and my mother (FaithSmith) back in LCO greatly, but it’snice to let her (his wife’s) side of thefamily spoil the kids,” Smith said.

Smith said he and his family alllove to attend pow wows and cer-emonies. He sings in the drumgroup, Buffalo Horse, and dancesmen’s northern traditional.

“The whole family sings anddances,” Smith said.

Yvonne FuerteAanii. My name is Yvonne

Fuerte and I am the new Adminis-trative Assistant to the LTBB TribalProsecutor. My official date of hirewas November 13, 2006, and I amthrilled to be an LTBB Employee.

My maiden name is Keshickand I lived in the Charlevoix-Petoskey, MI, area all of my younglife. I graduated from PetoskeyHigh School in 1976 and worked fora short time at Control Engineeringin Boyne City, MI, before decidingto go onto college.

I attended Haskell Indian Jun-ior College in Lawrence, KS. Whatcemented my decision was it wasfar enough away, but not too far,and it was an all Native college. Af-ter attending school in Petoskeywhere there were only a handful ofother Natives students in my grad-uating class, I wanted the experi-ence of going to an all Nativeschool. Luckily for me, a friend ofmine from Harbor Springs decidedto go there too! So we both em-barked on our college journey to-

gether. What an exciting time! Wemet and befriended other Nativestudents from all over the country.Not only were our classmates Na-tive, most of our instructors wereNative as well. To this day, I haveonly good, strong, memories of at-tending there. My college dayswere shortly numbered though. Isuffered a severe knee injury andsubsequently had surgery whilethere. My knee was never quite thesame, and I missed a semester re-habilitating my knee.

During this break, an auntwho lived in Chicago, IL, invited meto visit her. I did, and I soon fell inlove, and not just with the WindyCity. When my visit was over and itwas time to return home, I re-turned home absolutely lovesick.Before too long, I found myself onthe Greyhound bus heading back toChicago. To me, Chicago was great!I loved everything about it: The food,the people, the nightlife, and thetransportation. I lived near thelakefront, and it so reminded me ofhome. The Indian community wasgargantuan at this time, and Iloved being a part of it. It surfacedback warm memories of my time atHaskell.

In the past, I was previouslyemployed at the American IndianHealth Service of Chicago as theSecretary/Receptionist. I was em-ployed there for almost sevenyears. During that time, I had mar-ried, and my one and only daugh-ter was born. After several yearshad gone by, my marriage wasending. I soon found myself back onthat Greyhound bus heading backhome. This time, I stayed for almosttwo years. Fortunately, I had stayedin contact with a good friend ofmine who called one day out of theblue and told me about a job open-ing in Chicago. My friend, who I pre-viously worked with at the AmericanIndian Health Service, had toldthese new people about me andasked me if I would be interestedin applying for the position. I missedChicago immensely, and I wasmore than ready to return to theWindy City.

In the fall of 1990, I inter-viewed for the Assistant to theRegistrar position at NAES (NativeAmerican Educational ServicesCollege) and was hired! My tenure

at NAES was 14 years. When I left,my position was the Assistant to thePresident. As a single parent, Iwas extremely grateful I had yearsof employment that afforded methe means to raise my daughter,and we both had access to goodhealth care.

As time went on and mydaughter was getting closer to herhigh school graduation, I decidedto return to Michigan. I gave noticea year in advance and made plansso my daughter could finish her lastyear of high school in Michigan,thereby, making her eligible forthe Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver.

I’m very proud to say mydaughter graduated from PetoskeyHigh School in 2005, and now at-tends North Central Michigan Col-lege. My journey since then hasbeen a long one. After havingmoved back home, I soon found outsince I had voluntarily terminatedmy employment, I was ineligible forunemployment compensation.Needless to say, I was bummed out.I was unemployed for a year beforeinitially finding work in May 2005as an “office temp” for the tribe.Since then, I have worked in severaldifferent departments within thetribe, and found the various workexperiences invaluable. My last“temp” job was in the Office of Trib-al Prosecutor before being hiredpermanently.

While it has been a gruelingtwo years, the personal hardshipshave been worth it.

Words of thanks to my mother,Mary Keshick, for all her love and sup-port by providing a roof over ourheads and feeding us. Thanks to therest of the family for all of their helpand support. My sincere thanks tothose of you who have helped mewith the maintenance of my car; pro-vided a ride when I didn’t have one;who have lent me money when I did-n’t have it; those who gave their time,patience and expertise to provide metraining; and those who expressedkind, encouraging words and ges-tures. A special thanks to those whohave extended me the chance andopportunity to be a part of this ex-citing organization. Last but notleast, thanks and praise to theLord! Amen.

Photos by Annette VanDeCar.

JANUARY 2007ODAWA TRAILS8

Aanii fellow tribal citizens! OldMan Winter is finally upon us, sohere are some tips on how tokeep those cold drafts from en-tering your house and other ener-gy efficient tips that will help cutthe cost of those heating bills!

• Seal leaky ducts (furnaces):Leaky ducts are notorious fordecreasing the efficiency ofwarm air furnaces and typi-cally decrease their efficien-cies by 20-30%.1 Seal ductjoints and seams with mastic,and insulate hot air ducts thatpass through unheatedspaces with fiberglass.

• Insulate supply and returnpipes (boilers): Hot water andsteam pipes passing throughunheated areas should bewrapped with insulation. Forsteam pipes with wall thick-ness of at least three inches,use high temperature-ratedpipe insulation, such as fiber-glass. Foam insulation with athickness of a half-inch is suit-able for hot water pipes.

• Clean or change air filters(furnaces): When dust blocksairflow, fans have to workharder, which in turn, drives upenergy consumption, and rais-es bills. For around $10, youcan buy a reusable filter thatlasts one to two years. Itshould, however, be vacu-umed monthly. Disposable fil-ters are also available fromhardware stores.

• Install radiator reflectors (boil-ers): This avoids heat transferfrom the radiator to the adja-cent exterior wall. You canmake reflectors from foil-cov-ered cardboard, which is avail-able at many building supplystores. The reflector should beinstalled behind your radiatorand be the same size as it isor slightly larger.

• Clean registers (furnaces):Warm air registers should becleaned regularly and not beobstructed by drapes or fur-niture.

• Ensure through servicing: Gasfurnaces and boilers shouldbe tuned every two years whileoil units should be tuned an-nually. Make sure the techni-cian tests the vent for leaks;leaky vents can let combustiongases into the home. Theymay also recommend effi-ciency modifications such asreducing the nozzle (oil) ororifice (gas) size, installing anew burner and a motorizedflue damper, or replacing thepilot light with an electronic ig-nition. Ask them to explainand quantify AFUE improve-ments if possible.

The efficiency of a heating systemis measured by the Annual Fuel Uti-lization Efficiency: The percent-age of fuel converted to heat, fac-toring in combustion, seasonaluse, and on/off cycling. A heatingsystem technician can estimate theAFUE of your heater.

• Install a vent damper in theflue: By shutting the vent dur-ing the off cycle, the damperprevents heat from beingdrawn up the flue and lost out-side.

• Install a programmable ther-mostat: These cost $30-$100

and allow you to pre-set aheating schedule while main-taining comfortable tempera-tures. Remember to look forthe Energy Star label. You canturn the heat down duringsleeping hours and when thehome or rooms are unoccu-pied. You’ll save 2% off yourheating bill with every degreethat you lower the thermo-stat. For example, turning itdown from 70◦F to 65◦F dur-ing the day and back up to75◦F during the night cansave $80-$100 per year.2

Sealing Air LeaksThe U.S. Department of Ener-

gy estimates air leakage can add10% to your annual energy bill.3

This equates to about $70 per yearfor the average home. The first pri-ority should be to seal the attic andbasement, as this is where airpressure is strongest and leakageis the most prevalent.

How to Check for Air LeakageYou can find air leakage points

by holding a lit incense stick or apiece of string near doors, win-dows, vents, and other seams oropenings. Drafts will become ap-parent as the incense or stringmoves with the air current. Youshould mark these points withchalk and determine if caulking(the sealing of spaces in nonmov-ing surfaces, such as gaps in wallsaround ducts and electrical outlets)or weather stripping (the sealing ofthe edges of moving surfaces likewindows and doors) is required. Forbest results, choose a cool, windyday and turn on exhaust fans, thefurnace, and the clothes dryer.This will draw air out of the houseand prompt outside air to come inat leakage points and replace it.Your local utility or building con-tractor might also offer a blowerdoor test. This typically costs $50-$200 and uses infrared technolo-gy to pinpoint air leakage locationswhile pressurizing your home witha blower door.

How to Fix Air LeakageThe cost of air sealing meas-

ures in new and existing homesranges from $100-$600 perhouse. The low end of this range in-cludes do-it-yourself options, whilethe upper end includes blowerdoor testing and the labor of ex-perienced professionals. Caulkingand weather stripping materialsare available at hardware, buildingsupply stores, and even the localWal-Mart and K-Mart stores.

Caulk is best for cracks andgaps about less than one-quarterinch wide. Expanding foam sealantis good for sealing larger cracksand holes protected from sunlightand moisture, and backer rod orcracker filler, which is anotherfoam material, is sold in one-quar-ter-inch wide coils for sealing largecracks and providing backing invery deep cracks that are sealedwith caulk.

The first task would be to sealseams and gaps in the basement.You can prevent drafts along thefloor by caulking along the sill andrim joist. Where there are largeopenings, such as plumbing chas-es and attic hatch covers, you canuse wool, cotton, or cellulose in-sulation wrapped in plastic in-stead. The second task is to sealaround windows and doors. The

space left around these fixtures af-ter installation can be a majorsource of air leakage. Often insu-lation is simply stuffed into cracks.While this might insulate a home,it often does not stop airflow. If win-dow panes are loose in their woodframes, you can caulk using puttycompounds. Glass panes in metaland vinyl frames are best sealedwith vinyl strips. You can also sealwindow edges and cracks easilywith rope caulk. Don’t forget tocaulk around the chimney andelectrical and duct outlets.

Weather stripping is an effec-tive way to cut air leakage throughwindows and doors. It does not af-fect opening and closing mobility,and it is unseen. The type ofweather stripping depends on thetype of window you have. Com-pression type weather strippingand V-strip weather stripping arewidely available in building supplyand hardware stores. There are twoways to weather strip the bottom ofdoors: One, by replacing a thresh-old, and two, by attaching a doorbottom or sweep. Thresholds aregenerally installed to replace ex-isting worn out ones, for example,where the vinyl or rubber weatherstripping is defective. Door bottomsor sweeps are usually installed indoors with no existing sill to providea positive seal against air move-ment.

By far, the simplest way toblock air flow around windows is touse plastic or the shrinkage-typeplastic film. Plastic sheeting can betaped to the inside of windows orit can be stapled to the outside ofsome windows. Another form is theplastic film which is applied to anadhesive strip applied around theframe, and then with the use of ablow dryer, the film shrinks to ataught fit to block the air flow.These kits come in various sizesand are available at hardware,building supply and departmentstores.

In the past, the LTBB HumanServices Department had plasticsheeting window kits and theweather stripping available to Trib-al Citizens. To check on availabili-ty, please contact Theresa Boda inHuman Services at 231-242-1626.

Also, simply using drapes orwindow shades will aid in keepingout the cold as well. It’s anotherform of blockage, and every little bithelps.

For more information onweatherization, you may contactme at my office at 231-242-1584or there is information available atthe Department of Energy, Officeof Energy Efficiency and Renew-able Energy website atwww.eere.energy.gov/consumer-info/factsheets.html

1 A.C.S. Hayden, “Choosing a Heat-ing System that Saves Energy,” HomeEnergy Magazine (March/April, 1996),http://hem.dis.anl.gov/eehem/96/960309.html.

2 DOE (Department of Energy),“Thermostats and Control Systems,”(Washington, DC: EERE, 2004),www.eere.energy.gov/consumerinfo/heat-cool/hc_thermostats.html.

3 EERE. Energy Savers: Tips on Sav-ing Energy and Money at Home.(Washington, DC: EERE, Undated), p.7.www.eere.energy.gov/energy_savers.

WINTERIZATION TIPS FROM THE LTBB ENERGY WORKGROUPBy Theresa Keshick, Department of Commerce Assistant

my longevity. “I am optimistic about the pos-

sibility of fusion of my bones, but Iwon’t know for certain until this sum-mer. Despite an uncertain future, Iam at peace with whatever hap-pens.”

Samuels said the experience

has taught him countless lessonsabout himself, and it has helped himlook at life through a patient’s per-spective more.

“I am thankful for anotherchance at life and thankful to againprovide medical care to our tribalcommunity,” Samuels said. “Every

day I wake up and I am given anotherday, I am extremely grateful. I want toremind everyone to appreciate thegifts we take for granted, for exam-ple, the ability to walk.

“I encourage young people totake care of themselves. I would likeeveryone to realize how fortunate weare to be on this Earth and to focuson the positive side of life as thereare always others less fortunate thanourselves.”

Samuels, who started the Wa-ganakising Martial Arts Club basedin the Native Way II gym in HarborSprings, MI, teaches tae kwon do,but he has not been cleared to per-form himself. Samuels started doingtae kwon do in 1977, and he has asecond degree black belt. His futurein the sport is uncertain dependingon whether his surgery is successfulor not.

X-ray images provided courtesyof Dr. Terry Samuels.


Hutton Junior Fisheries Biology ProgramThe Hutton Junior Fisheries Biology Program is a summer

mentoring program for high school students sponsored by theAmerican Fisheries Society. The principal goal of the HuttonProgram is to stimulate interest in careers in fisheries scienceand management among groups underrepresented in the fish-eries professions.

Application to the program is open to all sophomore, jun-ior, and senior high school students. A scholarship of $3,000is awarded to each student accepted into the program. Studentsare selected by the American Fisheries Society based upontheir application.

It is a great opportunity for high school students interestedin fisheries to gain experience while working with the LittleRiver Band of Ottawa Indians (LRBOI) Natural ResourceDepartment for the summer. Student applications for the sum-mer of 2007 are due by February 15. More information and stu-dent applications can be found on the American Fisheries So-ciety website at www.web.fisheries.org/main/.

You can also contact Inland Fisheries Biologist JustinChiotti in the LRBOI Natural Resource Department at 231-398-2195 or [email protected] for more information.

Tribal Community Citizen Tony Miron told stories at “A Night ofStorytelling and Food” held December 12 at NCMC.

Tribal Chairman Frank Ettawageshik was one of the storytellers at “ANight of Storytelling and Food” hosted by NASO.

Aanzhenii Starr Bigjohn showed off her hoop dancing skills Photoappears courtesy of Rebeca Deckinga.

Tribal Citizen Ray Greensky acted out a story told by NCMC Anish-naabemowin Language Students.

Tribal Community Citizen Simon Otto enter-tained the crowd with his storytelling.

Lead Anishnaabemowin Language InstructorIsabelle Osawamick told stories.

Larry Denemy acted out a story told by An-ishnaabemowin Language Students.

AN EVENING OF STORYTELLING AND FOODBy Aaron Wayne Otto, Communications Assistant

On December 12, the Anishi-naabe Egnomunjik Ewaawyeyak(Native American Student Organi-zation) hosted “A Night of Story-telling and Food” at the NorthCentral Michigan College (NCMC)Cafeteria in Petoskey, MI.

The event was a fundraiserintended to raise money to sendNASO students to the Anish-naabemowin-Teg Language Con-ference in Sault Ste. Marie, MI,later this year. NASO studentshave attended the conference forthe past two years, and theyhoped to raise enough money toattend again this year.

The Biidaasige Singersstarted the event with a welcomesong. The dinner included Indian

tacos, corn soup, fry bread andsalad. Many people enjoyed themeal.

The event was filled with sto-ries, jokes, laughter, music andfull bellies.

Native storytellers, Frank Et-tawageshik, Tony Miron, SimonOtto and Isabelle Osawamick,filled the cafeteria with storiesabout turtles and their shells,dogs and their tails, and the originstory of Turtle Island. NCMC An-ishinaabemowin students alsotold and acted out stories theyhad learned in their classes.

During the storytelling portionof the evening, Biidaasige Singerssang an honor song for TribalCouncilor Alice Yellowbank who

celebrated her birthday that day. Tribal citizens, Pat Na-

ganashe, Mike Naganashe andAaron Otto, sang together whileplaying hand drums. Otto alsoplayed Native American flute.Members of the Women’s HandDrum group performed. AanzheniiStarr Bigjohn, a hoop dancer, alsoperformed.

The night ended with a raffledrawing. A Pendleton blanket wasone of the items won in the raffle.The evening ended with anothersong from the Biidaasige Singers.

Photos by CommunicationsAssistant Aaron Wayne Otto un-less otherwise noted.

GRANTS AND DONATIONS PROGRAM

WE ARE SEEKING INDIVIDUALS INTERESTED IN SERVING ON THE

REVIEW COMMITTEE FOR THE GRANTS AND DONATIONS PRO-GRAM. THE REVIEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS WILL REVIEW, AP-PROVE AND DENY WHEN APPLICABLE 2007-08 GRANT PRO-POSALS. THE MEETINGS WILL BE IN ROOM 312 AT THE LTBBGOVERNMENTAL CENTER IN HARBOR SPRINGS, MI. FOR MORE

INFORMATION OR IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, PLEASE CONTACT

TRIBAL ADMINISTRATOR ALBERT COLBY, JR. AT 231-242-1421 OR ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT MELISSA WIATROLIK

AT 231-242-1420.

NATIVE ARTISTS DISCUSS THEIR INSPIRATION

On November 14, local Native American artists, Simon Otto and Yvonne Walker-Keshick, explained what inspired them to create their artwork. The discussion was held atthe Crooked Tree Arts Center in Petoskey MI. Photos by Communications Assistant Aaron Wayne Otto.

“DR.SAMUELS”:CONTINUED FROM COVER


WINTER SOLSTICE PARTY 2006LTBB TRIBAL CITIZENS OF ALL AGES ENJOY THE WINTER SOLSTICE PARTYBy Annette VanDeCar, Communications Coordinator

On December 10 at the EmmetCounty Fairgrounds CommunityCenter in Petoskey, MI, the LTBB Hu-man Services Department hosteda Winter Solstice Party for tribal chil-dren.

Each child, newborn to 17, re-ceived a gift and a goodies bag. Chil-

dren had their picture taken withthe “Native Santa.” Children deco-rated stockings and ornaments totake home with them. Children tookcandy ornaments off the candytrees. A meal was also served.

Photos by Communications Co-ordinator Annette VanDeCar.

On December 5 atVictories Hotel inPetoskey, MI, the Victo-ries Hotel Staff, VictoriesCasino and Hotel Mar-keting Department andVictories Casino GeneralManager Barry Milliganhosted an Elders Christ-mas Luncheon for TribalElders and their guests.

The menu includedPrincess salad with slicedtomato, asparagusspears, chopped egg onBibb lettuce with parme-san peppercorn dress-ing; a main course of pe-tite center cut angus beeftenderloin seasoned andseared with merlot porta-bello mushroom sauce orgrilled portabello mush-room “steak” with parme-san cheese topping; acombination of shrimpand crab cakes with spe-cial seasonings servedwith a honey Dijon mus-tard sauce; vegetables;chocolate toffee moussecake with Kahlua fudgesauce; and assorteddrinks.

Members of theWomen’s Hand Drumgroup sang some Christ-mas carols to those in at-tendance. Everyone inattendance received anOdawa Casino Resortsweatshirt, snowmen cof-fee mugs and snowmenplates as gifts from theMarketing Department.

In the photo of theVictories Hotel Food andBeverage team mem-bers, Lily Willard, VelmaAdams, Isabel Crozierand Melissa Shomin areleft to right in the frontrow; and Susan Cannon,Bridget Taylor, Food andBeverage Director MikeBodjiak, Timothy Gill,Kitchen Supervisor JoeHofbauer, Russell Wor-thington, Richard Light-foot, Valerie Kilpatrickand Convention ServicesSupervisor Suzanne Sipeare left to right in theback row.

Convention Servic-es Supervisor SuzanneSipe contributed to thisarticle.

Photos by Commu-nications Coordinator An-nette VanDeCar.


The LTBB Housing Department notonly found a way to celebrate the hol-iday season by putting up and deco-rating a Christmas tree in its office spaceat the LTBB Governmental Center inHarbor Springs, MI, it also found a wayto provide a vital service to the tribalcommunity.

The Housing Department turnedits Christmas tree into a mitten tree.Once word got out the mitten tree wasup, there was a great response from the

tribal community and tribal employees.There was a total of 22 pairs ofgloves/mittens, seven hats, two scarves,11 sets of hats and mittens, and fourpairs of boots donated to this worthycause.

“We would like to extend a sincereChi-Miigwetch to everyone who helpedmake this project such a success,”Housing Director Deleta Gasco Smithsaid.

“Because of everyone’s generos-

ity, there will be some warm fingers outthere in our tribal community this win-ter.”

“I think we started a new traditionthis year,” Housing Administrative As-sistant Margaret Gasco said.

Everything collected through themitten tree project will be distributedthrough the LTBB Human ServicesDepartment with their community bas-kets.

HOUSING DEPARTMENT’S MITTEN TREE SHOWS LTBBEMPLOYEES AND CITIZENS’ GENEROSITYSubmitted by the LTBB Housing Department

This sign greeted guests of the Elders Christmas Luncheonheld at Victories Hotel in Petoskey, MI.

Medical Director Dr. Terry Samuels with his aunt, GlennaKimball, at the Elders Christmas Luncheon.

Andrea Otto, showing her holiday spirit by wearing festivedeer antlers, and her husband, Simon Otto.

LTBB Vice Chairman Bill Denemy, Sr. with his wife, PatDenemy, and his daughter, Judy Smith.

Victories Hotel Food and Beverage Team Members helpedto make the Christmas Luncheon a success.

(L to R) John Bott, Jody Skrobak, Diane Bott, EriccaHovie and Mary Kilmer from the Marketing Department.

Deleta Gasco Smith and Bailey Givens place mit-tens on the tree. Photo by Annette VanDeCar.

(L to R) Housing Administrative Assistant Margaret Gasco helped deliver the items to HumanServices Community Resource Coordinator Theresa Boda. Photo by Deleta Gasco Smith.

ELDERS CHRISTMAS LUNCHEONBy Annette VanDeCar, Communications Coordinator

HEAD START CHILDREN MAKE A HOLIDAY VISIT

Children from the LTBB Head Start Program visited the Tribal Elders in attendance at the Elders Luncheon on December 14 at theLTBB Governmental Center in Harbor Springs, MI. The children sang Christmas carols for the elders. The children also visited theelders for Halloween on October 31 at the Elders Luncheon that day. During the Halloween visit, the children sang songs for the eld-ers, showed off their Halloween costumes and went trick or treating in participating departments in the governmental center. Photo byCommunications Coordinator Annette VanDeCar.

On December 14 and 15, theLittle Traverse Bay Bands of OdawaIndians hosted the Michigan Trib-al Education Director’s Consor-tium at the LTBB GovernmentalCenter in Harbor Springs, MI.

The special meeting was calledin conjunction with the UnitedTribes of Michigan and the Michi-gan Indian Tuition Waiver (MITW)Program work group.

Per the discussion and a re-quest from the United Tribes ofMichigan meeting held on No-vember 30, it was determined anadditional meeting was neededfor the following reasons: • Research historical documents

regarding the Michigan IndianTuition Waiver Program.

• Coordinate various work/focusgroups addressing MITW is-sues.

• Consider and determine ap-propriate strategies regardingthe impact of Proposal 2 on theMITW.

• Develop a response to theMichigan Civil Rights Commis-sion to be included in its reportto the Governor.On December 14 in the com-

mons area, people shared histori-

cal documents regarding the Michi-gan Indian Tuition Waiver at anopen forum. It also served as awork session.

On December 15 in the TribalCourtroom, the special meetingwas held. After hearing individualand work group updates, an inter-view list was created, and a list ofquestions for the interviews wascompiled. Personal interviews willbe conducted to gather informationabout the formation of the MichiganIndian Tuition Waiver Program. Re-search was conducted on 1934 ac-tivities, and the media archivesfrom 1976 and 1977 will be furtherresearched. Furthermore, a strat-egy was created for responding tohigher education institutions andtheir potential changes to admis-sions policies in the aftermath ofthe adoption of Proposal 2. A po-sition statement and/or talkingpoints were established.

Representatives from LTBB,the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe,Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa andChippewa Indians, Huron Band ofPotawatomi, Pokagon Band ofPotawatomi, the Little River Bandof Ottawa Indians, the Sault Tribeof Chippewa Indians, and the De-

partment of Civil Rights partici-pated in the two-day event.

Editor’s note: The MichiganIndian Tuition Waiver Program is anact to provide free tuition for NorthAmerican Indians in public statecommunity colleges or public jun-ior colleges or public universities.A public state community or publicjunior college or public universitymust waive tuition for any NorthAmerican Indian who qualifies foradmission as a full-time, part-timeor summer school student and is alegal resident of the state for notless than 12 consecutive months.For the purposes of this act, NorthAmerican Indian means a personwho is not less than 25% quantumblood Indian as certified by the per-son’s tribal organization and veri-fied by the Inter-Tribal Council ofMichigan. Proposal 2 was adoptedby Michigan voters on November 7,2006. It amends the Michiganconstitution to ban public institu-tions from discriminating against orgiving preferential treatment togroups or individuals based ontheir race, gender, color, ethnicityor national origin. Education Di-rector Melissa Claramunt con-tributed to this article.


The Petoskey -HarborSpr ings Area Communi tyFoundation awarded $3,500to the Big Read on December8 at the LTBB GovernmentalCenter in Harbor Springs, MI.

The Big Read is an initia-tive of the National Endow-ment for the Ar ts (NEA) de-signed to restore reading tothe center of American cul-ture. The NEA presents theBig Read in par tnership withthe Institute of Museum andLibrary Services and in coop-erat ion with Ar ts Midwest.The Big Read brings togetherpartners across the countryto encourage read ing fo rpleasure and enlightenment.

NEA awarded the Litt leTraverse Bay Bands of OdawaIndians a $20,000 grant. TheLittle Traverse Bay Bands ofOdawa Ind ians and theGreater Community Big ReadProject 2007 wil l run from

January to June. LTBB was the only Indian

tribe in the country selectedto receive the grant, one ofonly three communities to re-ceive the grant in the state,and one of only 72 commu-nities nationwide to receivethe grant.

On hand for the checkpresentation were Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Commu-nity Foundation Program Of-f icer D.J. Jones, LTBB ViceChairman Bi l l Denemy, Sr.and LTBB Education DirectorMel issa C laramunt , whoserves as the LTBB and theGreater Community Big ReadProject 2007 Director.

For more information onthe Big Read, visit www.ne-abigread.org.

Photo by CommunicationsCoordinator Annette VanDe-Car.

(L to R) Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation Program Officer D. J. Jones,LTBB Vice Chairman Bill Denemy, Sr. and LTBB Education Director Melissa Claramunt.

(L to R in the front row) Annette VanDeCar, Aaron Payment, Joyce Wilson, Mary Pelcher, Barry Phillips, Dena Wilson and Rochelle Ettawageshik. (L to R in the back row)Courtney Coulan, Matt Wesaw, Angeline Matson, Frank Ettawageshik, Donna Budnick, Melissa Claramunt, Sharon Hinmon and Tom Topash. Photo taken by Katie Bauer.

BIG READ CHECK PRESENTATIONBy Annette VanDeCar, Communications Coordinator

MICHIGAN TRIBAL EDUCATION DIRECTOR’S CONSORTIUMBy Annette VanDeCar, Communications Coordinator

HOUSING COMMISSIONERS AND HOUSINGDEPARTMENT STAFF ATTEND LEGAL SYMPOSIUMBy Deleta Gasco Smith, Housing Director

that helps prepare for and manageBig Read activities. Promotionalmaterials include the Big Readwebsite, www.neabigread.org; 30or 60 second television spots tai-lored to the selected book title andcommunity; and Big Read posters,banners and bookmarks.

According to the Big Readwebsite, “Community organiza-tions are selected based on expe-rience in building strong local part-

nerships, reaching and engagingnew and diverse audiences, work-ing with educators, involving localand state public officials, workingwith media, and quality of outlinedplans to develop and implement acommunity-wide reading program.”

Several local partners have al-ready committed to the project,and more possible partners are stillbeing contacted.

Besides Claramunt, Grant

Writer Heidi Yaple and LibrarianFrancine Thuston were instru-mental in LTBB’s successful ap-plication process.

For more information, visitwww.neabigread.org and watchfor future articles about the LTBBand the Greater Community BigRead Project 2007 in upcoming is-sues of Odawa Trails.

“BIG READ” CONTINUED FROM COVER

Tribal Elder Ray “Zeebee” Kiogima gave the opening prayer at the sym-posium last month. Photo courtesy of Deleta Gasco Smith.

(L to R) Ray “Zeebee” Kiogima, Richard Wemigwase, Deleta Gasco Smithand Arlene Naganashe. Photo courtesy of Deleta Gasco Smith.

During the week of Decem-ber 4-8, two Housing Commis-sioners and two Housing Depart-ment Staff Members attended theNational American Indian Hous-ing Councils Legal Symposium inLas Vegas, NV.

We were honored to have oneof our Housing Commissioners,Ray “Zeebee” Kiogima, offer theopening prayer as the symposium

opened. During the meeting, there

was some pretty lively debate onthe floor on our user populationcount and the funding formula forNAHASDA (Native American Hous-ing Assistance and Self Determi-nation Act or Public Law 104).

This meeting was to discussitems we will be taking to Wash-ington D.C. in February for our

Legislative Conference. Housing Department Staff

Members included Elders Main-tenance Richard Wemigwase andHousing Director Deleta GascoSmith. Housing Commissionerswere Ray “Zeebee” Kiogima,Housing Commission Chair, andArlene Naganashe, Housing Com-missioner.


Production is underway forthe highly anticipated IndianPride, a 33-part cultural maga-zine series to be aired on PBSstations throughout the UnitedStates in February. Indian Pridewill spotlight the diverse culturesof American Indian peoplethroughout the country. PrairiePublic Television of Fargo, ND, isproducing the weekly magazinein cooperation with Circle of Na-tions Publishing of Grand Forks,ND.

As the nation celebratesAmerican Indian Heritage Monthin November, a full productioncrew at Prairie Public Broadcast-ing in Fargo, ND was busy cap-turing the essence of IndianCountry from in-studio guests forthe television series. The firstprogram showcases "A HistoricalOverview" of Indian Nations, andhas a respected scholar fromUCLA, Dr. Duane Champagne, asthe in-studio guest. Champagne,

an American Indian professor, isthe author of over 100 articlesand books on the history of In-dian Country.

As Dr. Champagne shareshis view of how American Indianhistory was passed downthrough oral and written formsof communication, he sets therecord straight ... "American In-dian Nations had carried on theobligations to their sacred teach-ings for thousands of years be-fore Europeans entered into thisland." What is now called "self-government" was a way of life forthe Indian Nations ... "A sacredmoral code and purpose that ful-filled the sacred teachings andobligations, not only to the na-tion but, to all the beings andpowers in the cosmic order."

JuniKae Randall of Circle ofNations Publishing is the host ofthe 13-part series. Randall, amember of the Turtle MountainBand of Chippewa, has been

traveling the country for severalmonths to bring the stories andscenes of American Indian cul-ture to the television screen.Each 30-minute episode in-cludes three distinct segments:mini-documentaries shot on lo-cation, on reservations andaround other parts of Indiancountry; in-studio segments fea-turing discussion of current is-sues by nationally-known Ameri-can Indian guests; and originaland cultural performances fea-turing traditional and contempo-rary artists, as well as story-tellers.

Future programs will high-light Indian art, education, tradi-tional healing, storytelling as wellas coverage of critical and timelyissues of government, economicdevelopment and politics. Whenthe topic of "Treaties and Sover-eignty" is aired, Randall's specialin-studio guest will be the found-ing director of the Native Ameri-

can Rights Fund (NARF), JohnEchohawk. Echohawk is a majorfigure in Indian Country and hewill share his perspective on thepast and current state of sover-eignty among Indian nations ...the treaties that were signed bythe United States Government ...and the treaties now forgotten.He will share what these con-tracts mean between the UnitedStates Government and the In-dian Nations.

"The Indian Pride televisionseries will feature an educa-tional component both onscreenand via the web. Its nationalbroadcast distribution and web-site will fully integrate withschools, so teachers everywherecan share the contents of the se-ries with their students. This is asignificant contribution becausemodern textbooks contain verylittle material on the culture, his-tory and struggle of the Ameri-can Indian. This program will

help bridge that gap," said Ran-dall.

Indian Pride will be distrib-uted to PBS television stationsnationwide through NETA. Theworld premiere of the 13-weekseries is scheduled to begin Feb-ruary 3. Contact your local PBSstation for local dates and times.

Prairie Public Television is apremiere broadcaster of publictelevision, radio and on-line serv-ices throughout the prairie re-gion encompassing the state ofNorth Dakota, northwestern Min-nesota, southern ManitobaProvince, Canada, eastern Mon-tana and northern South Dakota.

In addition to a roster of PBSprograms, Prairie Public hasbeen a leader in providing locallyproduced award-winning pro-grams that examine importantissues that affect the lives ofviewers in the United States andCanada.

INDIAN PRIDE TELEVISION SERIES KICKED OFF PRODUCTIONDURING AMERICAN INDIAN HERITAGE MONTH LAST YEAR

Boozhoo (Greetings),It is with great enthusiasm we

announce the American IndianEducation on-line seminars forspring semester 2007. These sem-inars are provided in partnershipbetween the Interwest Equity As-sistance Center, the Colorado StateUniversity School of Education andthe Tribal Education DepartmentsNational Assembly (TEDNA).

Introduction to American In-dian Education will run during thefirst eight-week session (Begins onJan. 16 and runs to March 9), andLaw and Politics of American Indi-an Education will run during thesecond eight- week session (Beginson Mar. 12 and runs to May 4).Both seminars are two graduatecredits. Seats are limited to 25 stu-dents per seminar. Seminar Descriptions:

Introduction to American In-dian Education - This seminar cov-ers the history of American Indianeducation in general with an em-phasis on the who, what, where,when, why and how of American In-

dian education. Asynchronous de-livery utilizing WebCT. Intensiveuse of discussion forum. Textbased discussions.

Law and Politics of AmericanIndian Education - This seminar isfocused on the unique legal andpolitical educational relationshipsbetween American Indian tribes,and federal and state govern-ments. We will discuss aboriginaland treaty rights to education,federal and state Indian educationlaws, and contemporary tribal lawsregarding education. Asynchro-nous delivery. Intensive use of dis-cussion forum. Text based discus-sions.Instructor:

Dr. Martin Reinhardt, researchassociate with the Interwest Equi-ty Assistance Center, will be the in-structor for these seminars. Dr.Reinhardt is an Anishinaabe Ojib-way citizen of the Sault Ste. MarieTribe of Chippewa Indians. Pleasevisit our staff listings link athttp://www.colostate.edu/pro-grams/EAC/ for his bio sketch.

His contact information is as fol-lows: [email protected] phone 303-623-5531. Registration:

In order to register for eitherseminar, you will need to do the fol-lowing:

1. Print off a copy of the appro-priate CSU registration form in-cluded on the Interwest Equi-ty Assistance Center websiteunder Resources, AmericanIndian Education Seminars,Registration/Fee Forms, fill itout completely, and submit italong with your tuition pay-ment of $106 to: ColoradoState University, School of Ed-ucation, 202 Education Build-ing, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1588

2. Print off a copy of the TEDNAfee form also included at theInterwest Equity AssistanceCenter website, fill it out com-pletely, and submit it alongwith your payment of $150 to:Melody McCoy, P.O. Box18000, Boulder, CO 80308

3. Purchase required materials.You are responsible for pur-chasing your own requiredmaterials for both seminars.

4. Visit the following website toreview helpful documentsabout WebCT.http://www.soe.cahs.colostate.edu/WebCT/

5. Logon to WebCT and familiar-ize yourself with the on-lineseminar environment as soonas your registration has beenprocessed and you have beengranted access to the class inWebCT. http://webct.colostate.edu/

Required Materials:Introduction to American Indian Ed-ucation:

• Interdisciplinary Manual forAmerican Indian Inclusion - Ifyou do not already have acopy of the manual, you mayinclude in your payment toTEDNA an additional amountof $24.99 and an individualuse copy will be e-mailed toyou at the e-mail address you

provide, or sent on CD by reg-ular mail.

• American Indian Education: AHistory - By John ReyhnerJeanne Oyawin. Available fromhttp://amazon.com for$19.95 plus shipping.

Law and Politics of American Indi-an Education:

• Tribalizing Indian Education.Series. By Melody McCoy. Or-dering information availablefrom the National Indian LawLibrary, Native AmericanRights Fund, http://www.narf.org/pubs/edu/index.htm These seminars may also be

available for on-site delivery. Ifyou are interested in planning anon-site seminar, or have any ques-tions related to these seminars,please contact Dr. Martin Rein-hardt [email protected] or call303-623-5531.

Miigwech (Thank you)

AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION SEMINARS OFFERED BY COLORADO STATE

Application Postmarked: February 23 Location:Sandia National LaboratoriesAlbuquerque, NMInternship Duration: 12 weeks

Background: The Tribal EnergyProgram promotes tribal en-ergy self-sufficiency, eco-nomic development andemployment on tribal landsthrough the use of renew-able energy and energy ef-ficiency technologies.

Eligibility: Current college up-per-classmen and graduatestudents, who are familiarwith Native American cul-ture and tribal issues, areneeded to support the TribalEnergy Program efforts withtechnical project tasks. Stu-dents are needed to assista cross-disciplinary team toperform specific tasks. In-teractions will be with San-dia’s renewable energy

staff, Native Americantribes interested in renew-able systems and Sandia’sAmerican Indian OutreachCommittee. Instant immer-sion in these activities is of-fered in working directlywith experienced and inter-nationally recognized peers.Travel will be required, in-cluding field visits to re-newable energy projects.

Required: As authorized by theTribal Energy Program, thestudent applicant must be aU.S. Citizen and be a NativeAmerican as defined as amember of a federally rec-ognized Tribe, Alaska Vil-lage or Alaska Corporation(not state-recognized, notbands or groups, or firstpeoples of Guam or Hawaii).Specific interest in renew-able energy is required.

Application Instructions:✓Apply to contact address

listed at the top of the an-

nouncement prior to thedeadline.

✓Apply using a personal re-sume including GPA and allrelevant work experienceand outside activities. In-clude your phone numberand e-mail address.

✓Include all college tran-scripts (official copies arerequired)

✓Complete the questionnaireincluded with this an-nouncement.

Salary & Relocation Expenses:•Salary commensurate with

number of hours completedby the end of the 2006 fallsemester in an appropriatetechnical major.

•Sandia will pay relocationexpenses (mileage and perdiem or round-trip airfare)for a school site 50 milesfrom Albuquerque, NM.

TRIBAL ENERGY PROGRAM -SUMMER INTERNSHIP


Community Health Department Events

Snowsnake workshops: January 14 and January 28.

Snowsnake Tournament: February 10.

Women’s Quilt Making classes: January 6, January 17,

January 31, February 21 and March 3. Call the Community Health Department at

231-242-1601 for more information.

WAGANAKISING MARTIALARTS CLUB UPDATEBy Annette VanDeCar, Communications Coordinator


Tax AgreementReminder

When moving intot h e L T B B T a xAgreement Area, inorder to become a Resident TribalMember, you mustc h a n g e y o u raddress in writingat the EnrollmentDepartment locatedi n t h e L T B BG o v e r n m e n t a lCenter in HarborSprings, MI. YourRTM status willtake effect on thef i rs t day of thefollowing month inwhich you moved.

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Michigan

February 10-1124th Annual MSU Pow Wow of LoveJenison Fieldhouse on the MSU campusEast Lansing, MIContact Information:

NAISO at 517-432-7153

February 16-18Cabin Fever Traditional Pow Wow22525 Ecorse RoadTaylor, MIContact Information:

Donna, April or Carol at 313-271-5443

Minnesota

January 12St. Paul Public Schools Indian Education TraditionalPow WowBattle Creek Middle School2121 North Park DriveSt. Paul, MNFree and open to the public.Contact Information:

651-293-5191www.indianeducation.spps.org

February 3Spirit of the Earth Traditional Pow WowCentennial High SchoolCircle Pines, MNContact Information:

763-783-7362

February 9St. Paul Public Schools Indian Education TraditionalPow WowThe American Indian Magnet1075 E. Third St.St. Paul, MNDirections: 94 East to Mounds Blvd. (left exit), right toThird St. and left to Earl St.Free and open to the public.Contact Information:

651-293-5191www.indianeducation.spps.org

February 17-19Mid Winter Pow WowElementary School gymNett Lake, MNContact Information:

[email protected]

February 17-19Eighth Cherish the Children Pow WowCentral High School gym located at Marshall and Lex-ington.St. Paul, MNContact Information:

651-227-4184, ext. [email protected]

Victories Casino and Hotel Human Resources wishes the happiest holidays and the very best New Year to all!

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The Little Traverse Bay Bands ofOdawa IndiansTribal Council MeetingNovember 19, 2006Tribal Court Room 7500 OdawaCircle9:15 a.m. Smudging 9:30 a.m.

Closed Session: noCall to Order: Meeting was calledto order at: 9:32 a.m.Council Present: LegislativeLeader Beatrice A. Law, SecretaryMelvin L. Kiogima, Councilor Dex-ter McNamara, Councilor Alice Yel-lowbank, Councilor RitaShananaquet, Councilor MaryRoberts, Councilor Regina GascoBentley, Councilor Fred Harrington,Jr.Absent: Treasurer Shirley Oldman

Executive Office Present: TribalChairman Frank Ettawageshik, Re-becca Fisher-Executive Assistant.

Legal Staff Present: none

Staff Present: Michele LaCount-Legislative Office Manager.

Commission, Boards, and Commit-tees: none

Guests: Theresa Boda, Ron Boda,Mary Schneider, Carol Quinones,Gary Shomin, Janet Shomin

Opening Ceremony: Melvin L.Kiogima

Motion made by Councilor McNa-mara and supported by CouncilorRoberts to adopt the agenda forNovember 19, 2006, as pre-sented.Vote: 8 - Yes, 0 - No, 0 - Abstained,1 - Absent (Treasurer Oldman)Motion Carried

Motion made by Councilor Yellow-bank and supported by CouncilorGasco Bentley to approve the min-utes for November 5, 2006 as cor-rected.Vote: 8 - Yes, 0 - No, 0 - Abstained,1 – Absent (Treasurer Oldman)Motion Carried

Motion made by CouncilorShananaquet and supported byCouncilor Gasco Bentley to adoptTribal Resolution # 111906-02 Ap-propriation of Additional Funds for2006 Per Capita DistributionBudget by $83,500. Funding tocome from prior period funds.Roll Call Vote: Councilor GascoBentley-yes, Councilor Harrington-yes, Councilor McNamara-yes,Councilor Roberts-yes, CouncilorShananaquet-yes, Councilor Yel-

lowbank-yes, Treasurer Oldman-ab-sent, Secretary Kiogima-yes, Leg-islative Leader Law-yesMotion Carried

Motion made by Councilor Robertsand supported by Councilor Yellow-bank to adopt Tribal Resolution #111906-04 Donate $5000.00 toAnishnaabek EgnomunjikEwaawyeyak (NCMC Native Stu-dent Group) for attendance at the2007 Anishnaabemowin Teg Con-ference. Funding to come from thecultural line item.Roll Call Vote: Councilor GascoBentley-yes, Councilor Harrington-yes, Councilor McNamara-yes,Councilor Roberts-yes, CouncilorShananaquet-no, Councilor Yellow-bank-yes, Treasurer Oldman-ab-sent, Secretary Kiogima-yes,Legislative Leader Law-yesMotion Carried

Motion made by Councilor McNa-mara and supported by CouncilorGasco Bentley to adopt Tribal Res-olution # 111906-05 to appropri-ate $20,000 in Funds FY2006 forLittle Traverse Bay Bands of OdawaIndians Winter Solstice Children’sParty. Funding to come from priorperiod funds.Roll Call Vote: Councilor GascoBentley-yes, Councilor Harrington-yes, Councilor McNamara-yes,Councilor Roberts-yes, CouncilorShananaquet-yes, Councilor Yel-lowbank-yes, Treasurer Oldman-ab-sent, Secretary Kiogima-yes,Legislative Leader Law-yesMotion Carried

10:32 a.m. Recess called.10:44 a.m. Meeting reconvened.

Motion made by CouncilorShananaquet and supported byCouncilor Yellowbank to adoptTribal Resolution #111906-01 Ap-propriating $85,000 in AdditionalFunding to the Tribal Council 1101-0-00 FY 2007 Budget from PriorPeriod Funds.Roll Call Vote: Councilor GascoBentley-yes, Councilor Harrington-no, Councilor McNamara-yes,Councilor Roberts-yes, CouncilorShananaquet-yes, Councilor Yel-lowbank-yes, Treasurer Oldman-ab-sent, Secretary Kiogima-yes,Legislative Leader Law-yesMotion Carried

Motion made by Councilor Robertsand supported by CouncilorShananaquet to adopt Tribal Coun-cil Resolution # 111906-03 TheTribal Chairperson agreeing to ac-cept an appointment by the Gover-nor of the State of Michigan to asubordinate committee position

under theGovernor is in direct conflict withthe Constitution of the Little Tra-verse Bay Bands of Odawa Indi-ans.Roll Call Vote: Councilor GascoBentley-no, Councilor Harrington-yes, Councilor McNamara-no,Councilor Roberts-yes, CouncilorShananaquet-no, Councilor Yellow-bank-no, Treasurer Oldman-ab-sent, Secretary Kiogima-no,Legislative Leader Law-noMotion Failed

11:45 a.m. Public Commentopened: Kevin Keller, Michele La-Count11:50 a.m. Public Commentclosed.

12:10 p.m. Lunch recess calleduntil 1:40 p.m.1:48 p.m. Meeting reconvened.

Motion made by Councilor Harring-ton and supported by CouncilorGasco Bentley to remove “suspendor” from the second sentence ofthe Gaming Regulatory Commis-sion Regulations, Section 4 Li-censes Part J Employment ofunlicensed persons prohibited.Vote: 6 - Yes, 1 – No (CouncilorShananaquet), 1 – Abstained(Councilor Roberts), 1 – Absent(Treasurer Oldman)Motion Carried

2:57 p.m. Recess called.3:00 p.m. Secretary Kiogimaleaves.3:08 p.m. Meeting reconvened.

Motion made by CouncilorShananaquet and supported byCouncilor Harrington to accept theLegislative Leader’s written andverbal report given by Beatrice lawfor November 19, 2006.Vote: 7 - Yes, 0 - No, 0 - Abstained,2 - Absent (Treasurer Oldman, Sec-retary Kiogima)Motion Carried

Motion made by Councilor Robertsand supported by Councilor Har-rington to accept the Tribal Treas-urer verbal and written reportgiven by Councilor Yellowbank andCouncilor Shananaquet for Novem-ber 19, 2006.Vote: 7 - Yes, 0 - No, 0 - Abstained,2 – Absent (Treasurer Oldman,Secretary Kiogima)Motion Carried

Motion made by CouncilorShananaquet and supported byCouncilor Roberts to postpone ac-tion on the Legislative ProceduresAct, the Marriage Statute, and the

Michelle Chingwa Education Assis-tance Act, and move them to awork session for December 2,2006.Vote: 7 - Yes, 0 - No, 0 - Abstained,2 – Absent (Treasurer Oldman,Secretary Kiogima)Motion Carried

Motion made by Councilor Robertsand supported by CouncilorShananaquet for Tribal Council at-tendance at the SaginawChippewa Summit Meeting withUnited Tribes in November 2006.Vote: 7 - Yes, 0 - No, 0 - Abstained,2 – Absent (Treasurer Oldman,Secretary Kiogima)Motion Carried

4:00 p.m. Public Commentopened: Janet Shomin4:04 p.m. Public Commentclosed.

4:05 p.m. Motion made by Coun-cilor Shananaquet and supportedby Councilor Harrington to adjourn.Vote: 7 - Yes, 0 - No, 0 - Abstained,2 – Absent (Treasurer Oldman,Secretary Kiogima)Motion Carried

These Minutes have been readand approved as written:

Approved:Melvin L. Kiogima, Tribal CouncilSecretary Date

TRIBAL COUNCILMEETING DATES 2007

January 13 Work SessionJanuary 14 Council MeetingJanuary 27 Work SessionJanuary 28 Council Meeting

February 10 Work SessionFebruary 11 Council MeetingFebruary 24 Work SessionFebruary 25 Council Meeting

ALL TRIBAL COUNCILMEETINGS AND WORK

SESSIONS ARE HELD IN THETRIBAL COURTROOM

LOCATED AT7500 ODAWA CIRCLE, HARBOR SPRINGS, MI.

EXECUTIVE BRANCH

FRANK ETTAWAGESHIK,TRIBAL CHAIR-MAN

WILLIAM DENEMY, VICE CHAIRMAN

LEGISLATIVE

TRIBAL COUNCIL MEMBERS

BEATRICE A. LAW, LEGISLATIVE LEADER

SHIRLEY OLDMAN, TREASURER

MELVIN L. KIOGIMA, SECRETARY

FRED HARRINGTON, JR., COUNCILOR

REGINA GASCO-BENTLEY, COUNCILOR

MARY ROBERTS, COUNCILOR

RITA SHANANAQUET, COUNCILOR

ALICE YELLOWBANK, COUNCILOR

DEXTER MCNAMARA, COUNCILOR

TRIBAL COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES


TRIBAL COUNCIL MEETING MINUTESThe Little Traverse Bay

Bands of Odawa IndiansTribal Council MeetingDecember 03, 2006

Tribal Court Room 7500Odawa Circle

9:15 a.m. Smudging 9:30 a.m.

Closed Session: noCall to Order: Meetingwas called to order at9:27 a.m.Council Present: Legisla-tive Leader Beatrice A.Law, Secretary Melvin L.Kiogima, Treasurer ShirleyOldman, Councilor DexterMcNamara, CouncilorAlice Yellowbank, Coun-cilor Mary Roberts, Coun-cilor Regina GascoBentley, Councilor FredHarrington, Jr.Absent: Councilor RitaShananaquet

Executive Office Present:Rebecca Fisher, ExecutiveAssistant

Legal Staff Present: JimBransky, Legal Counsel

Staff Present: MichaelSmith-Legislative OfficeAdministrative Assistant

Commission, Boards, andCommittees: none

Guests: James A. Fisher,Denise Petoskey

Opening Ceremony:Shirley Oldman

Motion made by CouncilorMcNamara and supportedby Councilor Roberts toadopt the Agenda for De-cember 3, 2006, asamended.Vote: 8 - Yes, 0 - No, 0 -Abstained, 1 – Absent(Councilor Shananaquet)Motion carried.

Motion made by CouncilorYellowbank and supportedby Councilor Gasco Bent-ley to approve the minutesof November 19, 2006, ascorrected.Vote: 8 - Yes, 0 - No, 0 -Abstained, 1 – Absent(Councilor Shananaquet)Motion carried.

9:50 a.m. Recess called.9:53 a.m. Meeting recon-vened.

11:26 a.m. Recess called.11:37 a.m. Meeting re-convened.

11:46 a.m. Public Com-ment opened: none11:47 a.m. Public Com-ment closed.

12:02 p.m. Lunch recesscalled until 1:40 p.m.1:31 p.m. Meeting recon-vened.

Motion made by CouncilorHarrington, Jr. and sup-ported by CouncilorRoberts to pass Wa-ganakising OdawakStatute (WOS) MichelleChingwa Education Assis-tance Act.Roll Call Vote: CouncilorGasco Bentley-yes, Coun-cilor Harrington-yes, Coun-cilor McNamara-yes,Councilor Roberts-yes,Councilor Shananaquet-absent, Councilor Yellow-bank-yes, TreasurerOldman-yes, SecretaryKiogima-yes, LegislativeLeader Law-yes.Motion carried.

Motion made by CouncilorHarrington, Jr. and sup-ported by Treasurer Old-man to pass WOS TribalElections and ElectionBoard.Roll Call Vote: CouncilorGasco Bentley-yes, Coun-cilor Harrington-yes, Coun-cilor McNamara-yes,Councilor Roberts-yes,Councilor Shananaquet-absent, Councilor Yellow-bank-yes, TreasurerOldman-yes, SecretaryKiogima-yes, LegislativeLeader Law-yesMotion carried.

Motion made by CouncilorRoberts and supported byCouncilor Gasco Bentleyto postpone the MarriageStatute until the nextTribal Council Meeting.Vote: 8 - Yes, 0 - No, 0 -Abstained, 1 – Absent(Councilor Shananaquet)Motion carried.

Motion made by Councilor

Yellowbank and supportedby Councilor McNamara toadopt Tribal Resolution #120306-04: Support forHavasupai Tribe of Arizonain its efforts to protectagainst unauthorized ge-netic research on its mem-bers in the amount of$2000.00 to come fromprior period funds.Roll Call Vote: CouncilorGasco Bentley-yes, Coun-cilor Harrington-yes, Coun-cilor McNamara-yes,Councilor Roberts-yes,Councilor Shananaquet-absent, Councilor Yellow-bank-yes, TreasurerOldman-yes, SecretaryKiogima-yes, LegislativeLeader Law-yesMotion carried.

Motion made by CouncilorGasco Bentley and sup-ported by CouncilorRoberts to adopt TribalResolution # 120306-06:Approval of Budget Modifi-cation to Executive BranchBudget for United TribesPayment in the sum of$2000.00 to come fromprior period funds.Roll Call Vote: CouncilorGasco Bentley-yes, Coun-cilor Harrington-yes, Coun-cilor McNamara-yes,Councilor Roberts-yes,Councilor Shananaquet-absent, Councilor Yellow-bank-yes, TreasurerOldman-yes, SecretaryKiogima-yes, LegislativeLeader Law-yesMotion carried.

Motion made by CouncilorMcNamara and supportedby Councilor Gasco Bent-ley to adopt Tribal Resolu-tion #120306-01: 2007Liquor Licenses for Biindi-gen and Victories Casinoand Hotel.Roll Call Vote: CouncilorGasco Bentley-yes, Coun-cilor Harrington-yes, Coun-cilor McNamara-yes,Councilor Roberts-ab-stained, CouncilorShananaquet-absent,Councilor Yellowbank-no,Treasurer Oldman-ab-stained, SecretaryKiogima-yes, LegislativeLeader Law-yesMotion carried.

Motion made by CouncilorYellowbank and supportedby Councilor Roberts toadopt Tribal Resolution #120306-02: United StatesDepartment of the InteriorBureau of Indian AffairsAuthorization for P.L. 93-638 Contract.Roll Call Vote: CouncilorGasco Bentley-yes, Coun-cilor Harrington-yes, Coun-cilor McNamara-yes,Councilor Roberts-yes,Councilor Shananaquet-absent, Councilor Yellow-bank-yes, TreasurerOldman-yes, SecretaryKiogima-yes, LegislativeLeader Law-yesMotion carried.

Motion made by CouncilorRoberts and supported byCouncilor Gasco Bentleyto adopt Tribal Resolution# 120306-03: Request forFunding from the U.S. De-partment of Justice, Officeof Justice Programs, Bu-reau of Justice Assistance,FY 2007 Indian Alcoholand Substance Abuse Pro-gram, Little Traverse BayBands of Odawa IndiansFY 2007 Indian Alcoholand Substance AbuseProject.Roll Call Vote: CouncilorGasco Bentley-yes, Coun-cilor Harrington-yes, Coun-cilor McNamara-yes,Councilor Roberts-yes,Councilor Shananaquet-absent, Councilor Yellow-bank-yes, TreasurerOldman-yes, SecretaryKiogima-yes, LegislativeLeader Law-yesMotion carried.

Motion made by TreasurerOldman and supported byCouncilor McNamara toadopt Tribal Resolution #120306-05: Request forFunding from the Bureauof Justice Assistance, Of-fice of Justice Programs,United States Departmentof Justice Fiscal Year2007 Tribal Courts Assis-tance Program, Little Tra-verse Bay Bands of OdawaIndians FY 2007 TribalCourt Assistance Project.Roll Call Vote: CouncilorGasco Bentley-yes, Coun-cilor Harrington-yes, Coun-cilor McNamara-yes,

Councilor Roberts-yes,Councilor Shananaquet-absent, Councilor Yellow-bank-yes, TreasurerOldman-yes, SecretaryKiogima-yes, LegislativeLeader Law-yesMotion carried.

Motion made by CouncilorGasco Bentley and sup-ported by Councilor Yel-lowbank to adopt TribalResolution # 120306-07:Approval of Gaming Boardof Directors Budget.Roll Call Vote: CouncilorGasco Bentley-yes, Coun-cilor Harrington-yes, Coun-cilor McNamara-yes,Councilor Roberts-ab-stained, CouncilorShananaquet-absent,Councilor Yellowbank-ab-stained, Treasurer Old-man-abstained, SecretaryKiogima-yes, LegislativeLeader Law-yesMotion carried.

Motion made by TreasurerOldman to approve Execu-tive Division Budget Policy.Motion dies for lack ofsupport.

4:00 p.m. Public Com-ment opened: none4:00 p.m. Public Com-ment closed.

Motion made by CouncilorMcNamara and supportedby Treasurer Oldman toaccept the Executive‘swritten report for Decem-ber 3, 2006, with confi-dential information.Vote: 8 - Yes, 0 - No, 0 -Abstained, 1 – Absent(Councilor Shananaquet)Motion carried.

4:13 p.m. Motion madeby Councilor Roberts andsupported by TreasurerOldman to adjourn.Vote: 8 - Yes, 0 - No, 0 -Abstained, 1 – Absent(Councilor Shananaquet)Motion carried.

These Minutes have beenread and approved as writ-ten:

Approved:Melvin L. Kiogima, TribalCouncil Secretary


LINES FROM OUR MEMBERSHIP...Birthdays

Happy birthday to Mason ScottWood on January 28.From the Perry family.

Happy birthday to BernadeceKiogima on January 22.From Mel, Mshkoadekwe, Joyand McKenzie.

Happy first birthday to SatoriNgwaagan (Enlightening Rain-bow) with hugs and kisses fromMom and Little Sunnese.

Happy birthday to RosanneGivens on January 19.Love, your daughter Tricia Kil-patrick.

Happy birthday to our nephew,Duane (Naaners) Dove, on Jan-uary 12. Thanks for all you do!Have a safe and fun day. Welove you. Aunt Michele and Uncle Greg.

MnoDibishkaak kikaajik GlennaKimball miinwa misenhan Mar-garet “Mickey” Ortner.MnoDibishkaak nwiikaane’akRobert Yellowbank Jr. & CarterMcFall. Gzaagigo!

Happy birthday to Kim De-Lorme on January 18. Love, your family.

Happy birthday to Jill Beair onJanuary 20.Love, your family.

Wishing a happy 21st birthdayto Justin Reyes Gavin on Janu-ary 31. Look how much you’vegrown! Thank you for being myson. I love you. Love, Mom.

Michael Sutton celebrates hisbirthday on January 6! May youhave many more!Love, your sister.

Happy birthday to my grand-mother, Irene Petoskey, whocelebrates on January 8.Love, Tina.

Ain’t it nifty! My aunt, ReginaBentley, celebrates her birthdayon January 21! Love, Tina.

On January 31, Justy Wusty cele-brates his 21st birthday!!!! Hope youhave a good one!From your Big Sis Teeny Wheezy.

Happy birthday to Vicki Olsonon January 25.From Denise Petoskey and Gar-cia Medicine.

BirthdaysHappy 21st birthday to JustinReyes Gavin on January 31. From Denise Petoskey and Gar-cia Medicine.

Happy birthday to Vicki Olsonwho celebrates her big day onJanuary 25. I won’t give awayyour age. Love, your Lil Sis.

Happy belated first birthday toSartori King-Shomin.

Happy belated seventh birthdayto Maaniinh Fonseca.With lots of love, Mom and Pie.

MiigwechMiigwech to everyone who do-nated time to and items for theThanksgiving dinner on No-vember 23 at the LTBB Govern-mental Center in HarborSprings, MI. Approximately 80dinners were served. It wassponsored by the LTBB HumanServices Department. TheHuman Services Departmenthopes to sponsor a Thanksgiv-ing dinner again in 2007.

Thank you tribal citizens forjoining Victories Casino andHotel Human Resources inGrand Rapids, MI, on Novem-ber 17. It was great to meet eachand every one of you. We willdo whatever we can to bring youall home to Petoskey, MI, and tothe surrounding areas. Thankyou to the tribal citizens whocame to visit at the MichiganState University Hospitality In-dustry’s Career night on theEast Lansing, MI, campus. It was a pleasure to see the tal-ent first-hand and to meet andgreat those tribal citizens down-state. We appreciate you takingthe time out of your busy day tomeet us. Please stay in touchwith us here in Human Re-sources, so we can continue toserve you. Please be sure to check our web-site at www.victories-casino.com daily so you canapply for a position when onethat interests you is posted. Youcan reach us at 231-439-5380.

Miigwech to the Victories HotelStaff, Victories Casino andHotel Marketing Departmentand Victories Casino and HotelGeneral Manager Barry Milli-gan for hosting an EldersChristmas Luncheon on Decem-ber 5 at Victories Hotel inPetoskey, MI. From the LTBB Elders Associa-tion.

CongratulationsCongratulations to Shaylee Smith, anine-year-old fourth-grader at Inver-ness Elementary School in Cheboy-gan, MI, for making the honor roll.Smith also finished first in a NFLPunt, Pass and Kick competition.She is the daughter of Chuck andJanelle Smith of Cheboygan, and sheis the granddaughter of Betty De-Lorme of Pellston, MI.

CongratulationsCongratulations and welcomehome!What an exciting time for oneof our tribal citizens! BlayneBott has returned to our home-lands after eight years of colle-giate studies. Those studiesbegan in Ferris State Universityand ended in graduation fromEastern Michigan University. He earned his Bachelor of Artdegree with a double major inEducation and History. Whilein college, he had numerous ap-pointments to the Dean’s list. Having worked during his offtime at Victories Casino andHotel, he earned six years expe-rience in our largest tribal enter-prise. Now, this alone wouldseem to keep one busy, but healso met his true love, Sara,while away. Last May, they be-came forever one. Recognizingopportunity, Blayne and Saradecided to move to Petoskey,MI, and pursue their dreams.Little did they know, but an-other little dream was travelingright along with them. They areexpecting the joyous delivery inApril.Congratulations Blayne. Welove you and Sara with all ourhearts. Welcome home!Love, Mom, Dad, Barry and Ali-cia.

Congratulations to DarronMunson, a senior wide receiverand defensive back forCharlevoix High School inCharlevoix, MI, for earning firstteam Class C All-State honors,All-Lake Michigan Conferencehonors and Petoskey News-Re-view 2006 All-Area FootballTeam honors. As a wide re-ceiver, he caught 51 passes for 712yards. He scored 10 touchdowns,two coming on kick returns. Asa defensive back, Munsonrecorded nine interceptions.Munson helped the Rayders totheir best season in almost threedecades as Charlevoix finished8-2 overall and 6-1 in the LakeMichigan Conference.Charlevoix made its fourth ap-pearance in the state playoffsthis past season.

Congratulations to Carter Mc-Fall, Jr. and Miranda “Randi”McFall of East Jordan, MI, forhaving successful fall sports sea-sons. Carter, a senior at EastJordan High School, averaged 12tackles a game this past seasonwhile playing for the varsityfootball team. He earned All-Conference honors, he earnedPetoskey News-Review 2006 Hon-orable Mention All-Area Foot-ball Team honors, and he wasnamed his team’s top defensiveplayer. He is currently playingvarsity basketball. After highschool, he plans on attendingGrand State Valley Universityto play football. Miranda, asophomore at East Jordan High

CongratulationsSchool, played on the junior var-sity basketball team this pastseason, and she was voted mostimproved player. She is cur-rently playing volleyball. As afreshman last year, she was thejunior varsity softball team’s toppitcher. She was called up to thevarsity softball team last season,and she pitched in districts.Every other weekend, Mirandatravels to Wixom, MI, for in-struction from the Doug GillisPitching Academy. The DougGillis Pitching Academy is aUSA Softball Elite Training Fa-cility.Your family is very proud ofyou and your accomplishments.

Victories Casino and Hotel con-gratulates Paul Eames, a LTBBTeam Member, who was re-cently promoted from a TableGames Floorperson to the posi-tion of Shift Manager. He is a participant in the ABEL(Acquisition, Branding, Educa-tion and Leadership) Career De-velopment Program and hasbeen enthusiastically involvedin career development activities. The purpose of the ABEL Pro-gram is to increase the knowl-edge, skills and abilities ofLTBB Tribal Citizens and TeamMembers by providing individ-ual, professional and career de-velopment and advancementopportunities. The Victories ABEL Career De-velopment Program provides aframework for the organizationto have a career developmentsystem with clear guidelines,processes, and competency re-quirements for the acquisition,training, development, mainte-nance and advancement ofTeam Members in all positionswithin the organization to pro-mote:

• Team Members with up-graded skills, working totheir full potential andequipped to deal with thechanging demands of theworkplace.

• Team Members with highermorale, career satisfaction,creativity, and motivation.

• Increased productivity andresponsiveness in meetingdepartmental and organiza-tional objectives.

• Increased retention and re-duced turnover.

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Harry J. Sprague, 60Harry J. Sprague, 60, of Friend-ship Township, MI, walked onNovember 20 at his home. Hewas born May 27, 1946, inFriendship Township, to Clydeand Rose (King) Sprague. He at-tended Harbor Springs (Michi-gan) schools, and he graduatedfrom Harbor Springs HighSchool. He was a veteran of the UnitedStates Army, and he served inGermany. He married the former Margaret

Walking on...Winter, and they later sepa-rated.He was a licensed journeymanplumber, and he had worked forseveral area plumbing contrac-tors.He enjoyed cribbage, going tothe casino, and he was an avidgolfer. He was a member of the LittleTraverse Bay Bands of OdawaIndians. He is survived by two brothers,Douglas (Merilee) Sprague andAl (Betty) Sprague, all of Har-bor Springs, and nieces andnephews.

Edna M. Miller, 84Edna M. Miller, 84, ofCharlevoix, MI, walked on No-vember 21 at Boulder Park Ter-race Nursing Home inCharlevoix. She was born in Charlevoix onJuly 4, 1922, to Emerson and Lil-lian (Engstrom) Hull.On December 12, 1941, she mar-ried Robert D. Miller inCharlevoix, and he preceded herin death in 1977.She was a member of the LittleTraverse Bay Bands of OdawaIndians. She was a member of St. Mary’sChurch, the St. Mary’s AltarSociety, and the American Le-gion Leslie T. Shapton Post No.226 Auxiliary. She served on theBergmann Center board of di-rectors for 28 years, and the cityof Charlevoix Election Board formore than 40 years. She volun-teered for the Michigan SpecialOlympics through her associa-tion with the Telephone Pio-neers of America, and was aRainbow Shoppe volunteer. Shewas a long-time employee andfriend of Birdie’s Beauty Shop,and enjoyed playing bingo. She is survived by her daughter,Vicki L. (Chip) Emery ofCharlevoix and Minneapolis,MN; son, Richard Miller; grand-children, Sandra (Baxter)Robertson of Redwood City,CA, Michelle Scorsone andMelissa Garner, both of Pitts-burgh, PA; Jared (Lauren)Emery of Broomfield, CO,Steve Young of Grand Rapids,MI, and Richard Miller; great-grandchildren, Corey and KyleGarner, Jamey Carter, Anthony,Christopher and Robert Scor-sone, Marguerite Mae Robert-son, Lillian Nicole Emery, EvanYoung, Sarah and Lindsey Win-kle.Her sisters, Marguerite McKayand EmerJean Koboski-Christy,and her brother, Richard Hull,preceded her in death.

Help WantedWe have jobs! Victories Casinoand Hotel seeks a Marketing Di-rector and table games dealers.For information on all VictoriesCasino and Hotel job openings,call Human Resources at 231-439-5380 or visit our website atwww.victories-casino.com.CONTINUED ON NEXT COLUMN CONTINUED ON NEXT COLUMN


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Photo by Aaron Wayne Otto on December 15, 2006. Photo by Aaron Wayne Otto on December 15, 2006. Photo by Aaron Wayne Otto on December 15, 2006. Photo by Aaron Wayne Otto on December 15, 2006.

Photo by Aaron Wayne Otto on December 15, 2006. Photo by Aaron Wayne Otto on December 15, 2006. Photo by Annette VanDeCar on December 15, 2006. Photo by Annette VanDeCar on December 15, 2006.

Photo by Annette VanDeCar on December 15, 2006. Photo by Annette VanDeCar on December 15, 2006. Photo by Annette VanDeCar on December 15, 2006. Photo by Annette VanDeCar on December 15, 2006.

Photo by Annette VanDeCar on December 15, 2006. Photo by Annette VanDeCar on December 15, 2006. Photo by Annette VanDeCar on December 15, 2006. Photo by Aaron Wayne Otto on December 15, 2006.

TRIBAL ELDERS VISIT ODAWA CASINO RESORT CONSTRUCTION SITEBy Annette VanDeCar, Communications Coordinator

ODAWA CASINO RESORT CONSTRUCTION UPDATEBy Annette VanDeCar, Communications Coordinator

A group of Tribal Elders visited the Odawa Casino Resort construction site in Petoskey, MI, on November 30. Victories Casino and Hotel shuttles transported the Elders to the site after they ate at the Elders Luncheon held at the LTBBGovernmental Center in Harbor Springs, MI. The Elders posed for a group shot before receiving a tour inside.

On December 15, Communications Assistant Aaron Otto and I returned to the Odawa Casino Resort construction site in Petoskey, MI, to take updated photos. Similar to our previous trips to the construction site, we were escorted byVictories Casino and Hotel Facilities Director Barry Laughlin. We will return every month to take updated photos to share with the tribal community until the Odawa Casino Resort project is completed.

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