Wotanin wowapi 1988-12-08

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"Serving the Fort Peck Reservation'
VOL 19 NO. 48
DECEMBER 8, 1988
Corp proposes power plant food factory for reservation
Tribal delegation tours a power plant being built with these large-scale engines, similar to what is being proposed for the Fort Peck Reservation.
SPRINGFIELD , UTAH-lntex Fuels and Chemicals Corp., a company based in Springfield, Utah, is proposing to build a power plant and greenhouse facility on the reservation that will employ 100 to 150 people on a permanent basis.
The plans call for the construction or a 17 megawatt gas fired cogeneration facility whose waste heat will provide heat for the greenhouse.
They are proposing to use the latest technology in the construction and design of the greenhouse developed by the Strung family in Alberta, Canada. They developed a greenhouse using a system called hydroponics � which is the use of liquids to grow vegetables. The vegetables grow at rapid rates.
In a letter to the tribal chairman, J. Brent Haymond, President of Intex Corp., said that he has recently entered into an
agreement with the Strung family to build and operate the greenhouse in conjunction with the power plant.
The entire project would cost about 13 million dollars to build. The proposal is currently bein reviewed by tribal attornies an will be brought before the Tribes Economic Development Commission for study. The next meeting of the commission is tentatively scheduled for December 16, 1988.
A tribal delegation went to Springville and Lehi, Utah, to tour a similar project being constructed. The greenhouse was in operation. The delegation consisted of councilman Gene Culbertson, chief planner Raymond Ogle, adminstrative assistant Garrett Big Leggins, and Al Foos.
The information of the new greenhouse technology was presented to the Finance Committee via a video tape.
A greenhouse and employee, which is powered by the waste heat of the power plant. The greenhouse raised decorative plants and mushrooms.
Dream to help those in need a reality
POPLAR � What began as a divine inspired idea to gather clothes for people who need them is now a reality for two sisters
I he new Clothes Cioset had its grand opening on Monday December 5, at 1:00, iocated at the St. Ann's Chapel, 5 miles west of Poplar on hi way 2.
Kathleen Ventura had a divine inspired idea to help people in need and to somehow ease their burden through a project to gather clothes.
In the last week in October, she and her sister Carol Red Thunder discussi�d the idea of the Clothes Closet. The first thing they did was to sit down and pray about it. Next they wrote a letter to the Wotanin, the schools, churches, and to I.H.S. They put flyers around the area with the phone
number listed so people could get in touch with them if they wanted to donate any clothing. The idea took off and people began donating the clothing needed for the start.
Kathleen and Carol sorted the clothing into mens, womens, and childrens sizes.
The donated clothing consists of winter coats, jeans, blouses, shirts, dress suits, shoes, and some winter boots, are all sizes, and all are in good condition, with some brand new.
Kathleen stated the clothes will be given out to people on a referral basis, but no one will be turned away. "It's for everybody," she said. The referrals will come from agencies such as Social Services, churches, etc.
Kathleen stated that in order to keep the it open, more clothes
are needed, especially tor infants and childrens. They also would like to have more volunteers. Carol stated, "When my sister talked to me anoint it, it realh, touched my heart. I saw the need, I've gone to Bible study and there was this little boy who told me that his feet was cold. All he had on was tennis shoes that was well worn. This really hurts me. I agreed to help. I'd like to give back in some way for God giving us good parents".
The intent of the Clothes Closet is. to build a supply of clothing that can be used by those in need. If you would like to make any donations of clothing or money, contact Kathleen Ventura at 448-2228, or Carol Red Thunder at 448-2532. Money donations will be used for the utilities and heating.
Shown are Kathleen and Carol sorting out the clothes in the St. Ann's Chapel that will be given to those in need.
Alarming statistics reported to Indian Education Committee
WOLF POINT � Fort Peck has the highest number of cases of sexually transmitted diseases of all Indian reservations in the nation, with Roosevelt County having the third highest number of such cases in the state of Montana, it was reported recently at a Wolf Point Indian Education Committee meeting.
The Wolf Point Indian Education Committee had scheduled a public meeting on December 1, 1988, at 6:00 p.m. at the Wolf Point High School. There was only one problem, there was no public participation because there was no one from the public or the community in attendance.
In the staff reports, |im Peterson of the Wolf Point Schools, showed a 15 minute documentary titled, "Davids Song." The video has an all Indian cast and features David Woodring, a Native American who is inflicted
with A.I.D. (acquired immune defiency syndrome). In the film, Woodring informs a number of Pueblo teenagers how to protect themselves against this killer disease.
Peterson, a member and presentor for the A.I.D.S Curriculum Committee in the Wolf Point Schools, told the Indian Education Committee members that the Fort Peck Indian reservation has the highest number of all the reservations in the nation, of sexually transmitted diseases. Roosevelt County, the third highest incidences in the state of Montana. In 1985 Montana had 23 confirmed cases of A.I.D.S., out of which 13 have already died. Seven more cases came into the state from elsewhere, all total, there have been 30 confirmed cases of A.I.D.S. in the state of Montana.
He stated that the HIV virus incubates in the body for 5 years,
and becomes active within seven. "Nationwide, between Monday and Friday, at clinics across the country, 1000 people will be diagnosed as having A.I.D.S. Within 2 years, those diagnosed (during that week) will die.
Native Americans who are inflicted with the A.I.D.S. virus are less than 1 percent of the nationwide percentage of all Americans inflicted with this dreadful disease.
There is another Native American produced video on A.I.D.S. titled, "Her Spiritual Giveaway", by a registered nurse in Minneapolis that Peterson does not have at this time.
Peterson, along with the A.I.D.S. Curriculum Committee, have invited a doctor that works with patients inflicted with the HIV virus, to come to Wolf Point to address the high school students about A.I.D.S. Peterson will set the date for the meeting
when the doctor confirms his visit.
Asked if there is anyone in Wolf Point that has A.I.D.S., Peterson responded that there "possibly" could be. Another member commented that it is common knowledge that there is one Natuve American man with A.I.D.S. who had a wife who led a promiscous lite around here. Peterson had no response to that statement.
After the committee waited the entire hour, and no one showed, they broke into their regular monthly meeting.
The Indian Education Committee oversees the J.O.M. (Johnson O'Malley), Title IV, Part A, and 874 (P.L.81-874) monies.
Andrew Rendon, a Program Education Specialist with the Resource Development Center in Bismarck, N.D., told the committee that they were one of the exceptional boards in the area. The
committee made arrangements with Rendon to conduct a training session for new committee members and all the committee in early January. Rendon informed the committee that the session would take about three hours.
Every five years, the committee does a needs assessment which will be done in the spring. The new proposal has a deadline of March 10.
The Resource Development Center covers a seven state area with the Title IV, Part A program.
In other business, the committee is reviewing their Constitution and By-laws for any revisions that need to be made. It will be placed on next months (January) regular meeting agenda.
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Wolf Point fire under
investigation
WOLF POINT � Four agencies investigate a weekend fire that hospitalized three Wolf Point children left alone in their home.
"We are investigating the possibility of criminal charges at this time," said Capt. Dale Headdress of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Poplar.
The BIA, Montana state fire marshal's office, Roosevelt County Sheriff's Department and Child Protective Services of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation were involved in the case, he said.
Meanwhiie, the three tots, a 4-year-old boy and his sisters, age-
2 and 1, were improving at St. Vincent Hospital in Billings. A hospital spokeswoman said the children were doing well.
Headdress said the tots, whom he declined to name, were treated for smoke inhalation.
The mother, Francine Devereaux, is being held on a $150 bond on a disorderly conduct charge and could possibly be charged with neglect in tribal court, which is .a .Class A misdemeanor punishable by a $500 fine and a year in jail, according to special child prosecutor Ron Arneson, a local radio station reported.
She could also be charged with three separate charges pending a Social Services hearing, said Arneson.
The children had been left with a 16-year old babysitter who left the children for about a half hour and when she returned, the house was on fire, according to BIA police. However no charges will be filed against the babysitter as the mother should not have left them in the first place, it was stated.
Quiet, peaceful, reverent upbringing gives elder long, healthy life
POPLAR � Charity Wing is 86 years old, she was born on March 9, 1909. She grew up in a quiet, peaceful, reverent home with her parents, Edwin and Blanche Red-door. Her father's Indian name is Chief Bear Runs Growling, who was the first born son of Chief Bear Fighter, who killed a bear that attacked his mother. That's how he got his Indian name.
"My father didn't go to school because he was being raised as a chief and if he went to school, he would have learned all the wrong things as he was being taught in the chief's ways," said Mrs. Wing in a recent interview with the Wotanin.'
Her mother was orphaned at the age of 3. Mrs. Anna Walker
found her looking tor food, took her home, fed her, cleaned her up, and watched out for her to When she was 5, she went to boarding school, and graduated from the Carlyle Indian School. When she returned home, her brothers wanted her to marry some man. So, they gave her to Charity's father. Because her mother was dressed in the latest fashions, her father asked if she was Indian, and can she talk Indian? He wanted to look at her teeth, "Huh, good", he said. So Charity's parents were married. He was in his buckskins, she was in her latest fashion dress with the big puffed sleeves. They were married by Mr. E.J. Lindsay, who was the  Presbyterian  minister
who could speak Sioux.
Her parents accepted Christ as their savior. Her father "felt the call to speak about Jesus." They traveled to other reservations where her father would speak about the Lord.
"I was born at home, up. the creek. It was raining hard, so I tell my grandchildren that "I came down with the frogs".
Charity attended boarding school in Poplar, and later graduated from Haskell. I never liked boarding school here, but I liked Haskell,  she said.
Charity's Indian name means Charity. "I used to do beadwork, but now my eyes are not good
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Wolf Point volunteer firefighters rescued them Friday afternoon from their smokey duplex apartment in an Indian housing development on the west edge of town.
A small kitchen fire had filled the one-story, three-bedroom apartment with smoke so thick that firefighters needed air packs to enter and could hardly see once they went inside.
Headdress said BIA officers located the children's mother in Wolf Point Friday night after the fire. The children had been alone about a half-hour before the fire was reported, he said Monday.
The BIA captain said that the cause of the fire hadn't been determined. Something on the kitchen stove apparently started it, according to a sheriff's investigator.