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Okay let me explain a bit here where I live at. I live on the Omaha Indian Reservation and the Winnebago NE Indian Reservation boarders it. My county is all reservation. Okay I can't rightly say that as of yet.........one of the towns that is predom white and stuck up are trying to take it to Federal Court saying they aren't on the reservation and using treaties to attempt to prove their claim but I think they are going to LOOSE! The Santee Sioux Reservation is only 3 and half to 4 hours away. The Yankton Sioux, The Ponca, and a few other tribes all have Tribal offices in Omaha which is an hour and half away to two hours away and in Sioux City IA which is connected to North Sioux City SD and South Sioux City NE......when I say the city I mean these three places cause if you can't find one thing in NE you pop over the river to one of the other two!
Anyway. IHS which stands for Indian Health Services has a hospital in Winnebago NE where my kids go to school, this is the hospital that my mom has worked at for 20 some years and since it is a IHS clinc, hospital and such plus it houses the Tribal programs anyone with a registered tribal card of any nation can go here. The Santee Sioux go OUT OF THEIR WAY to get their tribal members down to Winnebago for treatments, docs visits, and other things because they donot' have a facility like this. My mom works with a LOT of Lakota Tribal members and they are very very upset over this crap about "leaving the US"
Why? Because say good bye to all their free money! Seriously. You all think I am bullshitting you when I say if you can prove that your Indian at least 5 generations back even if you can NOT register you are an IDIOT!
If you can prove that your family 5 generations back (great great grandparent or something liket hat) was a registered tribal member of any federal known tribe, you can take part of IHS system free of charge! I am NOT shitting you! And say you have no proof of registration because your ancestors were hardheaded and fought the US up to their last dying breath you can ask for a DNA test of Tribal blood line out of your own pocket. And then round up family stories and try to find someone in the family that is registered to bakc up your claim. You not only get free medical if you can prove this, you get dental, vision, and you qualify for any of the Fed gov programs available! Tribal would be up to your Tribe and how they do registration!
It also opens you up for more scholorships, tax benefits, and jobs because IHS and any Tribal or Gov't Tribal program and Office take Indian preference. Meaning anyone can apply for these jobs but if an Indian person has the same qualifications as a none indian they get the job! And since a lot of indians take care of their families or are raciest it means even if the indian person applying isn't qualified they will get the job over a none indian who is qualified unless they have someone honest in the office!
Okay now done with the small education bit..........A lot of Lakotas live on and around my two home reservations........andy they are pist! They are contacting their Tribal Elders and raising hell about how they have allowed certain ppl way to much voice in the media to speak for the entire Lakota Nation!
They are so pist to the point a lot of registered Lakota Members in the area are starting to ask the Winnebagos and Omahas to help with housing to get their family members off of the various Lakota Reservations in the states of NE, SD, WY, ND and MT! Which unfortuntally there isn't much either tribe can do. Omahas are broke! They have allowed their Tribal counsel members and gov't employees (mostly tribal members) to steal, embezzel, and run their offices so crappy they are literally broke and in a reverse in histroy where they helped the Winnebagos when they first came to this area, the Winnebagos are now helping in other aspects to keep them floating! Which is funny cause they hate each other around here!
The Winnebagos wouldn't mind helping but they have this tiny little issue that their housing waitinglist is so long that even their own tribal members are wiatiing for older tribal housing to be fixed to get families in them and newer tribal housing to be built to get families in them. At least they are taking a proactive step in trying to fix this issue for the Winnebagos. Tribal members can go through a gov't and state sponsered house buying class and when they graduate they can get 20 thou for either a down payment on a house in or off the reservation or they can build a house in one of the tribal housing sectors with no houses on it. A lot of my age group and my siblings age groups are doing this. Simply because of Ho Chunk Inc now having a housing department!
The word around these two reservations and I guess the Santee Reservation is that you will start to see even MORE Lakotas moving into the area to get away from that crap that Means, Young, and Martin Sr started! which isn't going to be to big of a deal because on our two reservations with the brand new IHS clinic and hospital we see a LOT of other tribes not only from the midwest but from the western, south western, east, and southern states move to the area either on or off the reservation!
