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Visioning and Listening Meetings Presentation

UPDATE:

Here are the vision statements drafted during the meetings and the results of the votes:

  1. It is our vision to live the Lakota way of life by honoring the past while taking action to courageously heal our environment, nourish our families, create successful businesses, and wisely invest in our youth. 35%
  2. Through open and honest conversation we will capture the spirit and wisdom of our people to create opportunity, build thriving communities, be harmonious with the earth and connect with each other. 15%
  3. Both 40%
  4. Neither  10%

 

  1. As a Lakota Family we will care for each other by generously sharing, seeking wisdom and balance, building healthy communities, and dedicating our actions to future generations. 16%
  2. Working together we nurture our youth, respect our history, look to our spirituality and courageously act to shape our future. 28%
  3. Both 48%
  4. Neither 8%

 

Did you miss the visioning and listening meetings? Want to view the presentation again? The follow presentation was shown at the visioning and listening meetings:

Visioning and Listening Meeting Presentation
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During the meeting, the crowd discussed the questions in the slideshow. The following word cloud (made with wordle.net) was created from the discussion notes. The largest words in the word cloud were the words most repeated in the conversations.

 

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Now Hiring

 

Job Announcement: P.R. & Community Outreach

Pay rate commensurate with experience

40 hours a week Starting immediately

 

Send updated resumes to the attention of Scott Moore, Project Coordinator

Thunder Valley CDC:

 

Resumes accepted only via email

 

We are looking for qualified hardworking people to join our team. You must be highly motivated and passionate about creating change for our people. We value a good attitude, punctuality, critical thinking skills, problem solving ability, and creativity.

 

Responsibilities include:

  • Promote the Oyate Omniciye | Oglala Lakota Plan oglalalakotaplan.org
  • Learn project goals and objectives and communicate them between different segments of the community, including Tribal members, Tribal politicians, Tribal employees, etc.
  • Take part in community meetings and travel in the region to complete job requirements.
  • Help coordinating public events, taking pictures onsite, reporting
  • Help the team prepare for meetings, presentations, public promotions, and community events.
  • Maintain a communications and outreach plan/frequently update the planning team.
  • Other activities which may be required to promote project goals

 

Requirements:

  • Must be dependable and reliable
  • Some experience working with Event Organizing/ Scheduling
  • Good communication and people skills
  • Excellent writing and speaking skills
  • Strong understanding of the culture and heritage of the Lakota People and history/issues
  • An undergraduate or graduate degree combined with work experience, would be helpful, but other life/educational experiences will be considered
  • Skills and knowledge of: Microsoft Office (Powerpoint, Word, Excel, Outlook)
  • Ability to operate graphics software a plus

 

Must have valid driver license and reliable transportation to and from work. On the job travel reimbursement for specific tasks.

SEND RESUME with a minimum of three references to:

Attention: Scott Moore, Project Coordinator

 

Note: Thunder Valley CDC is a501©(3) non-profit corporation dedicated to “Empowering Lakota youth & families to improve the health, culture and environment of our communities, through the healing and strengthening of cultural identity.” Because of our solid commitment to community change, we have an employee policy asking all employees to “live a drug and alcohol free life style”. So we encourage you to strongly consider this when applying for a job with Thunder Valley CDC. P.S. – Redbull and Coffee is ok :)

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Where it all started back in 2010 – the NOFA

Here is the original Notice of Funding Availability that started it all!

LINK > HUD-EPA-DOT Notice of Funding Availability

Our project team’s response to this document is what led to the birth of the OYATE OMNICIYE project.

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Listen to the Call…

“We Oglalas do the best we can to take care of our own people. This little piece of land we have is our home. We don’t want to be anywhere else. This is all we have left. We know it is up to us Oglalas to make it happen. No one else really seems to give a #%*!, because they are too busy taking care of themselves most of the time.

The light at the end of the tunnel is to look at all of our problems, to bring them forward, to admit they exist, and then address them. We need to bring these things out in the open and express ourselves instead of acting like nothing is wrong. If we can do this, then that’s when the healing starts.”

~ Oglala tribal member – policeman, father, son

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Thank You

Thank You

Thank you to everyone who came to the meetings on Wednesday and Thursday.  We are working to type up the notes, and we will be posting the vision statements, the conversations, and video soon.  In the meantime, please give us feedback by commenting on this post or posting to our wall onFacebook.