Hocak Worak - Inside this issue

February 13, 2002

Inside this issue

	Wanted - New Ho-Chunk language speakers As printed on posters that appear throughout Ho-Chunk country, "for a language to flourish people need to use it".
	The Ho-Chunk language is not alone Elsewhere in this issue there is a story detailing the effort that the Nation’s Language Division is making to keep alive the Ho-Chunk language. The Division’s goal is to develop more speakers and hopefully integrate the language with English at tribal meetings and events.
	A community for military veterans The Wisconsin Veterans Home in King, WI is perhaps the most misunderstood benefit available to veterans living in Wisconsin or those who were state residents when they entered the military.
	A blast from the not-so past For those thirty-something’s, January 26^th, 2002 was a night of nostalgia, as Morris Day and the Time pumped up the crowd at the Ho-Chunk Convention Center.
	Ho-Chunk Wunksheek ga empowers Northern Cheyenne Out of nine percent of Montana’s land base, four hundred and forty-five thousand acres of those reservation lands is home to the proud Northern Cheyenne.
	Trust fund accounts getting Interior boot The Department of Interior is moving to close thousands of Indian trust accounts even though it can’t guarantee the balance of any is correct and has yet to start the massive undertaking required to do so.
	Big business vs. people The Perrier Group of America continues to express an interest in developing high capacity wells in Adams County, WI. The Ho-Chunk Nation and area residents opposed to the development continue to argue that both Perrier and the Wisconsin DNR, who approved the project, have ignored the Nation and nearby residents.
	Mille Lacs Band, county wrangle over 61,000 acres Tensions between the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and its neighbors are rising again, less than three years after the U.S. Supreme Court settled a dispute over the band's fishing and gathering rights.
	Tribe sees new recycling plant as a step forward A new $5.5 million recycling plant on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community is a first step in becoming an important player in the region's economy, tribal president Ivan Makil said.
	Winnebago Tribe agrees to start charging gas tax for state The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska and state officials have reached an agreement to end a one-year gas tax dispute.
	Norton announces new money for American Indian trust fund President Bush will seek an additional $83.6 million next year to fix a mismanaged American Indian trust fund that has become a thorn in the Interior Department's side, Secretary Gale Norton said Friday.

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               EDITOR..............................Paul Arentz
               STAFF WRITER....................John Kozlowicz
               STAFF WRITER....................Thomas S. Tourtillott
               DESIGN DIRECTOR...............Cookie LaMere

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