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1. Spirit Lake Sioux
2. Standing Rock Sioux
3. Three Affiliated Tribes
4. Turtle Mountain Chippewa

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1. Spirit Lake Sioux Tribal Council, ND. Formerly Devil's Lake. Sisseton-Wahpeton Band Dakota; Mni Wakan Oyate
   
   • First Wind Turbine at Mni Wakan -- generates 1/3 of electricity used in casino
   • Devils Lake Sioux Tribe, (Ft. Totten) (Soon to be named Spirit Lake), Brief info from Office of Native American Programs, HUD
2. Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council, ND. Teton Lakota
   
   • Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
   • Sitting Bull bio-- they fudge the ending a bit, he was murdered.
   • Vine Deloria, Standing rock's most notable intellectual, little quote from God is Red, unatrtributed
   • Flag of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation with a short, clear bit of history
   • South Dakota State Dept of tourisim provides the kind of " Great Sioux Nation" history you'd expect if you had any sense. Colorful, oh, yes
   • What is happening to your kids, Standing Rock? this one's being marketed for adoption and I found 2 more on this shop to adopt-a-kid and 4 more on another such kid-shopping for mall
   • Standing Rock Sioux -- Brief statistical info, Office of Native American Programs, HUD
3. Three Affiliated Tribes -- Hidatsa, Arikara, Mandan, ND
   
   • Fort Berthold: Brief history -- dam-drowning of the reservation (Ft. Berthold College)
   • Hidatsa Stuffed Sugar-pumpkin -- Recipe
   • Structural model of a Hidatsa-Mandan earthworks house
   • The Way to Independence: Memories of a Hidatsa Indian Family -- 1840-1920, book review
   • Coloring Book of Hidatsa Indian Storeis Based on the Life and Drawings of Edward Goodbird (Book Review)
   • Goodbird the Hidatsa Indian: His Story as told to Gilbert L. Wilson, Book Review
   • Waheenee, an Indian Gril's Story As Told By herself, Book Review
   • Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians, Book Review
   • Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation -- Brief statistical info, Office of Native American Programs, HUD
     

   OK, now. This is the BIG story for 3 North Dakota tribes: Standing Rock and Spirit Lake Sioux -- but Turtle Mountain Chippewas are the First Nation with this energy efficient, non-consuming wind-driven electrical generating technology up first, September, 1996. Photos from the project engineer's page show first the big equipment moving a giant wind turbine into place, next, the engineer himself steadying the cable that mounts the first giant rotor. All the tribes plan "wind farms" to become independent of power monopolies and perhaps even sell exported wind-generated electrical power. North Dakota's roaring prairie winds lead these Native nations -- with already super-high winter power-fuel survival costs -- to take technological and economic leadership in the newest of non-exploitive power technology. It harmonizes with traditions of working with, not against, nature. An awesome, admirable venture, where small, isolated Native Nations provide leadership to the whole world, that is right in line with ancient cultures where wind was called taku-skan-skan,   power of the sacred. It sure don't fit them quaint, colorful stereotypes, does it?

4. Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, ND
   
   • UNIBAND: Turtle Mountain Tribe's big computer data entry enterprise, growing success since 1987
   • Turtle Mt. Casino some outfit got the contract for credit cards or something; that casino money is the seed for that innovative technology, innit?
   • Dissidents at Turtle Mt -- and my Sis Rose, she's an elder among the rebels, Ay-y-y! Dunno wot it was about . . .
   • Turtle Mt. Community College -- college does a (very short) history, mostly of itself, not the tribe
   • Sam English Turtle Mt's most famous artist, his gallery
   • English's 12-painting 1996 calendar done to benefit AISES, American Science and Engineering Society, beautifully arranged, annotated by Canadian Siksika (Blackfeet) student. Hey, guy, it's very windy up there in Alberta, by your reserve, Ay?
   • Benedictine Monastery Volunteer program live the monk/convent lifestyle, help Turtle Mt. Indian programs -- monkish summer vacation (???) or year. Different kind of wind?
   • Louise Erdrich the Love Medicine Beet Queen -- Turtle Mt's most famous author, recent interview
   • Love Medicine family trees of the Indian characters she says won't quit coming around her creative imagination
   • Turtle Mt Explores Wind Energy innovative program to make tribe electrically independent -- first press relase announcing its beginning, May, 1996. And going   by September. Now that's Indun time!
   • Turtle Mountain Band Brief statistical info, Office of Native American Programs, HUD