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Monday, April 8th
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9:00-9:50 am
Sandy Swallow, Jonas 107
World known Artist and art gallery owner, Ms. Swallow has participated and has to her credit a long list of accomplishments that she has received from the art world. Winning awards from many art shows such as the Northern Plains Indian Art Market, Sioux Falls, SD; Sweet Willow Indian Market at Great Falls, MT; and Grand River Indian Artists Gathering at Grand Junction, CO have helped inspire her art career.
Sandy is an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Nation and presently owns her own art gallery located on Main Street in Hill City, SD.
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Tuesday, April 9th
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9:30-10:45am
Lila DeMarrias Mehlhaff, Jonas 107
Lila DeMarrias Mehlhaff, Hunkpapa from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, is owner of Native Legacy Media, and has 18 years of business development experience with franchise and retail stores. Recently, she worked for a United States Senator as a Tribal Liaison to the South Dakota Tribes. |
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11:00-12:15pm
Wacipi – A Way of Life
Whitney Rencountre, Jonas 104
BHSU Alumni & Lakota Omniciye Wacipi Arena Director. Whitney is an accomplished singer and drummer who has traveled the world, sharing traditional American Indian ways of living. Whitney is also a singer with the award-winning American Indian drum group, Midnight Express, which is based out of the Minneapolis area. Whitney and his family live in Rapid City, South Dakota, where is the leader of a youth mentoring program, Ateyapi.
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11:00-12:15pm
"Our Relationship with Money and Success"
James A. Cordry, Jonas 107
James A. Cordry is an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. He is a graduate of the University of South Dakota, attending the University of South Dakota School of Fine Arts and the University of South Dakota School of Business. From 1983 to 2004, Mr. Cordry was a Registered Investment Advisor and Financial Advisor in the Kansas City Metropolitan area, specializing in tax advantaged investments, fixed income, and management of equity portfolios. During that time he hosted a weekly call-in radio talk program featuring investment talk of the day and interviewing notable investment professionals from around the country. Since 2004, Mr. Cordry has held the position of Fiduciary Trust Officer for the Rosebud Agency, Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians.
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12:30pm-1:45pm
Four Bands Community Fund
Tanya Fiddler, Jonas 107
Ms. Fiddler is the Executive Director of Four Bands Community Fund, a Native community development financial institution (CDFI) focused on entrepreneurship and financial literacy development on the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservation located in north central South Dakota. The non-profit organization which strives to create economic development on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation offers programs and services which translate the traditional Lakota values of self-sufficiency, wise resource management, and a spirit of entrepreneurship into practical applications for today's modern Reservation community.
Tanya, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, has served as the Executive Director of Four Bands since 2002 and has built the organization from the start-up phase into a successful, innovative, and award-winning organization.
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2:00pm-3:15pm
Lakota Funds
Tawney Brunsch, Meier Hall Room 206
Ms. Brunsch is the Executive Director of Lakota Funds, the first certified Native community development financial institution on a reservation. In her current position, she has provided tribal members on the Pine Ridge Reservation with asset building tools including: individual development accounts, child development accounts, financial literacy, homebuyer education, business planning assistance, credit building loans and free tax preparations. Ms. Brunsch currently serves on the Board of Directors of Mazaska Owecaso Otipi Financial and is the Chairperson of the proposed Lakota Federal Credit Union Steering Committee.
Ms. Brunsch grew up on a ranch south of Interior on the Pine Ridge Reservation and is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe.
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Wednesday, April 10th
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9:00 - 9:50 am
”‘Entrepreneurship’: Idea to Reality, The building of the Tanka Brand!”
Mr. Mark Tilsen, Jonas 107
Mark Tilsen is President of Native American Natural Foods, and a longtime business partner with Karlene Hunter in Lakota Express, Inc., a direct marketing and customer care management company. Mr. Tilsen has more than 25 years of experience in nonprofit fundraising, marketing community development, and 18 years in special events marketing and productions. He co-founded several successful community organizations and businesses, including KILI Radio, the largest indigenous community-owned radio station in North America and The Black Hills Alliance, a coalition of Native and non-Native Americans that had a major impact on changing the environmental policies and practices in the Black Hills.
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12:00 – 12:50 pm
The Arikara
Dr.Brad Tennant, Jonas 107
Dr. Tennant, Associate History Professor at Presentation College, talks about the history and culture of the Arikara: their role in intertribal trade, the impact of disease, their encounter with Lewis and Clark and conflicts with the government from 1807 to 1820’s.
*This presentation is made possible by the South Dakota Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Thursday, April 11th
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11:00 am – 12:15 pm
Dakota South Records
Brandis Knudson, Jonas 104
Brandis B. Knudsen, C.E.O and Artist, better known in the music world as B. of Dakota South Records, grew up across the state of South Dakota where he was influenced by multiple cultures and genres of music and found love in the art of Hip-Hop. After recording his first studio single the summer of 2007, he founded Dakota South Records as an underground label which saw quick growth and serious potential for a larger market.
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12:30 – 1:45 pm
Lastrealindians.com
Chase Iron Eyes, Jonas 107
Chase Iron Eyes is a founding writer at Lastrealindians.com, a ground breaking new site creating the new indigenous millennium on our terms. Chase is a lawyer, scholar and activist. His work has been published in major media and he has been instrumental in the recent effort to push for a collective, first of its kind in history, purchase of Black Hills sacred land in the Pe'Sla campaign.
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Friday, April 12th
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12:00 – 12:50 pm
Lakota Solar Enterprises
Henry Red Cloud, Jonas 107
Henry Red Cloud, Proprietor of Lakota Solar Enterprises, is the direct 5th generation descendent of Chief Red Cloud. Henry was born and raised on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, home of the Oglala Lakota Nation. For more than a decade, Henry has devoted himself to developing his expertise with renewable energy applications that are environmentally sound, economically beneficial, and culturally appropriate.
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*This presentation is made possible by SD EPSCoR
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7:00 – 11:00 pm
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30th Annual Lakota Omniciye Wacipi,
BHSU Young Center Field House
Grand Entry, Warm up and Social Dancing
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Saturday, April 13th
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12:00 – 5:00 pm
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Lakota Omniciye Wacipi
Young Center Field House
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5:00 – 6:30 pm
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Free Buffalo Feed
BHSU Student Union
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7:00 – 11:00 pm
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Lakota Omniciye Wacipi
Young Center Field House
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Sunday, April 14th
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10:30 am
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28th Annual Kevin Whirlwind Horse Run
Starts at Lyle Hare Stadium
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12:00 – 5:00 pm
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Lakota Omniciye Wacipi,
Young Center Field House
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