Danelle Reed-Inderbitzin wrote:
"News Tribune Got it Right!"
I
would like to express my appreciation for the TNT article that posted
on 12/2/07. In my life I have had been blessed by many elders and
educators whom have shared their wisdom with me including the values
expressed in this recent article. Full Circle embodies many of our
traditional values especially inclusion, respect, honesty, generosity
and most importantly…openness.
As the article explains, the
truth is that since gaming has come to the tribe information has
increasingly been censored and kept from the general membership. Since
critical information was not being shared rumors fueled by fear were
our only source of information. Our newly elected tribal members have
worked diligently to bring factual information to our membership, which
I see as the greatest gain made in the past two years. This increase in
information sharing and openness among our membership allows us to make
informed decisions for the betterment of our tribe. One of the greatest
lessons passed onto to me is that “knowledge equals power.” Knowledge
is being returned to the people and power is coming back to its
rightful and traditional place; which is with the membership.
The
momentum has shifted within the tribe and those that express
displeasure should evaluate their own motivations. In the past two
years, funding has finally been approved for youth and elders
facilities that were promised and not delivered for the past 10+ years
by incumbents. Activities are being offered for our youth and our
community is coming together – this too is a return to our traditional
ways. Thank you Full Circle for the positive changes that we are all
blessed to share with one another!
I wish you PEACE & HAPPINESS this Holiday Season ☺!
Danelle Reed-Inderbitzin
sunnywoman wrote:
I would like to express my opinion on the article that came out in the
Tacoma News Tribune today. Although I am not fond of airing dirty
laundry for all public to see, I am aware that it is nothing new in the
general society. There has to be opposing parties,so people have a
choice of who or what itinerary they want to support.
We
have been following whoever is in office. Full Circle is just an
opposing party, is that not okay? At least the people can look and say
I agree or I disagree. We should as grown adults agree to disagree in a
respectful manner.
Respect one anothers point of view. The final outcome is who the people will believe in.
Now all we need is debates......opposing parties.
In the general society you're either a Republican,Democrat or independent. When you register to vote you choose a party.
I
have a hard time understanding why people are so up in arms over full
circle. Why are you so intimidating. I enjoy the freedom to choose.
erv schleufer wrote:i read your article in todays paper. we have had our problems
with greed here too. its good to see change take place. this link to
the cdatimes im not sure if that is still going. check out the ndn
bloggers. they have a link to the coeur d alenes. its amazing some of
the things getting aired out on that site.
http://www.ndnbloggers.com/ndnbloggers/
on another note i am a member of the cda and also am a member of
the steelworkers. our union has started a national program offering
free home lead testing kits and they have members travling around the
country doing training. the public shouldnt have to try and protect
its self this way but something has to be done to protect our
childeren. if you are interested in seeing what they are doing go to
www.usw.org
. i have checked from the health dept to fema to see if our government
is doing anything like this with no luck yet. i dont think its a good
idea to find dangerous levels of lead in our childeren before we as
citizens take action rather than waiting for someone else to do thier
job witch should have been done in the first place.
a couple months ago i took over the job as rapid response coordinator for our local in spokane
http://www.local338.com/HotSheet.html what
i am wondering is if you ever happen to maybe use this info to start
your own home lead program i would like to add that to our web site.
the steelworkers in auburn had thier first one last week, im thinking
that is going to spread in time.
the coeur d alenes web site is
http://www.cdatribe.org/ there you can find a monthly on like copy of our news paper the council fires.
thanks and keep up the good work.
erv schleufer
