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January 31, 2010--Printer Version (3)
When  Corrupt & Stupid Cross Into Dangerous

I don't know where to begin on this one. I simply do not know. I was sent pictures of the doors of Four Winds being chained and locked from the INSIDE! Don't tell me that the Superintendent did not know. Do not tell me that the Principal did not know. If they did not know, they should be fired on the spot. If they are not aware of someone doing something so dangerous and putting the kids at such high risk, then fire them and put someone in that is at the very least, conscious.

This picture, and you can tell better than I can, is supposed to be of those doors being chained and locked from the inside. This means that if there is a fire, people are locked in. If there is a toxic gas released, no one can get out. If there is a school shooting, everyone is penned in.

Yes, these are extreme cases. But it is not as if they have not happened before and are not happening every day in schools across this nation. If anyone tells you that they were 'not planning on having any emergencies' you need to know that they are not capable of handling any emergencies.

Like people who won't wear seatbelts because "I'm not planning on getting into an accident today," this kind of stupidity can be fatal.

I'm sure they will come up with excuses should the worst happen and parents and other relatives are unable to rescue their children who are penned in, like animals. I'm sure they will have a 'study' (and get funding from the Feds to do it!) and come to a conclusion that this was not safe.

For me, personally, I don't need a study. This is clearly not safe.

Worse, I hear this was done during a basketball game. Wow, not like B-Ball doesn't draw even bigger crowds!

Letter from the sender:

This was taken this past thursday at a home basketball game. I guess from what the people were saying, is that Wayne put that on the door this past Wednesday, and more people noticed it on Thursday. By Friday the school board and tribal council were getting phone calls off the hook about those doors being chained up.

When a concerned parent called Paul Yankton (president, tribal board member) and told him about the issue he called Wayne up and Wayne totally denied doing it.

He told Paul that Renita Delorme had done it, which was a lie because a few people saw him, Wayne, chain the doors up along with Dean Dauphinais.

So he a total fucken liar!! He lies to parents and community members and even the board members. I guess that is what you get when you hang around people like Erick Longie, Marty and Beaz Greywater.

So, are we going to wait until there is a horrible mass tragedy out there? Or are you going to fire these morons now? It is up to you. And make their severance packages PUBLIC. You have a right to know how much this dangerous stupidity is costing you.

When Corrupt and Stupid cross into dangerous, they take your children away from you. Get it?

Call Home

Time to call your warriors home. The ones with degrees (real ones), who were run off so that people with little or no qualifications, but who are connected to the corrupt families out there, can have those positions. You need to fire the corrupt and replace them with DECENT and Qualified people.

I know there are decent and qualified people out there. If there weren't, there would be no purpose in having this blog. You never would have heard from me. Only the corrupt want to shut me down. Only the corrupt fear they will have to answer to you if you read this blog and know what is really happening out there.

How Many?

How many children have to die every month, every year, or all at once, before the community is willing to unite for the sake of ridding themselves of the corruption?

It runs your schools, your employment, your casino, your SMC, your Tribal Police and infects every aspect of every life out there.

Time to hold TWO General Meetings: One during the day when most people who are working can't attend because that's the way Tribal Council likes it, and One in the evening, when those who have worked all day can also attend and have their voices heard.

I don't care what it takes, all of you need to attend these meetings. I don't care how mad it makes you for what you hear, you must attend. You must also vote in every election. You must talk to one another and find the most qualified amongst you to run against the corrupt who still remain in office. You know the Corrupt will be running candidates to keep things going their way.

Act Like Grown-Ups

You replaced 4 of them last time. Plan now to replace the rest of them. Meanwhile, speak up. And get this blog and my email unblocked. You are not children and you can decide for yourselves if it is true or not, important or not, relevant or not. Do not let them treat you like children.

This blog is the only thing standing between them and the lies they tell you, from becoming all you know.

And remember this one thing: Electing decent, qualified people is worthless if you do not stand and support them while they are fighting for you. Get informed and stay informed. That is how you start to make things better.

Anything else is just whining.

You know where to find me.

~Cat

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January 28, 2010  Printer Version (3)
School Daze

One writer is telling me that Pat Walkingeagle has a Masters Degree in Education. I want to see that. Show me.

I want to know how she can run that school like an loony bin and justify it. I do. I want to know how giving kids back the drugs they drop on the floor, makes any sense. I want to know what college teaches that in their Masters program.

I want to know why Drug sniffing dogs are brought in, find drugs, but nothing is done. Nothing. I want to know why.

Let's give her the benefit of the doubt. Let's say she has the degree the one writer is claiming she has. (I still want to see it). Let's say that she is doing everything within her power to run that school, protect those kids and give them a shot at having a real life.

What, then, is stopping her? What then is going wrong? We have a lot of places to point fingers: The School Board with Beez & Son (Turdclan), is foul. Who are the rest of the Administrators? Who appoints them? What are their qualifications?

Let's say, for the sake of argument, they ALL have top degrees. WHY are they failing? Why are they failing these kids? If not their doing, then whose? Shall we now blame the kids because the school is not being run right? Shall we blame the first year students? The Seniors? All of them?

What good is a degree if all you do is become part of the corruption? If anyone has a really good answer for this, please share it.

If Pat Walkingeagle wants to defend herself, do it now. You have a Masters Degree, let's see how it works for you here. Show me what good you have done. Show me what you are up against and how you fight it. Show me and I will fight it with you.

From what I have seen and heard over the years, you have done nothing that has made anything better. You married into a corrupt family and you do what they do. Or worse, you just stay silent because you want them to like you.

I want to see that degree.  I want to know why, when drugs are found, nothing is done. I want to know what you have done and are doing, to change things out there. IF you have that "Masters Degree" you should be able to write a letter. Most of your graduates can't write a letter, but you should.

Systematic Failure

We know who the corrupt are out there. Turdclan, Walkingeagles, McKays, MacDonalds, all of them and their pals.

Drug addiction doesn't 'just happen'. Underage drinking doesn't 'just happen'. Suicides don't 'just happen'. All of these involve a systematic failure from start to finish.

Look who is running that tribe, from start to finish. Turdclan. Look who is running the Employment for the entire tribe: Weenie Boy. A man who never even graduated High School, is functionally illiterate (has to have someone not only read the blog to him, but tell him what all the big words mean).

Your Tribal Council can change this. But so far, they have not.

The Hide-n-Seek General Meetings are on again. Last Tuesday's meeting was moved at the last hour to the St. Michaels Rec Hall, and then cancelled when too many of you started to actually find it.

No one understood why the meeting was moved at the last hour, to a building that is undergoing renovations (I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!! THERE'S A LOT OF NOISE IN HERE! *HAMMER, SAW DRILL*) and at a time when people had all they could do just to get to the location where the original meeting was supposed to be held (Conference Room of the Blue Building), as they were digging out from 4 days of storms.

I wonder if they will break the Old Tribal Council's record of moving the meeting 6 times in 2 days, with announcements less than 10 minutes apart and then slamming the doors 5 min early so that people could not, after chasing it down hither, thither and yon, get in.

Judge Knot

And yes, as it turns out, both judges were terminated. We have Pete Belgarde, Sr. taking over one, and Molly MacDonald taking over the other.  You already know why Pete is there. Isn't it ironic that Molly MacDonald, whose sister, Mary, lied on the stand to convict an innocent man (Richard is still in prison, btw. I know that should bother your "Good Christian Woman" mind... *snarfle). 

Molly may actually have a degree. She went to college a few years ago, and in order to qualify for more grant money (so she would not have to actually work) she claimed to be divorced, even though she and her husband still lived together. I believe they are still together. So, she lied to get Federal Funds, and now, she's the judge!

So, the two judges you have in place are people very beholdin' to the Turdclan. If the Turdclan goes down, they go down. I'm beginning to see a pattern here. It is as if they are all afraid that Eddie's Ghost is going to walk into that courtroom and point a dead man's finger at them each and all.

So, you have unqualified judges and you have judges who perjured themselves to get Federal funds for their education. Both of whom will do all they can to stop anyone from pursuing real justice on that Rez.

The Fort Has Walls

You see how the Turdclan and the corrupt are setting up Walls of Protection for themselves out there. You see how they are stacking the deck against you.

Make your Tribal Council bring them down.

Poverty, Addiction, Suicide. They don't just happen. There is a system wide failure, a corrupt agenda that has been in place for decades.

If you leave it in place, it will get worse. If you stand up against it, it will get ugly. If you do not stand up to it, it will continue to eat your children alive, and spit their tiny bones at your feet.

Don't come crying to me when it is your turn to burn. If you have done nothing to help others and if you have stayed silent until it came to your door, do not assume I or anyone else can help you.

You made your choice a long time ago. You chose to stay silent and to allow others to suffer. You chose to do nothing when you saw the wrongs being committed. You turned away when you knew what you were seeing was wrong.

Now, you see with Rick Smith, how the corrupt have no friends. When there is trouble, they throw their friends under the bus, and pretend they never knew them. These are the people you are protecting with your silence.

These are the people you are keeping in power by your jealousy, your addictions and your ignorance.  These are the people who buy your votes with a few beers.  Look at yourself now. Take a good long look. What kind of Indian does nothing while his tribe suffers? What kind of Indian says nothing while the abusers hurt the children?

People are standing up, but you ALL need to stand up. No one out there is going to do it for you. You can only do it together. Better find a way.

Oh, and walk carefully, the path is littered with tiny bones. (*SNAP!) There goes another one. No problem. We have more.

You know where to find me.

~Cat

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January 24, 2010 Printer Version (5)
Get Involved, You ARE Involved

Tuesday, that is tomorrow, for most of you, is the General Assembly meeting. It is held in the Tribal Conference Room, but they won't tell you "when". So call and show up. You know how they like to run and hide, change times and locations, get them to do the job they are supposed to do.

First, tell them to fire the airhead Turdling Offspring that runs the website that gives NO information. You know, like "When" the meetings will be.  You might also want to find out how much they paid for that site and how much they are still paying for that site. It's crap.

Tell them you want this site unblocked. They just look even worse, even sneakier, even more trying to hide something, by making you have to go through all sorts of hoops to get a copy of these postings.

This is YOUR community. Get in there and get involved. Demand answers.  Demand that NO person be appointed as a JUDGE without a Law Degree and Courtroom Practice. You sent all those kids to school and they graduated, some got law degrees (not that shameful piece of crap that June Gourd hangs as her credentials. The one that shows she completed High School and a 6 month course in how to work in a law office.) You don't need jokes for your judges. You need and you deserve Qualified People.

And think about that when your graduates come home. Think about that when they are not allowed to get jobs. Think about that when they are called names and run off. Those are the warriors you need.

Do not tolerate Pete Belgarde as your judge. You know who and what he is and what he has done and you know what he is there to do.  The Turdclan is scared to death that you will get an investigation into the corruption, into the murders and into the rapes and child molestation out there.

They want to have their one key player in place to protect them--from you. If it were anyone else, someone not involved in their murders, their rapes and their thieving, that person could A: Allow the investigations to go forward or B: Make them pay--HUGE-- to keep the rulings going the way they want. And they would have to pay. And pay. And pay.

No, they want Pete in because he has as much to lose as they do if these things get opened up. He will do what they want him to do and he will do it for free if he has to. His own freedom depends on it.

Wind Farm Follies

Any law firm that is called by the tribe to work on their contracts has got to ask themselves a few questions: Why us? Especially if that law firm is 2 or three states away. No one closer?

This blog is handed out and read in every Hall of Justice in just about every community in North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and Michigan. It's also being passed around to law offices everywhere. Most people know better than to just say: "Wow! Look at that Retainer!"  Don't wait until it hits the blog fan, and you end up googling "Spirit Lake Indians Wind Farm" Then you find out that you are chosen for your ignorance. Or, if you are corrupt, you may want to be sure you can pull it off faster than your clerks, friends and co-workers can send a note down the pipeline.

You also might want to see how they use and abuse people of good reputation. Take a look at the CPA who ended up with no money for his labors, always being promised he would be paid later, only to find they engaged their corrupt attorney to bully him out of the money he was owed. He even was out of pocket $100K to his staff.  Is Spirit Lake really the tribe you want to do business with?

A gig with a corrupt client can bankrupt a firm both financially and reputation-wise if one is not very, very careful. I am searching out the law firms that are googling my site for information on the tribe. Looks like a few more have either been contacted or are having second thoughts. 

Truth is, I don't know what they are doing. I do know that someone made a huge mistake in trying to shut down the Wind Farm Contract. They, regardless of their past credibility and reputation, are being made the scapegoat. I'm sure it was all a "Misunderstanding". Yeah. Right.

And those of you professionals; CPAs, Attorneys, Law Firms, who have been burned, might want to send a link to this posting to others. Just to give them a heads up. Or not.

The Wind Farm will need your constant vigilance. Anything you hear, tell me. Anything I hear, or see, I will tell you.

More on the Agenda

I hear there is also a Petition to get Myra thrown out. Let's see: We can use Vern Lambert's mathematical Voodoo to make it mathematically impossible for her to be recalled. Or, you can voice your concerns about her appointing all these unqualified judges, along with protecting for decades, a Court Clerk she now claims was stealing all the time...

I don't know if Myra Hunt was stealing or not. My guess is "Yes". Why? Because she and NLO are such good pals. Or were. Every time NLO got into a tiff with her, she (NLO) would go to the judge, and casually suggest that the money seemed to be missing (Of course it was missing! NLO always got her share!)

So, as a 'teeny' (squeeze thumb and forefinger together) favor to NLO, 'who couldn't ask for an audit herself'... (cuz that would be a dead give-away) an audit would be called, the money would be found missing and Myra Hunt would be uncomfy for a bit until she and NLO kissed and made up. (No, I don't know if they actually "Kiss", ok? It's a figure of speech here. But, if you have pictures...LOL)

And, like anyone that comes between two really good friends when they are squabbling, and picks a side, whomever called for the audit, (typically the judge they wanted to get rid of)-- is OUT.

Looky! We have a vacancy on the Bench! Let's appoint: (Eeny meany miney MO Pete Belgarde! There you can GO!). 

I fully expect Myra Hunt to be back at her old job in no time. I see a pattern here. Unless, of course, this last time was the last straw.

I am told June Gourd, the unqualified judge, called for the audit.. and is out.

Had a really sweet writer tell me how sweet that young girl was and how she tried to do the right thing... and that I had "bashed her in the blog.."

Yes, I did. I bashed her. I continue to bash her, even if she is the latest fall guy on this fiasco. Being "sweet" and "Nice" is not considered a qualification for a sitting Judge. The writer also mentioned that "She tried to do the right thing..." which blows my beanie off every time. The "Right thing" would have been to NOT take the job as a Judge. A job that has real impact on people's lives.  A JOB for which she had ZERO qaulifications. Zip. Nada. The big empty.

I'm sure, really sure, that June is a nice and sweet person. I do know that she was raising a ruckus about her nephew, Joe, (the second of the triplets to die like this) when he got killed after leaving a drinking party at Yankton's. She was after them hot and heavy to both hold them accountable and to make sure no other family had to go through... blah, blah, blah..

...She was offered the job and she jumped on it. Joe who? I hear the last of those triplet boys has died now. Pretty sure it was another drinking party. Driving afterwards. Was it at Tammy Yankton's house too? I don't know. No one cared enough to write me a letter and tell me how they missed him. I guess they don't. Or maybe they had a job they wanted to keep. You know, like being a judge?

Going To The Dogs

Maybe the kids are all being taken to the Spirit World because no one in this world cares enough to protect them, keep them safe, guide them, stand up for them. Their parents have Bingo. The kids have the Spirit World.

Not enough of you care enough to even go to the General Meetings and hold your Tribal Council accountable. No enough enough to rid the schools of the corrupt in the school board, and the administration.

Not enough care about the kids to fight for all that will make their futures possible.

Not enough care to do the hard work of talking to each other, supporting each other, and making sure that the votes are fair.

Bygones

I know for a fact, that not enough even care who murdered their brother, Eddie. They still party with the murderers. Bygones.

Those families that were torn up by this murder and by the lies that framed the innocent and sent them to prison while the murderers stayed free and took over every aspect of money and life on the rez, act like that was "so yesterday!" And they not only party with the murderers, the very people that tormented and tortured their families, they lash out at anyone in their own families that question it. 

Wow, party. Your loved ones are gone. Party on.

Geez, it amazes me how they can even do that! I guess, If Cathy can marry Poopsie after she witnessed him and Roger kill her brother, right before her eyes, I guess some of y'all can stomache anything. And what a pair they are! Both of them have to put their guts into a wheelbarrow to walk.  Hey, Cath! You miss your brother? No? Bygones? Bygones.

Life is cheap on the rez. For now.

Roll Up Your Sleeves

There is a lot of work to be done out there.

The Wind Farm is your way up into dignity. The corrupt will not be able to take this from you. They will not be able to steal the money from you. Unless you let them.

Once you see how it works with the Wind Farm, you will know that it could have been that way, all along, with the casino, with the SMC plant. You will know even more of how you were robbed.

And that is why they want to stop it. They want to keep the funds, and break the promise. But, if you fight, and you stand together, you will have this Wind Farm. You will have the dignity of decent jobs, decent pay.  And then you will know more of what you are fighting for.

Uprising: Rising Up

First comes the awareness. Then comes the Struggle. Then comes the dignity when the Spirit rises up.

The Turdclan and their pals know, that once you get a taste of dignity in your mouth, you will never again tolerate the bitter taste of futility and corruption.

They have some very powerful friends in the FBI, DOJ, State and Federal as well as a bazillion lobby firms that are shaking in their expensive boots over the prospect that Indians will rise up and not tolerate the corruption. Indians will rise up and retake control over their resources and their lives.

Ooopsie! The Cobell Ruling, which goes to the heart of the corruption in the Dept. Of Interior, those who control the resources, is a glow that has created sparks that has begun to light those council fires.

Heart beats like a drum. Oh yeah. Oh Yeah!

The Change is starting. You, me, all of us, need to be up to speed and do our part and carry this momentum forward.

We have to. The Children are being beckoned to the Spirit World. We must show them another path.

You know where to find me.

~Cat

 

 

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January 22, 2010 Printer Version (5)
Spelling Counts

Apparently, it is Ploium, not Ploime. I heard from a writer that does not think that Kenny ever taught at 4Ws. But knows a lot about Cory, son of Kenny, and his behaviors.

Let's take a peek at what today's mailbag brings us, shall we?

First off, the last name is PLOIUM, not Ploime.  I don't think Kenny Ploium ever taught at 4Ws, he was a long long time teacher, administrator, janitor, bus driver, coach etc at Oberon. 

In 1993, his son, Cory, started teaching there.  He was from the "Hit and Holler" school of education and was very good at running students down and was very tough on them. 

If a student became one of his pet students they could do no wrong.  If they weren't a pet they were tormented, ran down, and left school dejected and rejected. 

Many wouldn't even come to school because they didn't want to be run down and harassed by Cory. Some even transferred to other schools when they found out Cory was to be their teacher.  

He was suspended for a couple of weeks because he was physically wrestling with an 8th grade girl in the classroom one time.  That takes class.  He was also questioned a few other times on similar incidents. 

There were also rumors and speculations that he had affairs with high school girls.  He became very chummy with Dean Dauphanais and between those two they ran the middle school.
 
Fast forward to a couple of years ago.  Cecil Longie's youngest boy made a comment to a female teacher that was of a horrendous sexual nature. This was not the only time, there were other incidents. 

The teacher really felt threatened and wasn't going to return to the school as long as he was allowed to be in the school.  He was written up for sexual harassment and was placed on home study status.   He was to have his assignments picked up and the worked returned to the school.  He was not allowed to step foot in the school for anything. 

About March or April of that school year, Dean Dauphanais (the middle school principal who's sister is married to Vern Lambert) made the call to let the Longie kid come back to school. 

The female teacher voiced her concerns but her concerns were denied.  Cory Ploium went head to head with Dean D and told him that it wasn't right that the students had more priority than the welfare and emotional well being of the staff.  Dean wouldn't budge and Cory said he was done teaching there at the end of the school year.  That ended the Dean/Cory close friendship. 
 
At that time, Kenny Ploium was really looking for a way out of Oberon.  He had been there for 30+ years and was ready to retire. He had tried to retire but had to come back because nobody with qualifications applied for the position.  

Cory saw that as an opportunity and was hired by Oberon as soon as he (Cory) resigned from 4Ws.  I look it as Cory taking over the family business.  Kenny is still the administrator on a part time basis but that is for his credentials only. 
 
There were other former students that have made the trip to Oberon hunting Cory.  I have been told by some of them of how they have made the trip and taken their revenge. 
  
Rick Smith took a leave from coaching at 4Ws for a few years.  The first year of Rick's absence, Cory and Duane Smith were named co-coaches.  That was a disaster.  Cory tried to be hard guy drill Sergeant coach and Duane tried to be their best friend.  The kids had no respect for Cory, Cory had no control of how they played.  That experiment lasted only one year. 
 
I heard that Wayne Trottier has an appeals hearing with the NDHSAA on 1-23-10 in an attempt to get the restrictions pulled from the team.  He is claiming that it was all Rick's doing and they are throwing him under the bus. 

I also heard that Rick is being offered a position at Little Hoop as an Educational Counselor.  They are also in the process of building a gym and want to get a basketball team up and running when the gym is finished.  This will get Rick the inside track on the coaching job there.  It just goes round and round, nobody is ever held accountable and progress is never made. 

So, a teacher that likes to wrestle with 8th Grade girls gets a few weeks suspension? Oh, and he gets to do it again?

Clearly, the problems at 4Ws run way deeper than just a coaching scandal. I have no doubt that Rick Smith was in it up to his eyeballs with his rapist brother and all those parties. Reason I have no doubt is that he knew it was going on. Everyone did. Why would he do nothing to stop it? Family loyalty, misplaced at best? Or because he needed to protect them in order to protect himself? I mean, people have got to question that, at the very least.

Him forging eligibility forms for a player? Small fry compared to the much larger crimes out there. Bad yes. Punishment, yes. Trophy taken back, yes. But take a look folks; this 'crime' is the sunny tip of the iceberg for what all is going on at 4Ws.

With few exceptions, I consider the teachers that work under these horrific conditions, to be saints. I can't imagine anyone with the love of teaching, and who knows the value of the future resides in the young minds, being able to tolerate this snake pit for very long.  I also know that it is hard to leave the school because you have to abandon the very kids you are trying to reach.

But, as long as corruption rules every aspect of life out there, the young will continue to be the forgotten ones, until payment comes due and they are addicted, drunk, or suicide.

You simply must clean up the schools. You must. The young need to have a place to go where there are boundaries and there are rules and there is a chance for them to gain the very tools and skills they will need to save their own lives, and make a better life for themselves than the futility being shoveled at them by their 'leaders'.

Recall

Meanwhile, the Graveyard of today holds the broken promises of the past.

No one said this would be easy. Those who want to quit, raise your hands now.

Those who support the criminals and the corrupt, know they will call on you, time and time again, to help them destroy your life, the lives of your neighbors.

Pete Belgarde is being called back into action. They need him to help them kill something again. They need him to prevent anyone from bringing up Eddie Peltier's murder, or to start an investigation. They need him to help them kill off the Wind Farm.

You never help these guys just once. You will be called and recalled, to help them again and again. It never ends. It only gets worse. It only becomes more obvious.

Stray Dogs

Demand he be removed. You have a voice, use it. You have a vote, use it. These creeps can only do what you allow them to get away with.

The one thing they fear most is that you will wake up and realize that you care about things and that you will stand up to them. They fear you. They need for you to fear them. They need for you to not care.

Pick a side. You are already in this. You are already making choices that make it better or worse. There is no 'staying out of it'. It is your home, your family, your community and those are all your children and grandchildren.

Ignoring the children until they get old enough to be a problem, and then pretending as if none of it is because of your doing, won’t save you.

We are all surrounded by symbols of what is going on. The packs of stray dogs is such a symbol. Cute when they are puppies, ignored when they have needs, feared and loathed when they survive long enough to become aggressive.

The young are adored until they are ignored. They are running in packs, like the stray dogs you also don't care about. When they die, their spirits come back in those strays, to see what you are doing. They see you still don't care. They see you still run them off. They see that you still do not recognize their spirits, and that you never did.

They are running in packs, like the stray dogs you also don't care about. When they die, their spirits come back in those strays, to see what you are doing. They see you still don't care. They see you still run them off. They see that you still do not recognize their spirits, and that you never did.

And when those strays die, or you kill them, their spirits go into the Coyotes and they laugh at you as you cry and say, "There's nothing I could do!"

AhhhhahahahoooooOOOOoo YAAAAAaaah!

Everybody gets the joke, but you.

You know where to find me.

~Cat

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January 21, 2010 --Printer Version (2)
Wind Farm or Cash Cow?

They are at it again. After all the hard work to get the contracts signed, the plans approved, and now the funding for the Wind Farm, Naked Lawn Ornament has found allies among the sitting Tribal Council members, to kill the wind farm. This way, once all the money is in, they can keep it for themselves. The Tribal council is once again, dealing in BAD FAITH.

You know that despicable racist term: "Indian Giver"? It was meant to convey that Indians do not intend to keep their word. Now, how it came into being, I have no idea. I know that Indians have been forced into treaties, every single one of which has been broken by the US Government, and yet the term "Indian Giver" was meant to imply that Indians take back whatever they give.

This latest fiasco by the Tribal Council might actually give credence to that despicable saying. They promised you a Wind Farm. You fought for a Wind Farm. And now, they want to take the money for that, and keep it for themselves. But first, they have to kill off the Wind Farm.

You might want to raise questions about this with your elected Tribal Council Members. I would start with Justin Yankton and work my way through the rest of them. Geez! No wonder they want to keep the blog blocked! They don't want you to know anything that they are doing!

Well, if I was bent on cheating the people out of this much hope and prosperity, I guess I would want to keep the blog out of sight too.

I am sure they will endeavor to finagle this through various 'legal looking' channels.

Let's start with Tribal Court. When was the last time Spirit Lake had a Tribal Judge that actually graduated High School? Any of them ever see the inside of Law School? Open a Law Book?

Well, word comes down today that Pete Belgarde, Sr. has been appointed Tribal Judge. He was an accomplice to the murder of Eddie Peltier, and played his role in framing Richard LaFuente, even though nothing in his story checked out or even made sense: The time was off by a few hours; the description of the vehicle was changing with every statement; and never mind the fact that he could not have heard anything from that distance (over a mile) much less gotten all that scripted detail.

Yup, that Pete Belgarde. An accomplice to the Murder of Eddie Fish. Isn't he just the most perfect accomplice to killing off the Wind Farm?

You better start demanding some answers out there. The Tribe getting a law firm whose sole purpose is to defeat and undo that contract means that your Tribal Council has only one goal: To defeat and undo the wind farm.

Meanwhile, all the funding and grants they have received from the government? Well, hey, they can keep all that. It's what they've done every time. This is millions.

The other side of it is this: If they end up being sued for this, it will cost the tribe millions in legal fees to defend it. Of course, the tribe will get Federal funds to support their side--against the Wind Farm and against their own people. And they will pad that and keep an even bigger chunk for themselves.

So, the Wind Farm has begun that most predictable of transmutations into -- a cash cow.

Bet NLO and Walkingturd are just rubbing their little paws together in anticipation of how much they can pocket from this.

Remember: You must vote. You must work to oust the corrupt. And those who fail you? They need to go too.  Don't give up. Giving up is how it got to be this bad.

You have a voice--make it heard. You have a vote, make it count. They can only get away with this sort of thing if you let them.

And, as always, if you feel any of this is in error or needs correction. Feel free to contact me. I could use a good laugh.

You know where to find me.

~Cat

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Desperation Times

Like so many of you, I have been riveted by the unfolding disaster that is in Haiti. The earthquake destroying what was, on its best day, a poverty stricken nation.

Moreover, I am appalled at how many try to politicize this event to bash our President, in ways that should bring shame to everyone who listens to or follows people like Pat Robertson or Rush Limbaugh.

I watch the radical Right Wing, which excels at mainly two things: Fear Mongering and outright lies, uses this event to criticize the President for acting 'too quickly to help'. Their whole thing is to point out how he is quick to help because it is 'Black People' and 'Too Slow' to speak to us on the Christmas Day Bomber incident.

To be clear: It was 3 days before he addressed the nation on the Christmas Day Terrorist Attempt. It takes time to gather information, and unlike his predecessor, who always shot from the lip, (and FYI, Bush waited 6 full days before addressing the Shoe Bomber Incident), and you, or at least I, would want a President that gets the facts before speaking.

The earthquake response was very swift. It had to be. People were dying. Not just Haitians, but Americans: Missionaries, Embassy Staff, Aid Workers, Business People, and Tourists.

The Underwear Bomber was dealt with. It needed to be sorted out and analyzed, who, what, where and all the connections with various countries, as well as reasons for the Intelligence failure. Part, a big part of the Intel failure was due to the fact that the TSA still does not have an Administrator to coordinate and organize all the various departments that gather the intel. Why do we still not have an Administrator? Because the GOP, "Party of NO!" (and proud of that) has held up the appointment, as they have held up every appointment, even though the most qualified persons have been chosen.

GOP Senator Jim DeMint says he is holding up the nominated leader of that very important position, because he wants to be sure that the man appointed will not allow TSA to Unionize. Yes. That is the only reason. He is putting the entire nation at risk of another terrorist attack because he views Unions a bigger threat than Terrorists. Unions whose members typically are perhaps the most Pro American, Patriotic of all Blue Collar workers, is what he deems a bigger threat.

It was a close call kids. DeMint is still unmoved by the dangers presented to all of America while he bitterly does everything within his power, to stymie, stall, undo any progress needed to get America back on its feet. No threat to America so great that the childish, GOP leadership will not continue to throw tantrums. We are still waiting.

So, you can see. The bomber incident was something that required a lot of information and intel in order to figure out what happened, what went wrong and how to fix it. 

Haiti was a straight-forward disaster. We did not require info on 'who caused it' or 'who failed to see it coming' or 'what can we do to prevent it from happening again.'

One was a man made plot. The other was a natural disaster.

I know that there are many readers out there who are racists. They are just angry on a lot of levels, not the least of which is that a man of color is our president.

They say it is about money, and the debt... and I wonder if they just woke up in a brand new world in January 2009. The Nation has been getting more and more into debt every year. GOP Administrations say they cut taxes, but the truth is, they raise the debt. The very wealthiest corporations benefit as their taxes are cut and regulations that are supposed to protect us from monopolies and meltdowns are stripped away.

Ronald Reagan, the hero of the GOP cut taxes for the wealthiest among us. Middle class got a check for about $300--ONE time. After that, their taxes went up while wealthiest 1.5% enjoyed declining taxes. Also, taxes on the poor came into existence for the first time. People just barely making it, began to show up on the streets, unable to afford any kind of a home.

Now, those same corporations that enjoyed all the 'FREE Market' stampede, bloated up and became too big to fail. That meant that when they did fail, Government had to step in and prop them up, or they would have taken everyone down with them.

It was distasteful. Everyone is angry at the bailout. We were bullied into it. Now, the same people that made the Economic disaster possible, are standing in the way of those trying to fix it. Standing in the way of those who are working to get our money back from those arrogant bloated and bailed out businesses who are giving themselves mega bonuses.

The same people who ran the country for 8 years, and who willfully ignored the warnings of a Terrorist Attack, even demoting, marginalized and isolated the only member of their Security Advisory Team who was trying to tell them NOT to trust the Taliban, Bin Laden, Al Qaeda-- the very same people who silenced the alarms and allowed us to be attacked: for years, campaigned on our fears and our pain from that attack-- and declared they kept us safe!

Those same people, that same party, the very ones that never ever once questioned the validity of the war in Iraq (Ooopsie, it was all a lie!) nor the cost of it; the same people who shredded the rules and regs that would have prevented Financial Institutions from creating Risk Bubbles (They like to say "Smaller Government" and "Let the Free Market Prosper") those same people are misrepresenting everything about Health Care Reform, and watering it down so that their pals in the Insurance Industry don't have to worry... those same people, daily, do all they can to prevent the President and Congress, from fixing anything. They even continue to stall the TSA appointment.

I know North Dakota is a very RED state. I know you want to believe the GOP will save us. They are the ones who got us into this mess and they are the ones making it messier. Think very long and hard before you cast that vote.

The GOP always acted like they were our protectors. They used to cry "Remember 9/11?" as if we had to fear that it would happen again if we did not vote for them. They don't even mention 9/11 now, except to try and say it never happened on their watch. They want us to believe that it happened before Bush got in, not 9 months after. Why?  Because the truth about 9/11 damns them all, if you realize that they are not about Country First, rather, they are about making billions for their friends and sponsors first.

Even after the close call on Christmas, they still continue to block the TSA Appointment. They are waiting to get more GOP candidates in so that they can totally stop anything from being fixed. They are counting on you and me, and all the fearful and the angry and the racists and the uneducated, to either allow them another seat, or to vote them in so they can continue to lie us into total failure.

Look at Haiti. Now, look at the rodents in Congress who continue to chew through the framework of our rights and continue to deny us healthcare, or to regulate the financial industry complex. 

When our house falls, we will look a lot like Haiti. When we fall, there will be no one able to come in and save us. So, voters, up to you. Can you afford to vote in someone that will add to the obstruction and the suffering? Or will you vote for someone who is there to help people out of the mine field of obscene profits for banks, Insurance Companies and Lenders?

Will you vote for someone that will not cave into to corruption or obstruction? Or will you vote for someone that never holds their own party accountable for anything?

Having a majority in congress should be all that is necessary. But it is not. Unless one party has the super majority of 60+ seats in the Senate, the minority continues to be able to stop everything.

The billionaires have spent a lot of money to keep you afraid to vote democratic. They have played to your fears, ignorance and your racism and mistrust. If you really want to regain government, do it by throwing out those who created this problem and who now stand in the way of its repair.

We are the most powerful nation in the world. If we fail, and Rush Limbaugh has declared on Day One that he wants the president to fail, we become as helpless as Haiti. If the president fails, the nation fails.

We have an intelligent, articulate, well-educated and calm Leader. He is not playing to the politics of fear. But he is not Superman, he has no red cape and he cannot do this alone. It is up to us, each of us, to help dig ourselves out of this mess.

It takes 20 people to build a house, but only one to burn it down. The politics of NO, and of Obstruction, are easy. The work of fixing, repairing and rebuilding, requires much more of many more of us. Be constructive with your vote, this time. Next time, it might be too late.

And when you hear people tell you to not help our neighbors when disaster falls on them, and you hear 'men of God' declare they are in league with the Devil, pity those individuals for they lack the Human Compassion that is the purpose in our lives here in this walking world. Pity them and turn away from them, as you reach out, for all you can, to help our Brothers and Sisters, in their hour of greatest need.

Remember, whether you are Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Hindu, Native Spiritual, Agnostic, Atheist or any other belief in this life, we, each of us, are HUMAN BEINGS first.

Those who pridefully show their disdain at this hour, or their condemnation of that nation, will be dealt with in ways we cannot fathom, nor would we want to see. Turn away from them and reach out.  Reach out as you would want others to reach out to you, in your hour of greatest need.

From The Mail Bag

I guess the whole Rick Smith and Kenny Ploime thing rattled a few cages. I received a very rambling email from Vern Lambert. I suspect, because it was from his @gondtc.com email address, and since my email has been blocked from people sending from or my responding to, that ISP, he didn't think his little missive would make it through.

Kind of like writing a letter you never intend to mail. He was just venting. Bet he was surprised when it went through...and with his name on the return!

Vern Lambert, who has some weird, made-up position with the school district. A job for which he has neither the qualifications nor the certifications to be in. A job that many more who were far more qualified, could not get, because Vern is very well connected to the Turd Clan.

In fact, his son was raped by Naked Lawn Ornament's bastard boy, Brian (Zit Puppet). Vern made a lot of noise about seeking justice and...then he got this job thingy and got real quiet. In fact, he became the biggest supporter and protector of Zit Puppet when the locals tried to oust him for his constant drunkenness; his too-many-to-count drunk driving arrests; his bad behavior at meetings, at his job, and when he was at conferences representing the tribe.  Not to mention he so fouled up the books as Secretary Treasurer, that the CPA who was brought in to fix them, could not get any paperwork from him that was in order. Nor could the CPA get paid as they screwed him out of his fees and left him on the hook for about $100K that he had already paid out of pocket to his staff that year, trying to sort out the books.

Well, Vern Lambert issued quasi-legal sounding letters saying how, mathematically, it was impossible to ever oust Zit Puppet, the very guy who raped his son less than a month earlier.

THAT same righteous Vern, wrote me a letter saying that my comments about the corruption at the schools in Spirit Lake and in Oberon, were "Upsetting a lot of good people.." I found that so funny!

He said he really enjoyed reading the blog, but that I should not write anything about the schools.

I suppose, if I had sold my son off the way he did, and was beholdin' to the most corrupt out there, and was protecting their jobs and being paid way too much to do it, I would get drunk and write a letter that was so stupid... and... I am sure that by now, he is regretting it.

I bet the second it really went through instead of bouncing back... he said 'oh oh' and loaded his shoes. (*squish, squish, squish*)

I'm pretty sure that the Good Teachers of Four Winds and Oberon School are not at all upset with what I am blogging. I bet, inside, they are just plain happy that some of this stuff is coming out about the corrupt.

In fact, I have a tad more on the Four Winds/Oberon Schools connection. It may just be a coinkydink, but I have a feeling it might be something you all want to look at a little bit more.

Remember our discussion about Kenny Ploime? How he is getting nervous about some old students returning to town?

Kenny was a Teacher at Four Winds before he got his gig in Oberon. He got his gig in Oberon the minute he left Four Winds. (It pays to have your wife on City Council). Apparently, while he was a teacher at 4W, he did something to a student that never got over it.

Cecil Longie's kid swore to Kenny Ploime that as soon as he turned 18, he was going to look him up and kick his ass. Apparently, a few years down the road, that kid turned 18 and his father drove him to Oberon. There was a lot of shouting as the kid called him out. I don't know if he did get him out and kick his ass or not. But he was ready to settle an old score. You might want to ask him about that.

Well, turns out that his son, Cory Ploime, also for about 4 or 5 years, taught at Four Winds. He was pals with Galen Robertson, Duane Smith and all of them. Galen, as you recall, is serving a 15 yr sentence for raping that girl, along with Duane Smith. She was 15 or 16 at the time. They tied her up to a seat on the school bus (or an old school bus that is owned by Smith) and raped her repeatedly. Galen went down for it and Duane, like everyone else in his family, skated without being arrested.

Well, Cory and Galen and Rick and all of them used to have parties for the young kids at their place. Seventh and Eighth graders from Four Winds. I think you have seen some of those kids, some of those parties in the Thistles Pages. Those kinds of parties.

Shortly after Galen got busted and sent to jail, Cory Ploime made a hasty exit from 4W and got a gig at Oberon! (It pays to have your mother on City Council!).

So, I know there are people out there with much more information on this than what I have here. Feel free to scan all your documents and save them in a .pdf format and send them to me.  We can post them on the blog and Kenny and Cory can respond back as they seem able to.

You need to put that stuff into a complaint against the Schools and get it to the STATE. I can post it here and they can read it, but really, you need to stop complaining and put that stuff where you know it will have the most effect.

I'm sure that what this will do, however, is just make Vern crazy drunk enough to write me another email. I do look forward to that. He is very good about running to the defense of "Good People". I have seen him sell out his own son, in order to protect his rapist and the rapist's mother.

It is discouraging how families out there, choose to protect those who have hurt them, and even stand silent as they know others are being hurt. And, they seem proud of it. It is as if they have been surrounded by evil and corruption for so long, they think it is the only thing worth having. They don't even care that the people they party with are the ones that have raped, murdered or assaulted, members of their own family.

They just think they are safe because they are protecting those who hurt them. They can't even see how backwards that is. I don't know how screwed up a mind can be that someone who murders your brother is your friend, and someone that rapes your son is worthy of your lying to protect his job.

Then again, I don't understand how anyone, after seeing the destruction left by the previous president, and witnessing the obstruction to the repair and restore efforts by the GOP, Party of "NO", can even consider voting for anyone from that party, especially since they declare they will be as obstructionist as possible.  I don't get it.

Things are upside down in Spirit Lake. Things are Upside Down Outside of Spirit Lake. Things are upside down in North Dakota, Massachusetts and in so many other places.

I think, like what has been done to Indians for over a hundred years; the traumatizing, the deceptions and the corruption, have been done to us all. Some remain confused and scared and work to further the destruction. Others work to get the Truth out and to repair the damage done. We are all Indians now.

But it takes 20 of us to build a house, and only 1 to burn it down. I see matches everywhere.

You know where to find me.

~Cat

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School Daze

Hard to know where to start.

Beasley Greywater split from her husband, Faron, a few years back. She went back to her old ways. Poopsie and her sister, Lisa Greywater, carrying on (yes, Lisa is married to some schmuck who likes the benefits of his wife having sex with Poopsie) left Beasley more or less, out in the cold, not having any fun.

The deal was made for Beasley to ‘rejoin’ Poopsie and her old pals by buying her off with a few free Bingo nights. (And you thought crack whores were low!).

Beasley returned to the Turdclan fold and instantly reaped the benefits: She was able to jump to the head of the line in the housing queue and get a 5 bedroom house on the rez. She was given all the cash and drugs she wanted.

But, either the Turdclan needed more from her, or she wants to play both sides of the town. About a year or so ago, she moved back to Oberon, into the house with her husband, Faron. We all thought Faron was smarter than that, but, apparently not.
She gave her big house on the rez to her daughter, Crystal and her family. Crystal has now moved out of that house. Beasley is still living in Oberon.

Why is it a problem where she lives? Because, through her connections to the Turdlings, she was also appointed to the School Board. So was her moron son, Marty. There is only one major stipulation in that appointment: You have to live on the rez.

Clearly, the Beezer doesn’t like living on the rez. Sure, she can go there and get her drugs and her gambling fixes, but really, she wants something with a little more ‘class’. She also wants Faron’s life insurance policy. (Be careful out there, Faron!)

Beezer doesn’t have any kind of education. She dropped out around 8th grade to have babies, drink and party. I am told that three of her offspring are Poopsie’s. I feel for you kids. I do. I do.

So, she and her son are on the School Board and they get paid for that. They make decisions regarding the education of the children of Spirit Lake Nation. This is as bad as Weenie Boy, who cannot read, spell, or comprehend, running the Personnel Department, deciding who gets what jobs.

So far, Spirit Lake is keeping a perfect record of hiring the incompetent, the unqualified and the corrupt, into the most strategic jobs. Gee, anyone think that maybe the Tribal Council might want to step in and make a few “strategic” changes in how these positions are manned?

Now, Beezer and Son, being very much not qualified to sit on the School Board is bad enough. But, reports come in of Double Dipping. If Beezer’s boy wants some extra cash, you can see him taking over the Janitor’s position, pushing broom at the B-Ball games. He gets paid for that as well. And, he and his mother, can appoint themselves.

I guess no one out there needed a job or a few extra dollars. Must have full employment the way some of these clowns take two or three jobs!

Gee, I wonder if Mark Lufkins is still on the School Board? I know he is dead. His chronic drunk state made it so he had to be wheelbarrowed in to meetings, where he would pass out before anything was said or done. You gotta love a Tribal Council that allowed that to happen.

So, is he still on?

I wonder if Beezer can get herself onto the School Board for Oberon, as well? Really, she would fit right in. Her payoffs would be very small in comparison.

Let’s see. There is Kenny Ploime, who is the Superintendent of the Oberon Schools. His wife, Elois is one of the Town Council clowns who always made sure that complaints against him, even as far back as when he was a teacher/ principal of the school, went into the round file.

I wonder if he was the one that used to lock the little girls into the classrooms and molest them? It was easy to get away with. I mean, when you have a corrupt town council, and your wife is among them, it would be easy to get away with rape… even child rape.

I hear that a couple of students, from way back when, recently came back to town, for a family reunion of sorts. It made a splash in the local press.

For some reason, Superintendent Kenny Ploime became—well, weird. He began to forget things, often mid-sentence. Acting jumpy. Could it be that something from his past has returned to disrupt his thoughts?

Well, maybe. It could be anything. But this I do know: A person that would molest children, especially someone in a position of power and authority, is not someone that would stop at just one.

Children are like potato chips to them. They can never have just one. It is something they do again and again and again… and if they know they are protected, no child is safe-ever, in their presence. Not even their own.

Yes, Beezer would fit right in if she wanted to. She can get a letter of recommendation from Poopsie. Weenie Boy can’t give her one because… well, he can’t write.

Corruption Club Fallout

Rule 1: We never talk about Corruption Club

Rule 2: We never talk about Corruption Club

Back to what started all of this: Rick Smith being knocked out as coach for playing an ineligible player. Oh yeah, saying he did it for very noble reasons has some on his side. Many are saying that he is the fall guy as this sort of thing and worse, went on all the time and still goes on.

Well, the Fall Guy part, I can believe. He was as expendable to the corrupt as a roll of paper towels. He was happy enough to reap the benefits of doing the dirty deeds, for years. He was willing to look the other way when kids came in drunk or stoned. He knew about the parties his brother and nephew were throwing that supplied both the booze and the drugs for underage kids.

The team was always in attendance at these parties. They were, after all, the stars. Being on the team is a small time Celebrity Spot that never ends well. Those kids get ground up and thrown to the side, with so many others, already in line, to take their place.

Remember Money Mike? Big STAR! He was at every party. Remember how he died? Yeah, but he is SO YESTERDAY! We have NEW meat now.

There was never ANY investigation into his death. Not any. In fact, more time was spent hunting down the stapler that would lead to whomever was printing and distributing this blog, than was EVER invested in investigating Money Mike's death. That is how "Valuable" he was to y'all.  Not worth the time.

Rick Smith only lost his job, not for playing an ineligible player that ONE and ONLY time, (because there were many times), he got the boot because the school got caught. They had to give back the trophy.

Yeah, the one time the spirit of the rez was raised up in Pride, was when the Team went to State Finals. Oopsie, got to give that trophy back now… someone has to pay.

Fall Guy

Eeny meanie miney Mo… Rick Smith had to go!

I know, you feel that having done nothing all the others were not doing; and having done exactly what Wayne Trottier and others told you they wanted you to do; you thought that would protect you.

And, for a very long time, it did. But, in order to stop the investigation into ineligible players and perhaps the team losing any chance of competing for the next 5 years… your friends had to throw you to the wolves. And they did. In a heartbeat.

Being related to Duane Smith, the rapist, the drug dealer, the wealthy rancher, had it’s upside for a very long time. That is how you got the job to begin with. Everyone knew it. Did you think, knowing what a low-life your brother is, and knowing what a low-life Wayne Trottier is, that you would be ‘protected’ if they got caught? Truly, you were never that stupid, were you?

Taking no chances now. Travis LaRock is OFF the team. Yes, he got a DUI in Devil’s Lake. Being drunk on the rez was easy for him. No one said a word. Everyone knew, so no one had to. He could suit up and play. He was a ‘Star’. But, getting behind the wheel, drunk, off the rez—well, you know that is going to leave a mark!

But, I am sure that Rick Smith is just as surprised by this one as he was by all the others. Uh huh. I just can’t feel sorry for that Fall Guy.

Note to all the ‘friends and allies’ of the Turdclan and the rest of the Corruption Club members: You are expendable. YOU are the one that hits the pits when they need to throw someone out to save themselves. (Beezer, you need to take notes here.)

Rules 1 & 2

So, Corruption Club is being talked about. And everyone in it. School Boards, School principals, Town Councils, and Tribal Councils. If what you are doing is corrupt, you will be called out on it, sooner or later.

If what you are doing is protecting those who are corrupt, you will be called out on it, sooner or later. If what you are doing is what the corrupt want you to do, for their own personal protection or benefit; then you sold out cheap, and you will be the meat they throw out when they need to stall the wolves that are tracking them.

Rules 1 & 2 only work if no one gets their feelings hurt, loses their job, gets publicly humiliated for what everyone in Corruption Club is getting away with. Rules 1 & 2 only hold up if you have people with some integrity to hold to them. Then again, if any one of those Corruption Club members had ‘integrity’ there would not be a Corruption Club to begin with.

The corruption will continue. Spirit Lake has a very long ways to go. No matter how far it goes, it will still be right next to Oberon, and the two will be connected through Corruption Club, until both clean house with a major DOJ investigation.

They chuckle. I hear them. They think that will never happen. They also thought they could keep the trophy. Rick Smith thought he was safe and sound because of his connections. And some school superintendent thought that his victims would never return to haunt him.

I see a pattern here. I smell the fear that wafts this way, when the Prairie Winds stir the corrupt from their sleep, and they have nowhere to go. Worse for all of them, they know who their allies are, and that they cannot really trust them.

Eventually, the only one they can trust to tell their side, especially when they want to rat out their former friends--- is me. I'm the one they turn to. I find that sublimely, amusing.

The time is coming for all of them. They must decide for themselves, whether they will be the meat thrown to the wolves, or whether they will come clean and save themselves.

Small Things

Once in awhile, every so often, fear springs from unexpected corners. Names show up in the blog and you know someone is talking.

Sometimes, it is just a small town paper, with a little story of a family reunion that suddenly strikes fear and confusion into the lives of the Corrupt Club members.

They know, because they have seen it, seen it done to others, that it can be done to them. They too, can be meat. They probably already are.

Dr. Wayne Trottier (I’d check that degree out really close if I was someone receiving his CV) Has applied for a position in Wahapton, ND. Bet he gets a glowing letter of recommendation from Four Winds. I have always been suspicious of rave reviews in those kinds of letters. It’s like what New Yorkers did during the Garbage strike one Christmas Season: They gift wrapped their trash and left it where they were sure thieves would steal it. And steal it, they did!

Good luck on that Wahapton job, Wayne. You’ll be fine as long as no one from there comes to Four Winds and sees what a mess it is. No one looks at the stats. No one looks at what is really happening to the kids.

Such small things...

Meanwhile..

A lot of crimes remain uninvestigated. Even the families of the victims stubbornly hold their silence. More out of guilt than pride. I am amazed, however, by those who take pride in their silence. As if they have something to be proud of. As if victimhood is their pride.

Good thing there are others out there, willing to speak up. Willing to take the chances and to reveal where the wounds are festering. There are some Brave, Good and Decent people out there. But too many of you allow the Corruption Club to run all points of your lives and the lives of your neighbors.

You sit in the dark, watching the stage, waiting to see who goes down next. You think you are safe, even when it is your child, your brother, your sister, getting killed so you can find some perverse entertainment and claim the graveside crown of self pity.

The darkness you protect is the darkness that owns you.

But the light is coming, more and more. Sometimes it is in the blog, sometimes it is in a small town newspaper that falls from the trembling hands of a child molester, and disquiets his sleep. 

He looks into the eyes of everyone he knows, and wonders if they have been told about him. Wonders if they know. Then he looks around his small town and realizes--- everyone knows. It's only a matter of time. Voices from the past that used to cry and whimper under his abuse, might they now speak in a clear voice? Will one clear voice lead to another, and another? Damn those small town presses and their stories about family reunions!

Eventually, in this world or the next, the scene of the crime becomes apparent. It is revisited by predator and victim alike. But the odds have shifted, and the victim now has the power. What will they do with it?

Cry for mercy, but there is none to be found. None given, none returned.

Pathetic are those who had the power and authority and did so much evil with it. Pathetic are those who let them. And now, as small helpless voices have grown up, become strong and seek Justice, predators past begin to tremble, and throw one another out as meat, for the wolves that have picked up the scent of their fear.

You know where to find me.
~Cat

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January 7, 2010 --Printer Version (3)
Whose Child Are We Burying This Week?

Once again, the Black Road has snacked up one of your young ones, and is spitting his bones at your feet. Ronnie Greywater, I am told, was forced to consume alcohol until he died from it.

This happened at Bennett Black's place. I am told that a lot of bad things happen at his place: Rapes, drugs, beatings, and now this. Don't worry Bennett, no one will investigate. If they did, no one would talk. No one cares.

No one cared enough to prevent this one. No one cared enough to stop it while it was happening. No one will care enough to stop the next one.

So, Bennett, you and your pals gonna show up at the funeral? Show up for the giveaway? Maybe get a nice blanket or a drum?

I wonder about those who just sit back, and don't want to say anything. I wonder if they know that their silence, all this time, long before I came onto the scene, is the accomplice to all these crimes?

I wonder if there is a tug, somewhere inside each of you who has kept your silence, each time another child dies? Is raped? Is neglected? Does that tug subside a little as they get old enough to not matter anymore?

Can you stand by the grave, hear the sobbing, and feel any sense that you might have, in some way great or small, been able to prevent this?  Or do you just, as so many do, go through the motions, robotic, waiting for the next child to fall?

Do you think that all of these incidents are not related to everything that has gone before? Can you not see how everything that has been allowed, has allowed this one?

When the next one comes, and it will come soon, will you again look around to see if anyone sees it in you? You know, that part that wants to hide. That part that does not want to say anything?

Look around. You see it in them. Now, look away really fast. Try not to connect. Tell yourself "There was nothing I could have done..." And while you are at it, think of someone else to blame--- but don't change anything.

Drowning In It

You know, the kids have lost all respect for leadership out there. The joke is constant: "For a Dry Rez, why are so many people drowning...?"

Drowning in the Lake, drowning in their own vomit, drowning in their own blood.

A Zero Tolerance Policy on Booze and Drugs-- the biggest joke of all. How many times was Zit Puppet's vehicles pulled out of the ditch? How many times was he so drunk he pissed himself? And yet, his mother, who represents the entire tribe, and her family, never allowed him to be arrested.

Which Judge was it that took his side in that one case where he stole a woman's car and crashed it, totaled it? "I was so drunk I didn't know what I was doing!" was his defense. Good enough for Tribal Judge--case dismissed!

You think little things like that don't affect the community? You think kids are not aware? You think they don’t put it together? Constant denial reads as cowardice. Kids know you won't stand up for them. You won't even stand up for yourself. How's that for respect?

Knowing that the murderers are running all the key points in the rez, controlling all the jobs and the money, and the food... you think that doesn't affect the community? The kids grow up thinking every adult they know is a coward. They grow up thinking that the bullies are the role models.

They grow up with no respect for themselves, because you can't be bothered to get involved in your own community, and speak up. You can't trouble yourself enough to stand up against this wall of garbage. You even join in at tearing down, snapping and biting at anyone that does stand up, speak out, and try to make changes.

Your loyalty is to the bullies. Your children have no boundaries. The Black Road Walkers are snacking on them like junk food, and spitting their bones at your feet. And they laugh at your tears.

Your tears are just for you. They are not for the dead. You did nothing to stop it, and still do nothing. Your tears are a show.

With so many dead children, children dying of diseases, drugs, alcohol, abuse and neglect, there should be a Crying Crown that gets passed around. Each one takes their turn, competing for righteous indignation and loudest wails as the bones are gathered, and put into a hole, in the cold hard ground.

You allow a known child molester to be among your children. Little Joe Alberts gets to pose for the local papers, surrounded by children, just the age he is forbidden from associating with. How many of those children has he already raped?

Oh, don't ask. It doesn't matter. They don't matter. They only grow up angry, and make your life uncomfortable. Then there are fights in the home, fights in the schools, and then they get to die young. And then you get to cry and say how much you loved them.

Cry me a river. You love them how much? I can't hear you! How much? I can't hear you! Neither can anyone else, because you would not speak up when there was still time. You would not speak up when they were still young. You would not speak out when they were growing up. You did not speak up when it was other kids. And you won't speak up after this.

So, tell me how much you love and miss these kids? I can't hear you.

I totally understand that you don't want to get involved. I get that. Now it is your turn. For the rest of you, there's Bingo.

Indians love Bingo more than they love their kids. How do I know? Look how much time and money they spend on Bingo. Now, how much time and money do they spend on their kids? Uh huh.

That's okay, we'll do this again, and again, and again... until it is important enough, and you love them enough, to do something to save them before it is too late. So, who gets the Crown next week?

And before you tell me that White People do it too... let me remind you: We are NOT running out of White People. Look around you, what are your children becoming? Snacks.

You know where to find me.

~Cat

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Carved in Stone

One of the greatest sorrows in Indian Country is the loss of traditions and teachings. This leads to an even deeper sorrow: The loss of the young.

Traditions of respect are more or less mocked by these self serving politicians and their cronies, who take every public opportunity to thank one another, and give one another gifts, typically paid for with Tribal monies.

Everyone knows when they are being lied to at these public events. Especially the young. This teaches them that respect is only a show, and has no real meaning. A farce. A joke. Applause.

How many blankets has Piggy Cavenaugh been given? Perhaps she can use them to wrap the dead who got that way for the lack of skilled, credible treatment at the health centers she ruins. Perhaps she can wrap the suicided children in them? Or the drug overdoses?

Yes, by all means, call Piggy by her name. Bring her up on stage or to the front of the room. Give her gifts for her good work of neglecting and abusing those in need. Let's all applaud.

And, while we are at it, let's all give Pat Walking Eagle a big hand! The way she has run the school, it's no wonder so many students can't make it in the world. Totally understandable how they are so lost they cannot turn to anyone. There are no boundaries to stop them from hurting themselves. There are no boundaries to stop them from hurting others.

How many graduate to suicide Pat? Where are your 'Education' credentials? Where are your degrees? Oh? You don't have any? Why, of course you shall run our school!

I hear that when there are drug dogs brought in, and they find drugs in certain lockers and backpacks, nothing is done. No one is suspended. No one is arrested.

I hear that when kids are caught dealing drugs, or even dropping them in the hallway, that if they are brought to Pat, she is livid. She gets very angry. She tells the person who found them to mind their own business and to give the drugs back to the students! And she does.

These kids see their future all right. Those who do manage to overcome the obstacles placed in their way by a School Board comprised of druggies, a Principal who is afraid that any drug investigation will lead back to her family, or her friends, and a Superintendent that has equally no qualifications and a highly questionable history.. any kid that overcomes those odds and manages to go to further their education, and come back home to help their community, are seen as a threat. 

They are not allowed to hold positions for which they are eminently more qualified than those who have them already. They are seen as a threat to those who hold the power of corruption and futility over the entire community.

No one in the community even bothers to stand up for them or with them. They just sit back and watch as the qualified, the ones who could bring a new day to the rez, are knocked down, over and over again. They just watch.

This proves to the kids that there is nothing out there for them. They look around and see that only the bullies and the corrupt gain anything. They look at what is against them and what is for them.

They turn to drugs, alcohol and make a bad situation worse. Soon, they cannot stand their own lives. They suicide exit.

It would seem to me, if you go walking through the graveyard, you will see how much of your future, the future of the rez, the future of the community and the nation... is already carved in stone.

I would think you would want to look into that. Want to do everything in your power to stop that trend and create a community where the children are safer, the young people are guided by compassion and wisdom, and the corrupt are not allowed to control your lives.

But so many are just content to sit and watch. Watch others get beat down. Watch others get discouraged. Watch others take honors and make a mockery of traditions.

Just watch and see. I get emails from people who say: "We're just waiting to see what you are going to do..." but who themselves, are doing nothing. It's not up to me to do anything. I am just the messenger.

But I will tell the children in your stone gardens, that you are just watching and waiting. I will tell them that you still hold contempt for those that do the hard work. I will tell them that you are waiting for someone else to come and clean up your messes for you. I will tell them of all the excuses and anger you conjure up when confronted with your own failure to stand up, speak up, or even to support those who could or would stand up, speak up, for you and for the children.

What you allow is what you get.

The future is not carved in stone. It is, however, carved in silence.

You know where to find me.

~Cat