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President Shannon Holsey delivers the State of the Tribes Address, February 22, 2022.

Shannon Holsey, president of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, will deliver the opening address at the Wisconsin Leadership Summit presented by UW Credit Union, which falls on October 10, Indigenous Peoples Day.

“Opening our family reunion Summit on Indigenous Peoples Day and on Indigenous land, it’s important that an Indigenous voice welcome our guests and set the tone. I can’t think of a more important  voice than President Holsey’s,” said Henry Sanders, CEO of 365 Media Foundation, which hosts the Wisconsin Leadership Summit. “It’s going to be two incredible days of sharing wisdom and building community and I’m grateful to President Holsey for helping us kick it off.”

Shannon Holsey. Photo supplied.

The Wisconsin Leadership Summit returns in-person October 10-11 at the Wisconsin Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club for the first time since 2019. The event will feature more than 20 panel discussions on topics ranging from education to executive leadership to health care, along with the Wisconsin Leadership Community Choice Awards, a youth summit, entertainment by Kinfolk and more.

Holsey delivered the State of the Tribes Address to the Wisconsin Legislature in 2017 and 2022.

Holsey was elected as president in October 2015, following eight years as a member of the Tribal Council. She is the youngest to ever lead the Stockbridge-Munsee, which has about 1,470 enrolled members and is the largest employer in Shawano County. She grew up on the Stockbridge-Munsee reservation in Bowler, Wisconsin. Holsey also serves as vice president of the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council (GLITC), which represents 11 member tribes with a land base of about one million acres spanning 45 counties. She is appointed as the Wisconsin…

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Michael L. “Mike” Mohawk, Sr., Age 75 of the Stockbridge Munsee Tribe, passed away on Wednesday, August 24, 2022, in Wausau, surrounded by his loving family.

Michael was welcomed to this earth on September 16, 1946, in Red Springs, a son of the late Milford “Riley” Mohawk and Elizabeth “Liza” Welch. On November 6, 1965, he was united in marriage to the former Judy Colbert in Red Springs. Mike was an avid builder as well as a lover of both softball and bowling. He passed down his love for fishing and hunting to his beloved family. Mike was employed in the construction field for over 35 years, thirty of which he spent at Boldt Construction. Following his retirement from Boldt, he worked for the Stockbridge-Munsee Tribe for ten years at the P & E. Mike was a strong, stoic man who cared deeply for his family. He spent most of his time outdoors and generally had his family along.

Mike is survived by his loving wife, Judy, of Bowler; his children, Doreen Mohawk of Green Bay, Michael Mohawk Jr of Bowler, Marlene (Jerry) Poquette of Green Bay, Matthew (Jacquie) Mohawk of Shawano, Sharlene (Bob) White of Bowler, and Joleen “Tully” Kroening of Bowler; his grandchildren, Alyssa Martin, Andrew Mohawk, Shalee, Ashton, and Robert Guesnon, Travis, Jaz, and Minocqwae Mohawk, Hunter and Willow White, Kyla, Tia, and Tully Kroening, Christopher, Nicholas, Trevor, MaKayla, and Brooklyn Pocquette, and Mishan Dickenson; and his great-grandchildren, Brooks, Omar, Niasia, Myra, and Jaxton. He is further survived by his sisters, Ellen Schreiber, and Mabel Miller, both of Bowler, and Donna (Mike) Bucholtz of Gresham, his brothers, George Mohawk Sr. of Gresham, and Milford (Louann) Mohawk Jr. of Bowler; his faithful companion Mingo; and numerous nieces, nephews, relatives, and…

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The Miami language belongs to the Central Algonquian group of the large Algonquian language family. It is most closely related to Illinois, Shawnee, Sauk, Fox, Kickapoo, Menominee, Potawatomi, Ojibwa, Cree, Montegnais, and Naskapi.

The Miami war chief Little Turtle (1742-1812) was born along the Eel River northeast of Fort Wayne, Indiana. His father was Acquenacke, a Miami chief, and his mother was Mahican.

There is little specific information about Little Turtle’s early years, and he emerges in the English language histories as one of the figures in the Revolutionary War. While Little Turtle was often an advocate for peace with the invading Europeans, during the Revolutionary War he fought on the side of the British. In his book Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars, 1492-1890, Jerry Keenan writes:

“Like many Indian leaders, Little Turtle believed there was more to be feared from the American colonists than the British and, accordingly threw his support behind the latter during the Revolution.”

In his biographical sketch of Little Turtle in the Encyclopedia of North American Indians, Stewart Rafert writes:

“Regarded as perhaps the greatest Algonquian war leader of his time, Little Turtle grew to adulthood during the American Revolution and led Native American armed resistance to the American invasion of the Old Northwest in the late eighteenth century.”

In his book Who Was Who in Native American History: Indians and Non-Indians From Early Contacts Through 1900, Carl Waldman writes:

“Little Turtle was one of the great military geniuses of all time.”

He developed many methods of guerilla warfare, most notable the use of decoys. Carl Waldman writes:

“Little Turtle instructed his warriors from the allied tribes to pick off the invading army wherever possible. The warriors hid and used swift, small strikes to confuse the enemy.”

From 1790 to…

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“Our Grandmother,” Kokomthema, is the Shawnee female Creator. In their book The Encyclopedia of Native American Religions, Arlene Hirschfelder and Paulette Molin report that Kokomthema is:

“The female deity of the Shawnee people who gave them a code of laws and most of their principal religious ceremonies.”

Arlene Hirschfelder and Paulette Molin also report:

“It is believed that Kokomthema sometimes appears on earth to observe the performance of Shawnee religious ceremonies.”

Hunting was a vital part of Shawnee subsistence, and religious rituals were an important part of hunting. In his book The Shawnees and the War for America, Colin Calloway writes:

“In the Shawnee world, humans and animals communicated, hunters dreamed the whereabouts of their prey and offered prayers to the spirits of the animals that gave their bodies so that the people might live.”

In order to maintain the harmony between humans and the animal people, and between humans and the plant people, it was necessary to conduct certain rituals to keep the world in balance.

Among the Shawnee, boys would go out into the woods to fast and to seek a spirit helper at the age of 12-13. According to James Howard, in his book Shawnee! The Ceremonialism of a Native American Tribe and its Cultural Background:

“The spirit helper would give the faster instruction in some area, which was usually healing, and also would promise aid in future years if the faster would call upon it in the proper manner.”

The Shawnee were originally given their bundles by Our Grandmother at the time of creation. Since that time, items have been added to the bundles. According to James Howard:

“Each of the sacred bundles is assigned to the care of a designated custodian, who is always a man,…

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KENOSHA – The governments of two tribes in Wisconsin have expressed support for a Menominee casino in Kenosha while the Potawatomi Tribe strongly opposes the endeavor.

“The Oneida Nation has a successful history of working with other sovereign nations to build and support Indian gaming and other enterprises across the nation,” read a statement from the Oneida Nation Business Committee this month. “Oneida can be proud of supporting the common goals of self-sufficiency, economic expansion and diversification and advocation for tribal sovereignty.”

Officials with the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation, whose reservation is adjacent to the Menominee Reservation, expressed support for a Menominee Kenosha casino on Saturday.

“The Menominee are our neighbors and share many ties and many of the same needs as our community,” said Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation President Shannon Holsey in a statement. “We fully support their efforts to find the resources to address those needs, which can only help the larger tribal, regional and state communities.”

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Officials from the Oneida and Mohican tribes cite the fact that the Menominee Nation is one of the poorest tribes in Wisconsin and revenue from a Kenosha casino would allow the tribe to invest in health and education needs and reduce high levels of poverty, hunger and unemployment on the Menominee Reservation.

The Menominee Nation is partnering with Hard Rock International, which is owned by the Seminole Tribe based in Florida, in the Kenosha casino project.

The casino would be on about 60 acres of land on the east and west sides of 122nd Avenue in Kenosha.

The village of Bristol last month agreed to sell the…

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Sixteen-year-old Zhawanoogbiik Danielle Riley opened an animal food bank in Chippewas of the Thames near St. Thomas, Ont., after noticing a growing need for pet food and animal care. She’s a semifinalist in the Pow Wow Pitch competition from more than 2,400 applicants across North America. (Michelle Both/CBC – image credit)

Since childhood, Zhawanoogbiik Danielle Riley has dreamed of having her own place to care for animals.

It has led the 16-year-old from Chippewas of the Thames, an Anishinaabe First Nations band government just west of St. Thomas, Ont., to become a youth semifinalist in an Indigenous startup competition, with a chance to win $25,000 to grow her business.

Now, she provides free pet food and supplies to those in Chippewas of the Thames, Munsee-Delaware Nation and Oneida Nation of the Thames communities who need it — all while taking care of her ducks, chickens, rabbits, horses, cats and geese at the family’s Riley Ranch On Three Fires, on the property where they also have their home.

Her pitch was selected from more than 2,400 Pow Wow Pitch applicants from across North America after submitting a one-minute video about her project. Winners will be announced during a digitally broadcast awards presentation on Nov. 3.

Need is growing

Riley noticed it was getting harder for people to access pet food and care for their animals during the pandemic, so she decided to do something about it.

Michelle Both/CBC

“People can come and talk to us, say, if they need…

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There are many reasons to consider a latest-generation games console, but the ability to get quickly into a game ranks as one of the most obvious attractions.

Compared to last-gen hardware, the presence of solid-state storage has transformed the gameplay experience. Tiresome load screens have become a thing of the past, and with the likes of Xbox Quick Resume, it literally takes seconds to pick up where you left off.

Such improvements extend to the console boot sequence, and Xbox Insiders have discovered that Series S|X are starting up some five seconds quicker. What technical wizardry has Microsoft called upon to deliver such gains? Well, sometimes the simplest fixes are the best, and in this instance it is merely a shorter boot animation.

Xbox integrated marketing director Josh Munsee confirmed the tweak on Twitter, stating that the revised animation is shortened in length from nine seconds to just four. A shame for those who enjoy marvelling at the wonder of the Xbox logo and that deafening sound, but great news for everyone eager to get into an actual game.

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Can confirm – worked with @harrisonhoffman and @jakerose27 to create a shorter boot up animation (~4s) from the original boot…

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Microsoft is reportedly rolling out a test build for Xbox Dashboard that is claimed to reduce the cold boot startup times by up to 5 seconds. The Redmond company has seemingly achieved this feat by shortening the bootup animation to about 4 seconds. A report mentions that this change will purportedly only be noticeable if the console has been set to the Energy Saver mode. Earlier this year, Microsoft reportedly made the Energy Saver mode the default option for Xbox consoles.

Director Integrated Marketing for Xbox Josh Munsee confirmed the update after a keen-eyed Xbox tester noticed the changes. Munsee claims that the bootup animation was reduced to around 4 seconds from the original 9 seconds to improve the overall boot times.

A report by The Verge mentions that Xbox Series S/X owners will supposedly only be able to benefit from this update if they set their consoles to Energy Saver mode. Unlike the Standby mode, the Energy Saver mode completely powers down the console. This mode is said to be energy efficient, albeit at the cost of boot times.

The new Xbox Dashboard update from Microsoft is said to cut the cold boot times to around 15 seconds from around 20 seconds. This improvement is expected to improve the appeal of the Energy Saving mode to gamers. The company has made the Energy Saver mode the default option for Xbox consoles. It also added support for background update downloads with this mode.

Microsoft has not year revealed when this new feature might enjoy a wider release.

In related news, the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S consoles in India have seen around a 6 percent jump in its price. They are reportedly…

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