4/23 Stigma & The Disease of Addiction

Standing Rock Treatment Program
Stigma & The Disease of Addiction
Join us for a session of education and awareness on how to reduce stigma associated with addiction.

With: Joseph Jahner, LAC
April 23rd, 2025
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM (CST)
Redeemer Lutheran Church,
McLaughlin, SD

Light snack and refreshments to be served

For questions or more information please contact us at
701-854-4785 or 701-854-7219

Home Assistance Program Information @ Districts

Standing Rock Districts:
REF: Home Assistance Program Information HAF PROGRAM
Property Department would like to be on the agenda for your district meetings, concerning the information for the Home Owner (Home Assistance program) Please advise to property@standingrock.org if meeting dates have changed.

• APRIL 10, 2025 PORCUPINE DISTRICT (Selfridge School) 6pm est
• APRIL 12, 2025 LONG SOLDIER DISTRICT 1pm cst
• APRIL 14, 2025 WAKPALA DISTRICT 7pm cst
• APRIL 21, 2025 ROCK CREEK DISTRICT 6pm cst

Following District will be reschedule:
• BEAR SOLDIER DISTRICT
• CANNONBALL DISTRICT
• RUNNING ANTELOPE DISTRICT (Reschedule)
• KENEL DISTRICT (Reschedule)

If times and dates have changed, please let property department know so we can get Home Assistance program information out to the communities. Thank You.

4/8 Long Soldier District Community Health Needs Assessment

STANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBE TRIBAL HEALTH COMMUNITY HEALTH NEEDS ASSESSMENT
Long Soldier District @ AJ Agard Gym
Tuesday 04/08/2025
1PM-4PM CST

Please Join Tribal Health to share your insights and experiences to enhance your community’s health care needs!

Participants will receive a meal and first 139 participants upon completion of survey will receive a $50 cash card. Participants will need to provide identification and proof of residency.

* Participants MUST be 18 years or older to participate in assessment

SRST Treatment Grief & Forgiveness

Standing Rock Treatment Program

Grief & Forgiveness

ROCHELLE IRON CROW, MA, LAC

APRIL 4TH & 5TH 2025
9:00 AM to 3:00 PM (CST)
Fort Yates, ND (Youth Services Building)

Meal will be provided both days.
Please contact us at 701-854-4785 for more information.

SRST Treatment April ’25 Newsletter

SRST Treatment Harm Reduction Therapy

WHAT IS HARM REDUCTION THERAPY?
Harm reduction therapy is help and support for folks that may not be ready to completely quit using substances but still wants help reducing the harm substances is causing.

WHO IS IT BEST FOR?
Harm reduction therapy is best for anyone that is open to receiving support and help, no matter where they are in their journey of recovery or what their goals are. Many people want to “use less” or “use less frequently” and that’s perfect!

HARM REDUCTION MEETS YOU WHERE YOU ARE
Harm reduction is one path to recovery and often leads to abstinence eventually, but doesn’t force or pressure someone into abstinence. Harm reduction therapy helps a person explore their use without judgment or shame and meets a person where they are in their journey.

Sign up at Standing Rock Treatment Programs office:
701-854-4785

SRST Updated April Job Postings

Applications are available at the Standing Rock Human Resource office or by visiting www.standingrock.org

All applications and/or supporting documents submitted after the closing date will not be considered . Applications, supporting documents, or questions may be emailed to personnel@standingrock.org

Selected candidate(s) for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe positions are subject to alcohol and drug testing. Failure to adhere to and successfully pass the alcohol and drug testing will cause for revocation of job offer.

NOTE: It is very important to use your own personal email when submitting applications, as vital communication will be sent to your email address regarding the status of your application. Shared email addresses can cause issues with your online application, notices and application status.

Please call 701-854-3826 or visit the Standing Rock Human Resource Office if you have any questions.

Missouri Basin Climate Quarterly March 2025

STANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBAL CHAIRWOMAN JANET ALKIRE STATEMENT ON THE JURY VERDICT AGAINST GREENPEACE

As Chairwoman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, I take offense to the jury verdict in the Energy Transfer SLAPP lawsuit against Greenpeace. We expect more from North Dakota judges and members of the jury from our neighboring communities.

Energy Transfer’s claims in this case were ridiculous. They were wholly disrespectful of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, our ancestors, and our youth, who started the movement in 2016 to protect our water from an oil spill from DAPL. Neither Greenpeace nor anyone else paid or persuaded Standing Rock to oppose DAPL. Our young people and our elders urged us to protect our water and unci makah (grandmother earth). That is what happened, and is happening still. Energy Transfer’s false and self-serving narrative that Greenpeace manipulated Standing Rock into protesting DAPL is patronizing and disrespectful to our people. We understand that many Morton County residents support the oil industry, even out-of-state pipeline companies such as Energy Transfer. But we are your neighbors, and you should not be fooled that easily. Energy Transfer does not know us. They don’t know who we are – an Indigenous Nation that has survived every attack because our ancestors are with us.

Greenpeace did not manipulate Standing Rock, but Energy Transfer has manipulated Morton County. DAPL crosses our Treaty and aboriginal land for hundreds of miles. Our ancestors
occupied this land for thousands of years before North Daklota came into existence. The land between the Heart and Missouri River are our unceded Treaty lands under the 1868 and 1851 Fort
Laramie Treaties. Our aboriginally-occupied territories extend east to the James River and beyond. That is a historical truth. If Greenpeace can be held liable for telling the truth about Sioux Nation Treaty rights, then we are all in trouble.

The construction of Fort Rice on our northern boundary in 1864 was a violation of the Fort Laramie Treaties. This required our Tribe to be vigilant. No one should be surprised that warrior
society burials are found in this area, near the pipeline route. And do not insult our cultural experts, who have wisdom over matters most residents of Morton County or bureaucrats at the State
Historical Society know absolutely nothing about. Energy Transfer and its lawyers should be ashamed of themselves. Everyday North Dakotans on the jury should know better.
When it comes to the excessive police and private security response to the generally peaceful protests at Cannon Ball, believe your eyes. The scenes of guard dogs menacing Tribal
members are reminiscent of the violence of white supremacists in the deep south during the 1950’s and 60’s, but it was in North Dakota, in this day and age. It was on the news and on the internet.
Many of the protesters were Native American veterans of the United States armed forces. Energy Transfer used attack dogs against peaceful protesters and war heroes. But the jury sided with the
out-of-state, unlicensed security with the attack dogs, instead of North Dakota veterans who supported Standing Rock.

A Texas oil company has come to North Dakota, and its lawyers and propaganda machine are weaving stories about how the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and our supporters have lied, and
how the poor pipeline company, a trillion dollars richer than in 2016 when this all started, should receive extra millions from non-profit organizations. It’s a funny thing about liars – they always
accuse everyone else of lying. The Greenpeace trial was marked by secrecy. The court is not making the transcript public. The documents obtained by Greenpeace about Energy Transfer’s terrible safety record are protected by a secrecy order and are not available to the public. The judge exhibited so much bias in favor of Energy Transfer that a team of international human rights lawyers felt compelled to monitor the trial. One prominent monitor stated “In my six decades of legal practice, I have never witnessed a trial as unfair as the one against Greenpeace that just ended in the courts of North Dakota.”

Standing Rock has tried to work for greater transparency on DAPL. It is our experience with the Army Corps of Engineers and Energy Transfer that all documents relating to DAPL pipeline safety are heavily redacted, and kept secret. What are they hiding? Who is looking out for the communities that may be affected by an oil spill? And why didn’t the North Dakota court allow Greenpeace to address these questions at the trial?

DAPL is a dangerous pipeline. It crosses our unceded Treaty and aboriginal land. Energy Transfer destroyed Tribal burials as identified by our cultural experts, and committed violence against our people. That is the history that North Dakota and Morton County must reckon with. After the Greenpeace verdict, that day seems farther off than ever.

3/26 Career Fair

CAREER FAIR

When: March 36th, 2025, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Where: Standing Rock Community School

If you have any questions please contact Colette Fleck at (701) 854-3461 Ext. 3119