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White Earth Land Recovery Project: 2013 Annual Report

Find us at: 607 Main Avenue, Callaway, MN 56521

��Report compiled by Winona LaDuke, Margaret Rousu, and Lauren Kramer

From the Desk of the Executive Director Iskigamizige giizis (March), 2014

White Earth Land Recovery Project 2013 Annual Report

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The White Earth Land Recovery Project would like to thank you for all of your help with our work, which provides us with the opportunity to make a difference for future generations. You have supported us in building a path towards a sustainable and better world. Reflecting back on 2013, we’re thankful for many things: our successful maple syrup harvest, the heritage seed varieties now available through the White Earth Reservation Seed Library, our many Niijii Radio volunteers who’ve helped to bring

Anishinaabemowin to the airwaves, and the solar thermal air heater installations that we completed for White Earth families. As I write this, we’re making preparations to continue our work throughout 2014 and into the future. Our new wind turbine, a 15 kW Bergey, will go up, after many months of planning, research, and meetings with Juhl Energy—our partner on this project. We’ll continue building a model for climate change-resilient agriculture, stewarding non-GMO seeds that are adapted to our northern climate and historically indigenous to our region. And through Niijii Radio, we hope to commence a long-term mentorship project to create a space where local youth can express themselves through the medium of radio. We have big plans for the months ahead, and we look forward to sharing our progress with you. Despite some of the most difficult times in the history of our organization, we are grateful for what we have accomplished. Your support allows us to make positive, meaningful change. Miigwech,

Winona LaDuke, Executive Director White Earth Land Recovery Project ��


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Sustainable Communities�

WELRP Farm to School Program�

Back in 2007, the White Earth Land Recovery Project launched one of the first Indigenous Farm to School programs in the country. We began our program at Pine Point School on the White Earth Indian Reservation, and we’re now serving over 100 students, teachers, and elders the foods from our land and other local and organic sources. We focus our Farm to School program work on countering the devastating impact of an industrialized food system on a people who already suffer from epidemic levels of diabetes. We worked to create a national report on the development of tribal food systems in coordination with the national Farm to School program; we’ve also worked with the Red Lake and Leech Lake Reservations to support similar project development in their communities. Throughout 2013, we provided three schools on the White Earth Reservation (Pine Point School, Naytahwaush Community Charter School, and Circle of Life Academy) with over 2,000 pounds

AmeriCorps VISTA member Zachary Paige leads a Farm to School program lesson covering apples, pumpkins, and squash at Naytahwaush Community Charter School.


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of fresh, local food. We’ve observed that when students have the opportunity to learn about the local food varieties that we provide, they’re much more likely to try them and to enjoy them during lunchtime. We take their opinions into consideration when deciding upon preparation methods and our produce selections more generally. At the Naytahwaush Community Charter School, we’re proud to say that we brought more than 1,000 pounds of produce to the lunch tray. Our dedicated farmers in the area made this milestone possible. We strengthened our program’s farmer-school relationship during 2013 by facilitating the farmers’ direct payment to our participating schools. One farmer from White Earth—Larry Hoban—grew, processed, and delivered 150 dozen ears of sweet corn and 120 pounds of green beans for Naytahwaush students. At Circle of Life Academy, grower Darryl Smith produced tomatoes, zucchini, apples, squash, snap peas, and carrots for students’ school lunches. At our certified kitchen in our Native Harvest facility, we blanched, bagged, and froze more than 150 pounds of Daryl’s produce. We connected with an Amish grower, Edward Miller, to provide students with delicious sweet corn. Finally, at Pine Point School, WELRP bought and processed over 200 ears of corn grown by JKC Dairy & Produce located in Callaway, as well as watermelons and sweet corn from Ter-Lee Gardens in Bagley. When the leaves began to fall, we provided some seasonal festivities for students from Pine Point School. Using pumpkins grown at the WELRP farm in Ponsford, we spent a day making pumpkin pies and pumpkin pancakes with Pine Point students. Later, the students visited our farm for a Halloween field trip. They meandered through our haunted hay maze, enjoyed fresh apple cider and homemade pumpkin muffins, and even learned how to milk a goat. White Earth community member Bob Shimek also contributed to the camaraderie by picking up a truckload of pumpkins from a grower in Frazee, enough for students at all three schools to take home a pumpkin.

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Top: Zachary Paige and Bob Shimek pick

up pumpkins to distribute to Farm to

School program students. Bottom:

Greeted by Winona LaDuke, Pine Point

School students arrive at the WELRP farm on a Halloween field trip.


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As we expand the gardens at the White Earth Land Recovery Project, we hope to supply more food for our Farm to School program. In September 2013, we received a USDA NRCS Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) grant to construct a 26W x 12H x 48L high tunnel at the WELRP farm in Ponsford. With this high tunnel, we will have the capability to extend our growing season and produce more warm-season crops, such as tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers. For the coming year, we’re looking into dehydrating food as a way of processing our Farm to School produce, including developing an innovative method to create a soup mix.

Seed Saving Workshops and the White Earth Reservation Seed Library

We see a strong need to bring Native people together to collaborate, to share their stories, and to restore seed and cultivation knowledge. For many years, Winona LaDuke and members of the WELRP staff collected seeds from friends and supporters across the country. White Earth Land Recovery Project VISTA Member Zachary Paige established the White Earth Reservation Seed Library back in November 2012 to help make these seeds available to community members. The library focuses on stewarding non-GMO, climate change-resilient seeds that are adapted to our northern climate and historically indigenous to our region (cultivated by Ojibwe people or neighboring tribes). We organize our seeds by their scientific name, as well as their use, in order to ensure sound seed saving techniques. We intend to further solidify two White Earth Seed Library locations here on the White Earth Reservation (Naytahwaush and the White Earth Tribal and Community College), extending the library’s reach beyond our original Callaway location. Currently, we’re identifying farmers, gardeners, and other allies from�our community who have

With our newly constructed high tunnel, we plan to grow additional warm-season crops, such as tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers for our Farm to School program.


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an interest in assisting us in the restoration of Native seed varieties. Learn more about the White Earth Reservation Seed Library at www.wersl.org. We worked together with various community members during 2013 to save seeds. For example, Michael Dahl saved his Ozette fingerling potatoes, Hidatsa red beans, and cherry tomatoes. Sophie Rojas saved seeds from her tomatoes, pumpkins, potatoes, and green beans. At the WELRP farm, we saved seeds from tomatoes, heirloom yellow cucumbers, peppers, carrots, herbs, lettuces, mustards, beans, peas, indigenous corn varieties, squash, dill, hollyhocks and pumpkins. The White Earth Seed Library now holds well over 100 seed varieties saved from last year. Saving seeds from our region allows us to develop seeds suited to our soil type and growing season; we also significantly reduce our organization’s food costs through this practice. The White Earth Tribal and Community College hosted a seed saving workshop on Sept 23rd, 2013, led by Zachary Paige. Zachary focused the workshop on growing heirloom plants and saving a wide array of seed varieties. He plans to lead a follow-up workshop in April 2014 centered on planting starts and planning seed saving gardens. During 2013, Zachary also led seed saving workshops at the Leech Lake Tribal College, United Tribes Technical College, an Indigenous People’s Task Force Council meeting, a Sustainable Tuesdays event in Bemidji, and the First Nations Development Institute L.E.A.D. Conference at Mystic Lake Casino Hotel.

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Top left: Participants at the White Earth Tribal and Community College Seed Saving Workshop engage in a seed identification activity. Bottom left: Zachary Paige demonstrates threshing and winnowing mustard seeds at a seed saving workshop at Leech Lake Tribal College. Right: Heirloom bean varieties available through the White Earth Seed Library.


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Growing Gardens in the Community We see the establishment of gardens in our community as integral to securing food sovereignty on the White Earth Indian Reservation. During 2013, the White Earth Land Recovery Project cultivated four seed saving gardens: we harvested the produce grown in these gardens, saved the seeds, and stored them in the White Earth Seed Library for use by community members next year. We also provided gardens for our elders, constructing and installing six raised bed gardens in Naytahwaush and planting a garden at the senior housing facility in White Earth. In addition, we tilled four gardens for White Earth community members and their families and distributed seeds from the White Earth Seed Library for use in home gardens. We hope to continue to expand our gardens in the community in the future.

10th Annual Great Lakes Indigenous Farming Conference We held our 10th annual Great Lakes Indigenous Farming Conference from March 4th-7th, 2013 at Maplelag Resort on the White Earth Indian Reservation. The gathering brought together Native farmers and gardeners from our region, USDA and non-profit representatives, storytellers, seed savers, and visionaries. We featured interactive workshops on topics such as goat cheese production and salve making, as well as presentations on seed saving, food systems restoration, decolonizing diets, and tribal food policy. Keynote presenters included Erica Allen of Growing Power, Rowen White of Native Seeds/SEARCH, Sammie Ardito Rivera of Dream of Wild Health, and Scott Shoemaker of the Science Museum of Minnesota. A blizzard that hit the area the night before the conference didn’t even stop us from gathering together to share our knowledge. During the ten-year history of this event, we’ve been pleased to have thousands of��

AmeriCorps VISTA member Lauren Kramer spends the day planting a garden in the community.


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participants—including children from our tribal schools, urban gardeners, and earnest community members. �

Academics arrived from the University of Minnesota, Morris and the United Tribes Technical College (Bismarck), and even from as far away as Brown University—where Elizabeth Hoover (Mohawk) works as an Assistant Professor and directs research on food systems. Steve Dahlberg from the White Earth Tribal College presented on his sustainable agriculture work, and on one evening, Michael Price from Leech Lake Tribal College gave a workshop entitled “Indigenous Star Knowledge.” Native youth from Naytahwaush Community Charter School and Circle of Life Academy attended the conference and made ice cream with Amish farmers, origami seed boxes, and paper. All in all, we had a successful conference. We’re thankful for the support that we received from the following sources: Diocese of Crookston CCHD Committee, Intertribal Agriculture Council, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, NCR-SARE, Northwest Minnesota Foundation, and AmeriCorps VISTA.

Fish Guts and Our Partnership with the Red Lake Akina Fishery We had a fish-filled 2013, as we received a North Central SARE Farmer Rancher Grant and a grant from the Northwest Minnesota Foundation to conduct research on fish gut fertilizer application and develop a market analysis for a possible Red Lake Fish Emulsion Fertilizer Program. Currently, no fish gut fertilizer businesses exist in Minnesota. The fertilizers available in local farming outfitters are limited to dried or liquid fertilizers whose exact origin is unknown and come from as far away as Alaska. With over 700,000 pounds of fish byproducts from the Akina Red Lake Fishery, we hope to build a dynamic business partnership to supply locally accessible, unprocessed fish byproducts in large quantities, as well as emulsion and dried fish byproduct fertilizer in a variety of standard and large-scale, made-to-order sizes. Our fish fertilizer plant will address the need for culturally appropriate organic fish fertilizer and provide employment for socially disadvantaged fishers and farmers.

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This Indigenous Farming Conference at Maplelag Resort is a nice place to get snowed in.

-A 2013 Indigenous Farming Conference participant

Erika Allen of Growing Power (left) and Winona LaDuke of the White Earth Land Recovery

Project (right) spend time together at the Great Lakes Indigenous Farming Conference.


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Top: Zachary Paige, JoDan Rousu, Frank Jr. Molley, and Winona LaDuke apply fish gut fertilizer to the WELRP garden in Callaway. Bottom: Zachary Paige buries fish guts from the Akina Red Lake Fishery to construct

traditional squash mounds.


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Native Harvest

Sugar Bush

Many Anishinaabe people have considered sugaring to be a time of renewal. Families could reconnect with neighbors and friends whom they hadn’t seen in a long while—for the duration of a long, cold winter. According to Anishinaabe oral history, when the world was young, Gichi Manidoo made life very easy for the people. Wenabozho decided to visit with the Anishinaabe one day, and upon reaching them, he found them lying on the ground under maple trees letting maple syrup drip directly into their mouths. Wenabozho didn’t like this laziness, and so he decided to pour buckets of water from the river into the tops of the maple trees to dilute the syrup. From that point onward, the Anishinaabe had to collect many gallons of sap and boil it down into order to have the sweet syrup that used to drip from the trees. The Native Harvest sugar bush sits on 260 acres in West Sugar Bush Township on the White Earth Indian Reservation. During the spring of 2013, we tapped 800 trees, and although the conditions made maple syrup harvesting difficult, we managed to collect 1,880 gallons of sap. After boiling down the sap, we produced 47 gallons of Grade A maple syrup to sell through Native Harvest. We couldn’t have done this without the combined efforts of our two sugar bush staff and volunteers from the University of Minnesota, Morris.

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Left: The Native Harvest sugar bush sits on 260 acres in West Sugar Bush Township on the White Earth Indian Reservation. Right: We turn some of the maple syrup that we harvest into sweet maple candy to sell through Native Harvest.


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Wild Rice

Anishinaabe oral tradition tells of the Anishinaabe migration from the East Coast after the prophet of the First Fire told them to move or end up destroyed. The Anishinaabe set off on their migration, and the appearance of the Sacred Megis Shell marked each stopping point along their journey. The Sacred Megis Shell would lead the Anishinaabe to their final destination, or the place where “food grows on water.” The Anishinaabe followed the Megis Shell for centuries and eventually ended up in northern Minnesota, where they found manoomin (wild rice) and continue to harvest it today.

We purchased 13,000 pounds of green wild rice from Native American Harvesters on the White Earth Indian Reservation. Most of the rice came from Rice Lake, which is located in the northeastern corner of the reservation. After drying, parching, hulling, and winnowing the rice with a 35% finishing rate, we ended up with 4,500 pounds of wild rice to sell through Native Harvest.

Slow Food Feast

Back in 2003, Slow Food International awarded the White Earth Land Recovery Project the prestigious International Slow Food Award for Biodiversity, recognizing our organization’s work to protect wild rice from patenting and genetic engineering. We’ve had a strong relationship with Slow Food International for many years, and as such, we host an annual Slow Food Feast to raise money for Native Harvest and to share traditionally prepared foods with our

We purchased 13,000 pounds of green rice from harvesters such as this one on Rice Lake.


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neighbors and friends. We held the 2013 Slow Food Feast on March 8th at the Historic Holmes�Theater Ballroom in Detroit Lakes, and the event celebrated the 10th anniversary of our receipt of the International Slow Food Award. Our guests dined on purple potatoes, wild rice, walleye from the Akina Red Lake Fishery, and heritage squash bisque. We look forward to hosting another delicious feast next year.

Stone Pizza Oven Construction �In 2013, we received a grant from the I.A. O'Shaughnessy Foundation to construct a stone pizza oven for use by Native Harvest and the local community. Many of our Niijii Radio volunteers assisted with the building process. We plan to use our new oven to bake bread for farmers’ markets and host pizza parties for our community members. We anticipate

2013 Slow Food Feast attendees enjoy a photo slideshow before dinner.

Robin Davis, a White Earth enrolled member, assists with construction of the stone pizza oven.


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continuing our pizza oven construction through the addition of an 800-square-foot flagstone patio and a shelter to protect our oven from the elements. �

White Earth Celebration and Pow Wow Stand �As part of the 145th Annual White Earth Celebration and Pow Wow, we ran a Native Harvest stand to promote our products and sell hominy soup and bison brats to hungry pow wow goers. Over 900 dancers and 25 drums attended the pow wow held on June 14th-16th at the White Earth Pow Wow Grounds. We couldn’t have put together our pow wow stand without the support of our AmeriCorps VISTA Summer Associates and the Global Citizens Network.

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AmeriCorps VISTA Summer Associates Eugene Davis (left), Coreen Roy (center), and Colin Neary (right) prepare bison brats to sell at the Native Harvest pow wow stand.


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Niijii Radio: KKWE 89.9 FM

Niijii Radio first went on the air back in 2011, and we’re proud to say that we’ve broadcasted independent, local programming for three successful years. The mission of Niijii Radio is “to provide independent news and information for an independent nation that promotes social, environmental, and economic justice.” Niijii Radio, KKWE 89.9 FM, is community radio at its best. Community radio means that volunteers create our programming, reflecting the unique interests and gifts of our northern Minnesota community. We welcome all to become a part of the Niijii family through opportunities to volunteer and support the station.

Minnesota Arts and Music Gala Celebration We held a two-day festival entitled “The Baapinakamigad (There is a Festival) Music and Arts Gala” in April 2013. The Gala showcased over 40 local musicians, comedians, spoken word artists, and craft artists, all in a family friendly venue. More than 200 adults and 200 students attended the event, and three students even received the opportunity to display their artwork. Funding from the State of Minnesota Legacy Amendment made this event possible.

Niijii Radio holds volunteer meetings once per month, allowing community members to learn about upcoming events, programming, and volunteer opportunities.

Sharon Nordrum (left) and Shirley Nordrum (right) display their artwork at the first annual Gala held at the Historic

Holmes Theater in Detroit Lakes.


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Fifteen to twenty Minnesota musicians and comedians allowed KKWE to record audio and video from their performances for broadcast and podcast through KKWE. Our Gala engaged diverse communities in the arts and reached Minnesotans of all ages. As a result of the exposure, some of the artists who displayed work at the Gala have since had the opportunity to show their art at the Historic Holmes Theater in Detroit Lakes.

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Summer Fun: Parade Floats and Very Berry Social Open House During the summer months, the Niijii Radio crew engaged volunteers to construct a colorful float and participate in several local parades. During the Detroit Lakes Water Carnival Parade we had a blast throwing water balloons at onlookers while simultaneously getting soaked by other floats. Our float featured music from a local drum group, and after the parade, we received many positive comments from folks who had never before heard live powwow music.

We held our Very Berry Social Open House at the Niijii Radio studios during the last week of July. Community members came together to enjoy bouncy houses provided by the White Earth Police Department, berry treats (including homemade blueberry ice cream!), and good company. Through donations and silent auction sales, we earned over $400.00 to go toward general operating expenses for the station.

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This was my first public appearance, and it opened up lots

of new opportunities for me. I will be performing at two new festivals this year and opening for Vibes for the Tribes at the Detroit Lakes Zorbaz this fall.

�-Dallas Peatree, Detroit Lakes

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One of my favorite projects we worked on this summer was building the float for the parades in our communities. I really enjoyed painting signs with other volunteers at the station, and the best part was riding with the float with great drum groups, other awesome volunteers,

and Niijii staff.

-Carlee Kuhn, Niijii Volunteer Coordinator and Legacy Project Coordinator


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KFAI Truth to Tell "Community Connections" Constitution Panel�

The proposed White Earth constitution reform brought a difficult decision to the White Earth constituency during the fall of 2013. Niijii Radio hosted and broadcast a community panel to highlight the diverse array of voices related to the reform issue. The panel featured Erma Vizenor (White Earth Chairwoman), Gerald Vizenor (author of the proposed constitution), Sharon Enjady Mitchell (community elder), Michael Dahl (White Earth enrolled member), and Terry Janis

(Constitution Reform Program Manager). Due to

Top: Niijii Radio volunteers prepare for the Detroit Lakes Water Carnival Parade. Bottom left: Cassidy and Lacey Rousu try out the sumo suits at the Niijii Radio Very Berry Social. Bottom right: A local drum group

performs on the Niijii float in the Ogema Parade.


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the fact that a large number of our tribal member reside away from our homeland and live in the Twin Cities area, we collaborated with KFAI, a community radio station based in Minneapolis. KFAI's Truth to Tell "Community Connections" program brought a live recording of the panel to both our listening area and KFAI’s.

"A Night with Niijii" During our “A Night with Niijii” event held in August 2013, we collaborated with Zorbaz in Detroit Lakes to raise over $500.00 in donations for our station. Dallas Dale, a young acousti-rap performer, opened for local band Vibes for the Tribes. These artists, dedicated to community radio, contributed their time to fundraise for KKWE. ��

State of Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund Programming The Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment to the Minnesota Constitution (passed by Minnesotans in November 2008) states that “over the next twenty-five years, 3/8 of one percent of the state’s sales tax will be dedicated as follows: 33 percent to a clean water fund, 33 percent to an outdoor heritage fund, 14.25 percent to a parks and trails fund, and�19.75 percent to an arts and cultural heritage fund.” Niijii Radio produced several programs with support from the Clean

Vibes for the Tribes performs at “A Night with Niijii” at Zorbaz in Detroit Lakes.


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Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment during 2013:

“Niijii's Pow Wow Trail” showcases Ojibwe drum groups, dancers, and other artists from communities in our listening area at various powwows throughout Minnesota. This thirty-minute, bi-weekly program has helped musicians and artists gain exposure across a broad geographical area. We produced the recorded music and interviews into twenty-six programs that aired during the year on KKWE and statewide through online streaming. KKWE also collected photos and artwork from participating artists, displaying them on the station’s website. “Wiijigindiwag (Be the Same Age)” is a 20- to 30-minute, biweekly program featuring elders and youth discussing growing up Native, both past and present. This program builds relationships between elders and youth and helps them to understand continuities across generations. We feel that this nine-month project made great

strides to broaden awareness of Native American culture and history. “Dibaajimowin” is a ten-minute program featuring stories from our region, capturing the important Ojibwe tradition of oral history. “Dibaajimowin” included detailed histories of places in Anishinaabe Akiing (the land of the original people). For example, we highlighted stories on the history of changes in the land—the story of the creation of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, the Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge, and other regional parks of significance. Our “Dibaajimowin” project brought a more detailed history of these local communities to our listeners through our collaboration with area historical societies and schools. “New Artists on Air” features local Minnesota musicians and showcases them in a 20- to 30-minute program. Program listeners get to know the artists and their unique inspirations, motivations, personal history, and great music. In 2013, “New Artists on Air” gave area youth ages 15-26 the opportunity to showcase their music and literary art, in addition to their autobiographies. KKWE prerecorded, edited, and produced the program in our studio. “New Artists on Air” aimed to encourage young people to participate more in the arts and culture in our area.

Renewable Energy

It is nice to learn the history of our local area, especially

since I grew up away from my reservation.

-Donna Niemi, White Earth

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At the White Earth Land Recovery Project, we’ve established a multi-faceted renewable energy program. Our work consists of solar thermal heating panel installations to help our community members heat their homes throughout the harsh northern Minnesota winters, in addition to wind projects through our subsidiary, Ojibwe Wind. We continued work on our grant from the Northwest Area Foundation that we received in 2012 to complete solar thermal heating panel installations. In April 2013, two families on the White Earth Reservation received solar thermal panels free of charge to help defray their winter heating costs.

We also saw 2013 as a year to fund and build capacity for our renewable energy program, and we successfully obtained grants from Honor the Earth, USDA RBOG, and CERTs. In 2014, we plan to carry out more solar thermal heating panel installations, and we have a solar thermal panel installation training for White Earth community members planned for the spring. Following the close of the training, we’ll fund six contracted trainees from White Earth to install solar thermal air heaters on ten White Earth homes. None of this would be possible without financial support from Trees, Water, and People (TWP), Honor the Earth, and a CERTS 2014 Seed Grant.

With our partner, Juhl Energy, and with funding

Our solar thermal heating panels help families in our community reduce their winter heating costs.

We installed two solar thermal heating panels in 2013 and intend

to install ten more in 2014.


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from the Northwest Area Foundation, we intend to install a 15 kW Bergey wind turbine at our office facility in Callaway in 2014. Our RBOG grant has allowed us to foster an additional partnership with Juhl Energy to carry out a feasibility study analysis and develop a business plan for a 4.9 mW solar wind hybrid distributed energy system. We began working toward completing the feasibility study and business plan with Juhl in 2013, and we hope to complete the process in 2014. With our solar wind hybrid distributed energy system, we’d eventually generate energy for the southwestern part of the White Earth Indian Reservation and come to a power purchase agreement with the Ottertail Power Company. The central aim and driver of the project is to devote a part of the revenue generated by the system to scale significantly the sustainable agriculture activities built by the White Earth Land Recovery Project. This will have a direct positive impact on independent farmers producing native varieties of corn and squash, traditional fruit and maple harvesters, and wild rice harvesters.

Partnering with Volunteers

We’re grateful to our many volunteers from around the country and around the world, and their support helps sustain our organization. During 2013, we hosted volunteers from the following groups:

Global Citizens Network (GCN)

The Global Citizens Network (GCN), a non-profit organization that “works to promote peace, justice, and respect through cross-cultural understanding and global cooperation,” sent us two volunteer groups—one in June 2013 and one in August 2013. The June GCN group graciously donated funding to construct six raised bed gardens from high quality cedar boards. We delivered the raised bed gardens to elders’ homes in Naytahwaush with community elder and WELRP board member Kathy Goodwin. The volunteers also assisted with cleanup at our farm and purchased supplies for our Native Harvest stand at the White Earth Pow Wow. The August GCN group provided financial support to help construct a shelter at the White Earth ceremonial grounds, and we sincerely appreciate their

contribution. We look forward to meeting and

Global Citizens Network volunteers constructed six cedar raised bed gardens in June 2013 for the White Earth Land Recovery

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hosting more GCN volunteers next summer.

AmeriCorps VISTA

We have a longstanding relationship with AmeriCorps VISTA, and during 2013, we hosted both AmeriCorps VISTA Members and AmeriCorps VISTA Summer Associates. AmeriCorps VISTA “provides full-time members to nonprofit, faith-based, other community organizations, and public agencies to create and expand programs that bring low-income individuals and communities out of poverty.” Three AmeriCorps VISTA Members—Kaisa Jackson, Zachary Paige, and John Shimek—served from August 2012 to August 2013, working in the areas of food systems and renewable energy. In August 2013, Zachary Paige stayed on as a WELRP VISTA Member, and Lauren Kramer joined the yearlong team after serving as a WELRP Summer Associate to work in our development office. Our VISTAs have built needed capacity for our organization during the past year, such as developing the White Earth Seed Library, creating a grant tracking database, and writing an Indigenous Farm to School program manual.

Our eight VISTA Summer Associates completed projects such as garden maintenance, community health surveys in partnership with the Pesticide Action Network, recording segments for the Niijii Radio “Pow Wow Trail” Legacy Program, running our farmers’ market stand, and conducting research in the area of renewable energy. Our Summer VISTA Associates served for eight weeks, learning about the White Earth Reservation in addition to their assigned work.

Hamline University

Each year, students from Hamline University make the trip up to Callaway to assist our organization. During 2013, Hamline students visited WELRP in both the fall and the spring. They spent their time here organizing our production facility and installing plastic on the WELRP greenhouse. We’re pleased that they helped us complete two important projects.

Eugene Davis, AmeriCorps VISTA Summer Associate, weeds the WELRP garden in Callaway.


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Local Volunteers

We’re thankful for our many local volunteers who dedicated countless hours of their time to the White Earth Land Recovery Project during 2013. Niijii Radio volunteers, for example, assisted with our summer parade floats and our other community events, such as our Very Berry Social Open House, our stand at the 45th Annual White Earth Pow Wow and Celebration, and “The Baapinakamigad (There is a Festival) Music and Arts Gala.” Niijii Radio values diversity and has a Community Advisory Board composed of six volunteers to direct the station on programming that meets the needs of our community. The Community Advisory Board members are as follows: Michael Nuesier, Tara Mason, Coreen Roy, Karen Wadena, Karen Branden, and Kenneth Coleman. The Community Advisory Board hosts periodic open meetings to discuss local issues. � Similar to Niijii Radio, the board of directors for the White Earth Land Recovery Project, is comprised of volunteers and reflects the community that our project serves. In other areas of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, volunteers contributed directly to maintaining day-to-day

operations. Elaine Beitelspacher of Detroit Lakes

Zachary Paige (left) and Sophie Rojas (right) work on a project in the White Earth Seed Library (Callaway location). Sophie, a local volunteer who lives in Callaway, has consistently contributed her time and energy

toward WELRP’s Sustainable Communities work.


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regularly assisted with office tasks, while Lacey and Cassidy Rousu of Callaway wrote thank you cards and addressed mailings for our fund raising campaigns. In Native Harvest, Ginny and Stan Warren helped create boxes and package wild rice, bringing support to our production efforts. Our volunteers sustain us, and we’re so grateful for their service.

White Earth Land Recovery Project 2013 Donor Report

We would like to thank the following foundations/organizations for supporting our work:

AmeriCorps VISTA CERTs 2014 Seed Grant

Chicago Community Foundation (LeFort-Martin Fund) Clif Bar Family Foundation

Diocese of Crookston CCHD Committee Global Citizens Network

Hamline University Honor the Earth

I.A. O'Shaughnessy Foundation Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

Lannan Foundation Mardag Foundation

MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger Minnesota Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Native Voices Rising North Central SARE

Northwest Area Foundation Northwest Minnesota Foundation

Ottertail Power Company Otto Bremer Foundation Peace Development Fund

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Rose Foundation (Underdog Fund)

Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Seed Matters: Community Seed Project Toolkit

State of Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund State of Minnesota Community Service and Equipment Grant

Susan A. and Donald P. Babson Charitable Foundation Swift Foundation

The Laura Jane Muesser Fund Tides Foundation (Honor Fund)

Trustees of Onaway University of Minnesota, Morris

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service USDA RBOG

White Earth Reservation Tribal Council


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We’d also like to thank the following families and individuals for their support: Altin Paulson Amy Boetcher Amy Fish Amy Sobieski Ann Anderson Ann Warner Barbara Hunt Barbara McMahon Barbara Olic-Hamilton Bettina Barrett Bill Boksenbaum Bonita Sindelir Bonnie Raitt Brad Lamb Bremer Bank Brooke Manley Carey Meyer Carl Kohl Charities Aid Foundation Bank Charlene Woodcock Cheryl Merritt Chuck Waibel Daniel Clark Daniel Thomet Daryl Frazier David Bilides Diane Lynch Dobbie Rosen Donald Irish Donna Waliczek Douglas Nopar Durl Kruse E.L. Cunningham Eileen Wampole Elaine Beitelspacher Elizabeth Macmillan Elliott Royce Elmo's Restaurant Erich Wunderlich Evelyn Black Francis Gillette

Frank Kutka Frank Lewin Frederick Kirschenmann Gary Anderson George Perpich Green River Dance for Global Somatics Greg Hildebrand Helen Rudie Hitchcock Foundation Hoffman's Meat Market Itasca-Mantrap Cooperative Electrical Association James Allison James Fingar Jane Muhawi Janet Fredell Jerri Zbiral Jim Carlstedt John Poole John Rodgers Joseph Quirk Joseph Schriner Journey of Bemidji, Inc. Joy Herbst Judith Horsnell Judith Magann Julie Everett Karen DeBoer Kari Steen Kay Mehl Ken Wentworth Kenneth Kirshenbaum Kristen Tharaldson Laurie Katon Leona Heitsch Linda Fall Linda Sutherland Liza Berdnik Liza Eng Luca Del Negro

Luella Landis Lynne Harrington Manuel Cervantes Margie Weaver Marianna Burnside Mariel Nanasi Mary Adderley Mary Lobenstein Mary Ridgway Maureen McCue Mortimer Cushman Myrna Ohmann Nancy Cayford Nancy Victorin National Philanthropic Trust Voelbel Family Fund Norlin Noyum Patricia O'Leary Paul Collins Paul Kivel Persis Suddeth Living Trust Richard Paper Richard Vanden Heuvel Robert Clay Robert Franke Robyn Stockton Ruth Bonn S. Chisholm Saint Luke Presbyterian Church Sandra Beasley Seaberg Yamaha Sharon Conrick Shary Zoff Shirley Nordrum Sonja Swift Stephen Roth Steve O'Malley Susan Futrell Sybil Carof


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The Farm on St. Mathias Thomas Seaworth Tim Kessler

Underwood Woodworking Victoria Williams Virginia Simone

Vivian Barry Walter Kimmel Wilmington Trust

And finally, thank you to all of the 2013 Niijii Radio underwriters for supporting our station!

Niijii Radio volunteers work together to assemble a section of the penny floor at the Historic Holmes Theater in Detroit Lakes.


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White Earth Land Recovery Project 2013 Board Members

Lisa Brunner Kathy Goodwin

Sue Wika Steve Larsen

Judy Fairbanks Shirley Nordrum

We’d like to say a final “Miigwech” to our many volunteers, community members, and friends…

White Earth Land Recovery

Project 2013 Statement of Operations—Revenues and Expenses

Revenues 2013 Actual

Sophie Rojas, a WELRP volunteer, displays an ear of heritage corn at a WELRP seed saving workshop held at Leech Lake Tribal College.


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2013 Revenues

2013 Expenses

2013 Income

Grant Income $724,195.20 Earned Income Fees $1,500.00 Underwriting Income $6,437.50

Contributions $36,952.10 Interest Income $33.00 Other Income $8,246.87 Rental Income $24,000.00

Sales $159,278.89 �

Total Revenues $960,643.56

Expenses 2013 Actual Salaries $189,769.76

Employer Share Taxes/Benefits $42,428.68 Contract Services $176,247.78 Professional Fees $27,585.86

Legal Fees $1,877.00 Supplies $85,957.30

Telecommunications $23,021.60 Postage $18,712.21

Equipment $17,917.68 Printing $1,303.16

Advertising & Promotion $536.73 Travel $17,773.33

Meeting/Conference/Training $48.49 Utilities $63,568.37

Insurance $37,550.09 Depreciation $48,076.32

Interest Expense $26,218.60 Bank Charges $7,692.55

� �Total Expenses $786,285.51

Income 2013 Actual Total Income $174,358.05


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WHITE EARTH LAND RECOVERY PROJECT

607 Main Avenue

PO Box 97

Callaway, Minnesota 56521

Toll‐free: (800) 973‐9870 Phone: (218) 375‐2600 Fax: (218) 375‐2603

www.welrp.org

MISSION

“The mission of the White Earth Land Recovery Project is to facilitate recovery of the original land base of the White Earth Indian Reservation, while preserving and restoring traditional

practices of sound land stewardship, language fluency, community development and the strengthening of our spiritual and cultural heritage.”

Native Harvest Ojibwe Wind 607 Main Avenue 607 Main Avenue PO Box 97 PO Box 97 Callaway, MN 56521 Callaway, MN 55621 Toll-free: 800-973-9870 Toll-free: 800-973-9870 Phone: 218-375-2600 Phone: 218-375-2600 Fax: 218-375-2603 Fax: 218-375-2603 www.nativeharvest.com www.welrp.org

Niijii Broadcasting Niijii Radio—KKWE 607 Main Avenue PO Box 97 Callaway, MN 56521 Toll-free: 800-973-9870 Phone: 218-375-2012 Fax: 218-375-2603 www.niijiiradio.org

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