Bio: Buker, Tillie (Indian Ministry – 1971)

Transcriber: Ronald Olson posted4u@charter.net 

Surnames: Buker

----Source: Tribune/Record/Gleaner (Loyal, Wis.) 18 Feb 1971

On January 24, 1971, the Winnebago Indian Mission Church, Black River Falls, Wisconsin, held their annual meeting. At that meeting I was one of the three members who were elected to be representatives to the National Council of American Indian Ministry of North and South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

The first meeting I attended was in Bismarck, North Dakota on January 30-31. On Friday the two other representatives and I flew from Eau Claire to the Twin Cities and on to Bismarck. What a cold and windy day. We arrived at the Grand Pacific Hotel, where we stayed.

The conference room (Little Ponderosa) was in the basement of the same building, also the lunchroom and dining rooms. It was all very pleasant and all new and exciting to me.

I had met most of the council members at a meeting in Black River last summer when I was just a visitor.

This council is composed of nine members, three youth representatives, one from each area, the Executive Director and a Liaison consultant UCBHM, New York.

In February 1970, a meeting of Indians and white United Church leaders agreed upon a plan by which the Indian people can take the initiative in developing and administering future programs for the American Indians. The members, all Indians from North and South Dakota Reservations, and Wisconsin.

They are to handle all monies coming in and designated to Indian Ministry, for pastors salaries and to keep up the churches. This money is also used for youth and scholarships for those who otherwise cannot afford to go on to school after graduating from high school.

Rural areas where the people may form cooperatives, where they may sell their baskets and beadwork and wood carvings or any other sorts of art that has been a tradition of our people.

Being a new member of this council, things are very new to me and I have so much to learn, but it is all very interesting. This report is a very brief and rewarding experience to me.

Our next meeting will be in Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 17-18.

(The above article has been submitted by Mrs. Tillie Buker, who is a Green Light worker at the Greenwood Community Schools – Clark Co., Wis.).

 

 

 


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