{"id":5594,"date":"2020-12-09T17:08:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T22:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=5594"},"modified":"2020-12-09T17:16:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T22:16:54","slug":"charmaine-white-face-health-care-remains-our-treaty-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/12\/09\/charmaine-white-face-health-care-remains-our-treaty-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Charmaine White Face: Health care remains our treaty right"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1089\" data-attachment-id=\"5597\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/12\/09\/charmaine-white-face-health-care-remains-our-treaty-right\/charmainewhiteface\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/09\/charmainewhiteface.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1500,1089\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"charmainewhiteface\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Charmaine White Face in her home in Rapid City, South Dakota. Photo by Richie Richards \/ Native Sun News Today&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/09\/charmainewhiteface-1024x743.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/09\/charmainewhiteface.jpg\" alt=\"charmainewhiteface\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5597\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Charmaine White Face in her home in Rapid City, South Dakota. Photo by <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2015\/08\/14\/native-sun-news-lakota-activis.asp>Richie Richards \/ Native Sun News Today<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">Gilbert v. Weahkee Dismissed<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Wednesday, December 9, 2020<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"byline\">By Charmaine White Face (Zumila Wobaga)<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nFor those not familiar with <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2019\/05\/23\/charmaine-white-face-divide-and-conquer.asp><EM>Gilbert v. Weahkee<\/em><\/a>, here is a very brief summary.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe U.S. Indian Health Service under the direction of Michael Weahkee entered into a Public Law (P.L.) 93-638 contract for the management of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihs.gov\/greatplains\/healthcarefacilities\/rapidcity\/\">Sioux San IHS <\/a>facility in Rapid City, South Dakota, with a non-profit corporation. The Sioux San serves 28,000 patients from 305 tribes. All of these patients live in Rapid City or the nearby area. The contract was and is a clear violation of P.L. 93-638, a federal law, as a federal agency can only enter into such a contract with a Tribe or a Tribal Organization.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n The non-profit corporation on the contract is NOT a Tribe or a Tribal Organization and is under the jurisdiction of the state of South Dakota which is known for its anti-American Indian stance. Little wonder as all of western South Dakota is STILL Indian land under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourdocuments.gov\/doc.php?flash=false&#038;doc=42\">1868 Fort Laramie Treaty<\/a>. Health care is also a right under that Treaty.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<figure>\r\n<IMG class=\"img-fluid wow fadeIn\" \r\nsrc=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2018\/07\/16\/siouxsanhospitalmain.jpg\" \r\nitemprop=\"image\"><\/IMG> <FIGCAPTION class=figure-caption>The main entrance to \r\nthe Sioux San Hospital, an Indian Health Service facility in Rapid City, South \r\nDakota. \r\nPhoto by <A href=\"\/m.asp?url=https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kevin_Abourezk\">Kevin Abourezk <I aria-hidden=true class=\"fab  fa-twitter\"><\/I><\/A>\r\n <\/FIGCAPTION><\/figure>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nIn April, 2018, the headlines in the local Rapid City Journal said that the three nearest Tribes were going to take over the Sioux San Hospital. Many of us were very alarmed because we knew that more than fifty (50) years ago, it was the Rapid City American Indian Community who lobbied Congress and were able to have the Sioux San established as an IHS Hospital. \r\n<p><\/p>\r\nPrior to that time, in the mid-1960s, the Rapid City American Indian Community had NO health care as the Reservation IHS Hospitals would not accept patients living in Rapid City even though they were tribal members and Rapid City is on treaty land. \r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe Tribes on the reservations did not help their own members to have the Sioux San made into a hospital after the federal government no longer needed it as a national tuberculosis sanitarium. So why were the three nearest Tribes doing this now?\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nWhen more information came out that it was a non-profit corporation established by IHS in the state of South Dakota that was receiving the multi-million dollar contract from IHS, then those people who knew the law, P.L. 93-638, knew that this contract was unlawful and illegal. They also knew that the local Tribes were being used by IHS as a front for this illegal activity.\r\n<p><\/p><div class=\"mt-1 mb-1\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8411603009680747\" data-ad-slot=\"6394965691\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/div><p><\/p>\r\nUntil the <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2019\/07\/18\/tribes-prepare-for-historic-management-o.asp>contract was a reality<\/a>, no one could stop it in federal court. Donna M. Gilbert, Julie Mohney, and the author filed in federal court in SD Western District asking for an injunction of this illegal contract. Patrick Lee, Esq., was our pro bono attorney. Eventually the case was dismissed. \r\n<P><\/p>\r\nNo surprise. Remember, this is South Dakota even when it is a federal court. An <a href=https:\/\/turtletalk.blog\/2020\/07\/20\/eighth-circuit-briefs-in-gilbert-v-weahkee-ihs-contract\/>appeal was filed in the Eighth Circuit Appellate Court<\/a> in St. Louis, Missouri.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nOn December 4, 2020, an <a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/09\/201484U.pdf>electronic notice from the Eighth Circuit<\/a> said: <a href=https:\/\/gptchb.org\/news\/challenge-to-health-boards-legal-status-dismissed\/>\u201cDismissal of plaintiffs&#8217; action challenging a tribal organization&#8217;s contract with the Indian Health Service affirmed without comment.\u201d<\/a>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nWhat this shows is that now the 8th Circuit Appellate Court is participating in illegal, criminal activity. Our evidence was overwhelming that this non-profit corporation, the Great Plains Tribal Leaders Health Board, is a non-profit corporation. Even the South Dakota Judge, Jeffrey Viken, in his last response to our motion to the 8th Circuit Appellate Court, admitted that this was a non-profit corporation. The law is clear that it must be a Tribe or Tribal Organization not a non-profit corporation.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\" content_cards_card content_cards_domain_www-facebook-com\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content_cards_image\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_image_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gptchb\/posts\/1601630520046740\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ads\/image\/?d=AQJuO_wt7Ph6lIHHzwiqULDhfDWpIjpcmCEscjZ9XsGVKSxTXDD6PdEqe9rxsDenPbPhZsGyOKJ44hljhM7O5kp6PoX7aIX-L2ZwwKpGJ0vZtVzkGicKZcvMkqqZ_Ioq5yM34sxGB7qqWwtbTOLa97Nb\" alt=\"Great Plains Tribal Leaders Health Board\">\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_title\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_title_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gptchb\/posts\/1601630520046740\">\n\t\t\tGreat Plains Tribal Leaders Health Board\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_description\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_description_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gptchb\/posts\/1601630520046740\">\n\t\t\t<p>For the second time, the Eighth Circuit upheld the decision of the United States District Court in Rapid City, which found that the GPTLHB is a \u201ctribal organization\u201d under federal law because it is&#8230;<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_site_name\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/y1\/r\/ay1hV6OlegS.ico\" alt=\"www.facebook.com\" class=\"content_cards_favicon\"\/>\t\twww.facebook.com\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nWhat is the use of having laws if they can be violated by a federal agency AND the federal courts? Or is this the same-ole same-ole by the federal government that the U. S. Constitution and the law doesn\u2019t matter if it only affects American Indians?\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nWe need an excellent lawyer to help us go on to the Supreme Court. We also need someplace in the federal system to be able to file criminal charges against IHS, the local federal court, and the 8th Circuit Appellate Court as they are ALL violating a federal law, P.L. 93-638. \r\n<p><\/p>\r\nAnd when the Winter Holy Day is here, we need to continue our prayers for the good health of all the people.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"h5-responsive sub\">8th Circuit Court of Appeals Decision<\/div>\r\n<a href=https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/09\/201484U.pdf>Gilbert v. Weahkee<\/a> (December 8, 2020)\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<HR><EM>Charmaine White Face or Zumila Wobaga, (73) is an Oglala Tituwan Oceti Sakowin great-grandmother, scientist, writer, and organizer. She can be reached at cwhiteface@gmail.com<\/em><HR>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is this the same-ole same-ole by the federal government that the U. S. 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