Fort Yates

We ended up moving into a hotel for a short period of time, uh, in Mobridge, South Dakota.

And my brother and I, um, road with some friends of my dad's to school every day from Mobridge, South Dakota to Fort Yates, North Dakota.

And I don't recall how long the drive was.

Well, with housing issues, we ended up getting a house in Mobridge.

But they might have 638-ed their health care system, too.

Fort Yates has not, I don't believe.

I think it's still the federal government that runs that facility in Fort Yates.

You've got the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Forest Service.

You think overseeing agricultural loans, rural infrastructure grants, public land boundaries, bordering reservation lands, those types of things.

If you would give those a look over and I'll talk through some of what they discuss in our lecture today.

And so whether you are planning to manage a tribal enterprise in Kichitahamska in Fort Yates or oversee maybe commercial construction in Kakapiwakpa, Cannonball.

Maybe you're looking to direct health operations in Matoakichita in McLaughlin, right? Or maybe your own venture near Rock Creek.

Wherever you are, human resources and employment law represent, likely represent, your single largest operational liability, okay? And your greatest operational asset.

They could cancel commercial permits if there's been like some sort of non-compliance with tribal labor standards.

And so these bodies really do have a lot of power.

So I want to close up this section by talking you through kind of an example problem, okay? So we've got a non-Indian administrative manager who's employed at a tribally-owned healthcare facility incorporated as subordinate arm of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in Fort Yates, okay? And that person is terminated for performance issues, all right? The manager then files a Title VII...

race discrimination charge with the federal EEOC and sues the tribal enterprise in federal district court.

Wow.

They take a bunch of buses, for instance, down to the Catholic Indian Mission, uh, in Fort Yates.

Uh, all of the different service and, and, um, uh, and charity organizations in town benefit from our students.

So I'm thinking here about, uh, soup kitchens, and homeless shelters, and nursing homes, and, um, the, the MSA United Way, uh, really benefits.