HERITAGE
“God made me, and I am a man.” – Chief Standing Bear
PRESERVATION
O’ Great Spirit
TRADITION
“When you are in doubt, be still, and wait…” – Chief White Eagle
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
October 2019
15
October
8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Healing Arts Showcase
October 4 from 5-8 p.m.
Vision Focused Counseling
4830 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 101
Lincoln, NE
October 7-30 from 8 a.m. – 4:30 pm.
Ponca Tribe Lincoln Office
1701 E Street
Lincoln, NE
For several months, the Lincoln office location has been hosting Healing Arts Sessions to combat domestic violence. Community members have created many wonderful art pieces that we are now privileged to be able to share with the general public. Please come and enjoy the creativity and hard work of our participants!
16
October
8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Healing Arts Showcase
October 4 from 5-8 p.m.
Vision Focused Counseling
4830 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 101
Lincoln, NE
October 7-30 from 8 a.m. – 4:30 pm.
Ponca Tribe Lincoln Office
1701 E Street
Lincoln, NE
For several months, the Lincoln office location has been hosting Healing Arts Sessions to combat domestic violence. Community members have created many wonderful art pieces that we are now privileged to be able to share with the general public. Please come and enjoy the creativity and hard work of our participants!
16
October
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Theater Group Presentation – Norfolk
Northeast Cox Activity Center
801 E. Benjamin Ave.
Norfolk, NE
Project Harmony’s theater group will present: Working With Families-Seeing the Whole Picture/A Story of Surviving Trauma.
For more information, please contact Donna Wolff at 402.371.8834, or email dwolff@poncatribe-ne.org.
16
October
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Elders Meal (Sioux City)
16
October
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Elders Sewing Circle – Omaha (New Location)
Weekly on Wednesday until July 4, 2019.
Elders Sewing Circles will be every Wednesday with 6-week sessions, each focusing on a different project. Light refreshments will be served.
Session 1 -Ribbonwork Skirts
Session 2 – Shawls
Session 3 – Moccasins
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NEWS & LINKS
The Ponca Professional Enrichment Program (PEP) has partnered with UNMC for Cancer Biology & You Day. This is a great opportunity for students interested in a career in health care. For more in…
The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska Domestic Violence Program is now offering parenting classes twice a year at all their office locations. These are 2-day classes, 4 hours each day. Ponca Tribe parenting c…
Wayne State College and the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska are partnering to offer a support group for those who have lost a loved one to suicide. This is not a support group for those who have attempted s…
During Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska Domestic Violence Program will be hosting a survivor of domestic violence, sharing her story. This presentation will be offered …
The Project Harmony Theater Group, in conjunction with the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska Domestic Violence Program will present: Working with Families – Seeing the Whole Picture/A Story of Surviving Tra…
WE, THE MEMBERS OF THE PONCA TRIBE OF NEBRASKA
in order to restore, preserve and protect all rights aboriginally held by our people and their descendants, promote peace, prosperity, happiness, and the general welfare of the members of our Tribe and our posterity, to exercise home rule, to assert our inherent sovereignty, to protect our right of self-government, to conserve custom, to improve our social order, to protect our rights as individuals, to promote our economic welfare, to promote domestic tranquility, to promote business enterprises both cooperative and individual, to promote educational opportunities for all Ponca people, to consolidate our land holdings by purchase, exchange, transfer, gift, or otherwise, do ordain and establish this Constitution in accordance with our inherent sovereignty, and all previous aboriginal rights of our members and Treaties previously entered into with the United States of America.
from the Preamble of the Ponca Constitution
