HOTOKECA Digital News

03/03/2018

Mazopiye Market is now LIVE! Read more about how it came about.

  Mazopiye Market is now LIVE and signing up vendors! The initial creation of Mazopiye Market is done, so now its about building a solid foundation of vendors. Once vendors get on board, and add their products, the site will really take off. Features are limited until then. Since everything is new,...

02/03/2018

Mazopiye (Mah-ZO-pee-yay) Market explained.

So I’ve been working on building this marketplace and am nearing an official launch. I now have my business license. I’ve purchased a domain (www.mazopiye.com) and have the site nearly complete. If you go to the site, there’s not much there right now. I’m still working on testing the payment...

01/23/2018

Former Vice-Chair Donovan White speaks out about his Removal, his denied Appeal and more. Includes links to previous articles.

Hau Mitakuyapi, It’s been just over a year since I took office as the Vice-Chairman of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate after winning the election on a message of anti-corruption, and nearly as long since my Removal and lost appeal. I have been involved with Tribal politics for a long time. I have serv...

01/20/2018

12/24/2017

Mazopiye Market, an Online Marketplace for Native American vendors set to launch soon! Sell your products online at your very own store at Mazopiye Market! The site is still under construction with a target "Go Live" launch date of January 15. So all of you talented folks/entrepreneurs can start thinking about how to set up shop and start making some mazaska! Here's the Facebook link. The site itself is at www.mazopiye.com.

www.mazopiye.com

Mazopiye Market will be launching soon! Mazopiye (pronounced mah-ZO’-pee-yay) is a Dakotah Sioux word meaning “Marketplace”. (I know – Marketplace Market sounds redundant, but Mazopiye Market sounds pretty cool.) Mazopiye provides smaller vendors the opportunity to sell their wares to a worl...

12/05/2017

http://hotokeca.com/2017/12/05/the-cloud/

People often ask me, “What is the Cloud?” It’s kind of hard to define, but here are two aspects – Data Storage and Computing. Data Storage One aspect of The Cloud is for storing and accessing data. For example, in the “Olden Days”, I would buy movies at a store or rent them from a…

12/05/2017

http://hotokeca.com/2017/12/05/follies_servant_leadership/

Servant leadership is a philosophy and set of practices that enriches the lives of individuals, builds better organizations and ultimately creates a more just and caring world.¹ The Servant Leader philosophy fits in very well with traditional Dakotah Values. This kind of Leadership isn’t about ga...

12/05/2017

http://hotokeca.com/2017/12/04/swo-secretary-crystal-heminger-resigns/

Secretary Heminger resigned her elected position effective December 8, 2017. No official statement has been made as to why, although the geyapi is that Chairman Flute had a number of charges as basis for Removal if she didn’t resign. Although the charges don’t matter JUMP DRIVE, i...

11/27/2017

Mark Trahant / Trahant Reports Congress has yet to reenact the Children’s Health Insurance Program and states will soon run out of funds to prop up the program. That will mean that thousands …

11/07/2017

Should have built a data center...

I propose that the SWO build a Data Center utilizing the settlement funds we recently received. What is a Data Center? A data center is a physical building that is connected to the Internet. Inside the data center are multiple computer servers and other equipment needed to store, manage and process…