Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe | Gordon Weston Indian Veterans Lodge Members

These members participate in the Color Guard, Veteran funeral services, Honorings, Memorials and practice traditional values, culture and language. The members are veterans of WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Granada and Desert Storm.

The Gordon Weston Indian Veterans Lodge has annual obligations for school pow-wows, Dakota Annual Wacipi’s, intertribal conferences, veteran functions, and provides cultural awareness in the community. Their operating budget is based on donations and honorariums.

The Lodge was given the honor to care for an Eagle Staff that represents the 38 Mdewakanton’s that were executed at Mankato, Minnesota on December 26, 1862, shortly after the Minnesota Uprising. The Eagle Staff was presented to the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe by the Lower Sioux Tribe, Morton, Minnesota in 1998 and represents the struggle of the Indian people to survive. It was given to the Post to be carried by the family of Ernest Wabasha who was one of the hereditary Chiefs of the Mdewakanton Tribe. The Eagle Staff is carried by the Color Guard at all pow-wows and functions.

Email address for the Veterans Lodge: edrc@fsst.org

phones: 605-997-3891/605-997-9979 or cell number 605-864-1583

Membership Application and Policies/Procedures

Martin Bernard First Commander Vietnam Era, Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe	Walter Jones First Vice Commander, Korean Era Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe	Sam Allen, Sr. Secretary/Treasurer Vietnam Era Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe
Thomas R. Allen, Jr. Vietnam Era Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe	Darryl Knight Vietnam Era Turtle Mt. Band of Chippewa	Francis Wakeman, Jr.. Vietnam Era Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe
Randy Bernard Panama Era Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe	Ron Gourneaux Vietnam Era Turtle Mt. Band of Chippewa	Lee Taylor. Vietnam Era Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe
Myron Taylor Vietnam Era Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe	Victor Allen Turtle Mt. Band of Chippewa	Everett Weston. Vietnam Era Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe
David Williams Vietnam Era Yankton Sioux Tribe	Scott Anderson Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe	Darrel Decoteau. Vietnam Era Turtle Mt. Band of Chippewa
Charles E. Jones Desert Storm Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe	Gordon Jones, Sr. WWII & Korean Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe	Bill Canku. Potawatomi
Perry Bobtail Bear Vietnam Era Standing Rock Sioux Tribe	Basil Heth Vietnam Era Yankton Sioux Tribe	Raymond Redwing. Vietnam Era Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe
Christopher Christianson Desert Storm & Operation Freedom-Iraqi Sisseton Wahpeton	Guy Paul Zephier Yankton Sioux Tribe	Art Cartwright. Turtle Mt. Band of Chippewa
Sid Byrd Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe

Gordon Weston Indian Veterans Lodge Members

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