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Indian Country
Technology News & Updates
Fall 2011 |
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| 2011-12 Upcoming Events |
NCAI 68th Annual Convention;
October 30-November 4, Portland, OR
United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc. (USET) Annual Meeting & Expo;
November 7-10, Choctaw, MS
12th Annual TribalNet;
November 14-17, Scottsdale, AZ
RiteTrack Enrollment Module Webinar;
November 18, 2-3 p.m. MDT, online
National American Indian Housing Council (NAIHC) 2011 Legal Symposium;
December 6-8, Las Vegas, NV
Western Regional WIA Conference;
January 23-26, San Diego, CA |
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| Greetings! | |
Welcome to our fall newsletter. As usual, we want to share the latest news and trends in information technology for Indian Tribes. We have a new webcast with lots of great content.
Later this month we will be at the annual TribalNet conference. If you are planning to be at the Talking Stick Resort in Scottsdale, stop by our exhibit. In addition, I will be presenting a session about social media and how Tribes are utilizing social networking. Please attend the presentation if you are at the TribalNet Conference.
As always, we welcome your feedback on Handel Quarterly. Don't hesitate to drop me a note.
Take care for now,
Even
President & CEO
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Cloud Computing for
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Cloud Computing: Benefits and Security Concerns
Ram Patrachari--VP of IT--Viejas
Advanced technnologies and their quick adoption are disrupting the traditional business models. Tribes have to think strategically about how to prepare their organizations for the challenging and fast paced environment. Technology landscape has continued to evolve rapidly especially over the last few years.
The rapidly shifting technology environment creates serious challenges as well as opportunities for tribal and enterprise executives on how to capitalize on the monumental changes under way.
What is Cloud Computing?
 Cloud computing services are shared resources offered and maintained by a third party to multiple IT "tenants" or organziations. It is an evolution in which IT consumption and delivery are made available in a self-service fashion via the Internet or Intranet, with a flexible pay-as-you-go business model.
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The Second Mouse Gets the Cheese
Getting Better Return on Your Information | |
A mouse walks up to a piece of cheese. The cheese happens to be sitting inside a loaded mousetrap. The first mouse pays  with his life. The second mouse comes around and eats the cheese. Here is the life-or-death question: Did the second mouse get the cheese simply because he was lucky, or did he use the information provided by his very dead pal to determine it was safe to eat the cheese? We will probably never know the answer. While most information will not yield life or death results, there is no doubt that better information generally leads to better outcomes for all parties.
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Bitter Fight to Determine Who is an American Indian Turns to DNA Testing
Indian Country Today Media Network | |
The onset of casino gaming brought great change in Indian country, but it also created unexpected--and frequently heated--arguments over Indian identity: What makes somebody a member of a tribe, and how it is measured?
 Traditional metrics include tracing lineage from flawed base-membership rolls and sometimes complicated math of blood quantum. Over the past decade, some tribes have turned to DNA testing to make sure tribal members, and potential enrollees, are who they say they are--at least when it comes to parentage.
This trend has come to just a small number of tribes, perhaps 40 or 50 out of the 265 with gaming, one consultant on tribal government estimates, and just a sliver of the Indian nations overall. But the joined issues of Indian identity and the sharing of lucrative casino profits have had an outsized impact. Through DNA tests or other methods, thousands of Indian people have found them themselves disenrolled in recent years for failing to meet tribal criteria.
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RiteTrack Enrollment Module Webinar--
Reduce Difficulties and Provide Reliable Member Information
Handel Information Technologies | |
This webinar offers a complete view of Handel's new Enrollment module for Tribal applications.
The Enrollment module offers secure access to your tribal enrollment records over the web and can be hosted on your network or by Handel's world-class data center. Features to be demonstrated include:
 Member management - Family management
- Automated family tree generator
- Enrollment process management
- Base roll management
- Degree of Indian blood
- Address management with mapping capabilities
- Tribal ID card creation
- Document management
- Notes management
- Mail merge capability
- Mailing labels creation
- Pre-defined reports
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Elouise Cobell Remembered
Indian Country Today Media Network | |
When news broke that Elouise Cobell, the embodiment of a16-year battle with the United States government for Indian funds, died, Sunday night [October 16], the outpouring of memories started to circulate.
Below are excerpts from some of the e-mails Indian Country Today Media Network received:
President Barack Obama
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"Michelle and I were saddened to hear about the passing of Elouise Cobell yesterday. Elouise spoke out when she saw that the Interior Department had failed to account for billions of dollars that they were supposed to collect on behalf of more than 300,000 of her fellow Native Americans. Because she did, I was able to sign into law a piece of legislation that finally provided a measure of justice to those who were affected. That law also creates a scholarship fund to give more Native Americans access to higher education, and give tribes more control over their own lands. Elouise helped to strengthen the government-to-government relationship with Indian Country, and our thoughts and prayers are with her family, and all those who mourn her passing."
Richard B. Williams, president and CEO of American Indian College Fund
"The American Indian College Fund was saddened to hear of the passing of Elouise Cobell. We believe she was a warrior that embodied the Indian value of decision-making that considered seven generations into the future."
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Multiple Native Organizations Partner with Handel for Information Management Software Systems
Laramie, Wyo.-Oct. 1-Three Native organizations have contracted with Handel Information Technologies to proceed with various levels of a software design or implementation. These Native organizations are the
- Northwest Intertribal Court System
- Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
- Saginaw Chippewa Tribe's Anishnaabeg Child and Family Services Department
Located across the country, these Native organizations have a variety of needs that a new software system could help fulfill.
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Fall 2011 Webcast
Catch up with Handel and a juvenile assesment center customer and hear our VP of Sales tips for software procurement.
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New Employees | |
Handel feels priviledged to have added so much new talent this quarter. With a total of five new employees, this has been a busy hiring season for Handel. Click the employee picture to read the rest of their bios on our Web site.
 | | Luis Garcia-Software Engineer |
 | | Mike Shirley-Customer Solutions Specialist |
 | | Amos Purdy- Software Engineer |
 | | Pai Pang-Software Engineer |
 | | Scott Patrias-Software Engineer |
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If you have any questions regarding how RiteTrack has helped Tribes throughout Indian Country, give us a call and we would be happy to discuss where your Tribe could use RiteTrack.
Don't forget to forward this e-mail to others who may be interested in tribal technology news. If you e-mail Tracey Rosenlund and tell her your organization, she will send you an over-sized coffee mug for referrals from your organization.
Enjoy the cooler fall weather! Sincerely, Even Brande President & CEO
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