Omaha and Ponca Indian, Dwight is a Marine Corps Veteran who is enrolled Omaha Indian, but raised Ponca. As an educator, Dwight provides cultural presentations that can be adapted to effectively reach all age groups. Presentations are unique in regards to their reflections of the past while offering a contemporary insight to American Indians in today's society while endeavoring to promote cultural sensitivity for the Native American Indian.
Saturday, July 21, 2007
ADVISORY BOARD members gather outside the freshly rehabilitated activity building for the Ponca Tribal Youth Program after a recent planning session. Called "We Thi Pi" (meaning "To Change") in the Ponca language, the program for at-risk youth is in the first (planning) year of a four-year, $300,000 grant funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention at the U.S. Department of Justice. From left, are board members: Ed Henderson, Boy Scouts; Susan Powell, Ponca City School District; Ruslyn Hermanson, AmeriCorps United Way; Vearl Caid, Northern Oklahoma Youth Services; technical advisor Rebecca Murdock, Fox Valley Technical College of Neenah, Wis.; Marilyn Epley, Ponca Tribe; Dwight Howe, Program Director; James LeClair, Police Chief, White Eagle Police Dept.; and, Clayton Johnson, Police Chief, Ponca City Police Dept. (News Photo by Rolf Clements)