Pawnee Community Survey
 

1. Pawnee Nation Community Survey

 
Nawa, the following six (6) categories were identified on December 15, 2011, at the Community Planning Session held at the Roam Chief Building in Pawnee. Below we have provided a list of comments received under each category to assist you to understand the thinking of those making comments at the Community Session. Please provide additional comments in the text box at the end of each category. Finally, please prioritize each category from 1 through 6, with 1 being the highest priority. A strategic plan for the Pawnee Nation is being developed based on these responses and any other further input from this survey. We need your input, please respond so your voice can be heard. Thank you!

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Are you a member of the Pawnee Nation?

Education:

1) More Higher Education financial assistance
2) Annual Appropriation and Accreditation for Pawnee Tribal College
3) Language programs for all ages
4) Garner community support/donations through visual means (Thermometer)
5) Paint the Green Bridge
6) Produce a CD of Tribal Hymns
7) Education from the ground-up: Baby to life
8) Pawnee language courses for community
9) Encore Type tutoring
10) College Mentors
11) Honoring Treaty rights
12) Nebraska Lands

Culture:

1) Cultural center/ Planetarium Observatory/Museum (form a committee)
2) Bring together Elders and Youth for Mentoring, sharing culture, language,
wisdom, and respect
3) Map earth lodges in this area
4) Build earth lodge
5) Genealogy
6) Culture Revitalization
7) Map of all gravesites w/markers, idenfication of each, north cemetary.
8) Survey gravesites.
9) Honoring treaty rights
10) Language Preservation
11) Youth Choir
12) Sharing Lifeways, ie., cooking, and way of life
13) Spirituality -- enhance youth groups (such as "meet at the pole")
14) Nebraska Lands.

Health and Wellness:

1) Substance Abuse rehab-meth
2) Outreach and education, inform community, involve entire community
3) Health care, CHS, access to primary care, ease of filling Rx's,
responsiveness when calling, meds not on formulary,
4) After hours medical (who to call)
5) Employee health benefits
6) Urgent care for the entire community
7) Diabetes Center, therapy sucs/pool, education
8) Sex education/STD
9) Youth specific substance abuse
10) Recreation for all ages, sports, leagues, leisure, (water park idea)
11) Youth outreach and peer to peer groups
12) Mental Health for youth (CREOKS)
13) Honoring Treaty Rights in healthcare

Economic Development:

1) Diversify from gaming
2) Liveable, sustainable economical development
3) More skilled jobs
4) Sustainable Agriculture program (farming and ranching)
5) Infrastructure: roads, water, utilities, broadband
6) Restaurant, hotel, laundry, grocery store (economic development ideas)
7) Transit system for community.
8) Recycling/transfer station
9) Tourism
10) RV Park
11) Gift shop
12) People's market
13) Develop a 5-year plan for the Pawnee Nation Tribal Development Corp. (TDC)
14) Nebraska Lands.

Social Services:

1) Human Trafficking and Domestic Violence
2) Adult Day Care
3) Self-Sufficiency - Livability
4) Ombudsman for Elders (Assistance with navigating financial and health care issues)
5) Youth Community Center: Keeping youth involved productively,
apprenticeships (business), Cultural Activities, Fitness and Recreation
6) Recreation/Organized Sports or Leagues for physical Activity,
waterpark
7) Re-Entry Program for Incarcerated individuals
8) Veterans Center: Connection to Services, Housing, Counseling, post-traumatic stress disorder and employment services
9) Grief Services
10) Assistance with utilities for Elders
11) Emergency Assistance for Tribal members: Utilities, Rent, Auto Payments
and medical
12) Build cohesive Families: Healthy families and Relationships
13) Early Childhood parenting support: 1-on-1, skills and education
14) Support for single parents
15) Probate assistance
16) Legal Services
17) Tribal Resource Directory
18) Elder Health
19) Transportation
20) Aging Care/Respite care
21) Storm Shelter or Safe Room
22) Burial Policy
23) Personal Finance Class
24) Al-Ateen/Al-Anor
25) Youth Life Skills

Housing:

1) Senior housing for low-income elders
2) Sustainable Housing
3) Flexible Housing: Affordable, Housing Opportunities, Assistance with
maintenance, apartments, housing services, other forms of
homeownership and extermination assistance
4) Housing Improvement Program
5) Homeowners Insurance
6) Housing Rehabilitation
7) Home renovation classes
8) Storm Shelters
9) Nebraska Lands

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Rank each of the following categories, from numbers 1 through 6, with 1 being the highest priority to you.

 1st - Highest Priority2nd - Next to Highest Priority3rd - Middle Priority4th - Middle Priority5th - Next to Lowest Priority6th - Lowest Priority
Education
Culture
Health and Wellness
Econonmic Development
Social Services
Housing

Please tell us about your priorities for the Pawnee Nation that are not listed above.

Do you have any other comments about the Pawnee Nation strategic plan?

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