Inyan Hocoka Tipi Ki
Stone Family Resource Center
Community Based ~ Culturally Grounded ~ Resilience Resources
OUR TEAM
LUTI
DAVIS
Founder and Board Member
Rosebud Sioux Tribe
Luti is the Founder of Inyan Hocoka Tipi Ki and previously served as Executive Director since 2014. She resides in the Parmelee Community, Parmelee, SD. She has worked most of her life in areas of management and received her Master’s in Community Economic Development and Business Administration. She has completed her Doctoral in Business Administration and Accounting.
SUNRISE
BLACKBULL
Executive Director
Rosebud Sioux Tribe
Lakota Name- Anpetu Luta Win: Red Day Woman.
SunRise is a grandmother, mother and active member of the community. She is a water and Land protector who spent the last 17 years working with youth in various capacities including helping in create the Sicangu Youth Council. SunRise presents both locally and nationally on a wide variety of topics that focus on understanding of past and current trauma, and building resiliency and incorporating language, culture and spirituality in order to overcome obstacles. She teaches Psychology as an adjunct Professor at Sinte Gleska University.
SunRise co-founded Black Bull Gym where physical health and education were incorporated to help youth overcome bullying and teaching self defense to others who wanted to build self esteem. As a visionary and philanthropist, she uses available resources to give back to the people and is always thinking about the generations yet to come.
TONYA F. MASTEN
Board Member
Rosebud Sioux Tribe
Lakota Name- Anpetu Luta Win: Red Day Woman.
Tonya says, " First and foremost I am a mother, grandmother, daughter. My passion is helping our people." She was born and raised on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation her whole life. Tonya is a previous board member of White Buffalo Calf women’s society and a former youth advisor for Parmelee Community. She is an active parent of St. Francis Indian School. Her stated goal is to focus on healthy community, healthy individuals. Mind, body and spirit.
JAMES V.
GILBERTSON
Board Member
Rosebud Sioux Tribe
Lakota Name-Zuya Agli: Comes back from war
James is a retired U.S. Army Combat War Veteran who currently serves as a Corrections Officer for the Tribe. He has lived on the Rosebud Reservation for the last 11 years and has been married into the Black Bull family for 22 years.
After serving in the military, James moved to Rosebud and founded Black Bull Gym where he taught Boxing and Mixed Martial Arts to many children. At the gym, physical activity, healthy lifestyles, mentoring and bully prevention were included in the teachings he and his family shared with many children over 5 years of operation.
James is an active member of the community and his contributions to the organization will help create a health component which focuses on encouraging healthy life styles and changes.