Bodwé Professional Services Group

This week, we are pleased to share this recognition of a Bodwé team member who has demonstrated one of our seven core values outside the office. Senior Interior Designer Amber Anderson at Seven Generations Architecture & Engineering went out of her way to help her colleagues get clean drinking water during a main water break in Grand Rapids back in March. Read about Amber’s selfless act of Love in the included graphic.  Thank you, Amber, for your commitment to the Bodwé Values in support of our mission to grow the economy and legacy of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi. Learn more about Bodwé Group, our mission, and our tribal ownership at the Pokagon Band by visiting https://lnkd.in/g5kiyjD9. #WéCulture #Values #EmployeeAppreciation #SupportingTribes #IndigenousDesign #AECcareers #Leadership 

The Infrastructure Branch of the Bodwé Group has experienced expansion and growth in recent years, and we are now seeking a new leadership team member who will drive the performance and growth of this branch in the federal realm. This position will be pivotal within the Bodwé family of companies and will be responsible for key areas such as Strategic Management, Financial Management, Federal Client Relationship Management Operations, Team Leadership, Project Management, Federal Contracting and Compliance, and General Compliance, Risk, and Governance Management. If you or someone you know is a proven leader in infrastructure and civil engineering, have a proven ability to manage federal contracts, a deep familiarity with FAR, DFAR, SAM.gov, small business set-asides, and joint ventures, and existing relationships with both federal agencies and large infrastructure businesses, we invite you to learn more about our open Civil Engineering Federal Program Director position: https://lnkd.in/gchXb38X Working for the #TriballyOwned #ProfessionalServices Bodwé Group is truly a different experience than working with other engineering firms, starting with our mission to grow the economy and legacy of our tribal ownership at the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi. We are eager to continue growing our team of professionals who are interested in experiencing a career with a bigger purpose and invite everyone to learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gGqEEiK. #Recruiting #Engineering #CivilEngineering #AECcareers #JobOpportunity #Leadership #FederalEngineering

If you live in the Rapid City or Great Plains area, have ties back to that region, or are interested in learning more about the historic preservation activities that 7GAE completed regarding the historic facilities that existed on the site of the newly constructed Oyate Health Center, be sure to consider attending today’s presentation hosted virtually via Microsoft Teams at 3pm EST (1pm MT): https://lnkd.in/gi5g8E7R #Mitigation #CulturalSustanability #IndianCountry #RapidCityHistory #OralHistory #IndigenousHistory #RapidCity  

One of the final tasks as part of the Rapid City Mitigation Activities at the Oyate Health Center (OHC) is conducting presentations to share this important history with the public. Led by Alexander Hokkanen and J. Scott Winchester, sessions for the Rapid City community were held while work on the OHC was still underway. More recently, Alex and Scott presented at the South Dakota Historical Society’s annual conference. Now, the 7GAE team is days away from holding a virtual presentation that encourages attendance from tribal citizens spread across west-river South Dakota. We invite anyone interested in hearing a more in-depth explanation of our team’s collective work to participate in the presentation this Friday, July 19, at 3pm EST (1pm MT). Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gi5g8E7R  Individuals who wish to learn more but can’t make the virtual session can read "The Journey of the Rapid City Mitigation Project” on our website: https://lnkd.in/gbnW7tKV #HistoricalPreservation #PictorialDisplay #CulturalHeritage #CommunityImpact #MitigationActivities #SouthDakota #TriballyOwned 

Part of the work that we across the Bodwé Group always take great pride in is our ability to partner with the communities where we complete projects. To complete our work in a good way across all project types, but especially those involving difficult pasts, we must first make an exceptionally concerted effort to educate ourselves. The work that Seven Generations Architecture & Engineering is currently performing is part of a larger effort to preserve the history of the Sioux Sanatorium and Rapid City Indian School. It was deeply humbling to have been entrusted with the personal and familial recollections of community members to have the opportunity to learn from them. These stories bolstered the archive research we conducted at institutions across the country. We are excited to share our work completed in collaboration with the Rapid City community! Learn more about Friday’s presentation and consider attending: https://lnkd.in/gi5g8E7R #Mitigation #CulturalSustanability #IndianCountry #RapidCityHistory #OralHistory #IndigenousHistory #RapidCity  https://lnkd.in/gy4g6tF6

Thank you to Seven Generations Architecture & Engineering for supporting the Kalamazoo Nature Center as they spotlight Indigenous communities and history, an effort directly aligned with Bodwé’s mission to support the #CulturalSustainability of Tribes and Native persons across the country. Tonight’s lecture is sold out, which illustrates how much interest there is in learning more about traditional Indigenous knowledge and how we can all work together to heal our planet. We can’t wait to hear how the day goes for team members representing 7GAE and Bodwé Group at today’s events!  #IndigenousKnowledge #EnvironmentalStewardship #CommunityEvents #Kalamazoo #NatureExhibition  https://lnkd.in/gKPV_weJ 

We invite all who are interested in learning more about the history of the site of the newly constructed Oyate Health Center in Rapid City, South Dakota, to participate in next week’s virtual presentation, “Historic Preservation on the Oyate Health Center Campus: Rapid City Indian School and Sioux Sanatorium,” which will be hosted via Microsoft Teams on Friday, 3pm EST (1pm MT): https://lnkd.in/gi5g8E7R #Mitigation #CulturalSustanability #IndianCountry #RapidCityHistory #OralHistory #IndigenousHistory #RapidCity  

As writer Diana Budds points out in her recent article for The Architect's Newspaper, there is a lot of design work happening in communities across Indian Country – but not enough Indigenous architects to do it. With quotes from various Indigenous design professionals, this story brings attention to the challenges Indigenous people face in a Western-influenced industry and how they are leaning into their cultural identity and beliefs to guide them through each design project. We encourage everyone to read the article here: https://lnkd.in/gZ_VN7rn As a #triballyowned family of companies deeply rooted in the world of design, we are always consciously aware of the need for Indigenous architects. Working to support the mission to grow the economy and legacy of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, Bodwé Group proudly participates in Mno-Bmadsen’s Pathways Program, an initiative that empowers tribal youth and adults and provides them with resources to gain meaningful employment. As we continue to push for increased representation of Indigenous people in STEM-related fields, especially within the AEC industry, we invite others to learn more about the Pathways Program by visiting: https://lnkd.in/gvmD6mW5. #AECcareers #CareerExploration #DesignProfessionals #Architecture #Engineering #IndigenousDesign #DiversityinDesign

With historical context gathered, the Seven Generations Architecture & Engineering team working on the Rapid City Mitigation Project activities proposed a new way to share the important background of the Oyate Health Center (OHC) site in Rapid City, SD. They designed, curated, and installed an interactive interpretive display for community members to explore their shared history while accessing care at the OHC. Equipped with touch-enabled monitors and audio capability, the interpretive display brings to life each narrator’s oral history, and the press timeline offers a glimpse into what was happening in and around the Rapid City area throughout history.  Learn what challenges the team had to overcome to ensure the installation went up in time by reading “The Journey of the Rapid City Mitigation Project” on our website now: https://lnkd.in/gbnW7tKV. We are also excited to share information about an upcoming virtual presentation by Alexander Hokkanen and J. Scott Winchester, who will detail our team’s collective work on the mitigation activities, including what went into the creation and installation of the interpretive display. Learn more about next week’s presentation here: https://lnkd.in/gi5g8E7R  #HistoricalPreservation #PictorialDisplay #CulturalHeritage #CommunityImpact #MitigationActivities #SouthDakota #TriballyOwned 

Begun in 2019, Seven Generations Architecture & Engineering is now nearing the completion of #mitigation activities related to the construction of the new Oyate Health Center, and next week, Alex and Scott will present the findings of this work during a virtual presentation hosted on Microsoft Teams. We hope to have interested parties join the presentation, and we invite everyone to learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gi5g8E7R We also invite everyone to learn more about the project by reading a recently published blog post about this monumental project: https://lnkd.in/gbnW7tKV #Mitigation #CulturalSustanability #IndianCountry #RapidCityHistory #OralHistory #IndigenousHistory #RapidCity https://lnkd.in/geu8v-hi