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Arthur Raymond (Ray) Halbritter (born 1951) is the current Nation Representative and CEO of Oneida Nation Enterprises. A member of the Oneida Indian Nation's Wolf Clan, he is a former ironworker.

Biography[edit]

Ray Halbritter, Nation Representative of the Oneida Indian Nation Inc. since 1975 and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its enterprises since 1990, has led the Oneida people to an economic and cultural renaissance during the past 30 years. His accomplishments include achieving federal government recognition of the Nation’s traditional form of government, creating numerous health and social programs for Nation Members, constructing new housing, and establishing education and culture programs. Halbritter earned his law degree from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Syracuse University.

An avid golfer, Halbritter passed the Players Ability Test, making him a golf pro apprentice, the first stage to become a member of the Professional Golfers Association.^[1]

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Under Halbritter’s leadership, the Oneida Nation endowed a professorship at Harvard Law School for teaching American Indian law,^[2] sponsored the “True Spirit of Thanksgiving,” the first-ever American Indian-sponsored float in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade,^[3] and earned the 2007 Condé Nast Johansens “Most Excellent Resort” award for all resorts in the U.S. and Canada.^[4] As one of the donors to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, the Oneida Indian Nation of New York had the fourth floor named in its honor. The Oneida Nation also hosts the PGA TOUR Turning Stone Resort Championship, the first regularly scheduled green PGA TOUR event to be held on tribal lands, which was honored for Best Branding and Signage in 2009.

The Oneida Nation’s businesses include Turning Stone Resort Casino, Yellow Brick Road Casino, Point Place Casino, the SavOn chain of convenience stores, and a media operation that encompasses Indian Country Today Media Network, the largest native national weekly newspaper in the U.S. and a media production company.

Halbritter is executive producer of a Grammy-nominated record album, Raccoon & Crawfish, and a 3-D animated exert short film, the animation of which won a Silver Davey Award, given to the best work by small firms worldwide. It was screened at Cannes Film Festival, as well as winning numerous awards in the U.S. and abroad, including top animation honors at Moondance Film Festival and Big Bear International Film Festival. Halbritter produced the World of American Indian Dance, which aired on NBC, in addition to interactive animated material on Oneida history that is used at the Utica Children’s Museum. He assisted Disney with native music background for the Walt Disney World July 4 Celebration.

Through its enterprises, the Nation has earned national and international recognition and honors, including Four Diamond ratings from AAA for the resort’s luxury hotels and one of its restaurants. It was named as the Academy of Country Music’s Casino of the Year. All three of Turning Stone’s championship-caliber golf courses were listed in Golfweek magazine’s list of Top 100 courses in the country, in addition to receiving multiple other golf awards. (A full list of golf awards is attached.) The Nation’s Atunyote Golf Course hosts both the Turning Stone Resort Championship and the annual Notah Begay III Foundation Challenge charity event, which Tiger Woods won in 2009.

Service[edit]

Halbritter is chairman of the Turning Stone Resort Championship and the Upstate New York Empowerment Fund, the charitable arm of the tournament, which has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for dozens of Central New York charities and civic groups. He serves on the boards of directors of the Environmental Media Association and the Harvard Native American Law Board. He is a member of the Recording Academy; the National Advisory Council for the American Indian Program at Cornell University; the National Congress of American Indians; and United South and Eastern Tribes.

Recognition[edit]

Halbritter was named one of Temple Adath Yeshurun’s Citizens of the Year in 2008. He also won the “Person of Achievement” Award from The Post-Standard (Syracuse), the Paul Harris Fellow Award from the Rotary Foundation, an award from the Rome Area Chamber of Commerce for “Outstanding Contribution to the Economic Vitality of the Community,” and the Central New York Sales & Marketing Executives Crystal Ball award, presented for business vision, commitment to improving the lives of his people, and the Nation’s economic contributions to Central New York. Syracuse University gave him its Distinguished Entrepreneur Award, and SU Basketball Coach Jim Boeheim presented Halbritter with the Coaches Vs. Cancer Basketball Award and honored him as Fan of the Year in 2009.

Washington Redskins Protest[edit]

Halbritter has been leading a vocal protest against the name of the NFL Washington Redskins team, calling it racially insensitive. On January 31, 2014 he met with the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights at U.N. headquarters in Manhattan^[5]

Criticism[edit]

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Critics inside the tribe have accused Halbritter of being a dictator, a heavy-handed leader who 'answers to no one,' according to Doug George-Kanentiio, the co-founder of the Native American Journalists Association.^[6] Halbritter's initiatives have been criticized by some Oneida, who say he has violated the Great Law of the Haudenosaunee by embracing gambling. They also fault him for selecting his own clan mothers and for creating a 'men's council,' both unheard-of practices in Haudenosaunee tradition.^[7]

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References[edit]

1. ^Official Approved Bio supplied by the Oneida Indian Nation, 2009
2. ^'Harvard Law School Announces Oneida Indian Nation Professorship'. Harvard University. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
3. ^'For Sixth Straight Year, Oneida Nation Float to be Featured in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade'. Oneida Indian Nation. Archived from the original on 2014-01-28. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
4. ^'Condé Nast Johansens Luxury Hotel Guide Announces Winners of their 2007'(PDF). GLODOW·NEAD COMMUNICATIONS, LLC. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2012-05-12.
5. ^http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/01/24/redskins-name-debate-reaches-united-nations/
6. ^Vargas, Theresa; Shin, Annys (November 17, 2013). 'Oneida Indian Nation is the tiny tribe taking on the NFL and Dan Snyder over Redskins name'. Washington Post.
7. ^'Christian Peacemaker Teams' Oneida Report'. 2014-06-20.

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Premier golfers are chipping in to help raise awareness and funding to address health and wellness concerns facing Native American communities during the annual event held at the award-winning Upstate New York resort.

Verona, NY (PRWEB)July 28, 2014

The Oneida Indian Nation today announced that golf legend Tiger Woods and an incredible field of accompanying PGA TOUR players will be teeing up with four-time PGA TOUR winner and golf analyst Notah Begay III for the seventh annual Notah Begay III Foundation (NB3F) Challenge. Returning to Turning Stone Resort Casino’s Atunyote® Golf Club on Wednesday, August 27, the star-studded field revealed today will include Woods, Jason Dufner, Jimmy Walker, Jonas Blixt, Angel Cabrera and Louis Oosthuizen, in addition to Begay.

The largest fundraising event across Indian Country, the Notah Begay III Foundation (NB3F) Challenge aims to reduce obesity and type 2 diabetes and support leadership development among Native American youth.

Longstanding partners like the Oneida Indian Nation have enabled the annual NB3F Challenge to raise more than $5 million since the tournament began in 2008, with all proceeds benefiting Native communities. Turning Stone Resort Casino, which hosts the NB3F Challenge, is an economic enterprise of the Oneida Indian Nation.

“It’s an honor to welcome Notah to once again use Oneida Nation homelands as a stage to shine a bright light on some of the major challenges facing Native children,” said Oneida Indian Nation Representative Ray Halbritter. “The work the Foundation is doing to underscore the importance of health and to provide brighter futures for our youth is something we respect and are proud to support. As leaders in Indian Country, we are reminded that our decisions and actions will impact future generations, which is why supporting Notah’s Foundation Challenge is so critically important as we work to confront the serious health challenges facing Native American youth.”

Begay said: “We are excited to announce an important shift in the focus of the Foundation from running programs to empowering Native communities by directing more strategic grant making, providing access to research and delivering advocacy on behalf of Indian Country. Our success over the past six years is due in large part to the success of this event and that gives us great optimism for what we will accomplish in the future. Thanks also to Oneida Indian Nation and all the passionate fans. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to return to Central New York and continue strengthening our partnership.”

Turning Stone, which has hosted the NB3F Challenge for several years, is an award-winning, four-season destination resort in Upstate New York. In addition to several PGA-level golf courses, Turning Stone offers world-class gaming, spa facilities, dining, entertainment and accommodations at its sprawling 3,400 acre facility.

It is predicted that half of Native children will develop type 2 diabetes in their lifetime, but NB3F is working hard to reverse that statistic. Since 2005, NB3F has piloted and evaluated comprehensive physical fitness and health programs, serving nearly 20,000 Native youth and families. Designing these models, which are easy to replicate and scale up or down, has laid the groundwork for NB3F to expand its services on a greater stage.

At the 2013 NB3F Challenge, with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and W.K. Kellogg Foundation, NB3F launched its national initiative, Native Strong: Healthy Kids, Healthy Futures. This initiative focuses on research, grantmaking and advocacy across Indian County, and has since provided seed money to Native communities in eight states and 20 tribal communities. The positive impact of programs funded by NB3F highlights the meaningful change Native communities can create through collaborative efforts.

Field and Format
This year’s Challenge will feature a field of eight golfers representing two teams of four players – Team USA and Team International, competing in a combined best-ball format. Each team is comprised of two pairs playing best ball; the team’s final score will be determined by combining the score of those two pairs.

Team USA is headlined by Tiger Woods with his 79 PGA TOUR and 14 Major victories. Marking his fifth year in the Challenge, Woods once again will pair up with Begay, a testament to their enduring friendship and shared passion for NB3F’s mission. Jason Dufner, 2013 PGA Champion, previous Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup team member with three PGA TOUR victories, and Jimmy Walker, No. 1 in FedEx Cup rankings and 2014 Ryder Cup participant, will round out the team.

The talented pair of Jonas Blixt, two-time PGA TOUR winner and runner-up in the 2014 Masters, and Angel Cabrera, two-time Major Champion and four-time Presidents Cup team member, will join forces to represent Team International. They’ll hit the links along with Louis Oosthuizen, 2010 British Open Champion, former Presidents Cup participant and runner-up in the 2012 Masters and a fourth international competitor to be announced shortly.

Ticket Information
Tickets for the 2014 NB3F Challenge are on sale now, and may be purchased by contacting the Turning Stone Box Office at 315-361-SHOW (7469) or visiting the Box Office which is open daily from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tickets are priced at $50 for adults. Youth admission for 16 and under is provided complimentary with purchase of an adult ticket (must be requested at time of original purchase). Active Military receive a 50 percent discount upon presentation of a valid military I.D. Overnight packages also are available by calling 1-800-771-7711.

For more information about the NB3F Challenge, visit: http://www.nb3foundation.org.

Key Background

About Notah Begay III Foundation
In 2005, Notah Begay III established the Notah Begay III Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Notah established the Notah Begay III Foundation (NB3F) to address the profound health and wellness issues impacting Native American children and to empower those youth and help them realize their potential as tomorrow’s leaders. The mission of NB3F is to reduce the incidences of obesity and diabetes and advance the lives of Native American children through sports and wellness programming. To this end, the mission NB3F supports is the development of sustainable, evidence-based and innovative soccer and golf programs designed by Native Americans for Native American youth that promote physical fitness, wellness and leadership development.

For more information on Notah Begay III and NB3F, visit: http://www.nb3foundation.org.

About Turning Stone Resort Casino
A premier four-season, destination resort in Upstate New York, the Oneida Indian Nation’s Turning Stone Resort Casino is conveniently located about 30 miles east of Syracuse at NYS Thruway exit 33. Turning Stone was named “Most Excellent Golf Resort” in 2010 by Condé Nast Johansens. The Academy of Country Music named Turning Stone “Casino of the Year” in 2009. The resort offers world-class gaming, golf, entertainment, accommodations and spa facilities, and has earned AAA Four Diamond ratings for The Lodge, The Tower Hotel, and Wildflowers restaurant.

Where Is Turning Stone Casino

For more information and reservations, call (315) 361-7711 or 1-(800) 771-7711. Visit the websites at http://www.turningstone.com and http://www.oneidaindiannation.com

About the Oneida Indian Nation
The Oneida Indian Nation is a federally recognized Indian nation in Central New York. A founding member of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (also known as the Six Nations or Iroquois Confederacy), the Oneida Indian Nation sided with the Americans in the Revolutionary War and was thanked by Congress and President George Washington for its loyalty and assistance. Today, the Oneida Nation consists of about 1,000 enrolled Members, most of them living in Central New York. The Nation’s enterprises, which employ 4,500 people, include Turning Stone Resort Casino, the SāvOn chain of gas stations and convenience stores, RV Park, three marinas, Indian Country Today Media Network – the premier national multi-media source for American Indian news and information, and Four Directions Productions - a 3D animation HD cinematography studio. Proceeds from these enterprises are used to rebuild the Nation’s economic base and provide essential services, including housing, health care, and education incentives and programs, to its Members.

For more information, visit the Nation’s website http://www.oneidaindiannation.com.

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