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Hopi Veterans Services and American Legion

Hopi Domestic

“Lori Piestewa” Post #80 Honors and Recognizes Violence Program

Local Hopi Vietnam War Veterans on March 29th hosting Conference

In May, see info here...

...

- National Vietnam War Veterans Day

Details...PG 5

Report places

Arizona first for

rate of COVID-19

deaths

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PG 8

Job Announcements

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HTI Job Announcements

COMMUNITY

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HLES PSA PERSON OF INTEREST Thurman Yazzie...

Pictured above (l-r) are Vietnam War Veterans: Gene Pooyouma, Phillip Quochytewa, Gary Joshevama, Anthony Honahnie, Elson Selestewa, Gary Setalla, Michael Ladeyo, Lucas Namoki, Bruce Talawyma, Clifford

Balenquah. Photo taken at Hopi Day School in Kykotsmovi, Ariz. by: Romalita Laban, HT

Hopi Tribe Passes Resolution in Support

of America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act

Bill Before Congress Would Protect Over 8 Million Acres of Public

Lands in Utah for Wilderness, Wildlife, and Cultural Values

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Hopi Veterans Services and American Legion

“Lori Piestewa” Post #80

Honors and Recognizes Local Hopi Vietnam War

Veterans on March 29th - National Vietnam War

Veterans Day

By: Romalita Laban, Managing Editor

Kykotsmovi, Ariz. – March 29, 2023 American Legion “Lori Piestewa”

Post #80 honored and recognized local Hopi Veterans in salute during National Vietnam War Veterans Day on March 29, 2023 at Hopi Day School.

The event was humble and quaint with approximately 40 people attending.

Eugene Talas, Director of Hopi Veterans Services Program of the Hopi

Tribe provided the Welcome with background, history, and information about

the Hopi Veterans who had served in the Vietnam War.

Local Hopi Day School Parent Liaison, Deborah Baker sang the National Anthem after which Phillip Quochytewa, local Hopi Veteran provided a

prayer. Judith Youvella, Hopi Tribe Secretary and Nada Talayumptewa, Hopi

Tribal Treasurer representing Hopi Tribal Leadership provided remarks about

the 50th Commemoration event. Gene Pooyouma, Commander, Lori Piestewa Post #80 who is also a Vietnam War Veteran also provided comments and

encouragement to his fellow comrades.

Bruce Talawyma, local Hopi Vietnam War Veteran shared personal recollections of time served during the war and how his family has supported

him up to today, by asking about his service and recognizing his service and

commitment.

Veterans who attended the event and who served on active duty in the U.S.

Armed Forces at any time from November 1, 1955 to May 15, 1975, received

one Vietnam Veteran Lapel pin commemorating the 50th Vietnam War.

Vietnam War Veterans present included: Gene Pooyouma, Phillip

Quochytewa, Gary Joshevama, Anthony Honahnie, Elson Selestewa,

Gary Setalla, Michael Ladeyo, Lucas Namoki, Bruce Talawyma, Clifford

Balenquah.

Family members of the Veterans also received a complimentary pin which

was acquired by the Hopi Veteran Services staff. Light treats and drinks were

provided were attendees visited, acknowledged each other and expressed

gratitude for the Veterans commitment and service to their country and the

Hopi people.

The Hopi Veterans Services Office will be issuing the lapel pin to Veterans who meet the period dates and welcome them to stop by during work

hours, Monday through Friday, and the staff will issue the Veteran a lapel pin

and certificate. The Hopi Veterans Services office is located in the Honanie

building at the Hopi Tribal Complex and can be reached by phone at: (928)

734-3461

Pictured at the top (l-r) are Eugene Talas, Director of Hopi Veterans Services

Program of the Hopi Tribe who provided the Welcome with background, history,

and information about the Hopi Veterans who had served in the Vietnam War. and

Phillip Quochytewa, local Hopi Veteran who provided a prayer.

Pictured at the bottom (l-r) are Judith Youvella, Hopi Tribe Secretary and Nada

Talayumptewa, Hopi Tribal Treasurer representing Hopi Tribal Leadership provided remarks about the 50th Commemoration event. Gene Pooyouma, Commander,

Lori Piestewa Post #80 who is also a Vietnam War Veteran also provided comments

and encouragement to his fellow comrades. Photos taken at Hopi Day School by:

Romalita Laban, Managing Editor - Hopi Tutuveni

Hopi Tutuveni April 5, 2023

Hopi Tribe Department of Public

Safety Provides the Importance

of Having a Smoke Detector

Submitted by: Kevin Dennis,

Structure Firefighter - Department

Of Public Safety

Kykotsmovi, Ariz. – March 20,

2023 Smoke detectors can alert residents before they become fire victims.

A smoke alarm is critical for the early

detection of a fire in your home and

could mean the difference between

life and death. Fires can occur in a

variety of ways and in any room of

your home. But no matter where or

how, having a smoke alarm is the first

key step toward your family’s safety.

Importance of fire prevention

In a fire, mere seconds can mean

the difference between a safe escape

and a tragedy. Fire safety education

isn’t just for school children. Teenagers, adults, and the elderly are also

at risk in fires, making it important

for every member of the community

to take some time to make sure they

understand how to stay safe in case of

a fire.

Home fire escape planning and

practicing

It is important for everyone to

plan and practice a home fire escape.

Everyone needs to be prepared in

advance, so that they know what to

do when the smoke alarm sounds.

Given that every home is different,

every home fire escape plan will also

be different.

Have a plan for everyone in the

home. Children, older adults, and

people with disabilities may need assistance to wake up and get out. Make

sure that someone will help them.

Smoke alarms

Smoke alarms sense smoke well

before you can, alerting you to danger. Smoke alarms need to be in every

bedroom, outside of the sleeping

areas (like a hallway), and on each

level (including the basement) of

your home. Do not put smoke alarms

in your kitchen or bathrooms.

Choose an alarm that is listed with

a testing laboratory, meaning it has

met certain standards for protection.

For the best protection, use combination smoke and carbon monoxide alarms that are interconnected

throughout the home. These can be

installed, so that when one sounds,

they all sound. This ensures you can

hear the alarm no matter where in

your home the alarm originates.

The Department of Public Safety

is again providing a free service to

all home owners in partnership with

the Red Cross and Hopi Fire/Rescue

by providing the free safety device.

The device can ensure, in case of any

structure fire or carbon monoxide is

present in the home that it may be detected in the home at any given time.

We encourage you to share this

information with family members

and those that don’t have access to

the Tribal email. Everyone is eligible to receive the smoke detectors.

You may contact Hopi Fire/Rescue

at (928)734-3661 or by email to any

Fire Personnel at the following email

addresses: Humewysi Sockyma at

HSockyma@hopi.nsn.us, Michael

Shupla at MiShupla@hopi.nsn.us,

Paul Saufkie at PSaufkie@hopi.nsn.

us, and/or Kevin Dennis at KDennis@hopi.nsn.us.

Hopi Law Enforcement Services

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Person of Interest

Thurman Yazzie

of Beshbito Valley, Arizona

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

By: Sergeant Glenn Singer – Hopi Law Enforcement Services

Kykotsmovi, Ariz. – March 28, 2023 Hopi Law Enforcement Services is sharing the Navajo Police Department Dilkon District’s Person

of Interest information for Thurman Yazzie (Age 22) of Beshbito Valley,

Ariz.

The Navajo Police Department indicates an incident occurred in Beshbito Valley, Ariz. on March 26, 2023 and Thurman Yazzie is a person

of interest. The picture provided by NPD of Thurman Yazzie depicts

Yazzie with short hair, however, Yazzie currently has shoulder length

hair and is considered armed and dangerous. This is an active investigation involving the Navajo Police Department and FBI.

Contact Navajo Police Department at 928-657-8075 or Hopi Law

Enforcement Services at 928-734-7340 if you see Thurman Yazzie.

XXX

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HOPI TRIBAL COUNCIL

2nd Quarter Session

March 1, 2023

Month of March 2023 AGENDA

X. UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Rock Wilderness Act – Author/Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa, Director, Hopi Cultural Preservation Office – **Time

1. Discussion and possible action – Letter dated March Certain Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 9:00 a.m.

31, 2022 Re: Village of Shungopavi’s request for informa5. Action Item #031-2023 – To approve Hopi Tribe

tion regarding land lease, including ownership of the prop- Pandemic Recovery Committee Bylaws – Author/Mark

erty comprising the Hopi Cultural Center – Craig Andrews, Talayumptewa, Author/Mark Talayumptewa, Chairman,

Vice Chairman, Hopi Tribe – Tabled

Hopi Tribe Pandemic Recovery Committee **Time Cer2. Discussion and possible action - Letter dated by

tain Wednesday, March 8, 2023 at 9:00 a.m.

September 19, 2022 RE: Survey conducted by Hopi Elec6. Action Item #32-2023 – Business Lease between the

tions Office from Dale Sinquah, Tribal Council RepresenHopi Tribe, FMCV and the Arizona Department of Public

tative, First Mesa Consolidated Villages – Tabled

Safety for DPS Communication Tower for Public Safety

3. Action Item #090-2022 - Intergovernmental Agree- – Author/Michele Honanie, Realty Specialist, Real Estate

ment between the State of Arizona and the Hopi Tribe –

Services

Author/Donovan Gomez, Hopi Senom Transit – Tabled

7. Action Item #033-2023 – To approve Ordinance 15

4. Action Item #093-2022 – To amend the Rules of

(AMENDED) establishing the Housing Authority by Hopi

Order for the Hopi Tribal Council to provide a streamlined Tribal Council – Author/Albert T. Sinquah, HTHA Board

process of the Tribal Council parliamentary procedures that Chairperson

will be followed during meetings of the Tribal Council –

8. Discussion & Possible Action – Letter dated SepAuthor/Marilyn Fredericks, Tribal Council Representatember 2, 2022 from Ronald Honahni, Governor, Upper

tive, Village of Bacavi – Tabled **Time Certain, WednesVillage of Moenkopi; RE: Request to Explore Gaming

day, March 8, 2023 at 1:00 p.m.

in the Upper Village of Moenkopi – Leroy Sumatzkuku,

Tribal Council Representative, Upper Village of Moenkopi

XI. NEW BUSINESS

– Referred to Hopi Gaming Committee

9. Letter dated November 29, 2022 from Bernalda

1. Action Item #021-2023 – Walpi Housing Management Poleahla Navasie; RE: Letter of Interest for vacant RegAgreement – Author/Fred Lomayesva, General Counsel,

ular member position and Alternate position on the Hopi

Office of the General Counsel

Election Board – Dwayne Secakuku, Tribal Council Rep2. Action Item #026-2023 – Approval of the final draft of resentative, Village of Bacavi. Interview – **Time Certain,

the “Hopi Reservation Forest Management Plan” – Author/ Thursday, March 9, 2023 at 1:00 p.m.

Carl Seweyestewa, Forester, Wildlife & Ecosystems Man10. Letter dated December 8, 2022 from Rachel Hood,

agement Program

Yavapai-Apache Nation, Deputy Political Director, Arizo3. Action Item #028-2023 – T o amend the Procurement

na Democratic Party; RE: Update on election – Rosa HonPolicy to provide flexibility for the Hopi Tribe Pandemic

ani, Tribal Council Representative, Village of Sipaulovi –

Recovery Committee to utilize the American Rescue Plan

**Time Certain, Monday, March 20, 2023 at 9:00 a.m.

Act Funds – Author/Mark Talayumptewa, Chairman, Hopi

11. Letter dated December 16, 2022 from Ivan Sidney,

Tribe Pandemic Recovery Committee

Village Administrator, First Mesa Consolidated Villag4. Action Item #030-2023 – The Hopi Tribe supports the es; RE: Contact Information for First Mesa Consolidated

protection of more than eight million acres of land manVillages – Rosa Honani, Tribal Council Representative,

aged by the Bureau of Land Management in the State of

Village of Sipaulovi

Utah as Wilderness through the passage of America’s Red

Continued pg. 5

Hopi Tutuveni April 5, 2023

HOPI TRIBAL COUNCIL

2nd Quarter Session

March 1, 2023

Month of March 2023 AGENDA, continued...

XII. REPORTS

1. Office of the Chairman

2. Office of the Vice Chairman

3. Office of Tribal Secretary

4. Office of the Treasurer – Wells Fargo Bank Report, Mr. Greg Heap,

Relationship Manager and Mr. Tyler Taygrien, Vice President, Investment Services – **Time Certain, Monday, March 20, 2023 at 9:15 a.m.

HOPI TRIBAL COUNCIL 2nd Quarter Session March 1, 2023

MONTH OF MARCH 2023 AGENDA

5. Office of the General Counsel

6. Land Commission

7. Water/Energy Committee

8. Transportation Committee

9. Law & Order Committee

10. Investment Committee

a. Moencopi Developers Corporation

b. Walpi Housing Management Agreement Communications

c. Updating of the Hopi Tribe’s Investment Policy

d. Status of Moenkopi Developers Corporation Hopi Loan

11. Health/Education Committee

12. Pandemic Recovery Committee – Narrative written programmatic

report and financial status regarding the recovery efforts undertaken utilizing said funds – Wallace Youvella, Jr., Tribal Council Representative,

First Mesa Consolidated Villages

13. Tawa’ovi Investigation Report by R. Gehl Tucker as requested in

Hopi Tribal Council Resolution – **Time Certain, Thursday, March 9,

2023, 9:00 a.m.

XIII. ADJOURNMENT

*Hopi Tribal Council may go into Executive Session on any agenda

item

**Time Certain Requests

Hopi Tutuveni Managing Editor NOTE: On March 7, 2023, after

New Business Item #4 was addressed and approved, Hopi Tribal Council recessed until March 20, 2023.

Hopi Tutuveni attempted garnering an updated AGENDA from Hopi

Tribal Secretary and in consideration of Time Certain Requests listed

during times after March 7, 2023, however, an updated Agenda was not

provided.

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Kykotsmovi, Ariz. – March 20, 2023 On behalf of the

various indigenous tribes associated with the Colorado

Plateau, representatives from the International Committee

On Monuments and Sites International Science Committee

(ICOMOS ISC), a non-governmental international organization dedicated to the conservation of the world’s monuments and sites, ICOMOS ISC will meet with Black Mesa

Trust (BMT), a Hopi Grass Roots Organization,on Saturday

March 25, 2023, to recognize the Sípàapuni as an important cultural place and award it the ICOMOS ISC Water and

Heritage Shield.

In receiving the ICOMOS ISC Water and Heritage Shield,

the Sípàapu will become the first in the world to receive

this honor. The purpose of the Shield is to help the public

become aware of the significance of water and indigenous

sacred sites all over the world and the right to cultural historical memory.”You came from far away to honor Sípàapu as

culturally significant and worthy of protection.” Said Vernon

Masayesva, BMT Founder and Director. “You have put an

arrow in our quiver to be used to save Sípàapu, and other

sites in the Lower Colorado River ecosystem.”

Sir Diederik Six, Vice President of ISC Water and Heritage

Bureau, and Former President of the Royal Dutch Historic

Society, will give the Shield award to the Black Mesa Trust

in recognition of Hopi history and tradition in managing water and water-related heritage from time immemorial.

Sir Diederik Six will be accompanied by Sergio Augusto

Ribeiro, Director General for International Centre on Water

and Trans-disciplinarity, Henk van Schalk, Heritage Ambassador for ICOMOS, Van Schalik, Water and Heritage Ambassador for ICOMOS, and Mona Polacca, Indigenous Water

Ethics Coordinator.

The hour and a half event will take place at Country Inn

& Suites (2nd Floor Conference Room, Mikes Pike St.,

Flagstaff, AZ) beginning at 2:00 p.m. While the in-person

presentation is by invitation only, the event can be viewed

virtually by Zoom at the following link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81035304758?pwd=cWhuSlVTMXNxOUowUWRBQStTSTRxdz09

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Kykotsmovi Village, Ariz. – March

24, 2023 At its March 7, 2023, regular

session, the Hopi Tribal Council passed

a resolution formally endorsing America’s Red Rock Wilderness Act, a federal bill that would protect more than 8

million acres of federal public lands in

Utah as wilderness.

In a historic first, the resolution was

written in the Hopi language, the first

time the Tribal Council has passed a

resolution in Hopi since the contemporary Hopi government was established

in 1936. Typically, resolutions and

Sponsored by Senator Dick Durbin

(D-IL) in the U.S. Senate and Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-NM1)

in the U.S. House, America’s Red Rock

Wilderness Act would designate more

than 8 million acres of Bureau of Land

Management land as wilderness, the

highest form of protection for federal

lands. The bill would protect iconic

Utah landscapes such as Cedar Mesa,

the Kaiparowits Plateau, and the Greater Canyonlands area. Introduced in

both the House and Senate in previous

Congresses, the formal introduction of

the bill into the 118th Congress is expected later this year.

The Hopi Tribal Council consists of

22 representatives from the villages of

Upper Munqapi, Paaqavi, Kiqötsmovi,

Supawlavi, First Mesa Consolidated

Villages (Walpi, Sitsomovi and Tewa),

and Musungnavi.

XXX

HOPI H.E.O.C UPDATES

Hopi Tutuveni April 5, 2023

Hopi Tribe Department of Health and Human Services Covid-19 Emergency Response

By: Romalita Laban, Managing Editor

Kykotsmovi, Ariz. - March 31, 2023 Due to transitions occurring in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) the August 26, 2022 COVID 19

report was the latest data being provided for the public.

Hopi Tutuveni was informed by DHHS staff that until DHHS and Tribal Leadership determined roles of the Public Health Authority, no reports would be

submitted to Hopi Tutuveni.

Hopi Tutuveni Staff and Editorial Board know the importance of providing such health information to the Hopi public. Since Hopi is still officially under

Pandemic status and there are known active COVID cases on Hopi, we continue to welcome updates from DHHS and/or the Hopi H.E.O.C. about that important

information which impacts the Hopi public.

Hopi Tutuveni continued republishing the last and latest Covid-19 Report dated August 26, 2022, received from DHHS and up through the third year of the

pandemic, in the March 15, 2023 publication. The August 26, 2023 Response report can still be found online at: https://www.hopi-nsn.gov/news/hopi-tutuveni

Until the Hopi DHHS provides an update the only data Hopi Tutuveni has to report to the Hopi public was from August 2022 however a place holder will be

held for that information, and once updated it will be provided in this dedicated space for important health information for the Hopi public.

Report places Arizona first for rate of COVID-19 deaths

The study adjusted state death rates to account for age variations in each state’s population

Story by: Lux Butler - Cronkite News

Phoenix, Ariz. – March 30, 2023 Arizona had the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths in the nation over three years, according to a research analysis published

in March in the medical-science journal The Lancet.

“I think Arizona is a state with inequality, some poverty, and ultimately some of the vaccination rates and behaviors didn’t line up to have good outcomes,”

said Joseph Dieleman, a professor and senior author of the study, in a video news release.

Arizona residents were less likely to be vaccinated, wear masks and maintain social distance, according to researchers in a peer-reviewed study.

The study says Arizona recorded 581 deaths per 100,000 people from Jan. 1, 2020, to July 31, 2022, the highest rate by far among states in the U.S., where the

national rate was 372 deaths per 100,000. Hawaii had the lowest rate, at 147 per 100,000.

The report said Arizona’s death rate was similar to that of the three nations with the highest coronavirus death rates in the world – Russia, Bulgaria, and Peru.

The study adjusted state death rates to account for age variations in each state’s population. But even at the unadjusted rate, Arizona was fourth-highest, with

539 deaths per 100,000, trailing West Virginia with 575, Mississippi with 550 and Alabama with 540.

In three years, 33,225 Arizonans have died of COVID-19, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services website. AZDHS officials did not respond

to emailed requests for comment.

“The more robust a health system, the better a state performed in the pandemic, but only in states where the public was willing to make use of health care services for vaccination or to get early treatment for their conditions,” said Dieleman, an associate professor at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health

Metrics and Evaluation, in a statement to Axios.

The study also aligns with previous research that found Latinos and Blacks were more likely to die of COVID-19 than other racial groups. One out of four

Arizonans who died were Hispanic, according to ADHS data, which is higher than the percentage of people who identify as Hispanic in the census.

The Lancet researchers analyzed other factors such as poverty rates, education levels, access to quality health care and levels of interpersonal trust, in order to

better understand the number of COVID-19 illnesses and deaths. The higher the poverty rate and lower the average education level of a state, the more infections it saw.

The Census Bureau said nearly 13 percent of Arizonans lived in poverty in 2022, compared to 11 percent for the U.S. as whole. Nationally, nearly 34 percent

of people had at least a bachelor’s degree, compared to 31 percent in Arizona.

“This report is great because it really backs up and gives scientific evidence to the things we already thought about,” said Will Humble, executive director of

the Arizona Public Health Association. “It takes away the argument that our state just has an older population and that’s why we had high COVID death numbers, and instead looks at the whole picture.”

The report also details how race plays a role in the number of COVID deaths and illnesses.

“Many of the worst-performing states and territories in our study are also those with the highest populations of people identifying as Black (Washington, DC;

Mississippi; and Georgia), Hispanic (Arizona and New Mexico), or American Indian and Alaska Native (Idaho, Nevada, Alaska, Wyoming, and Montana),” the

researchers wrote in The Lancet report.

COVID-19 continues to kill. ADHS regularly reports virus updates.

Since March 5, at least 27 people have died.

Hopi Tutuveni April 5, 2023

TCRHCC CEO Joette Walters testifies before the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on

Interior, Environment and Related Agencies

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 30, 2023 Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation CEO Joette Walters recently testified on Capitol Hill before a House

subcommittee about the lack of funding for cancer treatment centers across Indian Country.

According to the Navajo Nation Department of Health, before COVID-19 cancer was the leading cause of death on Navajo. “Treatable cancers are killing

American Indians simply because federal policies won’t allow cancer treatment to reach them,” she said on March 9.

TCRHCC is the only cancer treatment center across Indian Country. Walters explained in her testimony how TCRHCC did not use federal construction funds

to build a much-needed cancer treatment center in 2018.

When the cancer treatment center opened and began treating patients, TCRHCC had to fund its operational costs and now, seeks funding for operational sustainability and fairness and equity regarding patient cost reimbursement.

Further challenges include how Medicare will not reimburse for certain expenses and that in 2022, TCRHCC had to absorb much of the cost.

“We’ve been to Capitol Hill before to share our story but yours is the first committee to invite testimony about why dedicated federal funding is needed to

make cancer treatment locally accessible to American Indians,” she said.

“Both the IHS (Indian Health Service) and the National Cancer Institute repeatedly told us that they don’t do cancer treatment on Indian reservations, said

Walters. “So, we did it ourselves with the help of private and philanthropic donations.”

TCRHCC tackled their first challenge by raising funding to equip and construction a cancer treatment center without any federal funding dedicated to that

purpose.

Use of third-party resources and donations from corporations, philanthropists and individuals were collected. The launch of a GoFundMe campaign was advertised on a donated billboard high above U.S. Interstate 40 and an employee collection was also done.

Walters also spoke in support of all tribes regarding how the National Cancer Act of 1971 was passed to provide research funding and assistance needed to

create the cancer treatment infrastructure most Americans now take for granted—and how tribes were forgotten.

“More than 50 years later, the federal agencies with the trust responsibility to provide health care to Indian tribes now say they do not have the authority to do

so for cancer, which just so happens to be the most complex, costly, and deadly disease of all.”

TCRHCC Specialty Care Center has already provided chemotherapy infusions and other lifesaving treatments to about 800 cancer patients in just four years.

The second challenge the cancer care center faces is sustainability.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) refuses to pay TCRHCC the same reimbursement for chemotherapy drugs that they pay non-tribal

providers. About 50% of claims are rejected by CMS.

When that happens, CMS only allows TCRHCC to bill Medicare the all-inclusive Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rate for outpatient visits to a

tribal health care facility, which last year was just $541 per patient for the entire fiscal year.

The $541 OMB all-inclusive rate for chemotherapy does not even cover our cost for the drugs, Walters said.

The OMB all-inclusive rate captures the average cost all tribal health care providers incur for all services. It is unreasonable to expect it to reimburse the cost

of lifesaving chemotherapy infusion and oral drugs. The OMB all-inclusive rate does not contemplate the cost of oncology because the IHS does not provide it.

If our two oncologists were administering infusion and oral therapies to our Navajo patients in a cancer treatment facility in Flagstaff or Phoenix instead of at

Tuba City, then CMS would reimburse them based on the average sales price of the drug, she added.

Chemotherapeutics are expensive and Medicare’s refusal to fairly reimburse TCRHCC for the raw cost of these medicines threatens the entire operation (of

the cancer care center). About half of costs for cancer drugs are never reimbursed.

“We cannot, and would not profit from patient disease, but we also cannot afford to continue to lose money every time we treat cancer,” she said.

Walters also asked the committee to include language that directs CMS to reimburse chemotherapeutic drugs administered by a tribal health care provider that

elects to do so the same way it reimburses other health care providers.

TCRHCC is a tribal health innovator that is led by a Community Board of Directors who represent the Navajo, Hopi and San Juan Southern Paiute communities within a 35,000-patient service area and is steered by a Senior Leadership Team of mostly Navajo health care professionals who are supported by a nontechnical staff that is also 95% Navajo.

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REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

AUDITOR

Public notice is hereby given on this day March 21, 2023 that the

Village of Bacavi is accepting sealed proposals from qualified and

licensed firms for Audit Services for 2020 with renewal options for

2021 and 2022 Audit years. All Requests for Proposals (RFP) must be

submitted prior to the closing date of April 28, 2023 by 5:00 pm to be

considered for selection. Late proposals will be disqualified. In order to

be considered for selection, bidders must submit a complete response to

the RFP. RFP Packets and more information are available at the Village

of Bacavi Community Center or email Bacsecretary@hopitelecom.

net. Village of Bacavi reserves the right to reject any and all proposals

submitted, to waive any information or irregularities, to advertise in its

best interest, and to request additional information from all proposers.

Hopi Owned and Non-Hopi Owned firms and individuals are invited to

respond to this RFP. Interested firms and individuals will be evaluated

in accordance with the requested proposal and applicable law. Any and

all work intended to be contracted as part of the bid submittal must be

accompanied by background materials and references for proposed

contract(s). No exceptions.

Mail Sealed Bids to: Village of Bacavi Board of Directors

C/O Marla Dacawyma, CSA

P.O. Box 185

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Hopi Tutuveni April 5, 2023

Vatican Rejects Doctrine that Fueled Centuries

of Colonialism

Hopi Tribal Council

Timothy L. Nuvangyaoma,

Chairman

Craig Andrews

Vice Chairman

Judith Youvella

Tribal Secretary

Nada Talayumptewa,

Tribal Treasurer

Alfonso Sakeva,

Sergeant-At-Arms

Village of Upper

Moenkopi

William Charley

Danny Humetewa Sr.

Leroy Sumatzkuku

Michael Elmer

Village of Bakabi

Marilyn Fredericks

Ruth Kewanimptewa

Dwayne Secakuku

Village of Kyakotsmovi

David Talayumptewa

Gary P. Kelhoyouma

Danny Honanie

Herman G. Honanie

FILE - People protest as Pope Francis meets young people and elders at Nakasuk Elementary School Square in Iqaluit,

Canada, Friday, July 29, 2022. The Vatican has on Thursday, March 30, 2023 formally repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery.” That is the theory backed by 15th century papal bulls that legitimized the colonial-era seizure of Native lands

and form the basis of some property law today. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)

By NICOLE WINFIELD – AP

Vatican City (AP) — March 29, 2023 The Vatican on Thursday responded to Indigenous demands

and formally repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery,” the theories backed by 15th-century “papal

bulls” that legitimized the colonial-era seizure of

Native lands and form the basis of some property

laws today.

A Vatican statement said the papal bulls, or decrees, “did not adequately reflect the equal dignity

and rights of Indigenous peoples” and have never

been considered expressions of the Catholic faith.

The statement, from the Vatican’s development

and education offices, marked a historic recognition of the Vatican’s own complicity in colonial-era

abuses committed by European powers. It was

issued under history’s first Latin American pontiff,

who was hospitalized Thursday with a respiratory

infection, exactly one year after Francis met at the

Vatican with Indigenous leaders from Canada who

raised the issue.

On Thursday, these Indigenous leaders welcomed

the statement as a first good step, even though it

didn’t address the rescinding of the bulls themselves

and continued to take distance from acknowledging

actual Vatican culpability in abuses. The statement

said the papal documents had been “manipulated”

for political purposes by competing colonial powers

“to justify immoral acts against Indigenous peoples

that were carried out, at times, without opposition

from ecclesial authorities.”

It said it was right to “recognize these errors,”

acknowledge the terrible effects of colonial-era

assimilation policies on Indigenous peoples and ask

for their forgiveness.

The statement was a response to decades of Indigenous demands for the Vatican to formally rescind

the papal bulls that provided the Portuguese and

Spanish kingdoms the religious backing to expand

their territories in Africa and the Americas for the

sake of spreading Christianity. Continued pg. 15

Village of Sipaulavi

Rosa Honanie

Anita Bahnimptewa

Raymond Namoki

Village of Mishongnovi

Arthur Batala

Ronald Humeyestewa

Marilyn Tewa

Mervin Yoyetewa

First Mesa Consolidated

Villages

Albert T. Sinquah

Dale Sinquah

Wallace Youvella, Jr.

Vacant

Hopi Tutuveni April 5, 2023

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Hopi Tribe, FY2023-2027 Tribal Transportation Improvement Plan (TTIP)

The Hopi Tribe, has prepared a Tribal Transportation Plan (TTIP) to present to

the BIA for the 2023 – 2027 funding. Funding from the TTIP will be used for

road improvement, salaries, roads maintenance, equipment/vehicle purchase,

and supplies.

Public comments concerning the TTP are welcome and copies can be obtained

from the Hopi Department of Transportation office located at the Kykotsmovi

Village, Youth & Elderly building.

Any questions concerning this can be directed to the Hopi Department of

Transportation at (928) 734-3182.

Deadline for comments will be April 30, 2023.

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

Hopi Telecommunications, Inc. (HTI)

in Keams Canyon, Arizona is currently

seeking an energetic and highly motivated individuals to join the HTI team.

CURRENT OPENING

• Janitor (Part-time)

• Central Office Technician (Full-time)

• Outside Plant Technician (Full-time)

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the job. Possess a valid Arizona Driver License and pass a background check.

*Must complete and submit an HTI Employment Application. Application can be

obtained at the

Keams Canyon Office. Or through the HTI Website.

To view job description please visit the HTI website at: www.hopitelecom.com

For more information, please call the Keams Canyon Office at (928) 738-4674

or Flagstaff Office (928) 522-8428 or email info@hopitelecom.com

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

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2023 Summer Internship Positions Available

Hopi Telecommunications, Inc. (HTI) in Keams Canyon, Arizona is currently seeking

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CURRENT OPENINGS

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Canyon Office (928) 738-4674 or Flagstaff Office (928) 522-8428.

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Hopi Tutuveni April 5, 2023

Henrietta Mann, Native America Calling receive National

Humanities Medals

During a White House ceremony, President Joe Biden presented 11 awards

Henrietta Mann on her way into the White House for the 2021 National Humanities Medals dinner

Story by Pauly Denetclaw • Indian Country Today

WASHINGTON — March 21, 2023 Legendary Native

American studies professor and historian, Henrietta Mann,

Cheyenne, was all smiles as she made her way into the White

House for the 2021 National Humanities Medals dinner and

ceremony on Tuesday afternoon.

Following close behind her was Shawn Spruce, Laguna

Pueblo, Jaclyn Sallee, Inupiaq, Denise Morris, Aleut, and Art

Hughes of Native America Calling and Koahnic Broadcast

Corporation, which produces the iconic radio show.

All were in Washington, D.C. to receive a National Humanities Medals presented by President Joe Biden. For 2021, only

12 medals were awarded. As a surprise, Sir Elton John was

awarded his medal in 2022.

“We’re here surrounded by some really interesting people,

some very notable, high profile individuals, celebrities from

the arts and humanities world,” Shawn Spruce, host of Native

America Calling, told ICT. “We’re just enjoying it.”

Spruce was calling from the East Wing of the White House

during the dinner that prefaced the medal ceremony. In the

background was the hum of conversations and laughter.

“The National Humanities Medal recipients have enriched

our world through writing that moves and inspires us; scholarship that enlarges our understanding of the past; and through

their dedication to educating, informing, and giving voice to

communities and histories often overlooked,” Shelly C. Lowe,

Navajo, chair for the National Endowment for the Humanities

said in a press release. “I am proud to join President Biden in

recognizing these distinguished leaders for their outstanding

contributions to our nation’s cultural life.”

Due to the pandemic the ceremony had been postponed. The

National Humanities Medals “honors individuals or groups

whose work has deepened the nation’s understanding of the

humanities and broadened our citizens’ engagement with history, literature, languages, philosophy, and other humanities

subjects,” according to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

“But you know who it’s really about, it’s Indian Country, Native America, because the show is titled, Native America calling,” he said. “It doesn’t matter who’s hosting. It doesn’t matter

who’s producing. At the heart of the show are all the listeners

and all the Native communities who enjoy the show and who

call in with their feedback. This is an acknowledgement and

Continued pg. 14

Hopi Tutuveni April 5, 2023

Henrietta Mann, Native America Calling receive National Humanities Medals

During a White House ceremony, President Joe Biden presented 11 awards, continued...

recognition for everybody, whether you’re part of the show, as the

host or producer, or you’re the audience, you’re a listener. This is a

huge win for all of us.

”Native America Calling took to the airways in the summer of 1995

from the University of New Mexico at the KUNM radio station. The

format of the daily program is an hourlong live call-in show about a

specific topic or issue that centers the Indigenous voice. (On Tuesday,

it was about Native American Muslims.)

The show airs on over 130 radio stations, 74 are Native-controlled,

across the U.S. and Canada. When it first started, only 14 stations

carried the program.

The first caller was from the sovereign lands of the Oglala Lakota in

what is now Porcupine, South Dakota.

It cannot be understated how important Native America Calling is

for the hundreds of Indigenous nations across this land who often live

in rural communities and still rely on radio stations to stay updated on

current events.

“When the show first started, radio was one of the premier platforms for people to get news and information, along with television,”

he said. “Even though technology has evolved, and more and more

people are streaming content, or they’re getting information online, so

many of our Native communities, our rural communities, radio is still

the preferred method of communication and news information. A lot

of our communities they don’t necessarily have access to internet. So

tribal radio stations, public radio stations, are still very, very relevant.”

Spruce and Art Hughes, executive producer, got a cryptic email

from the National Endowment for the Humanities asking for a Zoom

meeting. Spruce created a list of questions and was prepared for what

he thought would be a story pitch from the federal agency.

“Art and I were both shell shocked,” Spruce remembered. “We were

like, ‘What?’ They don’t want us to report on the news. We are the

news. It was really exciting, definitely had to pinch myself like is this

really happening?”

“Every day from a studio in New Mexico, Native American Calling

airs a live radio show exploring everything from a legacy of Native

newspapers, to Native cuisine to Native American solidarity with

Ukraine, capturing the vastness of the Native American life, and it’s a

profound impact on the country.” President Joe Biden said during the

ceremony.

Mann is a pioneer of Native American studies, history, language

and culture. She was the first Native American to direct federal Indian

education programs when she worked at the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

She was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, University of Montana and Montana State University, where she became

the first person to hold the Katz Endowed Chair in Native American

Studies. At each university she helped to develop Native American

studies programs.

After the creation of tribal colleges and universities, Mann put her

expertise on those newly established institutions. She helped to develop the Native American studies program at what is now Haskell

Indian Nations University.

Around the turn of the century, she became the founding president

of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College, the nation’s first tribal

college that has since closed. Mann is a citizen of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.

“We have to provide an environment for our young people,” Mann

said in an interview with Humanities magazine, “that is consistent

with who they are, so that they can take courses in American Indian

history, culture, language, philosophy, spirituality, literature, our oral

traditions, our stories, which hold so much of our history and culture

within them.”

On her way to getting her doctorate degree, Mann was told in her

master’s program that she could not study the oral traditions of her

nation because there would be no one to evaluate her work.

“I wanted to write about Indians. I was working toward my second

degree in English. And so I proposed this to my adviser, and was told,

no, you can’t,” Mann told Shelly Lowe, Navajo, in Humanities Magazine.

Generations of Indigenous researchers, professors, historians and

academics have followed in her footsteps and create knowledge about

their Native nations.

“Henrietta Mann, a teacher, a scholar and leader, she’s dedicated her

career to Native American education and to establishing a field of Native American studies,” Biden said. “Thanks in large part to her, Native American studies is now taught at universities across the country,

strengthening our nation-to-nation bonds for generations to come.”

From left to right, Art Hughes, Jaclyn Sallee, Inupiaq, Denise Morris, Aleut,

and Shawn Spruce, Laguna Pueblo, representing Native America Calling, before heading into the 2021 National Humanities Medals dinner and ceremony on Tuesday afternoon. The celebration was postponed due to the pandemic. (Pauly Denetclaw, ICT)© Provided by Indian Country Today

Hopi Tutuveni April 5, 2023

Vatican Rejects Doctrine that Fueled Centuries of Colonialism,cont...

Those decrees underpin the “Doctrine of Discovery,”

a legal concept coined in a 1823 U.S. Supreme Court

decision that has come to be understood as meaning that

ownership and sovereignty over land passed to Europeans because they “discovered” it.

It was cited as recently as a 2005 Supreme Court decision involving the Oneida Indian Nation written by the

late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

During Pope Francis’ 2022 visit to Canada, where he

apologized to Indigenous peoples for the residential

school system that forcibly removed Native children

from their homes, he was met with demands for a formal

repudiation of the papal bulls.

Two Indigenous women unfurled a banner at the altar

of the National Shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré on

July 29 that read: “Rescind the Doctrine” in bright red

and black letters.

Before that, Michelle Schenandoah of the Oneida

Nation had called for the Vatican to rescind the papal

bulls when she delivered the closing remarks of the First

Nations delegation that met with Francis during a weeklong visit last year by Native groups from Canada. On

Thursday, she called the Vatican statement “another step

in the right direction,” but noted that it didn’t mention

the rescinding of the bulls themselves.

“I think what this does is it really puts the responsibility on nation states such as the United States, to look at its

use of the Doctrine of Discovery,” she said in a interview

from Syracuse, New York, where she is a professor of

Indigenous law at Syracuse University’s College of Law.

“This goes beyond land. It really has created generation

upon generation of genocidal policies directed towards

Indigenous peoples. And I think that it’s time for these

governments to take full accountability for their actions.”

In the statement, the Vatican said: “The Catholic

Church therefore repudiates those concepts that fail to

recognize the inherent human rights of Indigenous peoples, including what has become known as the legal and

political ‘doctrine of discovery.’”

Phil Fontaine, a former national chief of the Assembly

of First Nations in Canada who was also part of the First

Nations delegation that met with Francis at the Vatican,

said the statement was “wonderful,” resolved an outstanding issue and now puts the matter to civil authorities to revise property laws that cite the doctrine.

“The church has done one thing, as it said it would

do, for the Holy Father. Now the ball is in the court

of governments, the United States and in Canada, but

particularly in the United States where the doctrine is

embedded in the law,” he told The Associated Press.

The Vatican offered no evidence that the three papal

bulls (Dum Diversas in 1452, Romanus Pontifex in 1455

and Inter Caetera in 1493) had themselves been formally abrogated, rescinded or rejected, as Vatican officials

have often said. But it cited a subsequent bull, Sublimis

Deus in 1537, that reaffirmed that Indigenous peoples

shouldn’t be deprived of their liberty or the possession of

their property, and were not to be enslaved.

Cardinal Michael Czerny, the Canadian Jesuit whose

office co-authored the statement, stressed that the original bulls had long ago been abrogated and that the use of

the term “doctrine” — which in this case is a legal term,

not a religious one — had led to centuries of confusion

about the church’s role.

The original bulls, he said, “are being treated as if they

were teaching, magisterial or doctrinal documents, and

they are an ad hoc political move. And I think to solemnly repudiate an ad hoc political move is to generate

more confusion than clarity.”

He stressed that the statement wasn’t just about setting

the historical record straight, but “to discover, identify,

analyze and try to overcome what we can only call the

enduring effects of colonialism today.”

It was significant that the repudiation of the “Doctrine

of Discovery” came during the pontificate of history’s

first Latin American pope. Even before the Canadian

trip, the Argentine pope had apologized to Native peoples in Bolivia in 2015 for the crimes of the colonial-era

conquest of the Americas.

Felix Hoehn, a property and administrative law professor at the University of Saskatchewan, said the Vatican

statement would have no legal bearing on land claims in

Canada today, but would have symbolic value.

“The most that any papal repudiation of the doctrine (or the bulls, for that matter) can do in relation to

Canadian law is to apply pressure on the Supreme Court

of Canada to renounce the doctrine as part of Canadian

law,” he said.

Beyond that, though, is the hope that the statement

could show that the Catholic Church wants to be an

ally with Indigenous peoples as they fight for their

human rights and their land, and to protect it, said

the Rev. David McCallum, an American Jesuit who

has worked with Indigenous peoples in the Syracuse area and was consulted during the drafting of

the statement.

“So now for the church to not only acknowledge

the damage, but also to repudiate the whole mindset of cultural superiority, of racial superiority to,

in a sense, renounce that whole way of thinking

and say that forever forward the church wants to

be an active ally in protecting Indigenous human

rights along with all human rights, I think it’s a big

statement,” he said.

_ __Rob Gillies contributed to this report from

Toronto.

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Hopi Day School Hosts

March 23, 2023 Reading Night

Kykotsmovi, Ariz. – March 23, 2023 Hopi Day School Parent Liaison Deborah

Baker hosted the March 23, 2023 Hopi Day School Reading Night with HDS Book

Club Readers present as special guests, some attending via ZOOM, as well as

local community members, staff of various Hopi Tribal departments and programs,

including Hopi Tutuveni’s Managing Editor, Romalita Laban.

Baker and Hopi Day School staff provided a very warm welcome

which included a welcoming path leading to the Hopi Day School

cafeteria where the event was held. Attendees were allowed to

mingle and visit various tables and booths which included the Hopi

Public Library, Hopi Vice Chairman Craig Andrews Office, Hopi

Three Mesas, Inc., Louis Tewanima Memorial Run Committee and

many more, including Hopi Day School’s Royalty.

Some of the HDS Book Club Readers who read at the event

included Hopi Vice Chairman Craig Andrews who read “The Mouse

Couple” while being present at Hopi Day School. Sam Taylor read

“Lewis Tewanima Born To Run” attended via ZOOM and was supported by his family who provided a wonderful table presentation

containing information about Louis Tewanima, the infamous Hopi

Olympic runner.

Other HDS Book Club Readers who were present included Romalita Laban, who provided statements about the time she was a

Reader and recalled with Baker about the beginning stages of doing

the readings and recording, as well. Ardelle Nachie provided attendees a peak at the book he read along with April Pavenyouma, past

Miss Hopi, who also had “The Berenstain Bears Summer Fun!” book

at her table.

Attendees were provided cake and drinks while they visited the

various tables and booths. All in all, the event was well attended and

attendees did not leave empty handed as some took books home, as

well. Hopi Tutuveni will follow up this article with more from Baker

about the event and the Hopi Day School Book Club soon.

This is a copy of a public record, reproduced as it was published. It is not legal advice, and it may not be the version a court would rely on. Check the official source before you cite it.