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Collection of 150 Hopi Items is

Returned to the Hopi Tribe

The Hopi Wildlife & Ecosystems Management Program

WOOD HARVEST

HART RANCH

ENROLLED HOPI TRIBAL MEMBERS ONLY

Friday-Sunday, October 22-24 2021

Friday-Sunday, November 12-14 2021

Friday-Sunday, November 19-21 2021

Friday-Sunday, December 3-5 2021

Friday-Sunday, January 21-23 2021

Last Vehicle in at 2:00 pm NO EXCEPTION!!!!

Ken Stone and Michael Stone both hold the art that Ken Stone’s father, Richard Horton collected since the 1960’s. (Carl Onsae/HT)

By: Carl Onsae, Assistant Editor

Kykotsmovi, Ariz. – October 14, 2021.

A massive collection of over 150 items

including kachina dolls, paintings, drawings, and other religious items have been

returned to the Hopi tribe on October 5,

2021.

Ken Stone and Michael Stone, from

Boulder Colorado, made the adventurous

10-hour trip to the Hopi mesas to return

the Hopi items. Stone wanted to return the

items because he felt it was the right thing

to do and that the Hopi people would be

grateful to have these items back.

Stone stated that his father, Richard Horton, was the original collector of the said

items and had collected Native American

art since the 1960s. Stone stated, “My father, Richard Horton was a big collector of

all Native American art and a big collector

of Hopi art as well.” Stone stated that his

father’s collection was very extensive that

included almost all Native American art

throughout the United States. Stone stated

that his father had ties to the Hopi tribe

and would collect from certain artists here

on the Hopi mesas throughout the 1960s.

The Cultural Preservation Office (CPO)

was quickly notified that Stone and his

father’s collection would be arriving at

the Hopi mesas, and the staff was ecstatic when they saw the collection. Several

of the CPO’s crew saw the extensive collection all packed in the back of a U-Haul

truck and were quickly delighted to see

such a collection.

Several dolls that the CPO’s crew took

out of the truck stood about 1 foot tall, and

drawings were so detailed that it took the

crew by surprise. Chairman Nuvanyouma

also made an appearance to see the massive collection and saw how extensive the

collection is.

Several comments were made from the

CPO crew including “This is a cool collection and we are glad that these kachina

dolls and other religious items are back at

the Hopi Tribe.”

Stone’s collection will be taken to the

Museum of Northern Arizona, located in

Flagstaff, Arizona, where they will be taken care of and cataloged by the CPO crew.

DIRECTIONS:

FROM FLAGSTAFF:

From Flagstaff the Hart Ranch is approximately 20 miles east on

I-40. Exit at the Twin Arrows Exit (Exit 219).

From Winslow:

From Winslow the Hart Ranch is approximately 40 miles west on

I-40. Exit at the Twin Arrows Exit (Exit 219).

Harvesting sites are located approximately 5.5 miles south of the

exit.

WEMP staff will be stationed at the main entrance to check you in

and direct you to the different sites.

ITEMS TO BRING:

Your Tribal Enrollment Card and/or ID.

A spare tire, tools, chainsaw, food and plenty of water.

**NOTE**

A special Hopi Tribal Wood Hauling Permit will be issued to you at

the main entrance before you leave the Hart Ranch.

For more information, you may contact the Hopi Wildlife & Ecosystems Management Program at (928) 497-1014.

Hopi Tutuveni wants to know how we are

doing.

Call or email us to tell us if we are doing a good job. We need your

feedback

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Hopi Tutuveni October 20, 2021

Hopi Athletics Update

FOR IMMEDIATE RELASE TO

HOPI TUTUVENI

Good Morning All,

With school being canceled today for

Hopi Jr./Sr. High School, we made some

changes to our upcoming athletic schedules/events. We’re hoping contact tracing

goes well allowing us to resume school on

Monday and our athletic competitions on

Tuesday. Please note that the high school

football program is doing no in-person activities for the next 10 days. We are hoping

to resume in-person activities with football on Mon. Oct. 25th and play our last

2 games of the season (JV vs. Holbrook

on Oct. 28th and Varsity at Red Mesa

on Oct. 29th). As a result, our upcoming

home games on Thu. Oct. 21st (JV vs.

Alchesay) and Fri. Oct. 22nd (Varsity vs.

Pinon) have been canceled and cannot be

rescheduled. Unfortunately, that means no

homecoming game this season but we do

plan to hold a spirit week at some point in

the near future

Our athletic changes are:

Thursday, October 14, 2021

High School Varsity Football

Hopi at Alchesay

Canceled and won’t be rescheduled.

Thursday, October 14, 2021

High School Volleyball

Round Valley at Hopi

Both the JV and Varsity contests are

canceled and won’t be rescheduled.

Friday, October 15, 2021

High School Cross Country

Dave Conatser Invite

Winslow High School

Not attending

Friday, October 15, 2021 & Saturday,

October 16, 2021

High School Chess

Region 1 Team Invite

BASIS-Flagstaff High School

Not attending

Saturday, October 16, 2021

High School Volleyball

Valley at Hopi

Postponed and rescheduled to Mon.

Oct. 25th with game times at – JV-5 pm

and the Varsity-6 pm at Hopi.

Monday, October 18, 2021

High School Volleyball

Ganado at Hopi

Postponed and rescheduled as double

header at Ganado on Sat. Oct. 23rd

with game times at – Varsity-10 am, JV11 am, and Varsity-12 pm.

Thursday, October 21, 2021

High School JV Football

Alchesay at Hopi

Canceled and won’t be rescheduled.

Friday, October 22, 2021

High School Varsity Football

Pinon at Hopi

Canceled and won’t be rescheduled.

We plan on playing the following games

next week:

·High School Volleyball at Rock Point –

Tue. Oct. 19

·High School Volleyball at St. Johns –

Thu. Oct. 21

·High School Cross Country at the Holbrook Invite – Fri. Oct. 22

·High School Volleyball at Ganado – Sat.

Oct. 23

Thanks for your understanding and support,

Ricky Greer CAA

Hopi Jr./Sr. High School

Activities Coordinator

Interim Dean of Students

Hopi General Election Set for

November 11, 2021

Hopi Elections Office Issues Updated

Information

Romalita Laban Hopi Tutuveni

Kykotsmovi, Ariz. – October 11, 2021,

Karen Shupla, Registrar Hopi Elections Office notified recipients on the Hopi Tribe’s

“All list” and others, via email with Subject:

2021 Hopi Tribal General Election Information - Hopi Elections Office about the latest

updates regarding the Hopi Tribe General

Election set for November 11, 2021. Shupla

also included 3 flyers addressing Hopi Elections Early Voting, Polling Sites and Voter

Eligibility criteria, and In-Person Early Voting taking place at the Hopi Elections Office.

Although Shupla nor the Hopi Elections

Board has submitted the information for advertising or in a press release, Hopi Tutuveni

is including the information in the October

20th publication for the benefit of ensuring

information is shared with the eligible Hopi

voters. The flyers are also included, as a

courtesy from Hopi Tutuveni, in this democratic process of voting in the 2021 Hopi

Tribal General Elections.

Shupla’s email message was very general noting, “…Here is updated information

for the General Elections of the Hopi Tribe.

REMINDER the General Election Day is on

November 11, 2021. IF you have requested

an Absentee Ballot mail outs will begin this

week. IMPORTANT DATE: November 10,

2021, is the date the Hopi Election Board

will be collecting the remaining Absentee

Ballots from the Kykotsmovi Post Office.

November 11, 2021, is a National Holiday

and the post office will be closed. Canvassing will be held on November 11, 2021, beginning at around 7:30 p.m. at the Peace Academic Center, Kykotsmovi, [Arizona]…”

The deadline date of September 30, 2021,

to have requested an Absentee ballot, has

since passed. The Absentee ballots will be

listed in the ‘ABSENTEE’ category once

General Election results are counted. The

category represents mail-in votes made after the deadline date of September 30, 2021,

through November 10, 2021.

Further updates in the email message included notification about two NEW Polling

sites which will be at Mishongnuvi Community Center, located on top of the mesa between Sipaulovi and Mishongnuvi villages,

and the Lower Moenkopi Community Centers. The early voting dates for Moenkopi

Villages were set for next week Friday, October 22, 2021, with the Voting Site situated

inside the Moencopi Legacy Inn Conference

Room. All Moenkopi area citizens were encouraged to share this information with fellow community members.

Tutuveni has been providing updates

and information regarding the upcoming

2021 Hopi Tribal Elections for Chairman

and Vice-Chairman by making contact with

the Hopi Elections Office staff and providing opportunities for press releases and ad

placements. The Hopi Elections Office has

foregone submitting any press releases or requests to advertise since March 2021 when a

lengthy press release was submitted but was

then abruptly pulled.

Hopi Tutuveni staff made phone contact

with the Hopi Elections Office on Tuesday,

October 14, 2021, to inquire about how

soon vote counts, for the various Early Voting polling sites, could be provided. Shupla notified that if all votes were counted by

Elections personnel from the previous days’

voting, the information could be provided

the next day. For example, In-person early

voting can be done on Monday, October 18,

2021, at Circle M Store located in Polacca,

Ariz., and Shupla confirmed that if all votes

are counted, one could contact the Elections

Office the next morning to acquire that information. Or one could wait until Monday,

October 25th to get counts for early voting

taking place up through Friday, October 22,

2021, as well.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the

Hopi Elections Board determined “EARLY

VOTING SITES” for the Hopi Reservation

as another opportunity for the general public to get votes in. It hasn’t been determined

as of late if those efforts brought in more or

fewer voters during the recent Primary Election as compared to previous election years

when there weren’t pandemic concerns present. To get a sense of how many absentee

votes had been received as of Friday, October 15, 2021, Tutuveni sent an email inquiry

to which a response has not been received by

the newspaper’s submission deadline.

Hopi Tutuveni October 20, 2021

HEALTH

Protecting Yourself Against the

Flu Helps Fight COVID-19 Too

(StatePoint) With students across the

country returning to the classroom and

adults returning to the workplace and

gathering in person, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicts that the second flu season of the

COVID-19 pandemic will be significantly

more active than last year.

But, the good news is that there are

three simple steps everyone can take to

help protect themselves, their loved ones

and communities:

1. Get the Flu Shot: Make sure to get

the flu shot, and get it as early as possible.

Most health care providers advise getting

your flu vaccine in early fall.

According to the Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC), early

results show that only about half (50%

– 55%) of U.S. adults received the flu

vaccine last year. And, the rate of vaccination among children dropped from 62%

in 2019-2020 to 58% in 2020-2021, which

could be attributed to remote learning and

greater isolation than in previous years.

Everyone in the household should

get the flu vaccine—especially working

adults, seniors and children in school or

daycare. With COVID-19 variants making people sicker than previously seen,

getting the vaccine and protecting yourself from the flu can keep your immune

system healthy. Some studies have even

found that individuals who contracted

COVID-19 but received the flu shot were

less likely to require treatment from an

emergency department or intensive care

unit.

Also, if you fall within the CDC’s recommendations for COVID-19 boosters,

you should consider getting both at the

same time as a convenient way to protect

yourself and others from flu and COVID

this season.

The benefits of increased immunization

provided by both the flu and COVID-19

vaccinations can also help ease the burden

on an already overloaded health care system. Around the country, there have been

heartbreaking reports of full intensive care

units having to turn away sick patients.

Protecting yourself against the flu is one

way you can help to relieve health care

providers and frontline workers.

2. Practice Healthy Hygiene: Continue to practice healthy hygiene habits like

washing your hands regularly and wearing a mask when appropriate. This means

wearing a mask while shopping indoors,

or attending an indoor event with a crowd

of people.

3. Stay Home When Sick: Stay home

and avoid contact with others if you aren’t feeling well. Many of the symptoms

of COVID-19 and flu look alike—including fever, cough, muscle aches and sore

throat—and knowing the difference can

only be done through testing. Get tested

if you develop any of these symptoms to

rule out COVID-19, since its symptoms

can often become more serious.

“The best thing you can do to help yourself, your family, and your community is

to get both the flu shot and COVID-19

vaccine, as well as a COVID-19 booster if

you are eligible and to practice healthy hygiene habits,” says Dr. Steve Miller, chief

clinical officer, Cigna Corp. “The only

way out of the pandemic is by working

together and taking steps to protect ourselves and each other.”

Hopi Tribe Enrollment Office

Updates

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Submitted by: Dione A. Naha,

Enrollment Coordinator

Kykotsmovi, Ariz. – October 15, 2021

and per Executive Order #010-2021, the

Enrollment Office has reopened for business. We are following the “Return to

Work” Guidelines to ensure everyone’s

safety.

Office Hours: Monday – Friday 8 a.m.

– 5 p.m. with the office closed during the

Lunch Hour from 12-1 p.m.

We kindly request updates to member’s

contact information. Families that have

had a member pass on are encouraged to

forward a copy of the Death Certificate for

the members file. Tribal Membership Photo ID cards are available for members who

need a New or Replacement card. Please

review expiration dates on ID cards. All

other services are available, please see

website for further details: www.hopi-nsn.

gov.

Office contact information:

Lisa Yowytewa, Verification Clerk - P:

928-734-3152 E: LYowytewa@hopi.nsn.

Dione Naha, Enrollment Coordinator –

P: 928-734-3154 E: DNaha@hopi.nsn.us

Tanya Monroe, Enrollment Director - P:

928-734-3151 E: TMonroe@hopi.nsn.us

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Indigenous demonstrators make statement at Interior

Outside the Interior Department in Washington where frontline Indigenous leaders and others held a sit in on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021. (Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, Indian Country Today)

Jourdan Bennett-Begaye

Indian Country Today

WASHINGTON — Dozens of Indigenous leaders held a sit-in Thursday at the

Interior Department in Washington, D.C.,

in an effort to stop the extractive fossil

fuel industries.

Jennifer Falcon, Nakoda, Lakota and

Dakota, with Indigenous Rising Media,

was inside and said before Thursday’s sitin at the Bureau of Indian Affairs that they

warned President Joe Biden to “respect us

or expect us” and he didn’t listen.

“So we’re going to keep showing up until we die,” Falcon said.

There’s been a historic surge in Indigenous resistance in Washington since Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Monday, where

“expect us” was written on a Andrew

Jackson’s statue. On Thursday, roughly

55 Indigenous leaders were at the federal

agency for a sit-in in what is believed to

be for the first time since the 1970s.

Approximately two dozen law enforcement vehicles surrounded the Interior

building and a block north of it. Officers

from Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service, Park Police, Metropolitan

Police of the District of Columbia, and the

Interior’s Office of Law Enforcement and

Security Personnel responded to the BIA

sit-in.

Tobacco ties hung on locked doors. No

one could get inside or outside. Everyone

outside of the building looked through

the windows of the doors to see what was

happening inside and could hear demon-

strators yelling.

Some security personnel were injured

and one officer was taken to a hospital, according to an Interior spokesperson.

“Interior Department leadership believes strongly in respecting and upholding the right to free speech and peaceful

protest. Centering the voices of lawful

protesters is and will continue to be an important foundation of our democracy. It is

also our obligation to keep everyone safe.

We will continue to do everything we can

to de-escalate while honoring first amendment rights.”

Joyce Braun, Cheyenne River Sioux

Tribe, with the Indigenous Environmental Network, said they’ve been protesting in Washington all week because the

president hasn’t lived up to the campaign

promises he made Indigenous people.

“He promised that he would honor our

treaties,” Braun said. “He promised that

he would have consultations. He promised

that he would, he would actually listen to

us and that has not happened.”

Outside the Interior Department in

Washington where frontline Indigenous

leaders and others held a sit in on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021. (Photo by Jourdan

Bennett-Begaye, Indian Country Today)

Outside the Interior Department in

Washington where frontline Indigenous

leaders and others held a sit in on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021. (Photo by Jourdan

Bennett-Begaye, Indian Country Today)

Police used a Taser on IV Castellanos, a

Bolivian water protector and land defender, at the BIA demonstration.

“One main police officer came and just

started pushing all of us extremely hard.

And then there was a lot of pushing up

back and forth. They pulled out a baton,

they kept trying to hit people, someone

got the baton at some point,” Castellanos

said.

“I was pinned between the door and

the police officers and I was caught on

the door and the police officer next to me.

I heard the taser. I don’t know if he was

tasing me at the time. I don’t remember.

I heard a Taser being clicked behind me

and they told us to push out and I told him

specifically, ‘I’m stuck on the door, I’m so

stuck on the door’ and he saw that I was

stuck on the door and he started tasing.”

Athena Shepherd, Confederated Tribes

of Siletz and a water protector, said police

got aggressive with the crowd fast.

Both Shepherd and Castellanos say police were hitting demonstrators with batons, stomping on people in addition to

tasing some demonstrators.

“We were yelling, ‘Don’t tase them!

Don’t tase them!’” Shepherd said.

Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service Police arrested demonstrators

who were inside the BIA headquarters. It’s

unclear how many were detained.

Two individuals were let go from inside

the building. One was water protector Annie Baker. She volunteered to escort the

second individual who was diabetic.

Baker immediately rushed to a group of

friends crying, shaking, and hugged them.

She said it was “horrible” and didn’t know

where the others were taken to. She saw

those arrested being taken down to different corridors.

“We filed in, locked arms in a circle to

occupy space (in the lobby) in hopes that

we could speak with Deb (Haaland),” Baker said. “From there, we were met with the

violence of the police, who mostly sought

out Indigenous elders and Indigenous

women to arrest them first. And they arrested media very violently. I mean, like

body slammed, ripping cameras off like

slamming their bodies and tripping them

so that their legs were, they weren’t able

to stand on their own legs. And pulling

people’s arms as far up behind their bodies

as they could so that people couldn’t, had

no movement and looked really painful.

“When they were prying people apart,

they were smashing people’s fingers,” she

said. “And then basically, once they, like,

took certain people, they just left the rest

of us to wait. And they just kind of there

was probably 60 officers, Homeland Security, that just stood there and waited, I

think for us to tire out.”

Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs

Bryan Newland, Bay Mills Indian Community, was in southern Oregon Thursday

for a conservation event to discuss the

department’s efforts for rural and Native

communities.

Haaland is on travel and not in Washington, according to the Interior.

The Federal Protective Service Police

took one woman, who was zip tied and

wearing a red shirt, out of the building and

into the ramp under the Interior building.

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Hopi Tutuveni October 20, 2021

Indigenous demonstrators make statement at Interior, Cont.

Outside the Interior Department in Washington where frontline Indigenous leaders and others

held a sit in on Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021. (Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, Indian Country

Today)

Water protector Annie Baker cries and hugs a friend after she got out of the Interior building.

(Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, Indian Country Today)

our treaties!” she yelled while being escorted.

Right after, demonstrators sat and

blocked all of the entrances to the building.

Officers of the Metropolitan Police

made a path for vehicles on the east side

of a building with their bikes. The Federal Protective Service Police could be seen

loading detainees into the vans outside

the ramp of the building. Demonstrators

yelled, “We’re proud of you!” when they

got into the vans. Homeland Security

drove off those detained in three white

vans.

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, 135 In-

protectors showed Indian Country Today

the location of a drilling fluid spill adjacent to the Mississippi River along the

now completed Enbridge Line 3 pipeline

route. This spill was discovered by water

protectors and is one of 28 spills occurring

this past summer along Line 3 construction. State regulators confirmed the number of drilling mud frac outs in response

to demands from Minnesota Democratic

Farm Labor party members.

Water protectors and allies have opposed the massive 340-mile pipeline project running from Canada south to Minnesota then east to Superior, Wisconsin, for

more than eight years. Opponents claim

digenous people were arrested outside of

the White House while demanding Biden

declare a climate emergency and stop all

new fossil fuel leases, Falcon said.

“When Indigenous people were being

arrested they were met with heavy police

violence,” Falcon said. “I don’t trust the

United States. They’ve always broken

promises to us.”

Indigenous water protectors involved

in the BIA building sit-in have repeatedly

demanded President Biden stop construction of Line 3 but he has declined, siding

with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s

water permit for the pipeline.

Earlier this month, Indigenous water

the pipeline construction and future leaks

will damage water and fragile wetlands

that are home to wild rice beds on which

Ojibwe people depend as a traditional

food source.

“I feel devastated as an Indigenous

woman,” Falcon said. “I just lost my

grandmother to cancer, from a mine that

poisoned water, two months ago. I should

be at home mourning and I’m here.”

In 1970, Indigenous people first occupied a BIA office in Littleton, Colorado,

which set off a chain of occupations that

ended in Washington D.C. in 1972, according to the Indigenous Environmental

Network.

HOPI H.E.O.C UPDATES

Hopi Tutuveni October 20, 2021

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

October 15, 2021 Report

KYKOTSMOVI, AZ – October 15,

2021

This data is updated on the Hopi Tribe’s

website “COVID-19 Response and Resources” page.

The Hopi Tribe in partnership with the

Hopi Health Care Center is launching its

annual employee influenza immunization

program – “No Harm…Stick Out Your

Arm” – with the goal of vaccinating all

100% of tribal employees against the flu.

Hopi Health Care Center – Community

Vaccination Information:

COVID-19 vaccines are available daily

for those 12-years old and older.

Call (928) 737-6049/6081/6148 - Appointments preferred, but not required.

COVID-19 Testing Drive Up Testing

Remains Open Monday – Friday from 8

am to 9:30 am. Enter at the west entrance

& drive around back. Wear a mask & stay

in your vehicle. For more information

about other testing options please call

(928) 737-6233.

Moenkopi residents Tuba City Regional Health Care will have a Pfizer vaccine

community drive-up vaccine clinic now

available for individual’s 12-years and

older. Call 1-866-976-5941 to schedule

your appointment.

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As of October 15, 2021 the United

States now has approximately 44,709 million confirmed positive cases with over

720,220 deaths reported.

Over 1,129 million confirmed positive

cases now exist in Arizona. Of those,

close to 20,447 are in Navajo and 22,208

in Coconino Counties.

The Hopi Health Care Centers most recent data report indicates over 11,468 patients tested as of October 13, 2021. Over

1,543 of those tests at Hopi Health Care

Center came back positive with 1,125

from Hopi Tribal members. Tuba City

Regional Health Care Corporation reported 303 positives for Hopi Villages with a

combined number of 1,441*** positive

Hopi Tribal members.

*Note: These data include newly added

testing results from the Abbott ID NOW

machine since April 20, 2020 ** A total of

1,441+ individuals who tested positive are

members of the Hopi Tribe.

*** Data includes all state-wide data

from other facilities such as Flagstaff,

Winslow, Phoenix or other hospitals. +

Includes Village member(s) retested positive.

Prevention:

Watch for Symptoms - people with

COVID-19 have had a wide range of

symptoms reported – ranging from mild

symptoms to severe illness. Symptoms

may appear 2-10 days after exposure to

the virus. Anyone can have mild to severe

symptoms. People with these symptoms

may have COVID-19:

• Fever or chills

• Cough

• Shortness of breath or difficulty

breathing

• Fatigue

• Muscle or body aches

• Headache

• New loss of taste or smell

• Sore throat

• Congestion or runny nose

• Nausea or vomiting

• Diarrhea

This list does not include all possible

symptoms. CDC will continue to update

this list as we learn more about COVID-19.

Older adults and people who have severe

underlying medical conditions like heart

or lung disease or diabetes seem to be at

higher risk for developing more serious

complications from COVID-19 illness.

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HOPI H.E.O.C UPDATES

Hopi Tribe Department of Health and Human Services Covid-19 Emergency Response October 13, 2021 Report, Cont.

Hopi Tutuveni October 20, 2021

Hopilavit - Fall Related

October 6 issue

H Q I I N O O L

A A A S N I K T

L T S N U A T Y

A A O Y A W W O

S A O I I O G T

A L H Q S T N N

M A U S Z T U A

I I T I W P U K

A O J K M A T T

Y P K Y A A S O

A T G A M P E G

N K O H Q U L W

Q A F A A F E X

O I S T S T W H

H M W I I V A L

L A Y K U H Y F

B S M O R I T S

HOPI WORDS

Steamed)

Tsawna - Frighten

Huk.yala - Abate (of wind)

Tu’tsi - Corn (Roasted)

Huyta - Give Out (Treats)

Nìitiwpu - Abundance

Silaqvu - Corn Husk

Maalama - Ground Cultivated

Aniwna - Achieve or Accom-

Mangwni - Corn Leaves

Höqna’ya - Harvesting Party

plish

Kyàasòmkwivi - Creamed

Hota - Haul (Harvested

Aptsiwta - Adequate

Corn

Goods)

Natwànpi - Agricultural

Angwusi - Crow

Pàngala - Heap (Harvested

Practice

Qataala - Darkness

Goods)

Qana’öna - Ambitious

Tuviku - Disguise

Moritspu - Hull (Beans)

Maqsoni - Arduous

Àasa’ta - Enough (candy

Tukwsi - Matured Corn

Tuho’os - Autumn

treats)

Kawayvatnga - Melon

Paapu - Beans (Pod)

Uti - Exclamation! (Horror)

Halasami - Moist Ground

Sikyahatiko - Beans (Y.

Nìktiwta - Extra (candy

Tuvatski - Nut Bearing Tree

Lima)

treats)

Pisoq - Occupied (Harvest)

Pasqalalni - Boundary (Crop)

Màmqasi - Fear

Sipala - Peach

Patomelooni - Canteloupe

Nùutsel’eway - Fearsome

Pintomori - Pinto Beans

Hökni - Corn (Harvested)

Sami - Fresh Corn

Natwani - Plant

Tuupevu - Corn (Pit

Sungwa - Friend

TICK-TACK-TOE

Hopi Tutuveni October 20, 2021

Larry’s Corner

Larry’s Hopi Halloween

When you think of Halloween, you think of the spooky

time of the year. Well, for Hopis and Hopi cats alike, we

don’t celebrate Halloween. Well, I should say we don’t

celebrate Halloween as it should be celebrated. I mean,

we just follow whatever Walmart, aka Indian Heaven, is

selling and go with the department store holiday status.

As in the whole end-of-the-year celebration like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s, we

don’t know the true meaning behind those holidays. Of

course, we Hopis celebrate them, but that’s because we

follow the mass media and we just go along with the flow,

not knowing if it’s bad or not.

Let me tell you a bit of what Halloween is…

Halloween is a Catholic holiday called All Hallows

Eve, which occurs before All Saints Day on November

1st. Halloween was never a Christin holiday but was a

celebration of All Saints Day that was a continuation of

Easter.

Another part of Halloween or another tradition of Halloween...

Samhain is a Druid tradition celebrated on October

31st and usually holds significance for the dead. While

this may appear to be the true Halloween, it is not. Druid traditions tell us that this is the time when the earth

and the “non-living” are at their thinnest, and to celebrate

this time of the year, Druids would put carved-out turnips

outside their homes to fend away any bad spirits and to

welcome good spirits into their homes. But during this

time, children and the elderly are in mortal danger and

will cover themselves in horrifying costumes to keep

from getting taken away. Hence, now we have costumes

we wear on Halloween.

Though Halloween is not a Christian holiday, nor a Pagan holiday, it is a mass-produced consumerism holiday

meant to make you buy expensive candy and give it out to

freeloaders. But be it as it may, we Hopis still don’t know

the true meaning of these major western holidays and we

don’t buy expensive candy for the freeloaders, we just

get the ones from Walmart or the dollar store and save the

expensive candies for ourselves.

When I was a mush head kitten, I thought Halloween

was the coolest time of the year, because it was getting

colder and the leaves were changing color. I thought

that Halloween was the only time to be alive. My mother would decorate the house with all sorts of Halloween

decorations, from bats to goblins and even black cats.

Every year we would go to the local shop to search for

our costumes to wear on the night of Halloween, and I always wanted to be a vampire, because I thought vampires

were cool. After all, they could turn into bats when they

wanted to, drink blood, and never die, well...only by a

wooden stake. But even though I wanted to be a vampire

every year, I never really understood the true meaning of

Halloween, but I didn’t care. My parents never knew the

true holiday, but they knew it was for kittens and children

alike. They also only knew that they would have to buy

expensive costumes and candy for only one night, but it

was a great time to be a kid in the early ’90s.

When we would buy our costumes, I would always

wear my cape around the house and pretend I was Batman or Superman, jumping off the couch pretending to

fly, while my mother would be yelling at me to get down

because I was wearing shoes on her couch.

In school, we would decorate our classrooms with bats,

spiderwebs, and other spooky stuff that we would make

ourselves. I remember one year in 3rd grade, we created an “ashtray-looking” pottery for art class, and it was

supposed to be for our introduction to pottery class. We

knew that our teacher in 3rd grade was a big smoker, and

figured he was probably trying to make us his “slaves”

to make “Native-made” ashtrays to use or probably sell

them through “Poor Children” catalogs... but our teacher

told us that it was for our parents. It was around October

when we started our art projects so that always indicated

to me that Halloween was on the way.

So how do the Halloween backstory and the Hopi correlate? Well, it doesn’t. I mean, we Hopis have become so

infatuated by western culture. Plus, typically during that

time of the year, our cultural calendar is winding down

and some of us Hopi cats are still in that busy Hopi mode

that we “have to” seek other means of being happy during

October, November, and December.

Although that may not be entirely true for all Hopis,

when you have kids that are going to school learning the

white man’s culture and learning all the major western

holidays, you have to satisfy the children’s interest in other cultures.

While the history of Halloween is not so clear, we can

expect to get candy every year from people who want to

throw money at kids. But we, as Hopis, are starting to

slowly integrate our culture into the western culture by

dressing up as Hopi figures for Halloween or decorating

our Christmas tree with Kachina dolls and little homemade baskets and bows and arrows. While that seems to

be “just cute” and “cool looking” my opinion is that we

should keep those items separate. But if you’re not profiting off the major holidays in Hopi culture, I guess it

would be cool to do that in your own home. Go figure…

So, my advice to you is that, now that the last three

months are going to be a blur, we will soon follow the

major western holidays just for our enjoyment, and if you

have kids, we as Hopis mainly do it for their enjoyment.

Then again, I like to dress up for Halloween every year,

but I can’t have sweets anymore because I’m all out of

baby teeth and I’m afraid of losing my pearly whites and

having to wear dentures

Hopi Tutuveni October 20, 2021

6 Native American Legends That Will Terrify You

by IGGY PAULSEN

URBAN LEGEND

There's nothing quite as fascinating as reading up on

the mythology of other cultures. Every single culture has

its own unique creatures, legends, and myths that have

been passed on through the ages from person to person.

Some, such as the stories about angels, are supposed

to be heartwarming and positive in nature. Others, such

as ones about ghouls or werewolves, are meant to send

chills down your spine. Every single country out there

has bone-chilling stories that are worth telling, as long as

you look hard enough.

When it comes to these legends, it's easy to find some

seriously terrifying tales in the Americas. Today, we're

going to check out some of the scariest Native American

legends out there...

The Stick People

Have you ever seen an animal that just didn’t behave

quite right? Maybe it was the way it stared you down or

the way it moved, but it just wasn’t normal. If you’re like

many people who have experienced this, it’s an experience that fills you with dread.

This is the basis of one of the lesser-known Native

American legends that appeared on Reddit fairly recently,

and from what we’ve read, it’s nothing short of traumatically scary.

Stick People, or Stick Indians, are an evil race of shapeshifting monsters that live in the woods and prey on human beings. Nothing pleases them more than striking fear

into humans and killing them in brutal, savage ways.

When a Stick Man is around, forests will suddenly go

quiet. You’ll notice an animal that might be a bit too large

or just acting bit strange. The more you stare at the animal, the more you’ll experience a feeling of gripping,

life-or-death dread.

That is, if the Stick Person actually decides to shapeshift into an animal. Sometimes, it will literally be a mass

of sticks that start to carry you away to their lair before

they rip you to shreds. If you’re female, watch out, you

may disappear because one may take you as a wife!

Chillingly, these creatures are also known for making a

trademark chatter. According to the legends, anyone who

sees one of these creatures in their true form will end up

losing their mind.

Stories of massive creatures can be found on every

continent, and there are plenty of legends that deal with

giant creatures among Native Americans.

Among South America’s Mayan ethnic group, the most

terrifying creature you could find was Camazotz, the

Death Bat. This god-like bat ruled over the fiery pits of

hell and had armies of vampire bats at his disposal.

According to the Mayan religion, Camazotz was the

creature that gave humans power over fire. He could have

easily wiped out entire civilizations, but thankfully entered a treaty with humanity.

To keep Camazotz from starting the apocalypse, humanity had to provide human sacrifices.

Many scientists believe that we haven’t fully discovered all the large creatures in America, and if they’re

right, we might still be missing a mishipeshu. This cryptid finds its home in the Great Lakes and the rivers surrounding it.

The Cree, Shawnee, and Algonquin tribes all have talked about a very rare creature that looks like a blend between a cat and a dragon. This animal lives in lakes, and

is considered to be very hostile towards humans, much

like other lake monsters.

If you notice a large mass in the river, you might want

to step away. Native American legends claim that it’s a

mishipeshu, also called a Water Panther, looking for another human to drag to his or her demise.

Skudakumooch

Native American legends often feature terrifying

creatures that have ties to witchcraft, and skudakumooch

is no exception to the rule. Skudakumooch, also known

as “Ghost Witches,” are the Native American version of

what others would call a lich.

A Ghost Witch is a paranormal creature that was created from the corpse of a shaman who practiced dark magic. Every night after the shaman’s death, a demon picks

up his corpse and possesses it with the sole intent of causing harm to the living.

By the time you see the Witch, you’re already doomed.

Even hearing the Witch’s voice or making eye contact

with it will cause you to suffer from a huge curse.

Ghost Witches appear to look like rotting corpses that

are still capable of moving. They just refuse to die, and

the only way to permanently end their lives is to set them

on fire.

Na losa falaya is the Choctaw phrase for “Long Black

Being,” and believe it or not, you might have already

heard stories about it. This is the Native American version of a shadow person.

In many cases, this paranormal being is a long, tall humanoid without a face. However, if startled, it can slither

on the ground like a snake or melt away into the shadows. Sometimes, people can see na losa falaya peeking

out from trees or in the corners of homes.

These shadow beings often enjoy terrifying people, but

rarely do much else. That being said, it’s not unheard of to

hear about particularly vicious ones hexing someone who

crosses their paths.

Stiff-Legged Bear

Ever since humans have been alive, rumors of animals

that ate them have existed. In the Pacific Northwest, Native American legends tell of an extra large, strange-looking bear that’s known as the Stiff-Legged Bear, or Katshituashku.

The legend states that the bear walks with a stiff gait,

has massive jaws, and also happens to be totally hairless.

According to tribespeople, the bear lost its hair as a result

of eating too many people.

The Shosone tribe have a few pretty terrifying creatures in their legend arsenal, but few are creepier than

Dzoavits. This was a legendary demon that would cause

earthquakes and volcano eruptions for fun.

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6 Native American Legends That Will Terrify You, Cont.

A truly sadistic creature, the Dzoavits was known for

hunting legendary creatures, stealing eggs from sacred

birds, and provoking men into becoming violent cannibals.

According to the legend, the Dzoavits was lured into a

cave and sealed in there. To this very day, he stays underground, hoping to be let out to cause more havoc.

Chindi

Imagine a person you really can’t get along with.

They might be cantankerous, mean, or violent. Maybe

they also have a drinking problem or a drug issue. As bad

as they can be though, they also have good sides. They

donate to charity, they are good at their jobs, and they

also have been known to volunteer at animal shelters.

In humanity, there is no person who is entirely awful.

However, a chindi isn’t a human being; it’s a ghost of a

person who has died. Chindis are known for being ghosts

that are entirely composed of a person’s bad traits, with

none of the good.

Contact with chindi can lead to sickness, hallucinations, and death. These malevolent spirits tend to linger

around the deceased’s former home and possessions.

Even mentioning a dead person’s name can lure a chindi

to you, which is why you never speak of the dead.

Among many tribes, there are talks about shamans who

have turned to the dark side of sorcery. There are discussions of shamans who are hired to cast hexes on people,

sentencing them to illness, insanity, loss, and even death.

Some shamans take things a bit further, and decide to

sell their souls to become ultra-powerful warlocks, capable of changing into the animal of their choosing. To do

this, they have to have had killed a loved one and joined a

society of shamans that specialize in black magic.

They cast powerful curses, run at superhuman speeds,

and allegedly can even become immortal. They are called

skinwalkers, or yee naaldlooshii, because they use animal

skins to become inhuman.

According to Native American legends, skinwalkers

are easy to spot. They look like animals that aren’t quite

“right” in appearance. Sometimes, they look like creatures that are part human, part animal. Other times, they

appear like a dead animal that still moves around.

The only way to kill a skinwalker is to uncover their

real identity. Tribal legends also say that discussing skinwalkers attracts them, so it’s best not to do so.

One of the most paranormal places on Earth, Skinwalker Ranch, was named after this strange type of being.

The wendigois a legend that has many names and has

been featured in the tales of many different peoples of

North America. Most often, the legend is found among

tribes in the Great Lakes region, specific to the Algonquin

people.

According to historians, wendigos were originally demons that were able to possess people and convince them

to kill and eat others. This is due to the wendigo’s insatiable hunger for flesh—one that cannot be quelled no

matter how much they eat.

However, as the tale progressed, the demon took a

more terrifying form into one of the scariest monsters

of legends. Legends began to describe it as the walking

body of a dead, wild animal, one that could infect people

who were as greedy for worldly goods as it was for human flesh.

The wendigo is an expert hunter that can mimic human

voices, and often will lure people into the woods in order

to kill them. The older it is, the deadlier it becomes.

Water Babies

Imagine if you heard the wails of a young infant near

a river. Would you go and try to find the child? Would

you ignore them? Or, would you run like hell? If you

listen to tribal legends, chances are you would run home

and say your final prayers, because you might think you

heard a water baby.

A water baby is a creature that mimics the cries of

a young infant, but is not in the least bit human. They

are said to look like a beautiful child, or to have mermaid-like features. Pretty as they may be, you should

never try to go near water if you hear them.

Depending on the legend you hear, these are the spirits

of children whose mothers drowned them, spirits of

children who drowned while swimming, or outright demons. No matter how they originated, they always end

up wanting to kill people who are near bodies of water

as an act of vengeance.

If you try to pick up the baby or save them, it’s said

that the water baby will try to drown you—or at the very

least, that tragedy will befall you. In some regions, even

hearing a water baby’s cry can be an omen of death!

The Deadly Little People

Native American legends regularly discuss the existence of an unknown, diminutive race of human being.

This terrifying urban legend from Latin America calls

this race the duendes. In the Comanche tribe, it’s nunnupis, among the Shoshone it’s nimerigar, the Cherokee

call them the yumwi, and in Hawaii, they’re called menehune. Among the Cheyenne and the Arapaho, they’re

called the teihiihan.

No matter what you call them, it seems like most

tribes agree that these tiny people are seriously bad

news. They are said to be very violent, often to the point

of killing members of their own race that appear “weak.”

Though they’re typically described as the size of children or smaller, these tiny creatures are known for being

particularly vicious towards humans. In many cases,

they will hunt humans in packs.

Sometimes, they may just be mischievous; but most of

the time, legends say they’re best to be avoided.

Hopi Tutuveni October 20, 2021

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Hopi businesses and individuals with expertise

in developing, hosting and maintaining websites are invited to respond to a Request for

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The Hopi Foundation–Lomasumi’nangwtukwsiwmani, is accepting proposals for a multi-year engagement

from qualified and independent CPAs to perform annual

financial and compliance audits for the purpose of expressing an opinion on financial statements for a tax-exempt charitable nonprofit.

The multi-year engagement shall cover 2021 until

2023, with each annual audit to cover calendar year January 1 to December 31. The scope of the audit shall be

applicable to:

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in accordance with IRS standards;

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Hopi Tutuveni October 20, 2021

These Hopi Athletes Are Running Boston for a Larger

Mission—and You Can Help

BY MICAH LING

Runners World Magazine

Caroline Sekaquaptewa, 47, and her brother Wayne,

42, grew up running; it was an important part of their

Hopi culture, and part of their daily life. Even after time

away from running, both returned to the sport as adults;

in many ways, running returned them to their roots and

the Hopi values.

This year’s Boston Marathon falls on Indigenous

Peoples’ Day (Monday, October 11), and both Wayne

and Caroline will be running. Though it’s not their first

time—this will be Caroline’s eighth Boston Marathon

and Wayne’s fifth—this one feels even more significant.

In 2020, they ran 26.2 miles on the dusty roads around

their family’s ranch on Hopi land as part of the virtual

Boston Marathon, and they were taken by how supportive the community was in helping to put a course together and cheering them on. So this year, they’re hoping to

raise at least $5,000 for the Hopi Education Endowment

Fund (HEEF) to support varied efforts that create educational opportunities for Hopi students.

Caroline and Wayne were raised in the village of Sipaulovi in Arizona. The sandy trails of the Hopi land

meander up and down mesas, many leading to the same

places—towns and gathering areas—where Hopi people

have run to for generations.

“We were always running around [as children],” Caroline told Runner’s World. “We have running in our culture ... we have traditional races within certain ceremonies, and you always see kids running everywhere.”

Caroline ran cross-country in high school and was

aware of the importance of running even beyond racing

and accolades.

“Our coach would always remind us that when we run,

we’re running for strength for others,” Caroline said. “It’s

not just for us, we’re putting strength and prayers out for

everyone out there. He would always remind us to think

about those things while we were running.”

Wayne also ran track, mainly as conditioning for other

sports.

“I was always a pudgy kid, and I didn’t feel like it was

my thing because there were so many other kids who were

faster than me. But I still appreciated and understood that

it was important to our people and to our culture,” Wayne

told Runner’s World. “I didn’t appreciate the spiritual aspect, and the mental and physical benefits until after college. Our dad ran in college, and my sister [Caroline] won

state titles in high school—for cross-country and track—

so by the time I got to high school, I kind of wanted to do

my own thing.”

Running faded out of Caroline’s and Wayne’s lives as

they finished school, started working jobs, and started

families of their own. When the siblings’ father passed

away from cancer in 2003, Wayne moved back to the

Hopi reservation with his wife, and the two of them started running together on the trails that Wayne and Caroline

had grown up running. Wayne and his wife signed up for

a half marathon, and from there, running once again became part of their daily routine.

“I really fell in love with running because I was missing my father, and kind of scared about what I didn’t absorb from him and what I hadn’t learned about starting

my own family,” Wayne said. “I took to it because I envisioned myself running with the people who ran those

trails before me—our ancestors. That gave me a new appreciation for running.

“Running became more and more of a staple in our

family,” Wayne continued, “as an outlet for stress and a

connection to our culture. The wellbeing and the euphoria

that we felt after running in the morning carried over into

whatever we were doing with our lives.”

When Caroline saw Wayne running again, she was influenced to get back into it too, in 2007. She ran her first

half marathon when she was four months pregnant, and

she first qualified for Boston in the 2013 L.A. Marathon.

Caroline also started doing triathlons in 2008; at that

time, she and Wayne had moved to the Phoenix, Arizona, area, and they started prioritizing racing and getting

faster. As they both ran more races and continued to get

faster, qualifying for Boston each year, they also motivated others to start running.

“Along the way, we were able to encourage other natives—when they saw what we were doing they wanted

to do it too. It was fun and rewarding to see others getting

out there,” Caroline said.

Caroline and Wayne continue to return to the land that

they grew up on. They go back to Hopi often, even though

they’re four hours away now, because they like to remain

connected to the culture and traditions at home. Plus, it’s

where they love to run the most.

“I would describe it as high-country desert, with thick

sand, like beach sand,” Caroline said. “We can literally

run up a mesa from our home. There are rocky trails that

were created so long ago. … Knowing that people have

been running these routes forever, and just thinking about

all the people who have run there—it’s a good reminder

of all the strength that is in you from all the generations

before, and what they’ve overcome.”

Caroline and Wayne have often taken on fundraising

efforts as part of their racing, but this year they wanted

to fundraise for future Hopi generations. They chose the

Hopi Education Endowment Fund, which grants various

scholarships to Hopi students. It was set up 20 years ago

by the Hopi tribal council, with a goal to set aside money

for education. (You can donate to Caroline and Wayne’s

fundraising efforts here.)

“I think one of the best parts of our fundraising is that

we always have little grassroots community events like

food sales,” Caroline said. “It’s fun to visit with people

when they come to buy things. We have raffles, and local

artists will donate things. It’s hard work but we love to

interact with people instead of just setting up a website

and collecting money that way.”

Caroline and Wayne want to do everything they can to

help young Hopi members of the community, however

they need it.

“There’s a Hopi value called sumi’nangwa—you help

others but not because you want them to help you back.

Never with that expectation. You do it because that’s

what you should do.”

Caroline sees this year’s Boston Marathon, falling on

Indigenous Peoples’ Day, as an opportunity to educate

people.

“I’m hoping that lots of people can share their culture.

There’s a lot of learning to be done. Like some people

think we all speak the same language—so this is an opportunity to educate. And also, there’s so much pride in

running this race across the country. It makes me so proud

to represent who we are and where we’re from. We carry all this strength and knowledge from so many people

inside of us.

“There’s so much that people don’t know about us,”

Caroline continued. “Like every time we go home to

Hopi we bring gallon bottles of water and we don’t think

anything of it, we just always do it. And the reason is

because the arsenic levels are so unsafe, we can’t drink

the tap water.”

Caroline and Wayne will be wearing clothing from

StrongOnes, a Hopi-owned, woman-owned running apparel company.

“Whenever we run we always wear their gear because

the designs have specific meaning behind them—they’re

very meaningful Hopi designs,” Caroline said.

In addition to the Boston Marathon, and other marathons, Caroline and Wayne have also taken on Ironman

triathlons and ultrarunning events. Their goals in every

event that they take on are to remember their roots, and

inspire others to get out there and be active.

Hopi Tutuveni October 20, 2021

Tribal leaders seek hearing on drilling dispute

A World Heritage site, Chaco Culture National Historical Park is thought

to be the center of what was once a hub of Indigenous civilization

In this Aug. 10, 2005, photo, tourist Chris Farthing, from Suffolks County, England, takes a

picture of Anasazi ruins in Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. (AP Photo/Jeff

Geissler, File)

Susan Montoya Bryan

Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Top officials with the

largest Native nation in the United States are renewing a

request for congressional leaders to hold a field hearing

before deciding on federal legislation aimed at limiting

oil and gas development around Chaco Culture National

Historical Park.

The Navajo Nation has struggled for years with high

poverty rates and joblessness, and the tribe’s legislative

leaders say individual Navajo allottees stand to lose an

important source of income if a 10-mile buffer is created

around the park as proposed. They’re calling for a smaller

area of federal land holdings to be made off limits to oil

and gas development as a compromise to protect Navajo

interests.

Navajo Council Speaker Seth Damon and other council

members recently sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy

Pelosi and Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

outlining their concerns about pending legislation and the

need to fund a comprehensive study of cultural resources

throughout the region.

They said a field hearing would allow congressional

leaders to “‘hear directly from the Navajo people who

face a real threat” under the current version of legislation.

Interior, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, speaks during a press briefing at the

White House, Friday, April 23, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

While the measure wouldn’t directly affect tribal or allottee land, allottees fear their parcels would be landlocked

by a federal ban, making them undesirable for future development.

A World Heritage site, Chaco is thought to be the center

of what was once a hub of Indigenous civilization. Within

the park, walls of stacked stone jut up from the bottom

of the canyon, some perfectly aligned with the seasonal

movements of the sun and moon. Circular subterranean

rooms called kivas are cut into the desert floor.

Outside the park, archaeologists say there are discoveries still to be made.

Other tribes, environmental groups and archaeologists

have been pushing to stop drilling across an expansive

area of northwestern New Mexico, saying sites beyond

Chaco’s boundaries need protection and that the federal

government’s leasing program needs an overhaul.

The Navajo Nation passed its own legislation in 2019

recognizing the cultural, spiritual and cosmological connection that Navajos have to the Chaco region. The measure expounded on the need for protections, but it also

called for respecting and working with Navajo allottees.

The fight over development in the region has spanned

several presidential administrations on both sides of

the political aisle. Past administrations — including the

Trump and Obama administrations — put on hold leases

adjacent to the park through agency actions, but activists

are pushing for something more permanent that won’t be

upended by a future administration.

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was among the

sponsors of legislation calling for greater protections

during her tenure in the U.S. House. A citizen of Laguna

Pueblo in central New Mexico, Haaland has referred to

the area as a sacred place.

She’s now under growing pressure to use her administrative powers to establish a buffer around the park pending the outcome of the federal legislation.

Several New Mexico pueblos, Navajo Council Member Daniel Tso and environmental groups also have sent

letters to U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, voicing their

support for the Chaco legislation. The first-term Democratic congresswoman also has spoken with Navajo leaders about her position on the matter.

Leger Fernández said Wednesday she’s committed to

cultural preservation. She said once those resources are

lost, they’re gone forever.

“We’ve been engaged in tribal consultation throughout

and will continue conversations with Navajo Nation and

the pueblos, as well as the Navajo allottees to protect allottees’ rights to develop their land as they see fit,” she

said.

Hopi Tutuveni October 20, 2021

Joe Biden restores sacred Bears Ears

Indian Country Today

“This may be the easiest thing I've ever

done so far as President.”

That’s what President Joe Biden said

Friday afternoon, speaking from outside

the White House, to celebrate the presidential action that will expand two national monuments in Utah, Bears Ears and

Grand Staircase-Escalante. Democratic

lawmakers, tribal leaders and environmentalists attended the White House ceremony.

Biden's action reversed a decision by

President Donald Trump that opened for

mining and other development hundreds

of thousands of acres of rugged lands sacred to Indigenous peoples and home to

ancient cliff dwellings and petroglyphs.

The Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante monuments in southern Utah encompass more than 3.2 million acres — an

area nearly the size of Connecticut — and

were created by Democratic administrations under a century-old law that allows

presidents to protect sites considered historic, geographically or culturally important.

Restoring the monuments' boundaries

and protections restores their integrity,

upholds efforts to honor the federal trust

responsibility to tribal nations and conserves the lands and waters for future generations, Biden said.

Hopi Chairman Timothy L. Nuvangyaoma said he is "happy" and "grateful for the

advocacy of all those related to protecting

Bears Ears and for the Hopi tribe" because

it means a lot to the clan memberships.

"For Hopi, this is a significant step

forward and the Biden administration

did make some commitments to listen to

Native America and Biden’s actions does

prove that it is happening. We do need to

protect these sacred sites that not only the

Hopi tribe but other tribes find significant

within their history."

The chairman said he and the vice chairman will be headed to Washington, D.C.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first

Indigenous Cabinet secretary, traveled to

Utah in April to tour the area before pre-

paring a formal recommendation to President Biden.

Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, visited the

monuments, becoming the latest federal

official to step into what has been a yearslong public lands controversy.

She said Biden's action was not just

about national monuments.

“It’s about this administration centering the voices of Indigenous people and

affirming the shared stewardship of this

landscape with tribal nations,'' she said.

“The president’s action today writes a

new chapter that embraces Indigenous

knowledge, ensures tribal leadership has a

seat at the table, and demonstrates that by

working together we can build a brighter

future for all of us.''

Bears Ears in particular was an important site to protect, Biden said, noting that

the 1.3-million acre site is the first national monument to be established at the

request of federally recognized tribes. It

is "a place of healing ... a place of reverence and a sacred homeland to hundreds

of generations of native peoples,'' Biden

said.

Biden called Grand Staircase Escalante

“a place of unique and extraordinary geology” and noted that the 1.9-million acre

site had been protected by presidential order for 21 years before Trump's 2017 order slashed the monument nearly in half.

Trump cut Bears Ears by 85%, to just over

200,000 acres.

In a separate action, Biden also restored

protections at a marine conservation area

off the New England coast that has been

used for commercial fishing under an order by Trump. A rules change approved by

Trump allowed commercial fishing at the

Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monument in the Atlantic Ocean,

a nearly 5,000-square-mile area southeast

of Cape Cod. Trump's action was heralded

by fishing groups but derided by environmentalists who pushed Biden and Interior

Secretary Deb Haaland to restore protections against fishing.

“There’s nothing like it in the world, because it’s unique biodiversity,'' Biden said

of the marine monument. “Waters teeming

with life with underwater canyons as deep

as parts of the Grand Canyon. Underwater mountains as tall as the Appalachians.

Marine scientists believe that this is a key

to understanding life under the sea.''

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and other Republicans expressed disappointment in

Biden's decision to restore the Utah monuments, where red rocks reveal petroglyphs and cliff dwellings and distinctive

buttes bulge from a grassy valley. Trump

invoked the century-old Antiquities Act

to cut 2 million acres from the two monuments. Restrictions on mining and other energy production a “massive land

grab” that “should never have happened,”

Trump said in revoking the protections.

Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said Biden

had “squandered the opportunity to build

consensus” and find a permanent solution

for the monuments. “Yet again, Utah’s national monuments are being used as a political football between administrations,”

Romney said.

Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., and chairman of the House Natural Resources

Committee, said Biden's restoration of the

monuments shows his dedication to “conserving our public lands and respecting

the voices of Indigenous Peoples.”

“It’s time to put Trump’s cynical actions

in the rear-view mirror,” Grijalva said.

Jennifer Rokala, executive director of

the Center for Western Priorities, a conservation group, said she hopes Biden's actions mark an initial step toward his goal

of conserving at least 30% of U.S. lands

and ocean by 2030.

Trump's cuts attracted widespread news

coverage and increased national attention

to Bears Ears, Rokala and others said.

They called on the federal government to

boost funding to manage the landscape

and handle growing crowds at the two

sites.

"In some ways the hard work is ahead

of us now, as we turn our attention to planning, co-management and public education,'' said Joe Neuhof, executive director

of Friends of Cedar Mesa, a Utah conservation group.

Haaland, in her remarks, said Indi-

an tribes have long “sung and spoken in

unison to protect” Bears Ears, which she

called a “sacred place” and "a living landscape.''

Bears Ears “is a place where you can

stand in the doorway of a home where a

family who lived thousands of years ago

left behind a legacy of love and conservation for a place that sustained them for

countless generations,'' she said. “Stories

of existence, celebration, survival and reverence are etched into the sandstone canyon walls. Sacred sites are dotted across

the desert mesas.''

Former President Barack Obama proclaimed Bears Ears a national monument

in 2016, 20 years after President Bill Clinton moved to protect Grand Staircase-Escalante. Bears Ears was the first site to

receive the designation at the specific request of tribes.

The Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition,

which pushed for the restoration, said

Biden did the right thing. The coalition includes the Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, Ute

Mountain Ute Tribe, Pueblo of Zuni and

Ute Indian Tribe.

“For us, the monument never went

away,'' said Shaun Chapoose, a coalition

member and chairman of the Ute Indian

Tribe Business Committee. “We will always return to these lands to manage and

care for our sacred sites, waters and medicines.”

The Trump administration’s reductions

to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante paved the way for potential coal

mining and oil and gas drilling on lands

that were previously off-limits. However,

activity was limited because of market

forces.

Biden's decision to restore protections at

the marine monument came down to environmental groups having a stronger lobby

than fishing advocates, said Bob Vanasse,

executive director of Saving Seafood, a

domestic seafood industry group.

“Anyone who likes fresh local swordfish, tuna, lobster and crabmeat should be

very angry with the Harris-Biden Administration today," Vanasse said.

Hopi Tutuveni October 20, 2021

Joe Biden is first

president to

mark Indigenous

Peoples' Day

President Joe Biden gestures on the North Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021, with White House national climate adviser Gina McCarthy, Brenda Mallory, chair of the

council on environmental quality, and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland during an event announcing that his administration is restoring protections for two sprawling national monuments in Utah

that have been at the center of a long-running public lands dispute, and a separate marine conservation area in New England that recently has been used for commercial fishing. (AP Photo/Susan

Walsh)

Zeke Miller and Ellen Knickmeyer

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Friday issued the first-ever presidential

proclamation of Indigenous Peoples' Day, lending the most significant boost yet to efforts to refocus the federal holiday celebrating Christopher Columbus toward an appreciation of Native peoples.

The day will be observed Oct. 11, along with Columbus Day, which is established

by Congress. While Indigenous people have campaigned for years for local and national days in recognition of the country's Indigenous peoples, Biden's announcement

appeared to catch many by surprise.

"This was completely unexpected. Even though we've been talking about it and wanting it for so long," said Hillary Kempenich, an artist and member of the Turtle Mountain

Band of Chippewa. In 2019, she and other tribal members successfully campaigned for

her town of Grand Forks, North Dakota, to replace Columbus Day with a day recognizing Native peoples.

"I'm kind of overwhelmed with joy," said Kempenich. She was waiting Friday afternoon for her eighth-grade daughter, who grew up challenging teachers' depictions of

Columbus, to come home from school so Kempenich could share the news.

"For generations, Federal policies systematically sought to assimilate and displace

Native people and eradicate Native cultures," Biden wrote in the Indigenous Peoples'

Day proclamation. "Today, we recognize Indigenous peoples' resilience and strength

as well as the immeasurable positive impact that they have made on every aspect of

American society."

In a separate proclamation on Columbus Day, Biden praised the role of Italian Americans in U.S. society, but also referenced the violence and harm Columbus and other

explorers of the age brought about on the Americas.

Making landfall in what is now the Bahamas on Oct. 12, 1492, Columbus, an Italian,

was the first of a wave of European explorers who decimated Native populations in the

Americas in quests for gold and other wealth, including people to enslave.

"Today, we also acknowledge the painful history of wrongs and atrocities that many

European explorers inflicted on Tribal Nations and Indigenous communities," Biden

wrote. "It is a measure of our greatness as a Nation that we do not seek to bury these

shameful episodes of our past — that we face them honestly, we bring them to the light,

and we do all we can to address them."

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden "felt strongly" about recognizing

Indigenous Peoples Day. Asked if Biden might seek to end marking Columbus Day as a

federal holiday, she replied, "I don't have any predictions at this point."

John Echohawk, executive director of the Native American Rights Fund, said the

president's decision to recognize Indigenous Peoples Day was an important step.

"Big changes happen from each small step, and we hope this administration intends

to continue making positive steps towards shaping a brighter future for all citizens,"

Echohawak said.

Biden's acknowledgment of the suffering of Native Americans also marked a break

from President Donald Trump's ardent defense of "intrepid heroes" like Columbus in his

2020 proclamation of the holiday.

"Sadly, in recent years, radical activists have sought to undermine Christopher Columbus' legacy," Trump said at the time. "These extremists seek to replace discussion

of his vast contributions with talk of failings, his discoveries with atrocities, and his

achievements with transgressions."

Biden made the announcement on the same day the White House was disclosing its

plans to restore territory to two sprawling national monuments in Utah that Trump had

stripped of protections. One, Bears Ears, is on land that Native American tribes consider

sacred.

Biden's campaign against Trump saw Indigenous activists mobilize to get out votes

for the Democrat, in activism that tribal members credited with helping Biden win some

Western states.

Hopi Tutuveni October 20, 2021

Spain salutes Christopher Columbus with

little opposition

Workers remove the Christopher Columbus statue from the Broad Street side of Columbus City Hall in Columbus, Ohio on July 1, 2020. (Doral Chenoweth/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)

Barry Hatton and Alicia Leon

Associated Press

MADRID— Pomp, pageantry and a grand military parade marked Spain’s national day ceremonies in Madrid

on Tuesday, overshadowing protests against what some

see as a misguided celebration of Spanish colonial history.

Cavalry members escorted King Felipe VI and Queen

Letizia to a platform where the royal couple watched

more than 2,600 troops march along the flag-lined Paseo

de la Castellana. The parade featured dozens of aircraft

flying overhead and a 21-gun salute.

A parachutist with a giant red-and-yellow Spanish

flag attached to his ankle landed on the avenue, drawing

cheers from the thousands of spectators.

The Día de la Fiesta Nacional, also known as Dia de la

Hispanidad, is a public holiday in Spain. The 1987 law

which made Oct. 12 the national holiday said it commemorates “the linguistic and cultural projection of Spain outside of its European limits.”

The date marks explorer Christopher Columbus’ Oct.

12, 1492 sighting of land while traveling under Spanish

royal sponsorship in search of what came to be known as

the Americas. That event heralded centuries of colonization of the Americas by European nations while bringing

violence, disease and death to indigenous people.

In Spain, the suffering of native populations during that

period has not received the same attention or prompted

the kind of historical reevaluation as it has, for example,

in the United States, where in many places Columbus

Day has been paired or replaced with Indigenous Peoples

Day to switch the focus of the annual holiday.

Near to where Tuesday’s official national day celebrations were held in Madrid is a statue of Columbus atop a

pedestal. It is 17 meters (56 feet) high.

In the U.S. city of Chicago, by contrast, three statues of

Columbus remain in storage by order of the local government after protesters targeted them last summer.

The debate over Columbus’ historical legacy has raged

for many years. But it came into sharper focus in the

United States after a campaign to remove monuments

dedicated to Confederate generals flared into deadly violence in 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Protests staged to coincide with Spain’s national day

mostly were driven by other grievances.

The king, for instance, received jeers and whistles from

people who want to abolish the Spanish monarchy. Regional officials fighting for the independence of Spain’s

Catalonia region went to work as normal as a way of

thumbing their noses at the country’s central authorities.

Even the anti-establishment, left-wing Unidas Podemos (United We Can) party supported the formal ceremonies in Madrid even though fighting inequality is one of

its banner issues. The left-wing party, which is part of

Spain’s coalition government, sent its three government

ministers to attend the parade.

Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez sought to focus the celebrations on a more modern appreciation of

Oct. 12.

He said the holiday was meant to celebrate “what

bonds us together, what makes us bigger as a society,

what makes Spain a friendly, open, diverse country.”

Groups protesting against the tribute to Columbus and

his legacy organized scattered demonstrations, including

in Madrid, though turnout was light.

Joan Felguera, a 17-year-old student attending a protest

in Barcelona against crimes committed by Spanish colonizers, said people had to choose how to react to what

was known about the period.

“History is history,” he said. “But culture is changing

and ways of thinking have evolved.”

But at a separate far-right rally in the northeastern

Spanish city, participants argued that the Spanish conquests were benign. “But now things are being twisted

around,” said Ester Lopez, a 40-year-old office worker.

Paula Guerra, a Chilean anti-racism activist, said the

celebrations ought to be replaced by “an acknowledgment of the damage caused by the horrors” committed by

Spain in the Americas.

“It was a regime of terror. It was a regime of barbarism,” she said.

Dora Turín, 35, who works in Spain’s audiovisual sector, said in advance of the parade that people should reflect positively on Spain’s colonial rule.

“It was a contribution of cultures, in addition to ours,”

she said. “It meant adding more knowledge and being

able to mix inter-culturally and reach what we are now.”

Hopi Tutuveni October 20, 2021

#YDL: Data empowers stories, changes

health care systems

Jourdan Bennett-Begaye

Indian Country Today

Erasure is no longer on the menu.

I can recall the first encounter of erasure in the public health sector that elicited a visceral reaction of disappointment.

In the summer before my last year of undergrad at Fort

Lewis College, I interned for the Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention’s CUPS scholars program called

Future Public Health Leaders Program in Ann Arbor,

Michigan. It was one of the five programs in the country

where 250 got selected out of a 2,500 applicant pool.

My program had two Diné college students. We both

had ties to the Fort but never met or crossed paths (imagine that). We, of course, hung out and talked over the

course of the summer.

This program took us to a small conference as part of

the American Public Health Association in Kalamazoo,

Michigan, in 2013. Our cohort listened to guest speakers

and presentations all about public health.

I remember one presentation focused on the different

health disparities in marginalized communities. The presenter talked about the social determinants of health and

how that affects Black communities, Latin communities,

and Asian communities. Each had at least 15 slides. It felt