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Collection of 150 Hopi
items is returned to the
Hopi Tribe

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Kyle Sumatzkuku: Journey of a Hopi Endurance Runner

Kyle Sumatzkuku with Hopi flag Photo Courtesy of @ Duane Allen Humeyestewa
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Kyle Sumatzkuku: Journey of a Hopi Endurance Runner

Kyle, Rebecca, Leroy Sumatzkuku Photo Courtesy of @ Duane Allen Humeyestewa

By: Duane Humeyestewa
Boston Marathon Journal
It was still dark out when Kyle Sumatzkuku woke up
for another early start on Monday, October 11, 2021. The
outside air over Boston, Massachusetts was crisp and
clean. There was a light fog that patiently waited for its
queue to lift up. Rain drizzled on the city skyline, backdropped by rain clouds faintly lit by the eastern rising
sun.
It had been more than thirty months - more than 900
days - since the last in-person Boston Marathon. On this
particular day Kyle was quiet, focused but beamed with
an anxious excitement for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak impacted the Hopi community.
Last year's Boston Marathon race was postponed until
September 2020 and then it was called off with certainty for the first time in its history; this year's was moved
again from Patriots Day in the hopes that the pandemic
would go away — leading to the first fall Boston Marathon ever. It happened to fall on Indigenous People’s Day.
“I was so focused and in the zone for the race sometimes it feels like a blur.
It was monumental to be at the start line with thousands upon thousands of amazing runners from all over
the world,” said Kyle Sumatzkuku.
This was Kyle’s first Boston trip and first opportunity
to run with credible runners on an international stage. Our
small support team - referred to as Team Leetayo - included Kyle’s parents Leroy and Rebecca Sumatzkuku from
Moencopi, AZ. Kyle’s Hopi name is Leetayo, a moniker
appropriately given by his godparents when Kyle was initiated as a teenager. Now Kyle is true to form when he
proudly wears a shirt emblazoned with his name on it,
moving swiftly like a running fox on the trails.
On Medal Monday, as most Boston Marathon finishers
refer to it, the bustle of the crowd was busy like buzzing
bees. We navigated through the barricades and adapted
to the strict safety measures put in place by the Boston

Athletic Association. It was more effective to drive to the
start line and help Kyle stay prepared for the race.
Around 8:32 a.m. ET, Sgt. Daniel M. Clark, also
known as “The Singing Trooper,” performed the National Anthem to open up the 125th celebration of the meet.
Sgt. Clark had already performed at the Boston Marathon
every year since 1990.
At this special event of the Boston Marathon, there
was an official estimate of just over 18,200 total entrants
of the in-person 125th Boston Marathon, almost half of
the typical 30,000 plus participants. 3,492 of those entrants were from Massachusetts, and about 16,441 entrants residing in the United States.
104 countries were represented by participants in the
Boston Marathon, while all 50 U.S. states were represented by qualifying participants.
There were two other runners from Hopi who represented Arizona well, brother and sister duo from the Village of Sipaulovi, Caroline and Wayne Perry Sekaquaptewa. By 8:37 a.m. ET, Patti Catalano Dillon, three-time
runner-up, American record holder, and a strong Indigenous runner was acknowledged as the Official Starter for
this year’s race.
After the small field of Professional Men and Women
Divisions set off on the course, the rest of the 18,000 or
more runners made their way to the start line. The 104th
Fighter Wing from Barnes Air National Guard Base in
Westfield, MA performed a flyover featuring two F-15
fighter jets flying from Hopkinton to Boston. Flying the
26.2 mile route usually takes approximately four minutes.
Shortly thereafter, we heard a loud BANG - the official
starter pistol rang out around 9:00 a.m. ET. A massive
rolling start began for all Marathon Participants. The first
few miles of the race can be deceiving, as the course features a progressive decline in elevation and runners have
a tendency to move fast too early, which they ultimately
pay for later when muscles are fatigued.
Kyle ran the first 5 kilometers at an impressive average steady pace of 5:21 minutes per mile. “During the

race, I felt really ready. I put my body into motion and
just let it roll. Mentally and spiritually I was running to
represent my community, our people and the Hopi tribe,”
said Kyle. “It was inspiring to run in solidarity with my
friends Caroline and Wayne, and all tribal communities
and several Indigenous runners from all over the globe,
each one representing a voice for our people.”
Another feature of the festivities was the Boston Marathon Fan Fest presented by Amazon in Copley Square
Park. Fan Fest served as an opportunity for marathon race
fans and families to witness live music, entertainment,
photo-ops, meet and greets, archives, and the Boston
Marathon training clinic to name a few.
The Boston Marathon Fan Fest area was also the host
to the Indigenous People’s Day and Indigenous Runners
recognition and art mural project. It was a collaboration
piece between the Boston Athletic Association and the
Wings of America organization. "We wanted to have a
conversation, create dialogue, and the mural depicting
past and present Indigenous runners was one way to do
it," said mural artist Yatika Fields. He belongs to the
Osage, Cherokee and Mvskoke Creek Nation, and his
co-creative muralist was Robert Peters, a painter from the
Mashpee Tribe from Cape Cod, MA.
When Kyle was asked how he felt and what he thought
about during the race, he mentions a few points. “I ran for
land we live on which we need to protect, the clean air we
breathe, and especially the water which is precious to us
all,” said Kyle. “I ran for the strong cultural knowledge
and traditions passed down from our ancestors, the teachings that guide us and the cultural practices that make us
who we are today.”
Kyle Sumatzkuku closed out his first Boston Marathon
with a phenomenal finish, setting a new personal best and
personal record for the endurance race. With an official
time of 02:26:17, Kyle had a strong finish placing 48th
overall out of 18,000 and averaging 5:35 minutes per
mile for the 125th edition of the race.
“I am happy to be resting now, but ready to represent

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2021 Hopi Tribal general elections information

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Released for Hopi Tutuveni
Good Afternoon, 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.
EARLY VOTING SITE FOR MOENKOPI VILLAGES - OCTOBER 22, 2021 -

WILL BE INSIDE AT LEGACY INN – IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM- PLEASE
MOENKOPI AREA SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH YOUR COMMUNITY
MEMBERS.
There are TWO new polling sites for the General Elections: Mishongnuvi and Lower
Moenkopi Community Centers.
Share this information with your friends and family. Stay Safe Hopi Mask Up.
For more information contact the Hopi Elections Office at 1-928-734-2507/2508 or
email Kshupla@hopi.nsn.us
Karen L. Shupla, Registrar
Hopi Elections Office

EARLY VOTING

EARLY VOTING

THE HOPI ELECTIONS
WILL BE DOING
IN-PERSON VOTING

STOP BY THE HOPI ELECTIONS OFFICE
IN KYKOTSMOVI THE WEEK OF

OCTOBER 25 -29 2021
8:30AM - 4:30PM
PLEASE CALL HOPI
ELECTIONS OFFICE FOR
MORE QUESTIONS AT
(928)734-2507/2508

THE HOPI ELECTIONS WILL BE IN THE COMMUNITY DOING IN-PERSON VOTING

FIND A LOCATION NEAR YOU TO CAST YOUR VOTE!
10|18|2021

10|19|2021

CIRCLE M STORE
10AM - 4PM

SECAKUKU STORE
10AM - 4PM

10|21|2021

HOTEVILLA
COMMUNITY BUILDING
10AM - 4PM

10|20|2021

KYKOTSMOVI
PLAZA ENTRANCE
10AM - 4PM

10|22|2021

MOENKOPI LEGACY INN
10AM - 4PM

PLEASE CALL HOPI
ELECTIONS OFFICE FOR
MORE QUESTIONS AT
(928)734-2507/2508

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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.

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

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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.
us
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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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.

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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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Nìitiwpu - Abundance

Silaqvu - Corn Husk

Maalama - Ground Cultivated

Aniwna - Achieve or Accom-

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Paapu - Beans (Pod)

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Pasqalalni - Boundary (Crop)

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Patomelooni - Canteloupe

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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

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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.

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Please contact for full Request for Proposal (*more information included in full proposal):
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to reject any or all submittals or portions thereof; to reissues this notice and to award the
contract on a partial bases if in the best interest of the Hopi Credit Association."

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PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT

RFP

Request for Proposals

Hopi businesses and individuals with expertise
in developing, hosting and maintaining websites are invited to respond to a Request for
Proposals for website development, hosting and
maintenance for the Hopi Tourism Association.
Qualified respondents should request a copy of
the RFP by emailing ld@buildingcommunities.
us. The deadline for proposals is November 23,
2021.

October 1 – November 19, 2021
Request for Proposal for Financial Audit Service
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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All proposals must include:
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B proposed scope of work with Part B radio audit costs
listed separately;
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tax-exempt charitable organization clients and public radio clients.
All completed proposals must be received by The Hopi
Foundation or post-marked by 5:00pm, Friday, November 19th. Contact Monica Nuvamsa, Executive Director at (928) 734-2380 or 2390, or by email at nuvamsa@
hopifoundation.org.
About The Hopi Foundation-Lomasuminangwtukwsiwmani
The Hopi Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization based on the Hopi Reservation. The
Hopi Foundation hosts the KUYI 88.1FM Hopi Radio, a
Native American, community-based, public radio station.

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Hopi Tribal Council
Timothy L. Nuvangyaoma,
Chairman
Clark W. Tenakhongva, Vice
Chairman
Judith Youvella
Tribal Secretary
Wilfred Gaseoma, Tribal Treasurer
Violet Sinquah, Sergeant-At-Arms
Village of Upper
Moenkopi
Robert Charley
Philton Talahytewa, Sr.
Hubert Lewis, Sr.
Michael Elmer
Village of Bakabi
Dwayne Secakuku
Clifford Qotsaquahu
Velma Kalyesvah
Village of Kyakotsmovi
David Talayumptewa
Phillip Quochytewa, Sr.
Danny Honanie
Herman G. Honanie
Village of Sipaulavi
Rosa Honanie
Alverna Poneoma
Raymond Namoki
Village of Mishongnovi
Delores Coochyamptewa
Pansy Edmo
Mervin Yoyetewa
First Mesa Consolidated Villages
Albert T. Sinquah
Dale Sinquah
Wallace Youvella, Jr
Ivan L. Sidney.

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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

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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

20

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

21

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

22

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.”

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#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
more like 50 slides at the time.
The Native American and Alaska Native communities
slides came up and I sat there with pride thinking, “Yes!
We’re being recognized. I know this information.” I was
ready to ask questions.
It was over. We had two slides. One slide had a huge
graph.
I looked at my Diné colleague. We’re both appalled
and thinking, “What in the actual hell?” We talked real
quick after and agreed we were going to speak with the
presenter after.
We approached him, a Black man, and talked about our
disappointment and concerns. His response was, “There
isn’t enough data.” I told him point blank that there is and
he isn’t looking in the right places and not hard enough.
Athletic training, health, public health, and a bit of
medicine built my educational foundation. I wanted to be
a physician’s assistant. I interned at hospitals, worked on

the weekend, and put myself in challenging situations so
I could grow into the health professional I wanted to be.
But I quickly burned out and found it wasn’t a suitable
lifestyle for me.
I never forgot the clinical experiences. My love for
medicine and public health ran deep. So it was only second nature to start the COVID-19 database for Indian
Country.
As I tell people, it started out of curiosity. I didn’t see
anyone else doing it in the capacity I wanted to do it. Indian Health Services wasn’t keeping track at the time the
database started but soon, they did. The data was broken
down by the 12 IHS regions. They did their best to get
as much data as they could but could only do so much.
IHS direct facilities had to report their data. On the other
hand, tribally owned and operated facilities (638 facilities
as they’re known) could voluntarily give their data. Many
didn’t. Other databases that started were grabbing data
from states. But I wanted this data to come directly from
tribes and publicly available data. I also wanted to give
the data back to them to use. Because, like mainstream
journalism, medicine had a way of going into communities, grabbing what they wanted and not giving anything
back. We wanted the database to be open to scrutiny and
showed our homework. Our data stood out, too, because
we were the only ones who had a mortality count in
American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
I started the spreadsheet in the middle of March, the
week that Navajo saw its first cases, and the spreadsheet
began to grow. Our newsroom had eyes on every corner
of Indian Country (another reason why every newsroom
should have Indigenous journalists). Our team knew the
communities and knew where to find the social media
pages, radio stations, or websites. Sometimes the point
person.
I probably spent four to six hours a day reaching out
to people via phone or email, building rapport, collecting data, inserting the data into the spreadsheet, doing the
math, and creating ICT newscast’s COVID report based
on this data.
Talia Quandelacy, a Native infectious disease epidemiologist, found our spreadsheet in April 2020 and began
mapping the data, which was incredible. She is also a
Johns Hopkins alum and postdoctoral fellow at the CDC.

After some time of mapping our data, she connected
ICT with Johns Hopkins, and as they say, the rest of history.
It took more than 18 months for Indian Country Today and the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian
Health to create and launch the COVID-19 tracking map
and data for tribal nations as part of the university’s coronavirus resource center.
A few things about the data and map:
It displays COVID-19 cases, vaccine, and death data
from publicly available data from tribes.
The maps were adapted from IHS’ continental U.S.
map and Esri’s map of Alaska Native village lands.
We wanted to show the impact of COVID-19 in American Indian and Alaska Native communities while respecting tribal sovereignty and individual privacy.
In the conversations of launching this map and data,
I often found that we were up against colonial ways of
thinking and the team is always thinking of how to Indigenize it. So given that, there are many disclaimers. One
being that the maps are limited to federally recognized
tribal nations in the U.S. and Alaska village lands. The
data doesn’t include urban Indian populations but that is
our goal. This is the beauty in innovation and importance
of Indigenous minds and knowledge existing in medicine, public health and institutional spaces.
As we say, it was a team and community effort. It was
not funded. The map wouldn’t have happened without
the 50-plus volunteers who were Native and non-Native
students and those who took on the heavy lifting at Johns
Hopkins like Anna Sundbo, Joel Espinoza, and the engineering team.
I’m forever grateful to all the leaders, health officials,
and sources who helped us comprehend this data and allowed us to include their data.
Without data, we only have stories. Of course, they’re
important. But in reality, this data makes those stories
more powerful and contributes to creating systemic
changes in all of the health care systems that take care of
our grandmas, grandpas, aunties, cousins, etc.
This important data, that started from Indigenous experiences, allows for us to make greater change.
Yáadiláh! If no one is doing it, do it yourself.

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Hopi Tutuveni October 20, 2021

Have a safe Hopi Halloween!
-from Hopi T
utuveni Staff and Board

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Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/tribal%3Ahopi_arizona%3A388b9bdbed2a45c6. Public record. Not legal advice.