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Hopi Tutuveni February 5, 2020

Public Health Agencies Confirm 2019

Novel Coronavirus Case in Arizona

The Case is a Maricopa County Resident

who Recently Returned from Wuhan, China

For Immediate Release

Media Contact:

Chris J. Minnick

NOTE: Dr. Cara Christ, director of

the Arizona Department of Health Services, will be available for on-camera and

phone interviews between 3 and 4 p.m. at

the ADHS downtown Phoenix Office, 150

N. 18th Ave. Please contact Chris Minnick

to arrange an interview.

PHOENIX — The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) and the

Maricopa County Department of Public

Health (MCDPH) announced today that a

Maricopa County resident has been diagnosed with the 2019 Novel Coronavirus.

The confirmed case is in a person who

recently returned from travel to Wuhan,

China.

The patient is a member of the Arizona State University community who does

not live in university housing. This person

is not severely ill and is currently in isolation to keep the illness from spreading.

MCDPH and ADHS are currently investigating to identify any close contacts that

may have been exposed while the person

was infectious. Any individuals who have

been identified as having been exposed

will be contacted directly. These individuals will be monitored for fever and respiratory symptoms in collaboration with

public health and the university.

2019 Novel Coronavirus spreads

through the air when an infected person

coughs or sneezes. Symptoms are thought

to appear within two to 14 days after exposure and consist of fever, cough, runny

nose, and difficulty breathing. Those considered at risk for contracting the virus are

individuals with travel to Wuhan, China,

or individuals in close contact with a person infected with the 2019 Novel Coronavirus. Currently, no commercial testing is

available and there is no vaccine. Public

health is working with those exposed to

get testing by CDC.

“While the immediate risk of the 2019

Novel Coronavirus to the general public

is believed to be low at this time, ADHS

and our county public health partners will

continue to actively monitor for the disease,” said Dr. Cara Christ, ADHS director. “There are simple daily precautions

that everyone should always take to prevent the spread of diseases.”

Public health officials are advising residents that flu and other respiratory diseases are circulating in the community, and

are recommending everyone get a flu shot

and follow basic prevention guidelines.

The best ways to prevent the spread of

respiratory viruses are to:

•Wash your hands often with soap and

water for at least 20 seconds. If soap

and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.

•Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and

mouth with unwashed hands.

•Avoid close contact with people who

are sick.

•Stay home when you are sick.

•Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue, then immediately throw the tissue in

the trash.

•Clean and disinfect frequently touched

objects and surfaces.

If you have recently traveled to Wuhan, China and have developed fever with

cough or shortness of breath within 14

days of your travel, or have had contact

with someone who is suspected to have

2019 Novel Coronavirus, stay home and

call your healthcare provider right away.

If you do not have a health care provider,

you may need to be seen at your local hospital emergency room/urgent care center.

Please call the emergency room/urgent

care center to get instructions before going in.

For the latest information about 2019

Novel Coronavirus, visit the website at

azhealth.gov/coronavirus.

LEGALS

Hopi Tutuveni February 5, 2020

A potential relocation of

The 2020 National

KUYI 88.1FM radio studio

Elections, What you need and tower sites

to Know

Hopi Elections Office with confirmation from the Navajo County Elections

Department

2020 Presidential Preference Election

(PPE)

•Did you just turn 18 years of age or will

you be 18 by March 17th? Did you know

that you can register to vote in the 2020

Elections?

•Is your voting status up to date?

•Want to register to vote for this PP Election? Did you know that only those registered as Democrats can vote in the PPE?

•Did you know that you can change your

party to vote in the PP Election?

•The following information may provide

information on the questions you have for

this Presidential Preference Election.

2020 Presidential Preference Election

(PPE)

Is an election in which voters can

choose who they would like to be their

presidential candidate in the upcoming

General Election, November 3, 2020.

•Presidential Preference Election - Election Day – March 17, 2020

•Deadline to Register – February 18, 2020

Who can vote in the Presidential Preference Election (PPE)?

Only the Democratic Party will participate in the 2020 PPE. Only voters registered as Democrats on or before February

18, 2020 will be eligible to participate in

the 2020 PPE. (Arizona Secretary of State

website).

Where do I go to register to vote or to

check my voting status?

•Online-https://servicearizona.com then

click on Voter Registration

•Verify your registration online at my.arizona.vote

•Coconino County Office – (928) 6797860

•Navajo County Office – (928) 524-4192

•Hopi Election Office (registration only)

has the hard copy registration forms avail-

able: (928) 734-2507

Last day to Request for an Early Voting

Ballot by Mail is March 6, 2020.

•Call your local County Recorder’s Office

to request an Early Voting Ballot by Mail.

Coconino County Elections Office – (928)

679-7860

Navajo County Voter Registration Office

– (928) 524-4192

•Your ballot will be sent to you in the mail

with instructions.

•You can request to have your name

placed on the Permanent Early Voting List

(PEVL) and for each election you qualify

for, you no longer have to request an early

ballot to be mailed to you, it will be automatically be mailed to you prior to that

election.

EARLY VOTING IN PERSON

•Early Voting In Person begins at County

Recorders Offices from 8:00 a.m. – 5:00

p.m. on February 19, 2020.

•Last day to Vote In-Person at County Recorders Offices 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. on

March 13, 2020.

•(State of Arizona wide voting)

•Navajo County Recorder’s Office- Holbrook, Ariz.

•Coconino County Recorder’s Office Flagstaff, Ariz. & Tuba City Coconino

County Elections Office, Tuba City, Ariz.

Early Voting Sites for Hopi Area will

be on February 27, 2020 at the Hopi Elections Office for Navajo County. The new

change for Early Voting is you MUST

BRING PHOTO ID to the early voting

site for the 2020 elections. Visit azsos.gov

for a list of valid identification.

For more information call your local

County Recorders or Elections Office at

the phone number provided.

2020 NATIONAL ELECTIONS

GET THE NATIVE VOTE OUT

KUYI’s tower (Photo by original poster)

Monica Nuvamsa, Executive Director

PRESS RELEASE

Kykotsmovi, AZ – The Hopi Foundation and its Board of Trustees provide a

status update to the potential relocation

of KUYI 88.1FM radio studio and tower

sites.

We confirm that the radio tower lease

atop Antelope Mesa was not renewed on

December 31, 2019. KUYI's licensee is

currently in good faith negotiations with

the lessor. If we are unable to renew and

an eviction becomes imminent, we will

be required to dismantle our 69,000-watt

broadcast tower and move our transmitter

facilities to another part of the reservation. As we prepare a contingency transition plan we seek support and partnership

with all interested villages to provide a

permanent site for both tower and studio

facilities.

If eviction does occur, dismantling the

tower and transmitter atop Antelope Mesa

will result in a reduction of KUYI's signal.

Our contingency plan for this would be a

reduced power signal from 69,000 watts

to 500 watts that we hope will reach listeners within the immediate region of the

three Hopi mesas. As a result of a broadcast reduction we would temporarily not

reach outlying communities like Flagstaff

and Winslow.

We ask for the community’s continued

support and understanding during this

time of uncertainty. We will provide public updates to the changes in our service as

we know more. Our streaming portal on

kuyi.net will continue to operate unaffected as will our Low Power FM broadcast

from Moencopi Day School over 89.1

FM.

The Hopi Foundation has the support

of the First Mesa traditional land owners,

the BIA and other stakeholders to secure

a permanent land site for the studio within the BIA Educational leasehold located

next to Northland Pioneer College. During

this process we are currently broadcasting

from a temporary studio site in Second

Mesa, Arizona.

We remind our listeners and supporters

of KUYI Hopi Radio that your financial

support is still needed to help us while the

transition of both tower and studio sites

are complete. All contributions greatly

benefit the community through our role in

supporting local public safety, local news

and information, cultural education, and

entertainment. Donors or volunteers willing to assist financially or with time and

labor may email us at info at kuyi.net or

call (928) 738-5505.

We remain positive and extend our gratitude to the community of First Mesa for

hosting our tower and studio over the last

19 years. We also thank our listeners in

Northern Arizona and worldwide for tuning in to enjoy the stories and experiences

of our community. Stay connected with

us on Facebook, Twitter and live stream

us at kuyi.net for official updates on these

changes.

(928) 734-2380, nuvamsa@hopifoundation.org FOR MORE INFO

Steve Peoples, Thomas Beaumont and

Alexandra Jaffe

Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Clouded

by doubts on a chaotic day-after, Democratic Party officials planned to release a

majority of Iowa’s delayed presidential

caucus results by late Tuesday, according

to details shared with campaigns on a private conference call.

The news did little to stem rising confusion and concern more than 12 hours

after voting ended without the release of a

single result in the opening contest of the

Democrats 2020 primary season.

State party chairman Troy Price informed campaigns that he would release

at least 50 percent of all caucus results

at 5 p.m. EST, but he declined to answer

pointed questions from frustrated campaign representatives about when the party would release the full results or how it

could ensure their integrity -- even whether it would be a matter of days or weeks.

“We will continue to work through the

process,” Price said on the call, which was

monitored by The Associated Press. “We

want to get some results out there.”

At the same time, the leading candidates tried to spin the uncertainty to their

advantage — as did billionaire Democrat

Michael Bloomberg, who vowed to double his already massive advertising campaign and expand his sprawling staff — as

the rest of the Democratic field pivoted to

next-up New Hampshire.

“I’m feeling good,” Sen. Elizabeth

Warren told a capacity crowd at theater in

Keene, New Hampshire Tuesday morning. “It’s a tight, three-way race at the top.

We know that the three of us will be dividing up most of the delegates coming out

of Iowa.”

In a sign of the murkiness in the race, it

was unclear which three candidates Warren was referring to.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign told supporters that its internal monitoring showed him in the lead with nearly

half the vote in. Sanders himself said late

Monday, “Today marks the beginning of

the end for Donald Trump.”

Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of

South Bend, Indiana, essentially declared

victory.

Hopi Tutuveni February 5, 2020

Candidates

wait for half a win in Iowa

“So we don’t know all the results, but decision. Sanders adviser Jeff Weaver Democratic Party. Many used the moment

we know by the time it’s all said and done,

Iowa, you have shocked the nation,” he

said before leaving Iowa. “By all indications, we are going on to New Hampshire

victorious.”

Shortly before boarding a flight to New

Hampshire, former Vice President Joe

Biden said he was “feeling good” and predicted the results would be close.

The party’s caucus crisis was an embarrassing twist after months of promoting

the contest as a chance for Democrats to

find some clarity in a jumbled field with

no clear front-runner.

Instead, caucus day ended with no winner, no official results and many fresh

questions about whether Iowa can retain

its coveted “first” status.

The party told campaigns Tuesday that

the problem was a result of a “coding issue in the reporting system” that it said

had since been fixed. It said it had verified

the accuracy of the collected data and said

the problem was not a result of “a hack or

an intrusion.”

Still, there were signs that the process

was ongoing and laborious.

Price confirmed that party official were

sending volunteers and staffers across the

state to retrieve hard-copy results so they

could check them against numbers reported from precincts via a mobile app that

proved problematic for many users.

Tuesday’s conference call was tense at

times.

A Biden campaign representative objected to the state party’s plan to release

partial results before checking them

against paper records, saying on the conference call that the plan didn’t address

“growing reports” about problems on caucus night, such as precinct captains unable

to get through on the phone to report results.

“The stories and the problems are just

multiplying so presumably you’re going to have some way of addressing that

and explaining to us as you release these

partial results why you’re comfortable,”

Biden campaign attorney Dana Remus

said. “You need to have enough transparency that other people feel comfortable

about it now and we’re just not there right

now.”

Other campaigns supported the party’s

thanked party officials, and encouraged

other campaigns not to undermine the party.

“Folks who are just trying to delay the

return of this because of their relative positioning in the results last night, I think

that’s a bit disingenuous,” Weaver said.

Sensing opportunity amid the chaos,

Bloomberg’s campaign announced plans

to double its national television advertising spending — which has already exceeded $100 million — as it expands its

paid staff to more than 2,000 people.

Bloomberg is looking to next month,

having decided to bypass Iowa’s contest and the three other states voting this

month in favor of the delegate-rich states

in March.

“After more than a year of this primary, the field is as unsettled as ever,”

Bloomberg spokeswoman Sabrina Singh

said. “No one has made the sale or even

come close to it. Meanwhile, Mike is taking the fight to Trump every day, doubling

down on the national campaign strategy

we’ve been running from the beginning.”

Beyond 2020, the debacle invited fresh

criticism about Iowa caucuses, a complicated set of political meetings staged in

a state that is whiter and older than the

to question whether it was a quaint political tradition whose time had passed.

The party has tried to accommodate

critics before, this year by promising to report three different data points about voters’ preferences, presumably improving

transparency. But the new system created

new headaches.

State party spokeswoman Mandy McClure said it had “found inconsistencies

in the reporting of three sets of results,”

forcing officials to try to verify results

with “underlying data” and the paper trail.

Some of the trouble stemmed from the

buggy app. Organizers at caucuses site reported trouble downloading the app and

other glitches. Many turned to a back-up

phone system.

The confusion played out a day after

Iowa Democrats across the state cast their

votes, balancing a strong preference for

fundamental change with an overwhelming desire to defeat Trump. At least four

high-profile candidates vied for the lead in

a contest that offered the opening test of

who and what the party stands for in the

turbulent age of Trump.

It’s just the first in a primary season that

will span all 50 states and several U.S. territories, ending

Cont. On Page 14

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Current Indian World News

Striving to make Indigenous

women, girls feel safe in Alaska

Organizers of the Vigil and Heartbeat of the Drums for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls shown here left to right: Ruth Miller, Dena’ina Athabascan, Communications Organizer, Native Movement; Rochelle Adams, Athabascan, Indigenous Engagement Coordinator, Native Peoples Action; Kendra Kloster, Tlingit, Executive Director, Native Peoples Action; Charlene

Akpik Apok, Inupiaq, Gender Justice and Healing Coordinator, Native Movement; Kelsey Wallace, Yup’ik, Communications Director, Native Peoples Action; and (not pictured), Emily Edenshaw,

Executive Director, Alaska Native Heritage Center. (Photo by Joaqlin Estus)

Joaqlin Estus

For Indian Country Today

‘We face total negligence… when it comes to prosecuting attackers or murderers of our women’

As the names of more than 200 missing and murdered

Indigenous women and girls were read, people listened in

silence, many staring into space or at the carpeted floor of

the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage. A few

quietly wiped away tears. Healers burned braids of sweet

grass and bunches of sage, waving the smoke onto the

half-dozen men reading the names.

Charlene Akpik Apok, Inupiaq, director of gender justice and healing for the nonprofit community advocacy

and training organization Native Movement, was emcee

of the Vigil and Heartbeat of the Drums for Missing and

Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. She told the audience of more than a hundred people she had asked men

to read the names to remember and honor allies in the

fight against the loss of Indigenous women.

One of the men, Torin Jacobs, Yup’ik, said he remembers when a neighbor in Bethel, 17-year-old Stella Evon,

went missing in the 1990s. Her case remains unsolved.

“When this happens it [hurts] all of us, whether we’re

men or a woman or not even Native, because we’re

talking about humans. It’s just when it’s closer to home,

when it is part of your Native community, and whatever

your community in general, it impacts you a lot more,”

Jacobs said.

Ruth Miller, Dena’ina Athabascan, is a communica-

tions organizer for Native Movement. She said, “Here in

Alaska and the United States and across the world, our

Indigenous women are the demographic that suffers the

most from gendered violence with the most disgusting,

limited lack of political policy that addresses this issue

with the lack of legal recourse.

“We face total negligence by police and federal forces when it comes to prosecuting attackers or murderers

of our women,” Miller said. “So we are gathering here

today as a healing process to say that we remember our

stolen sisters and we will continue fighting, doing everything that we can to make sure that their legacy in our

communities is remembered, to make sure that when I

as an Indigenous woman walk down the street, I will not

become another part of this deadly statistic.”

Another organization co-hosting the event, Native Peoples Action, is a grassroots organization that reaches out

to organizations, tribal organizations, communities and

individuals to make systems changes to protect and uplift

Indigenous people.

Native Peoples Action director Kendra Kloster, Tlingit,

said being a mother strengthens her resolve to end the

epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women

and girls.

“I’m here because I don’t want my daughter growing

going up in fear or to really look at these statistics and

our stolen sisters and saying that she has a possibility of

being one of being one of those women. No. We are actually going to remember our sisters. We’re going to uplift

them. We’re going to bring them justice,” Kloster said.

“On top of that, we’re going to make system changes

so everyone’s going to feel safe,” Kloster said. “So this is

an important issue to me and to every Indigenous person

because we don’t want to have this same issues going

forward. We want to be here to take care of that, and I

want to make sure my daughter and every child is going

to be feeling safe.”

The day’s vigil and healing ceremony started with a

luncheon of moose, caribou and fish soups; Sailor Boy

crackers, butter, jam and berries. After the reading of

names, Southcentral Foundation counselors led five

small-group healing circles. Teachers gave a class on

how to use painting in healing. Another group learned

how to make beaded earrings showing a hand, a symbol

of the voices of women being silenced.

The groups reconvened for the Heartbeat of the Drums

ceremony, in which a dozen people with hand drums lead

the audience in the Women’s Warrior song by Martina

Pierre of the Lilwat Nation of British Columbia, Canada.

Data is incomplete but a report by the Urban Indian

Health Institute of the Seattle Health Board shows Alaska is fourth in the nation for the number of missing and

murdered Indigenous women and girls.

Anchorage is third in the nation, disproportionately

high considering its size. First on the list is Seattle, with

45 missing or murdered Indigenous women or girls, and

a population of 725,000. Albuquerque is second with 37

missing or murdered Indigenous women or girls with

a population of 559,000. Anchorage has 31 missing or

murdered Indigenous women or girls,

Cont. On Page 14

Hopi Tutuveni February 5, 2020

Reed Responds to Council Vote, Clarifies Terms of Proposed Chaco

Buffer Zone

Great house mound at Pierres. The site lies at the edge of the 10-mile buffer zone, but would not be within the 5-mile zone. (Photo by original poster)

archaeologysouthwest.org

PRESS RELEASE

Taos, N.M. (January 28, 2020)—Last week, on January 23, delegates of the Navajo Nation Council passed

a resolution seeking to reduce the proposed buffer zone

around Chaco Culture National Historical Park from 10

miles to 5.

Paul F. Reed, Chaco Scholar and Preservation Archaeologist at Archaeology Southwest, issued the following

statement:

“The 10-mile cultural protection zone, as presented in

congressional bills H.R. 2181 (passed House in 2019)

Trump

pushes for

uranium

production

near Grand

Canyon

As global uranium demand has dropped, mines in free-market

economies haven’t been able to compete with state-subsidized

mines in Russia and China, says Curtis Moore of Energy Fuels,

which owns the Canyon Mine. (Photo by Jake Eldridge/Cronkite

News)

and Senate 1079 (pending), around Chaco Culture National Historical Park was a compromise that was years in

the making, involving discussions with multiple Native

American Tribes, including the Navajo Nation, and the

All-Pueblo Council of Governors (APCG). The zone is

intended to protect 12 Chacoan great house communities

that largely lie between 5 and 10 miles from the Chaco

Park boundary.

“Reducing the protection zone to 5 miles will leave

most of the sites in these 12 ancient Chacoan communities at risk from oil-gas development. The withdrawal

of fluid minerals, as specified in H.R. 2181 and S. 1079,

applies only to Federal surface-controlled lands. The remaining lands in the 10-mile zone, including Navajo NaJames Carr

Cronkite News

TUSAYAN – In a clearing on Forest Road 305, about 15 miles south

of Grand Canyon National Park, an

enormous steel headframe towers

beside a retention pond. Beneath the

headframe, a mine shaft drops 1,400

feet into the earth.

This is the Canyon Mine, which

opened in 1986 to extract uranium.

A handful of employees work here

during the week, but the mine has

not produced a single ounce of the

mineral, which is used to produce

nuclear weapons and keep the country’s 96 nuclear reactors operating.

As demand for uranium has plummeted, the price is too low for U.S.

companies to compete with other

countries and still turn a profit. Uranium is processed in just seven facilities in the U.S., including the White

Mesa Mill in Utah.

Curtis Moore, vice president of

marketing and corporate develop-

tion tribal trust, allotments, and other private lands will

continue to be available to infrastructure development,

oil-gas leasing, and other activities.”

About Archaeology Southwest

Archaeology Southwest is a private 501(c)(3) nonprofit

organization based in Tucson, Arizona, that explores and

protects the places of our past across the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest. For three decades, Archaeology Southwest has fostered meaningful connections to

the past and respectfully safeguarded its irreplaceable

resources. Learn more at archaeologysouthwest.org.

ment for Energy Fuels in Lakewood,

Colorado, which owns Canyon

Mine, said the mine’s inactivity isn’t

too concerning.

“We’ve never produced in Canyon Mine,” he said. “State owned

enterprises from Russia and China,

they’ve been, we would argue, artificially lowering the price of uranium to put some of their free market

competitors out of business in the

United States, Canada and Australia.

“The price isn’t quite there. It’s

close. Canyon Mine is probably

the lowest cost uranium mine in the

United States.”

The U.S. imports most of the uranium it uses because it’s cheaper to

buy from other countries, including

Canada. The Trump administration

wants to change that and is looking

into creating quotas on domestic

use. It’s waiting on recommendations from the Nuclear Fuel Working

Group, which the White House set

up in July.

This could also affect the tempo-

rary ban now in place on uranium

mining in and around Grand Canyon, as well as a bill by U.S. Rep.

Raul Grijalva, D-Tucson, that would

permanently ban uranium mining on

about 1 million acres around Grand

Canyon National Park. The ban,

which was passed by the full House,

would allow the Canyon Mine to

operate because it existed before the

temporary ban was enacted in 2012.

A similar bill was introduced

into the Senate on Dec. 19 by Sen.

Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz. The major difference is that Sinema’s bill

would require a study on the availability of uranium in the U.S.

Clark Tenakhongva, the vice

chairman of the Hopi Tribe, said his

people have been dealing with the

fallout of uranium mining for the

past 100 years.

“It contaminates once dug up from

its natural state of where it’s at, it’s

always something that contaminates

the groundwater,” Tenakhongva

Cont. On Page 15

said.

Hopi Tutuveni February 5, 2020

Cross Word Puzzle

Find the English words

for the Hopi words.

Across

5. Mansaana

6. Hoohu

7. Qaavo

11. Piiva

13. Honani

16. Lavayi

17. Hiiko

20. Wuuwa

21. Saaqa

23. Nopna

24. Yöngösona

25. Lolma

Down

1. Nuva

2. Soosoy

3. Kyaaro

4. Wipho

8. Ishö

9. Tumala

10. Hohoysi

12. Awta

14. Yokva

15. Sumala

18. Tutskwa

19. Navota

22. Pusukinpi

Hopilavit - Numbers, Colors and Directions

Answers in next issue

Answers for January 22th edition

Across

3. Perhaps, 6. Cold, 7. Pity, 9. Mouth, 11. Arrive, 12. Chin, 14. Look, 15. Neck, 16. Face, 17. Try,

18.When, 19. Ear

Down

1. Hip, 2. Definitely, 4. Stomach, 5. Foot, 8. Back, 10. Who, 13. Nose, 14. Leg, 17. Toe 18.Wait, 20. Ribs

Call 928-734-3283 for hints or answers

“Nu’am Iisaw”

By: Samivaya, JD Aragon

"Awtuuqayta'ah"

I Y O H O O B D S U K Y

A Q A P U T K U K U K V

L A S K W A L I C P U G

A O M B P I I Y I K A A

Q A H O P I S N O T K U

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A K U B T Y Y P O N O I

Y I Z U A O D C Q W T Y

K W A K W H A M A A A T

G A E V I K I I T O N V

Body Parts & Bones

Tamö - Knee

Hokya - Leg

Tawitsqa - Chest

Ho`ota - Back

Taywa - Face

Kuktönsi - Heel

Tönvölö - Adams Apple

Kuktupaqa - Ankle

Tsungu - Ribs

Kuku - Foot

Yaqa - Nose

Kukvosi - Toe

Conversation Words

Kwaapi- Neck

Askwali - Fem. Thank

Maa’at - Arm

you

Malatsi - Finger

Haaki - Wait

Mo’a - Mouth

Haalayi - Happy

Namo - Shin

Hakiy - Who

Naqvu - Ear

Hisat - When

Öyi - Chin

Huuhukya - Windy

Pi’ala - Hip

Isti - Gee!

Pono - Stomach

Iyohoo - Cold

Qötö - Head

Kwakha - Masc. Thank

Sukyaktsi - Shoulder

you

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Piep - Again and again

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Larry’s Corner

STRAIGHT TO THE PUNCH...

By LARRY The CAT

The Hopi Tutuveni

It was around 1995 when McDonald’s released their collectors edition

of the “Batman Forever” glass mugs

and being a mush head kitten I really wanted one…so “batly.” I thought

they looked cool and I thought soda

would taste better in that glass mug; I

just had to have it! But my mom would

say we would get it next time and that

never happened.

See, as a mush head kitten I only

thought of myself, I never had any priorities to take care of, cause I grew up

as an only child, so I never thought that

I should share anything. I never knew

we had to pay for the car we rode in, or

the house we stayed in, or the lights we

kept on all night. I always thought that

was just for free. So it never occurred

to me that those were “priorities” that

we had to put first.

Now as an adult cat, I work for my

money and I have “tons” of money…

(yeah in my piggy bank). And as a

working, kind-of-functioning adult

cat that has at least $4.00 for gas money, still doesn’t have the McDonald’s

Collector’s Edition “Batman Forever”

glass mug, why? Well, because I have

priorities to handle first, like paying

for my car, or paying for my own cat

treats. Plus, I have a glass mug that

doesn’t have Batman and Robin on

there but the soda pop tastes the same

as it would in any cup.

See most of us want something now

so we only think of the “NOW” part

of thinking, like a microwavable Hot

Pocket©, where we microwave it on

“nuclear heat” then we can’t wait ‘til

it cools and are provoked to eat the

“lava-hot meat center”, burning our

mouths and paying for it later with

mouth burns, that water can’t solve.

See, us Hopis used to take our time,

with certain aspects of our life. We use

to appreciate how we lived, how we

looked at Mother Nature, how we used

to conduct our daily life, but now we

just live our lives in the fast lane like

it’s a car race we have to win. We forget that winning is not so important to

us; we forget that certain ceremonies

are NOT a competition and it doesn’t

matter if we have to have the largest

food spread, or the amount of spectators at our events. We forget that we

need to slow down and make sure we

have all our priorities straight first, like

why we conduct those certain ceremonies in our villages or whom we are

conducting those ceremonies for.

So you should ask yourself in a traditional manner, “Where do my priorities lay?” Do we, as Hopis make sure

our house is paid, our car is paid, and

our bills are paid first? Just like the

white man? Or do we make sure we

follow our traditions first like we have

been doing for hundreds of years? Is

it important to speak to one another in

English or to make an effort to greet

each other in Hopi language first?

When I am out and about in the community, I hear our elders, our traditional leaders and our “adults” that are

somewhat leaders in our villages talk

to each other in the English language,

but it’s more of a mixture of the Hopi

language and the English language,

like a “Hop-lish” language. Yes, we

have become what we were fighting to

not become hundreds of years ago.

Now don’t get me wrong, some

villages on the Hopi reservation still

conduct their ceremonies according

to the traditional calendar, where they

follow the same outline of traditions

like they have been doing for hundreds

of years and in accordance with their

specialized training in determining

that traditional calendar. But the times

are changing and our younger Hopi

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generation is changing we really don’t

have much of a grasp on what even

that will become in the near future and

since Hopi has no written history, its

kind of hard to determine what we are

following. But that’s not to say it is

wrong but just different and in all aspects truly the Hopi way which no one

but the Hopi traditional leadership can

govern.

And although, many of us now

speak in English first, that still doesn’t

stop us from conducting our traditional

ceremonies, as we’ve been doing for

hundreds of years. Even our traditional

ceremonies have changed and some of

it not for the better but some of it for

the sake of just wanting to change it

and because we can…I guess.

My advice to you is that even though

the times are changing, it doesn’t mean

we should change our Hopi way of

life. But, if we change it, make sure we

change it for the betterment of our future generation, not for the betterment

of a “NOW” state. Make sure we find

our priorities in a traditional manner or

you could just live your life the way it

is and see what happens, but then again

I’m only a cat…a Hopi cat, at that.

United States Currents

World Health Organization declares emergency over virus from China

The Emergency Committee on the novel coronavirus met with World Health Organization Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday, 30 January. (Photo by C. Black, World

Health Organization)

Maria Cheng and Jamey Keaten

Associated Press

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health

Organization declared the outbreak

sparked by a new virus in China that has

spread to more than a dozen countries as a

global emergency Thursday after the number of cases spiked more than tenfold in a

week.

The U.N. health agency defines an international emergency as an “extraordinary event” that constitutes a risk to other

countries and requires a coordinated international response.

China first informed WHO about cases of the new virus in late December. To

date, China has reported more than 7,800

cases including 170 deaths. Eighteen other countries have since reported cases, as

scientists race to understand how exactly

the virus is spreading and how severe it is.

Experts say there is significant evidence

the virus is spreading among people in

China and have noted with concern instances in other countries — including

the United States, France, Japan, Germany, Canada, South Korea and Vietnam —

where there have also been isolated cases

of human-to-human transmission.

Speaking to reporters in Geneva, WHO

director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted the worrisome spread of

the virus between people outside China.

“The main reason for this declaration is

not because of what is happening in China

but because of what is happening in other

countries,” he said. “Our greatest concern

is the potential for this virus to spread

to countries with weaker health systems

which are ill-prepared to deal with it.”

“This declaration is not a vote of

non-confidence in China,” he said. “On

the contrary, WHO continues to have the

confidence in China’s capacity to control

the outbreak.”

A declaration of a global emergency

typically brings greater money and resources, but may also prompt nervous

governments to restrict travel and trade

to affected countries. The announcement

also imposes more disease reporting requirements on countries.

In the wake of numerous airlines cancelling flights to China and businesses

including Starbucks and McDonald’s temporarily closing hundreds of shops, Tedros

said WHO was not recommending limiting travel or trade to China.

“There is no reason for measures that

unnecessarily interfere with international

travel and trade,” he said. He added that

Chinese President Xi Jinping had committed to help stop the spread of the virus

beyond its borders.

“During my discussion with the president and other officials, they’re willing to

support countries with weaker health systems with whatever is possible,” Tedros

said.

On Thursday, France confirmed that a

doctor who was in contact with a patient

with the new virus later became infected

himself. The doctor is now being treated

in an isolated room at a Paris hospital.

Outbreak specialists worry that the spread

of new viruses from patients to health

workers can signal the virus is becoming

adapted to human transmission.

China raised the death toll to 170 on

Thursday and more countries reported infections, including some spread locally, as

foreign evacuees from China’s worst-hit

region returned home to medical tests and

even isolation.

Russia announced it was closing its

2,600-mile border with China, joining

Mongolia and North Korea in barring

crossings to guard against a new viral outbreak. It had been de facto closed because

of the Lunar New Year holiday, but Russian authorities said the closure would be

extended until March 1.

Meanwhile, the United States and South

Korea confirmed their first cases of person-to-person spread of the virus. The

man in the U.S. is married to a 60-yearold Chicago woman who got sick from the

virus after she returned from a trip to Wuhan, the Chinese city that is the epicenter

of the outbreak.

The case in South Korea was a 56-yearold man who had contact with a patient

who was diagnosed with the new virus

earlier.

Although scientists expect to see limited transmission of the virus between people with close contact, like within families, the instances of spread to people who

may have had less exposure to the virus in

Japan and Germany is worrying.

In Japan, a man in his 60s caught the

virus after working as a bus driver for

two tour groups from Wuhan. In Germany, a man in his 30s was sickened after a

Chinese colleague from Shanghai, whose

parents had recently visited from Wuhan,

came to his office for a business meeting.

Four other workers at the same factory

later became infected. The woman had

shown no symptoms of the virus until her

flight back to China.

“That’s the kind of transmission chain

that we don’t want to see,” said Marion

Koopmans, an infectious diseases specialist at Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands and a member of

WHO’s emergency committee.

Koopmans said more information was

needed about how the virus was spread in

these instances and whether it meant the

virus was more infectious than previously

thought or if there was something unusual

in those circumstances.

Mark Harris, a professor of virology at

Leeds University, said it appears that the

spread of the virus among people is probably easier than initially presumed.

“If transmission between humans was

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difficult, then the

Bill would expand

anti-discrimination

protections to

LGBTQ community

statewide

State Sen. Kate Brophy McGee, a Phoenix Republican, co-sponsored a bipartisan bill that

would add jobs and housing protections for the LGBTQ community. (Photo by Alicia Moser/

Cronkite News)

By Luis Torres and Jamie Landers

By Cronkite News

PHOENIX – Several lawmakers and

community leaders on Thursday said the

state needs a law to protect Arizonans

from being fired, denied housing or refused service because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Lawmakers failed to get a similar law

passed last year, but supporters have returned to introduce a bill that would add

state-wide protections rather than relying

on a patchwork of protection in certain

ZIP codes.

Only five cities in Arizona – Phoenix,

Tempe, Tucson, Sedona, Winslow – have

fully inclusive sexual orientation and

gender-identity ordinances that address

housing, employment and public accommodations, according to lgbtqmap.org.

Flagstaff protects its LGBTQ community

with employment and public accommodations.

State Sen. Kate Brophy McGee,

R-Phoenix, who sponsored a similar bill

in the House last year, introduced Senate

Bill 1321.

“It is a simple, common sense measure

to update our nondiscrimination law,”

McGee told a news conference at the state

Capitol. All Arizona residents should have

the opportunity to “earn a living, provide

for their families and patronize businesses

without fear of being legally fired because

of their sexual orientation or gender orientation.”

The bill comes after the Brush & Nib v.

City of Phoenix decision by the Arizona

Supreme Court that protects basic speech

and religious freedoms, in which a busi-

ness had the right to refused to make wedding invitations for a same-sex couple.

State Rep. Daniel Hernandez Jr.,

D-Tucson, said the court ruling raised the

importance and urgency of SB 1321 and

a similar bill he introduced this month,

House Bill 2716.

“The Supreme Court opened up Pandora’s box, which now says that if you

follow specific guidelines you can make

it so your business, too, can discriminate

against the LGBTQ community,” he said,

adding that the expansion of the LGBTQ

caucus in the House to six members may

help influence the trajectory of the bill.

“We have more people applying pressure to leadership on both sides of the

aisle,” Hernandez said. “This is not a

partisan issue. This is a bipartisan issue

where we all agree that this is the right

thing to do.”

The bills faces opposition, however.

The Center for Arizona Policy, a conservative nonpartisan organization, stated

in a news release that the bill overlooks

the Brush & Nib ruling and infringes on

religious freedom.

The bills “offer a solution where there is

no problem and create major constitutional dilemmas for a vast number of Arizonans who do not conform to proponents’

viewpoints.”

They also would take “an ax to religious freedom by amending Arizona’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act to allow

the government to substantially burden a

person’s exercise of religion with nondiscrimination laws.”

“Arizona voters overwhelmingly support citizens’ rights to live and work according to their deeply Cont. On Page 14

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World Health Organization declares emergency over virus from China, Cont.

would have plateaued," he said. Harris

said the limited amount of virus spread beyond China suggested the outbreak could

still be contained, but that if people are

spreading the disease before they show

symptoms — as some Chinese politicians

and researchers have suggested — that

could compromise control efforts.

The new virus has now infected more

people in China than were sickened there

during the 2002-2003 outbreak of SARS,

or severe acute respiratory syndrome, a

cousin of the new virus.

The latest figures for mainland China

show an increase of 38 deaths and 1,737

cases for a total of 7,736 confirmed cases. Of the new deaths, 37 were in Hubei

province, of which Wuhan is the capital,

and one was in the southwestern province

of Sichuan. Outside China, there are 82

infections in 18 countries, according to

WHO.

China extended its Lunar New Year holiday to Sunday to try to keep people home,

but the wave of returning travelers could

potentially cause the virus to spread further.

China has been largely praised for a

swift and effective response to the outbreak, although questions have been

raised about the police suppression of

what were early on considered mere rumors — a reflection of the one-party Communist state's determination to maintain a

monopoly on information in spite of smart

phones and social media.

That stands in stark contrast to the initial response to SARS, when medical reports were hidden as state secrets. The delayed response was blamed for allowing

the disease to spread worldwide, killing

around 800 people.

Dr. Jeremy Farrar, director of Britain's

Wellcome Trust, welcomed WHO's emergency declaration.

"This virus has spread at unprecedented

scale and speed, with cases passing between people in multiple countries across

the world," he said in a statement. "It is

also a stark reminder of how vulnerable

we are to epidemics of infectious diseases

known and unknown."

Cheng reported from London. Associated Press writers Ken Moritsugu in

Beijing, Elaine Ganley in Paris, Frank

Jordans in Berlin, Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo and Kim Tong-hyung in Seoul, South

Korea, contributed to this report.

Striving to make Indigenous women, girls feel safe in Alaska, Cont.

and a population of 294,000.

Still, Jacobs echoed the hopes of many when he ended

his comments on the day’s events on an optimistic note,

“The work’s not done, but one day we won’t have this as

an issue.”

Shown here, some of the drummers who led the audience in singing the Women’s Warrier song by Martina

Pierre of the Lilwat Nation of British Columbia, Canada.

(Photo by Joaqlin Estus)

Data on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and

Girls lacking

When asked the number of names that were read, Apok,

at the party's national convention in

mid-July.

For Democrats, the moment was thick

with promise for a party that has seized

major gains in states since Trump won the

White House in 2016. But instead of clear

optimism, a growing cloud of uncertainty and intraparty resentment hung over

the election as the prospect of an unclear

result raised fears of a long and divisive

primary fight in the months ahead.

One unsurprising development: Trump

won the Republican caucus, a largely

symbolic victory given that he faced no

said, “More than 200. But the list is incomplete.”

And, indeed, after conducting a survey and research

of 71 urban cities to find out more about missing and

murdered Indigenous women and girls, the Urban Urban

Indian Health Institute, a division of the Seattle Indian

Health Board concluded:

The lack of good data and the resulting lack of understanding about the violence perpetrated against urban

American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls is

appalling and adds to the historical and ongoing trauma

American Indian and Alaska Native people have expe-

rienced for generations. But the resilience of American

Indian and Alaska Native women and girls has sustained

our communities for generation after generation. As the

life bearers of our communities, they have been integral

to holding strong our culture and traditional practices.

Bringing to light the stories of these women through data

is an integral part of moving toward meaningful change

that ends this epidemic of violence. UIHI is taking huge

steps to decolonize data by reclaiming the Indigenous

values of data collection, analysis, and research, for Indigenous people, by Indigenous people. Our lives depend

on it.

Candidates wait for half a win in Iowa, Cont.

significant opposition.

The president eagerly seized on the

Democrats' problems.

"The Democrat Caucus is an unmitigated disaster," Trump tweeted Tuesday.

"Nothing works, just like they ran the

Country." He added: "The only person

that can claim a very big victory in Iowa

last night is 'Trump.'"

Pre-caucus polls suggested Sanders

entered the night with a narrow lead, but

any of the top four candidates — Sanders, Biden, Warren and Buttigieg — was

positioned to score a victory. Sen. Amy

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Klobuchar, who represents neighboring

Minnesota, was also claiming momentum,

while outsider candidates including entrepreneur Andrew Yang, billionaire activist

Tom Steyer and Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard could be factors.

Klobuchar promised to keep fighting in

New Hampshire.

New voters played a significant role in

shaping Iowa's election.

About one-quarter of all voters reported that they were caucusing for the first

time, according to AP VoteCast, a survey

of voters who said they planned to take

part in Monday's Democratic caucuses.

The first-timers were slightly more likely

to support Sanders, Warren or Buttigieg,

compared with other candidates.

The 2020 fight has already played out

over myriad distractions, particularly congressional Democrats' push to impeach

Trump, which has often overshadowed

the primary and effectively pinned several

leading candidates to Washington at the

pinnacle of the early campaign season.

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Trump pushes for uranium production near Grand Canyon, Cont

“Groundwater then goes throughout the whole region and

whatnot and sooner or later, it then affects not just only

the people but the environment around their animals.”

Environmental activists and the Hopi Tribe are concerned that the Canyon Mine could contaminate groundwater and, ultimately, the water in the Grand Canyon.

They also want Grijalva’s ban enacted and Canyon

Mine’s grandfathered status eliminated.

“The geology in this region is a karst system, which

means that it’s fractured and that you can think of it like

a system of pipes where water starts up at one point can

flow in multiple different directions and multiple different speeds and it’s not really well-understood,” Reimondo said. “So to say that a uranium mine won’t impact the

Grand Canyon or other water sources, they really can’t

say that for certain right now.”

Moore, however, said Canyon Mine does not pose a

risk to the water in or around the Grand Canyon.

“The water aquifer underneath Canyon Mine is an isolated aquifer that isn’t connected to the Grand Canyon

or any other water sources,” he said. “It’s located underneath impermeable rock that locks in the water. Even if

it did get through an old drill hole, it’s located downhill

from the Grand Canyon, so it would flow the opposite

direction (south of the Canyon).”

Why uranium is sagging

As of 2018, U.S. nuclear power plant owners and operators imported roughly 90% of their uranium from Australia, Canada, Kazakhstan, Russia and a handful of other

countries. Total production of uranium concentrates in

the U.S. was 1.6 million pounds in 2018 – 33% less than

in 2017.

As U.S. allies slow uranium production, Moore said,

the country becomes reliant on less friendly nations, putting its nuclear power plants and national security at risk.

“Uranium is a critical mineral,” he said. “It’s used for

the production of nuclear energy, which I would say is

our best way to produce clean, no carbon (emissions)

electricity, and it’s used by our military and defense, it

fuels our submarines and aircraft carriers. So there’s a national security tie to uranium.”

The price of uranium peaked in 2007 at $136.22 per

pound but was just $25.45 per pound as of December.

U.S. usage of uranium has decreased in recent years,

part of a global decrease in the wake of the 2011 meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant after

an earthquake and tsunami. As nations sought alternative

sources to nuclear power, the uranium market crashed.

Fukushima was just the most recent incident that has

created a boom and bust cycle for uranium mining. Since

the introduction of nuclear power in the mid-1950s, a

string of nuclear power plant problems have nearly destroyed the industry and the global interest in uranium.

Although the impacts of U.S. reliance on foreign uranium aren’t clear, Energy Fuels and Ur-Energy Inc., another uranium producer, in 2018 petitioned the U.S. Department of Commerce, complaining that subsidized foreign

uranium is undercutting their business.

The Commerce Department concluded that the federal

government should implement quotas for domestic uranium mining and production, which it recommended to

Trump. However, Trump opted to have the Nuclear Fuel

Working Group take 90 days to prepare its own recommendations based on pressure from nuclear power plant

operators who expressed concern over the financial fallout of the potential quotas.

The working group was set to make recommendations

in October but was granted a 30-day extension by Trump.

The group has not reported as of Dec. 23, and there has

been no additional information.

Environmental causes for concern

Although finances are the main concern for nuclear power plant owners, conservationists are concerned

about the environmental impact of renewed uranium mining near the Canyon. The mission of the Grand Canyon

Trust is “to safeguard the wonders of the Grand Canyon

and the Colorado Plateau, while supporting the rights of

its Native peoples.”

Roger Clark, the Grand Canyon program director with

the Grand Canyon Trust, also worries about Canyon

Mine’s obstruction of nature.

“This is an intrusion,” Clark said. “So on the surface,

it’s what you see. But the real important problem is the

long term contamination and risk to the groundwater.”

Clark also said the evaporation pond that holds water

pumped from the shaft does not meet Environmental Protection Agency safe water standards, which he said could

harm wildlife.

Moore disagrees.

“The Grand Canyon Trust uses EPA drinking water

standards to claim the water is contaminated, which by

that standard is technically true, but that’s true for most

untouched water sources,” he said. “The Little Colorado River doesn’t meet those standards either, but you

wouldn’t go drink directly out of that.”

The amount of uranium present in that water, Moore

said, is comparable to the parts per billion that naturally

occurs in water sources in the area, and that many of the

environmental concerns surrounding uranium mining are

based on incidents from a bygone era.

“If we were even doing one tenth of the things that

some of those environmental groups claim that we’re doing, we would have been shut down long ago,” Moore

said.

From the late 1940s to the mid-’60s, 4 million pounds

of uranium ore were extracted in the U.S., without safety codes and understanding of the consequences. Mine

shafts had little to no ventilation, despite being as deep

as 1,500 feet. The miners breathed in the dust, ate lunch

in the mine and even drank water coming out of the rock.

This led to high quantities of radon in their lungs, a radioactive gas that greatly increases the risk of lung cancer.

EPA regulations now limit the fallout from uranium

mining. In addition, the Clean Water Act and the Clear

Clean Air Act feature sections or limitations related to the

hazardous materials that can come from uranium processing, although these regulations were put in place after the

damage had already been done.

As for Canyon Mine, Energy Fuels has the legal authority to begin mining, but the low prices would make it

an unprofitable venture, despite the low operating costs.

Bill would expand anti-discrimination protections to LGBTQ community statewide, Cont.

held religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are unpopular,” the statement says.

Angela Hughey, president of One Community, says the

bill “is an issue of fairness.”

One Community works toward LGBTQ equality in the

Arizona workplace, establishing a Unity Pledge for businesses.

“The more businesses, organizations, faith-based organizations and everyday Arizonans we bring into this conversation, the further this conversation is going to go,”

Hughey said.

“We need to keep having broad-based conversations

with everyone that we can talk to around the state and

we will get it done,” she said. “We’re building that very

wide, bipartisan coalition of support.”

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HOPI VETERANS SERVICES

Survey - Native American

Women Veterans Expo on Hopi

Reservation

Kykotsmovi, Ariz. – January 29, 2020, the Arizona Department of Veterans’ Services (ADVS) consulted with Hopi Veterans Services (HVS) to plan a Women Veterans Expo on the Hopi Reservation this summer.

The goal is to host an expo to connect and provide workshop information specifically targeted to the women veterans population to best serve their needs. Resources

such as VA, veteran-related and non-profits organizations can help bridge the gap of

benefits for women veterans to assist on housing, education, employment, benefits,

and other services.

ADVS and HVS agree this is an important priority to engage women veterans

in the discussion to provide a framework of topics for the expo. Use of this simple

survey will help plan for the expo. Your feedback and input is important and we hope

you will become engaged by providing answers to the questions below.

1. Are you interested in a Women Veterans Expo on Hopi? Yes

2. What day would work for you? Weekday

Saturday

3. Circle top five topics most important to you:

a. Housing.

b. Employment.

c. VA benefits, compensation & pension claims.

d. VA health care.

e. Transport.

f. PTSD & Mental Health.

g. Substance Abuse treatment.

h. Meditation or Yoga session.

4. Or simply write any topic for consideration by the planning team.

Deadline to return a survey is February 29, 2020. You can either bring the survey

to our office located in the Hopi Tribal Administration building in Kykotsmovi, Ariz.

Or the survey can be e-mailed to ETalas@hopi.nsn.us or mailed to:

Hopi Veterans Services

Attn: Women Veterans Survey

P.O. Box 123

Kykotsmovi, AZ 86039

This campaign to reach out to women veterans in the rural tribal communities is a

priority of ADVS and HVS. Our goal is to connect and/or provide VA or veteran-related services at the expo for women veterans, their spouses and families. This will

help ADVS and HVS to strengthen and improve program services for all Veterans

and their families.

For more information contact: Eugene “Geno” Talas, Manager, Office of Hopi

Veterans Services, (928) 734-3461.

PAID PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Brief overview of the Women, Infants, and

Children’s Program

The HOPI WIC program helps families with healthy nutritious foods.

•WIC serves breastfeeding women, Post-Partum women up to six months, pregnant

women, infants and children up to their 5th birthday.

•WIC issues food benefits monthly, bi-monthly, or tri-monthly to eligible WIC clients

to purchase healthy foods such as: cheese, milk, eggs, bread, fruits and vegetables and

milk, an infant’s food package consists of jars of infant fruit and vegetables, and infant

cereal. At times an infant may drink formula. WIC may issue infants formula although

WIC does not promote infant formula use.

•WIC also helps families to keep track of their child’s growth using a growth chart.

•WIC helps by checking a client’s hemoglobin (iron) level.

•WIC meets with their clients about nutrition and breastfeeding.

The Community Nutrition Worker and the client work together to create a nutrition

or breastfeeding goal based on the clients want or need, for example; a breastfeeding

mother’s infant is not latching on to her breast or a breastfeeding mother may think she

does not have a sufficient breastmilk supply to feed her infant, or a child may be a picky

eater or drinks too many juices that contain a lot of sugar.

•WIC clients meet with a Registered Dietician if they are at risk for nutritional or breastfeeding issues.

•WIC offers FIT WIC classes to preschool children; FIT WIC is a nutritional, fitness

and food demo class which preschoolers attend with their parents or guardians, the class

is a two (2) hour interactive class.

•WIC is referral source for WIC clients, WIC helps you to access other resources in the

community; such as Food stamps (SNAPS).

•WIC eligible clients will be issued a eWIC card. The eWIC card is similar to a debit

card which WIC clients use to purchase WIC nutritious foods.

•WIC may also provide services to elderly or foster parents who care for infants and

children up to age 5 years old who are placed in their home for foster care or guardianship.

•WIC staff consists of one (1) Community Nutrition Workers, one (1) Registered Dietician (at the Hopi WIC office 2-1/2 days and 1 full day second week of each month),

and one (1) Manager.

WIC is based on eligibility. All interested applicants may apply. Items required for

application are: income earned, identification for the applicants applying, identification

for guardian/caregivers. Foster or guardianship paper is required foster children. Residential verification is also required for all persons applying. Contact the HOPI WIC

Program for more information at 928 737 6362. HOPI WIC is located at the HOPI

Health Care Center in Polacca, AZ next to the eye clinic. WIC does not discriminate to

anyone regarding race, color, age, sex or national origin.

USDA is an equal opportunity employer.

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