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Hopi Tutuveni October 21, 2020

Hopi Tribe LCR Trials Arizona Superior Court Little Colorado River Adjudication

Weekly Report, CONT.

In 2018 the above members of the Hopi Tribe and Litigation Team were present at the LCR Adjudication to support the Hopi Tribe’s LCR Water rights. (Photo credit: RLaban/Hopi Tutuveni)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Submitted by: Water & Energy

Committee – Hopi Tribe

Phoenix, Ariz. – October 19, 2020

Fourth and Fifth Week of Hopi Future

Trial

The fourth and fifth week of the Hopi

Future Water Rights Trial began on Tuesday, September 29 and ended on October

1, 2020. This week, the Hopi Tribe began on Monday, October 5 and ended on

Thursday, October 15. The Hopi Tribe is

still presenting its case-in-chief. The public may connect to the trial using the following toll free number:

Toll Free: 1 (855) 506-9695

Collaboration Code: 357264#

A toll line is also available: 1 (224)

501-3412, Access Code 374401397.

The Hopi Tribe in the last two weeks

presented evidence as to the future population of the Hopi Tribe, small economic development projects, future water for

Hopi domestic, commercial, municipal

and light industrial use, and future water

for larger industrial projects related to energy.

First, Large Energy Projects

For decades, Hopi Coal was mined by

Peabody Coal Company and shipped to

the Navajo Generating Station. Peabody

paid royalties to the Hopi Tribe for the

Coal, and purchased water from the Tribe

for water used in mining. With the closure

of the Navajo Generating Station, mining

has stopped and the Hopi Tribe has lost a

substantial source of revenue.

Over decades, Hopi has looked at projects utilizing Hopi’s Black Mesa coal.

The Marston Group presented a report in

2006 to develop a new coal mine within

the Hopi Reservation Boundaries in the

NE corner of the Reservation. In 2009,

ICF prepared a report proposing a mine

mouth coal power plant utilizing Hopi

coal.

One of the purposes of the Hopi Future

Trial is for the Court to determine how

much future water the Tribe needs for

economic development. To obtain water,

Hopi must present economic development

proposals that are reasonably feasible.

Hopi is not locked into building specific

projects as the market may change, but it

must show a reasonably feasible way to

put the water to use. In other words, the

proposal must be technically and economically feasible, not a “pie-in-the-sky” idea.

Hopi presented several witnesses on

the future business opportunities for Hopi

coal. Carl Bauer and Richard Horner are

associated with the University of Wyoming in energy research. Power River Basin coal in Wyoming is regarded as some

of the highest quality coal in the country

and is actually very similar in composition

with Hopi Coal. Wyoming has conducted

millions of dollars in research into how

coal can be broken down into its constituent chemicals for sale. These are called

coal to product business plants. Many other countries have used coal as a feedstock

to chemical for many years. Eastman

Chemicals has a plant in Tennessee where

it breaks down coal feedstock for chemicals for sale. Bauer and Horner testified

as to government policies and investment

in future uses of coal for an electric power

plant, and to using coal as a feedstock to

create chemicals for sale.

Hopi has requested that the Court reserve water for the economic development of Hopi coal. One project would

be a coal to chemical products plant near

a new Hopi mine; another project would

be a solar/thermal electrical plant on the

Hopi Reservation. Akana, a Native American-owned company in Portland, Oregon,

through engineers Said Amali and David

Luneke, testified as to the feasibility of

building a solar/thermal plant and a coal

to chemical products plant, both as to its

engineering and financial feasibility.

Hopi has also requested that the Court

reserve in the future for domestic, commercial, municipal, and light industrial

uses (“DCMI”). Essentially, this covers

all village uses of water, including village

businesses. Water experts measure this

water use by gallons of water used by a

person per day (“gpcd”). The U.S. Government has requested that Hopi receive

150 gpcd. Hopi is asking for 160 gpcd.

Michael Hanneman, who has worked with

the Hopi Tribe on this case for years, was

Hopi’s witness on future DCMI.

Water experts take the gpcd and multiply it by a future population to quantify a

water amount needed for future use. The

Hopi Tribe called David Swanson as its fu-

ture population expert. The U.S. Government had presented evidence of a future

Hopi population 150 years into the future

of 52,000 Hopi people on reservation. The

Government relies upon a “cohort component” model which models birth, fertility,

and deaths to project a future population.

Seeking to present to the Court alternative

models, David Swanson testified as to an

“ARIMA” model. The ARIMA model is

a linear progression model. David Swanson projects a Hopi future population of

42,000 in 2110, with approximately half

living on the reservation and half living

off the reservation.

The Special Master will have to make

determinations as to what the future population for the Hopi Tribe will likely be, and

what amount of water should be reserved

for the future Hopi Tribe. This involves a

determination of whether the reserved water should be for all Hopi whether they are

living on or off the reservation.

Next week, the Hopi Tribe will present

further evidence on agricultural claims.

Hopi seeks water to create small reservoirs that can be used for ceremonial and

subsistence gardens near the villages.

Hopi witnesses will begin the week of October 26.

For questions or more information,

please call The Hopi Tribe; Office of the

Chairman at (928) 734-3102, or Office of

the Vice Chairman (928) 734-3113

Hopi Tutuveni October 21, 2020

The Future Hopi Population Will Need Water

The Hopi Tribe Defines the Significance of Future Water Rights

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Submitted by: Water & Energy Committee – Hopi

Tribe

Phoenix, Ariz. – October 19, 2020 — Going into the

sixth week, of the second phase of the Little Colorado

(LCR) Adjudication trials, the Hopi Tribe continues with

demonstrating it will be a thriving community in the next

one hundred years and beyond. The LCR Adjudication is

a legal process in Arizona state court. The LCR Adjudication is a special kind of legal process called a General

Stream Adjudication. The Hopi Tribe began presenting

its case-in-chief. This portion of the Hopi case, with both

expert witnesses and Hopi fact witnesses, will continue

until November 12, 2020, assuming everything stays on

schedule. The Objectors will continue with their case

against Hopi beginning November 16, 2020. Currently,

Hopi has turned to several key expert witnesses to testify

on behalf of the Hopi Tribe. The expert witnesses include

individuals who can speak about the future domestic, municipal, commercial and light industrial (“DCMI”) water

needs.

A General Stream Adjudication determines who has

what rights to water within a river basin. A river basin is

the area drained by a river and its tributaries. The Hopi

Tribe began its case by presenting evidence of the water

resources available to the Hopi, the water infrastructure

that will be necessary to deliver water from these resources to the Hopi villages, and evidence supporting a right

to divert more wash water from the Northern Washes for

future Hopi native irrigation. The alluvial aquifer consists

of water held below ground along the Northern Washes.

It is charged primarily by wash water. Although the aquifer supports some wells primarily used for livestock, the

alluvial aquifer is the primary source of water for vegetation on the Reservation. It is not a future source of

significant water for the Hopi population.

“All of the Hopi tutskwa and all of the Tribe’s ranch

lands lie within the Little Colorado River Basin. The

LCR Adjudication will determine the water rights of all

Indians and non-Indians within the LCR Basin,” added,

Clifford Qotsaquahu. “We have to protect all our ranch

lands and the water resources on those lands to benefit

our people, now and into the future.”

Today, as we proceed, the Court will continue to hear

evidence during this phase of the trial about the quantity of water the Hopi Tribe will need for future generations. To determine the future needs of the Hopi Tribe,

the Court will hear evidence about the amount of water

needed to continue traditional practices; the amount of

domestic and municipal water needed for projected population growth; the amount of water needed for livestock

in the future; and the amount of water needed for proposed economic development projects.

One of the purposes of the Hopi Future Trial is for

the Court to determine how much future water the Tribe

needs for economic development. To obtain water, Hopi

must present economic development proposals that are

reasonably feasible. Hopi is not locked into building specific projects as the market may change, but it must show

a reasonably feasible way to put the water to use. In other

words, the proposal must be technically and economically feasible, not a “pie-in-the-sky” idea.

Hopi has also requested that the Court reserve in the

future for domestic, commercial, municipal, and light

industrial uses (“DCMI”). Essentially, this covers all village uses of water, including village businesses. Water

experts measure this water use by gallons of water used

by a person per day (“gpcd”). The U.S. Government has

requested that Hopi receive 150 gpcd. Hopi is asking for

160 gpcd.

The Special Master will have to make determinations

as to what the future population for the Hopi Tribe will

likely be, and what amount of water should be reserved

for the future Hopi Tribe. This involves a determination

of whether the reserved water should be for all Hopi

whether they are living on or off the reservation. The

Hopi Tribe will present further evidence on agricultural

claims. Hopi seeks water to create small reservoirs that

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can be used for ceremonial and subsistence gardens near

the villages. Hopi witnesses will begin the week of October 26, 2020 and the Navajo Nation witnesses objecting

to Hopi’s water rights will follow through the latter part

of November.

The Little Colorado River Adjudication ‘Virtual Trial’

of the Hopi Tribe’s water rights claims started on Monday

September 14, 2020, at 9:00 am, with opening statements

by the attorneys representing Hopi and the statements

from other parties opposing the Hopi Tribe’s water rights

claims.

The second phase of the LCR Adjudication trial is anticipated to last until late January 2021. Trial is being held

four days a week, Monday through Thursday, on a virtual

platform. The Hopi Tribe originally objected to the public trial taking place on a teleconferencing platform and

asked the courts to postpone the case until a traditional

courtroom trial could be held. The Superior Court and

Court of Appeals denied the request.

“This is a rare case where our Hopi people have to fight

for water, gallon for gallon, that is naturally occurring on

the Hopi reservation including the Little Colorado River and we are not going to other communities or towns

demanding their water,” expressed Chairman Timothy

L. Nuvangyaoma. “The only other non-Hopi currently

benefiting from our water resources is the Navajo Nation.

We are simply trying to protect our Hopi people’s future

water rights.”

The LCR adjudication will continue using an online

platform with all entities engaging through video conferencing including cross-examination of key witnesses and

experts using technology. The public and Hopi community is encouraged to join the trials by calling the bridge

line provided by the Special Master, and the most current

toll free information for listening to the trials is (855)

506-9695 with a prompt for the passcode: 357264#.

For questions or more information, please call The

Hopi Tribe; Office of the Chairman at (928) 734-3102, or

Office of the Vice Chairman (928) 734-3113.

Hopi Tutuveni wants to know how we are

doing.

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

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Hopi Tutuveni October 21, 2020

Hopi Tribal Council Approves the General Welfare Assistance

Program

Office of the Chairman

Timothy L. Nuvangyaoma

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Chairman

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5.It is agreed that communications between the ComClark W. Tenakhongva Jr., Community Service Administrator, Village of Bacavi. mittee and Villages shall be in writing with timely reKykotsmovi, Ariz. – On September 16, 2020 the Hopi

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Ordinance so that assistance programs can be created to comes to Hopi Tribal Council;

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4.It is agreed that each Village will submit a separate

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Office of the Executive Director

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Hopi Tutuveni October 21, 2020

Hopi Tribe-Department of Health and Human Services

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic requires all of us to take steps to keep ourselves, our Hopi / Tewa Senom families,

and our communities safe and healthy:

wear our masks, wash our hands frequently, and maintain social distancing.

As a result, we will need to celebrate

many fall traditions differently this year,

including Halloween. Traditional Halloween activities carry a high risk for spreading COVID-19, but we can reduce that

risk significantly by organizing and participating in fun, lower or moderate risk

alternatives.

The holiday may look different this

year, but Hopi Tribal Leadership believes

we can still enjoy a happy (and healthy)

Halloween. Hopi Tribal Offices will not

be entertaining trick-o-treaters this year.

Tribal Leadership recommends that everyone planning to participate in Halloween

activities this year review the guidance

recently issued by the Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC).

Halloween Guidelines

That guidance describes “lower” “moderate” and “higher” risk activities. Hopi

Department of Health & Human Services

recommends that Hopi / Tewa Senom residents avoid higher risk Halloween traditions and focus celebrations on the lower

and moderate risk activities. The ability to

maintain social distancing and follow the

mandated face covering rules is especially

important when participating in Halloween activities.

In addition, please refrain from leaving

your home for any Halloween activity

and do not pass out Halloween candy if

you are ill or restrict travel to any nearby towns/communities between October

16th and October 30th (i.e. 14 days before

Halloween). In this case you should be

following the testing and self-quarantining guidelines, per Executive Order #0052020 Hopi Phase One Re-Opening and

CDC guidance and the safety tips summarized below, along with additional considerations for business and restaurants.

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Hopi Tutuveni October 21, 2020

Fall Updates from the Hopi

Education Endowment Fund

Hopi Tribe-Department of Health and Human

Services Phase One Reopening Guidelines

Kykotsmovi, Ariz. - On Friday, October

02, 2020 the Hopi Education Endowment

Fund (HEEF) conducted their Annual

Meeting. This year’s annual meeting was

held virtually via Zoom. At this year’s

convening HEEF board members and staff

discussed plans as they move into the year

2021. The HEEF welcomed 7 new board

members and 2 renewed board members

who bring a wide range of expertise, resources, and experiences. The HEEF also

elected new officers at the conclusion of

the meeting. The new board is excited to

implore fresh ideas and implement those

new ideas for the new year.

New and renewed HEEF board members for the 2020 – 2021 year are: Adrian

Tenakyouwma, Timothy James Hansell,

Oslynn Benjamin, Dr. Clara Lovett, Dr.

Cole Crittendon, Kathleen Nilles, Mildred

Youvella, Romalita Laban, and Dr. David

Strip. These newly elected members will

be tasked with investing their time and

energy to advance the HEEF’s mission

and vision. Newly elected HEEF officers

for 2020-2021 year are: Dr. Kim Corkin

– President, April Sewequaptewa – Vice

President, Stephanie Parker – Treasurer,

and Dr. Jana Wilbricht – Secretary.

The first task the HEEF board members

will be assisting with is the HEEF Annual

Alumni Challenge. Since 2004, the HEEF

has held a friendly fundraising competition among four alumni groups - Arizona

State University (ASU), Northern Arizona University (NAU), the University of

Arizona (UA) , and the Arizona Crushers

(a collective of all other schools). It is to

encourage alumni, families of alumni, and

supporters to donate to the HEEF in the

name of their alma mater. The group with

the highest fundraising total is declared

the winner and secures bragging rights

for the remainder of the year. Last year’s

Executive Order #005-2020 dated September 11, 2020 states that Hopi Villages

and regions that satisfy baseline gating

criteria can begin Phase One Reopening.

In addition, all Hopi business sectors, including restaurants and private home food

sales are expected to adhere to the guidelines listed below upon re-opening.

Guidelines:

•Reduced business hours. Work within

the curfew hours of 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

• Avoid socializing – No more than 10

people in one area at one time, unless precautionary and appropriate physical distancing measures are in place.

• Adhere to the 6’ distancing.

• Face covering is required inside all

public facilities and buildings, common

areas, and outdoor locations where 6’

physical distancing is not possible.

• Implement screening and temperature

checks for customers, clients and staff; if

public entry into places of business is allowed.

• Implement strict Intervention, Preven-

For Immediate Release

winner was team Northern Arizona University. Executive Director, LuAnn Leonard, shared the following sentiments, “The

Alumni Challenge brings a great opportunity for people to proudly represent their

alma mater while also raising the funds

for Hopi students to access in the future.”

Resource Development Manager, Justin

Hongeva, expressed, “Each year this is

one of our best fundraising campaigns and

we are looking forward to another year

conducting this challenge. Of course, with

the hope team ASU takes it for the win

this year.” The HEEF Alumni Challenge

begins October 19, 2020 (at midnight) and

ends November 02, 2020 @ 11:59 PM

(AZ Time). Donations can be accepted

online, via check, and over the phone.

On November 20, 2020, the HEEF will

celebrate their 20th birthday! The public

is welcome to attend this birthday event

which will take place virtually. The HEEF

is happy and humbled to be able to assist Hopi students despite changes due

to COVID-19. The adjustments have allowed the HEEF team to think of unique

ways in working with donors and students.

Guests can expect to hear from student

testimonials, past and present board members, along with entertainment. Additional

information will be posted on the HEEF

website: www.hopieducationfund.org and

on social media.

In its 20th year the HEEF staff and

board members are looking forward to coordinating fundraising efforts to grow the

fund, support Hopi education, and create

more scholarship opportunities. The Hopi

Education Endowment Fund is a registered IRS Code Section 7871 nonprofit

organization, operating under Hopi Tribal

Ordinance #54. Contact: Alexandra Hoyungowa, Hopi Education Endowment Fund

928-734-2275 ahoyungowa@hopieducationfund.org with any questions.

BUSINESS SECTORS

tion and Control (IPC) cleaning and disinfecting protocols for places of business

including where food is prepared and at

the vending site.

• Implement mechanisms to control the

flow of traffic within places of business or

the vending site.

• Create and display signage to inform

customers and clients of these guidelines.

Examples of the types of signage expected

are also available.

• If you or a member of your household is sick or is displaying symptoms of

Coronavirus (COVID-19), do not go to

work, prepare food or conduct sales. Call

the Hopi Healthcare hotline at (928) 7376188.

For questions contact Madeline

Sahneyah, Public Health Compliance Officer at (928) 734-3403 / 3402 or by email

to msahneyah@hopi.nsn.us

¹Private home food sales include food

and beverages prepared in a private home

and sold from the home or sold outside the

home.

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family and the First Mesa Consolidated Villages

athering information

related to the disappearance of

Hopi Tutuveni October 21, 2020

“Moe” Sinquah.

First Mesa Village Member Ambrose

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y, Sept. 28, in Keams Canyon walking near the Indian

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National, Arizona State & County Elections

Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Navajo County Election Polling Sites for the

Hopi Reservation:

First Mesa L.D.S. Church – Off of AZ State HWY 264 & Mile Post 393.89 Polacca, Ariz.

Sipaulovi Youth & Elder Center, Lower Sipaulovi, Second Mesa, Ariz.

Kykotsmovi Youth & Elder Center (Next to Hopi Tribal Complex, Kykotsmovi,

Ariz.)

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Polls open at 6:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. (MST)

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Face covering required – If you do not have one, one will be provided for you.

Glove will be provided or a wash stations will be available.

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Navajo/Coconino County Early Voters

Drop Boxes are available for EARLY VOTED BALLOTS at the Hopi Elections

Office

Ballot Drop Boxes are located in the Tuba City Area.

Don’t forget to sign the back of the envelope

Voted ballots can be dropped off up to 7:00 P.M. on Election Day - November

3, 2020

For more information call NAVAJO COUNTY at (928) 524-4192, COCONINO

COUNTY TUBA CITY at (928) 283-6144 or HOPI ELECTIONS OFFICE at

(928)734-2507/2508

Hopi Tutuveni wants to know how we are

doing.

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

feedback

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Hopi Tutuveni October 21, 2020

NON-PAID PSA

Treats, Paws and

Claws

Pictured are the Hopi Jr. High Student Council Student Council Members: P. Tacheene, B. Lomaintewa, J. Lomakema, S. Harvey, J. Yoyokie, H. Holmes

Photo Credits: C. Sieweyumptewa, Hopi Jr. High Student Council Sponsor

For back issues of the Hopi Tutuveni

visit:

https://www.hopi-nsn.gov/news/hopi-tutuveni/

by: Carol Sieweyumptewa, Hopi Jr.

High Student Council Sponsor in Partnership with the Hopi Veterinary Clinic

Keams Canyon, Ariz. - Throughout the

pandemic, the Hopi Veterinary Clinic has

provided limited services to animals. Although, the pandemic has hindered services, the fabulous one-woman crew has

high expectations and goals for the program. Pam Lalo has stayed dedicated to

her profession for over 30 years working

at the Hopi Veterinary Clinic.

Lalo serves the animals in our area.

There are many entities that are dependent

upon her services. One event that Pam

looks forward to every year is a Halloween Pet Costume Contest that is held at the

Veterinary Clinic. She provides treats for

animals (as well as their owners), activities and the costume contest for pets. Due

to the pandemic, Lalo was disappointed

that there would be no event this year.

The Hopi Jr. High Student Council was

eager to assist in making this year’s Pet

Costume Contest become a reality. The

Student Council members are using their

leadership skills to prepare for this event.

Our Student Council members are amazing individuals yearning to make positive

changes in our communities. They would

like to express their thanks to Mr. Naha, Jr.

High Principal/Superintendent, Pam Lalo

and people who have graciously donated

to this event.

Per the Hopi Tribe Department of

Health and Human Services Halloween

guidelines, the Veterinary Clinic and the

Hopi Jr. High Student Council are happy

to present “Treats, Paws and Claws” Virtual Halloween Pet Costume Contest.

The Virtual Dog and Cat Costume Contest will be held in the security of each

participant’s home. No need to travel.

Dress up your pet for one of the following categories: 1. Cutest, Most Original

2. Scariest and 3. Funniest. There will be

prizes of Free Spay or Neuter, Dog and

Cat Treat Baskets, and Pet Toys…and the

virtual event doesn’t cost anything to participate.

On October 30, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. participants can listen for the howls and log

into the following zoom link:

https://hjshs-org.zoom.us/

j/85820532733?pwd=R3IVRmh5SDZOQyU2w3a 05neUdEQT09

Meeting ID: 858 2053 2733

Passcode: 480424

So we invite you to enjoy an evening

of spending some furry time with your

pet(s). Remember to always: stay safe, always wear a mask, and keep your paws/

claws clean!

Any questions can be directed to: (928)

738-5251

Hopi Tutuveni October 21, 2020

HALLOWEEN STORIES

Hairy Toe

Excerpted from Spooky Maryland

Retold by S.E. Schlosser

Once there was an old woman who went

out in the woods to dig up some roots to

cook for dinner. She spotted something

funny sticking out of the leaves and dug

around until she uncovered a great big

hairy toe. There was some good meat on

that toe which would make a real tasty

dinner, so the old woman put it in her basket and took it home.

When she got back to her cottage, the

old woman boiled up a kettle-full of hairy

toe soup, which she ate for dinner that

night. It was the best meal she'd had in

weeks! The old woman went to bed that

night with a full stomach and a big smile.

Along about midnight, a cold wind

started blowing in the tops of the trees

around the old woman's house. A large

black cloud crept over the moon and from

the woods a hollow voice rumbled: "Hairy

toe! Hairy toe! I want my hairy toe!" Inside the house, the old woman stirred uneasily in her bed and nervously pulled the

covers up over her ears.

From the woods there came a stompstomp-stomping noise as the wind whistled and jerked at the treetops. In the

clearing at the edge of the forest, a hollow

voice said: "Hairy toe! Hairy toe! I want

my hairy toe!" Inside the house, the old

woman shuddered and turned over in her

sleep.

A stomp, stomp, stomping sound came

from the garden path outside the cottage.

The night creatures shivered in their burrows as a hollow voice howled: "Hairy

toe! Hairy toe! I want my hairy toe!" Inside the house, the old woman snapped

awake. Her whole body shook with fright

as she listened to the angry howling in her

garden. Jumping out of bed, she ran to the

door and barred it. Once the cottage was

secure, she lay back down to sleep.

Suddenly, the front door of the cottage

burst open with a bang, snapping the bar

in two and sending it flying into the corners of the room. There came the stomp,

stomp, stomping noise of giant feet walking up the stairs. Peeping out from under

the covers, the old woman saw a massive

figure filling her doorway. It said: "Hairy

toe! Hairy toe! I want my hairy toe!"

The old woman sat bolt upright in terror

and shouted: "I ATE your hairy toe!"

"Yes, you did," the giant figure said very

gently as it advanced into the room.

No one living in the region ever saw the

old woman again. The only clue to her disappearance was a giant footprint a neighbor found pressed deep into the loose soil

of the meadow beside the house. The footprint was missing the left big toe.

Read a scary story with your children

on Halloween night, and to keep safe

during these unparalleled times.

From Hopi Tutuveni, stay safe and

have a

Happy Halloween

HALLOWEEN STORIES

The Scarecrow

I live on a small farm, far out in the

country.

Every year, my dad puts out scarecrows

in our fields because he thinks they're effective in not only keeping the crows out,

but evil spirits as well. I guess he's a little

superstitious. The scarecrows he sets out

are the same ones, year after year. After

so much wear and tear, they were showing

their age.

This October started out just like any

other October. The weather was turning

cool and the leaves were beginning to

change into brilliant orange and yellow

colors. One Saturday, us kids got together and decided to make a new scarecrow.

Being creative, we gathered our supplies

and got to work. This scarecrow was to be

different. This was my special design. I

wanted a creepy scarecrow, much scarier

than the others. Hours later, we finished

up. Indeed, he was the ugliest, most frightening scarecrow I've ever seen. I was so

proud.

Mom called us for supper so we planted

the scarecrow out in the cornfield, where

I could see it from my bedroom window.

Not giving it any more thought, we went

in and ate. Soon, the wind picked up and

it began lightening. No storm was forecasted but it looked like we were in for a

rough night.

Light rain began falling as I went up to

bed. I was worried about my new scarecrow so I peeked out my window. What

I saw shocked me. He was there alright,

but not where we had placed him. It appeared to me that he was several feet to

the right. Puzzled, I stood at the window

and watched intently. The lightening was

bright and every time it flashed, I could

see my scarecrow. The problem was, it

looked as if he was moving when the sky

was dark, only to turn up in another spot

when the sky lit up.

Thinking that I must be imagining

things, I put my pajamas on and went to

bed. Later on, a loud CRACK of thunder

woke me up. By now, the rain was pounding down, making it difficult to see out

my window. I slipped on my shoes and

snuck outside to check on my scarecrow.

Not sure where he was, I walked around in

the thunderstorm, half blinded by the cold,

stinging rain. Clumsily, I stumbled over a

fallen branch and fell face down in a patch

of mud. When I looked up, there was my

scarecrow glaring down at me. His eyes

were huge and glowing red. I couldn't pick

myself up fast enough. I ran screaming to

the house and never looked back.

After tossing and turning the rest of the

night, I woke up to bright sunshine and the

smell of bacon. Not wanting to tell my parents what had happened, I sat quietly and

ate breakfast. Anxious and apprehensive,

I then went outside to look around. My

dad was already looking for damage to the

buildings but I was looking for my scarecrow. I could see the other scarecrows, all

in their usual places but my scarecrow was

nowhere to be found.

Full of confusion, I began crying. Not

because of losing the scarecrow, but because of pure, unadulterated fear. My father told me that he probably blew away

and would be discovered in a field during

harvest. I knew better. Some how, some

way, that scarecrow came alive. How, I

don't know.

Ten years later:

Years have passed and to this day, I

have never seen my scarecrow again.

What happened that stormy night? Do

scarecrows really keep out evil spirits or

can they be possessed by one? I don't live

on that farm anymore, but I've never ventured outside during a thunderstorm again.

Story by The Editor

http://www.halloween-website.com/

the_scarecrow.htm

Hopi Tutuveni October 21, 2020

Trump’s Base Boos Indigenous

Peoples’ Day at Campaign Rally in

Michigan

Will Callan/Michigan Radio

By Native News Online Staff

October 19, 2020

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MUSKEGON, Mich. — In the homelands of the People of the Three Fires, the

Ojibwe, Ottawa and Potawatomi, President Donald Trump called those who want

to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous

Peoples’ Day “extremists.” Trump held

a campaign rally in Muskegon, Mich. on

Saturday afternoon.

His base of mostly Caucasian supporters

loved what the president said and booed

the idea of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

His comments came at the end of Columbus Day was celebrated. His comments made in Muskegon echoed what the

said a week earlier in his Columbus Day

Proclamation when he also used the word

extremists for those who want to replace

Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’

Day.

"These extremists seek to replace discussion of his vast contributions with talk

of failings, his discoveries with atrocities,

and his achievements with transgressions.

Rather than learn from our history, this

radical ideology and its adherents seek to

revise it, deprive it of any splendor, and

mark it as inherently sinister," Trump said

in Muskegon.

Trump went on to accuse former Vice

President Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, of attacking Columbus

by not mentioning the lost voyager in his

Indigenous Peoples’ Day statement.

"So last week, Biden attacked Christopher Columbus by refusing to recognize

Columbus Day. And he wants to change

the name of Columbus Day to Indigenous

Peoples Day. Who likes that idea?"

Biden wrote in part in his statement:

“Jill and I are proud to join with Native

communities and all Americans to celebrate Indigenous People’s Day. Native

Americans have always honored their

deep connection to the land and kept faith

with the rich spiritual traditions and heritage of their ancestors, often in the face of

policies and violence that sought to strip

them of both. With boundless resilience

and strength, despite centuries of mistreatment and broken promises, Tribal Nations

have fought to preserve their sovereign

rights while also making countless contributions to strengthen the character of

the United States — the famed American

Indian Code Talkers who were critical to

defeating facism in World War II, the activism and leadership of Native women,

and so much more. It is a part of our history that every American must learn and

respect.”

Trump stopped in Michigan for a brief

stop. Michigan is a battleground state that

Trump won in 2016 by 10,704 votes, a

0.23 percent margin.

Michigan is home to 12 federally recognized tribes and four state recognized

American Indian tribes, with nearly

130,000 American Indians who reside

statewide.

Hopi H.E.O.C Updates

Hopi Tutuveni October 21, 2020

EDUCATION

Burdens of COVID Hit Hardest

Among Marginalized Students

(StatePoint) Students are the greatest

hope for the future, but for many, their

plans are threatened due to burdens posed

by COVID-19. Here are just a few of the

issues students and families face today,

and steps being taken to address these

concerns:

• The digital divide: Recent images of

two Latino children doing their online

schoolwork in a Silicon Valley restaurant

parking lot calls attention to the deepening digital divide in the COVID-19 era.

Nationwide, 16.9 million lack the home

internet access necessary to support online learning. A phenomenon known as

the “homework gap,” this issue disproportionately impacts students of color.

According to the Alliance for Excellent

Education, one out of three Black, Latino, and Native American/Alaska Native

households doesn’t have access to a home

internet connection and one in six doesn’t

have access to a computer or device.

• Housing insecurity: For students in

the LGBTQ community, campus closures have sometimes meant the loss of

in-school counseling and the support

of like-minded, accepting peers. When

“home” is an unwelcoming or even unsafe

environment, students can be at a greater risk for depression, anxiety, abuse and

homelessness.

• Educational barriers: Distance learning creates new educational hurdles.

With parents taking on an unprecedented

instructional role, language barriers for

non-English speaking parents can prove

significant, like for Asian and Latino immigrants. What’s more, certain programming for students with disabilities, including speech and physical therapy, can

be tough, if not impossible, to provide

virtually. Lastly, certain learning disabilities can make virtual lessons especially

difficult to follow.

• Military family and school options:

Continued access to quality education has

always been a concern for military fami-

lies, who often have no choice but to send

their children to the nearest public school,

whether it’s the right fit or not. Today, this

problem has grown in severity, as the level

and quality of remote instruction can vary

wildly among school districts.

• Lack of financial resources: Despite

the economic disruption caused by the

pandemic, colleges and universities are

largely maintaining or increasing their tuition costs, leaving financially struggling

students and families in a lurch.

Efforts to Help

In the face of today’s many unprecedented challenges, help is on the way. New

emergency grants are being provided by

organizations like UNCF, Thurgood Marshall College Fund, APIA Scholars, Point

Foundation for LBGTQ youth, American

Indian Graduate Center, Hispanic Scholarship Fund and Scholarship America for

military veterans and people with disabilities. Career sites like Zippia offer annual

scholarship lists for students such as this

curated list for LBGTQ college students:

zippia.com.

Additionally, organizations like Wells

Fargo recently completed their new Wells

Fargo Student Impact Scholarship in September 2020 to help students impacted by

COVID-19. This initiative will provide

200 students with $5,000 each in funds,

which could help them cover various costs

for their instruction and potentially make

the difference in being able to continue

their education. Since 2010, Wells Fargo has provided more than $87.8 million

across all higher education programs and

sponsored events. For additional resources, visit the Beyond College Webinar Series for online training modules for students and recent graduates at collegesteps.

wf.com.

While the hardships of the COVID-19

era can make it incredibly difficult to be

academically successful or even continue

school at all, new efforts are helping close

the gap during this difficult time.

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Simple Reminders from the CDC

to Keep Safe

Please if you are sick, stay home, except to

get medical care. Even if you are not sick

please remember to:

•Keep at least six feet between you and other

people and don’t go to--or host--parties or

other group events.

•Cover your mouth and nose with a cloth

face cover when you are around others or

when you go out in public.

•Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, or hand sanitizer

with at least 60% alcohol if you can’t use

soap and water.

•Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue,

then throw the tissue in the trash and wash

your hands.

Hopi H.E.O.C Updates

Hopi Tutuveni October 21, 2020

COVID-19 Emergency Response – October 19, 2020 Report

Hopi Tribe – Department of Health and Human Services

Kykotsmovi, Ariz. – October 19, 2020 The SARSCoV-2 virus is causing widespread devastation as rates

of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) grow across

the world. The United States is experiencing one of

the largest outbreaks, with more than eight million

confirmed cases as of October 2020. Throughout the

United States, COVID-19 is amplifying race and class

differences due to long-standing health and economic

disparities that pervade American society. The American Indian population, for example, experiences significant economic deprivation and some of the starkest

health outcomes, placing these individuals at a higher

risk for COVID-19.

In total, 574 federally recognized tribal nations

are spread across many rural, American Indian Reservations and 50 million acres of land. Tribal nations are sovereign nations within the territory of the

present United States. They maintain direct government-to-government relationships with the United

States and hold public health authority such as states,

counties, and territories. While tribes have seen great

success in managing their own health care and public health systems, challenges remain due to chronic

under- and differential funding. The Hopi community

has to be cognizant of the fact that the local health care

facility does not benefit from the resources other much

larger hospitals have to help them in the response to

the pandemic. It is imperative for the Hopi residents

to understand that with each hospitalization, because

of COVID-19, community members may not see their

family or relatives, once those individuals are sent

away to hospitals in other towns and cities.

Here is a quick overview of the COVID-19 statistics

on a national, state, and local level:

As of this date – October 19, 2020

The United Sates now has over 8.1 million confirmed positive cases with 47,035 new cases and over

218,986 deaths reported.

Over 231,897 confirmed positive cases now exist in

Arizona. Of those, close to 6,136 are in Navajo County

alone.

The Hopi Health Care Center has tested over 4,705

patients to this date. Over 487 of those tests at Hopi

Health Care Center came back positive with 348 from

Hopi Tribal members. Tuba City Regional Health Care

Corporation reported 50 positives for Hopi Villages

with a combined number of 398 positive Hopi Tribal

members.

The information below provides a glimpse of the

current numbers in those respective villages.

* The information by villages presented above is released by the Hopi Department of Health & Human

Services, and the data shown reflects patients tested

at the Hopi Health Care Center and at the Tuba City

Regional Health Care Corporation specifically on

Hopi tribal members. The data from Lower and Upper Munqapi is consolidated until specific data can be

re-verified. (+) number decreased due to individual

being identified from another village. The community of residence for one Hopi Tribal member who tested positive at HHCC is in the Phoenix metropolitan

area. The community of residence for four Hopi Tribal

members who tested positive at HHCC is in Winslow.

The data here does not include all state-wide data from

other facilities such as Flagstaff, Winslow, Phoenix or

other hospitals.

** A total of 398+ individuals who tested positive

are members of the Hopi Tribe.

+ 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 2-14 days after exposure to

the virus. People with these symptoms or combinations of symptoms may have COVID-19:

•

Cough

•

Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing

•

Or at least two of these symptoms:

•

Fever

•

Chills

•

Repeated shaking with chills

•

Muscle pain

•

Headache

•

Sore throat

•

Congestion or runny nose

•

Nausea or vomiting

•

Diarrhea

•

New loss of taste or smell

Children have similar symptoms to adults and generally have mild illness.

This list is not all inclusive. Please consult your

medical provider for any other symptoms that are severe or concerning to you.

For questions or more information, please call The

Hopi Tribe, Office of the Chairman at (928) 734-3102,

or Office of the Vice Chairman (928) 734-3113.

Hopi Tutuveni October 21, 2020

Hopi H.E.O.C Updates

COVID-19 Emergency Response – October 19, 2020

Report Hopi Tribe – Department of Health and

Human Services, Cont.

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Hopi H.E.O.C Updates

Hopi Tutuveni October 21, 2020

HOLIDAY SEASON

Keeping Traditions Alive During

an Unusual Holiday Season

(StatePoint) This holiday season may

look a bit different due to social distancing. But just because everyone is not

physically together, doesn’t mean your

family can’t share its favorite traditions.

The Olesen family of O&H Danish

Bakery knows how important holiday traditions are to feeling connected to loved

ones. Now in its fourth generation, the

family-owned and operated bakery is

sharing its best tips for creating holiday

cheer from anywhere:

• Celebrate virtually: In a survey commissioned by O&H Danish Bakery and

conducted by SWNS Media Group and

OnePoll, nearly 80 percent of respondents

say time with family is their favorite part

of the holiday season. Whether your tradition is a Christmas movie marathon, a

caroling session around the piano or eating certain foods and baked treats, you can

enjoy these activities together over video

chat this year.

• Share traditional foods: The sensory

memories that good food creates are powerful. In fact, 44 percent of people say the

holiday spirit wouldn’t be the same if they

didn’t have their traditional holiday dessert.

If you are like many families, that favorite dessert is Kringle, a traditional

Danish treat made of 36 layers of butter

and pastry. Among O&H’s special holiday offerings are Thanksgiving Stuffed

Kringle, A Very Danish Christmas Kring-

le and the classic Pecan Kringle. Over the

past 70 years, the award-winning bakery

has shipped to more than 100 countries,

making landfall in all seven continents, including Antarctica. This year, doorstep delivery makes it easy to order a traditional

favorite for your own household or send a

gift to family members near and far. Visit

ohdanishbakery.com.

• Plan ahead: When it comes to ordering

gifts and specially baked treats, make sure

to account for busy schedules and congested delivery services to ensure all your

goodies arrive on time. Take note of shipping times and policies, as well as ordering

deadlines for each company. For example,

O&H allows customers to pre-order Kringle and schedule a preferred delivery date

in the future.

• Create hygge: Evoking the sights,

sounds and aromas of a typical holiday

season will help make this year feel more

cheerful. Take a cue from Danish culture

and embrace hygge. Pronounced “hooga,” it means creating a cozy atmosphere

and enjoying the good things in life, such

as the warm glow of candlelight or a

steaming cup of cocoa -- and there is no

better time of year to do it than the holiday

season.

This year might be especially difficult

for families who are physically separated,

but there are many ways to spread cheer

and keep traditions alive.

TICK-TACK-TOE

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Larry’s Corner

Hopi...as we make it out to be

Living in both modern and traditional sides of being a Hopi is

hard. I mean, Hopis want to live

traditionally without the influence

of mainstream culture, but yet I

still love going to the theaters and

eating at McDonald’s. I guess we

have to balance our culture and our

values as we see fit to live in such

a world.

Modern white men don’t see

our problems, like village politics, money issues, peach tree land

grab…you know the basics, all

they see is one solution and that

is their solution is to benefit themselves rather than help the people,

which is usually a mainstream culture solution like just build another

housing and raise the rent. But we

as Hopis need multiple solutions to

our one problem. Sometimes it’s

not a straight arrow to the quick

solution, sometimes we need to

have multiple, small solutions to

make up one big solution. That’s

when things get complicated.

One village is facing that problem. One village wants to be Hopi

traditional so bad that they will do

anything in their power to make

sure they keep to their traditions

alive according to some members

in that village. Although they don’t

practice all the Hopi traditions as

they state, and their village does

not have the means to become a

traditional village cause most of

the village members drive modern

cars, have modern houses, with

TV’s, internet, running water, and

bathrooms. Still, they are trying to

keep to their traditions. Is it wrong?

Are you wrong? Or am I wrong?

We won’t know for sure, ‘cause all

we love to do as a modern Hopi

society is fight for something that

could benefit the Hopi culture.

It’s like fighting for air, some people don’t want you using their air

‘cause they see you not on their

level, and the people needing and

wanting air, know it is something

that they could benefit from.

But how much of pahana or white

man do you want to be? I know I

stated this in my last post, but it

still draws the question of why do

we want to be like a white man. Do

we still want to watch Sunday night

football and drink beer in the comfort of our home? Or do we want

to sit around talking about our day

while singing Hopi songs to comfort the rest of the night. You can

answer that question for yourself.

I cannot speak for you, I’m a cat,

I love whatever you put in front of

me.

If you’re thinking we should do

both, then you have found a balance in your life. We can have balance in our lives if we just stick to

practicing how Hopi values should

be lived, for example: Never hurt

human life, never forget your clanship, never forget that everything

we do is for our future generation,

and never forget that this is not our

world, and our journey is not complete. We are still going back home,

a place where we came from, according to Hopi traditions sort-ofspeaking. But, then again, Hopi is a

complicated issue. We cannot even

settle on how to spell “grandpa” in

the Hopi spelling! Qua’ah, kwa’ah,

qwa’ah…yeah I know, bad example, but it was an example to show

you that Hopis love to complicate

issues. It’s never a straight arrow.

When you look at it, all of the issues we are having are straight and

simple. Hopis just like to make it

harder on them, and then say they

had a rough life, but we have to

move forward. We don’t wear our

traditional moccasins anymore,

only during “traditional dances”

but we don’t wear them to work.

Imagine, if the tribal policy stated

that tribal workers have to wear

their Hopi too’tsi aka Hopi shoes

to work every day. They would

riot, ‘cause its uncomfortable and

it doesn’t go good with the flower lace top that some women and

probably some guys wear to work.

Back to talking about balance…I

say that we are too modern to see

past our traditions. We want to hold

onto our traditions so bad that we

hoard it and never let it go only to

die with the person hoarding the

traditions, saying they are saving

the traditions. We have to balance

our lives, we have to make sure

we do all what we need to do in

a white man’s world and not over

complicate it and not adding to it,

but conform to modern society.

And we have to keep our traditions

alive by putting aside white man’s

traditions and not incorporate into

Hopi society. So, it is a real fine

balancing act that we all must take.

So, the real question is, am I

Hopi? Am I traditional? Am I balanced? And the answer is yes, and

no, to all…I know I said problems

should be a straight arrow, but yet

we never lived in a straight arrow

kind of situation.

So whoever you are, that is reading this, please note that, I am a cat,

with different cat-like views and

opinions. I see it and I talk about

it, not to get you mad or for you to

talk about skinning the cat, but to

remind you that I’m just a cat.

So, my advice to you is that, if

you have traditions in your family,

and if they are the same as the next

families, then you are doing ok. We

shouldn’t have to live in a competing world, but a world where we

compete to make everyone better.

Take care, and Hopi Halloween!

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Hopi Tutuveni October 21, 2020

Native Americans for Donald Trump

People gather on risers at the Williams, Arizona, rodeo grounds under a “Native Americans for Trump” banner Thursday. (Photo by Carina Dominguez, Indian Country Today)

Mary Annette Pember

Indian Country Today

The mood was cheery as Donald Trump Jr. took the

stage this week at an outdoor rally in Arizona marking the

launch of a Native Americans for Trump coalition.

Navajo Nation Vice President Myron Lizer led the

crowd in a chant of “Yeego, Trump!” which roughly

translates to “Way to go,” as he introduced the president’s

eldest son.

Trump Jr. reminisced about camping and fly-fishing in

the region, and described a meeting with several Native

elders when he first arrived in the state.

“It was so awesome from a group that has been tied to

the Democratic Party, a party that has left them and taken

them for granted, shipping their jobs to China,” he said.

According to the National Congress of American Indians, more than 60 percent of Native people vote Democratic.

A soon-to-be-released survey of 6,400 Native Americans across the country found only about 7 percent

identified as Republicans. The remainder identified as

independents and Democratic socialists, according to the

Indigenous Futures Survey, conducted by researchers at

the University of Michigan and the University of California, Berkeley, in partnership with the Center for Native

American Youth, IllumiNative and the Native Organizers

Alliance.

It’s those kinds of figures that make gatherings like

the one held Thursday in Williams, west of Flagstaff, so

meaningful for people like Robin Briggman, Hopi, of Sedona, a lifelong Republican and President Donald Trump

supporter.

“It was very exciting and so great to be in a group of

people who are all on the same page,” said Briggman, 64.

“It makes my heart feel happy. It made me smile.”

Briggman expressed confidence that under Trump’s

leadership, Native people can expand infrastructures and

business on reservations that will help provide jobs and

homes.

“Once our kids finish school, they leave and they don’t

come back because there are no jobs. I’m worried that our

traditional ways will be lost,” she said.

Roughly 200 Native and non-Native Trump supporters attended the rally, where cowboy hats seemed to outnumber masks. Republican U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin, Cherokee, of Oklahoma, joined Lizer in firing up the

crowd with chants of “Four more years!” A phalanx of

American and Arizona state flags lined the stage, flapping

smartly in the breeze.

Some of Trump’s other prominent Native supporters

include Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Cole, Chickasaw, of

Oklahoma; Crow Tribal Chairman Alvin Not Afraid Jr.;

Karen Bedonie, former U.S. congressional candidate for

New Mexico; and Elisa Martinez, former Republican

candidate for U.S. Senate for New Mexico.

Lizer previously endorsed Trump during the Republican National Convention, and Not Afraid at a Montana

campaign event attended by Vice President Mike Pence.

Yet not all Native Trump supporters are quite so vocal.

Briggman was one of a handful contacted by Indian

Country Today who agreed to speak on the record; several others shared experiences of being shamed and attacked by family, friends and other Native people for

choosing to support Trump and his policies. One source

later changed her mind about being named as a source

over fears of negative responses.

Common threads among supporters included a sense of

mistrust and betrayal by Democratic politicians and the

press, estrangement from mainstream politics and weariness with the stagnant nature of social and economic

growth in Native communities.

Overall, they maintained Trump has done more for Native people than any other president. All sources credited

Trump with creating jobs and improving the economy,

the leading reasons for their endorsements.

Gains cited

The Biden-Harris campaign has actively targeted Native voters in recent weeks, hiring a national tribal engagement director and holding a string of virtual outreach

events. This month, Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris

visited with tribal leaders in Arizona and released a detailed plan to uphold federal trust responsibilities with

tribes by addressing health disparities, restoring tribal

lands and providing economic opportunities.

While the Trump campaign has released no such plan,

his supporters say he has already done much for Indian

Country.

Michael Woestehoff, Navajo, regularly writes about it

at Medium for his blog, Natives United.

Woestehoff cites the creation of the Presidential Task

Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and

Alaska Natives; the signing of the Ashlynne Mike AMBER Alert in Indian Country Act; the awarding of over

$273 million through the Justice Department to improve

public safety and serve crime victims in American Indian and Alaska Native communities; the signing of a bill

granting federal recognition to six tribes in Virginia —

the Chickahominy, Eastern Chickahominy, Upper Mattaponi, Rappahannock, Monacan and Nansemond — as

well as the Montana Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians; and other accomplishments.

“Reelecting President Trump will ensure better economic opportunities, safer communities, and a healthy

environment for Indian Country and all tribal generations

for generations to come,” Woestehoff wrote in Medium.

‘Stop playing the victim’

Among the more outspoken, far-right Native Trump

supporters online is Joseph Cody, 31, of the Yankton

Sioux Tribe and Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. He calls himself “The Native Conservative.”

Cody lives near Tulsa, Oklahoma, and supports himself

through the sale of merchandise from his various social

media sites, including a YouTube channel and podcast

espousing his beliefs and politics as a Native American

political conservative. He has nearly 6,000 combined followers.

A lifelong Democrat, Cody registered as a Republican

in 2018. “I figured out I was being lied to by the media

and other people in general,” he said.

According to Cody, most media and the entertainment

industry in the U.S. are controlled by George Soros and

a small group of like-minded leftists with an agenda to

spread socialism globally and promote homosexuality

and transgenderism.

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Native Americans for Donald Trump, Cont.

Cody describes life on reservations as a

system of failed socialism that has served

to keep Native people dependent on government programming and handouts.

Overregulated by the federal government,

Native people are excluded from individual property ownership and discouraged

from engaging in entrepreneurship by excessive federal and tribal red tape, he said.

Jeremiah Mackay, who is affiliated with

the Navajo tribe and Taos and Santa Maria Pueblos, manages a Facebook group

called “Native Americans for Trump,”

with about 3,800 followers and a Twitter

account under the same name with about

3,400 followers. According to Mackay, he

had more than 30,000 followers before

Twitter banned his account, @shisandayNDE, without explanation.

He believes the current racial divide

and claims of entrenched racism have

been largely created by inaccurate media

reports.

“People say that White people owe the

Black man and Native people for things

that happened 400 years ago. You don’t

owe anybody anything; you weren’t

alive,” he said.

Raised in California’s Coachella Valley,

Mackay now lives in Las Vegas and works

as a bartender.

“It’s time people stop playing the victim, get off their asses and do something

with their lives,” he said.

Cody and Mackay both cited Trump’s

Operation Lady Justice Task Force and

what they described as his groundbreaking work addressing the missing and murdered Indigenous women crisis.

President Barack Obama also passed

legislation and created a task force aimed

at investigating the MMIW problem, including reauthorization of the Violence

Against Women Act, a law that has not

been reauthorized during the Trump administration. In 2016, the Obama administration commissioned research by the

National Institute of Justice to explore underlying reasons for high rates of violence

against Native and Alaska Native women,

sex trafficking in Indian Country, the impact of the growing oil industry’s impact

on violence against Native women.

Obama in 2010 also signed the Tribal

Law and Order Act, which ensures tribes

have access to law enforcement databases, hiring more law enforcement for Indian lands and emphasizing decreasing

violence against Native and Alaska Native

women.

‘Long Walk in Socialism’

Lately, more conservative Republicans

have been using the term “socialism” to

describe much that is wrong in Indian

Country.

The recently created film “A Long Walk

in Socialism” provides insight into the use

of this buzzword as a catchall for failings

of reservation-based social and political

systems that disempower and disenfranchise Native Americans from accessing

the American dream.

“A Long Walk in Socialism” offers the

following definition of socialism: “A political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means

of production, distribution and exchange

should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole, a transitional social

state between the overthrow of capitalism

and the realization of communism.”

The film, created and funded by Turning

Point USA, features Karen Bedonie and

Elisa Martinez, both of the Navajo tribe.

In it, Bedonie frames federal social welfare programming and the trust relationship with tribes as liberalism that functions as a stepping stone to socialism that

eventually will lead to communism.

In the end, this brand of reservation

socialism contributes to a culture of victimhood versus self-sufficiency, leading to

despair and the escalation of drug abuse,

suicide and other social ills.

Martinez said tribal governments control commerce; the federal trust relationship prevents and de-incentivizes private

property ownership.

According to the Washington Post,

Turning Point USA and its affiliate Turn-

ing Point Action, pays minors to send out

messages that are pro-Trump and support

conservative points of view and values via

social media. The Washington Post characterizes Turning Point as a “troll farm,”

an organization that distributes misinformation.

During his speech at the Republican

Convention, Charlie Kirk, founder of

Turning Point described comparisons of

his organization to troll farms as a “gross

mischaracterization.”

Turning Point USA did not respond to

Indian Country Today’s email request for

comment.

The Navajo Times reported that Turning

Point USA paid for a massive “Navajos

for Trump” campaign complete with halfpage ads in the Times, a banner ad on the

newspaper’s website, as well as large billboards on the reservation displaying the

words, “Navajos for Trump.”

Navajo Times reporter Cindy Yurth

wrote, “It’s unclear if the Navajos for

Trump referenced in the ads are real or a

creation of a national political action committee.”

The idea of socialism as an ideological

onramp to communism is a page from

the ultra-conservative political playbook

emphasizing free enterprise, individual liberty, limited government control or

regulation, and the belief that government

programming that provides services and

opportunities for the poor encourage dependence.

Eliminating the federal government’s

trust responsibility with tribes, however,

would free the government from treaty obligations to protect Native lands, provide

health care and other services, according

to the National Congress of American Indians.

O.J. Semans of the Rosebud Sioux tribe

and executive director of Four Directions,

a Native voting rights advocacy organization, told Indian Country Today in a previous article, “Let’s be honest, if the United

States honored their treaties as they were

written years ago, we wouldn’t need their

assistance.”

Semans blames the chronic underfunding of federal treaty responsibilities, rather than socialism, as underlying problems

in Indian Country.

‘Conservative to the core’

There is no ignoring the impact of excessive, confusing governmental red tape

and regulations in deterring economic development on reservations, according to

Shawn Redd.

Redd, Navajo, is a lifelong Republican.

Redd ran unsuccessfully for U.S. representative in Arizona’s First District in

2016 as well as president of the Navajo

Nation in 2018.

Redd ran several businesses on the

Navajo reservation, including auto parts

stores and a laundromat.

“We can’t continue to exist in a communist state where the government

owns and controls everything. We need

to open up the reservation and start

some economic development,” he said.

Redd laments a lack of restaurants, hotels

and other facilities for tourists on the reservation.

“We’ve got a huge tourism demand that

is being unmet; tourists have to work with

businesses off the reservation. They get

bussed in and bussed out,” he said.

Redd admits there are few Navajo Republicans who think as he does.

“I get teased a bit for my politics. I’m

often introduced as Shawn Redd, the Republican,” Redd said.

According to Redd however, Navajos

align more with conservative values than

they may realize.

“Navajo people are very conservative

by nature. They believe in a lot of things

that the Republican platform embraces,

such as strong family ties, self-reliance

and liberty,” he said.

Cody agrees.

“Natives are traditional, and through

our heritage, we are already conservative

to the core, making Trump a perfect fit for

our beliefs and politics,” he said.

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Hopi Tutuveni October 21, 2020

Alaska Natives divided on

Arctic refuge drilling

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Joaqlin Estus

Indian Country Today

The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act granted

a decades-long wish of Alaska’s congressional delegation by giving the go-ahead

to drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Alaska Natives are

divided on the matter.

After a public review process, in August

the U.S. Interior Department approved development of 1.5 million acres in the refuge. Agencies have until Dec. 22 to hold

one lease sale and until December 2024

for a second one.

The refuge is on the North Slope of

Alaska, an area about the size of Oregon,

where some 18 billion barrels of oil have

been produced since the 1980s. The refuge holds an estimated 10 billion barrels

of oil.

Drilling there faces hurdles, however,

including a couple of dozen lawsuits filed

by 15 states, three tribes, U.S. and Canadian Gwitch’in Athabascan people, a dozen

environmental groups and a coalition of

conservation groups.

The is not promising. From 2014 to

2015, it dropped from more than $100 a

barrel to around $30 a barrel. It has since

bounced back but hasn’t risen above $42

a barrel.

More than two-dozen banks have decided not to fund new Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling projects. Companies

like Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman

Sachs, and most recently the Royal Bank

of Canada, see too many downsides. They

cite environmental concerns and the possibility of poor financial returns. Recently

the Trump administration threatened to

launch investigations against the balky financial institutions.

Some of the area’s for-profit Alaska

Native corporations created under a 1971

claims settlement stand to benefit from oil

development. Arctic Slope Regional Corporation President and CEO Rex Rock,

Inupiaq, last year wrote an opinion piece

for The Hill supporting drilling in the refuge.

He said anti-development advocates

who would turn “my homeland into one

giant national park, off-limits to all but

a select few, guarantee our people a fate

with no economy, no jobs and little hope

for the future.”

Rock said development has been misrepresented by those who paint a picture

of an Arctic “garden of Eden” that would

be ruined by development.

He said the region has been home to the

Inupiat people for countless generations,

and “no one has more at stake in ensuring

responsible development in ANWR than

we do.”

Last year in a public forum, Arctic corporation board chair Crawford Patkotak,

Inupiat, said Alaska Natives can reach

a balance that would allow them to “not

only enhance, protect and live our culture,

but prevent unnecessary regulation that

would tie our hands up when it comes to

developing our own resources.”

He said “extreme environmentalist action and extreme animal rights groups

actions” have threatened both subsistence

and oil development. Leaving oil in the

ground would “cripple us economically,”

said Patkotak.

Representatives of tribal governments

and Native nonprofit organizations have

voiced their opposition, most recently at a

forum hosted by the House Subcommittee

on Energy and Mineral Resources.

The forum was on potential impacts of

opening the refuge to oil development, but

much of the discussion was about climate

change, which scientists say is progressing in the Arctic at three times the rate of

other places.

Mary David, Inupiaq, is executive vice

president of the Nome-based regional

nonprofit Kawerak Inc. She said any new

development will add stress to beleaguered natural ecosystems.

“People and tribes in the region take

seriously the impact of climate change

because our lives are so intertwined, connected and reliant on the environment.”

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Rosemary Ahtuangaruak, Inupiaq, resident of the Native Village of Nuiqsut said

unpredictably thin ice leads to potentially

deadly accidents when people fall through

while fishing. Thin ice also closes ice

roads on rivers.

“But more concerning was this year

as I put out my fishing net, and last year

as I put out my fish net, is seeing the tremendous change to the health of the fish.

I used to put my net out and maybe I'd get

one sick fish in the season. But last year,

every net I pulled out had a sick fish,”

Ahtuangaruak said.

She said climate change is also threatening walrus, seal and whale populations.

“We need them. Many others do not eat

the types of foods we eat, but we need our

foods to feed our families, to be the strong,

healthy families that we have been,” Ahtuangaruak said. “We cannot get the calories

from other foods that can be bought from

the store. We cannot get the energy that we

need.”Executive Director of the Gwich’in

Steering Committee, a coalition of Alaska and Canadian tribes and First Peoples,

Bernadette Demientieff, Gwitch’in Athabascan, said development would also impact the Porcupine and Central Arctic caribou herds that migrate to or calve in the

refuge. The herd of 218,000 caribou annually migrates between Canada and calving

grounds on the coastal plain of the refuge.

The caribou provide food, clothing and

tools and are the basis of Gwich’in songs,

stories and dances, she said.

“The ancestral homeland of the

Gwich’in and the migratory route of the

caribou are nearly identical,” Demientieff

said. “The spiritual connection we have

with the caribou is very real.”

Federal agencies are considering approval of seismic testing that would tell

developers the amount and location of

potentially developable oil, something

they’ll want to know before they pay for

a lease.

Hopi Tutuveni October 21, 2020

Job Vacancy

Request for Proposal for Financial Audit

Service

Opening Date: 8:00am–October 12, 2020

Closing Date: 5:00pm–November 20, 2020

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

from qualified & independent CPAs to perform annual

financial & compliance audits for purpose of expressing an opinion on financial statements for a tax-exempt

charitable nonprofit.

The multi-year engagement shall be for fiscal years

2020-2022 with each annual audit to cover calendar year

Jan. 1 – Dec. 31. Scope of audit shall be applicable to:

A.Nonprofit 501(c)3 financial audit and 990 statements

in accordance with IRS standards;

B.Public Radio audited financial statements in accordance with Corporation for Public Broadcasting standards.

All proposals must include:

1.Proposal letter from qualified CPA firm including detailed cost breakdown;

2.Quote of all costs associated with Part A & Part B

proposed scope of work, with Part B radio audit costs listed separately;

3.Credentials & references including references from

tax-exempt charitable organization clients and public radio clients.

Completed proposals must be received by The Hopi

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2020.

Proposals may be submitted to:

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For questions, please contact: Angie Harris, Financial

Director (928) 853-7527, cell

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About The Hopi Foundation

The Hopi Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)3 tax-exempt

organization established in 1987 and located on the Hopi

Reservation in northeastern Arizona. The Hopi Foundation is a Grantmaking organization and a host of nonprofit

programs including a Native American community-based

public radio station.

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Job Vacancy

Second Mesa Day School

Request for Proposals for Special Education Services.

Special Education Ancillary/Related Services, Physical Therapist

Public notice is hereby given that the Second Mesa

Day School Exceptional Student Services Department

is accepting competitive sealed proposals from qualified

and eligible (licensed) firms and individuals for school

year 2020-2021. All Request for Proposals (RFP) must be

submitted prior to closing date, October 16, 2020, 2020

at 4:00 p.m. (MST} to be considered for selection. Late

proposals will be disqualified. In order to be considered

for selection, bidders must submit a complete response to

the RFP. RFP packets are available at the SMDS Procurement Office or via email. For more information, contact

Alice Whiterock at Alice.Whiterock@secondmesa.org or

call (928)737-2571, ext.4208.

Second Mesa Day School Exceptional Student Services Department reserves the right to reject any and all

proposals submitted to waive any information or irregularities and to advertise in its best interest and to request

additional information from all proposers. Hopi Owned

and Non-Hopi Owned firms and individuals are invited to

respond to this RFP. Interested firms and individuals will

be evaluated in accordance with the requested proposal

and applicable law.

Sealed bids mailed to:

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RFP-Physical Therapy

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Second Mesa, Arizona 86043

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KUYI - Hopi Radio Job Announcements

Marketing Coordinator

Position Summary: Responsible for fundraising & resource development to maintain KUYI operations. Raising non-Federal financial support through underwriting,

merchandise sales, donations, contributions, memberships, volunteer recruitment, & general station support

through outreach. Works closely with The Hopi Foundation staff to ensure financial reporting and management

of station resources and financial contracts.

Minimum qualifications: 2 years’ experience in sales,

business management, financial management, and/or

non-profit fundraising; 2 years of supervision and management experience; Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree

in marketing, advertising, communication, business or

financial management; OR any equivalent combination

of education, training and experience which demonstrates

the ability to perform position duties.

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Position Summary: Responsible for monitoring, maintenance, upkeep, & cleanliness of KUYI broadcast equipment while ensuring compliance with FCC, CPB, Hopi

Foundation, and KUYI rules & regulations. Responsible

for adherence to broadcast schedule, ensuring audio content is scheduled and functioning properly. Provides technical assistance with regular computer maintenance and

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Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI) located in Keams Canyon, AZ. We provide

lending services as well as financial education to the Hopi people.

Applications and required documents must

be submitted by:

Part Time Position:

Fax:

928.738.5633

Accountant

Closing Date: Open Until Filled

Email:

lisa@hopicredit.us

Mail:

Hopi Credit Association

Attn: Alissa Charley

PO Box 1259

Keams Canyon, AZ 86034

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employment application, visit our webpage

at www.hopi-nsn.gov/hopi-credit-association

or call to request at (928) 738-2205.

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of three (3) references.

*Subject to background and credit check.

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Violet Sinquah, SergeantAt-Arms

Village of Upper

Moenkopi

Robert Charley

Philton Talahytewa, Sr.

Hubert Lewis, Sr.

Michael Elmer

Village of Bakabi

Dwayne Secakuku

Clifford Qotsaquahu

Village of Kyakotsmovi

David Talayumptewa

Phillip Quochytewa, Sr.

Danny Honanie

Herman H. Honanie

Village of Sipaulavi

Rosa Honanie

Alverna Poneoma

Dennis Koeyahongva

Village of Mishongnovi

Craig Andrews

Ronald Humeyestewa

Merwin Kooyahoema

Annette F. Talayumptewa

First Mesa Consolidated

Villages

Albert T. Sinquah

Dale Sinquah

Wallace Youvella, Sr.

Wallace Youvella, Jr.

Hopi Tutuveni October 21, 2020

GAMES AND PUZZLES

Hopilavit - Harvest and Halloween

Answers for October 2

H Q I I N O O L

A A A S N I K T

L T S N U A T Y

A A O Y A W W O

S A O I I O G T

A L H Q S T N N

M A U S Z T U A

I I T I W P U K

A O J K M A T T

Y P K Y A A S O

A T G A M P E G

N K O H Q U L W

Q A F A A F E X

O I S T S T W H

H M W I I V A L

L A Y K U H Y F

B S M O R I T S

HOPI WORDS

Huk.yala - Abate (of

wind)

Nìitiwpu - Abundance

Aniwna - Achieve or

Accomplish

Aptsiwta - Adequate

Natwànpi - Agricultural

Practice

Qana’öna - Ambitious

Maqsoni - Arduous

Tuho’os - Autumn

Paapu - Beans (Pod)

Sikyahatiko - Beans

(Y. Lima)

Pasqalalni - Boundary

(Crop)

Patomelooni - Canteloupe

Hökni - Corn (Harvested)

Tuupevu - Corn (Pit

Steamed)

Tu’tsi - Corn (Roasted)

Silaqvu - Corn Husk

Mangwni - Corn

Leaves

Kyàasòmkwivi Creamed Corn

Angwusi - Crow

Qataala - Darkness

Tuviku - Disguise

Àasa’ta - Enough (candy treats)

Uti - Exclamation!

(Horror)

Nìktiwta - Extra (candy

treats)

Màmqasi - Fear

Nùutsel’eway - Fearsome

Sami - Fresh Corn

Sungwa - Friend

Tsawna - Frighten

Huyta - Give Out

(Treats)

Maalama - Ground

Cultivated

Höqna’ya - Harvesting

Party

Hota - Haul (Harvested

Goods)

Pàngala - Heap (Harvested Goods)

Moritspu - Hull (Beans)

Tukwsi - Matured Corn

Kawayvatnga - Melon

Halasami - Moist

Ground

Tuvatski - Nut Bearing

Tree

Pisoq - Occupied (Harvest)

Sipala - Peach

Pintomori - Pinto

Beans

Natwani - Plant

TICK-TACK-TOE

U.S. CURRENTS

Hopi Tutuveni October 21, 2020

Add COVID-19 to list of things driving Arizona teachers

from jobs

A recent survey of Arizona school districts found that the perennial problem of hiring teachers has been made more difficult by COVID-19, with health concerns and workload challenge pushing

hundreds of teachers to quit. (Photo by SOMANEDU/Creative Commons)

By Concettina Giuliano/Cronkite News

WASHINGTON – Arizona schools have long struggled

with teacher shortages but the problem was made worse

this year by COVID-19, which has led to more teachers

quitting or taking leave, school officials said.

Just over 28% of teaching slots were still vacant several weeks into the 2020-2021 school year, up from 21%

last year, according to an annual survey by the Arizona

School Personnel Administrators Association.

The association, which included a question on the coronavirus for the first time this year, found that 464 teachers

who retired this year or who took a year off from teaching

said their primary reason for doing so was COVID-19.

“We’ve had a couple of resignations and it’s not 100%

related to the work – it’s definitely COVID related,” said

Dawn Anderson, the human resources director for the

Flagstaff Unified School District. And Flagstaff is in relatively good shape when it comes to teacher vacancies

overall, she said.

The survey of 145 school districts and charter schools

around the state found that of the 751 teachers who quit

before or shortly after the start of the school year, 326

said they left because of the pandemic. Another 138

teachers took an unpaid one-year leave of absence, citing

COVID-19, the report said.

Additionally, 975 school employees who were not in

the classroom also cited the virus as their reason for either

quitting or taking a leave of absence, the survey said.

Tempe Elementary School District teacher Beth Lewis

said it’s not surprising. She said she and her colleagues

are fearful of teaching this year.

“I have many teacher friends who have quit over this

and are amazing teachers but they have health conditions,” said Lewis, co-founder of Save our Schools Ar-

izona.

Justin Wing, a past president of ASPAA and human resources director for the Washington Elementary

School District in Glendale, said there’s no question that

COVID-19 has aggravated an already difficult situation

in Arizona schools. It’s why the association included the

question in this year’s survey.

“The survey was adjusted with COVID in mind,” Wing

said.

Teachers’ jobs were already changing because of budget cuts and new demands, with teachers forced to wear

more hats, from safety officer to social worker and even

school counselor, Wing said. Then this year, teachers

were thrust into the new world of remote learning.

At Flagstaff Unified School District, where students

are in a completely remote learning environment, Anderson said teaching remotely is just as challenging, if not

more so, for educators.

“It is more challenging to teach in a remote environment,” she said. “It’s a different skill set and involves different strategies for all varieties of education, everything

from classroom management to delivery of instruction.”

Sean Rickert, superintendent of Pima Unified School

District, said he has more teachers who are deciding to

quit or retire.

“I’ve got about three teachers that have already said at

the end of this year, they’re done,” Rickert said. “So out

of 60 teachers, that’s about two or three times more than

we’ve seen in a normal year.”

He said he’s seeing a much higher number of retirement-eligible teachers leave the profession “partly because of health concerns and partly because of all the

stress being put on teachers this year.”

To fill the growing number of vacancies, schools are

turning to long-term substitutes or hiring increasing num-

bers of people without teaching credentials, as they have

in previous years, the survey said. It said half the teachers in the state are operating on provisional or alternative

certificates.

On the one hand, Wing said, that has helped plug holes.

“50% of alternative certified teachers have been most

helpful – if that was not the case, I don’t know where we

would be,” Wing said.

But he and others worry about the long-term impact on

students’ education.

“You have more openings than you have applicants,”

Rickert said. “And then you have to put unqualified people in classrooms and it becomes really unfair for children.”

Rickert said he was originally hired as a long-term substitute because his school district “didn’t have anyone to

teach social studies.”

“The school district found out through a teacher or

friend that knew me, found out that I had a degree in

history and they said, ‘Hey, we need you to teach social

studies to middle school kids,’” Rickert said.

But Rickert, who has been an educator for about 18

years, said the continued quick-fixes are “having a dramatic impact on the quality of education schools are able

to offer children.”

“If we don’t do anything about it, the impact that it’s

going to have going forward will be even more profound,” he said.

Even as this year’s difficulties shined a spotlight on the

problem of teacher shortages, Wing said he is not optimistic the situation will get better soon.

“The teacher shortage will continue,” Wing said. “This

year is more stressful – just as stressful, if not a little bit

more – because COVID resulted in more vacancies.”

Hopi Tutuveni October 21, 2020

U.S. CURRENTS

As Western fires burn,

focus narrows on forest

management. But it’s

easier said than done.

Visitors can still see impacts of the Rodeo-Chediski Fire today. (Photo by Ron Dungan/KJZZ)

By Ron Dungan/KJZZ

In June 2002, nearly half a million acres burned in the

Arizona high country. At the time, the Rodeo-Chediski

Fire was the largest wildfire in the state’s history. There

was too much fuel in the forest, a buildup that began more

than a century ago.

Enough people saw the record-breaking fire and agreed

that something needed to be done to prevent the next big

fire.

But correcting mistakes of the past is often tougher than

it sounds. Almost two decades later, those involved in responding to the Rodeo-Chediski say they’re still learning

what it will take to get ahead of wildfires, and the effects

they have on headwater forests.

“I think the first thing to recognize is that the Southwest

and California are built to burn,” said fire historian Stephen Pyne, author of “Fire in America.”

“We get lots of dry lightning,” Pyne said. “We’re the

epicenter for lightning-caused fires in the United States.”

Ponderosa forests evolved with fire. Small, naturally-caused fires would burn grasses, small trees and brush,

but leave the big trees with their thick bark, high branches

and stout trunks, still standing. Then decades of overgrazing and fire suppression removed grasses and allowed

small trees to grow.

Without fire to burn off the excess, the forest filled

with all sizes of fuel. By the time foresters figured out the

problem, big, unruly fires were on the way.

Conservationists, foresters, rural residents, ranchers

and public lands advocates began to take an active interest in the role of fire in ponderosa forests. Conservationists worried about ecosystems. Ranchers worried about

their homes. Leaders at the Salt River Project, which

provides power and water for the Phoenix metro area

through a series of dams, worried about the impact of fire

on watersheds.

Burn scars can send excess ash, sediment and toxic

compounds into water supplies for municipal and agricul-

tural users for miles downstream. They also can reshape

flood zones and increase risks of mudslides.

The project’s Elvy Barton said the problems are the

same throughout the West.

“What we’re learning here, and what we’re applying

here in Arizona, can really apply to all of the western

United States and especially the Colorado River watershed,” Barton said.

“We all face very similar problems, related to wildfires

and watersheds. We all have overgrown forests, we have

endangered species, we have large catastrophic wildfires

that are coming through and just devastating these landscapes and having these horrible impacts on communities

and the water supply,” she said.

Ethan Aumack, executive director of Grand Canyon

Trust, remembers the 10,000-acre thinning projects in the

1990s. They were ambitious for their time, but then Rodeo-Chediski came.

“Largely as a function of the Rodeo-Chediski Fire in

2002 we realized that we were not working at the scale at

which wildfire was working,” Aumack said.

To begin to work at that scale, ranchers, conservationists, politicians, foresters and local communities put aside

their differences and came up with a plan, the Four Forests Restoration Initiative (4FRI), officially launched in

2009. The Grand Canyon Trust is a part of the initiative.

The project’s ambitious goal was to thin about 2.4 million acres across Arizona, from the Grand Canyon to the

border with New Mexico.

“The Four Forests Initiative was a major event. It was

the flagship for a national program,” Pyne said.

There are two ways to thin the forest: Cutting and burning. 4FRI did both. The target for cutting is small diameter trees. That’s different from traditional logging, which

takes the big, fire resistant trees.

Although 4FRI seemed to address the problem on paper, companies hired to thin the forest – mostly startups

without a track record – failed to deliver. The forests kept

growing.

“The problem is not getting smaller, the problem is only

getting larger in Arizona. The same can be said across the

West,” Aumack said.

In 2011, the Wallow Fire scorched another half a million acres in eastern Arizona. Two years later, 19 firefighters died in the Yarnell Hill Fire, northwest of Phoenix.

That fire pointed to the growing problem of more homes

in rural, fire-prone communities.

The goals of 4FRI were not being met in large part because it was difficult to make cutting small-diameter trees

into a profitable business.

“It stumbled,” Pyne said. “It’s had several stutter steps

and it’s had problems, and I don’t think it has been able to

get the acres treated that we thought.”

One of the problems is that the Forest Service is stuck

in an old business model, and keeps insisting that companies make a profit from timber, said Kieran Suckling,

executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity,

another 4FRI partner. Cutting small-diameter timber rarely makes economic sense, and efforts to make it profitable have failed.

“So the problem isn’t the companies being able to do it.

The problem is asking them to do it in the first place. Why

would you ask the impossible of them?” Suckling said.

Climate change, ongoing drought and a growing urban

interface have added to the complexity of the problem.

Different ecosystems have different fire regimes, and

unprecedented hot and dry weather conditions, invasive

plants and other factors can cause fires today to jump

from one ecosystem to the next, from low-lying Sonoran

Desert expanses to shrubland chaparral to ponderosa

pine. Fire was historically rare in the Sonoran Desert, but

invasive grasses have made the desert more combustible.

Sometimes all firefighters can do is get out of the way.

Pyne, who spent several seasons as a Grand Canyon

firefighter, said agencies tasked with controlling fires are

adapting a box and burn strategy with some fires, securing lines and allowing them to burn.

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Hopi Tutuveni October 21, 2020

As Western fires burn, focus narrows on forest management. But it’s easier said than done, Cont.

“I’m seeing a lot of, from fire officers on the ground,

that we’re not going to get ahead of this in that way,”

Pyne said. “We’re riding the tiger. There are too many

things coming at us too fast, changing things too rapidly.

We’re having to work with what we’re given. And they’re

doing some remarkable stuff.”

Using fire to thin the forest is complicated, but unlike

the timber-thinning projects, 4FRI is meeting its targets

for burning. And not all wildfires are catastrophic, depending on their size and severity. Some places that burn

recover, like the drainage of Canyon Creek in Tonto National Forest, which burned in Rodeo-Chediski.

4FRI also has done work on springs and watershed restoration. The Forest Service hopes to ramp up thinning

again in the near future. Aumack wonders if we have

enough time.

“On the other hand, I actually feel very optimistic, and

sometimes foolishly so, that we can solve this problem,”

Aumack said, “and I really think the question is can we

do it in time?”

Charlie Ester, of the Salt River Project, said he thinks

4FRI can work if it moves forward, one step at a time.

“Is it going to be difficult to get there? It’s going to

be almost insurmountably difficult there,” Ester said. He

added that the forest management conundrum facing fire

officials across the West is like being tasked with eating

an elephant. The correct, but painstaking approach is one

bite at a time.

“The only way we’re going to get there is by incrementally increasing our capacity to harvest trees to process trees into a viable product so that it pays for itself,

and just to move forward, one step at a time. And I think

we’re doing that,” he said.

Ester acknowledged that the effort has been fraught

with setbacks, but the partners are not ready to give up.

“We all have to work together, we all have this common goal. And I’m very positive about the future of our

forest ecosystem,” he said.

Almost 20 years later, scars from Rodeo-Chediski are

still present on the landscape at Canyon Creek. But there

are trees standing, and clear water. Trout swim in the

stream, and elk and coyotes roam the hills. Eagles and

herons circle overhead.

The West’s forests will continue to burn. That’s what

forests have always done and what they will keep doing.

The only question is how hot the fires will burn and how

much ground they will consume.

Arizona cities defend progress after slipping in clean energy ranking

By Claire Chandler/Cronkite News

WASHINGTON – Local officials pushed back this

week against a new report that showed three Arizona

cities slipping in a national ranking on clean-energy policies, saying the report does not appear to reflect their

clean- and renewable-energy efforts.

The 2020 City Clean Energy Scorecard, released last

week by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient

Economy, scores the 100 largest cities in the country in

five categories ranging from local government to energy

and water utilities.

Phoenix finished 19th in the ranking, while Tucson was

68th and Mesa was 76th – all three slightly lower rankings than the cities got on 2019’s scorecard.

That surprised Caryn Potter, a utility program manager

with the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project, who considers Arizona “an energy efficiency success story.”

“While our cities are making important commitments

towards reducing air pollution, conserving water, and

making their cities more walkable and livable, I was surprised to see the drop in Phoenix, Mesa, and Tucson’s

overall scores,” she said in an email.

She pointed to energy-efficiency programs run by various electric companies throughout the state that have

been proven to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Myriam Cruz, the communications director for Tucson

Mayor Regina Romero, said in a statement last week that

“it appears some sections are outdated… which might

have impacted Tucson’s score.” That was echoed by sustainability officials in both Phoenix and Mesa, who were

quick to mention what they called outdated data as an

explanation for the low scores.

But the director of ACEEE’s local policy program said

its first step for getting data is to ask cities and utilities to

provide it – and not everyone in Arizona did that. In that

case, ACEEE pulls the needed data together as best it can.

“Phoenix completed the data request, it looks like Tucson and Mesa did not,” said David Ribeiro, the ACEEE

official. “So in the case of Phoenix, the data request

would have been used to populate a lot of information.

For Tucson and Mesa, we would have done our own research to collect that data.”

But Scott Bouchie, Mesa’s deputy director of environmental management and sustainability, said it can be a

challenge “filling out all of these surveys and what folks

are putting out … versus getting work done sometimes.”

He thinks the report only shows a fraction of Mesa’s

sustainability efforts, pointing to a partnership with SRP

on a solar energy project that will increase the city’s renewable energy portfolio. The city is also in the design

process of a project that would take waste methane gas

produced in its sewage system, which is currently burned

off, and convert it to pipeline-quality gas that could be

used to fuel trucks.

“If you look at a solid waste truck, if you look at the

carbon intensity of a diesel truck, the carbon intensity of

a natural gas vehicle is less,” Bouchie said. “But then if

you use renewable natural gas to power that vehicle, as

opposed to your traditional natural gas, the carbon intensity is significantly lower.”

Cruz said the report does not include Tucson’s Climate

Emergency Declaration approved in September, that

“sets a long-term goal for city operations to become carbon-neutral by 2030.”

Phoenix Chief Sustainability Officer Mark Hartman

said that the transportation portion of the report does

not reflect efforts to expand the light rail, something that

should take cars off the highways and cut emissions.

“We’re the only major city in the U.S. that’s upgrading

and adding light rail … and adding sort of major metro

transit, we’re the only ones that are increasing the size

of rapid buses,” he said. “So we’re really expanding our

transportation system.”

While he would like to have seen the city moving up

in the ranks, Harman said being in the top 20 and only

dropping two places, from 17 to 19, “actually shows a

good consistency and ranking.”

“I think the top 20 cities, I know every one of those

cities that are taking action, and they all have some really

bold and aggressive and great things that they’re doing,”

Hartman said.

Hartman suggested that part of the reason the Arizona cities dropped – Tucson went from 52nd to 68th and

Mesa from 66th to 76th – could be the fact that the report

expanded from 75 cities last year to 100 this year.

But Ribeiro said ACEEE accounted for that by “only

comparing cities against those that were in the report last

time to sort of eliminate that potential effect.”

Still, Hartman said he sees the report as a positive for

Phoenix, which aims to become a carbon-neutral city by

2060, as well as for cities across the country and their

efforts at boosting sustainable energy.

“I think it’s good overall,” he said. “It’s good to be in

the top 20. I mean, there’s a lot of aggressive cities, and

I think it’s inspiring to see what many of the cities are

doing and it’s nice to be in the company of them.”

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