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Hopi Tutuveni January 7, 2022

Hopi Tribal Council Approves H-004-2022 Continuing Resolution

for FY2021 General Fund Budget Effective January 1, 2021

By: Romalita Laban, Managing Editor - Hopi Tutuveni

Kykotsmovi, Ariz. – Wednesday, December 22, 2021

and a couple of days before the Hopi Tribe was scheduled

to be on a three-day Holiday break the Hopi Tribal Council suspended its rules to add Action Item #005-2022 to

the Agenda to review and discuss. Amendments were

made to the Item authored and submitted by Wilfred Gaseoma, Hopi Tribal Treasurer which addressed the continuation of the FY2021 Budget as of January 1, 2022.

On Tuesday, December 21, 2021, a day before the Action Item was brought before Council, discussions surrounding the need to get the FY 2022 Budget process

completed and approved by the deadline date of December 31, 2021 also took place. The Action Item packet presenting the FY2022 Budget Resolution, which had not

yet made its way through the process of being added to

the Agenda, was noted by some Tribal Councilmen as

being most definitely delayed with sounding frustrated

during the discussions.

The Wednesday, December 22, 2021 morning session

continued surrounding the Action Item for the continuation of the FY2021 Budget and discussions ensued regarding details about the delay, the need for suspending

of the rules to get the Action Item packet with the Continuation Budget on the Council Agenda, the Treasurer and

Chairman reiterating the process for getting an Action

Item packet through the Secretary’s Office, the lack of

the Vice Chairman’s signature on the packet which was

holding up the process, the need for orientation of Tribal

Council on the process, and the Secretary’s Office’s deadlines and how the process of suspending the rules was

made up at some point in time.

Prior to the morning session being recessed, the Treasurer notified Council that, “I just got updated information that Vice Chairman has signed…signed it so it goes

on to the next person, which is myself, so once I get back

to my computer, I’ll sign it and send it on to the next

person.”

Chairman Nuvangyaoma also clarified, “We have the

Action Item we just need to recess so we can focus on

getting that into the process and have that brought back

in for action tomorrow…” The morning session was recessed at 9:58 a.m. with plans for reconvening later in the

day at three o’clock.

Later during the three o’clock afternoon hour, Herman

G. Honanie, Kykotsmovi Village Representative made a

motion to suspend the rules to have the Action Item addressing the continuation of the FY2021 Budget added

to Council’s Agenda. A Second to the motion was made

by Raymond Namoki, Sipaulovi Village Representative.

Council passed the motion to suspend the rules, which

allowed Council to continue moving on for review, fur-

ther discussion and questions on Action Item #H005-2022

but not until Wallace Youvella, Jr., First Mesa Consolidated Villages Representative stated, “…the only question I

have is…we passed a resolution in October that regards

Tewa Village and withholding of those funds… will this

continuing resolution override that resolution that we

passed and allow…the Village of Tewa Village to…get

their allocation up to 10%?” This in turn led to Chairman Nuvangyaoma responding, “I think that’s a matter

of the discussion that would happen once the Action Item

is read into record…” and then requested that the Hopi

Tribal Secretary read the item.

Hopi Tribal Secretary read Action Item #H005-2022

which included such references as, “Hopi Tribal Council Action Item December 20 2021 Action Item #0052022 date received by Tribal Secretary [Dec 22 2021],

unit recommending action Hopi Tribal Treasurer. Objective: To have Hopi Tribal Council approve the FY2021

Continuing Resolution. Discussion: To discuss approval of FY2021 Continuing Resolution effective [January

1 2022] funding will remain at the FY2021 levels and

be appropriated at 10% each month until the FY2022

General Fund budget and Expenditure Authorization and

Appropriations Language. Action Requires Village Input, no. Action requires additional funding, yes. Action

requires budget/modification approval, no. Author of Action Item, Wilfred Gaseoma Hopi Tribal Treasurer, endorsed by Timothy Nuvangyaoma dated [12 20 21]…”

The Secretary continued to read stating further, “…the

following rules shall apply during the period of [these]

continuing General Fund budget resolution 1. All expenditures requested that exceed the 10% (10 percent

expenditure ceiling) in cases that present a critical and

exigent need shall be subject to review approval and

authorization by the Hopi Tribal Council all appropriations approved the Hopi Tribal Council prior to December 31 2021 which commit partial or matching funds for

programs and projects for FY2022 shall continue to be

funded at the approved levels and 3. no amendments or

modifications to the FY2021 Budget shall be authorized

during this continuation period be it further resolved that

the required funds beginning January 1 2022 shall be

drawn down from the unrestricted Wells Fargo unallocated account and in the amount of 1,926,234…which is a

total draw of 10% of the FY2021 budget…be it finally

resolved that the Hopi Tribal Council hereby authorizes

and directs the Hopi Tribal Treasurer to expend the Hopi

Tribal funds authorized for expenditure under this continuing General Fund budget resolution in accordance

with the Hopi Tribe’s Fiscal Management’s policies and

provisions specified herein…”

Once the Secretary completed reading the Action Item

H-005-2022 for the continuation of FY2021 Budget into

record, Council’s attention was drawn back to the subject

of amendments to the Action Item language and Resolution H-051-2021, referenced earlier by Representative

Youvella, Jr.

Travis Hyer, Office of General Counsel staff, mentioned knowing that Mr. Youvella, Jr. brought up an issue

prior to the reading of the Action Item into record, he did

some research and offered a recommendation of making

it “explicitly clear” that H-052-2021 is still in effect and

all of the conditions placed on the Village of Tewa by that

Resolution for its budget, is still in place and the amendment that could be made to the resolution could be something as simple as an additional “be it further resolved”

clause …and something to the effect of “be it further resolved that this resolution does not affect H52-2021…”

A fair amount of time was then taken to discuss and

ask questions about resolution H-051-2021 approved by

Council in October 2021 addressing the Hopi CARES

Act Committee’s request for Council’s approval of re-categorizing the Village of Tewa’s first allocation of CARES

Act funding in the amount of $951,658 which was only

a portion of the total award amounting to $2,230,450.

The first allocation of $951,658 was wire transferred by

Wilfred Gaseoma, Hopi Tribal Treasurer to the Village

of Tewa although a sub-recipient agreement had not yet

been signed by the Village.

Resolution H-051-2021 had been previously presented

to Council by Jamie Navenma, CARES Act Committee

Chairman with the resolution language described that

the first allocation of the CARES Act funds awarded to

the Village of Tewa was to be considered as an advance

of Tribe’s H13 General Fund annual Village allocation

instead of CARES Act funding. Council had approved

the Resolution with stipulations that due to the Village

of Tewa not coming into compliance with the CARES

Act Committee’s requests and requirements, it would not

be eligible for future General Fund Allocations until the

$951,658 was paid back to the Hopi Tribe.

To ensure Council was reminded about what H-0512021 addressed, Chairman Nuvangyaoma requested that

Hopi Tribal Secretary retrieve and read the resolution for

the Council’s benefit.

The Secretary read some of the following from H-0512022, “…whereas the Tribal Council directed the CARES

Committee to develop a method in which to make awards

from the CARES Act funding the Tribe received and

whereas Tribal Council directed the CARES Committee to follow U.S Federal Treasury guidelines regarding

CARES Act funding and whereas the CARES Committee

developed an application for villages to apply for funding

as part of the application each applicant attested that they

would be subject to sub-recipient guidelines if they were

awarded funding and

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Hopi Tribal Council Approves H-004-2022 Continuing Resolution

for FY2021 General Fund Budget Effective January 1, 2021 Cont.

provided training for villages regarding sub-recipient

requirements and whereas the Village of Tewa applied

for funding and was awarded $2,230,450 on October 2nd

2020 an award letter and sub-recipient agreement was

sent to the Village on October 5th 2020…”

The Secretary continued reading H-051-2022, “…

on October 16th 2020 the Treasurer wire transferred

$951,658 to the Village of Tewa for its first allocation of

CARES Act funding and whereas after the funding was

transferred to the Village of Tewa, the Village did not send

a sub-recipient agreement back to the CARES Committee

and the Village refuses to sign a sub-recipient agreement

to date and whereas the Village of Tewa has not cooperated with Project Monitor and refuses to provide an update

on projects approved for CARES Act funding and whereas the CARES Committee has met multiple times with

the Village and has offered the technical assistance of the

Office of Financial Management and consultants Walker

& Armstrong LLP and whereas due to failure of Village

of Tewa to follow requirements of the CARES sub-recipient agreement the CARES Committee reduced the initial

award from $2,230,450 to $951,650…”

The reading continued with, “and whereas the CARES

Committee continues to reach out to the Village of Tewa

specifically the Community Service Administrator Melissa Alcala and the Village of Tewa Board of Directors

but the Village refuses to provide any financial reports

or status of projects approved and whereas the CARES

Committee would request that the $951,650 to be re-characterized as an advance on future village allocations

through the Tribe’s annual budgeting process and that the

CARES Committee received the CARES Act award in

its entirety through this process the Tribe would avoid a

finding from the US Federal Treasury which may impact

other federal funding the Tribe receives and whereas the

re-characterization of the $951,650 received by the Village of the Tewa would not be necessary if the village

complied with the aforementioned sub-recipient compliance requirements now therefore be it resolved the Village of Tewa has been given an advance of the annual

village allocation through the H13 budget process in the

amount of $951,650 and will not receive any future drawdowns beginning in Fiscal Year 2022 until this amount

is paid in full be it further resolved the Village of Tewa

has up to September 30, 2021 to remedy this situation

by submitting (1) a signed sub-recipient agreement (2)

providing detailed financial reports and (3) cooperating

with the CARES Committee designated Project Monitor be it further resolved if the Village of Tewa complies

with all three requirements listed above by the deadline

listed above the CARES Committee will submit an Action Item/Draft resolution to rescind this resolution, be

it finally resolved that this resolution shall supersede and

replace all prior resolutions of the Hopi Tribal Council

that are inconsistent, are in conflict with the intent purpose and provision of this resolution and certification was

signed on September 9th 2021…”

Council Representatives, such as Clifford Qotsaquahu expressed much concern about ensuring that follow

up and accountability about the issue be provided. Other

Council members were also very concerned about any

further H13 General Fund allocations being disbursed to

the Village of Tewa as Tribal Council did not receive an

update report from the CARES Act Committee on the issue still being worked on. An emphasis was mentioned

that the timeline and completion date of September 30,

2021, for the issue to be resolved, had long since passed.

Dale Sinquah, First Mesa Consolidated Villages Rep-

resentative expressed concern for ensuring language

was added to note that Hopi Tribal Council has not yet

reached a decision the final FY2022 Budget due to it not

being presented in a timely manner.

Wilfred Gaseoma, Hopi Tribal Treasurer, mentioned

that, “…there are people working voluntarily…” on the

requirements stipulated for the Village of Tewa to come

in compliance with the CARES Act Committee. Gaseoma made statements regarding the status of what the said

volunteers were working on and also mentioned being

present the night when a situation occurred which was

reported “to HLES.” Gaseoma then raised his voice and

asked Tribal Council, “…what are you going to do about

this situation?”

Daryn Melvin, who was introduced by Gaseoma as his

“colleague” and who recently served as Vice Chairman

Tenakhongva’s Staff, provided recommendations for

amendments to the Action Item to Tribal Council. Once

the Secretary was also provided clarification about the

amendments, Velma Kalyesva, Village of Bacabi Representative made a motion to approve the Action Item with

amendments which was seconded by her fellow Bacabi

Representative, Clifford Qotsaquahu. In the 4 o’clock

hour, the motion passed with 10 in favor, 1 opposing and1

abstention.

In the late afternoon of Thursday, December 23, 2021,

Tribal Secretary staff sent out an electronic copy of Resolution H-004-2022 with an email notification stating,

“Attached for your information, is Resolution for continuance of the FY 2021 General Fund Budget to be effective January 1, 2022 until such time the Tribal Council

formally adopts by Resolution, the final negotiated FY

2022 General Fund Budget and Expenditure and Appropriations Language.”

Hopi Tutuveni January 7, 2022

Newly Appointed Officers and Village

Representatives Sworn into Office on January 3rd

By: Carl Onsae, Assistant Editor – HT

Kykotsmovi, Ariz. - On January 3, 2022,

Chairman Timothy Nuvangyaoma presided over the Hopi Tribal Council First

Quarter Session December 2021Agenda,

Month of January 2022, during which, after calling the session to order, proceeded

to announce Item II. OATH OF OFFICE

would take place with him providing the

Oath to Judith Youvella, Hopi Tribal Secretary. Nuvangyaoma also told that she

would follow by swearing in the newly selected Tribal Treasurer, Sergeant-at-Arms,

and the Chief Revenue Office once the

Secretary to be sworn into office.

The Chairman also mentioned that once

swearing-in of the appointed positions

was complete, the Secretary would certify

Representatives from the Upper Village

of Moenkopi and although the Village of

Sipaulovi was listed under item III. Certification of Tribal Council Representatives

did not mention that, nor did he explain

why Representatives from the Village of

Sipaulovi were not included in the Certification process.

Chairman Nuvangyaoma stood proud

while dictating the written words to swear

in Judith Youvella, appointed as the Tribal Secretary for the Hopi Tribe. Nuvangyaoma dictated the written comments on

the paper, which Youvella repeated and

pledged to serve and protect the Hopi

Constitution and Bylaws. As Nuvangyaoma appointed the new Secretary, the limited crowd clapped after the ceremony to

welcome Judith to the position.

The session continued as Nuvangyaoma explained earlier, and who then asked

the newly appointed Secretary to swear in

Nada Talayumptewa as the Tribal Treasurer. Talayumptewa stood in front of Youvella and echoed the words of the Oath,

and when complete the crowd, once again

clapped as Talayumptewa was sworn in as

Hopi Tribal Treasurer.

Alfonso Sakeva, who once served as

a First Mesa Consolidated Villages Representative and Sergeant-at-Arms, was

called. He stood in front of the U.S., Arizona, and Hopi Tribe flags with flags his

handheld up to be sworn in by the Secretary. Once Sakeva completed the Oath,

Sakeva was announced as the Sergeant at

arms.

Chairman proceeded to call upon the

Chief Revenue Officer to stand where Youvella stood, ready to complete the Oath of

office process with Gayver Puhuyesva.

The Chairman continued by calling

upon “The Honorable Governor, Alene

Garcia,” and explained that he had her letter dated December 17th, 2021, and proceeded to ask her if she wanted to read the

letter into the record.

Upper Village of Moenkopi Governor

Garcia read her letter addressed to the

Chairman, Secretary, and Council Members. The letter expressed that the Governor had certified William Charley, Michael Elmer, Danny Humetewa, Sr., and

Leroy Sumatzkuku as the “newly elected

Council members of the Upper Village…”

Garcia went on to state, “…the members

of the Upper Village of Moenkopi in a fair

and impartial election chose the abovenamed individuals as their representatives…”

The Chairman thanked the Governor

and asked the Secretary to read Garcia’s

letter into the Hopi Tribal Council record.

Barbara Lomayestewa, Secretary Staff,

read the letter once again, and Chairman

then called out, “…Mr. Charley, Mr. Humetewa, Mr. Elmer, and Mr. Sumatzkuku

came up-front. We’ll have the Tribal Secretary Youvella have all of you sworn into

office.” The gentlemen all stood with their

right hand up while Youvella read the Oath

for them to repeat and were then certified

to serve as the Village of Moenkopi Representative on the Hopi Tribal Council.

The limited crowd clapped after the ceremony was completed for all the newly

appointed Officers and Representatives of

the Hopi Tribal Council to serve the Hopi

Tribe. The new members took a break to

settle into their seats and begin the business again.

CONT. ON PG 5

Chairman Nuvangyouma swearing in Judith Youvella (Pic Carl Onsae/HT)

Judith Youvella swearing in Nada Talayumptewa (Pic Carl Onsae/HT)

Hopi Tutuveni January 7, 2022

Newly Appointed Officers and Village

Representatives Sworn into Office on

January 3rd Cont.

Judith Youvella swearing in Alfonso Sakeva (Pic Carl Onsae/HT)

Judith Youvella Representatives for the village of Upper Moenkopi (Pic Carl Onsae/HT)

Judith Youvella Gaver Puhuyesva (Pic Carl Onsae/HT)

Hopi Tribal Council First Quarter

Session December 2021 Agenda

month of January 2022

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

1. Letter dated October 5, 2021 Re: Walpi Housing Management – Timothy L. Nuvangyaoma, Chairman, The Hopi Tribe - TABLED UNTIL JANUARY 2022

2. Discussion/Possible Action – Letter dated July 30, 2021 Re: Request to rescind

Executive Order #011-2021 and direct the Drought Task Team to reach out to Hopi

ranchers and Navajo Accommodation Agreement signers to work on identifying alternatives for addressing drought issues on Hopi lands. / Letter dated August 16, 2021

Re: Executive Order #011-2021 Range Mitigation and Livestock Reduction – Albert T.

Sinquah, Tribal Council Representative, First Mesa Consolidated Villages – TABLED

UNTIL MARCH 2022

3. Potential partnership and project with Basalt World Corporation for the Hopi

Tribe – Wallace Youvella, Jr., Tribal Council Representative, First Mesa Consolidated

Villages

NEW BUSINESS

1. Action Item #004-2022 – To approve contract with Antol and Sherman, P.C. to

provide conflict counsel services to the Hopi Tribe. – Author/Marc S. Roy, Chief Judge,

Hopi Tribal Courts

2. Action Item #006-2022 – Approval to incorporate quarters #169 and #170 into the

Moencopi Day School P.L. 100 - 297 Tribally Controlled School Grant – Author/David

Talayumptewa – Tribal Council Representative, Village of Kykotsmovi

3. Update on Tuba City Dump – Amy Mignella, Deputy General Counsel, Office of

the General Counsel and Michael Goodstein, Attorney - **Time Certain – January 4,

2022 – 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon

4. Arizona Public Service Rate Case Appeal – Amy Mignella, Deputy General Counsel, Office of the General Counsel and Mr. Michael Goodstein, Attorney **Time Certain – January 4, 2022 – 1:00 p.m.

5. Letter dated December 22, 2021 from Phillip Quochytewa, Sr., re: Follow-up to

Hopi Tribal Council Resolution H-071-2021 to correct the Relocation of Employees of

the Department of Natural Resources to the Turquoise Well/Tawa’ovi site – Dale Sinquah, Tribal Council Representative, First Mesa Consolidated Villages

6. Memorandum dated December 16, 2021 from Brant Honahnie re: Employment

Resignation – Clifford Qotsaquahu, Tribal Council Representative, Village of Bacavi

7. Letter dated December 20, 201 from Ivan Sidney, Tribal Council Representative,

First Mesa Consolidated Villages; re: Hopi Law Enforcement documents pertaining to

contract renewal – Albert T. Sinquah, Tribal Council Representative, First Mesa Consolidated Villages

8. Letter dated December 12, 2021 from Archie Duwahoyeoma, Bear Clan Elder/

Village Leader of Mishongnovi Village; re: Council Representatives Delores Coochyamptewa and Pansy Edmo – Phillip Quochytewa, Sr., Tribal Council Representative,

Village of Kykotsmovi

9. Hazardous Pay for employees, frontline workers – Clifford Qotsaquahu, Tribal

Council Representative, Village of Bacavi"

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

**Time Certain Requests

Hopi Tutuveni January 7, 2022

Hopi Foundation’s HERF Demobilizing, From Coal to Clean Power:

Transferring Operations to Hopi Relief Hopi Tribe’s Vision to Rewrite Its Energy

Story Starts With Hopi Utilities

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

HERF has been able to serve the Hopi

reservation and its people for almost two

Corporation, Economic Development

Kykotsmovi, AZ - December 29, 2021 years during a very trying time. During

at the end of December, 2021 The Hopi the pandemic and especially early on, it

Administration Funding

Foundation’s (HF) Hopi Emergency Relief Fund (HERF) ended direct-service

operations and will be transferring many

of these services to Hopi Relief. These

Services include Covid isolation kits, PPE

kits, and air purifiers for Hopi programs

and businesses. HERF has been providing

these services out of the Peace Academic

Center (PAC) gym in Kykotsmovi, since

early in 2020.

In the beginning months of the

COVID-19 Pandemic, several Hopi Foundation staff along with a group of volunteers from the community began emergency relief efforts to help support the people

of the Hopi reservation. The Hopi Foundation already had the Hopi Emergency

Assistance Fund established as a means

to receive and re-grant funding to entities providing emergency-related services

to community members. In July of 2020,

amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, operations under this fund transitioned to a full

operation site, with HF staff stepping in

to co-lead the emergency relief efforts and

recruiting community members to support

these efforts.

After nearly two years of work, HF has

made preparations and is ready to transition HERF back to strictly a funding

source and shift more focus to their other projects, including the Hopi Substance

Abuse Prevention Center, Hopi Opportunity Youth Initiative, Natwani Coalition,

Hopi Leadership Program, and KUYI-Hopi Radio. This transition will still allow

funds to be raised under HERF and funneled to various groups that are focused

on providing emergency relief services.

The transition and aforementioned preparations also include providing various

supplies and equipment, and funding to

transfer services to Hopi Relief.

This transfer of services relies on partnership, which resembles much of the

work that helped the Hopi community

during the pandemic. Thanks largely to

HERF’s past partnerships, community volunteers, and the community itself,

was extremely difficult. It was equally

important to coordinate and collaborate

efforts to assure each community was receiving timely services in a safe manner,

while also reducing overlap and waste.

Besides volunteers, HERF’s partnerships also included Ancestral Lands - Hopi

(AL-Hopi) and Navajo & Hopi Families

Covid-19 Relief Fund (NHFCRF), the

Peace Academic Center, Hopi Wellness

Center, Hopi Health Care Center Nutritionist, Hopi Community Health Representatives, IHS Public Health Nurses, The

Hopi Tribe & HERT (the Hopi Emergency

Relief Team), Red Feather Development

Group, Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture Institute, St. Mary’s Food Bank, and each of

the villages. HERF also worked with several of the grassroots organizations that

emerged at the onset of the pandemic including Hopi Relief.

The people and organizations that came

together to help the community and those

in need showcased Hopi values such as

Nami’nangwa and Hita’nangwa in action.

While the Hopi community was hit hard

by illness and death, it would likely have

been much worse without these brave and

initiative efforts. Continuance of efforts

like these will also be important in fighting through and moving on from Covid.

Hopi Relief will be continuing Covid-19

emergency relief efforts with a number of

the services the HERF crews provided.

Therefore, there will not be a void with

the HERF relief site closing its doors at

the Peace Academic Center on December

31, 2021. Hopi Relief is also focused on

providing and building long-term services

and solutions to address needs within the

Hopi community. The Hopi Foundation

is confident that Hopi Relief, under the

leadership of Wendi Lewis, Executive Director, will continue to provide services to

help keep the community safe and healthy.

For more information, please contact The

Hopi Foundation at info@hopifoundation.

org or Hopi Relief at wendi@hopirelief.

org.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

KYKOTSMOVI VILLAGE, Ariz., December 27, 2021 (Newswire) - On Dec.

13, the Economic Development Administration awarded funding to Hopi Utilities

Corporation to support the Tribe's transition to a clean energy economy focused on

workforce development and quality jobs

on Reservation.

When the Navajo Generating Station

(NGS) closed in 2019, it left the Hopi

Tribe in incredible economic distress.

The Tribe received payments for supplying coal to the NGS, representing 85% of

Hopi's revenue. When these payments and

jobs vanished, it left the Tribe in dire need

for economic development.

Today, Hopi is rebuilding its economy

with renewable energy.

"We are honored to have been selected

by the Economic Development Administration as a finalist for the Build Back Better Regional Challenge. This represents

an enormous opportunity for Hopi to rewrite our energy history by investing in a

brighter future for our Tribal Members,"

said Hopi Tribal Chairman Timothy Nuvangyaoma.

The coalition is led by the Hopi Utility

Corporation (HUC) and aims to invest in

a large-scale solar project that can fill the

void of lost revenues and jobs related to

the NGS closure while mitigating climate

change by creating clean energy.

"The Hopi Tribe is now seeking phase

2 funding of up to $100 million to support project implementation," said Hopi

Utility Corporation President Carroll Onsae. "This is truly a once-in-a-generation

opportunity for the Tribe to write a new

chapter in its energy story."

If provided an implementation grant,

this solar project proposes to support the

growth and enhancement of HUC and

Hopi Telecommunications, Inc., as well

as provide technical training for Tribal members to obtain good-paying jobs.

The coalition also proposes to carry out

three additional projects, which include

a workforce development program tied

to the construction of the solar project; a

planning effort to strengthen the Hopi's

organizational capacity to build future

infrastructure projects; and several smaller-scale infrastructure projects focused on

reliability, resilience, and supporting new

business development across Hopi villages.

https://eda.gov/news/press-releases/2021/12/13/build-back-better-regional-challenge-finalists.htm

Press Contact:

Carroll Onsae, President, Hopi Utilities

Corporation, consae@hopitelecom.com

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Hopi Tutuveni January 7, 2022

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo Announces Finalists for $1

Billion “Build Back Better Regional Challenge”

60 Regional Coalitions will Each Compete for up to $100 Million in American Rescue Plan

Funding to Rebuild America’s Communities

PRESS RELEASE

Issued by: EDA Public Affairs Department

Washington, D.C. - December 13, 2021 U.S. Secretary

of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo today announced the 60

finalists for the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s (EDA) $1 billion “Build Back Better Regional Challenge” – the marquee of EDA’s American Rescue Plan programs – that aims to boost economic pandemic recovery and

rebuild American communities, including some that have

been grappling with decades of disinvestment. The Build

Back Better Regional Challenge provides transformative

investments – up to $100 million per grantee – to develop

and strengthen regional industry clusters across the country,

all while embracing economic equity, creating good-paying

jobs, and enhancing U.S. competitiveness globally.

The 60 finalists – each a coalition of partnering entities –

have proposed projects that will develop or scale industry

sectors, develop and train the workforce of today, and build

resilient economies. Finalists will now compete for Phase 2

of the Challenge, which will award 20-30 regional coalitions

up to $100 million to implement 3-8 projects that support an

industry sector. The deadline for Phase 2 is March 15, 2022.

Today’s finalists, chosen from a pool of 529 applicants,

will each receive a grant of approximately $500,000 to further develop their proposed projects. These grants will help

the finalists take their projects to the next level and position

those who ultimately do not receive Phase 2 implementation

awards to find new partners and sources of funding. The program has already catalyzed new partnerships and creative

approaches to regional economic development.

“The Build Back Better Regional Challenge aims to supercharge local economies and increase American competitiveness around the globe,” said Secretary of Commerce

Gina M. Raimondo. “The outpouring of interest in this program shows the demand for the Build Back Better agenda

and the desire to not only create good-paying jobs, but also

strengthen our country’s economic resiliency for years down

the road.”

“We are thrilled to help communities work together—in

coalitions of government, nonprofits, academia, the private

sector, and others—to craft ambitious and regionally unique

plans to rebuild their communities,” said Alejandra Y. Castillo, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development. "These projects will help revitalize local economies

and tackle our biggest challenges related to climate change,

manufacturing, supply chains and more. EDA is proud to

ignite these plans and help communities nationwide build

back better."

Finalists’ projects span 45 states and Puerto Rico. Twelve

finalists are in coal communities, to which EDA has dedicated $100 million of the Build Back Better Regional Challenge funds as part of its Coal Communities Commitment.

Overall, EDA will allocate $300 million of its $3 billion

American Rescue Plan appropriation to support coal communities as they recover from the pandemic to help create

new jobs and opportunities, including through the creation

or expansion of a new industry sector.

Projects represent industry sectors that are unique to each

region, including advanced manufacturing; aerospace and

defense; agriculture and natural resources; biotechnology

and biomanufacturing; energy and resilience; health care

and digital health; information technology; transportation;

construction and logistics; and water and blue economy.

For more information, please visit our fact sheet (PDF) at:

BBBRC-Finalist-Fact-Sheet.pdf (eda.gov)

The coalition lead for each finalist is listed below. (Project

summaries available via hyperlinks listed at: U.S. Secretary

of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo Announces Finalists for

$1 Billion “Build Back Better Regional Challenge” | U.S.

Economic Development Administration (eda.gov))

•Alameda County Waste Management Authority

•Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce Foundation

•CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity

•Central New Mexico Community College

•Central Valley Community Foundation

•City of Indianapolis

•City of Manchester

•City of Newark

•City of Tucson

•Coalfield Development

•County of Hawaii

•Departamento de Desarrollo Económico y Comercio de

Puerto Rico

•Detroit Regional Partnership Foundation

•Empire State Development

•Four Bands Community Fund

•Georgia Tech Research Corporations

•Greater New Orleans Development Foundation

•Greater Phoenix Economic Council

•Greater St. Louis, Inc.

•Hopi Utilities Corporation

•Howard County Economic Development Authority

•Indian Nations Council of Governments

•Innosphere Ventures

•Invest Nebraska Corporation

•Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet

•Lamar State College - Port Arthur

•Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance

•Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation

•Louisville Healthcare CEO Council

•MAGNET: Manufacturing Advocacy and Growth Network

•mHUB

•Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Develop-

ment Partnership

•New Orleans BioInnovation Center

•North Carolina Biotechnology Center

•Northeastern University

•Oklahoma City Economic Development Foundation

•Osceola County Board of County Commissioners

•Pala Band of Mission Indians

•Pennsylvania Wilds Center for Entrepreneurship, Inc.

•Piedmont Triad Regional Council

•Port of Portland

•Southeast Conference

•Southeastern Connecticut Enterprise Region

•Southwestern Pennsylvania New Economy Collaborative

•Spruce Root

•The Research Foundation for the State University of

New York

•The University of Alabama

•The University of Southern Mississippi

•The University of Texas at El Paso

•University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

•University of Maine System

•University of Memphis

•URI Research Foundation

•Utah Office of Energy Development

•Virginia Biotechnology Research Partnership Authority

•Virginia Tech

•Washington Maritime Blue

•West Virginia Department of Economic Development

•Wichita State University

•Wisconsin Paper Council

The “Build Back Better Regional Challenge” is one of

EDA’s many programs aimed at building strong regional

economies and supporting community-led economic development. EDA was allocated $3 billion in supplemental funding under the American Rescue Plan to assist communities

nationwide in their efforts to build back better by accelerating economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and

building local economies that will be resilient to future economic shocks. For more information about EDA’s American

Rescue Plan programs, visit https://www.eda.gov/ARPA/.

About the U.S. Economic Development

Administration (www.eda.gov)

The mission of the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) is to lead the federal economic development

agenda by promoting competitiveness and preparing the nation's regions for growth and success in the worldwide economy. An agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce,

EDA invests in communities and supports regional collaboration in order to create jobs for U.S. workers, promote

American innovation, and accelerate long-term sustainable

economic growth.

Hopi Tutuveni January 7, 2022

January is National Mentoring Month

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Bernadean Kachinhongva, Hopi Substance Abuse

Prevention Center Mentor

Kykotsmovi, Ariz. – December 29, 2021 he HOPI

Substance Abuse Prevention Center (HSAPC) would like

to announce that January 2022 is National Mentoring

Month. National Mentoring Month, established in 2002

through a national mentoring partnership with MENTOR

(a nonprofit organization) and the Harvard T.H. Chan

School of Public Health. The campaign aims to raise

awareness about the need for more mentors in society

and the various forms of mentorship. Mentorship would

encourage more people to become mentors actively, promote recruitment mentees, and promote rapid growth of

mentoring relationships by recruiting organizations to

engage their constituents in mentoring. These campaigns

celebrate the impact mentoring can have on an individual

and society.

Mentorship can have a highly significant impact on an

individual's prospects and general outlook on life. Mentorship is a crucial way of ensuring a person knows they

can reach out to someone who can provide emotional, educational, and possible career support. A mentor is generally there to guide an individual. There is no specific age

range to seek mentoring; children, teens, young adults,

adults, and elders can continue to seek self-improvement.

A person wanting personal and professional growth can

seek a mentor specific to their self-improvement desires.

HSAPC works to help our community members reach

the best possible outcome in their lives. Part of the teachings for HSAPC is in their motto, "We believe in honoring ourselves by living an honest, sober, and balanced

life." One of the main ways HSAPC provides service

is through mentorship. HSAPC mentors have benefited

from different sobriety programs and personal interactions in their journey to recovery. HSAPC mentors utilize

cultural teachings, 12-step literature, cognitive restructuring tools, personal experiences, and other resources to aid

others in their journey to recovery.

The benefits of mentoring include the following: being

encouraged and empowered in personal development, the

ability to help identify and achieve personal and professional goals, the ability to help identify and correct gaps

in skills and knowledge, and reciprocation for mentor and

mentee. The progress of mentoring can be gratifying and

favorable to the individuals. Mentorship allows you to

step back, get all the information without bias, judgment,

and lastly, gain perspective on your progress. This aspect

can bring awareness of the non-problems and insecurities that may hold back growth. Once there is an understanding and knowledge of where the mentee may need

guidance, the mentee's self-improvement begins. A mentor can be a family member, friend, confidant, teacher,

elder, community member, or anyone you feel may guide

you in your self-improvement journey. The progress and

effectiveness a mentor could have on an individual's life

are worthwhile. A mentor also benefits from the mentee,

as the mentee may know areas where the mentor lacks.

For Hopi, this is a time of reflection before beginning

a time of rejuvenation. During your meditation, it may be

helpful to reflect and think about how a person has influenced your life. We encourage you to reach out to an individual who has helped you grow and share the positive

impact they've had in your life. HSAPC mentors also encourage community members to have these discussions

with their families by asking questions like, "Who was

your mentor" or "Who has been a positive influence in

your life?"

If you would like to take steps to foster positive growth

in your personal and professional lifestyle, reach out to a

trusted person you feel would be a mentor for you. You

can check your local area for mentoring partnership programs or contact MENTOR directly for more information. The HSAPC staff provides confidential substance

awareness mentoring services for teens and adults.

HSAPC mentors are currently completing certification

for MPOWRD, a program specifically geared towards

youth and giving them tools to improve their lives. If

you work with the youth and are interested in introducing them to MPOWRD, don't hesitate to contact HSAPC

staff.

To learn more about mentoring opportunities, visit MENTOR at www.mentoring.org or Big Brother Big

Sister of Flagstaff at www.flagstaffbigs.org. For more information on youth or adult mentoring services through

HSAPC, call 928-734-0300.

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Hopi Tutuveni January 7, 2022

My Health, My Choice Program,

Helping Native Women

FOR MEDIA RELEASE

By: Jessica Onsae, My Health My

Choice Health Educator

The My Health, My Choice Program is

a program developed to meet the needs of

Native American women with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD),

who may need extra support in aspects of

education, prevention, and overall health

needs. The team providing these educational modules is composed of a group

of members from The University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University,

with oversight from a community advisory board of disability, cancer control, and

Native Health American health experts

from across Arizona. This program has

also been working closely with the HOPI

Cancer Support Services program to gather information from the community over

the last several years. This partnership has

created a program that offers education

about breast and cervical cancer screenings for women with disabilities, which

we call the "My Health, My Choice" program.

Over six weeks, we will meet one-onone with women to provide women with

making the right health choices to better

their lives. These six sessions offer information and support for Native American

women with IDD. They will be broken

down to cover several topics:

#1-Being a healthy woman

#2- Relaxation exercises to help with

stress and anxiety about getting cancer

screenings.

#3- What cancer is and why it is essential to get cancer screenings.

#4- What happens during a breast cancer screening.

#5- What happens during a cervical

cancer screening.

#6- How to advocate for your health.

This program is designed to provide

these educational modules conveniently and safely for women to participate

in their own homes. The program will

include activities that allow the women

to practice talking with their health care

providers about making cancer screenings

easy and ensuring their questions regarding their health will be answered. Some of

the planned activities in this program are

watching videos that take them on virtual

field trips to the local health care facilities

and showing them what to expect during a

breast and cancer screening.

The women will also be able to fill out

and plan their screenings when they feel

comfortable to take those next steps towards their health.

Overall, My Health, My Choice program developed a program to give attention to women with IDD and their caregivers and provide services to understand

their health better. This program will have

a $50 incentive for their participation.

For More Information, don't hesitate to

contact the local Community Health Educator at (928) 221-0612 or email them at

MyhealthMychoice@gmail.com The My

Health, My Choice program is funded by

the Partnership for Native American Cancer Prevention.

HEALTH

Why Experts Say We Must

Broaden Our Definition of

Health

(StatePoint) Many Americans view

health as a product of the medical care

they receive. However, public health experts say that’s just one piece of the puzzle.

“In reality, our health is shaped more by

the zip code we live in than the doctor we

see. In fact, where we live, our financial

circumstances, our access to affordable,

nutritious foods, and other non-medical

factors overwhelmingly influence our

physical and mental health,” says Dr.

Shantanu Agrawal, chief health officer,

Anthem, Inc.

These factors that Dr. Agrawal refers

to are known as “social drivers of health”

(SDoH), and they determine up to 80% of

our health outcomes, according to Robert

Wood Johnson Foundation research.

As part of “What’s Driving Our

Health,” Anthem’s campaign to start a national conversation around whole health,

the healthcare company recently conducted a study to learn more about Americans’

perceptions of what health really means.

Here are some of the study’s top findings:

• While 46% of Americans are unaware

of the concept of social drivers of health,

once given the definition, 60% agree that

their local community is facing at least

some health issues related to them.

• Americans of color are disproportionately affected by the consequences of

SDoH. While 58% of white respondents

report that their local community is facing at least some health issues related to

SDoH, 69% of Hispanic and Latino respondents report the same, as do 68% of

Asian respondents and 68% of Black/African American respondents.

• Poor nutrition can contribute to a

range of chronic health conditions, and

50% of those surveyed say it is hard to

find affordable, healthy food in their local

community.

• Though 70% of Americans live near at

least one hospital or medical center, one

in five say that lack of transportation has

kept them from medical appointments.

What’s more, nearly one-third struggle

with access to health services and care.

• Internet access not only determines

whether one is able to use important

health services such as telemedicine, it

deeply impacts educational outcomes and

access to economic opportunities, including employment. Yet, only 39% of Americans believe it significantly impacts their

health.

• Some additional factors that can drive

health outcomes in the short and long term

include access to green spaces, educational opportunities, economic stability and

living in a safe community.

Where to Start

More than 80% of those surveyed believe that healthcare entities, local government, private citizens and employers

share responsibility to address the many

social drivers of health. While these issues

are complex and no one entity can fully

address all the social drivers alone, here is

what you can do today:

1. Connect the dots. Visit WhatsDrivingOurHealth.com to read the full report

and learn more about whole health and its

drivers.

2. Spread the word. Share what you’ve

learned about the ways social drivers affect you and your community and follow

the conversation on social media using

#DrivingOurHealth.

3. Join the conversation. Understanding

is the first step in making positive change.

Engage with friends, family, and community members about the many ways to address health-related social needs in your

community.

“The sooner we broaden our definition

of health, the sooner we can address the

many factors that affect people’s ability to

thrive,” says Dr. Agrawal.

Hopi Tutuveni January 7, 2022

Annual Hotevilla

Light Parade Makes

a Successful and

Happy Comeback

in the Midst of the

2021 Pandemic

Second Mesa Day school car decorated with Christmas lights (All photos by Carl Onsae/HT) more pictures on pages 11 through 13

Carl Onsae Hopi Tutuveni

Happiness and joy struck the Hopi mesas once again. With pop-up bazaars and

small village parades, the Hopi reservation was getting into the Holiday spirit

despite being under pandemic conditions

and proving to all that life can still go on

once the spirit moves a person.

On December 18, 2021, the village of

Hotevilla partook in the festive holiday

with a Christmas Bazaar, where village

residents and the surrounding Hopi communities took their holiday arts and crafts

to sell at the Hotevilla Youth and Elderly Community Center. At the same time,

many continued wearing masks as part

of suggested CDC mandates for keeping

safe throughout the pandemic. Of course,

the main attraction of that night was the

Hotevilla Annual Light Parade held exclusively at Hotevilla village and, as in

years past, brought smiles to the faces of

onlookers and participants alike.

The theme for the parade was called

“Candy Land,” which had participants

decorating their car or truck with lights,

set to that Candy Land theme. Participants

from Hotevilla and various parts of the

Hopi Tribe also partook in this event. Fifteen to sixteen cars and trucks, including

Hopi Tribe Emergency Medical Services

and Hopi Tribe Fire and Rescue vehicles,

were all decorated and seemed to give the

residents joy with the display of lights and

candy treats. Trucks pulling car trailers

decorated with lights painted cardboard

depicting tiny houses and even had children of all ages seated in the back of the

trucks to wave at onlookers and to throw

out candy. At the same time, participants

safely drove the vehicles driven into the

village of Hotevilla. In addition, Christmas music was being played while parade

participants threw candy to the onlookers.

The village of Hotevilla seemed to light

up the sky with Christmas lights for one

night.

Melody Wytewa, from the Village of

Hotevilla, took the time to volunteer and

lead the annual Hotevilla Light Parade,

which has been happening almost every

year. Wytewa wanted to keep this tradition alive since the year 2020 was a devastating year with the most brutal hits of

COVID-19, which also plagued the world

and the Hopi villages.

Wytewa dedicated her time and effort

towards the Annual Light Parade and

made it so that the entire village could still

be a part of the tradition and bring back

the happiness it once had in the past years.

“I love seeing smiling faces and making

our people and kids happy, especially [last

year] we been through, with Covid and

other sicknesses,” Wytewa stated.

Lillian Gomez, an interim CSA for the

village of Hotevilla, was contacted by

Wytewa to bring back the Light Parade

tradition; Gomez gladly accepted to be

part of the holiday spirit and prepared on

her end.

According to Wytewa, Lillian wanted to

start a committee to have this parade and

other festivities going, so Wytewa took

it upon herself to lead the way to a successful Holiday Bazaar and Light Parade.

Wytewa stated, “Knowing me, I love getting involved with things to show my kids

that getting involved with this [community] is giving back to the community [and]

is [an] awesome thing.” Wytewa also stated, “I don’t expect anything back, as long

[as] we lifted them up.”

The parade committee involved 16 volunteers, all collaborating to succeed. The

committee wanted to show their dedica-

tion and happiness by awarding prizes for

1st, 2nd, and 3rd place along with a runner-up prize.

1st place went to Micco Lowe. He was

given a pottery plate made and designed

by Patrese Hongi. The 2nd place prize

went to Sinmuy Amungem, a local Hopi

program devoted to helping the Hopi people. They were awarded an etched plate

3rd place prize went to Hotevilla Bacavi

Community School Royalty representing

the local Hotevilla Bacavi Community school and awarded a designer clock

made by Devon Poseyesva.

The Hotevilla Light Parade committee

also gave the Hotevilla Village Store the

runner-up prize for their float.

“It was a success, and I hope [we] will

continue this light parade for the upcoming years,” Wytewa stated.

Lastly, Wytewa wanted to thank everyone involved with these community events

to bring back somewhat of a “normal” life

back to the village of Hotevilla and keep

making people happy. Wytewa stated, “I

would like to say from all of us a Merry

Christmas and happy health[y] New Year.

May all of you be safe out there.”

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Hopi Tutuveni January 7, 2022

Lianna Albert Signs to Adams

State College

Lianna Albert holding her signed contract to Adams State College (Photo credit to original

sender)

By: Carl Onsae, Hopi Tutuveni

Lianna Albert, a young Hopi/Navajo female from the

Village of Oraibi, has made history yet again. She was the

youngest Native goalkeeper for the Flagstaff High School

Eagles Girls' Soccer team and the only Native girl to play

with the varsity team. Now she has signed a contract with

Adams State College in Alamosa, Colo., on a full-ride

athletic and academic scholarship.

The signing took place during the national day event

Collegiate National Signing Day, which took place on

December 15, 2021. Albert and another fellow Flagstaff

Eagles classman, Nick Marrow who will be playing football, while attending Cal Bears in Berkeley, Calif., participated in the event. Both Eagles signed an athletic and

academic scholarship contract to play for the intended

colleges.

From once being a freshman playing on the varsity

team in 2019 and the only Native to play at that level,

Albert makes history by aiding her school at ranking 4th

Lianna Albert happy to be accepted to a full scholarship with Adams State College (Photo

credit to original sender)

in the 4A Conference. The dedication displayed towards

playing soccer can be described as the turning point that

colleges, like Adams State, became attracted to the recruitment of soccer players at the high school level.

Albert's skill and a team player that has aided her high

school team reaching 4-0 during this year's high school

soccer season. This could be that positive factor that garners the college recruiter's attention.

Albert's friends and family were all present in the Flagstaff High School auditorium to observe the happy event

and witness their very own, Lianna, sign the contract to

play for Adams State College.

Albert stated, "My initial reaction to signing was both

shocking and spiritual. I was very grateful for everyone

who was there to see me a sign."

During the signing ceremony, Albert and Marrow took

a moment to thank everyone for their hard work and dedication to getting to where they are today as athletes.

Albert stated, "I thanked everyone who was by my side

and who helped me. They stuck by my side by pushing

me and helping me throughout this journey."

Family and friends joined Albert on stage while one

of her elementary coaches, Coach Chad, talked about her

perspective of the beginning of Albert’s journey in soccer

when Albert wanted to play soccer as a young female.

Albert's former coach mentioned that Lianna was very

interested in playing soccer. Her elementary coach wanted her to play goalie for club soccer, so this was part of

the inspiration that led her to play soccer and eventually

successfully garner a collegiate scholarship with Adams

State College.

Lianna lastly stated, "I want to say for all inspiring

athletes, is that it's gonna be hard, it's gonna knock you

down, but when you have the support, you will move forward."

With laughter and happy tears, emotions filled the auditorium on that day. Both Albert and Marrow's families

and coaches made sure to fulfill each athlete's memories,

so they wouldn't soon forget this grand event.

Hopi Tutuveni January 7, 2022

A Healthy Homemade Soup to Jumpstart

the New Year

Intermountain Centers

is hiring Caregivers in Chino Valley, AZ

We have several full-time openings, working in a

group home with adults who need your help with their daily living

needs.

Most schedules can be structured in a 7 days on shift and 7 days

off shift system, to allow for caregivers to come and stay 7 days

before leaving for 7 days off.

Slay sweater weather with flavorful, healthy soup prepared in under 30 minutes.

(StatePoint) When sweater weather arrives, there’s nothing quite as comforting

as a pot of something savory and delicious

simmering on the stove.

As you turn to hearty soups this winter,

having the right seasonal staples means

you’ll be well on your way to having piping hot meals on the table, quickly and

hassle-free.

Keep your pantry and fridge stocked

with essential ingredients like onions, carrots and celery, along with a collection of

earthy, zesty spices and versatile, all-purpose seasonings. You’ll also need a rich

and all-natural stock handy, such as Kitchen Basics Unsalted Chicken Stock. Simmered all day with chicken, vegetables

and McCormick herbs and spices, this

deeply flavored stock can bring a burst

of savory warmth to countless dishes. It’s

low on sodium so it’s a good-for-you start

to many delicious meals beyond soup, like

rice, sauces, and more.

To help you embrace the colder weather, try a recipe for a hearty classic loaded

with tender veggies, chicken, egg noodles

and robust flavor that puts this stock -- aka

“liquid gold” -- front and-center. Yep, you

guessed it, Savory Homemade Chicken

Noodle Soup. Nostalgic and nourishing,

all you need is 10 minutes of prep time

and 20 minutes cooking on your stovetop.

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil

• 1 cup chopped yellow onion

• 1 cup chopped carrots

• 1 cup chopped celery

• 2 tablespoons McCormick Garlic,

Herb and Black Pepper and Sea Salt All

Purpose Seasoning

• 1/2 teaspoon McCormick Ground Turmeric

• 1 pound boneless skinless chicken

breast

• 2 cartons (32 ounces each) Kitchen

Basics Unsalted Chicken Stock

• 2 cups uncooked medium egg noodles

• 1/2 cup frozen peas

Instructions:

1. Heat oil in large saucepan on medium

heat until shimmering. Add onion, carrots

and celery; cook and stir 3 minutes or until

softened. Stir in seasoning and turmeric;

cook 30 seconds until fragrant. Add chicken and stock. Bring to boil. Reduce heat;

simmer, covered, 15 to 20 minutes until

chicken is cooked through and tender.

2. Transfer chicken to medium bowl;

shred using two forks. Set aside. Stir noodles into broth; cook 6 minutes or until

tender. Return shredded chicken to saucepan. Gently stir in peas. Sprinkle with

parsley to serve, if desired.

For more great ways to warm up this

season, visit mccormick.com/kitchen-basics.

During the short, dark days of winter,

healthy soups like this will feed your body

and warm your soul.

Requirements:

Must be 18 or older.

Must possess or obtain Level 1 fingerprint card.

All other trainings will be provided.

Please call Shirley Myrick to inquire and/or schedule an interview.

928-636-2881 x 1611

Or Manuel Humeyestewa at 928-713-8465

Rate of pay is $13.50 (Overtime likely)

Medical, Vision, Dental, 401k (and more) benefits for Full Time

employees.

Visit intermountaincenters.org > choose careers > use filter to

select Chino Valley openings for further information.

If you need help with this, please contact Shirley or Manuel

Are you into drawing

COMICS?

Submit your comics to

consae@hopi.nsn.us

Call 928-734-3283

To find out more

information.

Drawing comics is a great way to show your

drawing skills and your side of Hopi Humor.

If you have the skill and the humor to draw

comics for the Hopi Tutuveni

DISCLAIMER: Comics submitted will become

property of Hopi Tutuveni. Name of artist will be

displayed and not edited when submitted. Hopi

Tutuveni has the right to publish submitted

comics.

HOPI H.E.O.C UPDATES

Hopi Tutuveni January 7, 2022

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

Response December 30, 2021 Report

KYKOTSMOVI, AZ – December 30,

2021

This data is updated on the Hopi Tribe’s

website “COVID-19 Response and Resources” page.

Hopi Health Care Center – Community

COVID-19 Testing & Vaccination Information

COVID-19 vaccines are available

mornings and afternoons for the month

of December for those 5-years and older. To schedule an appointment call (928)

737-6148 or 737-6081- Appointments are

required. For questions about COVID-19

vaccines call: (928) 737-6198 or 737-6197

COVID-19 Testing Drive-up Testing

schedule: Monday – Friday from 8-9:30am

AND 3– 4 pm. Enter at the west entrance

& drive around back. Mask must be worn

by everyone in your vehicle. Please stay in

your vehicle at all times. To schedule for

testing or for more information please call

(928) 737-6233.

Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation - Community COVID-19 Testing &

Vaccination Information

To all Moenkopi residents, Tuba City

Regional Health Care Corporation’s

COVID-19 vaccine drive-thru clinic is

now located west of the Health Promotion

& Diabetes Prevention Center building

next to the helipad. The vaccine drive-thru

clinic is available Monday – Friday from

8:00 am – 4:00 pm with no appointment

necessary. Vaccine age requirements are

as follows:

• Pfizer Vaccine: 5 years old and older

• Moderna Vaccine: 18 years old and

older

• Booster Vaccine: 16 years old and older

“Individual 16 and older who received

a Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine 6

months or longer ago should get a booster

dose.”

“All individuals who received the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, at

least 2 months ago should get a booster

dose of their choice.”

Testing at the Tuba City Regional

Health Care Corporation is still being held

at the outdoor tent Monday – Friday from

7:30 am – 4:30 pm. Rapid and CEPHEID

tests can take approximately 3 hours. Send

out tests can take 2-3 days. The address

for Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation is 167 N Main Street, Tuba City,

AZ. For more information regarding Tuba

City Regional Health Care Corporation’s

COVID-19 vaccination clinic and testing,

please call 1-866-976-5941.

Source: https://tchealth.org/coronavirus/vaccination.html

As of December 30, 2021 the United

States now has approximately 53,795 million confirmed positive cases with over

820,355 deaths reported.

Over 1,373 million confirmed positive

cases now exist in Arizona. Of those,

close to 26,905 are in Navajo and 27,717

in Coconino Counties.

Prevention:

Watch for Symptoms - people with

COVID-19 have had a wide range of

symptoms reported – ranging from mild

symptoms to severe illness. Symptoms

may appear 2-10 days after exposure to

the virus. Anyone can have mild to severe

symptoms. People with these symptoms

may have COVID-19:

• Fever or chills

• Cough

• Shortness of breath or difficulty

breathing

• Fatigue

• Muscle or body aches

• Headache

•New loss of taste or smell

•Sore throat

•Congestion or runny nose

•Nausea or vomiting

• Diarrhea

This list does not include all possible

symptoms. CDC will continue to update

this list as we learn more about COVID-19.

Older adults and people who have severe

underlying medical conditions like heart

or lung disease or diabetes seem to be at

higher risk for developing more serious

complications from COVID-19 illness.”

Retesting of COVID-19 Positive Employees. Per guidance and alignment

with HHCC, CDC, state and local health

departments, and OSHA workplace guidance for COVID-19 re-testing of positive

or suspected COVID-19 employees before

they return to work, nor providing letters

to go back to work is not recommended.

The recommended reason for not

re-testing is an individual may continue to

test positive on a viral test long after they

are recovered from COVID-19. These

dead viral particles will turn viral tests

positive even though they cannot cause

disease in others. The Hopi Health Care

Center strongly encourages employers to

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America’s forgotten Indigenous rights movement’

Meeting with Secretary of Interior Walter Hickel, Fall 1970. Sec. of Interior Walter Hickel, far left, meeting with people involved in Alaska land claims dispute. From left to right:

Tim Wallis, President Fairbanks Native Association; Charles Edwardsen, Executive Director Arctic Slope Native Association; Eben Hopson, Emil Notti; Attorney Barry Jackson

(standing); State Senator William Hensley; and Alfred Ketzler. Farthest back on the right are State Senator Ray Christiansen and Frank Degnan. John Borbridge is seated in the

foreground. (Photo courtesy of Alaska State Library Historical Collections)

Meghan Sullivan

Indian Country Today

Fifty years ago, the Alaska Native Claims Settlement

Act passed into law. In one historic piece of legislation, Indigenous Alaskans’ claims to the land were extinguished and a new Indigenous legal landscape was

formed. In exchange, Alaska Native communities received title to 44 million acres of land and roughly $1

billion dollars. These assets were to be overseen by 12

regional corporations and more than 200 village corporations. Only Alaska Natives could become the shareholders of these corporations, which were instructed to

simultaneously make a profit, oversee traditional lands,

and provide social services to their shareholders.

There are no other corporations like the Alaska Native

corporations, and there is no other place in Indian Country with this legal setup. Today, the complex act impacts

almost every aspect of Alaska Native life, and yet there

has been little reporting on its long-term impacts. Indian

Country Today’s ANCSA at 50 series aims to change that.

So far, the series has focused on ANCSA’s history, including an overview of its creation and its legal terms, a

glimpse into a small Alaska Native village that refused

to join the ANCSA system and the tale of the all-Native

newspaper that kept advocates united across thousands

of miles. Next up, we're releasing an article on Alaska

Native women's overlooked activism during that time,

a visual essay of the grassroots force behind America’s

forgotten Indigenous rights movement and a recount of

tribal solidarity that occurred behind the scenes.

The series also explores the ways ANCSA currently

impacts Alaska Native communities – from deeply personal parts of life like identity and connection to the land,

to seemingly unrelated areas such as COVID relief funding and state elections.

This week, we're examining how ANCSA influences

life for all Alaskans, Native and non-Native – as Alaska Native corporations have grown overtime to become

some of the largest drivers of the state’s economy.

Perhaps most importantly, we've been reporting on the

unsettled portions of ANCSA and talking to experts about

pathways forward. For example, how ANCSA failed to

protect subsistence laws, and what can be done to fix it;

why a significant portion of ANCSA lands are dangerously contaminated, and who should be responsible for

cleaning it; and how there is a lack education on ANCSA,

despite the fact that it’s a major influential force for all

Alaskans. Then there is the matter that started it all: Indigenous traditional lands, which Alaska Native corporations currently oversee. Next week, we'll be releasing an

update on this topic and spotlighting related issues, such

as communities that never received lands, tracts that still

haven’t been conveyed, situations that could jeopardize

these lands, and different approaches to land protection.

Finally, we’ve been reporting on what this all means

for the future. ANCSA was a starting point -- and each

generation of Alaska Natives has worked to create laws

that will reflect the future they would like to see. There

are several issues that remain unsettled, but today’s In-

digenous Alaskans are continuing to find creative solutions to present-day problems. This includes initiatives

to increase the state’s tribal sovereignty, programs to improve collaboration between corporations and tribes, new

shareholder enrollment policies, corporate support of language revitalization, and sustainable sources of revenue.

ANCSA impacted countless aspects of Alaska Native

life in a relatively short amount of time. Through all the

complexities and nuances of the legislation, this might

be the one statement that everyone can agree on. To reflect the variety of experiences, perspectives, and work

within the Alaska Native community, the series also features profiles of more than 30 Indigenous Alaskan leaders

– ranging from elders who fought for the land, to young

advocates coding apps to showcase these very same locations decades later. As many Alaska Natives will tell you,

ANCSA and its impacts can be a divisive topic within the

community. Some view it as the nation’s most successful

form of Federal Indian policy, some believe it sparked

more problems than it fixed, and some have no opinion

of it at all. The profiles aim to provide a small glimpse of

this range, while highlighting the diverse scope of ideas

that accompany it.

In the coming weeks, we’ll be releasing a few more

articles, including a feature on ANCSA’s resource development tension, an investigation into the mystery of the

13th corporation, and finally, a look at ANCSA’s next 50

years.

Hopi Tutuveni January 7, 2022

Will Indigenous people get apology from US?

Indigenous and environmental activists protest in front of the White House in Washington, on Oct. 11, 2021, in anticipation of November's first Tribal Nations Summit since 2016. President Joe

Biden announced steps to improve public safety and justice for Native people during the first summit.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Mary Annette Pember

Indian Country Today

An Apology to Native Peoples of the United States was

signed into law in 2010, included on page 3,453 of the

3,475-page-long Department of Defense Appropriations

Act.

The language of the law is brief.

“Congress recognizes there have been years of official

depredations, ill-conceived policies, and the breaking of

covenants by the federal government regarding tribes,”

it states.

Passed during President Barack Obama’s tenure in office, it “recognizes on behalf of the people of the United States to all Native Peoples for the many instances of

violence, maltreatment, and neglect inflicted on Native

Peoples by the citizens of the United States.”

The apology landed with a mysterious, unacknowledged thud and has essentially been ignored and forgotten ever since. No president has ever presented the apology in public nor read its words publicly, as noted by the

Washington Post.

Now, former Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, who

drafted the apology and worked diligently to get it passed

in 2010, is launching an effort to champion the law and

convince President Joe Biden to formally recognize it

with a ceremony at the White House.

In these times of calls for racial reckoning, as news

emerges of the discoveries of thousands of remains of Indigenous children who died at boarding schools in Canada and the U.S., a public apology with no strings attached

seems like a win-win all around.

The language in the law even includes a disclaimer,

noting that “nothing in this section authorizes or supports

any claim against the United States or serves as a settlement of any claim against the United States.”

It turns out that the history of the law, however, includes an unusual past that may have contributed to its

ongoing political obscurity.

‘Spiritual warfare’

Brownback, a former governor of Kansas, was appointed as ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom in 2018 by then-President Donald Trump.

A Catholic, Brownback is currently a fellow for the Center for Religious Liberty at the Catholic University of

America.

Brownback is also closely linked with the New Apostolic Reformation, a charismatic, evangelical Christian movement deeply committed to proselytizing both

ultra-conservative politics and “spiritual warfare” techniques that include demonization of Native American

spirituality as a means to open the way for global evangelism.

Lou Engle, founder of TheCall Ministries and former

member of the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders of

the New Apostolic Reformation has worked with Brownback on the Native American apology. In his huge TheCall

rallies, Engle condemns abortion and gay rights claiming

that gay people are controlled by demonic spirits.

During “TheCall Detroit” rally, a group of Christian

pastors denounced Engle’s message as “un-Christian,

“un-American” and “idolatrous.”

According to Brownback, his work with Engle is limited to forwarding the apology to Native Americans. In

response to Kansas Democratic Party questions about his

connections with Engle, Brownback said, “They should

know that Lou said things I don’t agree with.”

Brownback shared an apartment with Engle in Washington, D.C, in 2000 and said they have worked together

on a few issues, including the apology.

In a zoom interview with Indian Country Today,

Brownback refuted any connection with the tenets of the

New Apostolic Reformation.

Dominionism, or the New Apostolic Reformation, is

linked to the “kill the gays” bill recognized by the Ugandan Parliament. The New York Times reported that it

was American evangelical missionaries like Scott Lively

associated with the Reformation who have preached anti-gay messages in Africa. Lively and his Abiding Truth

Ministries faced possible fines for persecuting LGBTQ

people abroad, a crime against humanity under international law.

The Reformation, according to Rachel Tabachnick of

Talk To Action, is an example of the growing power of

more extreme elements of the religious right in the U.S.

The New Apostolic Reformation followers seek dominion over politics, culture and all aspects of daily life

as a means to fulfill the Great Commission, a Christian

mandate from the Gospel of Matthew to “make disciples

of all the nations and baptize them.” Reformation leaders’

version of the Great Commission pushes an ultra-conservative religious and political agenda that opposes women’s reproductive freedom and gay rights, and pushes the

idea that heterosexual Christian men are called by God to

exercise dominion over secular society by taking control

of political and cultural institutions.

According to the Daily Beast, the Apology to Native

Americans is aimed

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Larry’s Corner

2020 part 2

Well, we made it! It’s a brand-new year, and I have a

brand-new outlook on life. Usually, people on social media would say, “This year is gonna be my year” or “I’m

gonna renew everything this year.” You know about those

sayings as if a year will define who you are and what you

do during that year, and then we come to grips within a

couple of months, and we’re back to our usual mindset…

at least the majority of us do that.

So, it’s 2022, and I don’t feel any different; I don’t feel

like this is a new year; I feel like the last year 2021 was

the same as 2020, you know, just one continuous extension of the year 2020. I know we have been through some

hardships during 2020, and our lives will never be the

same. I know my life has changed, some for the better

and some for the worst, but we can’t all be perfect. When

you look back at the past two years when the world shut

down, you think to yourself, “man, I can’t believe I made

it” then you start to thank everyone and everything for

making it this far.

Sometimes I compare my life to a newspaper or magazine subscription because I pay for a particular time.

When it says I need to renew, I quickly take out my “life”

credit card and renew my subscription to life for a certain

amount of time. But all in all, I think we are trying to buy

more subscriptions to life. Even though it says lifetime

subscription, we still must pay something.

When I was born, the world stopped for me just to see

the most extraordinary kitten ever. Everyone from the far

lands came to see me when I was just a kitten, and it was

like I was a Cat God or something; everyone worshiped

me.

But then, THEY FORGOT ABOUT ME when I got

older, and I had to make my way in life. It had seemed

that no one cared for whom I was anymore, I had glory

and riches, but now I must fend for myself.

Life is like that, when you’re a baby, everyone will

bend over backward for you, you become rich with toys,

games, and diapers. But as we got older, now we must

buy our toys, games, and diapers…but I digress.

But enough of the bad things in life, right? We should

be grateful for the life we still have and not the life we

could have had in the past; unless you were a rap artist

and thinking your album would go platinum, then I would

choose that past life. Like my Gwa’ah always says, “We

need to move on, we can’t do anything for the past, and

we can’t do anything about the future.” But for sure, we

can control our present and maintain our health, wealth,

and outlook in life.

Think of it this way, life could be a gamble if you

make it like a casino game, but life can be predictable,

like cheating at the Blackjack table in Las Vegas. Life is

something we must figure out by ourselves, it’s not like a

Lifetime movie where the guy always gets the girl, or the

killer is always the best friend at the end of the movie…

Lifetime movies are so predictable.

If you want to be healthy and make sure your outlook

in life is positive, you have the power to do so. You can’t

wait for the turnaround; we can decide when to board that

train.

Yes, I know, life knocked us down these past two years,

but that shouldn’t define who we are today. We should

want to say, “I will move two more years forward and not

look back.”

Now that’s something I would say, but I rarely practice

because of what life has thrown at me. Sure, it’s easy to

read but making it happen is another story.

When we were young kittens, life seemed so easy, life

seemed to true, and life seemed so “Peaches and Herb”

like, you know, very sure of itself.

So, who do we blame for the past two years? On so-

cial media, everyone blames the President of the United

States. We common folk blame someone who knows just

as much information as we do, but we do it anyway just

because the person may have a title in front of their name.

So, who can we blame for all these mishaps? Who will

be the scapegoat? Who will take the fall? That’s how we

are today. We look for the quickest solution to a problem that we can’t control ourselves, so we start blaming

someone who has like-powers, a title, and a little more

“say so” in the community than the common folk. It’s

easy to blame others, but it’s hard to support others when

someone needs it the most.

Am I a perfect cat? Well, no, sometimes I lie, cheat, and

blame, but that does not make me an evil cat; it makes me

just like everyone else. And just like everyone else, we

put our problems on someone who will take the fall for

us. So why do we do that? One reason could be to make

us feel comfortable about the issues we cannot solve.

So, I want this year to be the year where we can all look

forward to a brighter future, one where we can’t possibly

blame others for our misfortune, and one where we own

up to our problems so we can finally solve them.

So, my advice to you is that 2022 is the year when we

start to turn our luck around, we begin anew, and we begin to make things right. Even though it may be too late,

we can still make it happen. I don’t know what will happen, but we will make it happen. But then again, if the

government decides to give me another check this year, I

won’t call them horrible cat words and just make a quick

deposit and spend it before they recall it.

Thank you for reading my corner. So, bringing in the

New Year, I’m your host, Larry the Cat; I will see you

next round.

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Will Indigenous people get

apology from US? Cont.

at removing barriers that prevent nonWhite people from becoming evangelical

Christians and forwarding the Reformation agenda to create a theocracy headed

by its leaders.

These barriers, according to Engle, are

demons called Baal, Leviathan and the

Queen of Heaven, fed by sins committed

by Native peoples’ ancestors or sins committed against them or both. In order for

the sins to be removed, there must first be

ceremonies of apology and reconciliation.

The Daily Beast describes Brownback’s

apology to Native Americans as an exorcism.

A move to reconciliation

Brownback has appeared at numerous

Reformation events, including a prayer

vigil hosted in 2011 by then-Texas Gov.

Rick Perry. Former Alaska governor and

Republican vice presidential nominee

Sarah Palin is involved in a Reformation

spiritual warfare network that professes

to fight witches and witchcraft and promotes a religiously based wealth-transfer

scheme as a means to implement theocracy, a governmental system in which leaders are regarded as guided by the divine.

On The Apology website in which

Brownback promotes a movement encouraging public and official federal recognition of the apology law, an embedded

short film explaining the movement includes end credits featuring Engle, whose

Kansas City church also helped sponsor

Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” law.

The Apology website and film also feature Negiel Bigpond, a citizen of the Yuchi tribe, a longtime friend and associate

of Brownback. Bigpond is co-founder of

Two Rivers Native American Training

Center, a Reformation-affiliated organization that trains people for spiritual warfare

and land redemption. Bigpond describes

his own experience as a student at the

Chilocco Indian School, a federal Indian

boarding school in Oklahoma.

“I just felt like it was time the Native

people receive an apology from this nation, “ he told the Washington Post. “I believe it would help — not so much that we

would get granted great finances and buy

the land back or anything like that. It was

a spiritual thing.”

In the convoluted dominionist vision

for world domination, Brownback’s apology to Native Americans will drive out

demons associated with traditional Native spirituality, pave the way for Native

people to embrace dominionism and ultimately lead to a global theocracy led by

dominionists.

In a zoom interview with Indian Country Today, Brownback said he spent years

working to establish a free-standing apology bill and finally settled for attaching

the law to the defense spending bill.

“The goal of the apology is reconciliation, although it doesn’t end the process,”

he said. “It lances the boil so healing can

start. You have to acknowledge the wrong

before healing can start.”

Brownback said that when he first introduced the apology bill in 2009, the National Congress of the American Indians

supported it, as did Bryan Dorgan, a former Democratic senator from North Dakota who was chairman of the Committee

on Indian Affairs.

Neither Dorgan nor NCAI leadership

provided comments to Indian Country Today when asked about Brownback’s current efforts to push for a public apology.

The White House also declined to comment.

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Hopi Tutuveni January 7, 2022

Winter weather delays Nooksack evictions

Two Nooksack tribal citizens who were disenrolled and are now facing eviction encounter Nooksack police while entering a tribal court on Sept. 12, 2019. The tribe is now pressing forward with

evictions of 61 disenrolled citizens and two of their enrolled children, but bad weather forced a scheduled Dec. 28, 2021 eviction. (Photo courtesy of Galanda Broadman law firm)

Chris Aadland

Underscore.news and Indian Country Today

Severe winter weather temporarily delayed the planned

evictions set for this week for some of the more than 60

former Nooksack tribal citizens who were among hundreds disenrolled from the tribe.

Despite at least five pleas from federal agencies to delay the actions while a civil rights investigation is completed, the tribe was set to begin evictions or the hearing

process on Tuesday, Dec. 28, for some of the 61 former

tribal citizens and two of their children who are enrolled

members living in 21 federally funded homes on Nooksack tribal land.

But record cold temperatures and snow delayed the

process for at least two families this week – one that had

been ordered to vacate by Tuesday and another that had

an eviction hearing scheduled for the same day.

Gabe Galanda, a citizen of Round Valley Indian Tribes

and the attorney for the families facing eviction, said the

hearing was rescheduled for next week. He also said that

the man and his family ordered to vacate by Tuesday expected to be removed from their home by police, but that

it appeared officers were unable to reach the home because of snow and ice.

Still, Galanda said he doesn’t expect the reprieve to last

long.

“All signals are that they are moving full speed ahead,”

he said.

Tribal Chairman Ross Cline confirmed in an email to

Indian Country Today on Wednesday that the recent poor

weather appeared to have delayed the eviction process

but didn’t say how long he expected the pause to last.

He said the evictions will proceed nonetheless. The

tribe has said the 63 people must vacate because a 2019

policy change prohibited non-tribal members from living

in tribal housing. The tribe has said those homes are needed for Nooksack citizens.

At issue is whether those who are being kicked out fully own the homes or at least have equity in them. Galanda has said in all but one case, the former tribal citizens

being evicted had lease-to-own agreements with the tribe

for the federally subsidized homes. Many of the lease

periods have been completed, he said, meaning the residents should own their homes.

The tribe has said no such arrangements existed.

Other concerns have been raised about a lack of due

process for the residents through the tribal court. The

tribe has prevented Galanda and other attorneys from representing residents in court and in other hearings, he said.

The concerns prompted the federal Department of

Housing and Urban Development to first ask the tribe to

delay the evictions in September. That same month, HUD

recommended the Department of Interior launch an investigation.

Since then, other federal agencies, including the Bureau of Indian Affairs, have pressed the tribe to delay any

eviction proceedings until the Department of the Interior

completes its investigation and determines whether the

tribe is violating civil rights or other federal laws in moving forward.

The BIA again asked the tribe to delay any evictions

on Dec. 23, a day after Indian Country Today published a

story about the issue. On Monday, Dec. 27, HUD officials

told Galanda that the agency or its partners may be able

to provide assistance or coordinate help for any families

evicted.

“Based on the latest information we have received,

it appears that the Nooksack Tribe intends to proceed

with their eviction process in spite of both HUD’s and

BIA’s request(s) that the Tribe delay such action for thirty

days,” the agency said.

The federal government on Dec. 17 and Dec. 27 warned

the tribe that it could be sanctioned or face other adverse

actions if it proceeds with the evictions before an investigation is complete, or if the review finds violations of any

federal laws or HUD program requirements.

Cline said the tribe has provided federal agencies the

requested documents, including those that show the residents did not have lease-to-own agreements with the

tribe.

The evictions have been upheld in previous court challenges, he said. In addition, a federal court earlier this

year ruled that the tribe had immunity from lawsuits chal-

lenging the disenrollments and that the tribe, like other

federally recognized tribes, had the right to define who

qualifies for tribal citizenship.

“What is not alleged is the enrollment status. They were

disenrolled roughly 4 years ago,” he said in his email. “If

Gabe Galanda really cared about Native American Indians he would be doing his magic and gaining much needed Nooksack Tribal trust land so we could work out a deal

to leave his non-Indian clients on Nooksack Trust Land.”

The controversy, which dates back about 10 years,

eventually led the federal government to temporarily

withhold about $14 million from the tribe and criticize

the disenrollments as part of what officials said was a plot

by “abusive” and “illegitimate” pro-disenrollment tribal

leaders to seize and maintain power.

The people the tribe is trying to evict are among the last

of a group of 306 – about 15 percent of the tribe’s population – who were disenrolled and still lived on tribal lands.

Many of those facing eviction are elderly or have lived in

the same home for generations, Galanda said.

The timing of the evictions, Galanda said, comes amid

“historic circumstances” – during the Christmas and New

Year’s holidays, amid a surging COVID-19 pandemic, just months after historic flooding and days after record-breaking winter weather.

The family that had its eviction delayed because of

weather has been on “pins and needles,” he said, expecting to be forced from their home by tribal police because

they “did not and will not vacate.”

In recent days, Galanda said people, including a drum

group, have gathered in solidarity at the homes of some

of the families facing evictions.

He said he has encouraged those gathered and the

families to “not give this process credence,” saying they

should stand their ground and not willingly vacate the

homes. He said he’s told them to record any eviction processes or any efforts by tribal police to serve notices or

enforce eviction orders.

This story is co-published by Underscore.news and Indian Country Today, a news partnership that covers Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest. Funding

is provided in part by Meyer Memorial Trust.

Hopi Tutuveni January 7, 2022

$2.5B headed to

tribes for water

settlements

In this April 30, 2020, file photo, a sign marks Navajo Drive as Sentinel Mesa, homes and other structures in Oljato-Monument Valley, Utah on the Navajo Reservation, stand in the distance.

Included in the infrastructure deal that became law last month is $2.5 billion for Native American water rights settlements. The agreements quantify individual tribes' claims to water and identify

infrastructure projects to help deliver the water to residents. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Suman Naishadham and

Felicia Fonseca

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — For over a decade,

residents of the rural Fort Apache Reservation in eastern Arizona have been promised miles of pipeline that would bring

clean drinking water to their communities.

Now, a one-time windfall to help carry

out the agreement could be on its way.

The federal infrastructure bill signed

last month includes $2.5 billion for Native

American water rights settlements, a tool

tribes have used to define their rights to

water from rivers and other sources and

get federal funding to deliver it to residents.

The federal government has not disclosed how the money will be divvied up.

But tribes involved in more than 30 settlements — many in the U.S. West, including

the White Mountain Apache of the Fort

Apache Reservation — are eligible and

eagerly awaiting specifics.

“These are longstanding lapses in the

building out of infrastructure ... to make

sure that people in Indian Country are

not left behind,” said Heather Whiteman

Runs Him, who is from the Crow Nation

of Montana and directs the University of

Arizona’s Tribal Justice Clinic.

Access to reliable, clean water and basic

sanitation facilities on tribal lands remains

a challenge for hundreds of thousands of

people. The funding for settlements is

part of about $11 billion from the infrastructure law headed to Indian Country to

expand broadband coverage, fix roads and

provide basic needs like running water.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1908

that tribes have rights to as much water as

they need to establish a permanent homeland, and those rights stretch back at least

as long as any given reservation has existed. As a result, tribal water rights often are

more senior to others in the West, where

competition over the scarce resource is

often fierce.

Litigation can be expensive and drawnout, which is why many tribes have turned

to settlements. The negotiations generally

involve tribes, states, cities, private water

users, local water districts and others and

can take years if not decades to hash out.

“What makes them a complicated and

often very slow-moving process is there

are huge potential ramifications for how a

tribal water right gets quantified and developed,” said Richard “Jim” Palmer, the

White Mountain Apache Tribe’s attorney

general from 2010 to 2018.

Nearly 40 water rights settlements have

been reached with tribes, some of which

include more than one tribe. The Interior

Department said 31 of the settlements are

eligible for funds from the infrastructure

bill.

“This money will really help us to fulfill

our end of the deal,” said Elizabeth Klein,

senior counselor to the Interior secretary.

Congress approved the White Mountain

Apache settlement in 2010. The tribe received more than one-third of the water it

claimed it was entitled to from two rivers

that flow on the mountainous reservation

in exchange for the promise of federal

money to deliver the water to tribal communities.

The tribe has said it needs federal funding for water storage, surface water treatment facilities and miles of pipeline so

residents can have a reliable and clean

source of drinking water.

The projects stalled, however, because

of cost overruns and technical issues that

took years to resolve and even more negotiations to secure additional funding,

Palmer said. He added that’s typical of

many tribal water rights settlements.

“It’s a situation of having a lot of money

on paper but it being very, very difficult to

access and implement ... without a staggering amount of red tape getting in the

way,” said Palmer, who is White Mountain Apache.

As a result, residents of the reservation

still rely on over-pumped wells or consume water that’s potentially contaminated with heavy metals, Palmer said.

Congress' piecemeal approach to funding tribal water rights settlements is what

makes the $2.5 billion in the infrastructure deal important, said Jay Weiner, an

attorney and Native American water law

expert.

“It kind of clears the decks on these annual funding cycles so you have less com-

petition for ... limited dollars,” he said.

The Navajo Nation — the largest Native American reservation in the U.S. —

said it expects to receive funding from the

infrastructure law for a 2020 settlement it

reached with Utah for water in the upper

Colorado River basin.

Congress authorized $210 million for

water delivery infrastructure and agricultural conservation projects to help bring

running water to the Utah side of the reservation, but lawmakers did not provide

full funding.

Meanwhile, residents and public health

experts are concerned about groundwater

contamination from uranium and arsenic.

On the Utah portion of the Navajo Nation,

the tribe has said hundreds of households

— or roughly 40 percent of the residents

— lack running water or proper sanitation

facilities.

The 27,000-square-mile reservation is

larger than West Virginia and also stretches into Arizona and New Mexico. Homes

are scattered on the landscape, adding to

the difficulties in transporting water.

Tribes say the faster they get the funding, the sooner they can start long-anticipated projects to make use of water

deemed theirs on paper.

“Ultimately, it really is about allowing

and facilitating tribes to be able to put

their water to use, which is the point of the

whole exercise,” Weiner said.

Hopi Tutuveni January 7, 2022

As COVID fueled the drug crisis,

Native people hit worst

Rachel Taylor clutches a buckskin satchel filled with the ashes of her son, Kyle "Little Crow" Domrese, pictured at right, who died of an overdose, as she sits in the home they shared in Bemidji,

Minn., Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. Just weeks remained until the anniversary of the day she opened his bedroom door and found her son face-down on his bed. The death rate from drug overdoses for Native Americans has surpassed white people and is now the highest in the nation. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Associate Press

BEMIDJI, Minn. — The medicine man

told her she should soon give her son back

to the earth.

Rachel Taylor kissed her fingertips and

pressed them to the crow sewn onto a

leather bag nestled on the couch in the living room. “Oh, my baby,” she whispered,

and hugged the buckskin satchel filled

with his ashes.

Nearly a year ago, she had opened his

bedroom door and screamed so loud she

woke the neighbor. Kyle Domrese was

face down on his bed, one of more than

100,000 Americans lost in a year to overdoses as the COVID-19 pandemic fueled

America’s addiction disaster.

When he was 4, the medicine man had

given him his Ojibwe name: Aandegoons

— “little crow.” She traced the outline of

the black bird on the sack.

“Love you,” Taylor said to the bag, as

she does each time she leaves for work in

this city surrounded by three Ojibwe reservations in remote northern Minnesota.

As the pandemic ravaged the country,

deaths from drug overdoses surged by

nearly 30 percent, climbing to a record

high. The drug crisis has also diversified

from an overwhelmingly White affliction

to killing people of color with staggering

speed. The death rate last year was highest among Native Americans, for whom

COVID-19 piled yet more despair on

communities already confronting generations of trauma, poverty, unemployment

and underfunded health systems.

It is no longer an opioid epidemic, but

one in which people are dying from deadly cocktails of many drugs. Deaths involving methamphetamine have nearly tripled

in recent years, with Native Americans 12

times more likely to die from it.

As Taylor began her shift at the Northwest Indian Community Development

Center, a posterboard propped against the

wall was pasted with 49 faces — a collage

of their dead to drugs.

Taylor’s tribe, the White Earth Nation,

studied of the lives they’ve lost to addiction.

“Their death certificates say they died

of an overdose, but that’s not right,” one

member of their study group said.

These deaths were a culmination of far

more than that: Despite their resilience,

Native Americans carry in their blood 500

years worth of pain from being robbed of

their land, their language, their culture,

their children. In living people’s memory,

children were taken from their families

and sent to boarding schools with the motto, “Kill the Indian, save the man.”

“What they died of is a broken heart,”

the study says.

For years, Taylor tried to break the cycle.

Her grandmother was sent to a Christian

boarding school, where she was taught to

be so ashamed of her Ojibwe language

that she would only speak or sing it after

drinking.

Taylor had her daughter when she was

19 and her son a few years later. She lost

custody of them for a couple years as she

battled her own addiction to opioids and

cocaine. She told them she wished she

could fix all the dysfunctional things that

happened when she was using.

“Then I thought, well, then my mom

would have to go back and fix things, and

then my grandma would have to go back,

it would have to go on like that for generations,” she said.

Taylor had lived in more than 50 places before she turned 18 — foster homes,

battered women’s shelters, on the streets

— and faced sexual, physical and mental

abuse.

“The things I blame on generational

trauma are not feeling good enough, not

feeling worthy enough, not feeling loved,”

she said.

She prayed to her creator to spare her

children, and she told her son every day

that she loved him.

White Earth Nation too worked hard to

save its people from addiction, and many

years lost no one to overdoses on the reservation. But then the pandemic arrived

and proved too painful for some.

And now in Taylor’s shaking hands, she

holds her son’s picture — another face for

the posterboard, lost January 11, 2021.

At first, she put his ashes in an urn, but it

was sharp metal. A friend made the buckskin bag that she could hug. It’s become

the center of her world.

He’d always loved to laugh, so Taylor

teases the bag of ashes.

“Keep an eye on the cat,” she’ll say

when she leaves the house. Then she tells

the cat to keep an eye on him.

The wind churned snow across the prairies, so Dr. Carson Gardner, the medical

director of White Earth Nation’s health

department, told the tale of the Windigo as

a metaphor for addiction.

This story of an evil spirit in Ojibwe

folklore can only be spoken with snow on

the ground as a layer of protection from

the monster. The Windigo is a cannibal

that sings a song, and anyone who hears

it must cover their ears and run away, he

said. Otherwise, they develop an insatiable hunger.

“You will first eat everything in your

lodge, and when that’s gone, you’ll eat everything in your neighbors’ lodges. When

that’s gone, you will eat your neighbors.

You will finish off by eating yourself,”

said Gardner.

Their reservation spans more than

800,000 rugged acres of prairie and lakes,

dotted with small villages, known for

glorious summers and long unforgiving

winters. But despite the vast terrain, it’s

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be loved like family.

“Those who listen to the Windigo song

aren’t bad people,” Gardner said. “They

just didn’t plug their ears and walk away.

They didn’t know how powerful the song

was.”

Rachel Taylor’s son once wrote her a

letter because he thought his addiction

was killing him: “I can’t control it. I hope

you can forgive me. I’m sorry, I love you,

I wanted to spend more time with you.”

He’d started abusing pills as a teenager when he got a prescription after having surgery for an infected finger. Then,

consumed by the madness of addiction,

he would smoke anything — methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl — that might

quiet his lifelong anxiety and depression.

But just before the pandemic bore

down, his mother felt hopeful.

She and her son quarantined together at

her home in Bemidji, a city of 15,000 people. Her son had gone to treatment, sober

168 days. His cheeks were full again, and

he asked her to make his favorite peanut

butter cookies.

“I’m glad I still have a chance to make

my loving mom proud,” he wrote in a

journal.

But the months dragged on, and he told

her it seemed like the pandemic would

never end. He couldn’t get a job. He was

isolated. He said he felt like a bum.

“He just gave up,” she said. He started

using again, then dealing drugs to support

his habit.

All around them, people were dying. On

the White Earth reservation, ambulance

calls for overdoses tripled, Gardner said.

They posted big red signs in gas stations

and tribal buildings: “overdose alert,”

they said. “Please look out for each other.”

Joe Kleszyk, the commander of the region’s drug task force, sounded the alarm,

too: “An epidemic within a pandemic,” he

told the local newspaper in August 2020.

The task force covers five counties and

two reservations, including White Earth.

The number of overdoses it investigated skyrocketed from 20 in 2019 to 88 last

year. Fifteen of those were fatal, triple the

year before.

It’s getting worse: This year, there’s

been 148 overdoses, and 24 of those victims died.

In Minnesota, as across the country,

drug dealers now cut nearly every drug on

the street with fentanyl, a cheap and deadly synthetic opioid so potent the equivalent of a sugar packet can make 40 doses,

Kleszyk said. “It’s a game of Russian roulette,” he said.

At the same time, the pandemic pushed

many toward addiction, called a “disease

of despair.”

Unemployment in Indian County

surged to 26%. And with the federal government’s disinvestment in Native communities, many were already living on the

brink of poverty — sometimes just across

the street from predominantly white gated communities and summer vacation resorts.

On top of that, the healing traditions

many turn to in troubled times, like sweat

lodges and talking circles, were suspended. Theirs is a communal culture, and people were suddenly isolated.

Of the 148 overdoses the task force investigated this year, 124 victims were Native.

“I’m sick of telling people that their

kids are dead,” Kleszyk said.

When officers on the White Earth reservation arrived on Aug. 5, 2020 to deliver the news to Betty Oppegard, her knees

buckled, and she collapsed to the ground.

Her daughter, Beth Renee Hill, a 32-yearold mother of three, died of an overdose

involving methamphetamine.

Hill’s Ojibwe name, Bebaanimadookwe, is the word for how snow sparkles in

the sunshine.

“She was like that, she sparkled in people’s lives, she was so beautiful,” said Oppegard. “She could make a lot happen in

a day.”

Hill started taking methamphetamine a

couple years ago and fell apart fast. She

lost custody of her kids and despaired, so

she did even more drugs.

Oppegard used to wake up each morning and run through the names of her eight

children from oldest to youngest, imagining where they were and what they were

doing. She forced herself to stop, because

when she got to Hill, if felt too much to

bear.

For months, Hill’s father just held her

picture and cried. Now he’s buried next

to her. He died in January, and Oppegard

blames a broken heart.

Amid all this death and dying, one of

the most urgent questions White Earth and

other Native American communities are

facing is how to spare the next generations

from starting the cycle anew.

Indian health care has been underfunded for decades. When the American government forced Native Americans off their

land, it signed treaties with tribes promising to provide for them necessities like

health care. The dead from addiction is

proof it’s never kept its word, said Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith.

The national average for health care

spending is just over $11,000 per person,

but tribal health systems receive about a

third of that and urban Indian groups even

less, according to the National Council of

Urban Indian Health. COVID-19 added

another blow to this already stressed system.

Smith introduced a bill this summer that

would usher $200 million in grants to Indian organizations to bolster their mental

health and addiction treatment. The bill,

still stalled in Congress, would empower

Native organizations to address addiction

their own way.

In the years before the pandemic, the

White Earth tribe married western medical interventions with the traditional

healing practices that helped their people

survive as the government tried to erase

them. They trained thousands how to use

the overdose-reversal medication naloxone and estimate that’s saved 1,000 lives,

Gardner said. They saved just as many

through the millennia of inherited wisdom: drum circles, tobacco ceremonies,

the dark, humid honesty of praying in a

sweat lodge to balance their bodies, souls

and minds.

Their motto is unconditional love, Gardner said. People can recover if they’re given hope and healing, so they don’t give

up on anybody, no matter how deep their

addiction.

Georgianna Garbow-Warren’s addiction to methamphetamine for years left

her homeless — she and her husband lived

in abandoned houses, in shelters, eventually under a bridge. She lost custody of

her three children. She felt like she was

living in circles: She’d use drugs, get her

kids taken, clean up, get them back, start

the cycle again.

She grew up on the White Earth reservation near Beth Hill. She can rattle off

names of other neighbors they’ve lost to

addiction.

Garbow-Warren had a fourth child

in 2019, a son born premature at four

pounds, seven ounces. They took him

straight from the hospital.

She kept using meth: “I wanted to take

all that pain away,” she said.

Then she couldn’t breathe, went back

to the hospital and was diagnosed with

congestive heart failure from the damage meth had done. She was in and out of

emergency rooms. One day she was lying

in bed there and thought: “Oh God, do I

really hate myself this much?”

She turned herself into the police on an

outstanding warrant, and told them she

wanted treatment. It was February 2020,

just as the pandemic began brutalizing so

many battling addiction.

“This year there’s been the most funerals I’ve been to in my whole life,” she said.

Her sister was hospitalized in March with

liver and kidney infections from drinking

and drug use.

She couldn’t see when Garbow-Warren

visited her. The doctors said she could

hear them. They played her favorite song

by Sir Mix-A-Lot and she wiggled like

she was trying to dance. She died a couple

days later.

“I’ll never get the image out of my

head,” she said. One of her sisters is now

in treatment, a brother still uses, and she’s

afraid of getting a phone call that he’s

dead.

Her husband found recovery, too. They

got an apartment, a dog, a car, and slowly

regained custody of their baby, who has

cerebral palsy. He can’t crawl, and scoots

around on his back.

“I blamed myself. I felt a lot of guilt and

shame, a lot of pain,” she said, about her

son’s medical difficulties. Then a doctor

told her there was no way to know if it

was from her drug use or something else.

She doesn’t know about her older children. Her son turned 18 this year, the others are 17 and 10. She sometimes imagines tracking

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Climate Change:

Navajo Nation

faces drought,

fires, flooding

A local dam that holds water fed by a well in the watershed area of the Chuska Mountains provides water for wild horses and herds of cattle. All across the Navajo Nation, communities have been

impacted by the low rainfall and snowpack because of drought caused by climate change. (Photo by Pauly Denetclaw for Indian Country Today)

Pauly Denetclaw

Special to Indian Country Today

GALLUP, New Mexico — It’s an overcast, windy November day as Zachariah

Ben stands tall over the small, folding table at a local flea market.

His tsiiyééł sits low on his neck and it’s

clear that his dark brown hair is very long.

Before him, on a black-and-white Pendleton blanket, sit two products — Bidii

Baby Food and neeshjizzii — that share

a common element, naadą́ą́, or corn. He’s

already sold out of tádídíín, or corn pollen,

this year, which sells fast during the summer and fall.

But tádídíín is not the only thing missing from the table. Over the summer, he

offered a variety of melons grown at Ben

Farms, owned and operated by his family,

at different flea markets in the Four Corners area on Saturdays and Sundays.

In past years, Ben Farms grew only

corn, but last growing season Ben decided

to grow melons on the cornfield he manages. Farming puts food on the family’s

table, gas in their vehicles and money for

each of them to live. But he’s already concerned that it didn’t rain as much this year

during the summer months, and that by

late November it still hadn’t snowed.

“Right now, we should be, at least,

under a couple of inches of snow,” Ben,

Diné, told Indian Country Today. “But

we’re having 60-degree days where we’re

going out in our T-shirts by mid-afternoon. That is very worrisome.”

The Navajo are among tens of thousands of Indigenous people in the U.S.

feeling the impacts of climate change. An

informal survey by Indian Country Today

found that Indigenous communities have

been hit particularly hard by the changing

climate, with some forced to choose between their homelands and their safety.

In coastal areas from Alaska to Louisiana and Florida, tribes are facing floods,

rising sea levels, coastal erosion and increasingly powerful storms. In the Southwest and Plains, extreme drought and heat

has taken hold, increasing the risk of wildfires and depleting water sources. All are

facing the loss of their environment and

threats to traditional foods and medicine.

In the arid climate of the Navajo Nation,

any changes in precipitation have drastic

effects on the land. From 1996 to 2009,

extreme drought conditions in the Navajo Nation caused some 30,000 livestock

to perish. The drought also lowered water levels in aquifers, making the water so

salinated that it became unusable, leaving

whole communities without water.

Snowfall levels, meanwhile, have consistently decreased in the area since the

1930s, causing 30 major rivers and other

bodies of water to dry up by the 1960s.

The combination forces Navajo families

to haul water from 10 to 50 miles away,

move into Navajo housing that has running water, or move away.

Unlike in some areas where tribal nations are relocating entire communities to

escape devastation, the Navajo people aren’t leaving their communities because of

climate change, though they are adapting

to having less water.

“The predictions, or continued forecasting for the future, looks like drought,

like what we’re experiencing now,” said

Crystal Tulley-Cordova, a citizen of the

Navajo Nation and principal hydrologist

for the Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources.

“Concurrently, when it does rain, for

example, there’s an increase for extreme

precipitation events,” she said. “We did

face some of that with the North American

Monsoon 2021, where some of the communities in the southwestern portion of

the Navajo Nation did see some flooding

events, particularly in the Blue Springs

and Dilcon areas.”

Family farm

Ben comes from a long line of farmers

who dry-farmed in the Colorado plateau

near Sanostee, New Mexico, just 18 miles

from where Ben Farms is located today in

Shiprock, in the San Juan River basin.

It’s high-stakes farming for them and

the community. The farm employs Ben,

along with three of his siblings and father,

and in summer months hires extra hands

from the community to help produce the

hundreds of pounds of dry steam corn they

sell online and across the region.

The family takes extra care of the pure

genetic makeup of its Navajo white corn,

which can last for several years once it is

steamed, smoked and dried, according to

the website.

“It is not just a source of nourishment

but a physical embodiment of our Holy

People,” the website states. “Pollen is

harvested for purposes of personal prayer

to ceremonial usage and is a catalyst for

prayer. White corn is an extension of who

we are as Diné and as such understands

our language, songs, prayers and our

love.”

The biggest worry right now is the possibility of more extreme flooding events

due to prolonged drying of the topsoil and

decreased vegetation — which make the

land act very much like a parking lot.

“When you think about water going

over a parking lot the amount of water can

accumulate fast, especially over a large

watershed, and it can be an increased

event,” Tulley-Cordova says.

Flooding is a worry during the monsoon season in the summer as well as after

snowmelt runoff in the winter, particularly

in places like the Chuska Mountains that

run along

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As COVID fueled the drug crisis,

Native people hit worst, Cont.

them down, but then wonders if they’re

better off without her.

“I live with that everyday,” she said,

“wondering if they’re OK.”

In January, Rachel Taylor’s heart began

aching, like someone had reached into her

chest and was squeezing it.

“It was like my heart knew before I

did,” she said. “My heart was broken four

days before he even died.”

She had an uneasy feeling the morning

of Jan. 11. It was quiet in the house and

her son’s bedroom door was closed.

“Are you awake?” Taylor texted him at

9:21 a.m.

She never wanted to seem overbearing,

and she knew it made him happy to think

she trusted him. So she vacuumed the living room just outside his bedroom and

hoped the commotion would wake him.

Eventually, she opened his door. At first

she thought it must be a dream, like she

was seeing from outside herself that his

skin was purple.

She dialed 911, and the operator said

to check his vitals. He was ice cold. She

dropped the phone and screamed. “Come

back, my baby, come back.”

When he was born, the nurse put him on

her chest, and he’d looked at her with such

intensity. His eyes were always like that,

like a cat’s, she thinks.

He loved animals. In stacks of photos albums, he’s often holding some little creature. She kept everything he ever made

her — birthday cards, childhood pottery.

“You’re the best mom in the world,” he’d

write, and she loved it because she’d always felt like a bad one.

She knew the hell her son was living be-

cause she had lived it, too.

In December 2020, he punched holes in

the walls until his fists bled and screamed

he wanted to die. She called police, and

when officers arrived she stepped in front

of her bloody, hysterical son. “Please don’t

shoot him,” she pleaded, “this isn’t him.”

They took him to a hospital, but he

broke a camera, and the hospital kicked

him out.

A month later, she watched as they covered him in blue plastic, and begged them

to let her kiss his forehead.

The toxicology report said that he’d

died of a combination of alprazolam, the

drug in Xanax, and fentanyl.

For a time, she didn’t want to live.

Then the medicine man took her to a

sweat lodge on the reservation. When she

came out, the chatter of two cranes on

the wind sounded like a crow — a sign

from her son. Now she feeds the crows so

they’ll keep coming to the yard.

She still smells him, she said. She

swears she hears his particular way of

knocking on the door.

The anniversary of his death is approaching on Jan. 11, and it is customary

in her culture to return him to nature after

a year of grieving, she said.

But every morning, she kisses his bag.

Her daughter took her out for a buffet dinner, and the bag went too. She fixed him

a plate of his favorite foods, prime rib,

mashed potatoes, she buttered him a bun.

“The medicine man says I have to let

him go back to the earth,” she said. “But I

don’t think I’m going to be able to do that.

He left me too soon.”

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the New Mexico/Arizona border.

Ch’ooshgai is 60 miles long, filled with

old-growth ponderosa pine trees, and

peaks at nearly 10,000 feet. The mountain

range is home to several Navajo communities, and the snowpack feeds local aquifers and seasonal streams and waters. It is

one of six sacred mountains.

The dry conditions increase the risk of

wildfires, said Lani Tsinnijinnie, Navajo

Nation citizen, an assistant professor who

researches mountain hydrology in the

Chuskas.

“Because of climate change, we’re

starting to see less snowpack which leads

to decreases in streamflow and it changes the timing of streamflow,” Tsinnijinnie

said. “Instead of the snow melting later in

the summer, it’s starting to melt earlier in

the summer. This can lead to less recharge

to groundwater, and less water in our river

systems, and an increased risk for wildfires.”

The Asaayi Lake Fire in 2014 charred

nearly 15,000 acres and burned down

several homes on Navajo lands. It took

20 days for the fire to be fully contained.

Several fires erupted in 2020 and 2021 as

well.

Dry conditions and wildfires put other

tribal communities at risk throughout the

region.

”The dry season is prolonged,” Tsinnijinnie said. “That’s not just being observed on the Navajo Nation, but it’s being observed all across the Southwest.”

Less snowpack also means less recharge water for local groundwater, which

decreases residents’ access to clean water.

Water access continues to be a “wicked

problem” on the Navajo Nation, according to a 2021 Water Resource IMPACT

report.

Some relief is provided with settled water rights, like those from the Upper and

Lower Colorado River basins. Ben Farms

uses water from the San Juan River to irrigate its three cornfields.

“We simply are adapting our traditional

methods of farming and adapting it to today’s time,” Ben said. “We can still farm

and we can still use the same land that

we’re on.”

‘Good at adapting’

Although climate migration is growing

among tribal citizens in Alaska, Washington, Louisiana, North Carolina and other

coastal states, Tulley-Cordova said Navajo citizens are more likely to move to

tribal housing or off the reservations for

reasons other than climate change.

The Navajo Nation spans New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, and some 37,000

people out of 174,000 who live on Navajo lands don’t have access to indoor

plumbing. Nationally, about 13 percent

of Native homes don’t have safe water or

wastewater disposal; fewer than 1 percent

of non-Native homes do not.

“The migration pattern may not be as

extensive as, for example, some of the

Alaska Native villages that have to move

inland because of flooding,” Tulley-Cordova said. “It might look like migration

to maybe more water but that also has

different factors that may not be related

directly to climate change. For increased

convenience, people may move towards

public water systems rather than living in

very rural areas where they might have to

continue to haul water.”

But tribal leaders are drafting plans for

future droughts. In 2003, as streams and

aquifers were drying up, officials drafted

the Navajo Nation Drought Contingency

plan to improve understanding of the effects of drought, including dune migration, wildfires, flooding and dry aquifers.

The Department of Water Resources,

the Navajo Area Indian Health Service

and the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority

worked together to plan for short-, midand long-term strategies for potable water.

Despite how drastically climate change

has impacted the Navajo Nation, however, Ben doesn’t plan on moving away from

the Shiprock area.

“We Navajos are really good at adapting to our current living conditions,” he

said. “We continue to thrive and that’s

something that I take pride in. Our way

of life, our culture, our heritage and traditions, have never been severed. We fought

hard.”

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Tribes lacking water see hope with massive bill

Gillian Flaccus, Felicia Fonseca and Becky Bohrer

Associated Press

WARM SPRINGS, Ore. — Erland Suppah Jr. doesn’t

trust what comes out of his faucet.

Each week, Suppah and his girlfriend haul a half-dozen

large jugs of water from a distribution center run by the

Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs to their apartment

for everything from drinking to cooking to brushing their

teeth for their family of five. It’s the only way they feel

safe after countless boil-water notices and weekslong

shutoffs on a reservation struggling with bursting pipes,

failing pressure valves and a geriatric water treatment

plant.

“About the only thing this water is good for is cleaning

my floor and flushing down the toilet,” Suppah said of

the tap water in the community 100 miles southeast of

Portland. “That’s it.”

In other, more remote tribal communities across the

country, running water and indoor plumbing have never

been a reality.

Now, there’s a glimmer of hope in the form of a massive infrastructure bill signed last month that White

House officials say represents the largest single infusion

of money into Indian Country. It includes $3.5 billion for

the federal Indian Health Service, which provides health

care to more than 2 million Native Americans and Alaska

Natives, plus pots of money through other federal agencies for water projects.

Tribal leaders say the funding, while welcome, won’t

make up for decades of neglect from the U.S. government, which has a responsibility to tribes under treaties

and other acts to ensure access to clean water. A list of

sanitation deficiencies kept by the Indian Health Service

has more than 1,500 projects, including wells, septic systems, water storage tanks and pipelines. Some projects

would address water contamination from uranium or arsenic.

About 3,300 homes in more than 30 rural Alaska communities lack indoor plumbing, according to a 2020 report. On the Navajo Nation, the largest Native American

reservation, about one-third of the 175,000 residents are

without running water.

Residents in these places haul water for basic tasks

such as washing and cooking, sometimes driving long

distances to reach communal water stations. Instead of

indoor bathrooms, many use outhouses or lined pails

called “honey buckets” that they drag outside to empty.

Some shower or do laundry at community sites known as

“washeterias,” but the equipment can be unreliable and

the fees expensive.

“You look at two billionaires competing to fly into outer space, yet we’re trying to get basic necessities in vil-

lages of interior Alaska,” said PJ Simon, a former chairman of an Alaska Native nonprofit corporation called the

Tanana Chiefs Conference.

Many more tribal communities have indoor plumbing

but woefully inadequate facilities and delivery systems

riddled with aging pipes.

The coronavirus pandemic, which disproportionately

hit Indian Country, further underscored the stark disparities in access to running water and sewage systems.

In Warm Springs, the water crisis has overlapped with

COVID-19.

“During a worldwide pandemic, we’ve had a boil-water notice. How are we supposed to wash our hands? How

are we supposed to sanitize our homes to disinfect, to

keep our community members safe? How can we do that

... when our water isn’t even clean?” said Dorothea Thurby, who oversees the distribution of free water to tribal

members and food boxes to those who are quarantined.

A 2019 report by a pair of nonprofit groups, U.S. Water

Alliance and Dig Deep, found Native American homes

are 19 times more likely than white households to lack

full plumbing. And federal officials note tribal members

without indoor toilets or running water are at increased

risk of respiratory tract, skin and gastrointestinal infections.

On the Navajo Nation, Eloise Sullivan uses an outhouse and often drives before dawn to beat the crowd at

a water-filling station near the Arizona-Utah border to get

water for the five people in her household. They use about

850 gallons a week, she estimated.

Sullivan, 56, doesn’t mind hauling water, but “for the

younger generation, it’s like, ‘Do we have to do that?’”

“It’s kind of like a big issue for them,” she said.

She once asked local officials what it would cost to run

a water line from the closest source about 2 miles away.

She said she was told $25,000 and never pursued it.

Libby Washburn, special assistant to President Joe

Biden on Native American affairs, recently told tribes the

infrastructure bill included enough money to complete all

the projects on the Indian Health Service list. The agency

said it’s consulting with tribes and won’t make allocation

decisions before that process is over.

Until now, tribes and outside organizations have

worked to address needs with their own funding, donations or federal money, including pandemic relief.

“If you live without running water, you understand the

importance and the connection you have with it, deep

down as a person, as a human being,” said Burrell Jones,

who sets up water systems and delivers water around

Dilkon, Arizona, with Dig Deep’s Navajo Water Project.

“You can’t exist without water.”

Andrew Marks recently moved back to Tanana, a community of about 190 people in Alaska’s interior. He ini-

tially relied on a washeteria but found the equipment unreliable. He now has running water and plumbing where

he lives but hauls water for family members who don’t.

“I believe if we had more people with water, more people connected to the grid, it would drastically improve

their life,” he said.

In Oregon, tribal officials have handed out about 3 million gallons of water — almost all of it donated — from

a decommissioned elementary school on the reservation.

A steady stream of residents pick up a combined 600 gallons of water a day from the building. Former classrooms

overflow with 5-gallon containers and cases of bottled

water.

“The infrastructure bill brought joy to my heart because now it gives me hope — hope that it’s going to

be repaired,” said Dan Martinez, the tribes’ emergency

manager, who expects to receive federal funds to replace

underground pipes and address the 40-year-old treatment

plant.

“If you came to work one day and someone said, ‘Hey,

you need to go and find water for a community of 6,000

people.’ ... I mean, where do you start?’”

The money won’t provide immediate relief. Funding

to the Indian Health Service is supposed to be distributed

over five years. There is no deadline for its use, and projects will take time to complete once started. The money

won’t cover operation and maintenance of the systems, a

point tribes have criticized.

In Warm Springs, tribal members don’t pay for their

water, and proposals to charge for it are deeply unpopular. That provides little incentive for tribal members to

conserve water and raises questions about how new infrastructure will be maintained.

“There are some Natives who say — and I believe this

myself — ‘How do you sell something you never owned?

The Creator has given it to us,’” said Martinez, a tribal

citizen.

Building out infrastructure in remote areas can be onerous, too. Most roads on the Navajo Nation are unpaved

and become muddy and deeply rutted after big storms.

In Alaska, winter temperatures can fall well below

zero, and construction seasons are short. Having enough

people in a small community who are trained on the specifics of a water system so they can maintain it also can

be a challenge, said Kaitlin Mattos, an assistant professor

at Fort Lewis College in Colorado who worked on a 2020

report on water infrastructure in Alaska.

“Every bit of funding that is allocated is going to help

some family, some household, which is wonderful,” she

said. “Whether it’s enough to help every single household, I think, remains to be seen.”

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