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Volume 21 Number 24
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Interior Department Revises Rule
to Ensure Longterm Monitoring
and Protection of
Eagles
Department of Interior
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of the Interior announced on
Fri, Dec. 6, changes to regulations enabling the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to better monitor and address the
long-term impacts of renewable energy
projects and other activities on federally-protected eagles. In addition to these
immediate changes, the Service will
continue its comprehensive review of
all eagle permitting regulations to determine if other modifications are necessary to increase their efficiency and
effectiveness.
“Renewable energy development is
vitally important to our nation’s future,
but it has to be done in the right way,”
said Secretary of the Interior Sally
Jewell. “The changes in this permitting program will help the renewable
energy industry and others develop
projects that can operate in the longer
term, while ensuring bald and golden
eagles continue to thrive for future generations.”
In 2009, the Service began a permitting program under the Bald and Golden
Eagle Protection Act applicable to developers of renewable energy projects
and other activities that may “take” (injure, kill or otherwise disturb) bald and
golden eagles. The Eagle Act allows the
Service to authorize the programmatic
take of eagles, which is take associated
with, but not the purpose of, an otherwise lawful activity and does not have
a long-term impact on the population.
These permits have been for a maximum of five years – a period that does
not reflect the actual operating parameters of most renewable energy projects or other similar long term project
operations. The revised rule, a result
of extensive stakeholder engagement
and public comment, extends the maximum permit tenure to 30 years, subject
to a recurring five-year review process
throughout the permit life.
Continued on Page 6
Hundreds of
Ancestors to
Return Home
Associated Press
After years in limbo, hundreds of
Native American ancestors are going
home. On December 13, state and
federal officials joined tribal representatives to sign a Memorandum of
Understanding, allowing for human remains housed in various museums and
universities to be reinterred on public
lands in Colorado.
This is a major victory for the state’s
Native Americans. At present, there
are approximately 600 individuals
waiting to be reburied within Colorado. Aside from some secret locations
within state parks, there have been few
suitable places designated for burials.
This agreement between the state, feds,
and tribes opens National Park Service
lands and other federally owned parcels for reinterments and associated
ceremonies, and clearly defines the
process by which reburials are done.
“These are people’s remains that we
honor, by finding a place to bury them
that is appropriate,” said Lieutenant
Governor Joe Garcia at Friday’s ceremony.
Under a the 1990 Native American
Graves Protection and Repatriation
Act (NAGPRA), federal agencies, museums, and universities are required to
identify any Native American remains
or funerary objects within their collections. The law also dictates that these
federally funded organizations consult
with any Natives who have an interest
in those items. The law finally gave
Native groups a say in how and where
their ancestors should be buried and
honored, while wresting control from
Continued on Page 6
Crystal Dee/Tutuveni
Santa Claus Delivers Gifts on Behalf of Christmas Angels
The jolly fellow from the North Pole flew in to the Hopi Health Care Center on Thur, Dec. 12 to deliver Christmas gifts to students from head start programs all across the Hopi Reservation.
Close to 200 Christmas Angels were placed on a Christmas Tree at the Hopi Health Care Center and all were taken within the course of one day. Clockwise from Top: Children from the
headstart programs patiently awaited their turn to receive gifts from Santa Claus. Students from the Second Mesa Head Start Program are adorned with handmade antler crowns as
they sing Christmas carols in anticipation of Santa. Children from the Hopi Head Start Programs along with many of their parents sang Christmas carols filling the lobby with Christmas
spirit. See Page 4.
HRES and Toys for Tots Program work together to
assist less fortunate Hopi Children
Crystal Dee
Hopi Tutuveni
On the morning of Dec. 5, a
semi-truck filled with toys and
books arrived at the Kykotsmovi community building
where the Hopi Resource Enforcement Services (HRES)
received them. HRES will
host a Toys for Tots event on
Dec. 20 at the Hopi Veterans
Memorial Center and Dec. 21
at the community of Upper
Moenkopi.
Since 2001, HRES in collaboration with Lt. Col. Peter
Tagni, Coordinator for the Native American Toys for Tots
Program has brought forth the
holiday gift of giving by providing toys to less fortunate
Hopi children.
Paula Letseoma, Office
Manager for HRES is coordinating the 2013 Toys for Tots
on the Hopi Reservation. This
is her first year as the coordinator and the event has Letseoma very excited.
5000 new toys will be given
out at the Toys for Tots event.
Letseoma said it’s a lot of
work to prepare for the event
as they must separate and account for each toy. She has
solicited help from other departments in assisting her with
this task as each toy must be
accounted for and reported to
Lt. Col. Tagni.
Various companies with
many being from the East
Crystal Dee/Tutuveni
For the past 12 years, HRES and the Native American Toys for Tots Program have collaborated to bring toys to less fortunate children
on the Hopi Reservation. HRES Officers and volunteers pause to take a group photo.
coast donate the toys. Solicitation letters are sent out right
after the holidays for the next
year’s Toys for Tots event.
Last year HRES didn’t
know whether they would
have enough money to continue with the Toys for Tots
program. So, Letseoma took
it upon herself to do a survey
to see how Toys for Tots benefited the children and parents
of the Hopi reservation. She
found that parents depended
on the program because they
were not working and they
don’t have money to buy gifts
for their kids. Having the Toys
for Tots program helped them
with getting their kids a gift
Students from Moencopi Day
School Fundraise for HCAF
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for Christmas.
“The outcome of the survey
was sad but that is the intent of
this program,” said Letseoma.
Tagni was on the Hopi reservation two years ago and
HRES and other departments
within the Hopi Tribe hosted a
reception in his honor. He was
given handcrafted ornaments
in appreciation for what his
services to Hopi children.
“Preparing for the event is
fun and all the officers enjoy
it. It’s a lot of work separating and distributing the toys,
but seeing the kids smile and
excited is very rewarding,”
said Letseoma. “For everyone
involved, they get the satisfac-
tion of giving and seeing the
look on the children’s faces.”
Last year the kids were able
to get three toys, including
books. Hopi kids are not the
only ones who benefit from
this, but surrounding Navajo
communities as well like Hard
Rock, Jeddito and Tuba City.
The toys are donated from
the Native American Toys for
Tots program and once these
toys are given out, the process
starts all over again for 2014.
“We will continue with this
program because it makes us
happy and to see children happy when they receive a toy,”
said Letseoma.
Hip Hop group Shining Soul use
music to smash injustice
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2 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2013 | HOPI TUTUVENI
Local News
THE HOPI TUTUVENI
Students from Moencopi Day
School Fundraise for HCAF
Calendar
DECEMBER
JANUARY 2014
Hopi Tribe Road Construction Project Public
Meetings scheduled for
the following road improvement projects at
the following locations:
Hopi Cancer Assistance
Fund Program Coin
Drive from January 6 –
March 28, 2014. Open
to any business, school,
group, etc. For more information contact (928)
734-1151
Marketing Manager:
Louella Nahsonhoya
(928)734-3283
lnahsonhoya@hopi.nsn.us
Hopi Wellness Center
Group Fitness Monopoly from January 1 – 31,
2014 at the Hopi Wellness Center. For more
information
contact
Andrea Siow at (928)
734-3432 or email
asiow@hopi.nsn.us
Secretary:
Vernita Selestewa
(928)734-3282
vselestewa@hopi.nsn.us
December 16, 2013:
(Kykotsmovi
Village
Roads) at the Kykotsmovi Village Community Building at 6:30 p.m.
to 8:30 p.m.
December 17, 2013:
(Turquoise Trail/Phase
I) at the Hopi Veterans
Memorial Center at 3
p.m. to 5 p.m.
Crystal Dee/Tutuveni
Mrs. Silas and Mrs. Lomatuwayma’s fourth grade class presented a $240 check to the Hopi Cancer Assistance Fund
on Dec. 5. Students raised the funds my selling t-shirts.
Crystal Dee
Hopi Tutuveni
The Christmas season is a time for giving and receiving gifts and both the Moencopi Day School and the Hopi Cancer
Assistance Funds (HCAF) are off to a
good start for the holidays.
Mary Honwytewa, Coordinator for
HCAF and Kellen Polingyumptewa,
Community Health Representative for A
Partnership for Native American Cancer
Prevention travelled to Moencopi Day
School on the morning of Dec. 5th to receive a check from Mrs. Silas’s fourth
grade class.
During the month of October the
school celebrated Breast Cancer Awareness month with various activities
throughout the week. Honwytewa and
Polingyumptewa had provided education
to the children on cancer. Polingyumptewa went over the basics of cancer with
the students and, to his pleasant surprise;
they had retained a lot of the knowledge
presented. They sent him letters to show
what they had learned.
Mrs. Silas’ fourth grade class wanted
to do more. So Mrs. Silas and her assistant, Mrs. Lomatuwayma, who have both
been affected by cancer through family
members, thought of raising funds for
the cause. They had originally thought of
donating to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, but they wanted to help local cancer
patients.
Mrs. Lomatuwayma’s husband had received assistance from the Hopi Cancer
Assistant Fund and thought it would be
best to donate to HCAF. Lomatuwayma’s husband, Nate helped by designing
a logo for t-shirts that became known as
the “Pink Panther” shirt. A panther is the
school’s mascot.
T-shirt sales began during the first
week of October. The class made advertisement posters and the teachers sent notices home with students. The kids were
very excited to sell the shirts and asked
their parents and family members to purchase them.
Altogether the students sold over 150
t-shirts. Three dollars from every adult
shirt sold was donated to HCAF. A total
of 80 adult t-shirts were sold. This totaled to the amount of $240. The money
donated to HCAF will help cancer patients with food, gas and hotels during
treatment.
“We did a good job of selling the shirts
and we have only a few more left,” said
Mrs. Silas.
The kids were excited to present the
check to Mrs. Honwytewa and Mr. Polingyumptewa. All the students wore their
“Pink Panther” shirts for this occasion.
“I read all the letters you sent to me and
I shared them with the staff at the Hopi
Cancer Support Services and they were
impressed with how much information
you retained from the presentation,” said
Polingyumptewa. “I want to say thank
you to all of you. Your parents, friends,
family and teachers purchased t-shirts
that will help people who are sick get
well.”
Polingyumptewa had played a jeopardy game on the basic knowledge of
cancer with the students the last time he
was there. In playing the game they had
remembered what they had learned from
him.
Honwytewa said, “I want to thank you
very much for helping our people that
have cancer. They will appreciate your
help and we will let them know you donated the money to them. I know it was
a lot of hard work, but fundraising is fun
and I’m glad you donated to the Cancer
Support Services. Every little bit helps
and I’m very grateful.”
Mrs. Lomatuwayma said her husband
had used HCAF when he had a tumor in
his mouth. Having received assistance
from them, the couple felt good about
giving back to the community.
Nate Lomatuwayma, shared his story
and how HCAF had helped him during
his treatment. He had a tumor in his pituitary gland that was surgically removed
that required radiation treatments for four
months. Because he was receiving treatment in Flagstaff, he needed assistance
from HCAF for gas, food and lodging.
The treatments required that he stay in
Flagstaff for a month.
“I just want to say that I wish cancer
would go away and I wish people didn’t
get cancer. I’m thankful that the Hopi
Cancer Support Services is there and it
really, really helps out,” said Lomatuwayma.
Mrs. Silas and Mrs. Lomatuwayma
said they would like to thank everyone
who purchased t-shirts.
“We’d also like to thank our CSA, David Moore who was there to support our
efforts in doing this fundraiser; he played
a big role and approved our fundraiser.
We hope to continue this on a yearly basis and donate to HCAF,” said Mrs. Silas
and Mrs. Lomatuwayma.
In October, the whole school wore
pink to commemorate Breast Cancer
Awareness month and released balloons
in memory of those who lost their lives to
breast cancer.
“It was a very emotional day for everyone,” said Mrs. Silas.
December 17, 2013:
(Bacavi Village Streets)
at the Bacavi Community Building at 6:30
p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
For more information
regarding the road
projects, contact the
Hopi Tribe Road Construction Director Michael Lomayaktewa at
(928) 734-3204
Hopi Cancer Assistance
Fund Program Toy Donation Drive, drawing
to be held on December 19, 2013. For more
information
contact
Mary L. Honwytewa at
(928) 734-1151
Hopi
Environmental
Protection Office Recycle Day at the following
locations/dates/times:
December 17, 2013
from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. at
Polacca Circle M and
December 18, 2013
from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. at
Keams Canyon Traders
parking area. For more
information
contact
(928) 734-3633 or 7343631
2013 Hopi Resource
Enforcement Services,
Toys for Tots Distribution scheduled for
Keams Canyon to Hotevilla area at the Hopi
Veterans
Memorial
Center on December
20, 2013 at 3:00 p.m.,
and for Moencopi area
at the Upper Moencopi Village Community
Center on December
21, 2013 at 1:00 p.m.
For more information
contact (928) 734-7340
2013 Youth Co-ed Basketball
Tournament
scheduled to be held
on December 27, 28 &
29, 2013 at the Hopi
Veterans
Memorial
Center. For entry fees
and more information
contact (928) 7343432.
MARCH 2014
3rd Annual Hopi Disability Awareness Conference at the Hopi Jr./Sr.
High School on March
11-12, 2013.
Hopi
Disability Program is
currently soliciting proposals for presentation
topics. For more information contact tbahnimptewa@hopi.nsn.us
or call (928) 734-3419
MISCELLANEOUS
Group Fitness Classes
@ Hopi Fitness Center
For monthly schedule
call (928) 734-3432
Need help with Child
Care Costs? Hopi Child
Care Program can assist. For more information contact (928) 7341002
2013 Hopi Tutuqayki
Sikisve Schedule – For
information call (928)
734-4500
Hopi Veterinary Services are available
Monday – Friday, 8 am
to 5 pm. For more information on services
and office visit fees, call
(928) 738-5251
Hopi Tribe – Department of Education Hopi
Tribal Grant & Scholarships Programs – College Visits Underway
accepting applications.
For more information
contact (928) 734-3542
or 1800-762-9630.
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Kellen Polingyumptewa and Mary Honwytewa receive a check from Mrs. Silas and Mrs. Lomatuwayma’s fourth
grade class.
Reporter:
Crystal Dee
(928)734-3284
cdee@hopi.nsn.us
The Hopi Tutuveni
Official Newspaper of
the Hopi Tribe
P.O. Box 123
Kykotsmovi, AZ 86039
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CIRCULATION
The Hopi Tutuveni is published twice
a month, with a circulation of 5,500
copies throughout the entire Hopi
Reservation. The paper is delivered
on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each
month to the following locations:
Keams Canyon Store, Polacca Circle
M, Hopi Health Care Center, Tsakursovi, Hopi Cultural Center, Kykotsmovi Village Store, Hotevilla Store,
Moenkopi Travel Center, Moenkopi
Legacy Inn, Tribal Government Complex and all Village Administration
offices. The Tutuveni is also available at the following border town
locations: Flagstaff-outside Mike and
Rhonda’s Eastside, N.A.C.A office
on Steves Blvd., Winslow-Caseys,
Winslow Library, Brown Mug, Alphonso’s; and Holbrook- Hopi Travel
Plaza, Joe and Aggie’s Restaurant,
El Rancho Restaurant. Whitecone Giant Gas Station. Dilkon - Bashas.
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Plaza, Legacy Inn.
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to verify authenticity of the author.
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to edit for clarity and may decline
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be run on a space available basis.
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Hopi Tribal Council 2013
Herman G. Honanie , Chairman
Alfred Lomahquahu Jr., Vice
Chairman
Martha A. Mase, Tribal Secretary
Robert Sumatzkuku, Tribal
Treasurer
Violet Sinquah, Sergeant-At-Arms
Village of Upper
Moenkopi
Wayne Kuwanhyoima
Bruce Fredericks
Leroy Sumatzkuku
Danny Humetewa
Village of Bakabi
Davis F. Pecusa
Leroy G. Kewanimptewa
Lamar Keevama
Village of Kykotsmovi
Nada Talayumptewa
Alban Mooya Jr.
Norman Honanie
Caleb H. Johnson
Village of Sipaulovi
George Mase
Rosa Honani
Village of Mishongnovi
Arthur Batala
Annette F. Talayumptewa
Marilyn Tewa
Mervin Yoyetewa
HOPI TUTUVENI | TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2013 3
National News
Letter to the Editor
Creating the First Native American Food
Hub in the U.S.
PTSD is a lingering problem with many veterans
Associated Press
Native farmers’ business
should receive a nice boost
in the near future, thanks
to a recent grant and certificate of obligation given
to the Acoma Business Enterprise, LLC to develop
a business plan for a food
hub.
USDA Rural Development State Director Terry Brunner presented the
certificate to the Acoma
Business Enterprise during
the ceremony held at the
Southern Pueblos Council
monthly meeting.
“The Obama Administration is working hard to
create economic opportunities in rural tribal communities,” Brunner said.
“This strategic investment
will help Native farmers
find new markets for their
products and offers a path
to sustainable farming in
the 21st century.”
The $75,000 grant for
this project was made
available through the Rural Business Enterprise
Grant (RBEG) program
(RBEG), which promotes
development of small and
emerging businesses in
rural areas. Specifically
the RBEG funding will be
used to develop a comprehensive business plan and
marketing study to create
a Native Food Hub, which
will be the first of its kind
in the nation.
The need to develop a
marketing plan came about
because the Native American farmers found at the
end of the growing season
they usually had an abundance of produce that was
not being sold or utilized.
A food hub will ideally offer a location where native
producers can deliver their
goods for processing and
distribution to market.
The Acoma Business
Enterprises was requested
by the 10 Southern Pueblo Council to apply for
the funding because of the
company’s capacity to create the plan and administer
the implementation of the
marketing of the produce
grown in the 10 pueblos.
The RBEG program
may also be used to help
fund distance learning networks and employment-related adult education programs. Eligible applicants
for the program include
public bodies, nonprofit
corporations and federally
recognized Indian Tribes.
Since the beginning of the
Obama
Administration,
the RBEG program has
helped create or save more
than 73,000 rural jobs, provided over copy70.9 million in economic development assistance, improved
manufacturing capability,
and expanded health care
and educational facilities,
and has either expanded
or helped establish almost
41,070 rural businesses
and community projects.
President Obama’s plan
for rural America has
brought about historic investment and resulted in
stronger rural communities. Under the President’s
leadership, these investments in housing, community facilities, businesses
and infrastructure have
empowered rural America to continue leading
the way – strengthening
America’s economy, small
towns and rural communities. USDA’s investments
in rural communities support the rural way of life
that stands as the backbone
of our American values.
Buyer in Parisian Auction of Hopi Religious
Objects Plans to Repatriate
Marianne Barriaux
Associated Press
Paris (AFP) - A US
foundation has revealed
it was the mystery buyer
of sacred Native American objects auctioned off
in Paris under a cloud of
controversy, and will return them to the tribes that
claim them.
The Annenberg Foundation announced it had
bought 21 Hopi religious
objects which are worn by
dancers during religious
ceremonies and considered as living beings -- and
three San Carlos Apache
objects for $530,000
(390,000 euros) “for the
sole purpose of returning
them to their rightful owner.”
The auction had gone
ahead despite several attempts to block the sale
of the colorful objects and
head-dresses, including attempts by the US embassy.
Advocacy group Survival International had
also challenged the auction in court on behalf of
the Hopi tribe, but the case
was dismissed by a judge
who ruled the sale was legal in France.
“Our hope is that this act
sets an example for others
that items of significant
cultural and religious value can only be properly
cared for by those vested
with the proper knowledge and responsibility,”
Sam Tenakhongva, a Hopi
cultural leader, said in the
Tuesday statement an-
nouncing the purchase.
“They simply cannot be
put up for sale.”
The auction also included other pieces of Native
American art belonging
to a private collector, but
the controversy focused
on the sale of 27 objects
considered sacred by the
tribes.
Pierre Servan-Schreiber,
the lawyer who represented the Hopi in the legal
attempt to block the sale,
bought one of the objects
for 13,000 euros and will
return it to the Hopi, but
the fate of the two other
items included in the sale
remained unclear.
Mark Taplin, Charge
d’Affaires at the US embassy in Paris, on Wednesday welcomed the foundation’s move.
“The embassy will continue to support Native
American tribes that request our assistance when
culturally or religiously
significant items are being
offered for sale at auction,” he said.
“The need for real dialogue in advance of such
public sales, along with
stronger legal protections,
was once again made apparent.”
All in all, the 27 objects
fetched 550,000 euros.
Gregory
Annenberg
Weingarten, director of the
Los Angeles-based foundation that funds non-profit organisations around the
world, said he took the decision to buy the artifacts
after Survival International’s legal challenge failed.
“As an artist, I was
struck by the awesome
power and beauty of these
objects,” he said.
“But these are not trophies to have on one’s
mantel, they are truly sacred works for the Native
Americans. They do not
belong in auction houses
or private collections.
“It gives me immense
satisfaction to know that
they will be returned home
to their rightful owners,
the Native Americans.”
The controversy echoed
a similar case in April
when French firm Neret-Minet ignored international appeals to halt
the sale of some 70 Hopi
religious objects that
eventually fetched around
930,000 euros.
That auction was decried as a sacrilege by
activists including Hollywood legend Robert Redford.
The sale of sacred Indian artifacts has been outlawed in the United States
since 1990 but the law
does not extend to sales
overseas.
The judge in charge of
the legal challenge to this
most recent auction acknowledged that the sale
of the objects could “constitute an affront to the
dignity” of the tribe.
But she said “this moral
and philosophical consideration does not in itself
give the judge the right to
suspend the sale of these
masks which is not forbidden in France”.
Letter to Editor
Orrin Chimerica has
haunted eyes. Slightly
watery and red. Likely
from the three shots he
received hours ago for his
lingering post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD).
His eyes have seen more
of the horror of war than
many people. As a Combat Corpsman (Medic) in
the United States Navy.
He was the first person to
patch up the injured on the
battlefield. The suicide a
week and a half ago of a
friend and fellow veteran
who had completed two
combat tours shook him
but also made him more
determined to inform veterans that there are places
to go for help. As the New
American Legion Post
3 Commanding Officer
in Flagstaff and the only
Hopi Native American
to assume the post, Chimerica is in a position to
deliver on that determination. “I want to do this for
everybody, not just Native
Americans but any veteran who comes through
these doors, that’s my job”
Chimerica said. “A lot of
people died for the flag, a
lot of people served under
the Flag and ultimately
many veterans are buried
under the Flag.”
The American Legion
while a closed and private
club restricted to those
who are veterans. Ladies
Auxiliary Unit and Son’s
of the American Legion
reaches out to the community in a number of ways,
all with the goal of helping the veterans and their
spouses. The American
Legion supports the boys’
states; the Lady Auxiliary
Unit supports the girls’
state. Mr. Chimerica personally delivers flags to
the Eagle Scouts. Legion
members collect blankets,
jackets, hygiene dits and
dried good s for the homeless veterans. The American Legion in Flagstaff
put on an event called,
“Stand Down” for homeless veterans, where they
collected donations like
sleeping bags, blankets
and anything that would
help from the city of Flagstaff and Camp Navajo in
Bellemont.
“We need to serve our
veterans but at the same
time, when you are a veteran you always taught
responsibility,
loyalty,
integrity and honesty…
When you come through
here, you can’t just be
asking for a handout, you
have to help yourself,
too,” Chimerica said. He
said there are a lot of organizations available to help
with different needs and
the Legion helps direct
people to where they need
to go. They have vans
to transport people to the
Prescott VA, where people
can get medical treatment.
Coconino County is a big
county; there are a lot of
veterans out there. If they
are in distress or if they
need help. (They should
go) to the nearest hospital.
Get it done, go the nearest
VA where you can get the
proper Help,” Chimerica
said. His officers, a se-
nior-vice (second in command) a junior-vice (third
in command) a Chaplain
a Financial Adjutant and
a Sergeant at arms are all
involved in our reach to
the veterans and helping
them get help.
Chimerica said the
Ladies Auxiliary, which
donates much time and
resources as well as the
Son’s of the American
Legion has lead much
success to special events
within the Post. The three
elements support each
other.
“It’s kinda cool to be the
first Native American to
be the Commanding Officer of the Flagstaff Post.
Chimerica is from Tuba
City, AZ. and has spent
13 years in the United
States Navy as a Combat
Corpsman with six Combat Tours under his belt.
His father, Paul Chimerica
Jr., who now is deceased,
was the first in his family
to graduate from Arizona
State University and then
Northern Arizona University. His father was a
math teacher at the junior
high school in Tuba City
and had a message for his
son Orrin Chimerica.
“He always told me,
‘Don’t stay here, go out
and do something,” Chimerica said, adding that he
did by joining the Navy,
where he served two
Combat Tours to Bosnia,
two to Guatemala, one to
Afghanistan and last to
Iraq as a Special Forces
Combat Corpsman. He
sees his work today in
helping veterans find the
care they need in the same
way he saw helping soldiers as a Corpsman on
the battlefield.
“If you’re hungry, I can
make you a sandwich. If
you need to go to Prescott
for PTSD, alcohol/drug
or some sort problem, we
can get you down there,”
Chimerica said. “Even
though I can’t help you on
the battlefield anymore, I
can help here at the American Legion Post. “That’s
what helps me sleep at
night.” He said that a lot
of veterans are lost today to suicide just as he
lost his friend. “It’s sad,
damn, he made it through
two combat tours then
he comes home – he was
100% disabled so he was
getting his monthly benefits but then he decides to
commit suicide.
Orrin Chimerica wants
to intervene before a veteran gets to the point
where they feel like suicide is the only option.
“There’s somebody that
loves you, so let’s address
the problem, get you fixed
up, at least put a bandaid on, but you can live,”
Chimerica said. “These
are the guys we need to
get into the VA system.
“You put on a uniform
and served your Country,
now it’s time this Country should be taking care
of you.” Mr. Chimerica
acknowledged that a lot
of veterans do not know
what services are available but even the ones
who do do not always get
the help they need.
“There was a slogan at
the VA that says, “It takes
a warrior to ask for help.”
Chimerica loved that slogan during his 10 month
stint at the Prescott Veterans Hospital for treatment
for PTSD. He was one of
the stubborn ones, he said,
who didn’t think he needed any help. Chimerica
still has nightmares and
flash backs. He said his
memories of combat will
never go away. Smells and
sounds trigger his PTSD,
however; the VA program
helped him. “Now, after
I got the proper help, I
know how to deal with it,”
he said, “I go outside, I go
for a walk, I play with the
dog. I just do something.
That is what mindful meditation means. It is about
doing things and addressing things. Not through
drugs or alcohol.”
Chimerica believes his
experience can help him
help others like himself
and their families. He
said it is not just male veterans who need to reach
out for help. There are
women veterans, too, who
are dealing with the same
issues and need help as
well. “I will help anyone
who walks through the
doors,” Chimerica said,
“That’s why I became
the Post Commander, to
help.”
The American Legion is located at 204 W.
Birch Ave., Flagstaff, AZ.
86001.
Orrin Chimerica
Commanding Officer
American Legion Post 3
Flagstaff, Arizona
The Hopi Tribe
Position: General Counsel
Program: Office of the General Counsel
Salary: $185,000.00
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Christmas Angels Bring in over 200 gifts for Head Start Children
Mihio Manus
Hopi Tutuveni
Hundreds of children
from the Hopi Head Start
Programs gathered in the
lobby of the Hopi Health
Care Center in anticipation of a visit from Santa
Claus on Thu, Dec. 12.
Jolly olde Saint Nick made
special stop to deliver gifts
on behalf of the Christmas
Angels Program undertaken by volunteers at the
Hopi Health Care Center.
Lisa Lomavaya, Volunteer Coordinator for
HHCC, told the students
and gathered audience that
over 200 Christmas Angel
ornaments were placed on
a tree at the Health Care
Center and within one day
all the ornaments were
taken.
The ornaments all had
the name of a head start
student and other pertinent information. When a
Christmas Angel takes the
ornament they are then obligated to provide a gift for
a child.
Captain DeAlva Honanie was on hand to hank
the crowd for attending the
presentation.
“It’s one of the highlights of our year,” she
said. “We look forward to
seeing the children. The
three and four year olds
are so precious and tiny.”
Capt. Honanie wanted
to instill in the children
that coming to the hospital
can be fun.
“Coming to the hospital
before you’re sick is quite
okay to do,” she said.
Honanie also has a child
in head start. She said that
her baby is a head start
teacher. Jokingly she said,
“I don’t know if she’ll ever
graduate from head start.”
Lomavaya also said that
she’s had three children
in the head start program.
Her youngest child, Neveah, is one of the reasons
she started the Christmas
Angels Program back in
2008. As a working mother she wondered how she
could help the head start
program while still working at the HHCC. She
found a way to bring the
Christmas Angels program
to the HHCC.
Rayma Duyongwa, Director of the Hopi Head
Start Program said she
was honored and pleased
to be apart of the program.
“I’ve been working for the
head start program for seven years and it has been a
wonderful experience for
me. It continues to be a
wonderful experience and
I love the children very
much”
Duyongwa thanked the
HHCC staff for sharing in
the Christmas Angels program and bringing smiles
to the faces of the children.
Duyongwa also reiterated that traditionally across
the Hopi Reservation it
was Kyaamuya, a time of
peace.
“Right now it’s a time
to tell stories. We stay Bells” in Hopi and also handed out everyone brought on behalf of their
inside. We have time to “I’m a Head Start Kid”.
shared in snacks and cook- children.
learn about respecting othAfter the gifts were ies that the parents had
ers and ourselves. We care
for the earth. It’s a time to
spend quality time together. This is one of those
days.”
The Head Start Director
also thanked the HHCC
and all the people who participated by sponsoring an
ornament.
Before Santa Claus
made his appearance the
children
sang “Jingle
Clockwise from Top Left: Head Start children eagerly await the arrival of Santa Claus and the gifts he’ll
bring to them. The Christmas Tree at Hopi Health Care Center was adorned with over 200 ornaments that
were all taken within the course of a day. What an accomplishment! Santa Claus gives the thumbs up
sign signaling that it’s time to hand our presents.
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
FOR LEGAL SERVICES
THE HOPI TRIBAL HOUSING AUTHORITY
The Hopi Tribal Housing Authority (HTHA) is seeking proposals for an attorney to provide legal services requesting statement of qualifications and fee
proposals from Legal firms to assist the HTHA with legal representation and
services. The selected firm will enter into a fixed-price contract with HTHA.
The HTHA receives Native American Housing Assistance and Self Determination Act (NAHASDA) [25 U.S.C. § 4101] funds and regulations of the Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) AT 24 C.F.R. § et.seq. Indian Preference Section 7(B) of the Indian Self Determination and Education Assistance Act (25
U.S.C. §. 450e (b). This request for proposals is open to both Indian and
Non-Indian firms. Please contact Felicia Yaiva., at (928)737-2556 or submit
a Letter of Interest by fax (928)737-9270 to request a copy of the Request
for Proposal package which includes information on scope of work, Indian
Preference, and due date of RFP receipt.
Free Spay/Neuter Clinic Brings over 150 animals for services
Sylvia Moore
The weekend of Nov. 16 and
17 the Best Friends Animal Society & Soul Dog Rescue sponsored a free spay/neuter event
for dogs and cats in Gap and
surrounding areas. The Tuba
City Humane Society along with
Dr. Carol Holgate and the The
Moenkopi Legacy Inn hosted
the event.
Best Friends contacted Sylvia
Moore of Tuba City High School
to find a place to host the event.
Moore’s husband, Wilfred is the
President of the Moenkopi Developers Corporation. He contacted Randy Wolff who is the
General Manger of the Legacy
Inn and Wolff immediately donated three conference rooms.
John Garcia, Best Friends Emergency Response Manager also
met with Sylvia Moore to strategize how to put it all together.
“First we had to contact Eric
Tewa at the Hopi Revenue Office through Catherine Wright,
the Public Compliance Officer.
Both were in total support of the
event,” Moore said. “We really wanted to push the event in
the Upper and Lower Villages
of Moenkopi. We posted flyers
throughout all the villages.”
On Fri, Nov. 15, Best Friends
and Soul Dog showed up with
all their trucks and trailers to set
up the event.
“We already had 161 animals
signed up for surgeries and the
waiting list was getting longer,”
Moore said. “Up to 35 animals
came from the Upper and Lower
Moencopi Villages for surgeries.
This shows how far the word
spread.”
Tends were set up behind the
hotel which is where all the animals were funneled through.
Animals scheduled for surgery
were sent to the lobby at the back
of the hotel for intake. All others
stayed at the tents for their vaccinations. The event also provided new collars, leashes and dog
food.
Approximately 832 vaccinations were performed. Injured,
sick and animals in need of
treatment were checked out by
vet techs and then determined
as to what needed to be done for
them.
“We had animals that came
in with broken legs, mange,
abscesses and even one with
a piece of a stick in its eye,”
Moore said.
The three conference rooms
had one area all set up for preop and surgeries. Another room
was set up for recovery and yet
another with 100 kennels for animals. The event was fortunate
to not have one single problem
with either animals or people
throughout both days.
“All the animals were very
closely monitored with volunteers checking all of them consistently,” Moore said. “It was
so professionally done. We gave
tours to people who wanted the.
It was a good educational experience for them to see how animals should be treated. They
were all quite impressed and had
no idea what these surgeries entailed.”
Each animal that had surgery
also received a vaccination, deworming, flea and tick treatment
among a variety of other services.
Beyond all the surgeries and
vaccinations, 24 dogs and cats
were rescued.
“Some were puppies and kittens brought in by their owners
and others were relinquished by
their owners.”
Many of the service providers
at the event took in the animals
for surgeries and vaccinations.
“Two had owners and are being returned after they recover.
Others will be adopted,” Moore
said.
Moore wants people to know
that if they weren’t able to get
their animals spayed/neutered,
the TCHS has grant money for
low cost S/N through Dr. Holgate who can be reached at (928)
283-6184. The cost for these
services is $45. She hopes that
owners will being their animals
to the doctor for continued treatment. The clinic is always available for large and small animals
in the Tuba City area.
“Fortunately the Humane Society has been able to consistently secure grants for low cost
spays and neuters. Our rescued
dogs and cats depend solely on
your donations to cover their vet
bills,” Moore said.
Moore wants to thank John
Garcia of Best Friends Animal
Society, Shelby Davis of Soul
Dog Rescue and ASPCA for
bringing these services to Tuba
City to work alongside Dr. Carol
Holgate.
“We are both proud and grateful to partner with you. Thank
you to all the vets, vet techs
and volunteers who helped with the Moenkopi Legacy Inn and
the clinic. Thank you also to Suites for hosting this event.”
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Health
Hopi High Graduate Starts Facebook Group to Promote Healthier,
More Active Life Lifestyles
Crystal Dee
Hopi Tutuveni
Many people use Facebook to keep in
touch with family and friends to share
news, accomplishments or advertise
events. But who would have thought
to use Facebook to reach out to people,
especially Native people, in a positive,
healthy, inspiring way to motivate others
to join in a crusade to a healthier lifestyle?
Waylon Pahona Jr. was diagnosed with
a form of arthritis in his spine that threatened to limit any kind of physical activities. Pahona was shocked at the news because he had always been very active; in
high school he played football, baseball
and wrestling. When he moved to Phoenix after high school he wasn’t as active
and became overweight at 260 lbs.
After Pahona was diagnosed he began
physical therapy and suggested to his
Physical Therapist that he try running,
however, his Physical Therapist recommended that he shouldn’t run because of
his condition. Pahona on the other hand
wanted to prove his Physical Therapist
wrong and began training for a half marathon. Yes, a half marathon, 13 miles. He
didn’t think about starting out with a 5k,
10k or other short distance run, but went
straight into a half marathon.
Pahona began training for the marathon with the help and motivation of his
wife, Janis who is a former Hopi High
school cross country State Champ. She
planned his running schedule and workouts. It was easy for Janis to get back into
running while Pahona had a hard time.
He said he hated to run and he would
sometimes lie that he ran. But he eventually took control of his life and changed
his lifestyle.
Running was an eye opener for Pahona. He had seen what the Hopi High girls
cross country team went through when
his wife Janis was on the team.
“When they finished a race they would
get emotional and cry,” said Pahona. “I
thought they were being dramatic and I
didn’t understand.”
As he was losing weight he became
emotional as he could see the results. He
would be happy and sad, but he prayed.
He eventually realized why the girls
would cry after a race. After he finished a
race he would break down with emotion
knowing what he put his body through
and the feeling of accomplishment.
While training for the half marathon,
Pahona was researching healthy natives
or anything affiliated with health and Native people on Google search; he didn’t
find anything. There were no websites
or support groups that supported healthy
native lifestyles or native fitness. Pahona
wanted to motivate others; mainly Native
American’s in getting healthy and fit.
“I wanted to find other Natives that
shared the same passion as I did in being
active, and mostly to share motivational
stories,” said Pahona.
With that vision in mind he created the
group, Healthy Active Natives (HANS)
in March of 2012. He started the group
with 100 of his friends who shared the
same ideas in sharing their daily fitness
activities.
In creating this group, Pahona wanted
to send a strong message to people that
Native Americans are not alcoholics or
diabetic people. With that message, he
wants everyone in the group to support
one another as they strive to reach their
goals in becoming a healthier and fit person.
“As I was creating this group, I posted pictures of myself when I was at my
heaviest. Sometimes I’d take pictures
with my shirt off to show the transformations I have made with my body. My
friends would make fun thinking I was
showing off, but they didn’t realize what
my intentions were,” said Pahona.
Pahona posted pictures of himself to
show people how big and overweight
he was compared to his current pictures.
While training for the half marathon, Pahona lost a total of 85 lbs. which brought
his weight back to what he weighed in
high school. In posting pictures of himself, people finally caught on and started
posting pictures of themselves and sharing their
stories. This started Motivational Mondays, Transformation Tuesdays and
Flex Fridays.
HANS does not allow
negative comments from people who are
in the group nor does he encourage the
use of dietary supplements. In order to
keep from such things being posted he
enlisted the help of some of his friends
to help him monitor the group as it has
reached over 12,000 members across the
United States and Canada. His administrators are his friends Eric Hardy, Eddie
Ayala, Cassandra Armenta, Lisa Lizoain,
his wife Janis and himself.
Monitoring the group has made it successful where it is now and with more
people joining everyday; “it takes a lot of
work to delete negative comments,” said
Pahona. The administrators add some
kind of component to make the group
work.
“It’s amazing to see what we are doing
for people by inspiring them to become
active. People are posting videos of themselves and their transformation; and they
are becoming sober!! People are actually
adding their children to the mix of their
physical activity,” said Pahona. “Some
days it can get emotional for me because
you see what they are going through. I’m
overwhelmed with good feelings and I
cry when I read some their stories and
how they have overcome their situation.”
Pahona is careful to say that he has
reached celebrity status but feels this
whole experience is weird in a good way.
So many people want to meet him and his
wife.
“We are not any different from anyone.
We’re living how we should live life as
Native people,” said Pahona.
Pahona is currently training for his first
marathon, the PF Chang’s Rock and Roll
Marathon; he has never run in a marathon
before. He is preparing for the marathon
by running 50-60 miles a week.
During the interview, Waylon was frying hamburgers for dinner. A typical day
for Pahona is to get up at 5 a.m. He gets
ready for work; he and his wife get their
boys ready for school and they take turns
dropping them off at school. Then it’s
off to work as a Personal Trainer for the
Gila River Health Care and the Komatki
community. He and his wife work a full
8 hours and after work they both prepare
dinner for their boys. After dinner Pahona will do his training which is sometimes scheduled. The last couple of hours
from 9p.m. to midnight are to check the
group page and make sure people are being positive. Then it’s off to bed and start
Before becoming a Healthy Active Native both Pahona
and his wife wanted to lose weight.
After changing to a more active lifestyle with better
diet, the Pahonas shed unwanted pounds and became
healthier.
the same routine again.
With a schedule like Pahona’s, he has
learned to live by a saying, “Once I get
up, I tell myself I’m going to make the
best out of today. I’m going to be a good
trainer. I’m going to inspire someone for
the day.”
In order for you to be successful in
what you do, Pahona said you have to
motivate yourself. As a personal trainer
that is his lifestyle, telling people that
they can do it. He said he would be a horrible trainer if he was negative and a lot
of it is positive reinforcement for him.
Pahona is Hopi, Tewa and Maricopa.
His parents are Waylon Sr. and Jennifer
Perchero. His father is from Polacca, AZ
where Pahona was raised and his mother
is from the Pee Posh peoples of Gila River Indian Community District 7. Pahona
is Spider and Stick clan, his mother was
adopted into the Hopi Sunforehead Clan.
His wife Janis is from Tewa Village of
Polacca, AZ and belongs to the Tobacco
Clan. Her mother is Dorma Sahneyah.
“I would like to thank all the different
Native communities who have supported us in being very positive with all the
motivational and inspiring posts. I’m
very thankful to them. They are the reason why the group is so successful,” said
Pahona.
Assistant Secretary Washburn Names Dr. Charles M.
Roessel Director of the Bureau of Indian Education
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Monongya Gallery’s Annual Christmas Sale
December 23 & 24, 2013
$10.00 off all Moccasins
30% off regular price on blankets, throws,
T-Shirts, Mugs, place mats
& many other products.
40% off Navajo & Zuni Jewelry
50% off regular price on Katchina carving,
pottery, Hopi jewelry.
All Sales Final.
Come enter our Free Raffle
Drawing Every Hour
from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on December 24th
Also, 1st - 20 customers will receive a free gift
on December 24th
FREE REFRESHMENTS
For more information call (928) 734-2344 or
stop by the shop off Highway 264 – Old Oraibi
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
WASHINGTON – Assistant Secretary Kevin K. Washburn today
announced that he has named Dr.
Charles M. “Monty” Roessel as Director of the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). Roessel, an enrolled
member of the Navajo Nation, had
served as the acting director since
February 2013.
The announcement came today as
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, Assistant Secretary Washburn
and Director Roessel were in Laguna, New Mexico to tour a Bureau of
Indian Education (BIE) tribally controlled grant school located on the
Pueblo of Laguna reservation.
The visit to the Laguna Elementary School and a subsequent roundtable with principals from other local tribally controlled grant schools
and BIE-operated schools will help
inform the work of Interior’s American Indian Education Study Group,
a group that is working to improve
educational outcomes for American
Indian students attending BIE-funded schools.
“The BIE plays a major role in the
education of thousands of American
Indian students across Indian Country,” Washburn said. “As acting director, Dr. Charles M. Roessel has
proven to be an effective steward
of our Indian education programs,
bringing to the Bureau extensive
experience in school leadership and
administration, and an understanding of what’s needed at the local
school level. He is a strong and effective member of my senior management team.”
Before joining the BIE’s headquarters staff in Washington, D.C.
in 2012, Roessel had served since
October 2011 as the Bureau’s Associate Deputy Director for Navajo
Schools, where he was responsible for overseeing 66 BIE-funded
schools on the Navajo Nation reservation in Arizona, New Mexico
and Utah. He became the associate
deputy director after having served
since 2007 as superintendent of
Rough Rock Community School, a
BIE-funded, tribally operated K-12
boarding school near Chinle, Ariz.,
on the Navajo Nation reservation.
From 2010 to 2011, Roessel had
served as chair of the Department of
the Interior’s No Child Left Behind
Negotiated Rule Making Committee
and on the Sovereignty in Navajo Education Reauthorization Task
Force with the Navajo Education
Department of Diné Education.
“I want to thank Assistant Secretary Washburn for his confidence in
me for this important post,” Roessel said. “I am looking forward to
working with Assistant Secretary
Washburn and his team to ensure
that the Bureau of Indian Education
continues to fulfill its two-fold mission of providing our students with
a quality education while respecting
tribal cultures, languages and traditions.”
As Director of the Bureau of Indian Education, Roessel reports to
the Assistant Secretary and oversees three associate deputy directors
who are responsible for education
line offices serving 183 BIE-funded elementary and secondary day
and boarding schools and peripheral
dormitories located on 64 reservations in 23 states. These facilities
provide schooling for more than
40,000 American Indian and Alaska
Native students from the country’s
federally recognized tribes.
The Bureau also serves post-secondary students through higher education scholarships and support
funding to 27 tribal colleges and
universities and two tribal technical
colleges. It also directly operates
two post-secondary institutions:
Haskell Indian Nations University
in Lawrence, Kan., and the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
in Albuquerque, N.M.
Roessel has been a prominent
figure in Indian education for many
years. The Rough Rock Community School, at which he served for
more than a dozen years from 1998
to 2011, had been the first American
Indian-operated, and the first Navajo-operated, school when it opened
in 1966 within what was then the
Bureau of Indian Affairs school system. Today that system is admin-
istered by the BIE, established in
2006.
During his tenure as superintendent at Rough Rock, Roessel helped
to oversee a major school replacement and improvement project
funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
and carried out by the Indian Affairs
Office of Facilities, Environmental
and Cultural Resources. The official
opening of the replacement school
and facilities was held on August
15, 2011.
Roessel started at Rough Rock in
August 1998 as the director of community services, developing programs for teacher recruitment and
student enrollment in addition to
coaching baseball and teaching photography to students. In July 2000,
he became the school’s executive director, where he served until he was
named superintendent in 2007.
Before working for the Rough
Rock Community School, Roessel served from September 1997 to
December 2000 as director of the
Navajo Nation Round Rock Chapter AmeriCorps program where he
developed partnerships to improve
education and housing within the
Round Rock chapter community.
Roessel also has worked as a
photographer, writer and editor for
various publications and projects
including vice-president and editor
of the Navajo Nation Today newspaper (1990-1992), which he also
co-owned; managing editor of the
Navajo Times Today (1985-1987);
a photojournalist with the Greeley
(Colo.) Tribune (1985) and a photographer/writer with the Navajo
View of Navajo Life Project (1984).
In addition, he has worked since
1987 as an author and photographer
on various projects, and has written
extensively about Navajo life and
culture. He also served on the Visual Task Force board for the first
annual gathering of minority journalists associations, including the
NativeAmerican Journalists Association (NAJA), known as the UNITY
conference
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PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
Hopi Resource Enforcement
Services
TOYS FOR TOTS
The Toys for Tots is
a Native American Program whose primary
mission is to distribute
toys and books out to
disadvantaged
Native
American children on
the Reservations within
Arizona. The collection
of toys occurs in California, and then is transported to various Tribal
Police Departments and
Native American Children within Arizona,
New Mexico, Utah, and
Nevada.
This year marks the
“35th” Christmas, the
Marine Corps Toys for
Tots Native American
Program will deliver toys and books to
the Reservations. For
Christmas 2013, toys
will be distributed to
Navajo, Ramah, Hopi,
White Mt. Apache,
San Carlos Apache,
Haulapai, Pascua Yaqui,
Zuni, Tohono O’odham,
Colorado River Indian
Tribes, Chemehuevi and
other Native American
children on their reservations.
Without the tireless
efforts of Lieutenant
Colonel Ray Blum, US
Marine Corps Reserve
(Ret), and Lieutenant
Colonel Peter C. Tagni, US Marine Corps
Reserve (Ret), Native
American children in the
four corners area would
not be receiving toys for
Christmas. These two
individuals deserve recognition for their efforts
in ensuring that every
child gets a Christmas.
In 2002, The Hopi
Resource Enforcement
Services took over from
the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, the Toys for
Tots Native American
Program. Several trips
were made to California
picking up the toys and
bringing them back to
the Hopi Reservation.
To date, the toys are now
being shipped via Semi
Truck from Group Sales
in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Through the years, the
Officer’s and Administrative staff has put forth
100% of their effort
making this event a success. Parents of the children who receive these
toys are appreciative
and give support to the
program for doing this.
Hard times are here and
without this program,
there are some children
out there that would not
have a Good Christmas.
Our hearts go out to all
the Children and we enjoy seeing their happy
faces, filled with excitement when they receive
their toy.
Approximately 5,000
+ toys are being delivered every year. With
the exception of this
year, we have received
7,079 toys. Distributions of the toys are
given in two separate
locations, which are
Moencopi Village and
Kykotsmovi
Village.
The Kykotsmovi Village
site encompasses the areas from Keams Canyon
to Hotevilla, AZ. Notices are posted at locations
all over the Hopi Reservation. This year, the
toys will be distributed
on:
December 20, 2013 @
Hopi Veteran’s Memorial Center, beginning at
3:00 p.m. thru 8 pm.
December 21, 2013 @
Upper Village of Moencopi Community Building, beginning at 1 pm
thru 4 pm.
Opinion
Hope / A Plea to Teens
Andy Magnarella
“Job 6:8 ¶ Oh that I
might have my request;
and that God would grant
me the thing that I long
for!
9 Even that it would
please God to destroy me;
that he would let loose his
hand, and cut me off!
11 What is my strength,
that I should hope? and
what is mine end, that I
should prolong my life?”.
These are very sad and
very sorrowful words of a
man who lost everything.
He lost all his worldly
possessions and all his
children in one day. The
only thing that he had
left was his wife and his
health, and eventually his
health was taken from
Him and his wife told him
to curse God and die.
In his quote of sorrow
here he says that he wishes he would die and he
sees no reason to live on.
Unfortunately many of
our people feel that way.
especially young adults,
teens, and sometimes
younger children. To our
young adults and teens my
heart goes out you! Many
of you feel like Job. Your
homes are split apart, and
you feel it is your fault.
Some of you have been
violated and it makes
you feel dirty, empty and
confused. You thing you
have lost everything in
life including love. The
love of your family, maybe even of your boyfriend
or girlfriend. Some of you
are so empty inside you
drink, do drugs, have sex
or sex parties. And these
things just make you feel
emptier inside and make
you hurt and hate yourself even more, These
types of things brings the
thought of suicide and
ending your existence
to mind, just like was on
Jobs mind. But I want to
tell you that there are at
least two people who are
praying for you, and are
here for you, and love you
genuinely (not perverted).
One is me and the other is
Jesus Christ. If you let me
I will do everything I can
for you and I will be there
for you. This is also why
Jesus came! To give you
and me hope, real love,
and a vision of better future! “Lu 4:18 The Spirit
of the Lord is upon me,
because he hath anointed
me to preach the gospel to
the poor; he hath sent me
to heal the brokenhearted,
to preach deliverance to
the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to
set at liberty them that are
bruised,
19 To preach the acceptable year of the
Lord.”. The versus in
Luke are talking about
Christ Himself and why
he came. It was to hate
you or condemn you,
but quite the opposite!
He came to heal the broken hearted. He came to
preach deliverance to the
captives! To you feel like
you are being held captive
by hopelessness, despair,
darkness, and by maybe the filthiness you feel
by things that have been
done you and forced upon
you? Christ can break that
captivity! He also came to
set at liberty them that
are bruised. Those that
are hurting! I just wanted
to let you know that all
is not lost! There is true
hope, victory, freedom,
and love! And there is
someone praying for you
even though I don’t know
your name! My number
is 928-206-7811, bbctkd.
com.
From the Front Page
From Page 1/Revised Rule to Ensure Monitoring and Protection of Eagles
Only applicants who
commit to adaptive management measures to ensure the preservation of eagles will be considered for
permits with terms longer
than five years. Any such
increased measures, which
would be implemented if
monitoring shows that initial permit conditions do
not provide sufficient protection, will be negotiated with the permittee and
specified in the terms and
conditions of the permit.
All permits will be closely monitored to ensure that
allowable take numbers
are not exceeded and that
conservation
measures
are in place and effective
over the life of the permit.
The revised regulations
also increase the fees
charged for processing
programmatic permit applications to reflect the
true cost to the Service of
developing adaptive conservation measures and
monitoring the effectiveness of the terms and conditions of the permits.
Permits also will now be
transferable to new owners
of projects, provided that
any successor is qualified
and committed to carrying
out the conditions of the
permit.
The Service will solicit
additional public input on
the 2009 permit regulations at a series of regional
workshops that will take
place in early 2014, along
with an opportunity to
submit written comments.
The Service anticipates
publishing a proposed rule
and accompanying NEPA
documents in fall of 2014,
with a final rule and NEPA
documents in fall of 2015.
From Page 1/Hundreds of Ancestors to Return Home
museums and government
agencies that had historically seen these human remains more as objects than
as people.
One problem, though:
in cases where the skeletons came from unknown
locations, there was never
a formalized process for
how or where reburials
were to take place. Colorado’s state archaeologist
Richard Wilshusen says
of these orphaned human
remains, “It’s one of those
things where you write
laws, you write regulations, but these were things
that did not get defined.”
Ernest House Jr. is the
great-grandson of Jack
House, the last hereditary
chief of the Weeminuche
Band. Today, Ernest House
Jr. is the executive director
of the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs, the
main organization addressing tribal needs within the
state. The effort to find
places to rebury Native
Americans in Colorado, he
says, addresses a number
of longstanding problems
tribes have faced.
One challenge is the
sheer number of skeletons
and associated artifacts.
After the passage of NAGPRA, House says, “we
found colleges and universities teaching biology
classes with them—boxes
and boxes of remains that
professors were using as
teaching tools.”
Colorado State Parks
has allowed reburials on
their land since the mid2000s. Yet with the abundance of human remains
awaiting reinterment, simple logistics have become
a factor. House says, “we
don’t want to overburden
these [state park lands]
that we have available.”
Wilshusen adds that park
staff and tribes have done
a great job conducting reburials and ceremonies in
secret locations throughout the state, but now more
land is needed.
Reburying remains on
tribal lands has long been
a possibility, but has also
proven problematic. Pothunters and looters are notorious throughout southwestern Colorado (where
the Ute Mountain Ute and
Southern Ute reservations
Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Chair Manuel Hart joins federal officials for Friday’s
signing ceremony.
are located), and offenders know that where there
are burials, there are likely
valuable grave goods.
House’s reservation is
nearly 600,000 acres in
size and spreads across
three states, but has little
law enforcement. Those
officers are often handling
serious crimes and have
few resources to deal with
looters. By opening up
thousands of acres of public lands outside the reservation, House says, looting
will hopefully wane.
More importantly, he
says, “tribes require that
reburials happen closest
to where they’ve been removed.” This agreement
streamlines the process to
make that happen. In Colorado, where the state history museum was purchasing
Native American remains
from pothunters 100 years
ago, this is a staggering
turnaround. Mesa Verde’s
original inhabitants may
soon be returning to the
national park.
The Memorandum of
Understanding
between
the tribes and the federal and state governments
sets a precedent, says Ute
Mountain Ute Tribe Chairman Manual Hart.
Wind and Solar Power Best for Navajo Nation
Wahleah Johns
Part of the debate about
how to approach pollution
cleanup at the big Navajo
Generating Station coalfired power plant near the
Grand Canyon has always
revolved around jobs and
revenues for the Navajo
Nation. Federal regulators
heard more on this in recent public hearings.
Some in the Navajo
Nation government very
much want to see a coal
future and therefore slow
or delay any change for
the coal plant as long as
possible. Others, including Navajo community
groups like Black Mesa
Water Coalition and many
Navajo Nation residents,
see the energy landscape
today quite differently.
In the past two years
the two largest U.S. coal
companies, Peabody and
Arch, have lost more than
75 percent of their value,
while over the same period the price of solar panels has dropped some 60
percent.
Utilities around the
country have bought wind
power at prices lower than
coal or natural gas, like
Xcel Energy’s recently approved purchase of nearly
700 megawatts of wind
energy, which will save
customers in New Mexico and Texas nearly $600
million over 20 years.
Coalmines have also
been put up for sale in
Wyoming getting no buyers. An owner of a mine
on the eastern Navajo Nation was eager to sell because of coal’s decreasing
competitiveness. And we
see proposals for coal export terminals in the U.S.
being shelved as projected
demand for imported coal
in pollution-choked China
flattens.
If you look honestly and
objectively at the energy
landscape today, it’s clear
that moving quickly to
curb coal pollution and develop renewable resources
on the Navajo Nation is
the smart economic bet.
It’s the way to build lasting Navajo jobs and revenues that can replace the
ebbing coal era.
A study this month by
Synapse Energy Economics Inc., finds that building
and operating 900 mega-
watts of renewable energy
on the Navajo Nation to
replace one-third of the
coal-fired power at the
Navajo Generating Station will provide approximately the same number
of jobs as that third of the
coal plant and the Kayenta
mine that fuels it.
Factoring in both the direct and indirect employment resulting from the
renewables development,
as well as the jobs created by spending the royalties paid by developers
(or by spending the profits
if the projects are Navajo-owned), nearly 1,000
jobs in total will be created
with 900 megawatts of renewable energy on Navajo
Nation.
In terms of feasibility,
we’re talking about a region with existing transmission infrastructure and
where multiple studies
have found astonishing
potential for both solar
and wind. In terms of additional benefits beyond
jobs, we would see the
savings of large quantities
of Colorado River water
now used in coal production that could be redirected to improve Navajo
agriculture. We would also
see the immeasurable benefit in human health from
producing power without
harmful air pollution.
However, the longer
cleanup requirements for
Navajo Generating Station and the transition they
motivate are delayed or
left uncertain, the more
we inhibit clean alternatives that can provide even
greater economic benefits.
The more that leaders are hesitant to see the
handwriting on the wall
for coal and move to seize
economic opportunity in
clean renewable energy,
the more the Navajo Nation risks missing a window to build and provide
job-and revenue-generating clean power.
It’s a window that will
narrow and eventually close if we wait too
long and too many others
around the Southwest get
there first.
Solution to Last Months Word Find
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Music
Shining Soul are Sonically Smashing The Barriers of Injustice
Mihio Manus/Tutuveni
Based out of Phoenix, the hip hop group Shining Soul has always looked at their music as tool of direct action against injustices within their communities. Left to Right: Franco Habre aka Bronze
Candidate, DJ Reflekshin and Alex Soto aka Liaizon.
By Mihio Manus
Hopi Tutuveni
S
ince it’s inception, the hip hop group
Shining Soul has used music as a form
of direct action to address issues that
face the communities they live in. Both MC Liaizon and Bronze Candidate are natives of Arizona with roots extending three generations and
beyond. The approach they utilize in reaching
their audience is steeped in grassroots methodology. When they want to reach out to the
youth, they go directly to the schools and conduct beat making workshops where they make
connections through music. When they want to
spread the word against border militarization or
protecting Native homelands and sacred sites,
they play rallies and protests. The group doesn’t
aspire to hit the mainstream airwaves adorned
with gold chains flaunting money. They prefer
that their words inspire people to stand up for
their rights and become aware of the injustices
that face their immediate communities.
On the heels of releasing their 2nd album, titled Sonic Smash, Shining Soul hit the road
touring the Southwest to spread their message
of awareness, unity and positivity.
As a form of communication, music can transcend the barriers of language and perception.
Music can bring people closer and foster the
creation of positive memories. Shining Soul
embrace this quality and use it to sonically
smash boundaries and injustices. Check them
out at www.shiningsoulmusic.com.
Introduce yourselves.
MC Liaizon: I’m MC Liaizon, otherwise known
as Alex Soto. I’m one half of the group Shining
Soul and I hail from the community of Sells in
the Tohono Oodham Nation.
Bronze Candidate: My name is Franco Habre
aka the Bronze Candidate. I’m a beat smith and
MC. Born and rising out of Phoenix, Ariz.
DJ Reflekshin: My name is DJ Reflekshin. I’m
Dine from Shiprock, NM, by way of Phoenix. I’ve
been deejaying for ten years going on eleven.
My clans are Taabaaha and Hashkan Adzoi.
How do you see music as form of direct
action or as a tool to confront injustices
within your community?
Liaizon: I see music as story telling and media
justice. In 2013, as an indigenous person, as
Tohono Oodham, my rhymes are going to reflect where I come from. I definitely carry the
experiences that I’ve seen. My rhymes relate to
my community as it faces the pillars of border
militarization. You can’t ignore it. You’re gonna
see that in my rhymes. At the same time I see
the connection with Phoenix where I’m seeing
more discrimination against people of color.
That’s what I’ve been seeing since the immigration scare has been popping off. Music is a way
to actively get your word out. It’s a way to get
people to bob their heads too. That’s how hip
hop got started back in the day. It was to make
something out of nothing. To share the political
backdrop of the communities in which we live.
Look at hip hop history and you see that it came
from a very conscious space. The only difference
is that nowadays we have a lot of mainstream
garbage that takes us away from the more serious messages.
Bronze Candidate: Those innate qualities that
are within us, as far as creativity, could be our
tools and quote/unquote weaponry. We claim
space and in a way we claim our lives to be who
we are. Whatever that looks like, if it’s just maintaining the hip hop culture in its essence that
could be one aspect. Or it could be confronting
the issues and frontline oppressors we face everyday, be it the priests, be it the police, be it
“W
e can know our rights but what does that mean in the face
of law and tyranny? They’re stopping mobility. Whether
it’s crossing the border or moving from community to community to
get those basic sustainable items like food, clothes and water. There
are many layers of these barriers.” - Bronze Candidate
the boss or be it any person that is trying to rip
you from your dignity. Hip Hop is way to fight
back and also to express the positive things in
your life.
DJ Reflection: The first thing I learned when I
started deejaying is that music is multicultural.
It can reach so many different people. Whether
you’re playing Latin music, Navajo Music, breaks,
funk or soul, it speaks to everybody. That’s what
made me love music and how I play music. It’s
cool to see how people react when they hear
songs they like. They get excited. Music will
bring back memories. It can change your day
or change your mood. That’s how I learned that
music can be multicultural. It speaks to everybody.
Talk a bit about the border issues/checkpoint issues that exist in Tohono Oodham?
Liaizon: My community shares 79 miles of the
so-called US/Mexico border. For those that
don’t know the Tohono Oodham Nation is located roughly 40 miles west of Tucson. Our
reservation is about as big as Connecticut and
is the second largest behind the Navajo Nation
in size. With the current push for immigration
reform coupled with the country’s economic
policies, it has forced indigenous people from
Mexico to migrate up this way. In the 90s the
migration was happening in the bigger cities
along the border. Eventually the border patrol
shut down Tijuana and Nogales. Now where do
the people go to cross? These people who are
just trying to survive are now crossing through
my reservation. Now we’re stuck in the middle
of it. We’re just being Tohono Oodham and trying to carry on just like the tribes up here in
Northern Arizona. We have to deal with people
in our backyards disturbing us and disturbing
our ceremonies and having checkpoints in our
communities on every major road. Just imagine
going through your local border town up here
in Northern Arizona and having to go through
a major checkpoint. My people are resilient
though. It’s who we are and that’s how were
able to hold space. Through music, for sure, I’m
able to share that message and bring light to
the issues that are happening in our community.
being forcibly removed from their communities
due to policies such as NAFTA. All that wraps
into these symptoms of imperialism that take
on the face of Arpaio, SB1070 and Secured Communities. These programs allow federal agencies and frontline oppressors like the Phoenix
Police Department to collaborate and target
migrants, brown people and people of color.
With the profiling, now it’s basically legal. It’s up
to the officer’s discretion to pull over a person
arbitrarily. Before it wasn’t legal but it was still
being done. We can know our rights but what
does that mean in the face of law and tyranny?
They’re stopping mobility. Whether it’s crossing
the border or moving from community to community to get those basic sustainable items like
food, clothes and water. There are many layers
of these barriers. But we know that through creativity and hip hop we can make them fall and
turn these walls into bridges.
What are songs on your new album that
address some of these issues?
out the mechanics and machinery used to make
beats. For the past 6 years, we shared our skills.
We bring out the tools we use to make music.
It’s in line with the legacy of how hip hop was
made back in the day. It’s using beat machines,
sequencers and the element of sampling records. In hip hop you use those instruments to
make your own instruments. You remix them or
manipulate them to make them your own. It’s
a skill share environment and we try to be informal and comfortable. A lot of the kids are
already in tune with beat culture. The frequency
is there. What they hear on the day-to-day isn’t
always the most positive, so we come with the
actions of creating your own music and delving
into the message aspect of sharing your own
stories. We started in the Phoenix libraries
but have been invited to the local reservations,
down to Tucson, the TO Community and all over
the inner city. We also incorporate the element
of rhyme writing.
Liaizon: Hip Hop, like in our own cultures as
Native peoples, it’s about sharing and keeping
that energy and culture alive. That’s a similarity with back home. It’s a craft, it’s an art and a
culture and it needs to be kept up. With beat
making, we’ve been able to share with the next
generation. We definitely see that many of the
youth that we reached out to four or five years
ago are still doing it. It’s good to see that progression and culture still alive. It’s a good way
to give back. It’s transformed into what Bronze
Candidate just said with the make up, layout and
the outreach. We’ve gone from the inner city to
the reservation to share it. We want the kids to
know that they can do it as well. You don’t need
a million dollar studio or all the fancy gear. Hip
hop came from people with two turntables, flipping break beats making them into park jams to
where we’re at now. The possibilities are endless. That’s why we do what we do.
Bronze Candidate: First and foremost we have
a song called ‘No Mercy’. Basically it’s talking
about the criminalization of our communities
and the response to militarization, criminalization and the profiling. In the face of all these
elements we felt there needed to be a response.
It’s a fierce but critical message. But it’s also a
very sensitive message because we wanted to
incorporate everybody who is being attacked.
One strike against our community, be it Chicano
or Latino/Latina or from the Native American
DJ Reflekshin, do you have other projects
communities, is a strike against everyone. We’re
outside of Shining Soul?
all facing it at different levels.
Liaizon: Every track has a sprinkling of it. ‘No
Mercy’ is definitely one and ‘Breathe Life’ is another which breaks down everything that my
dude just said into bars and raps. It depends
on how you look at it but we’re expressing what
we’re seeing and what we’re feeling. Hip hop
has the power to do that. In this case though
we’re sharing things that not many people know
about. It might make you feel a little uneasy or
take you out of your comfort zone but that is
what good art does. In our case, we use hip hop.
We try to keep it funky. Out set is a combination of sounds. That’s why our second album is
called Sonic Smash.
DJ Reflekshin: I dabble in a little of everything.
I buy records. I make beats. You can check them
out on Sound Cloud. I do little projects for people. I’ve done a Soul Shades episode for Soul
Shades Radio, a podcast. It was all neo-soul. I
did #13. I got a lot of positive feedback from
them. I try to do everything I can to add more
badges to the DJ rep. Some people just want to
be club DJs. I want to keep adding. I’ve been in
battles; I’ve been featured on songs. The more
things I do are more stripes toward earning my
badge as a DJ.
Do you have any messages to the young aspiring Native DJs?
Bronze Candidate, talk about some issues that you see facing your communi- Tell us about the beat making workshops
DJ Reflekshin: The best thing I can say is that it
ty?
you’ve initiated.
will embrace you back. With anything in music,
if you put the effort into it, to make music, to
Bronze Candidate: I come from a lineage of Bronze Candidate: Basically beat making is
make beats, to rhyme, to sing powwow, it will
migration having family still in Mexico, the a hidden craft when it comes to hip hop. The
embrace you back.
state of Jalisco and down to Puerto Vallarta. I approach has been kind of ambiguous but now
always reach back to where I’m from initial- it’s become more accessible for youth to figure
ly and then orient myself to where I currently
am. I’m in Phoenix, Ariz., right now, which is
occupied Oodham land. As a person from this
lineage, living in the Phoenix area for three
generations, I identify as Chicano. In this way
I identify myself as an indigenous person not
specifically to Arizona but down further in the
Americas, South America. But I’m definitely a
product of the Mexican diaspora where the
lure from communities down south of the border is making folks migrate. In some cases it’s
forcible because people aren’t able to sustain
themselves where they were. Now you see that
boundaries and borders are established. People
are forced to leave their homelands and forced
to make makeshift homes on indigenous lands.
From the Gadsden Purchase to 2013, that struggle still exists. Those elements of imperialism
are still present, extracting folks from their Bronze Candidate (center) and MC Liaizon (Right) rocked a set at the 2013 NAU Indigenous Fashion Bash held at the
communities, from the neighborhood, or people fieldhouse at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Ariz.
8 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2013 | HOPI TUTUVENI
Hopi Crossword
New Tribal Member Enrollees
HOPI TRIBAL MEMBERSHIP
During the month of December 2013
the Hopi Tribal Council approved a total
of 61 enrollment applicants for membership into the Hopi Tribe, and that the following named enrollees or their sponsors
have authorized to publish their names in
the Hopi Tutuveni.
Based on Tribal Council’s action the
total Hopi Tribal Membership at present is: 13,958. Please note that the Tribal Membership figure is increased on
quarterly basis as Hopi Tribal Council
approves new enrollees and is decreased
when deaths are reported and Hopi Tribal relinquishments occur.
Bacavi Village Affiliation:
Brandon Mathias Dixon
Hotevilla Village Affiliation:
Analyse Charmaine Brown
Edward James Sekaquaptewa, II
Alyson Rose Sekaquaptewa
Alyssa Renee Sekaquaptewa
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Solution to be printed in January 7th Tutuveni
Kykotsmovi Village Affiliation:
Lilyana Bella Hernandez
Ava Nola Lalo
Kaitlyn Emilee Navakuku
Nashoba Paamoyma Redhouse
Nicolas Vicenti Vigil
Mishongnovi Village Affiliation:
Warren Cal Bahnimptewa
Briley Evelyn Gould
Lee Keoki Kamakea
Eli Kai Lama
Elijah Blaine Tenorio
Isaiah Gabriel Track
Moenkopi Village Affiliation:
Shaundiin Etta Begay
Leonelle Marilupe Jasso Dugi
Theron Wesiuma Fredericks
Sophia Rose Hawthorne
Melissa Nicole Humetewa
Lynnzie Raye Lomatewaima
Shungopavi Village Affiliation:
Amare Nicholas Calnimptewa
Simeon Gil Calnimptewa
Tyler Chance Calnimptewa
Espi Aura Dashee-Reyes
Sichomovi Village Affiliation:
Jase Laiden Curley
Sia Hudson Curley
Miguel Angel Dashee
Christina Raquel Gonzalez-Poolheco
Ciara Ruthlina Gonzalez-Poolheco
Danika Ann Slick
Tewa Village Affiliation:
Mary Anne Aiko Nahsonhoya
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MEETING
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HOPI TRIBE’S ROAD
CONSTRUCTION
PROJECT
H.I.R. 501(3) BACAVI
VILLAGE STREETS
The Hopi Tribe is
proposing to accomplish
a road and bridge
construction
project
within the Hopi Indian
Reservation,
Navajo
County, Arizona.
The
proposed
construction
project
consists
of
grading, draining, and
surfacing construction on
approximately 0.75 miles
of roadway also known as
BIA Route 501(3) Bacavi
Village Streets project to
be improved.
PROJECT
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The Hopi Tribe is pro- written comments for conposing to accomplish a sideration into the official
roads construction proj- record. Written comments
ect within the Hopi Indi- will be accepted until
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Main Street
“E”
Old
Dump
Road
“N” Street
“A” Street
The purpose of this “L” Street
meeting is to solicit “B” Street
from
interested
and “M” Street
affected parties input and
comment as it relates to
The purpose of this
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and any impacts the interested and affected
proposed project may parties input and comhave on local residents ment as it relates to poor the environment. The tential design options and
meeting is also to inform any impacts the proposed
and educate the traveling project may have on local
public about upcoming residents or the environroadway
construction ment. The meeting is also
activities proposed on the to inform and educate the
reservation.
traveling public about upcoming roadway construcDATE OF MEETING:
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December 17, 2013
the reservation.
TIME: 6:30 – 8:30 PM
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December 16, 2013
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H.I.R. 4(1) TURQUOISE TRAIL Phase
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The Hopi Tribe is proposing to accomplish a
road and bridge construction project within the
Hopi Indian Reservation,
Navajo County, Arizona.
The proposed construction project consists of
grading, draining, and surfacing to include bridge
construction on approximately 4.14 miles of roadway also known as BIA
Route 4(1) Turquoise Trail
to be improved.
The purpose of this
meeting is to solicit from
interested and affected
parties input and comment as it relates to potential design options and
any impacts the proposed
project may have on local
residents or the environment. The meeting is also
to inform and educate the
traveling public about upcoming roadway construc-
tion activities proposed on Hopi Department of
the reservation.
Transportation
P.O. Box 123
DATE OF MEETING: Kykotsmovi, AZ 86039
December 17, 2013
(928) 734-3204
TIME: 3:00 – 5:00 PM
LOCATION: Veteran’s
Individuals or organiMemorial Center
zations unable to attend
the meeting may submit
Additional
information written comments for conmay be obtained from:
sideration into the official
record. Written comments
Hopi Tribe
will be accepted until
close of business December 30, 2013. Comments
should be submitted to the
above address.
For questions, or further
information regarding the
meeting or the proposed
project, please contact
Michael Lomayaktewa,
Director, Department of
Transportation, at (928)
734-3204.
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