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Volume 27 Number 10

TUESDAY, May 21, 2019

By INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY

Editorial Team

Patty Talahongva named to lead Indian

Country Today’s new television programs

Patty Talahongva has been selected as

the executive producer for Indian Country

Today’s new television news program. Talahongva is a multimedia journalist who

has rich experience in television, radio, and

newspaper journalism. She is a member of

the Hopi Tribe.

“I can’t think of anyone more qualified

for this position than Patty Talahongva,”

said Mark Trahant, editor of Indian Country

Today. “It’s as if she has been preparing for

years for this exact job and for this moment

in history.”

Indian Country Today will soon open a

newsroom on the campus of Arizona State

University. The goal of the nonprofit news

enterprise is to expand its news gathering

operation and to produce the first national

news show by and about Native Americans. Indian Country Today is also planning a short daily video report as well as

other broadcast projects. Talahongva will be

based in Phoenix, beginning in early June.

Tahlanongva has experience with a variety of television, video, and radio formats.

“I like to say I've produced TV newscasts as

long as two-hours and as short as two min-

Elfina Kalemsa of Hopi Tribal Housing

Authority Named Haven Professional

of the Year

Travois Honors Industry “Superheroes”

at Annual Conference

Picture courtesy of sender.

By: Eden Rensing

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – May 9, 2019,

Travois, a Certified B Corporation®

based in Kansas City, Mo., recognized

five outstanding industry professionals

and an American Indian tribal entity at a

Superhero Awards ceremony on April 11.

The consulting firm, continuing 24 years

in business and directing more than $1.4

billion of investment in American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian communities, held the ceremony at

its 19th Annual Indian Country Affordable Housing & Economic Development

Conference in Miami, Florida.

“Since 2015 we’ve honored industry professionals doing amazing work

in their communities,” said Elizabeth

Glynn, Travois chief executive officer.

“These honorees have filled their communities with beautiful homes, successful businesses and created thousands of

jobs with the use of the Low Income

Housing Tax Credit and New Market Tax

Credit programs. Our annual awards cer-

emony celebrates the important work of

Indian Country’s housing and economic

development professionals and provides

inspiration to all in attendance.”

Haven Professional of the Year — Elfina Kalemsa, resident services program

manager for Hopi Tribal Housing Authority; Polacca, AZ helps ensure Indian

Country housing remains strong for the

future. Kalemsa’s work ethic and dedication to helping families in her community is inspiring. She listens to the needs

of both tenants and co-workers, and she

works tirelessly to ensure the wheels stay

in motion, the units get rented up, and

the needs of her community are served.

She has balanced 80 units — low rent

and tax credit — all while staying active

in her community and raising a family.

She is a member of the Hopi Tribe,

Roadrunner Clan from the Village of Sichomovi in Ariz. and she has worked in

affordable housing since 2009.

“Decent, affordable housing is a need

of all in Indian Country,” Kalemsa said.

“I am blessed to be able to help our own

tribal members live in that kind of

Daryl Melvin

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Cont on Page 3

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - The Hopi Tribe

Economic Development Corporation

(HTEDC) Board of Directors announced

today the appointment of Ms. Cindy

Smith as the new CEO of HTEDC. With

over 24 years in Tribal Economic Development, Public Service and the Agriculture Industry, the new CEO brings a vast

and varied amount of experience to the

operation. She spent 17 years, as the Executive Director of Huron County, Ohio,

Senior Enrichment Services, and Huron

County Transit. Most recently, she has

been the HTEDC’s Director of Human

Resources.

Ms. Smith will succeed current CEO,

Mr. Chuck Thompson, who will be retiring after providing four years of excellent leadership. Ms. Smith will assume

the position June 1, 2019.

The Board of Directors spent months

reviewing and interviewing a strong

pool of candidates from throughout the

U.S. in advance of Mr. Thompson’s rePUBLIC

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Hopi Tutuveni

Hopi Conducts Special Eagle

Gathering Meeting

By: CARL ONSAE

HOPI TUTUVENI

POLACCA, Ariz. - The Hopi Cultural

Preservation Office (CPO) held a special meeting for the Hopi community on

May 8, 2019, regarding the collection of

eagles.

This meeting was to inform various

clan members from all the Hopi villages who also serve as holders for the

eagle houses, that permits from the Hopi

Tribe’s CPO would be available and necessary to gather and collect the sacred

eagles for cultural and ceremonial use.

Stewart Koyiumptewa, Director CPO

stated that through the 1934 Compact

and agreement with the Navajo Nation,

the CPO office had received the permits

from the Navajo Nation which in turn

will be distributed to the clan holders

on May 13, 2019 and every day thereafter. Having a permit will ensure clan

members and holders to have access to

the Navajo lands to gather eagles at the

eagle gathering nests.

Hopi Wildlife Department staff was

also present at the meeting. Darrin Talayumptewa from the Hopi Wildlife Department spoke about how eagle breeding areas are starting to become empty

due to low wildlife in the area. Talayumptewa stated, “The rabbit population is at an all time low due the drought

last year and we’re predicting that the

wildlife population will be low this year,

because of the lack of moisture and vegetation.” Talayumptewa also stated that

more and more eagles are moving away

from their natural breeding nests due to

the fact that there is not enough food for

the eagles.

Talayumptewa also stated that fleas

and ticks are going to increase when the

eagles are gathered. This is due to the

fact that Arizona is experiencing major

drought this year and with the strange

weather patterns, pests are being more

apparent on wildlife. Talayumptewa cautioned the men and reminded them to be

careful when gathering and handling the

eagles, because of the diseases that fleas

and ticks carry.

Talayumptewa also cautioned the men

about the risks associated with taking eagles from nests at an earlier age prior to

the eaglets getting proper food and care

from the parents first. Talayumptewa

stated, “More and more eagles are being

taken while they still have their white

fluffs and they are dying because of the

lack of proper care.”

Talayumptewa’s staff is trying to monitor several breeding sites on and off the

Hopi reservation and this collective data

will tell them how and where the breeding sites are being affected. Talayumptewa states that some birds are trapped

and fitted with a transmitter to monitor

their living conditions. He hopes that

with this data, the eagles will start to

come back to their traditional nesting

grounds.

In other investigations, Talayumptewa

stated that due to major disturbances

around their nesting area, eagles are

moving further away from their traditional breeding grounds. This is because

of non-Hopis are moving into the area

where the eagles nest. Talayumptewa’s

report stated that the Hopi Resource

Enforcement Services (HRES) uncovered an eagle nesting sight that had bullet holes around their nest and found an

adult eagle that had been shot and left

for dead. This investigation is an on going process where several Hopi eaglenesting sights are being shot at by nonHopis.

Koyiumptewa stated that more and

more of the younger generation nonHopis, as well as many of our younger

Hopi generation do not know about the

1934 compact, where it states that members of the Hopi Tribe can enter parts of

the Navajo reservation to gather eagles

and plants for ceremonial use. Koyiumptewa stated that the non-Hopis are

becoming more aggressive to the Hopi

people and are trying to keep Hopis

from gathering eagles at the respective

Hopi sacred sites which have been visited since time immemorial and before

any compacts or new reservation lands

determined.

Koyiumptewa stated, “We need to

educate our younger generation about

the 1934 compact so they will be aware

of how both tribes agreed on this settlement, so we can properly collect eagles

and plants for our ceremonial use.”

Many members at the meeting stated

concerns and asked if the Hopi tribe

should start to ban the non-Hopis from

the eagle nesting sites. One member of

the audience stated “Why do we need

permits to go on our land to gather our

own eagles?”

Talayumptewa stated, “We have come

a long way where we have to register our

eagles with the Navajo Nation because

the government recognizes the Navajo

Nation first.”

Clark Tenakhongva, Vice Chairman

for the Hopi tribe, stated that we must

respect these sacred birds for they give

us the knowledge to conduct our sacred ceremonies. Tenakhongva stated,

“Remember your clan eagle houses and

pay respect to their existence so we can

appreciate what they give us.” Tenakhongva also stated that the non-Hopis

would never understand our ceremonies.

“The white man and Navajos will never

understand our way of life and how we

honor these eagles for our ceremonial

use.” Stated Tenakhongva.

The Navajo Nation has issued 18 eagle permits to the Hopi people to collect

eagles on Navajo land and is available

for the clan holders. With hopes of having the eagles return to their known traditional “homes” both the Hopi Wildlife

Department and Cultural Preservation

office are working tirelessly to ensure

the continued existence of one of Hopi’s

greatest asset, the kwa’hu, also known as

the American Golden Eagle.

KUYI Hopi Radio Develops

Strong CSG Compliance

Understanding

By Native Public Media

PRESS RELEASE

KYKOTSMOVI, AZ – Since hitting

the airwaves in 2000, KUYI has gone

through many changes like most stations in regards to programming and

management. Today, the team at KUYI

is finding footing together, and in the

beginning stages of a new fundraising

marketing plan that centers on community engagement including a concert

series and youth volunteer program. The

station’s temporary office is one room

with limited space, but that isn’t a challenge for the folks of KUYI who simply

love their work. Sharing on the future of

the station, Development and Marketing Coordinator Jennifer Himel states,

“We are looking to appeal to a variety

of groups that listen to our radio station. It’s not changing, it’s just marketing our retro vibe to remind our listeners

all across Hopi that it’s cool to support

KUYI. At the end of this month, we are

starting a new cycle of volunteer training

for potential DJs that includes a variety

of local programs from our police to our

teachers and even fitness trainers from

the gym. We are also debuting new merchandise and we are actively involved

with creating content for our Facebook

page by showing our listeners that we

have fun doing what we do as a public

radio station. All of this is in hopes that

we’ll gain enough community support to

be able to throw a concert around harvest

time.” Vast and sandy mesas surround

the KUYI Hopi radio station where six

passionate and dedicated broadcast pro-

fessionals joined Native Public Media

staff for comprehensive training on the

Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s

Community Service Grant requirements

and underwriting. Elyse Dempsey and

Joseph Begay provide customized training for Native stations that supports professional development and encourages a

shared responsibility among station staff

to maintain compliance with funding requirements. The training, for example,

teaches station personnel step-by-step

information to complete required website updates with the goal of providing

transparency to the communities that

Native stations serve.

“NPM’s valuable training allows

KUYI Hopi Radio Station staff exposure at all levels to station operation

procedures, underwriting and financial

management. This exposure allows the

entire station staff to comprehend the

big picture so they can be effectively involved in the overall operation. Training

allows all staff to not only understand

their role, but serve in other capacities in

a well-oiled, fully functioning, effective

team,” states Andrew Qumyintewa, Acting KUYI Station Manager. “The opportunities we have with deeply committed

individuals who love Native community

radio is energizing. KUYI is no exception. The potential for where the station

is planning to go is limitless because of

the synergy you can feel just walking

into the station and being greeted by a

united team. NPM is honored to a part

of the station’s growth through training,

which will add to the already strong operations,” concludes Dempsey.

May 21, 2019

RANCHERS NEWS

By: Office of Range Management/

Land Operations Staff

KYKOTSMOVI, Ariz. - DROUGHT

DECLARATION The Hopi Tribe’s

Drought Task Team met on Tuesday,

April 30, 2019 to update the Tribe on

the drought conditions and to determine whether to keep the Declaration in place. The decision by the Hopi

Tribe’s Drought Task Team is to keep

the Drought Declaration and mandates

in place for another 90 days past April

30. The Drought Task Team will meet in

July for an update assessment.

For the rangelands these mandates

will remain in place:

1.Keep the 30% reduction of livestock

in place. Ranchers should be removing

livestock that are:

•dry cows

•Yearlings (2018 calf crop)

•2 year old heifers (if not using as replacement heifers)

•Steers

2.Sell this year’s calf crop

•If not part of a preconditioning program

all 2019 calf crop shall be removed by

September 1

•If part of a preconditioning program

shall be removed by October 1

3.Highly recommend supplement feeding:

•12% - 23% Crude Protein blocks or

tubs. Protein will help to digest the dry

feed.

•Trace Mineral salt blocks are effective

as well

•Blocks and tubs should be placed at

least half a mile from a water source in

areas of slight to moderate use.

•Hay is too expensive and not worth the

effort.

4.Office of Range Management will

provide a list of water hauling sites for

ranchers and farmers by May 30, 2019

The ORM covered the rangelands and

presented the following to the Task

Team regarding vegetation, livestock,

water availability, invasive plants, and

livestock health conditions:

Vegetation:

•The 2018 growing season was short.

•A lot of what we see as green is Tansy & Blue mustards, Cheat grass, etc.

These annuals have already seeded and

are drying out

•The “ice cream” plants such as Indian

rice grass, Galleta, Blue gramma, etc.

are just beginning to green up. We may

see another growth spurt in May-June

but will need rains and warm temps for

this to occur.

•Forbes and shrubs are just beginning to

green up.

Livestock:

•Areas that had excessive amounts of

rain during the monsoons and snow &

rain during winter have livestock Body

Condition Scores (BCS) at 4-5.

•Areas that had some rain during the

monsoons and some snow & rain during

the winter have livestock BCS at 3-4.

•Areas that had very little or no rain during the monsoons and winter have livestock BCS at low 3 – high 3.

Water Availability:

•2/3 of the earthen structures that filled

up with water during the monsoons and

winter may last another month or 2 if

we don’t get excessive winds and high

temps.

•1/3 of the earthen structures on our land

base are currently going dry

•90% of the HPL windmills are in operation. 10% are awaiting new parts or

are in need of renovation (well cleaning,

video scans, etc.).

•70% of the D6 windmills are in operation. 30% are in need of renovation

(clean out, video scans, well drills, etc.).

•There are at approximately 5 windmills

that need to be re-drilled due to collapsed or deteriorated well casings. The

drop pipes on all windmills needs to be

replaced, both on D6 and HPL The

program is working with BOR to get

these windmills back into operation

•Springs are starting to show decreasing water output. ORM is working with

Water Resources to determine how best

to improve on output from these water

sources

Invasive Plants

•Mainly seen around our earthen structures – tamarisk, camelthorn, Russian

olive, thistle, etc.

•These plants take in a large amount of

water therefore draining the water source

at a rapid rate. Needs to be removed.

Livestock Health Conditions

•Blackleg – weather conditions are perfect to cause the spores on the ground to

rupture and flourish

•Phosphorus deficiency

•Dehydration due to lack of water

Issues that need to be remedied:

•Removal of feral livestock that are

roaming within our range units.

-Feral cattle are using our water systems

(Blue Canyon, Oraibi Wash, Polacca

Wash) to hide. These cattle either do not

have owners or the owners can’t catch

them

-Feral horses are being reported in all

range units. It has been reported that

some range units have up to 80+ head.

-Horses are being dumped on Hopi from

as far away as Kayenta and Page. This is

occurring in all the range units on Hopi

•Trespass from Navajo onto Hopi to

use our resources – vegetation and water.

•Water hauling from livestock tanks.

Excessive use by non-Hopi residents of

the first artesian well in the Low Mountain Valley area and windmill 61B2 has

been year around. The Hopi Code needs

to be revised to address this issue

•Removal of invasive plants around

water sources. Ranchers need to be

more aware not to place hay around the

water sources. We do not know what invasive weeds may be in the hay therefore

infestations of invasive plants may occur

without them knowing. All supplemental feed should be placed at least 1-2

miles away from the main water source.

BREEDING SEASON

In accordance with our Ordinance,

May 1st is the date to get your bulls out

to your cows for the breeding season.

The breeding season will end on September 1.

As a reminder:

-All herd-bulls shall be registered with

an established Breed Association

-Shall have a copy of their registration

on file with the ORM.

-Mandatory that cattle owners provide a

sire for his/her cattle

-All newly purchased bulls must be

“Virgin” bulls. The HVS shall be notified of new purchases so that arrangements can be made for diagnostic tests

and quarantine.

The ORM has on record at this time

bulls issued for the Polacca Stock Growers Association, Hopi 3 Canyon Ranches Bull lease program, and 13 privately

owned bulls. If you have not provided

the ORM the necessary information on

your bull you are in non-compliance

with Ordinance 43. All livestock owners are to provide this information to the

ORM in a timely manner.

VACCINATIONS

The ORM and HVS are strongly encouraging livestock owners to get on a

herd health plan for your livestock so

they are well protected from diseases,

worms and other pests that may cause

harm to your livestock. The Hopi Veterinary Service (HVS) can help you with

developing a good head heath plan for

livestock within your range areas. You

can contact them at 928-738-5251.

HOPI CERTIFIED BEEF PROGRAM

Hopi ranchers, if you are interested in

participating in the program for this year

you need to make contact with the Hopi

Veterinary Service to start the process

of vaccinations and getting your ranch

verified. You can contact the HVS at

738-5251.

FERAL HORSES

The HRES is enforcing and implementing Section 108, B. of Ordinance

43. Specifically they are looking at part

d. “Unbranded livestock (Slicks): Unbranded horses over one (1) year of age

and any other unbranded animal over

six (6) months old” may be impounded

immediately and without notice. If you

corral animals that are unbranded you

can call the HRES for pickup. They can

be reached at 928-734-7340.

The ORM and HRES are working together to help go out and do larger impoundments in range units with large

amounts of horses.

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS &

RANCHERS EVENTS:

(As a reminder if you attend off-reservation workshops you will need to show

receipt of attendance or a copy of the

sign-in sheet to get the credit)

May 22, 2019 – U of A Cooperative

Extension presents a Forage and Monitoring Workshop at Schloz Lake, Kaibab

National Forest. Registration begins at

8:30 am with presentations beginning

at 9 am. For more information you can

contact the Hopi Cooperative Extension

agent, Susan Sekaquaptewa at 928-2558550.

May 30, 2019 - U of A Cooperative

Extension presents the state-wide Beginner Ranchers Workshop at the Tewa

Community building. Registration starts

at 8:30 am with presentations beginning

at 9 am. For more information you can

contact the Hopi Cooperative Extension

agent, Susan Sekaquaptewa at 928-2558550.

June 18-19, 2019 – 2019 SWIAA

Livestock Field Days at Hon-Dah Resort

Casino & Conference Center, PinetopLakeside, Ariz. Registration is required.

You can register and pay by credit card

online at swindianag.com or mail in

registration with check or money order

to SWIAA. For registration forms you

can contact the ORM or HVS. For more

information contact Michael Letero at

520-954-0618.

May 21, 2019

Hopi Tutuveni

Elfina Kalemsa of Hopi Tribal Housing

Authority Named, Cont.

‘haven’ on our reservation!”

2019 Superheroes:

Housing Professional of the Year: Sara

Spence, executive director of the Karuk

Tribe Housing Authority (KTHA); Happy Camp, CA

Economic Development Professional

of the Year – Pat Mercier, CEO of the

Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians;

Corning, CA

Pillar Professionals — Kristen

Wamego, general manager of tribal operations for the Prairie Band Potawatomi

Nation (PBPN), Mayetta, KS

Haven Professional of the Year — Elfina Kalemsa, resident services program

manager for Hopi Tribal Housing Authority; Polacca, AZ

Project Team of the Year — Tolowa

Dee-ni’ Nation; Smith River, CA

For more information, visit travois.

com.

About the Low Income Housing Tax

Credit

The Low Income Housing Tax Credit

(LIHTC) was signed into law by President Reagan in the Tax Reform Act of

1986 and is included in Section 42 of

the Internal Revenue Code. It was first

expanded and made permanent under

President Clinton in 1993, and further

strengthened under President Bush and

President Obama, reflecting its strong

bipartisan support. It was created to encourage private investment in the construction or rehabilitation of housing for

low-income families. Today it is widely

regarded as the nation’s most success-

ful housing production program. The

housing credit has financed more than

3 million affordable apartments through

public-private partnerships, and supports

96,000 jobs each year, mostly in the

small-business sector. For more information, visit taxcreditcoalition.org.

About Travois

Travois is a Certified B Corporation and Kansas City-based consulting

firm focused exclusively on promoting

housing and economic development for

American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian communities. Since 1995,

Travois has brought investor equity to

200 projects through the Low Income

Housing Tax Credit program and New

Markets Tax Credit program, making an

impact of more than $1.3 billion across

Indian Country. These private investor

funds have helped build or rehabilitate

more than 5,300 homes and have helped

finance critical economic development

projects, including infrastructure, health

care, community centers, education facilities and job incubators. Travois family of companies also offers architectural

design and construction monitoring services, environmental assessments, consulting on green building, asset management and compliance services, impact

investment models, and comprehensive

training to clients in 22 states, from Hawaii and Alaska to Maine and California.

For more information, please visit travois.com or find us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram or on

the company blog.

Update on Breast Cancer

Screening

By: Sonja Banyacya,

Hopi Cancer Support Services

KYKOTSMOVI, Ariz. - Hopi Cancer

Support Services (HCSS): Breast and

Cervical Cancer Screening Program and

Hopi Health Care Center – Indian Health

Services (HHCC-IHS) have been partnering to serve the community with special focus on breast and cervical health

for many years.

For the last four years, Physician Assistant Amber Perry has served, and

continues to serve, as lead provider for

breast and cervical cancer screening

from HHCC-IHS. In 2016, this highly

successful collaboration was recognized

at a national level with the IHS National

Director’s Award and then again in 2017

with the Arizona Rural Women’s Health

Practitioner of the Year Award. Reflecting on the last fiscal year, we are proud

to say we have had another highly successful year as we celebrate our screening rates for breast and cervical cancer

exceeding the national target goals.

As we continue to build and strengthen this program, we will be introducing

a new form of breast cancer screening to

the community in 2019 that we would

like to briefly present at this time. This

new form of screening will be offered to

women who are considered high risk for

breast cancer.

“So what does high risk for breast cancer mean?”

Some women are simply higher risk

for developing breast cancer based on

their history. Women ages 40-75 will be

asked additional screening questions this

year to help us get to know that history

a little better and then calculate that person’s risk for developing breast cancer

in their lifetime. According to American Cancer Society guidelines, women

at higher risk of developing breast cancer include those who: have a known

BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation have

a first-degree relative (mother, father,

brother, sister, or child) with a BRCA1

or BRCA2 gene mutation or history of

pre-menopausal breast cancer had radiation therapy to the chest before age 30,

typically for another type of cancer like

Hodgkin’s disease find out they have a

lifetime risk of breast cancer of 20% or

greater (based on our program’s calculation using a risk assessment tool that is

mainly focused on family history)

Simply stated, the risks are usually

due to a strong family history of breast

cancer and/or a mutation in the genes

called BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes.

Genes are basically small sections of

DNA which serve as a code or blueprint

that help create who we are, each gene

serving one or many purposes. These

days, we know genes are influenced by

both family history, as they are inherited, as well as the environment. BRCA1

and BRCA2 are two specific genes that

have been found to influence a person’s

chance of developing breast cancer.

BRCA is simply an abbreviation for

“BReast CAncer gene” and despite what

it sounds like, these genes do not actually cause breast cancer – every person

is born with them. In fact, these genes

are meant to do the exact opposite and

serve to prevent breast cancer. They

work to repair broken DNA, which if not

repaired, could lead to cancer or tumor

growth. The issue comes when BRCA

genes aren’t working properly, often

referred to as a gene mutation. Having

a BRCA mutation does not necessarily

mean a person will definitely develop

cancer, but rather means a person may

be at higher risk of cancer development

in their lifetime.

“I was told I am high risk for developing breast cancer…Now what?”

The American Cancer Society recommends that high-risk women have a

screening mammogram and are offered a

breast MRI every year. Sometimes, a basic mammogram can miss cancer, so by

adding breast MRI, a more sensitive test,

we are hoping to be able to identify cancer in its earliest stages for women who

are at higher risk of developing it. As we

know, early detection typically equals

better prognosis. Breast MRI has several

pros and cons, so, before automatically

getting this test, a more in-depth discussion will take place between the highrisk patient and provider to determine

the risks and benefits of this new test.

Nami’tunatya

In the ever-changing world of medicine, take time to educate yourself and

keep up-to-date. If there are any questions about the details of this, we highly

encourage you to reach out to your provider or HCSS patient navigator to help

assist you. By staying physically active,

maintaining a healthy weight, eating an

anti-inflammatory diet, and limiting or

avoiding alcohol, one may decrease the

risk of developing breast cancer as well.

Please take care of yourself. Thank you

for being a part of this highly successful program and valuing your health.

Thank you for keeping our community

strong. Here’s to another year of health

and wellness.

Would you like to put your

legals into the Newspaper?

For a single price you can put

your legals into the Hopi

Tutuveni

Call 928-734-3283 to find out how

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Kaibab National Forest offers live

juniper cutting opportunities as

part of paid-use firewood permits

for Williams and Tusayan districts

Jacqueline C. Banks

Public Affairs Officer

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Kaibab National Forest offers live

juniper cutting opportunities as part of

paid-use firewood permits for Williams

and Tusayan districts

Williams, Ariz., May 13, 2019—For

Immediate Release. The Kaibab National Forest is offering the opportunity

to cut live juniper in designated areas

on the Williams and Tusayan districts as

part of its 2019 paid personal use firewood permit program.

Those interested in harvesting live

juniper, also known locally as green juniper and cedar, should purchase a firewood cutting permit at the following

locations and during the specified hours

Monday through Friday, excluding federal holidays:

Williams Ranger District, 742 S. Clover Road, Williams; 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.;

(928) 635-5600

Tusayan Ranger District, 176 Lincoln

Log Loop, Tusayan; 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.;

(928) 638-2443

Once a permit has been obtained,

the holder will be given a detailed map

showing designated roads along which

live juniper can be cut. These roads and

areas were specifically targeted by forest

managers in order to both provide more

opportunities for the collection of forest

products and to help create fuel breaks

through the removal of excess material.

Juniper trees, as well as some other

conifer species, have become much

more abundant over the past century for

a variety of reasons including historical

livestock grazing and fire suppression.

They have severely encroached on historic grasslands and savannas, which has

resulted in altered fire regimes and degraded wildlife habitat, water and nutrient cycling, and soil integrity.

Besides implementing large-scale

grassland restoration projects that include juniper removal, the Kaibab National Forest is also seeking opportunities to work with firewood cutters as

partners in forest restoration efforts,

including this year’s expanded live juniper harvest areas. By removing dead and

down as well as small-diameter trees,

firewood cutting can help improve forest health, reduce the risk of unnaturally

severe wildfire, and limit further conifer

encroachment in key areas.

In 2018, the Kaibab National Forest

launched a pilot program that increased

the amount of wood available to each

person for purchase while reducing the

cost per cord by crediting firewood cutting for the contribution it provides to

forest restoration goals. Each person,

with proper identification, may obtain

permits for up to 30 cords per season

of combined paid-use and free-use firewood on the Williams and Tusayan districts. Individuals may purchase up to

two 10-cord paid-use firewood permits

at a rate of $2 per cord, and may obtain

one 10-cord free-use firewood permit.

All firewood permits issued by the

Kaibab National Forest will include a

map and detailed cutting regulations as

well as load tags, which must be physically attached to each ¼ cord of firewood

and visible from the rear of the vehicle.

The goal of this load tagging system is

to ensure accountability for the amount

of wood removed from the forest and to

inform planning for future firewood cutting areas to meet public need and forest

restoration objectives.

To continue fostering the partnership

with firewood cutters this season, the

Kaibab National Forest is taking additional steps to improve the program for

customers. Permit holders will receive a

detailed guide that highlights the ecological impacts that collecting firewood can

have on forest resources and describes

best practices that will ensure the sustainability of these resources across the

landscape and over time. Forest managers will also be seeking public feedback

and suggestions for program improvements throughout the year. Those obtaining permits are encouraged to offer their

comments, concerns and ideas.

The removal of firewood is permitted

only from National Forest lands on the

specific district for which the permit is

issued. Firewood cutters are reminded

to take note of property boundaries and

cut only in designated areas on National

Forest lands.

The 2019 firewood cutting season

opened May 1 and continues through

Dec. 31 for the Williams and Tusayan

districts of the Kaibab National Forest.

Detailed maps for live juniper harvesting

areas and other firewood cutting information and guides are available on the

Kaibab National Forest website at http://

bit.ly/KNFfuelwood.

The Hopi Tribe’s 2019 Preliminary

Final Comprehensive Economic

Development Strategy (CEDS)

Office of Community Planning and

Economic Development

The Hopi Tribe receives a small grant

from the U.S. Economic Development

Administration’s (EDA) through The

Office of Community Planning and

Economic Development (OCPED) to

update the Hopi Tribe’s Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy

among other planning efforts. The 2019

Comprehensive Economic Development

Strategy (CEDS) is currently being distributed for public review and comment.

It is downloadable from the Tribe’s website:

http://www.hopi-nsn.gov/tribalservices/office-of-community-planningdevelopment/

The Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) is a “living”

economic development planning document developed from planning sessions,

interviews, research, and public presentations designed to build capacity and

guide strategic economic development

decision making. It provides a foundation to engage in a meaningful conversation and debate by individuals, organizations, local government, institutes

of learning, and private industry about

what efforts would best serve economic

development. It identifies weaknesses

and challenges that exist and shape the

economic conditions of Hopi. Comments can be provided to the contact information on the website or by visiting

one of the locations.

•Village Community Service Administration Offices

•First Mesa Consolidated Villages

Office

•The Hopi Tribe: The Office of the

Chairman

The Office of Community Planning

and Economic Development

•Hopi Tribal Economic Development

Corporation

5200 E. Cortland Blvd, Suite E200-7,

Flagstaff, AZ.

With the Tribe’s loss of revenues and

budget cuts, it is critical that the CEDS

should take into account and, where appropriate, integrate or leverage other

regional planning efforts, including the

use of other available federal funds, private sector resources, and state support

which can advance a CEDS goals and

objectives.

A broadly inclusive process can build

leadership, enhance cooperation and

enthusiasm, foster public ownership,

and is vital to the creation of a relevant

and effective document, therefore, your

participation in review and providing

comment is important to addressing the

current economic conditions and future

planning for Hopi. The final public comment period for the CEDS 2019 will end

June 30, 2019 however any information

and comments contributing to future

CEDS updates can be provided anytime.

Do you like what

you’re reading?

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

need your feedback

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IN THE COMMUNITY

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Claudina Rogers Retires

After 20 Plus Years at the

Hopi Tribe

May 21, 2019

Luci Wytewa Receives NPC’s

Outstanding Alumnus Award

For Spring 2019

Claudina Rogers (Middle) holds her retirement plaque along side with her former

Co-worker. (Photo by Carl Onsae/HT)

By CARL ONSAE

HOPI TUTUVENI

On May 2, 2019 a retirement party

was held at the Risk Management Conference room at the Hopi Tribe. Claudina

Rogers, part of the custodial department

at the Hopi Tribe, retired from her position after 20 plus years.

Laughter and happy tears filled the

conference room where Claudina’s close

friends and co-workers thanked her for

her years of service.

Rogers graduated from Phoenix Indian school in the 1970’s and wanted to

come back home to the Hopi reservation

to work for her people.

She found a job at the “Old” Village

store in Kykotsmovi, Arizona where she

worked as a custodian for the store.

Rogers heard that there was an opening at the Hopi Tribe as a custodian, so

she applied for the job and got it.

Her supervisor at the time was Arnold

Bilagody, who she worked under for

many years and throughout her time as a

custodian she gained friends and gained

her second family at the Hopi Tribe.

During the retirement party, both

Chairman Nuvangyaoma and Vice

Chairman Tenakhonvga of the Hopi

Tribe were there to see her off on another

journey of her life.

Rogers was given gifts and a plaque

in show of appreciation for her dedication to her job and for all the cleaning

and upkeep of the Hopi Tribal buildings.

Rogers stated, “I have a lot of things to

do now that I’m retired, now I can take

care of my grandkids and my cattle now

full time.”

With happy tears from her second

family at the Hopi Tribe she is ready to

start a new chapter in her life as a retired

woman.

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For enrollment information please

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SHOW LOW, Ariz. - On a visit to

Hopi Head Start, Claude Endfield saw a

woman playing in the mud with some of

the children. The faculty chair of the Early Childhood Development program at

Northland Pioneer College was amazed

that a Head Start volunteer would literally get her hands dirty to connect with

the youngsters.

The woman was Luci Wytewa, who

went on to become a college graduate,

successful teacher and – and at Endfield’s recommendation – the Northland

Pioneer College Outstanding Alumnus

for spring 2019.

This event took place nearly four decades ago. A photo of Wytewa playing

with those children was featured on an

NPC Early Childhood Development

brochure and is emblazoned in the nowretired Endfield’s mind. What happened

that day and over the years to come led

Endfield to nominate Wytewa, a native

of Bacavi, Ariz., on the Hopi Reservation, for the alumnus award.

As a college student, Wytewa was an

excellent student and a model of persistence, one who didn’t know the meaning of the word “quit.” She first enrolled

at NPC after completing high school in

1982, seeking to earn an associate degree in Early Childhood Development. It

would be a long, slow journey. Wytewa

was a young working mother and there

were periods of time when she could not

enroll in NPC classes, one lasting nearly

eight years. Encouraged by her family

and by Endfield, Wytewa forged ahead

as circumstances allowed, ultimately

earning a Childhood Development Associate credential in 1991, an associate

degree at NPC in 2005, followed by a

bachelor degree at Prescott College.

Wytewa says, “NPC, being close to

home, gave me the opportunity to get a

college education. They worked with me

at the Hopi Center, and I’d rate the quality of my education at NPC very highly.

Every time I came back, I kept getting

closer to finishing. Claude Endfield and

other faculty were really excellent. She

had the most impact on me, even when

she was not my teacher. She was a mentor who was always positive and encouraging me in my progress. She told me I

was good at what I did.”

Prior to earning her bachelor degree,

Wytewa served as a teaching assistant at

Hopi Jr./Sr. High School and at Hotelvilla Bacavi Community School. Following

her graduation from Prescott College,

she taught kindergarten at Moencopi

Day School and later returned to Hopi

Head Start, which is where, she says, her

“heart belongs." She has positively impacted many Native children during her

teaching career.

Wytewa says the thing she most enjoys about teaching is “just seeing kids

happy, smiling and learning. I try to give

families the encouragement and support

they need for their children’s education.”

Endfield says, “Something else makes

Luci a remarkable teacher, and it is not

only her educational accomplishments,

the retention of her Hopi culture and other admirable qualities. Last summer Luci

cut her long beautiful hair in support of a

former kindergarten student of hers who

was diagnosed with cancer and had lost

her hair. This just blew me away, thinking about the great lengths this Hopi tribal member and former outstanding NPC

student would go to in building up the

confidence and support of one child and

that child's family.”

Giving back what she gained at NPC,

Wytewa encourages college students going through struggles to focus on their

dreams and the gifts they have. “It’s

okay to take time off to re-focus while

still persisting in your education,” she

says.

Wytewa says she was shocked to be

told she had won the award. “It’s exciting. I never really believed I would be

acknowledged in this way.”

Twice annually, NPC selects outstanding graduates who have used their degree or training to succeed in the pursuit

of a career or educational goal and who

support and promote lifelong learning.

Recipients are recognized at regular

meetings of the Navajo County Community College District Governing Board

and also receive a plaque, a certificate

for three free credits at NPC and a oneyear pass to all events at the college's

Performing Arts Center.

To nominate someone for NPC’s Outstanding Alumnus award, complete the

online nomination form found here:

www.npc.edu/npc-alumni-award-nomination-form.

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Larry’s Corner

No Paparazzi Please

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By LARRY WATAHAMAGEE

The Hopi Tutuveni

Awe…pictures…we love to take

pictures, but why? We want them as

a way to remember the good times,

to remember the past as if it were

just yesterday.

We take pictures of our loved ones;

we take pictures of special events

like sports, graduations, family outings, traditional Hopi butterfly dances…etc.…and I think taking pictures

are a great way to collect the past.

When I was a little kitten we only

had one camera in the house, it was

this old 1990’s Kodak camera, which

was a point-and-shoot camera. At

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that time, we didn’t think of the implications of using a camera inside

of the village, we just took pictures

and it was fun. When we shot some

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pictures we never developed the picFind the English words for the

tures right away so when we did, it

Hopi words.

was always a surprise to us when got

our pictures developed. We would

laugh at how it came out, whether

someone was making a face or doing something silly. When you’re a

mush head kitten, you really don’t

think of the dangers of what a photo

can have, we just had fun taking pictures.

I say pictures are a good thing, and

Across

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what

I mean, is that we can use pic4. Yöngé

1. Siiki

tures to document different events in

6. Tuvahomki

2. Pono

7. Nukpana

3. Aala

our lives, or we can look back to pic8. Tsayrisa

4. Taapu

tures we found in So-oh’s closet and

10. Suyvaqw

5. Momo

say, “So that’s how So-oh used to

12. Kootala

9. Patupha

look when she was younger.” A cam13. Pútu

11. Wuko

era on the Hopi reservation is not a

15. Mantuwa

13. Suhimu

bad thing…but it depends on how

17. Leetayo

14. Laaki

we use cameras on the reservation.

18. Kolaasa

16. Tamö

When you go to any Hopi village

next issue

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you

will find a sign in front of the

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village

saying a list of “what not

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to do’s” like, NO PICTURES, NO

4. Chicken, 5. Back, 7. Fire, 9. Bald, 11. Hair, 12. Eye, 13. Ear, 15. Head, 18. Fog, 19. Dirty

2. pono

Down

DRAWING, NO VIDEO TAPING,

1. Blackbone, 2. Cheese, 3. Feather, 5. Baby, 6. Give, 8. Hit, 3.

10.aala

Dead, 14. Aunt, 16. Egg, 17. Fight

YOU MUST OBEY OUR VIL4. taapu

Call 928-734-3283 for hints or answers

LAGE RULES, etc., etc. Now this

5. momo

9. patupha

rule only applies to outsiders visiting

11. wuko

the Hopi reservation and I you may

Hopilavit - Conversation

13. suhimu Words

wonder why. Well because it was an

14. laaki

official rule made by each village

K W A A T S I X A L A

V O S T B A T

16. tamö

based on their decision to state that

N Z T P A Y S O Q S F A B T M D A S

only non-Hopis are not allowed to

O T I S A D F N E H N A A U A X A O

take pictures, because they exploited

O A T U F S M N I T U W A V Y H W O

our culture in the past.

N S A M K S P I S M U H I K O A N M

When I was growing up everyone

had a camera, every Hopi on the

O I P A A I K A U T G E T N S A A T

Hopi reservation, shot pictures of

S H T L N O Q A Y E P E W G O L V I

just about anything from traditional

A P A A G A L O A G O V A O O A O A

Hopi butterfly dances to Indian Day

D A O K W U S U N A F A L A S Y T N

festivals. If you go to any Hopi house

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

I P

on the reservation you will find the

E N S O O S O K T A P E S T U S Y O

same things on the wall, Kachina

dolls and family portraits hanging

S A M P I A N K A W A A N Z K F T N

side by side. This is a common sight

N U O K W A V E E H Q A H U U W A L

when you think about it, but yet we

P A A N G W A M L O L A T O V A N F

still ban other people from taking our

I P S I G U A T G N I V U U T F Y I

photos and of our sacred ceremonies.

R V A M I N O S A Y W G E A Q T H C

So I really don’t understand why

we put that sign up if we are going

Sóosokta - Deplete

Lolma - Good

Find the Hopi Words

to break our own rules for just about

anything we do as traditional.

Naawakna - Desire

Navota - Hear

Paspay - About to

When you look at that sign outside

Alöagö - Different

Pa’angwa - Help

Qayep’e -Absent

of the village, the one that says “no

Hiiko - Drink

Piiyi - I don’t know

Suyan - Absolutely

pictures,” it never says, “This only

applies to outsiders.” So in my mind

Nöönösa - Eat / Ate

Aa’awna - Inform

Kwusuna - Accept

we should obey the sign and not take

Sú lawti - Empty

Tuuvingta - Inquire

Antsa - Actually

pictures at our ceremonies, even

Sampi - Even So

Tso’ómti - Jump

Titapta - Baby Sit

though we are Hopi.

Sóosoyam - Everyone

Nú’o-kwa - Kind/Nice

Ispi - Because

Yes…I know we put that sign up

Nopna - Feed

Navoti’yta - Know About for the outsiders. But lately, I have

Angwu - Beforehand

seen some non-Hopis taking their

Tuwa - Find

Ason - Later

Tukopna - Blamed

cameras and their video recording

Sutsep - Frequently

Heeva - Look for

Súmala - Breeze

devices into the villages to take picKwaatsi - Friend

Yuku - Make

Paysoq - Casually

tures or to make a “documentary.”

TICK-TACK-TOE

Awheeva - Challenge

Tsovala - Gather

Wuuhaq - Many

Naaphisat - Chances

Háalayi - Glad

Senpi - Maybe

Are

Nima - Go home

Qa’é - No

And all of this is because they were

invited by a village member to do so.

I was at a buffalo dance this past

year at one of the villages, and I

seen a young Hopi girl on the rooftop video taping the dance with her

IPad and no one said anything, while

right next to her was a white woman

standing and enjoying the dance. It

looked like the white woman wanted

to try to take a photo of the dance.

So this white woman took her phone

out and looked like she was getting

ready to record. The minute this

white woman took her phone out,

the Hopi young girl said to her “You

can’t record our dance.” And all of

this while the Hopi young girl was

recording on her 13 inch IPad. It

seemed to me to be one of the most

hypocritical moments in Hopi history. I’m pretty sure even though she

couldn’t record, the white woman

can enjoy our Hopi dance on YouTube after the young Hopi girl uploaded it to the Internet.

If we are so bothered by outsiders

taking pictures of our ceremonies

and our heritage why do we take pictures of our kids dressed up in traditional attire and show it on Facebook? Why do we want everyone to

know how we dressed during a Hopi

ceremony? When we take pictures

of our traditional ceremonies its fine,

but when a non-Hopi starts to take

pictures just like us it becomes a sin,

maybe because we think they might

use it to make money, or to exploit

our traditions? But in reality, we are

the ones who are making money and

exploiting our own culture and traditions and we blame the non-Hopis

for doing this.

Recently, I saw an article in a

newspaper from the Valley of the

Sun about the use of cameras and sacred ceremonies. I’m talking about

the recent Hopi wedding that was

posted on Facebook, published in the

USA Today and The Arizona Republic newspaper, and probably in some

other magazines, as well. In my opinion I think it’s nothing new. There

are books about Hopi weddings with

more pictures, with all that exploitation about the Hopi wedding culture,

there might as well be a magazine

called “Hopi Bridal Weddings” and

Martha Stewart should create it. So

in reality, I believe we are the ones

who are killing our culture, but we

are too blind to see what we are doing, so we try to find a scapegoat to

blame. So we blame the non-Hopis

for killing our culture and traditions,

thinking it was their fault for making

us do what we are doing.

Now don’t get me wrong, in the

past our culture has been exploited

by non-Hopis, but it was because

Hopis never knew the technology

of cameras. So it’s a toss up, you

can blame the non-Hopi or you can

blame yourself.

My advice to you is that taking

pictures on the Hopi reservation is

an iffy subject, its like we tell a kid

not to eat candy, but the kid will eat

candy anyway. We will be hypocritical of our own rules because we feel

entitled to do so.

But if you respect Hopi culture and

want preserve Hopi culture, do it for

yourself, try not to display too much

to the world, we don’t want to give

up all our secrets yet, and if your like

me, a cat always has secrets…meow.

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Hopi Tribe Economic Development Corporation has an immediate opening for a Business

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with the CEO to assess and implement new

projects designated to have growth potential

for the corporation and that reflect the vision

of the management team and Board of Directors.

The successful candidate will need to have a

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working understanding of marketing, business finance, financial marketing and the ability to foster an idea from conception to full

implementation is required.

Applicants must have a Bachelors Degree in

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for an MBA. A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a business management position

is required. This is a fulltime position with

benefits. Salary will be determined on experience.

Preference will be given to qualified applicants who are members of the Hopi Tribe.

Resumes may be submitted via email to

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BOARD SECRETARY

The Hopi Tribe Economic Development

Corporation is seeking a part time Board

Secretary for employment approximately

two weeks each month. This position works

at the pleasure of the Board and would be

responsible for the preparation before, during

and after each board meeting. The successful

candidate needs to have experience at an Executive Administrative Assistant level; have

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The selected individual must be able to work

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Hopi Tribe Economic Development Corporation has an immediate opening for a Human

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The successful candidate must have a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration or

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May 21, 2019

Current Indian World News

Thin on broadband: Tribal areas still

struggle with lagging technology

Page 7

In Indian Country, potholes

can be a bump in the road to

an education

Photo by Theophilos Papadopoulos, Creative Commons

By KEERTHI VEDANTAM

Cronkite News

WASHINGTON – “Just Google it.”

Carroll Onsae says it’s a joke among

Hopi, who have broadband internet in

only some pockets of the reservation.

And even there it works slowly.

“Our area is economically disadvantaged. It’s a hardship for families to not

have service to broadband services,”

said Onsae, the general manager of Hopi

Telecommunications Inc.

Only about 29% of Hopi households

have access to broadband, compared to

79% in Arizona and 78% nationwide,

according to Census Bureau data.

The Hopi are not alone. Fewer than

half the households on tribal lands in

Arizona have access to broadband internet, and only one – the Yavapai-Prescott

Indian Tribe – exceeds the state average,

according to the Census.

“People take for granted when they

live in urban or suburban areas that they

can log on and take an online class, for

example,” said Darlene Burden, who

has worked in tribal telecommunication

since 2008. “They take advantage of

the fact that they can apply for a job. Of

course for those things you have to have

broadband access.”

But advocates say broadband can

mean so much more in tribal areas. On

reservations with a high rate of doctor turnover, it can mean uninterrupted

time with an online therapist or a video

chat with a doctor. For students, it might

mean access to different educational

resources and for small businesses, a

strong network could help put them on

the map.

“Access to high-speed internet is ab-

solutely critical now more than ever,”

said Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Phoenix. “We

need to close that digital divide between

urban and rural areas so people have access to the things they need.”

Stanton last month amended the

House bill restoring net neutrality to require that the Federal Communications

Commission work more closely with

tribal nations to assess their internet

needs and to improve access and reliability. That bill passed the House, but is

not expected to pass the Senate.

Stanton’s amendment cited a Government Accountability Office report last

year that said the FCC overstated availability of internet access on tribal lands

and does not collect information about

the quality or affordability of broadband

service. That can affect commission decisions on which areas get funding to

build and improve connection lines.

“We need to make sure that as we advance, we don’t leave other people in

our own state behind,” he said.

But challenges to broadband are significant on reservations. Besides having

to cover large swaths of sparsely populated rural land, many reservations systems still operate with copper lines or

weak fiber optics.

Doug Kitch, a consultant with Alexicon, which works to regulate rural telecom providers, said companies will “not

incur the necessary cost to provide service to those areas” to deploy and maintain bandwidth.

“They would rather get 20,000, 50,000

subscribers per square mile instead of

one subscriber per square mile” that a

company might get on a reservation, he

said.

Breaking Ground on

Economic Prosperity

The new Watonga Lucky Star Casino

Hotel & Convention Center slated to

open in 2020

Schools in tribal areas face a number of challenges, but one of the most unexpected – and, to advocates, most annoying – are the roads, which can make it hard

to get students to school. (Photo courtesy San Juan County, Utah, Roads Department)

By KEERTHI VEDANTAM

Cronkite News

WASHINGTON – Classrooms at Keams Canyon Elementary School are noticeably emptier during the winter and

monsoon months.

That’s when Principal Gary Polacca

says heavy rains turn the dirt roads

stretching across the Hopi reservation

into “muddy sinkholes,” making it hard

for school buses to reach students’ homes

for risk of getting stuck in the mud.

Students, who have a harder time getting to school on their own, are stuck at

home for the day – or the week, depending on when the weather clears up.

“They just can’t get to school,” said

Polacca. The school dedicates some of

its budget to buses, he said, but it can’t

fill potholes or pave roads. “We’ve done

what we can.”

Of the many problems facing tribal

schools, Polacca said, impassable roads

are “not the most prevalent problem, but

it is the most annoying one.”

And it’s not a problem unique to the

Hopi.

Three-fourths of roads owned by the

Bureau of Indian Affairs are unpaved,

leaving schools on reservations to spend

money on frequent maintenance for the

buses that have to travel those roads.

The graduation rate for American Indians/Alaskan Natives in public schools

in 2016 was 72% – lower than any other

race or ethnicity, according to the National Center for Educational Statistics.

That rate drops to 49% for students in

Bureau of Indian Education schools.

There are myriad reasons why Native

children don’t graduate from school,

said Acting Superintendent of Navajo

Schools Anselm Davis, including “the

trauma that students come to school

with, and then the changing social life of

the younger generation.”

“There are adverse conditions in fam-

Rosemary Stephens, Editor-in-Chief

Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribal Tribune

(WATONGA, OK) One shovel of rich

red Oklahoma soil marks the beginning

of economic growth and prosperity for

the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.

The tribes begin construction of the

new Watonga Lucky Star Casino Hotel

& Convention Center with the official

ground breaking held May 3, 2019 in

Watonga, Okla.

The casino expansion will include the

addition of a new five-story hotel comprised of 80 rooms, a hospitality suite,

full service restaurant and a 300-person capacity conference center. Also

included will be space for retail and an

increased gaming floor with accommodations for up to 400 additional slot machines.

The Watonga Lucky Star Casino was

first opened under the name of ‘Feather

Warrior’ in the early mid-1980s. It was

housed in the Watonga community center and then expanded into the now existing trailers. But the casino will now

see an expansion on a scale it and the

community have never seen before.

Cheyenne and Arapaho Gov. Reggie Wassana addressed the audience

expressing his thankfulness and excitement seeing the new hotel/casino project

begin. “I would like to welcome everyone but first of all I would like to say

thank you. We’ve talked about

Cont. On Page 8

Chair Grijalva Introduces “Tribal

Heritage and Grizzly Bear Protection

Act” Ahead of Expected Federal

Ruling on Endangered Species Act

Protections

By Natural Resources Committee

PRESS RELEASE

From l-r: Lucky Star Casino CEO Charlie Welbourne, Stephanie Black, Gov. Reggie Wassana and Andy Rednose. Picture courtesy of Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribal

Tribune

ily life, in community life,” Davis said.

“There’s a whole dimension of issues out

there that impact students on a day-today basis.”

When sick days, religious holidays or

other reasons children might have to stay

home are added to the absences caused

by bad roads, he said, it puts students in

situations where they “aren’t getting the

kind of attention on their lessons and the

learning process, and as a result of that

they tend to fall back little, bit by little

bit.”

Davis said schools on reservations

do their best to mitigate any problems

children might have that would impact

their education. Navajo schools have

implemented different programs over the

years to improve attendance and graduation rates. Some work therapy or trauma

services into school programs, while others have provided free food to struggling

students.

But transportation is a challenge out of

schools’ reach.

Like many rural areas, homes on the

Navajo and Hopi reservations can be

scattered and there is often not a network

of paved roads that connect homes to

schools or businesses.

With the majority of BIA-owned roads

in the U.S. unpaved, schools on reservations are forced to shell out money for

frequent maintenance on school buses

that had to travel those roads.

In April, Gila River Indian Community Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis told a Senate

Indian Affairs Committee hearingabout

the decrepit state of the 306 BIA-owned

roads on his reservation. Some were unpaved, others were cracked and bumpy.

Others still were missing critical safety

features like stop signs.

“This is a critical concern for education in Indian Country,” Lewis said, not

to mention “the safety aspect too, if those

roads aren’t adequately maintained.”

Sen. John Barrasso,

Washington, D.C. – Chair Raúl M.

Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today introduced the

Tribal Heritage and Grizzly Bear Protection Act, which ensures that grizzly

bears are permanently protected for their

ecological and cultural value and guarantees Native American tribes a role in

conserving and managing the species.

Grizzly bears are considered sacred by

many tribes, but only a small fraction of

historic grizzly populations now exist in

the lower 48 states.

The bill, listed as H.R. 2532, is available online at http://bit.ly/2YdDeHy.

Among other measures, the bill:

Bans trophy hunting and non-discriminatory predator control measures that

may result in taking of grizzly bears on

public lands Permits “take” and “possession” of grizzly bears only for certain

purposes going forward

Requires federal consultation with

tribes before relevant permits are issued

and before any major federal action that

could impact grizzly bears or their habitat Creates a process for reintroduction

of grizzly bears on suitable land of willing tribes

The bill, which enjoys a wide range

of conservationist and tribal support,

comes at a critical moment for grizzly

conservation. In 2017, the Department

of the Interior delisted the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) grizzly bear

population from the endangered species

list. The states of Wyoming and Idaho

soon after announced grizzly bear tro-

phy hunts.

In 2018, a federal court struck down

the decision to delist the GYE grizzly

bear, ruling that grizzlies now living in

isolated pockets can’t be delisted one

pocket at a time given the species’ overall struggles to survive. That ruling restored federal protections for the population and blocked any potential trophy

hunts.

The Trump administration and the

state of Wyoming have appealed that

decision, and an appeals court ruling is

possible later this year.

“Instead of making the country wait

on pins and needles, Congress should

just go ahead and protect of one of our

country’s most beloved species,” Grijalva said today. “Grizzles are important to

this country, and our laws should reflect

that. Just because we brought the bald

eagle back from the brink of extinction

doesn’t mean we suddenly allowed people to start killing them again. Grizzly

bears should be afforded the same level

of long-term protection.”

Quotes in Support of Grijalva’s Bill

“This legislation rightly recognizes

the need for both the preservation of

grizzly bears in the wild and the involvement of Tribal Nations in their management. We’re pleased to see action to

safeguard the natural and cultural value

of these great animals for future generations.” – Kirin Kennedy, Associate Legislative Director for Lands and Wildlife,

Sierra Club

“Every living species provides an ecological balance to Nature. Removing one

critical plant species, wildlife

Cont. On Page 8

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Hopi Tutuveni

Breaking Ground on Economic

Prosperity, Cont.

this project, we’ve heard about this project and there are some people in the

community who still don’t believe it,

but today we finally have gotten to this

point where we can say we are doing this

(project),” Wassana told the audience.

“It’s going to be a 100,000 square feet

and double our employment. This passage from Denver, from Kansas, everyone sweeps through here and we hope

we catch some of that traffic and have

a lot of people stay and even make this

their destination to come out to this rural area, to enjoy the peace and quiet and

get away from all the hustle and bustle

of city life.” Wassana shared the Watonga casino/hotel project was the first of

many to come, “We’re not making this

happen just because of me and Lt. Gov.

Miles, we’re making this happen because of you and the legislators. And in

order for things to progress we all have

to get along, have the same thoughts and

the same wishes. It all happens because

we get along, we get together, talk and

reach the goals we see for the tribes.”

Watonga lies in the Cheyenne and

Arapaho District 1, whose legislators

are Cheyenne District Burl Buffalomeat

and Arapaho District Billie Sutton. Both

were in attendance, along with several

other members of the Cheyenne and

Arapaho Legislature.

“I want to thank Marie Whiteman

because when this all started with

these trailers and they got moved out

here, Marie Whiteman prayed over this

ground and her prayers were so strong

and so good we are here today,” Buffalomeat said as Whiteman received a loud

applause from the audience. Arapaho

District 1 Legislator Sutton told the au-

dience, “It’s a good opportunity, today,

but not just for today, for our people but

not just for our people, but everybody

here and it’s a good opportunity for Watonga, Oakwood, Canton, Hitchcock,

Seiling, Geary … for all of us and the

communities. Good things happened

when we work together, so let’s continue

to work together, not just our community

or our government, but the government

of Oklahoma also. And I wanted to say

let’s give credit where it’s due and that’s

to our Creator.”

Following both legislator’s comments,

closing speaker Cheyenne and Arapaho

Lt. Gov. Gib Miles took the podium.

“It’s been said already the working

relationship we have with the legislators

and the courts, it’s made our jobs a lot

easier. Reggie and I won’t take credit for

this because it’s a work in progress for

the tribe, not just Reggie and I. Now I

am looking out in this room and to think

about all the people that are here and I

see everybody here for a groundbreaking for a hotel, a casino and a restaurant

I can’t believe it started out with Reggie

and I as a conversation on the road, in a

plane or in a restaurant. It tells us that

all it takes is us working together with

the legislators, with the people, have a

dream, be honest about what you’re doing, hire the right people and we can get

things done … and this is proof of it.

This isn’t the only dream we have, this

isn’t the end, it’s the beginning. This

isn’t about us … it’s about we.”

One by one 40 individuals picked up

a golden shovel, placed a hard hat upon

their heads and on the count of three

scooped the soil marking the beginning

of a new tomorrow starting today.

Indian Country Potholes, Cont.

R-Wyoming, introduced a bill in January

to increase funding for upkeep of roads

on reservations, including updating

safety features and paving roads. Similar proposals by Barasso have died in the

last two sessions of Congress, but Lewis

said the bill could be a “game-changer”

for schools.

In a recent statement, Sen. Tom Udall,

D-New Mexico, said the state of roads

on reservations presents “a public safety

and public health issue.”

“On the Navajo Nation, where thousands of miles of roads are unpaved, poor

road conditions result in impassable bus

routes that make Navajo students more

likely to miss school than their non-Native peers,” Udall’s statement said. “To

truly uphold the United States’ trust responsibilities to these students, the Navajo Nation, and all of Indian Country,

we simply must do better.”

Advocates say there is plenty of room

for improvement.

Constant travel on gravel roads leads

to excessive wear and tear on school buses – side mirrors shake off, batteries fall

out and even the emergency hatches on

bus roofs can come loose.

“The wear and tear on those buses if

they go on dirt roads or gravel roads is

astounding,” Lewis said at the hearing.

“And schools have to pay for that, not

the BIA.”

Polacca estimates he has to pay for a

major bus repair at least once a month,

which takes the bus out of rotation and

forces drivers to cram more children into

fewer buses.

“A lot of the roads become like a

washboard. It takes a lot of toll on our

school buses,” Polacca said. “And of

course we have students living all over.

So there are times where we do have to

go out and pick up students who live on

those roads.”

Polacca’s school has talked about

planning bus routes along the state highway that runs through the reservation to

cut down on maintenance costs. But he

knows some students can’t make it to the

main road, and he does not want to make

it even harder to get to school.

As it stands, teachers at the school try

to work with students to send assignments home so they can continue their

education without being in school. But

the students are still counted as absent.

“It’s frustrating,” Polacca said. “These

are young children. They want to learn.”

ENTERTAINING

Tips to Punch up Your Next

Backyard Barbecue

(StatePoint) If you’re like many folks,

your backyard will become the heart of

the home throughout the summer, as you

play host to barbecues, picnics, parties

and more.

To punch up your next celebration,

give these tips a try.

Set the Scene

Make the task of DJ-ing simple by creating a playlist in advance, and getting

your outdoor sound system set up before

guests arrive. For evening parties, add

ambiance to the scene by hanging string

lights above your patio, pergola or wherever you want guests to dine and congregate. Tiki lights can add even more illumination to your party, while helping to

keep biting bugs at bay.

Try a New Recipe

If you’ve served burgers and hot dogs

at your last few gatherings, your guests

have come to know what to expect. This

time, surprise friends and family with

new flavors using this delicious recipe

for Sweet Tea Wings:

Ingredients:

• 3 cups Milo’s Sweet Tea

• 2.5 pounds chicken wings

• 2 teaspoons garlic salt, divided

• 1.5 - 2 teaspoons cayenne pepper,

depending on heat preference

• 2 teaspoons garlic powder

• 2 teaspoons chili powder

• 2 teaspoons paprika

• 2 teaspoons lemon pepper

Preparation Instructions:

• In a medium bowl, whisk together

Milo’s Sweet Tea and 2 teaspoons garlic

salt; set aside. Place chicken wings in a

large shallow dish. Pour Milo’s mixture

over chicken; cover and refrigerate for

8 hours.

Cooking Instructions:

• Preheat grill to medium or oven to

400 F.

• In a large bowl, combine remaining

garlic salt, cayenne, garlic powder, chili

powder, paprika, and lemon pepper. Toss

chicken and spices in large ziplock bag

or bowl until evenly coated.

• For grill, place wings over heat turning frequently. Cook for 20-25 minutes

or until the internal temperature is 165

degrees and skin is crispy.

• For oven, arrange wings on a lightly

greased baking sheet. Bake 35 to 40 minutes, turning halfway through, until skin

is browned and tips are crispy. Serve

warm. For extra crisp, toss wings on the

grill over medium-high heat for three

minutes per side before serving.

Serve alongside backyard classics like

macaroni salad, cole slaw, grilled veggies and iced tea or lemonade.

Iced Tea Bar

Refresh guests with a summer classic

-- iced tea, but go above and beyond by

creating a full-scale iced tea bar. Keep

in mind that tastes vary, so be sure to include a variety of flavors -- sweet tea, no

calorie tea, tea mixed with lemonade and

peach tea, to name a few. As a mainstay

of any outdoor gathering, be sure you

are serving beverages with high-quality,

fresh, natural ingredients, such as the

teas offered by Milo’s, which have no

added colors, acids or preservatives. Label each variety so guests can pick their

favorite.

With a few twists on your standard

hosting habits, you can throw the ultimate backyard gathering this season.

May 21, 2019

Chair Grijala Introduces Tribal Heritage, Cont.

species, and the winged ones, creates an imbalance. Our ancestors have

always known about the importance

of ecological balance as our Creator

intended Nature to be. To remove our

Uncle, the Grizzly Bear, in the interest

of trophy hunting and mineral extraction

will forever damage other species and

ecological balance as we know it.” – Ben

Nuvamsa, former Chairman, Hopi Tribe

“This bill signals a cultural change

in America’s support for grizzly bears,

wilderness protection and Tribal rights.

It combines the best science and our humane relationship to the Earth. The addition to the bill of independent scientific

evaluation protects grizzly management

from unacceptable political interference.” – Barrie Gilbert, Conservation

Ecologist and Professor Emeritus, Utah

State University

“The grizzly bear’s importance to

many Native Americans underscores its

iconic status in our country. We applaud

Representative Grijalva and his colleagues for introducing the Tribal Heritage and Grizzly Bear Protection Act.

This bill fights grizzly bears’ decline

due to trophy hunting and other factors,

helping ensure the species does not go

extinct.” – Sara Amundson, President,

Humane Society Legislative Fund

“The Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s

Association represents the Eleven Lakota, Dakota & Nakota Reservations of

the Great Sioux Nation, the Ponca, the

Ho-Chunk, the Mandan,Hidatsa Arikara,

the Turtle Mt. Chippewa and Omaha.

Our most sacred sites, the Bear's Lodge

and Bear Butte, include narratives of the

grizzly bear. Our holy people gained insight and healing knowledge from the

grizzly. There were more grizzlies in our

sacred Black Hills than almost anywhere

else until Custer carved the Thieves

Road in 1874. The most famous photo

of Custer from the Thieves Road is of

him with a grizzly he trophy hunted.

That image is symbolic of the theft of the

Black Hills and the breaking of the 1868

Fort Laramie Treaty, the consequences

of which we still confront today on our

reservations. The history of the LakotaDakota people and that of the grizzly

are intertwined, as are our futures. The

Tribal Heritage and Grizzly Bear Protection Act is central to the survival of both

– our culture, and the Great Bear’s existence.” – A. Gay Kingman, Executive

Director, Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s

Association

“The Rocky Mountain Tribal Lead-

ers Council serves tribal nations located

in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and Alberta who all called the Yellowstone and

Glacier regions home before they were

parks. From then until now, the grizzly

has been ever-present, albeit tenuously.

There is no soundbite that can communicate the importance of the grizzly in

our cultures, but the fact that our ancestors wouldn’t say the name of the grizzly

out of respect speaks to the Great Bear’s

cultural significance. It is time that tribal

nations had input and parity in decisions

that will determine the future survival of

our sacred ancestor, the grizzly bear. The

Tribal Heritage and Grizzly Bear Protection Act provides that opportunity, and

the promise of cultural and economic revitalization for tribes who hold a fundamental connection to the grizzly and the

habitat that the grizzly once imbued with

power before being taken to the brink of

extinction by state and federal policies

imposed upon our lands.” – Tom Rodgers, Senior Adviser, Rocky Mountain

Tribal Leaders Council

“Our elders teach how the grizzly bear

brought us our medicines. ‘Grizzlies

know not only about roots and herbs

for physical healing but also about healing mental conditions,’ they say. In the

socio-economic bondage we survive in,

our reservation communities need that

healing more than ever today. The grizzly bear isn’t a ‘trophy game animal,’ the

grizzly is our relative, a grandparent. The

terms we use for grizzly bears are those

we use for people; we call female grizzly bears ‘woxúúsei,’ bear women, and

their cubs ‘hi-níisóóno,’ meaning her

child or children. In the long struggle to

protect the grizzly and in turn our sacred,

ancestral lands that the grizzly protects

for us, we defend our sovereignty from

state and federal intrusion; we defend

our treaty rights; we fight flagrant abuses

of consultation mandates; and we defend

our spiritual and religious freedoms.

The Tribal Heritage and Grizzly Bear

Protection Act reflects those essentials,

inspired as it was by the historic treaty,

The Grizzly: A Treaty of Cooperation,

Cultural Revitalization and Restoration,

to which our Northern Arapaho elders

and spiritual leaders were signatories.” –

Lynnette Grey Bull – Senior Vice President, Global Indigenous Council, and

Spokesperson for the Northern Arapaho

Elders Society of the Wind River Reservation.

MORE FROM https://naturalresources.house.gov

LEGALS

Hopi Tutuveni

May 21, 2019

Sockyma and Shupla Join the

Hopi Fire and Rescue Services

Page 9

Dr. Sana Hamzeh to Receive

Anti Torture Award from The

Hopi Foundation

Humewysi Sockyma and Michael Shupla (Photo by Carl Onsae,HT)

By: CARL ONSAE

HOPI TUTUVENI

On May 4, 2019 the Winslow Fire

Academy graduated two Hopi individuals, Humewysi Sockyma from the village of Mishongnovi, Ariz. and Michael

Shupla from the village of Polacca, Ariz.

They will be joining the Hopi Fire and

Rescue services here on the Hopi reservation and will be assisting the Hopi

community.

Both graduated with high standards

from the academy, to protect and serve

the Hopi people. Shupla’s passion for

becoming a firefighter had always been

his first choice because he knew that he

wanted to help his own people in any

way he could. Shupla stated, “I want to

help the community by doing this and

it was always in my best interest to become a fire fighter.”

Shupla was born at the Phoenix Indian Hospital – Indian Health Service in

Phoenix, Ariz. and grew up on the Hopi

reservation. He grew interested in helping people at the age of eighteen when

his father was a firefighter. According

to Shupla, his father would bring back

interesting stuff after he was done fighting fires and Shupla’s passion only grew

from there.

According to Sockyma, her interest for

becoming a firefighter came when she

saw others behaving badly and treating

their parents with disrespect. Sockyma

did not want to disappoint her parents in

such a manner. So she made it a priority

to make sure she never disappointed her

parents and to work towards something

that she could be proud of and in turn

give her parents something to be proud

of, too.

Sockyma stated, “My brothers were

a big influence to become who I am

today…I wanted to make my parents

proud of me.”

Sockyma grew up as a common Hopi

village girl where she would play until the sun went down during the Hopi

summers. Sockyma stated that when she

grew up, she wanted to help her community by doing what her father did, which

was to be a fire fighter like him. Sockyma’s passion grew bigger when she

went to Yavapai Community College

in Prescott, Arizona.; there she wanted

to learn more about fire and the way it

behaves.

It was at college that she knew that her

dream of becoming firefighter could become true.

Sockyma and Shupla will be helping

the Hopi Fire and Rescue crew towards

preventing fire disasters and saving the

Hopi community from such dangers.

Here’s to wishing both the best of luck

in fulfilling their dreams while aiding

the community in good ways.

Hopi Resource Enforcement

Services Hosts Annual Breakfast

With a Cop

A police officer demonstrates to the students, the dangers of a roll-over crash.

(Photo by Carl Onsae,HT)

Students pose with their firefighter hats, and stickers they received at the event.

(Photo by Carl Onsae,HT)

By: CARL ONSAE

HOPI TUTUVENI

KYKOTSMOVI, Ariz. - On May 17,

2019 the Hopi Resource Enforcement

Services hosted the Annual Breakfast

with a Cop event. This year, along with

Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Police,

Arizona State Troopers, Hopi Emergency Medical Services, to name a few,

the community members came together

in an informal, neutral space to discuss

community issues, build relationships,

drink coffee and have breakfast with a

cop.

Community members and several of

the local community schools came to the

Hopi Veterans Memorial Center located

in Kykotsmovi, Ariz. to have breakfast

and connect with the local law enforcement. The event was designed to create

positive connections with the local community, and for whatever reasons community members came, they seemed

to be leaving with a more positive impression of their local law enforcement

agency.

The Breakfast with a Cop event is a

statewide event, which brings awareness

to all about the first responders, police

and law enforcement, and also to honor

the lives of law enforcement officers who

may have lost their lives while on duty.

One of the keys to Breakfast with

a Cop’s success is that it removes the

physical barriers and crisis situations that

routinely define interactions between

law enforcement officials and community members. Instead the event and

time allows for a more relaxed, informal one-on-one interaction in a friendly

atmosphere. The informal contact is

meant to increase trust in police officers

as individuals, which is foundational to

building partnerships and engaging in

community problem solving together

and without the trauma associated factors, which typically are included when

officers are tending to the public’s needs.

Attending students seemed very impressed and in awe of a large construction truck on display. The truck was used

to demonstrate and mock the outcome of

a rollover accident. The students were

also encouraged to visit several informational booths and to listen to the speakers

about what they were presenting.

In addition to providing breakfast for

the community, the education that these

brave officials provided along with service to the community, it’s clear that

these types of events brings the community closer while making the community

safer.

By: Danielle Romeyn

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

KYKOTSMOVI, Ariz. - Dr. Sana

Hamzeh, Clinical Advisor of the Restart

Center for Rehabilitation of Victims

of Violence and Torture in Lebanon,

will receive the eights Barbara Chester

Award for her innovative multimodal

and client-centered approaches to rebuilding and protecting the lives of survivors of torture.

Presentation of the Award will occur

on Saturday, October 5, 2019 on the

Hopi Indian Reservation in Moencopi,

Arizona.

Since founding the Lebanon-based

Restart Center in 1996, Dr. Hamzeh

has touched the lives of approximately

20,000 survivors in collaboration with

the multidisciplinary team she leads,

empowering survivors of torture, refugees, individuals with PTSD, Anxiety

and Depression and other vulnerable

populations. In addition to her Restart

Center accomplishments, she is also vice

president of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims, a drafter, trainer and implementer of the Istanbul Protocol, a mental health expert in

Physicians for Human Rights, a member

of Act. NOW’s trauma surviving group,

and a founding Member of the Eastern

Mediterranean Association of Child and

Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions.

In nominating her for the award, Restart Center Chief Executive Director

Suzanne Jabbour recalled a conversation

which illustrates her colleague’s extraordinary courage. Jabbour stated, “Being

concerned about her safety, I remember

once asking her, do you really have to

travel to Iraq? Are you sure you should

go? Her response was simple: Why go

to safe places only if there are people

from dangerous places that need help?”

When asked what her future holds,

Dr. Hamzeh replied, “What I would say

is that I am now giving birth of a new

generation…a pool of youth who will

continue what I have started and what I

am still doing. I will always and always

be a fighter forever.”

The Barbara Chester Award is the

world’s first anti-torture award and is a

project of The Hopi Foundation. Each

award recipient receives a $10,000 cash

prize and a Hopi handcrafted silver overlay eagle feather sculpture. Previous recipients are Shari Eppel of Zimbabwe

(2000), Juan Almendares of Honduras

(2001), Allen Keller of New York (2003),

Alp Ayan of Turkey (2006), Mary Fabri

of Chicago (2009), the late Dr. Naasson

Munyandamutsa of Rwanda (2013) and

Dr. Diana Kordon of Argentina (2016).

The Barbara Chester Award is given

as a tribute to honor the life and work of

the late Dr. Barbara Chester, a pioneering clinician who directed the first treatment program for torture survivors in the

United States. Later she treated indigenous refugees from Central and South

America, as well as survivors from more

than 50 countries. In particular, her work

stressed the role of culture in determining both how an individual experienced

the trauma of torture as well as the best

approach for recovery.

When asked what receiving the Bar-

bara Chester Award would mean for her

life and work, Dr. Hamzeh mentioned

the words of another woman who has

made a big impact in the field of working with victims of torture. She stated,

“This Award of Barbara, it means a lot

to me. You know why? Because Inge

Genefke, what she said about her [Barbara]. Inge said, ‘I don't think I ever met

a person with such a fine understanding

of the suffering of others as, Barbara,

and intuition and brain intellect, combined, so harmoniously, that you could

all benefit.’ And I think that I in my

work, I feel a little bit that we are similar,

that we are alike. That's why this Award

means a lot to me.’”

How the world’s first anti-torture

award came to be sponsored in a small

and remote non-gaming Native American reservation is a story in itself. About

18,000 Hopi people live in northeastern

Arizona, the oldest continuously inhabited location in North America. Given

the remoteness of Hopi, their culture

has survived largely intact in spite of

focused efforts at forced assimilation.

Based on her pioneering work establishing the Center for the Victims of Torture

in Minneapolis, Dr. Chester was contracted to work with the Hopi Tribe and

later moved to Arizona to develop the

Center for Prevention and Resolution for

Violence in Tucson through The Hopi

Foundation. After her death, to honor

her work, The Hopi Foundation established The Barbara Chester Award and

continues to promote her legacy among

new practitioners from communities

across the globe.

Cities are seen as attracting diverse

people who learn from each other and

develop sophisticated and tolerant values. To an outsider, Hopi is merely a

collection of 12 villages in a barren

landscape with a culture substantially at

variance with “modern” America. The

reservation seems an unlikely source

of the first international prize given to

clinicians who work with torture survivors, yet it is from this land, this culture

and these people that a sophisticated

network of tolerance and support has

reached around the world. The Hopi

help humanity heal from the very worst

that humans can do to each other.

“The Barbara Chester Award fits within the Hopi Foundation’s mission and

the Foundation because the Hopi people

have long held a spiritual relationship to

life-giving forces that promote healing

and balance,” states Monica Nuvamsa,

Executive Director of the Hopi Foundation. “These relationships extend beyond

the Hopi families and communities for

the well-being of the world as a whole.

The Foundation has been privileged to

share this message of healing and to perpetuate our value for life by honoring

those healers that work with survivors of

torture and trauma.”

The Hopi Foundation is a 501(c) 3

nonprofit located on the Hopi reservation

in northeastern Arizona with a vision of

self-sufficiency, self-reliance, and local

self-determination so that it engages in

proactive participation toward our own

destiny and a community. To learn more

about the Hopi Foundation, visit www.

hopifoundation.org.

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May 21, 2019

Hopi Special Diabetes Program Hosts

2019 100 Mile Kickoff for the Health of It

By ROMALITA LABAN

HOPI TUTUVENI

KYKOTSMOVI, Ariz. – Monday, May 6, 2019

through the wind and cool temperatures, registered

participants of the 2019 100 Mile Kickoff did just that.

Runners kicked off the 2019 100 mile challenge to rack

up 100 miles and more during the twelve week period of

May 6, 2019 through July 28, 2019.

Folks were weaning off of feasting on tacos, during

the Cinco de Mayo celebrations, and it seemed only fit

to get folks moving, with that same theme going on in

the background. Many of Hopi Tribe’s Special Diabetes

Program staff came in full costume to rev runners up

complete with warming exercises and plenty of celebratory vibes and smiles.

Although Tutuveni staff wasn’t able to join runners on

the trails, staff was on hand to take pictures of the ready

and anxious runners. Runners, who determined to get

started on logging miles on the trails and to qualify for

putting into their running logs, seemed to be in a festive mood while stretching and smiling for Tutuveni’s

camera.

We send out lots of good and healthy vibes for all the

100 Mile Club participants and those who are exercising for the health of it, too. Here’s to a successful and

health 2019 100 Mile Club season. Happy running and

nahongvita!

Participants bare the cold as they do a pre-workout

before their run (Photo by Romalita Laban,HT)

The Hopi wellness staff dress for the special occasion

for the kick-off run (Photo by Romalita Laban,HT)

 Various Breakout sessions

will be led by inspiring and

passionate speakers

that

 Informational Booths

 PTSD Awareness Walk

 And more

Parents, Educators and all community members are encouraged to

attend.

REGISTRATION IS FREE

For more information or to register, contact Elyse Lomawaima at 928-734-3524

Hopi CHR Program Presents:

“AND THEIR OFF...“ Runners from all over the Hopi

mesas run for the “Health of it“ (Photo by Romalita

Laban,HT)

Navajo/Hopi Honor

Riders Set to Arrive at

Hopi Veterans Memorial

Center on May 23, 2019

By: Romalita Laban, Hopi Tutuveni and Eugene

Talas, Hopi Veteran’s Services

Females:

Females June 5, 2019

Males: June 6, 2019

Where: First Mesa Youth Center

Time: 5:30 - 8:30 pm

Ages: 13-18

DINNER WILL BE SERVED

Break Out Sessions:

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Hopi Values

Relationship Roles

Break the Silence, Speak YOUR Voice!

Not All Wounds Are Visible

For more information, please call:

928-737-6342

KYKOTSMOVI, Ariz. - Tune up your motorcycles

and/or prepare to Meet and Greet the 2019 Navajo-Hopi

Honor Riders (NHHR) arrival to Hopi Veterans Memorial Center (HVMC)this week.

The Riders are expected to arrive on Thursday, May

23, 2019, around 12:30 p.m. (MST) at HVMC for a

brief stop to honor all Hopi Veterans, Military Members

and Gold & Blue Star Families. Below is a brief history of the NHHR:

Remembrance - NHHR activities include an annual

Honor Run to remember all Native American veterans who were “Killed In Action” since Lori Piestewa’s

death in 2003, and the “Gold Star” families that were

left behind after the sacrifice of these soldiers. American Gold Star families are immediate relatives of members of the U.S. Armed Forces who have been killed in

combat or in support of certain military activities. The

organization has also started recognizing and supporting “Blue Star” families in the community. American

Blue Star families are those that have sons or daughters

in active service in the U.S. Armed Forces and were

originally formed during World War II.

Our Assistance - NHHR also offers motorcycle escorts for funeral services or welcome home events

for returning military service personnel, participates

in community service projects to assist veterans with

home improvement or remodeling projects to better

suit physical or mental challenges resulting from their

military service, and outreach events to build awareness

regarding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and other difficulties faced by returning veterans or the families they

leave behind.

The brief stop-over is to thank riders for their annual

ride across Hopi and Navajo lands as they pay homage

to Veteran, Military and their Families.

Veteran Services is reaching out to Veterans, Gold

Star families and current Hopi Blue Star families who

have loved ones serving in the military today as our special honored guests. And we encourage all tribal and

school Royalty to attend.

Donations of water, fruits, cookies and/or treats to

provide to the Riders as refreshments to energize them

on their full day travel across Arizona are being sought

and accepted. Donations can be brought to the Hopi

Veterans Services by Wednesday, May 22, 2019 between 9:00 am and 4:00 p.m. Hopi Veteran’s Services

is located in the Hopi Tribal Administrative building,

first floor; use the side door-way due to renovation of

main doors.

Questions may be directed to Eugene Talas - HVS at

928-734-346.

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