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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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COLUMN

“No Paparazzi Please“

Hopi
Tutuveni
wants to know
how we are
doing.

Hopi Tribe Economic
Development
Corporation Hires New
CEO

EDITORIAL

Read how Larry likes to
take pictures?....

ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED

Patty Talahongva, Picture courtesy of Indian Country Today.

utes,” she said.
Talahongva has been on the front row as
a reporter or producer for so many national
stories She covered the Rodney King riots
in Los Angeles in 1992, reporting from the
streets, in 2004 she reported live from the
National Mall in Washington, D.C. for the
grand opening of the Smithsonian's National
Museum of the American Indian, and more
recently she was on the ground producing
stories about the Yarnell Fire, in Arizona,
which took the lives of 19 Hot Shot firefighters.
Trahant said that Talahongva also brings
the thinking of a teacher into the newsroom.
She has worked for many years leading student projects for the Native American Journalists Association. She continues in that
mission, working with young people in a variety of roles, including as a board member
for the Center for Native American Youth.
“Yes, we want a great newscast,” Trahant
said. “And we also want to create a launching pad for careers. We want opportunity for
the next generation of Native storytellers.”
"This is a huge honor for me to be selected to lead this historic newsroom that will
truly bring an American Indian perspective
to our news programs. It's also a tremendous responsibility and I fully embrace this
opportunity to serve our Native peoples,”
Tahlaongva said. "I'm excited to join the
Indian Country Today newsroom and I look
forward to working with the team Mark is
assembling. We plan on changing the newscape for Indian Country."
Talahongva is a former president of Native American Journalists Association. Follow her @WiteSpider on Twitter.

HOPI TUTUVENI
PO BOX 123
KYKOTSMOVI, AZ 86039
1000-01600-7460

Changing the ‘Newscape’ in
Indian Country

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tirement. “It became very clear that the
best candidate was already a part of the
HTEDC team. With Ms. Smith’s many
years of experience with the HTEDC, we
are pleased to have continuity in furthering the Hopi Tribe’s vision to bring economic development opportunities to benefit the Hopi Tribe,” said Interim Board
Chairman, Daryl Melvin.
“I am honored to have the opportunity
to continue working with the Hopi Tribe
and live in Northern Arizona,” Ms. Smith
commented. “Especially during this critical time when the HTEDC is exploring
new partnerships and regional business
opportunities,” she continued.
The Hopi Tribe Economic Development Corporation works on behalf of the
Hopi people to bring economic development opportunities that make a difference. They are the economic development arm for the Hopi Tribe with diverse
enterprises and locations, including Second Mesa, Polacca, Sedona, Holbrook,
and Flagstaff. The HTEDC is dedicated
to the long-term financial strength of the
Hopi Tribe.

BREAKFAST WITH A COP
Find pictures on
And story on
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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.
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Credit
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1986 and is included in Section 42 of
the Internal Revenue Code. It was first
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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-

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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
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firm focused exclusively on promoting
housing and economic development for
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Travois has brought investor equity to
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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.

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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.

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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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Luci Wytewa thanks Northland Pioneer College for helping her achieve her educational goals. – Photo Courtesy of NPC

By: Dennis Durband, NPC Staff
Writer
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
https://purrfectlove.net/take-great-cat-pictures-tips/

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
Name:
that time, we didn’t think of the implications of using a camera inside
of the village, we just took pictures
1
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
2
3
4
our pictures developed. We would
5
laugh at how it came out, whether
6
someone was making a face or doing something silly. When you’re a
7
mush head kitten, you really don’t
8
9
think of the dangers of what a photo
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can have, we just had fun taking pictures.
I say pictures are a good thing, and
Across
Down
11
12
13
what
I mean, is that we can use pic4. Yöngé
1. Siiki
14
tures to document different events in
6. Tuvahomki
2. Pono
15
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
16
12. Kootala
9. Patupha
look when she was younger.” A cam13. Pútu
11. Wuko
17
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
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When you go to any Hopi village
next issue
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using the in
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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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Job Openings-Open until filled

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND
STRATEGIC PLANNING MANAGER
Hopi Tribe Economic Development Corporation has an immediate opening for a Business
Development and Strategic Planning Manager. This position will work in conjunction
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
proven track record of business management
or development experience. Additionally, a
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
Business Administration, Marketing or Business Strategy and Planning, with preference
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
csmith@htedc.net or mailed to HTEDC, attn:
Human Resources, 5200 E Cortland Blvd,
Sutie E200-7, Flagstaff, AZ 86001
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
excellent written and oral communication
skills; possess transcribing experience and
display both maturity and sound judgement.
The selected individual must be able to work
flexible hours and maintain strict confidentiality concerning any matters of the Board.
Salary will be based on experience.
Interested parties should send their resume
to the HTEDC Corporate Office at 5200 E
Cortland Blvd, Suite E200-7, Flagstaff, AZ
86004, attention Human Resources.
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGER
Hopi Tribe Economic Development Corporation has an immediate opening for a Human
Resource Manager. This position will report
to the CEO and be responsible for performing all aspects of an effective human resource
department that benefits the employees of the
corporation.
The successful candidate must have a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration or
Human Resources with a minimum 3 years’
experience in the human resource area. This
is a fulltime position with benefits and will
require some travel. Salary will be determined based on experience.
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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

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
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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.
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May 21, 2019

Sockyma and Shupla Join the
Hopi Fire and Rescue Services

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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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Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/tribal%3Ahopi_arizona%3Ace865202a4e6f957. Public record. Not legal advice.