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Hopi Tutuveni March 4, 2020

2019 Novel Coronavirus...Cont.

(Photo by Carl Onsae/HT)

is high, both globally and to the United

States. This is a rapidly evolving situation,

and information is likely to become dated

quickly. We encourage everyone to periodically review CDC’s COVID-19 webpage for the most recent updates: https://

www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/

index.html

The IHS will continue to follow normal

policies and procedures for evaluation and

treatment of respiratory illnesses. Patients

who are presenting with flu-like illness are

being asked if they have traveled recently

as a means to determine their risk of exposure to COVID-19. If a patient comes under evaluation for COVID-19, IHS would

coordinate with local, state, and/or tribal

public health departments immediately.

While any direct impacts of this outbreak to Indian Country are not yet

known, we must be vigilant in our efforts

to prevent the introduction and spread of

infections among our patients and within

the communities we serve. Go to https://

www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/

about/prevention-treatment.html for some

of the everyday preventive actions you

can take to help prevent the spread of respiratory viruses.

As flu activity remains high in the U.S.

and is expected to continue for weeks, it

isn’t too late to get your annual influenza vaccination. Everyone six months and

older should get the vaccination each year

to protect themselves and reduce the risk

of spreading the flu to others. Vaccination

against the flu is especially important for

American Indians and Alaska Natives,

who have been found to be at high risk

of developing complications from the flu.

Go to https://www.cdc.gov/flu/index.htm

for more information.

Studies have shown that people who get

vaccinated will have fewer flu illnesses

and doctor visits and miss less work due

to influenza. Protect yourself, your family,

and your community by getting your vaccination today.

Everyday actions to help prevent the

spread of respiratory illnesses include:

•Wash your hands often with soap

and water or at least 20 seconds. If soap

and water are not available, use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at

least 60% alcohol.

•Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and

mouth with unwashed hands.

•Stay home when you are sick.

•Avoid close contact with people who

are sick.

•Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue or your sleeve (not your hands).

•Clean and disinfect frequently touched

objects and surfaces.

For more information, check out the Arizona Department of Health Services website: https://www.azdhs.gov/coronavirus.

The Hopi Department of Health & Human Services is program of the Hopi Tribe

and promotes health awareness through

advocacy, health education, promotions

and prevention for individual and families to create healthy communities while

working closely with villages. The services within the Department include: a)

Adult & Aging Program; b) HOPI Cancer

Program; c) Women, Infants & Children

Program; d) Community Health Services

Program; e) Hopi Wellness Program; and

f) Non-Medical Transportation Program,

and g) Public Health Compliance Officer

& Small Animal Control Program.

If you would like the most current information about the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) visit the CDC

website:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html. This has

been a public announcement by the Hopi

Tribe’s Department of Health & Human

Services (928) 734-3202.

Hopi Girl from Oraibi helps Win

Girls 4A Soccer State Championship

Sophomore Hopi Goalkeeper, Lianna Albert holding the 4A Girls Arizona State

Soccer Championship trophy in Gilbert, Ariz. Photo by Daniell Albert

Daniell J. Albert

For Hopi Tutuveni

Gilbert, Ariz. - Tuesday, Feb 25, 2020, at Gilbert Williams Field High

School, #3 seed Flagstaff

High School defeated last

year’s state runner up #4

seed Catalina Foothills.

The scoreless game ended

the regulation in a tie 0-0,

followed by two overtime

periods and two 5-minute sudden-death periods,

which still resulted in a

0-0 game. This led to an

intense penalty kick (PK)

shootout showdown between the two teams with

Flagstaff eventually winning 4-2.

Hopi Goalkeeper, Lianna Albert, sophomore

from the Village of Oraibi, helped the Lady Eagles win in penalty kicks,

playing over 100 minutes

of game time with 17 saves

and 2 straight diving pen-

alty kicks saves to win the

game. Albert was given a

standing ovation after the

solo intense penalty kicks

saves. Sou Torres, the opposing teams’ head coach

to be quoted, "A quality keeper and one of the

strongest"

Eagles head coach, Holly Jones, was proud of the

team’s mentality, focus and

discipline while they kept

up their defense along the

way to a wild season ending. The team ended their

season with a 14-2 record

against powerhouse teams

losing only to top seeds #1

Prescott and #2 Arcadia in

the regular season. As far

as the tournament went,

the Eagles allowed only

three goals in four matches

to get passed them.

The Eagles path in

the postseason was extraordinarily irregular. In

the opening state playoff round, they defeated

Gila Ridge in overtime.

And then the young team

moved forward with backto-back penalty kick wins

against Tucson Sahuaro

and three-time defending

state champions Salpointe

Catholic, advancing their

way to their first state

championship game since

2011.

Jones stating after the

championship, “Lianna’s

personality really shined

and her confidence just

kept rising…she played

bigger and bigger every

game, with a smile on her

face.” Jones couldn’t have

been prouder of her goalkeeper and her team. Albert is among the young

crew of 13 underclassmen

to return next year to defend their state title, losing

only 4 seniors from their

roster. The future is bright

for the Lady Eagles Soccer team for the upcoming

years.

Hopi Tutuveni March 4, 2020

Super Tuesday on March 17, 2020

Karen Shupla, Registrar

Hopi Elections Office

Kykotsmovi, Ariz. –

March 3, 2020, Hopi Elections Office reminds Hopi

Tutuveni readers that not

only is March 17, 2020

St. Patrick’s Day, it is also

the day of the Presidential

Preference Election. (The

Democratic Party is the

only party participating in

the PPE) Polls are open

6:00 a.m. through 7:00

p.m. MST.

At Super Vote Centers

(polling sites) for Navajo

County- a registered voter

may cast their vote at any

voting center in Navajo

County.

The Navajo reservation

polling sites will be open

6:00 a.m. through 7:00

p.m. DST, which begins on

Sunday, March 8, 2020.

Navajo County polling

locations for registered

Hopi voters are as follows:

LDS Church located in

Polacca, Ariz.

Sipaulovi Youth and Elderly Center located in Sipaulovi, Ariz.

Kykotsmovi Youth and

Elderly Center located in

Kykotsmovi, Ariz.

Coconino County polling locations for registered

Hopi voters are as follows:

Tuba City High School

Pavilion Center located in

Tuba City, Ariz.

What is the Presidential

Preference Election?

The Arizona Presidential Preference Election

(PPE) is a special election

in which voters registered

with political parties vote

for the candidate they want

to become their party’s

Presidential nominee in

the upcoming general election. Party winners of the

Arizona PPE are officially

determined at the party’s

national convention. Other

states have their own PPE,

as well.

Reminder: Bring your

ID when going to the polling sites.

Registration

deadline

dates/Election dates for the

upcoming elections are as

follows:

National Elections

Election Dates

Deadline Dates To Register

Presidential

Preference

Election March 17, 2020

February 18, 2020

Primary Election

August 4, 2020

July 6, 2020

General Election

November 3, 2020

October 5, 2020

Last day to request for an

early ballot for the PPE –

March 6, 2020

www.servicearizona.com

or www.vote411.org

For more information call:

Navajo County Voter Registration at 928-524-4192

or Hopi Elections Office at

928-734-2507

Hopi School System Transition

Public Meetings

Hopi Transistion Team

Press Release

The Hopi Education Code (passed on

August 7, 2019 by Hopi Tribal Council),

creates a new Hopi School System unifying each of Hopi's Tribally Controlled

Schools under a new Hopi Board of Education (HBE) and provides new administrative structures designed to improve

educational services for Hopi students.

The Transition Team is a group of Hopi

professionals and community members

who will facilitate and provide advice

and recommendations on the planning

and implementation of the transition from

the current, individual organization of the

Hopi schools to the unified Hopi School

System. Code §1.5.A(31).

The Hopi School System Public meetings are scheduled for the second Monday

of each month, beginning at 5:30 pm. The

location of meetings will rotate between

the HJSHS and elementary schools during

the time the Transition Team is engaged

with completing the transition, currently projected to continue through July of

2022.

We look forward to seeing you at

SMDS!

Transition Team Officers,

Dr. Darold H. Joseph, Chair

Mr. Alban Naha, Vice-Chair

Ms. Samantha Honani, Secretary

Any questions can be directed to the

Hopi Department of Education and Workforce Development at (928) 734-3501.

New Native American Film

‘Touch the Water’ Gets Green

Light!

‘Touch the Water’ Slated for April/

May Production

FOR IMMEDIATE

RELEASE

MESA ─ Despite still

needing actors, locations

and with only partial funding in place, Holt Hamilton Films declares they are

moving full speed ahead

on their next feature film

production. “I’ve never

had everything in perfect

place before starting any

journey in my life. Maybe

it’s just me, but at some

point, you’ve got to go for

it- win or lose. Stop thinking about it, planning it,

and just kneel down with a

prayer, tighten up the boot

straps, buckle your seat

belt, step on the gas and

hang on!” said writer/director Holt Hamilton with

a smile, “I just don’t know

how to get it done any other way, maybe someday,

but I’m not there yet.”

The production company recently opened auditions to a world audience

with an online audition

and submission process

that ended on 22 Feb 2020.

Over 100 applicants submitted and are still under

review. Hamilton stated

that they have opened the

online submission opportunity back up today and

will let it run until the 14th

of March. Final Casting

decisions will be made the

21st of March in prepara-

tion for an April/May 2020

production. Specific casting details are available on

the HHF website at www.

HoltHamilton.com (Click

the ‘ACTORS’ tab).

In addition to the online

audition process open to all

the world, Holt Hamilton

Films will have their first in

person audition for ‘Touch

the Water’ this coming Saturday, March 7th. The audition will run from 1-3pm

at the Native Health center

in Phoenix, Arizona (4041

N. Central Ave, Bldg C,

Phoenix, AZ 85012). “Native Health has supported

us in many ways over the

years and now again with

space to hold auditions in

downtown Phoenix. I was

amazed when I did a recent

walk through with Susan

Levy at the facility. The

space was large and perfect

for what I wanted. We’re

thankful for their partnership in our film journey

over the years.” Hamilton

stated.

‘Touch the Water’ is

scheduled for production in April/May with a

planned theatrical release

this fall. The movie portrays an eighty-year-old

woman and plans on shining light into the struggle a

person goes through as age

increases. ‘You are never too old to dream’ is the

film’s tagline.

Movie Logline: When a

young intern at the local

Senior Day Center challenges Daisy, an accomplished Native American

elder, to dream again, she

re-evaluates her tired frail

body with her still youthful

mind to set out on a stirring

quest to fulfill a life-long

dream.

Another unique thing

Hamilton is doing for his

audience on ‘Touch the

Water’, is removing the

curtain from his nontraditional filmmaking process by allowing viewers

to ‘Follow the Journey’

on their YouTube channel ‘Holt Hamilton Films’

as he works to make the

movie happen. They have

released 24 episodes and

plan to continue with the

episodes through the theatrical release of the movie.

“There hasn’t been a lot

of views yet, but I feel it’s

right to share this information. If nothing else, it may

inspire another filmmaker

or two and help them realize that the struggle is

similar whether you are in

Hollywood with money or

your own backyard shed

turned office.”

w w w. H o l t H a m i l t o n .

com.

To arrange an interview

please contact Travis at

(602) 769.7681, travis@

holthamilton.com

Hopi Tutuveni March 4, 2020

Kaibab National Forest announces

Write More Letters to Friends and March archaeology month events

Family

LIVING

PHOTO SOURCE: (c) Statepoint

(StatePoint) In an age of instant messages, video chats and social media, the

art of letter writing has become rare. But

sitting down to write correspondence by

hand can be a much more personal way to

connect than some of the modern modes

of communication. Not only does it give

you ample opportunity to express yourself, it gives your recipient something tangible to hold onto and revisit.

If it’s been some time since you last

corresponded by snail mail, you may find

your letter-writing skills to be a bit rusty.

To help you be successful, the experts at

Pilot Pen are offering some tips:

1. Make Lasting Connections. Writing

and mailing letters daily may feel a bit intimidating, but why should it? Did you text

someone today? Did you send an email? If

the answer is yes, you’re already halfway

there. Put pen to paper instead and add a

more personal, analog touch to your daily communication. Reconnect with long

distance friends, send happy mail to your

parents, or explore the opportunity to encourage a soldier overseas and make a

new friend in the process. Whoever you

choose to write to this process, it will help

create a physical reminder of the connection between you and your recipient.

2. Pick Great Tools. A trusty pen can

get you through any deadline, to-do list

or thank you note. Wielding this powerful

tool will automatically help you feel capable of taking on new challenges. During

the month of February, Pilot Pen suggests

picking up a pen designed to help you au-

thor your best correspondence, as well as

overachieve in every aspect of your life.

With G2, America’s number one selling,

longest-lasting gel ink pen, you’ll be able

to glide through all 29 days of handwritten letters, and anything else that comes

across your desk, for months to come.

3. Get Inspired. Not sure where to start?

Think of each recipient and what makes

them special to you. Share favorite memories or accomplishments that make you

extra proud of them. Then, share one anecdote or piece of news from your life. In

our increasingly digital lives, your unique

hand-written sentiments will likely bring a

welcome bit of cheer into their day.

4. Get Personal. Remember: the written word is powerful, especially when it’s

personal. Give each note a special touch

by writing it on monogrammed stationery

or a special postcard. You can take this

personalization concept one step further

by using different pens for each recipient.

With four pen point sizes ranging from ultra-fine to bold and more than 25 ink color

options, including pastels, and metallics,

there’s sure to be a G2 pen suited to your

writing style and your recipient’s tastes.

For tools and inspiration, visit powertothepen.com and instagram.com/pilotpenusa.

By rediscovering the art of handwritten correspondence, you’ll give yourself

a meaningful chance to connect with pen

pals all over the globe.

Close-up image of some of the petroglyphs at Keyhole Sink. Photo by Dyan

Bone. Credit Kaibab National Forest.

WILLIAMS, Ariz., Feb. 21, 2020 —

This March, the Kaibab National Forest

will continue its more than decade-long

tradition of offering stimulating presentations and outdoor excursions in the Williams area as part of Arizona Archaeology

and Heritage Awareness Month.

On Wednesday evenings throughout

March, experts will present a series of

lectures starting at 6 p.m. at the Sultana

Theatre in Williams covering topics such

as the history of sheep ranching in northern Arizona, Fred Harvey's original farmto-table legacy, and the role of the Forest

Service in shaping Arizona and its lands.

On all four Saturdays in March, Kaibab National Forest archaeologists will

lead fun and educational hikes to the Keyhole Sink petroglyph site near the Parks

community starting at 2 p.m. The Keyhole

Sink Trail offers a short, relatively flat

hike to a scenic box canyon where prehistoric residents left their mark carved into

the canyon's gray volcanic walls.

A special addition to the 2020 archaeology month offerings is the Stone to Steel

Dam Trail hike, which will be held both

March 14 and March 28. Guests should

arrive at 9:30 a.m. at the Ash Fork Museum in Ash Fork. The trail is an easy, winding path between two historic dams. The

first large steel dam in the nation was built

in Ash Fork in the late 1890s by a railroad

company. Less than a mile upstream is another dam dating from 1911, which was

also constructed by the railroad but with

stone blocks.

“We are so fortunate to live in an area

that is so rich with history and culture,"

said Neil Weintraub, archaeologist for the

south zone of the Kaibab National Forest.

“There is no better time than archaeology month to learn about and explore the

incredible diversity of special places that

make the Kaibab National Forest and

northern Arizona so unique."

Archaeology month is intended to generate understanding of and support for the

state’s archaeological heritage. Celebrations and events focus on promoting the

preservation of archaeological resources

and illustrating ways the public can help

in protecting and appreciating them.

For detailed information about the Kaibab National Forest archaeology month

offerings in the Williams area, visit March

2019 Archaeology Events.

Kaibab National Forest information is also

available through the following sources:

·Kaibab National Forest Website: www.

fs.usda.gov/kaibab

·Twitter: www.twitter.com/KaibabNF

·Facebook: www.facebook.com/KaibabNF

· Flickr: http://bit.ly/KaibabNFPhotos

Hopi Tutuveni March 4, 2019

COMMUNITY

Is Your Dinner Contributing to

Plastic Pollution in the Ocean?

PHOTO SOURCE: (c) artem_goncharov / stock.Adobe.com

By StatePoint

July 7, 2020

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at the

Hopi Veteran’s Memorial Center

Did you know that the choices your local grocery store makes can have a global impact on the environment? From the

types and brands of seafood sold to the

way foods are packaged and carried out of

the store, oceans worldwide are affected

by the operations of grocers near you.

Fortunately, supermarkets across the

country have made significant progress

over the last 10 years when it comes to

providing sustainable seafood options to

customers, according to a new Greenpeace report, “Carting Away the Oceans.”

From advocacy and transparency initiatives to addressing illegal fishing, many

major retailers nationwide are improving.

Overall, 90 percent of the retailers profiled in the report received passing scores,

10 years after every single retailer failed

Greenpeace’s first assessment. However,

experts say that the momentum of this

positive trend should be applied to other

areas of sustainability, too.

“It’s time to put the same energy into

tackling the unaddressable issues facing

seafood workers and our oceans,” says

Greenpeace oceans campaigner David

Pinsky. “It’s not truly sustainable seafood

if it’s produced by forced labor and then

wrapped in throwaway plastic packaging.

Supermarkets can use their brands, buying

power and influence to do what is right for

our oceans and for future generations.”

As Greenpeace points out, the equivalent of a garbage truck of plastic enters

oceans every minute, and with plastic production set to double in the next 20 years

-- largely for packaging -- threats to ocean

biodiversity and seafood supply chains

are increasing. According to the report,

none of the retailers profiled currently

have a comprehensive policy to reduce

and ultimately phase out their reliance on

single-use plastics.

As a customer, you can make a difference by carrying your own tote bag on

shopping trips and by asking your local

supermarket what steps are being taken

to reduce plastic use. Consumers can also

show their support for brands doing the

right thing by shopping only for seafood

that’s produced sustainable and ethically.

To learn more, visit greenpeace.org/usa/

carting-away-the-oceans.

The next time you shop for groceries,

take note of both the foods you are buying

and the way items are packaged. Experts

say that when you eat seafood from ethical, sustainable producers and limit single-use plastic packaging, oceans worldwide will benefit.

Current Indian World News

Scientists have long warned about link

between pandemics and climate change

Shelves for bottled water are bare at a grocery store in Anchorage, Alaska, Sunday, March 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Jourdan Bennett-Begaye

Indian Country Today

As one 2016 study reported:

‘Climate change can affect human health, especially when infectious diseases are concerned’

What’s in a name? Epidemiologists are describing COVID-19

as a pandemic. But the World

Health Organization isn’t going

that far just yet, describing the

spread as merely an “epidemic.”

The coronavirus disease “has

pandemic potential,” Dr. Tedros

Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health

Organization said on Feb. 26.

“Using the word pandemic carelessly has no tangible benefit, but

it does have significant risk in

terms of amplifying unnecessary

and unjustified fear and stigma,

and paralyzing systems.”

But by Friday the international health organization raised its

risk assessment for COVID-19

to “very high” based on the

“spread” of virus and “countries’

capacity to respond.”

Not that people are paying attention to the actual label. Around

the world stores are reporting

a run on basic supplies such as

water and disinfectant wipes. It’s

the same in Italy, Hong Kong and

other places where the virus has

been reported.

Even though Alaska has yet to

report a case, stores are reporting

shortages of water and other supplies.

Dr. Michael Mina says it may

not be dubbed a pandemic, “but

I think most epidemiologists

around the world, including

myself and my colleagues, definitely consider this at this point

to be sort of the definition of a

pandemic.” Mina is an assistant

professor of epidemiology and

an assistant professor of immunology and infectious diseases at

the Harvard T. H. Chan School

of Public Health of Harvard University,

“And that’s because it’s

spreading now locally in many

countries not just China anymore,” said Mina, who is the associate medical director leading

some of the molecular biology

diagnostics focused on diagnosing and dealing with COVID-19.

The Journal of American Medical Association defines a pan-

demic as “a health condition that

has spread globally” and epidemic as “an outbreak that has spread

to a larger geographic area.”

By Sunday the World Health

Organization reported 87,137

cases worldwide. China identified 79,968 cases of COVID-19

resulting in 2,873 deaths. Outside China there are 7,169 cases

in 58 countries and 104 deaths.

At the beginning of the year,

the organization released 13

“urgent, global health challenges” for the next decade. Part of

the 13 included preparing for

epidemics, stopping infectious

diseases, and elevating health in

the climate debate. All three of

which continue to be overlooked.

In that same announcement,

Dr. Ghebreyesus said, “Countries

invest heavily in protecting their

people from terrorist attacks, but

not against the attack of a virus,

which could be far more deadly,

and far more damaging economically and socially. A pandemic

could bring economies and nations to their knees.”

Yet beyond the words, epidemic or pandemic, warnings about a

fast-spreading virus has been a

part of the literature on climate

change.

Scientists say the world isn’t

prepared to deal with a global

pandemic. The 1918 influenza

pandemic has been used as an

example. Back then, the world

didn’t have the medical technology it has now. But even medical

innovation isn’t enough today.

The world has the ability to travel from continent to continent

quickly. Now COVID-19 exists

on six of the seven continents in

the world.

Due to the “combined impacts

of rapid demographic, environmental, social, technological and

other changes in our ways-ofliving,” there is an “apparent increase” in infectious diseases and

new ones, said the World Health

Organization. “Climate change

will also affect infectious disease

occurrence.”

As one 2016 study found:

“Climate change can affect human health, especially when infectious diseases are concerned.”

The Global Preparedness

Monitoring Board in a report last

year outlined what governments

should be doing to prepare for

global health emergencies. The

board found that between 2011

and 2018, the World Health Organization fought 1,483 epidemic events in 172 countries.

Dean Seneca, who worked

for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention for nearly

19 years as a health scientist in

the Office for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support and

was also a first responder to the

2009 H1N1 pandemic, said rapid changes in the environment

“have a huge impact on disease

outbreaks.”

“You know the environment, if

you wanna if we really want to

get into it, had a huge, you can

look this up, had a huge impact

on the hantavirus,” said the Seneca tribal citizen. The hantavirus

was first spotted on the Navajo

Nation and spread throughout

the Four Corners Region in 1993.

After years of drought, rain

and snow came heavily in the

early months of 1993. Navajo

elders told CDC scientists, who

were trying to figure out the

source of the hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, that the precipitation reinvigorated the plants,

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Hopi Tutuveni March 4, 2020

Eastern Cherokee seek to enter

commercial gaming

File photo: This Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020 photo, shows a parcel of land that The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians has reached an agreement with developer Steve Johnson to develop and operate a

casino on a 350-acre tract in Washington County, near Bristol, Va.. (Andre Teague/Bristol Herald Courier via AP)

Joseph Martin

For Indian Country Today

With the success of off-reservation casinos by many tribes, the Eastern Band of

Cherokee Indians is hoping to expand its

gaming to an off-reservation venture in

Bristol, Virginia. The proposal hinges on

passage of legislation to legalize casino

gaming in Virginia and the Eastern Cherokee being granted a license. It would be

a commercial casino, outside of the confines of the federal Indian Gaming Regu-

latory Act and the tribe’s compact with the

State of North Carolina.

The proposal comes on the heels of the

tribe’s opposition to the Catawba Indian

Nation’s efforts to establish gaming near

Charlotte, N.C., outside of their lands in

South Carolina, and the Pamunkey Indian

Tribe proposing a facility near Richmond,

Va. along with a proposed Hard Rock

property, owned by the Seminole Tribe of

Florida, also in Bristol.

The proposal has led to criticism of both

the Eastern Cherokees and The Pinnacle,

the retail development operated by Steve

Johnson, with whom the tribe would be a

partner.

Jim McGlothlin and Clyde Stacy speaking on behalf of the competing Bristol

Resort and Casino, who is partnering with

Hard Rock, accused the Eastern Cherokee,

in a statement, of trying to cut out competition. “We can’t help but believe that the

Cherokee don’t want us to compete with

them against their very successful Cherokee, N.C. casino, and Steve Johnson does

not want 50 retail stores and restaurants

Cherokee’s seeds of life

Dalton Walker

Indian Country Today

Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. and Secretary of Natural Resources Chad Harsha with heirloom seeds being sent to the Svalbard

Global Seed Vault in Norway. (Photo courtesy of Cherokee Nation)

A tiny part of Cherokee Nation

is heading deep inside a secluded, freezing-cold mountain thousands of miles away from home.

This is the way. This is life.

This is survival.

It’s also history. As many tribes

across Indian Country are preparing for spring planting season,

Cherokee Nation is taking a dramatic step further, beyond planting and its annual seed distribution to its citizens. The tribe is the

first in North America to deposit

traditional heirloom seeds at Norway’s Svaldbard Global Seed

Vault. Cherokee Nation is only

the second Indigenous community to store seeds at the vault after

operated by Hard Rock to compete with

his Pinnacle operation.”

McGlothlin and Stacy have also suggested that the tribe doesn’t actually run

its gaming, citing the management agreement with Harrah’s, a subsidiary of Caesars. Neither McGlothlin nor Stacy could

be reached for comment.

Greg Habeeb, who is representing the

Eastern Cherokee in Virginia, said that the

tribe manages its casinos. The only Caesars’ employee

South America’s Indigenous Andeen communities in 2015.

Cherokee Nation made the

seed announcement in early February and the deposit is scheduled

to happen today, Feb. 25.

“My hope is that we are not

the last [North American] tribe,

last group of Indigenous people

to be invited and that we are just

the first of many,” said Cherokee

Nation Principal Chief Chuck

Hoskin Jr.

Nine Cherokee heirloom samples were sent to Norway: Cherokee White Eagle Corn, Cherokee

Long Greasy Beans, Cherokee

Trail of Tears Beans, Cherokee

Turkey Gizzard black and brown

beans, Cherokee Candy Roaster

squash and three other types of

corn. Each predates European

Cont. On Page 15

contact and is significant to the

Cherokee people. Hoskin said the

seeds selected are the most popular among the tribe and “varieties

that we would want to provide in

case of global catastrophe, so our

history is not lost.”

A Crop Trust representative

connected with Cherokee Nation

last year after the tribe’s seed

bank program was highlighted on

National Public Radio. The vault

is owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food and

is a partner with Crop Trust. It

was built to outlast the worst case

scenario. It opened in 2008 and

can store up to 2.5 million seeds.

Cherokee Nation will be part of

the largest seed deposit since the

vault’s opening, pushing the seed

samples from Cont. On Page 15

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Across

2. Yuku

5. Tuwa

6. Lepena

8. Tsivot

10. Yooyoki

11. Poovolhoya

12. Qa’e

14. Talvi

15. Qömvi

16. Paati

17. Morivosi

19. Iyohoo

Down

1. Navaya

3. Maakya

4. Sakwa

7. Melooni

9. Paqavi

13. Peena

14. Tsawna

18. Nuva

Cross Word Puzzle

Find the English words

for the Hopi words.

Answers for February 5th edition

2. Fear, 5. Peach, 7. Ember, 9. Invite, 10. House, 11. Star, 12. Bat, 13. Worm, 15. Belly, 18. Cat

Down

1. Yacca, 3. Gravy, 4. Friend, 5. Potato, 6. Hunt, 8. Girl, 10. Hot, 12. Boy, 14. Meat, 15. Bag

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Himuva - Acquire

Salayti - Fulfilled

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Kwangwa’yna - Allure

Hunukya - Glutton

Tsu’yakna - Sated

Qanaona - Ambitious

Ngua - Grasp

Wilokna - Slack

Tunös’unagwa -

Tutuyqawi - Greedy

Aptsiwpu - Sufficient

Appetities

Himuyta - Have

Kwankwangwayna -

Tutuyqawi - Avaricious

Tuskyap’iwta - Mania

Tempt

Tu’i - Buy

Unangwaw - Miser

Tuwanta - Try

Palkiwta - Crave

Siiva - Money

Naawakna - Want

Tungla’i - Desire

Haqta - Need

Kyaktaynawakna - Wish

Tumokviptsa - Dream

Kisngwa - Neighbor

For

Aasa’ - Enough

Wuwni - Notion

Tunglayta - Yearn

Qanaani - Envious

Awpoi - Owe

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Larry’s Corner

WHAT PROBLEMS?

By LARRY The CAT

The Hopi Tutuveni

Hopi has a lot of problems, and what

I mean is that we have a lot of family

problems, whether it’s an uncle who

is drunk all the time or a daughter not

taking care of her kids, or a father who

is not paying child support, Hopi has a

lot of problems. But we are not alone

with these problems, it may seem like

a “third world problem”, but it’s a

worldwide problem.

Yes I know our stereotypical side

of “Natives are always drunk all the

time” is how some in the western society sees us. And yes, we do have a drug

problem on Hopi as well, but that’s

just what the outside world sees. They

don’t see why we have these problems that perhaps the uncle had severe

childhood problems that no one is addressing cause there is limited help for

him, that’s why he “medicating” himself by being drunk “all the time”, or

the fact that a mother is trying her best

to take care of her children but maybe

she was not taught the importance of

life so she resorts to leaving them in

hopes to better herself so her children

won’t see her struggle, or the fact that

a father is trying to pay child support

but one family member does not want

him around to see his own kids. It may

seem that we have everything under

control but sometimes we just need

help, and that’s ok, to ask for help.

When I was growing up on the reservation, I was blind to these problems

and never knew that they ever existed

and, well, not because I didn’t want

to see the problems but because my

parents protected me from these problems even if they were present on the

Hopi reservation. It wasn’t until I was

in high school that I became aware of

these problems and that these are real

problems that could have a solution,

too.

Now I’m not one to say that I’m a

trained cat psychologist but I found

out by myself that I could cope with

difficult situations at hand by simply

not stressing over the little things. I

figure we are only on this borrowed

land for a short while, I might as well

not stress out over everything and that

should not be first priority, but instead

looking to the future of everything in

a good way. Although, there are times

that some problems seem very difficult

that there is no end to it, but like I said,

there is always a solution to any problem - no matter how difficult.

With this in mind, we have programs

that do address some of these problems

but with very limited help or staff, and

it seems to me, the Hopi tribal council

puts these problems on the back burner. It also seems that our council men

and women don’t want to address the

biggest problem so it becomes an open

ended problem that no one wants to

take the “reigns” aka leadership on.

So my question to you is how would

you solve this problem without resorting to getting outside help? How does

one village solve an epidemic of drug,

alcohol, and domestic abuse? Do we

wait for someone to come up with a

solution? Or do we as a Hopi society

come together and “help” those who

are abusing the use of the word “epidemic”.

As so’oh (grandmother) always said,

it takes the whole village to perform

a ceremony, and everyone has to have

the same thought, the same mindset of

goodness in their hearts to make happiness happen. And when everyone

comes together for a single purpose

you will see the people singing with

joy.

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So, if we applied that same concept

to our “modern” problems maybe we

can see some good come out of it. Now

I’m not saying that it will work over

night, it may take time to solve our

problems, which is true everywhere.

My advice to you is that modern

problems are a part of Hopi’s culture

now but it doesn’t mean that we should

look to an outside source for help; we

can solve our own problems, the Hopi

way.

Hopis are a resilient people, we’ve

lasted over 500 years of outsiders trying to conquer us, they tried to convert

us to another religion, they wanted to

wipe our language away, they wanted

to make us to be more “civilized” but

we’ve held strong. Look at us today,

we still speak the Hopi language, we

still perform our cultural dances every

year, we are a strong people that can

handle any situation, so if it takes us

another 500 years to conquer our modern “epidemic problems”, so be it. Just

make sure we can all still be invited to

a pizza party in the end…but what do I

know, I’m just a cat…

United States Currents

Two Arizona witnesses, two very different views at border wall

hearing

Tohono O’odham Chairman Ned Norris Jr., left center, said construction of the border wall is threatening sacred and environmentally sensitive sites near his reservation, which straddles the

U.S.-Mexico border. But Arivaca rancher Jim Chilton, far right, says a wall is needed to protect his family and his ranch from smugglers. (Photo by Joshua Gerard Gargiulo/Cronkite News)

By Joshua Gerard Gargiulo

Cronkite News

WASHINGTON – Two Arizonans from two points on the border brought two very different

ideas about the border wall to a

congressional hearing Thursday.

While

Tohono

O’odham

Chairman Ned Norris Jr. repeated his opposition to the wall and

the damage it’s causing sacred

sites, Arivaca rancher Jim Chilton said the wall is needed to protect his land and his family.

“The 25-mile open gap between the west end of the current wall near Nogales, and the

east end of the Buenos Aires

National Wildlife Refuge wall

is a major route for cartel drugs

and people smuggling,” Chilton

told a House Homeland Security

subcommittee. “Over 200 trails

come through our ranch and it is

very hard to detect people.”

But Norris, testifying to a

House committee for the second

time in as many days, said the

wall is the wrong solution in the

wrong place, splitting his reservation in two and running over

culturally and environmentally

important sites.

“It is needlessly destructive

when there are more efficient

technologies that can control the

border without damaging the religious, cultural and environmental resources on which our members rely,” Norris said.

They were among four witnesses at the hearing called to

examine “the effect of the border

wall on private and tribal landowners.”

Rep. Kathleen Rice, D-N.Y.,

said in an opening statement

that two-thirds of the southern

border is privately owned. In its

rush to build the wall, she said,

the Trump administration will

use the government power of

eminent domain “at a historically

high level to strip landowners of

their property and, in many cases, cause damage to their livelihoods.”

Nayda Alvarez, who owns

property on the border in Roma,

Texas, said she has “been intimidated by the government to sign

over rights to our land.”

“We have been talked down

to by government officials who

think we are not aware of our

rights, with no respect for excruciating life events we were experiencing,” Alvarez said. “When

my mother was on her deathbed,

government officials continued

to call … I had to remind these

individuals my mother was dying of cancer in order to stop the

calls.”

But agency officials are pressing to meet President Donald

Trump’s pledge in his State of

the Union address this month to

have “substantially more than

500 miles” of the border wall

completed by early next year.

The Department of Homeland

Security has waived environmental and other regulations to

speed construction of the wall,

including waivers on more than

90 miles of border in Arizona

last year alone. DHS also waived

contracting regulations last week

for border wall projects.

The Congressional Research

Service reported in January that

the $4.5 billion Congress has appropriated for border wall construction since Trump took office

is $2 billion more than the total

appropriated from fiscal 2007 to

fiscal 2016.

That does not include more

than $6 billion the administration

shifted from Defense Department construction and counterdrug funds last year, or the $3.8

billion it shifted in from Pentagon projects in February.

Norris testified that construction crews in the Organ Pipe

Cactus National Monument are

pressing ahead with controlled

blasting, often with little or no

notice to the Tohono O’odham

who consider the land adjoining

their reservation as sacred.

Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Peoria,

said after the hearing that it is a

challenge to “secure the border

but also protect private property

and Native American Indian tribe

lands.” But the border wall needs

to be built, she said.

That was echoed by Chilton,

whose testimony included photos of the four-strand barbedwire fence that serves as a border

barrier on his property but that

“even an 80-year old rancher can

climb under or over.” Chilton,

a fifth-generation rancher, also

showed video of cartel caravans

crossing his ranch.

He said a wall is needed at

the border, criticizing Border

Patrol’s strategy to “focus on attempts of interdiction 10, 20 and

over 100-miles inside the United

States rather than the international boundary.”

“The Tucson station Border

Patrol, with approximately 650

agents and 27 agents per mile,

is located 80 miles from the

ranch border,” he said. “Would

a football team ever win a game,

if on defense the team lined

up 10-yards behind the line of

scrimmage?”

While Chilton wants more

presence at the border, Alvarez said her fence is more often

crossed by government agents

than by migrants.

“At night, what do I get? I get

Border Patrol jumping fences in

full gear, with AR-15s, night-vision, walking all over the property,” she said. “So, what do I need

a fence for, if I have these people

going all over my property protecting me?”

Hopi Tutuveni March 4, 2020

An extreme

shock’: ASU

students

describe

chaotic return

from China

due to

coronavirus

ASU students, from left, Kylie Kennelly, Edward Witte, Margaret Zheng and Ryan Featherston visit Sun Yat Sen Mausoleum in Nanjing, China, before their study abroad program was

canceled due to COVID-19 concerns. (Photo courtesy of Maggie Zheng)

By Hannah Foote

Cronkite News

LOS ANGELES

–

Study-abroad

student

Margaret Zheng was va-

cationing in Taiwan when

she learned she had seven

days to return to the United States, abandoning her

studies in China, because

of safety concerns about

the spread of COVID-19.

Panicked, the 22-yearold Arizona State University senior in biomedicine

reached out to friends and

family to decide whether

to risk returning to China

to gather her belongings,

or return to the U.S. without them.

Program officials discouraged her from returning for her things, so Zheng

flew home to Arizona on

Feb. 5. Two days later, she

signed a document stating

there is no guarantee of recovering her belongings.

Zheng and two other

students in the ASU Chinese Language Flagship

program students interviewed by Cronkite News

said they have not received

their belongings or reimbursements for their unplanned flights home. Four

Flagship students in Nanjing were affected.

Overall, eight ASU students studying in China

have returned home.

ASU students in the

Flagship program in Nanjing were told Jan. 29 to

leave China due to an increased risk from the novel coronavirus, which had

been discovered the month

before, according to university officials. Program

faculty and staff were not

evacuated because they are

from Nanjing University,

according to the students.

Nanjing, with a population of roughly 8.3 million,

is 550 miles east of the city

of Wuhan, the epicenter

of COVID-19. The virus,

with 80,980 confirmed

cases in 50 countries, has

killed 2,762 people globally according to the Feb. 26

World Health Organization

report.

Flagship is one of many

ASU study abroad programs, including summer

programs, that were canceled amid safety concerns about the coronavirus. Most ASU students

studying in China returned

home earlier this month.

Flagship did not respond to

requests for an interview.

Students enrolled in the

Flagship program typically complete it within five

years, four years taking

classes at the respective

state university and one

capstone year in China. In

the capstone year, students

spend one semester, from

September to January,

taking Mandarin classes

in Nanjing and the second

semester interning in Mandarin for a company within

their chosen field.

Before beginning the

second semester, Zheng

said, the program offers a

break during the Chinese

New Year, which typically

draws the largest crowds

of the year. However, with

the spread of COVID-19,

things were much different

this year.

“During the busiest time

in China, it felt like the

whole country was empty,”

she said. “Usually during

the New Year, you would

go house hopping and say

blessings to relatives but

this year, no one was allowed to visit friends or

family. Cont. On Page 16

Hot planet: January 2020 was warmest January in 141 years of records,

NOAA says

By Isabella Hulsizer

Cronkite News

The NOAA says Northern Hemisphere snow coverage in January was the 18th-smallest in 54 years of keeping records. (Photo

by Jordan Evans/Cronkite News)

PHOENIX – Last month was Earth’s warmest January

on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports, and that was true in Arizona, where January 2020’s average temperature was 3.2 degrees above

the historic average.

Across the United States, it was the fifth warmest January in 141 years of climate records, the NOAA reported

Feb. 13. Temperatures were above average in the Southwest, it said, and almost the entire East Coast experienced

“much above average” temperatures.

The four warmest Januaries documented in the climate

record have occurred since 2016, the NOAA said, and the

10 warmest all have occurred since 2002.

Although Arizona’s 2020 January temperature rose 3.2

degrees above the historic average, the increases in Phoenix, Tucson and Flagstaff were less than 1 degree.

“We try to look at the longer term,”

Cont. On Page 16

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Scientists have long warned about link between pandemics and climate change, Cont.

especially piñon pine nuts.

There was enough food for the

deer mice to populate. The CDC

said there were 10 times more

mice in May 1993 than in May

1992. With more deer mice

around, the hantavirus could be

carried and transmitted to humans. The winds in the Four

Corners also played a role, Seneca said.

One study by B. Hjelle and

G.E. Glass found that the two instances of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome breaking out

in the Four Corners Region in

1993-1994 and 1998-1999 was a

result of El Niño.

Finding the source of the

hantavirus just shows how Indigenous people know the environment and their communities,

Seneca said.

A study released in 2015 examined the weather-infectious

disease relationship of studies

between 1990 and 2015. It found

a dramatic change in the environment “can potentially change the

dynamics of human infectious

diseases by impacting pathogens,

vectors/hosts, or transmission

routes.”

Similar weather patterns in the

Four Corners happened in West

Africa when the 2014-2016 Ebola Virus Disease broke out. It was

dry and heavy rainfall hit, which

led to fruit growth. Animals like

bats and apes gathered to eat the

fruit. Scientists suspect fruit bats

were the cause.

“With climate change expected to put increasing pressure

on food security in Africa, food

shortages will push more people to alternative food sources

and consumption of bushmeat,

like bats, will likely increase,”

said scientist Kris Murray at

EcoAlliance in an interview with

the Earth Institute. Bushmeat derives from wild animals like bats,

monkeys, cane rats and antelope.

Monkeys and rats are common.

Another study stated that in rural

villages in Africa, the droughts,

economic hardship, unemployment and soil has locals turning

to wildlife hunting and trading

bushmeat.

Due to human activities like

deforestation, animals’ habitats

are being destroyed and the only

place left for them to go is near

humans. (Case in point: the recent fires in the Amazon rainforest for farmers.) This increases

the likelihood of humans interacting with animals and animals

can pass germs (like bacteria,

viruses, fungi, and parasites) to

humans. This is called a zoonotic

disease and makes people ill, according to the CDC.

The increase in urbanization of

people has also led to a greater

risk of disease transmission. Peo-

ple want to move from the rural

areas to the cities for jobs and in

some areas, migrants, refugees

and asylum-seekers find homes

in overcrowded and unsanitary

areas, according to the World

Health Organization.

“A really important message

that we advocate is that protecting the environment will help

protect ourselves from a range of

natural disasters, including disease,” Murray said.

Other extreme weather patterns, like floods, can lead to

malnutrition, crop failure, starvation, an increase in people being

displaced, and fighting over resources, says the 2015 study.

Floods also “provide breeding

grounds for insects and cause

water contamination, leading to

the spread of diarrheal diseases

like cholera,” wrote Renee Cho

at Earth Institute. It also can lead

to a shortage of clean water.

Another question scientists ask

is if pathogens, or infectious diseases, can survive the temperatures of a warming planet?

The 2015 study states this is

“challenging” because different

and dramatic climate shifts in humidity, dry air, wind, floods, temperature, and precipitation. All of

this, including time. “Climate

change will continue to affect the

health risk for human infectious

diseases, limiting some disease

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transmission but creating opportunities for others.”

Perhaps what is even more

alarming is our immune system’s

could be “less effective” as the

global temperature rises, according to Time magazine.

When pathogens are introduced to our bodies, we battle with a fever. However, as

the planet warms, those same

pathogens “that survive—and

reproduce—are better adapted to

higher temperatures, including

those in our bodies. And, with

that, one of our body’s primary

defense mechanisms diminishes

in effectiveness,” wrote Justin

Worland after speaking with a

professor at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of

Public Health.

Worland said that the body

temperature of bats is slightly higher than humans, 6.4 degrees higher. They’re protected

just like we are with our body

temperature. They carry tons of

pathogens “without suffering

from them” and can still carry

those pathogens that can hurt humans.

It can also harm Indigenous

communities, the very communities who are close to nature.

Indigenous communities are

the “most vulnerable and will

likely be disproportionately

affected by increased disease

proliferation,” wrote Jennifer

Zhang, a member of the United

Nations Major Group for Children and Youth, and editor for

Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development.

The biggest suggestion coming

from the 2015 study: adaption.

Adapting includes improving

public health programs, providing financial and health care resources, staying updated on scientific projections of infectious

diseases, public awareness, understanding the weather changes,

promoting a healthy lifestyle, and

having early warning systems.

The threats don't stop there.

There are also melting glaciers

to worry about because “this will

release glacial microbes and viruses that have been trapped and

preserved for tens to hundreds of

thousands of years.” Researchers

discovered hidden viruses, 28 are

new viral groups, inside a Tibetan plateau from 15,000 years ago

when the water froze.

“Glacier ice harbors diverse

microbes, yet the associated viruses and their impacts on ice

microbiomes have been unexplored,” wrote the authors.

They say the “in a worst-case

scenario, this ice melt could release pathogens into the environment.”

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across the world to past 1 million, according to www.

croptrust.org. Of the 36 institutions depositing seeds this

round, eight are first timers bringing the total number of

depositors to 86.

Cherokee Nation Senior Director of Environmental

Resources Pat Gwin said depositing the seeds “is a tremendous opportunity and honor for the tribe. Additionally, knowing the Cherokee Nation’s seeds will be forever

protected and available to us, and us only, is a quite valuable thing indeed.”

Each year, Cherokee Nation disperses heirloom seeds

to its citizens in Oklahoma and those living across the

nation. More than 10,000 seed packets are given out annually to Cherokee citizens. The tribe has a seed bank and

a heirloom seed garden that started in 2006.

Many tribes across Indian Country have seed banks

and community gardens. In northern New Mexico, the

Tesuque Pueblo Seed Bank continues to thrive. It was

built in 2011 from recycled materials and is powered by

solar power. The seed bank stores traditional pueblo seeds

and seeds from other tribal nations. In addition, the small

four-person seed bank staff tend to a greenhouse, a gar-

Cherokee’s seeds of life, Cont.

den and an orchard with a variety of apples and berries.

Emigdio Ballon, Inca and Tesuque Pueblo agriculture

director, said growing food is important to Indigenous

people and for survival. He said preserving traditional foods is key and acknowledged the effort by Cherokee Nation to store seeds in Norway. “When they bring

seeds over there, it’s because they care, they care for their

brothers and sisters and the food for the seven generations,” he said.

Svalbard is a small, remote island north of the Arctic

Circle off the Norwegian coast. It’s about 620 miles from

the north pole. More polar bears live there than people,

according to the vault’s website. Seeds reach the island

by plane and are then taken to the vault by vehicle.

The vault was built in a mountainside well above sea

level and radiation and humidity levels tend to be naturally low, according to the website. Deposits happen three

to four times a year and only once has a depositor taken their seeds out. It happened in 2015 after access to a

seed bank was lost in Syria because of civil war, but seeds

have since been re-deposited.

“It is a long-term seed storage facility, built to stand

the test of time and the challenge of natural or man-made

disasters,” the website reads. “The seed vault represents

the world’s largest collection of crop diversity.

Inside the facility is a tunnel longer than a football field

to reach the area where the seeds are stored. Cold air is

piped into the vault to make it even colder than naturally.

The vault temp is set at 0 degrees fahrenheit. The mountain rock is dark but walls have been coated with a mixture of plastic fiber and concrete that lightens them up

to look like snow. The vault is not meant to be a tourist

destination and isn’t an eye catcher. A virtual reality and

a 360-degree interactive tour is available on the website

that shows a glimpse of what’s inside.

Hoskin said he hopes a Cherokee citizen visits the vault

one day, not to re-collect the seeds under dark circumstances, but to develop a relationship with vault leaders.

“I do hope in the future we have an occasion to visit the

seed vault to engage directly with people operating the

vault,” he said. “It’s a significant moment in history and

I think is only the beginning of a larger conversation of

preserving heirloom seeds used by Indigenous People.”

Eastern Cherokee seek to enter commercial gaming, Cont.

is the general manager. “The Cherokee

have run and managed that property for

many years now. If given the opportunity,

the Cherokee would own and operate the

facility.”

Habeeb said the statement is misleading. “We understand why people in the

competitive process would put out misinformation. It is an unbelievable resource.

This has nothing to do with protecting any

other casinos.”

The Eastern Cherokees are hoping to

amend the bill to include a competitive

process, where the tribe is banking on

its success and location just across the

Tennessee border with an interstate exit

nearby to win a license to operate a casino

in the commonwealth. Habeeb expects a

competitive bidding process to be put in

place. “I think it’s extremely unlikely that

more than one casino would be granted a

license,” he said.

Tribal Council Chairman Adam Wachacha is on board with the proposal, and

he said most of the council is behind it. “I

wouldn’t say it’s 100 percent. The majority are with it. They need more information

and numbers.”

The project is still in its infancy, and

details about distribution to the tribe still

aren’t known, but Wachacha said the

property could increase the diversity of its

revenue sources. “It’ll sustain everything

that we have that we’re not so dependent

on Indian gaming. The main thing is to

sustain the revenue that they get.”

The Eastern Cherokees’ tribal council also approved plans to purchase land

near Sevierville, Tenn., and it also awaits

Senate approval of a bill to turn land

near Chattanooga, Tenn. into trust status

for the tribe. The Bristol proposal could

fuel rumors of casinos in East Tennessee,

as the tribe’s land purchase has. Habeeb

said that’s something that would require

a change in Tennessee’s constitution. He

said the tribe has no plans to pursue gaming in Tennessee. “Gaming is not happening in Tennessee any time soon.”

Principal Chief Richard Sneed couldn’t

be reached for comment, but he has issued

a statement and addressed the issue in a

Jan. 31 commentary to the tribe’s newspaper, The Cherokee One Feather. “At this

point the commonwealth of Virginia has a

bill before them to grant commercial gaming licenses to operators in five Virginia

cities. Following the introduction of this

legislation, a study was commissioned to

determine best practices and future steps

for Virginia to enter the commercial gaming market,” he states. “I am pushing for

this legislation to be amended to include

that competitive bidding process and that

the Virginia legislators consider the (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’) Aboriginal connection to the region, which was

also suggested by the (study). I ask for

your continued support as we advance

this effort, and I look forward to reporting back to the community as this effort

progresses.”

Sneed said, “I have visited the site along

I-81, and I am impressed with its strategic,

gateway location that serves a five- state

area. It is our wish to bring new tax revenue and jobs to Washington County and

the Southwest Virginia region in a positive

and impactful way.”

Wachacha said that he has seen a lot of

support in the communities he represents,

particularly to tribal members who have

been to college or are going to college.

“I think we can manage a lot of these

properties with our own members.” They

also liked diversifying revenue, he said.

“We’re thinking outside the box.”

Sneed continues to oppose Senate Bill

S790. Introduced by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the bill proposes to allow

the Catawbas to establish trust land in

North Carolina for a casino. Sneed said

in another Feb. 15 statement to the One

Feather. “We discussed details (with federal lawmakers) as to why we believe

there is no legal pathway for the Catawba

Nation to take land, which the (Eastern

Band of Cherokee Indians) can demonstrate are historical Cherokee aboriginal

homelands, into trust in North Carolina.”

Sneed asks that tribes follow federal

law. “The (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) does not oppose fellow federally

recognized tribes from moving into the

gaming industry. We do, however, oppose

tribes from using legislation to bypass the

regulations set up to assist federally-recognized tribes, regulations that we and all

other tribes must abide by.”

Habeeb said that some kind of bill is

likely to pass in Virginia, but more changes are to be expected, especially as debates over tax rates and other proposed

amendments come up. Wachacha said

that regardless of the outcome, seeking to

diversify the tribe’s revenue sources is a

good thing. “It was worth looking into.”

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An extreme shock’: ASU students

describe chaotic return from China due to

coronavirus, Cont.

Everyone is confined to

their homes, and I feel like

the country has come to a

standstill.”

Zheng was in Taiwan

meeting with a friend

when she received the Jan.

29 email from ASU.

“The news from our program to evacuate immediately came as an extreme

shock, especially since

none of us had our things

back in Nanjing packed,”

she said. “Everything I

have is still in my apartment in Nanjing unpacked,

and we’re not entirely sure

when or if we are going to

get those things back.”

Flagship staff started to

warn the students in early January to wash their

hands and wear face masks

as the respiratory virus

spread in Wuhan, student

Kylie Kennelly said. By

the end of January, Flagship students traveling on

break were advised against

returning to mainland China until the end of February, but airlines began canceling flights to and from

China.

The stress of leaving

China immediately and the

cancelation of the Flagship program left Kennelly

worried about her future.

“I personally didn’t feel

scared of getting the virus,” the business senior

said. “I was worried about

how it was going to affect

my future plans. It was

anxiety inducing because

every day we got different

news.”

Kennelly said she had

dreamed of going to China

and completing this program since she was 14 and,

although the program did

not go according to plan,

she is grateful for the experience.

“When I did come back

to the States, I realized it

wasn’t the best thing to

bring up that I just came

back from China because

it elicits a bit of a fearful

reaction from the community,” Kennelly said. “But,

in spite of everything, I’m

glad I was able to participate in Flagship for the

time that I did.”

Another ASU student,

Edward Witte, a political

science senior, said he was

disappointed because ASU

is one of only 21 schools

that offered the Flagship

program.

“Within one week’s

time, all of my plans

changed,” he said. “That

has been the most difficult

thing to deal with.”

As concern about the virus grew in China, security

increased drastically from

the typical security personnel and X-rays for bags in

Nanjing, he said.

“After the news broke

about the virus, it was

starting to ramp up and

they had people in full

hazmat suits who would

take your temperature,”

Witte said. “It seemed like

it was more difficult to get

on the subway than it was

to get back to the United

States.”

The students still are

expected to take a proficiency test for a business

level certificate, although

they will not be completing their spring semester,

Witte said.

“Because there’s going

to be four or five months

less of language training, I

know that myself and some

of the other students are

concerned we will not be

able to meet the threshold

for full certification, which

is the goal of the program,”

he said.

TICK-TACK-TOE

Hot planet: January 2020 was warmest

January in 141 years of records, NOAA says,

Cont.

said Nancy Selover, the state’s climatologist. “And it’s (the temperature) been

rising.”

Selover said last month’s temperature

rise can be attributed to lower than average precipitation this winter.

“It’s not been a really, really dry winter

that we’ve seen in the past, but it’s been

a little drier than normal,” Selover said.

“We haven’t seen the winter storms come

down and dip into the state as much as we

would normally see.”

Summer monsoon storms can turn

around a dry winter, Selover said, but if

the spring ends up being dry, too, Arizona

could be looking at a busy wildfire season.

Tracking these trends can be tricky because of spikes in the short term, she said.

“You can always cut up a graph into a

bunch of tiny, little pieces and, of course,

the temperatures will fluctuate up and

down. We try not to do that. We try to look

at the long term,” which gives a better understanding of the changes taking place,

Selover said.

Average January temperatures in Arizo-

na have been rising since the early 1950s.

NOAA – a Commerce Department

agency whose mission is “to understand

and predict changes in climate, weather,

oceans, and coasts, to share that knowledge and information with others” – said

January 2020 marked the 44th consecutive January and the 421st consecutive

month with temperatures at least nominally above the 20th-century average.

No records for low temperatures were set

anywhere, it said.

Asia had the most dramatic increase in

temperatures in January, the NOAA said,

and in Russia, temperature departures

were at least 9 degrees. South America recorded its second highest monthly January

temperature.

The Northern Hemisphere’s ocean and

land temperature rose 2.7 degrees above

the historic average, the NOAA said. In

addition, Arctic sea ice declined 5.3%

below the 1981-2010 average and snow

cover across the Northern Hemisphere fell

below the 1981-2010 average.

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