# Hopi Girl from (2020)

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Hopi Girl from
Oraibi helps
win girls 4A
state
championships

Cherokee
Seeds of
Life

COLUMN

COMMUNITY

LARRY’S CORNER

Hopi Transition
Team Meetings

“WHAT
PROBLEMS?“

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March 4, 2020

Volume 28
Number 5
~ Es t. 1987 • OFFIC IA L NEWSPA P E R OF T H E H OP I T R I B E • N E W S S OU R C E F OR T H E H O P I P E O P L E ~

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2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) – General Public Information

Royce Jenkins, Director - Department of Health and Human
Services, The Hopi Tribe
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Kykotsmovi, Ariz. - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health institute of the United States
and the lead federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia on the 2019
Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
With much news generated throughout the media the country and
abroad The Hopi Tribe’s Department of Health & Human Services
together with Hopi Health Care Center, state and federal agencies
are working closely monitoring the “coronavirus disease 2019” or
COVID-19 and collaboratively working together to keep the public
and community informed and updated on this disease.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is closely
monitoring an outbreak of a respiratory disease, “coronavirus disease
2019” or COVID-19, that is caused by a new coronavirus that was
first detected in China. COVID-19 has now been detected in 35 locations internationally, including cases in the United States. https://
www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
For the general American public, who are unlikely to be exposed
to this virus, the immediate health risk is considered low at this time.
However, the potential public health threat posed by COVID-19...

Poster at the Hopi Health Care Center in a public area about the 2019-nCoV (Photo by Carl Onsae/HT)
HOPI TUTUVENI
PO BOX 123
KYKOTSMOVI, AZ 86039
1110-01600-7460

ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED

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‘An extreme shock’: ASU students
describe chaotic return from China
due to coronavirus
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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.

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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
Register to vote online at:
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.

3

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

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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

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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

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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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Eastern Cherokee seek to enter
commercial gaming

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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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9. Paqavi
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Cross Word Puzzle
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for the Hopi words.

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Down
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Salayti - Fulfilled

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Kwangwa’yna - Allure

Hunukya - Glutton

Tsu’yakna - Sated

Qanaona - Ambitious

Ngua - Grasp

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Tu’i - Buy

Unangwaw - Miser

Tuwanta - Try

Palkiwta - Crave

Siiva - Money

Naawakna - Want

Tungla’i - Desire

Haqta - Need

Kyaktaynawakna - Wish

Tumokviptsa - Dream

Kisngwa - Neighbor

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Wuwni - Notion

Tunglayta - Yearn

Qanaani - Envious

Awpoi - Owe

Tunatya - Yen

Kwangwa’ytuswa - Envy

Kwiivi - Particular

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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

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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

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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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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

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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.

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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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