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Shoalwater Bay Tribe P.O. Box 130 Tokeland, WA 98590

Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.

Quote by Linda Hogan

(Native American Writer)

Newsletter also on Website at www.shoalwaterbay‐nsn.gov Letter of Thanks Shoalwater Bay Shoalwater Bay Tribal Police

Tribal Council Robin Souvenir, Chief of Police

Charlene Nelson, Chairperson Matt Padgett, Lieutenant [email protected] Kristof Aho, Officer Jennifer Taylor, Vice Chairperson Christopher Boggs, Officer Letter of thanks from John Rosander: [email protected] Sarah Boggs, Officer I don’t know if I can put into words how proud I am and how much peace this brought to my heart, but I will try. Being a Lynn Clark, Secretary Police Office 267‐8164 (Questions Only) brother who was once one of four siblings and now the older of the two who have yet to make our final journey as our sister has [email protected] and our older brother before, many years ago in 1981. Then mom, walked into the great forest in 2002. Three days before my For Police Dispatch call Joel Blake, Treasurer sister’s service, I made a trip to Oregon with my girlfriend and her three sons to a holiday family gathering. I met a lot of her (360) 267‐8391 or 911 [email protected] family and some I already knew, but the thing is I was so glad that I was able to take my girl and her boys down there and really was able to enjoy our time together. With no real stress or worry of how everything was going at home. So this brings me back to Dennis Julnes, Member at Large trying to put my feelings into words. I know I could not try to give my thanks to all those who were such a great help and without [email protected] This is a brief summary by nature of our officer calls for the all their help, well let’s just say, things would not have gone as well as they did considering the circumstance. Anyway, I couldn’t Month of December 2017 thank everyone without forgetting some, and I know some won’t be able to read this letter. So for those of you that do, maybe you can help me once again by passing it on to tribal members and community members that helped during this troubled time that

Agency Assist 5 may not see this letter. Alarm 3 I thank you all. This journey that we call life is hard enough and sometimes we get too busy on this journey that we don’t see or Animal Problem 2 realize that some of the brush has been cut and cleared to make the journey a little easier. And some of those cutting and clearing Citizen Assist 5 don’t even know how much their efforts helped. So I want to say to all that helped to ease this part of my journey, we should all as Citizen Dispute 1 a tribe and a community try to help cut and clear some of the brush to make my sisters daughter and granddaughters’ journeys just a little easier. So as you have made me proud, and I am sure we have made proud all of our people that have gone into the Collision 1 great forest that have gone before us, I thank you all. Found Property 2 The Shoalwater Bay Harassment 1 Clifford John Rosander Newsletter Littering 1 May Beauty be above you The newsletter is a monthly publication of the Lockout 2 May beauty be below you Shoalwater Bay Tribe. Your letters, articles, Medical 1 photographs and drawings are encouraged. May beauty be all around you We reserve the right to edit for clarity or length Motorist Assist 3 or to decline any letter. Opinions expressed do Property Watch 1 not necessarily reflect the views of this Happy Birthday Suspicious 13 publication or the Shoalwater Bay Tribe. Theft 1 Accuracy is important to us. We take care in editing, but errors do occur. We want to Traffic Hazard 1 correct them. If you believe printed Traffic Offense 40 information is in error, please let us know. Unsecure Premises 2 Warrant 1 Submission Deadlines are the

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Mechele Johnson, Public Relations Specialist We want to share your news!

PO Box 130 Send any news, announcements, birthdays, births, Tokeland, WA 98590 Happy 22nd Birthday to Mary Raven Johnson! We love you to the moon and back! weddings, anniversaries, photos (with caption), etc., 360-267-8202 Direct Line ̓ 1-800-633-5218 ext. #2103 To: łush tłap-san mali! mjohnson@shoalwaterbay‐nsn.gov [email protected] Love mom and dad, Sam, Tahoma, Ferrill, and Maybelle

Page 2 Shoalwater Bay News Jan/Feb 2018 Page 19 Shoalwater Bay News Jan/Feb 2018 Resolutions

Resolution #12-15-17-56 Resolution #12-15-17-55

Whereas, the Shoalwater Bay Tribe pursuant to its sovereign Whereas, the Shoalwater Bay Tribe is a federally recognized rights, has chosen to pursue gaming activities as a viable Tribe headquartered on the Shoalwater Bay Indian Reserva- December Birthdays means to generate revenues to fund tribal programs and pro- tion in the State of Washington; and, 1st-Karla Jackson 14th-Luke Ayers 30th-Dustyn Taylor 12th-Jeremy Whitish jects and to provide meaningful employment opportunities for Whereas, the Shoalwater Bay Tribal Council is the governing 3rd-Susan Hudson 15th-Aryn Culp 31st-Loki Torset 12th-Marshall West the tribal membership; and body of the Tribe in accordance with the Constitution of the 3rd-Scott Dinkle Sr. 19th-Charlene Nelson 31st-Isabella Contreras 14th-Charles Clark Now Therefore Be It Resolved That; effective November 1, Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe; and, 2017, there is a one year waiver of machine taxes. 3rd-Nils Julnes 19th-Anthony Bailey February Birthdays 14th-Sarina Alvarado Whereas, the Tribal Council is empowered to take all actions Be It Further Resolved That; effective December 1, 2017, the necessary for the exercise of powers delegated or vested in the 4th-Julie Ahola 22nd-Angela Meckley 1st-Matthew Fernandez 14th-Kinsley Santiago amortization schedule of payments for the Casino Remodel Tribal Council pursuant to the Constitution of the 5th-William Mathews 22nd-Brenna Lea 15th-Daren Clark 2nd-Victoria Fernandez and Payoff Loan is extended from 5 to a 15 year period. Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe; and, 7th-Amanda Blair 23rd-Theresa Kaimanu 4th-Mia Steinhilb 17th-Colleen Dietl Be It Further Resolved That; effective November 1, 2017, the Whereas, the Tribal Council has reviewed the proposed Fertile 7th-Randy Rosander II 23rd-Rachel Rasmus 5th-Roland McKenney 19th-Aaron Johnson Shoalwater Bay Casino agrees to pay $22,494.12 for one Ground Grant Program proposal from the Shoalwater Bay 9th-Michael Rogers 24th-Damian Johnson 5th-Stephanie Dinkle 20th-Arlene Leber month for reimbursement of TGA costs. Planning Department.

11th-Raymond Butler Jr. 24th-Takota Norman 5th-Laura McFarlane 21st-Austin Dzuibak Be It Further Resolved That; effective December 1, 2017, the Now Therefore Be It Resolved that the Tribal Council hereby Shoalwater Bay Casino agrees to pay $40,000 per month for approves the Fertile Ground Grant Program proposal. 12th-Lee Shipman 25th-Cynthia Scheumann 5th-Mary Johnson 21st-Ember Testani eleven months for reimbursement of TGA costs.

12th-Kyle Clark 25th-Celeste (CeCe) Torset 7th-Jana Trowbridge 22nd-Jeremy Taylor

13th-Daynah Dishman 28th-Gregory Johnson 7th-Nicole Persson 25th-Tjyden Anderson 5 for 0 against 0 abstain 5 for 0 against 0 abstain 13th-Jesse Adams 28th-Connor Lagergran 7th-Tricia Luliak 26th-Jessica Poole

13th-Joshua Jackson 29th-Arthur Salikie 7th-Danika Hoeppner 28th-Karie MacGowan

14th-Jordan Gakin 30th-Tamya Anderson 9th-Jessie Sanchez 28th-Anita Hisle

14th-Katlyn Scheumann 30th-Sophia Anderson 11th-Samantha Zirbel

Medical Wellness Center Mental Health Employee Anniversaries Jeanne Paul, LMFT Stephen Bell D.O. Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Doctor of Osteopath January February Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist Emily Maldonado PA-C Holly Blake, Special Projects-30 Years Kimberly Thompson, Health Director-20 Years (360)267-2508 Physicians Assistance Certified Sally Heath, LICSW, CDP Janice Christen, Medical Office Manage-14 Years Anna Hinton, Tribal Gaming Internal Audit-11 Years (360) 267-0119 or (800)841-2244 option 0 Licensed Clinical Social Worker Shannon Barrett, Third Party Billing-14 Years Mike Harris, Gym Assistant-9 Years Chemical Dependency Professional (360)267-2508 Sabina Harris, Admin. Receptionist-11 Years Brandt Ellingburg, Indoor Facility Custodian-2 Years James States, MD

Mike Rogers, CEO/Tribal Administrator-7 Years Davin Culp, Indoor Facility Custodian-2 Years Medical Doctor Dental Adolescent Medicine Specialist Janel Flemetis, Accounts Payable Clerk-6 Years Cyndi Coma, Medical Receptionist-3 Years Greg Cebulla, DDS (360)267-2508 Mechele Johnson, Public Relations-2 Years Doctor of Dental Surgery Substance Abuse Denny W. Homer, D.M.D. Laura Hamilton, CDP Doctor of Dental Medicine Chemical Dependency Professional

Lindsey Gerow, RDH Program/Manager/Clinical Supervisor Registered Dental Hygienist (360)267-8126

Page 18 Shoalwater Bay News Jan/Feb 2018 Page 3 Shoalwater Bay News Jan/Feb 2018 Charlene Nelson, Incumbent Chairperson

December 18, 2017 Dear Tribal Member, Masi for your support during this last two years I have served as Chairwoman of our Tribe. It is an honor to serve. Councils always have many decisions to make. We listen to the experts who present on projects or proposals before taking action. A Judge sits in with Council and will give advice if requested. The Council members then give their opinion before we decide on anything. These are some of the accomplishments of the last two years.

 Our Tribal Council has worked with the WBE Board to restructure our enterprises. The casino converted to a class 2 casino and we helped with monies to do the refurbishment. The Council has leased the class 3 machine leases to bring in monies to our Tribe which help education, Elders and many other Tribal needs.

 Feasibility studies for the road uphill infrastructure are done; the Tribe has applied for grants to build a road uphill and an evacuation tower in danger zone areas. The Wetland Bank is still in the works and will help mitigate the road construction.

 Highway 105 is being repaired right now. We worked with our neighboring communities who also depend on this highway for access and egress and our combined voices made a difference.

 Our new library/museum is impressive. It is a place for us to be proud of as it showcases our history and culture. The Eagle Hill multi purpose building is also open and has a beautiful bay view. Our present Council is strong together. Please help us stay together. Please cast your vote for Joel Blake for Treasurer, he is a very involved Treasurer and also a strong Housing Director. Please cast your vote for Lynn Clark who has been on the Council longer than anyone else, and combines history and heart, and reasonable options to all discussions. Please cast your vote for me for Chairperson. I have been the Chair for many years and I work with Community, County, State, Federal, and Tribal governments. My top goals are Health and Safety. I strongly believe we need to value every Tribal member. We are family. I believe we need to not only look at our present goals but always think how any decision we make might affect our Tribal Members in the future. Whatever your decision, it is your decision, so please vote and return your ballot very soon. Masi. Charlene Nelson, Shoalwater Bay Tribal Chairwoman

Originally appeared in the 2003 Chinuk Tilixam

Page 4 Shoalwater Bay News Jan/Feb 2018 Doug Davis, Chairperson Candidate

I just got my ballot in the mail, and yep, I am on it again. Just a quick note. I have shown you what I can do in two short years a while back. Let me do it some more. I have lived in Tokeland for all of my life, 55 years at this address. I have fished for a living most of my life. I have experience serving on the tribal council many years with my first term in 1978 as Chairman. I feel we need to keep in mind both short and long term goals that will meet the demands the Tribe will see. We need to react to the short term housing and safety needs of our Tribal members at the same time move towards a long term plan that will allow building on higher ground. Building vertical evacuation structures close to higher populated areas would serve the short term concerns of the members that live or wish to live in the areas that are or can be developed in the short term. We also will need to diversify our investments to create jobs and income so we will have members that will be able to build and live in the homes. A good step, is to increase our footprint while land prices are still reasonable. I would move to revive the forestry management plan that was started in 2014, as well as push for funding for more cultural activities, such as traditional canoe adventures. We could also use a field where the kids and adults could play sports and hold events. I also believe we can completely or partially resolve the closure of the rolls to at least allow current members children to enroll.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Page 5 Shoalwater Bay News Jan/Feb 2018 Lynn Clark, Incumbent Secretary

Page 15 Shoalwater Bay News Jan/Feb 2018 Kristine Torset, Secretary Candidate Library

Library Snippets January 2018 By Linda R Rose, Manager

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a safe and Happy New Year! It was a great year last year, and I hope to share as many wonderful presentations, for your education and enjoyment. I would like to have some children’s story times, but need someone who is willing to read to the children besides myself. It is very rewarding and fun to see all the cute little faces enjoying a story. So if you wish to volunteer please call me. Thank you. I have no programs scheduled for January or February of 2018. If that changes I will let you know. I would like to say Thank you to all the volunteers we had at the Christmas last year. You all do such an awesome job and I am so grateful for each one of you. I hope you continue to assist with our programs this year as well. Here’s to a great New Year everyone!!

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10 am Page 9 Shoalwater Bay News Jan/Feb 2018 News From Around Indian Country I saw what resilience looks like in Native communities By Mary Annette Pember for YES Magazine

10 Photos: I Saw What Resilience Looks Like in community decisions. Anpo is modeled on the Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles. School leaders cite UNESCO United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization data On their reservations and in their wider communities, I saw showing that educated girls help counteract community how Native people protected and nurtured each other. problems such as poverty, health issues, and unemployment.

By the numbers, Native Americans reliably top lists of violence, poverty, unemployment, and addiction in the . Taken alone, the data paint a dismal picture of intractable, inescapable poverty.

But on reservations and in communities, the picture was a whole lot more complex in 2017.

As I have for several years, I spent most of 2017 traveling through Indian Country for the stories I was covering. An old-school journalist, I travel simply and close to the ground; I keep a loose schedule so that stories have a chance to emerge. I spend many hours just chatting with folks.

In 2017, I was gifted with a glimpse of the people behind the damning data. Their lives were far grander and more complex Natalie Hinhan Luta Hand, activist, journalist, and than I imagined. This year, I had a front row seat to the quiet traditional dancer on the Pine Ridge reservation in South tactics many Native folks employed to protect and nurture Dakota, looks out over the prairie at an approaching thunder- each other and their communities. I met people who reminded storm. Hand is a local organizer for Conscious Alliance, an me that Natives are the original observational scientists, adept organization that collects food at concerts and music festivals at on-the-fly invention. The people I met harbored few and distributes to communities in need. Hand coordinates the illusions about material wealth; rather, they embraced the Conscious Alliance food pantry on Pine Ridge where folks can nourishing spirituality of their cultures. get food.

In terms of data, I expect that 2018 may be a little worse than usual given the current administration’s lack of support for Indian programs. But Native folks will continue, as they’ve always done. They will reinvent and they will laugh—my God will they laugh! Like always, they’ll laugh at themselves, their damn luck, and the darkness, until they knock a hole in it. That’s resilience. And here is what that looks like.

The Economic and Recreational Development

Council is seeking public input

In 2017, I fulfilled my longtime dream to meet Basil Brave Heart, a Lakota teacher and healer whose story of recovery January 18th, 5pm to 6:30pm from alcohol has been a precious inspiration for me. I first heard him speak on Krista Tippett’s radio show “On Being” back in 2006. We sat together on his porch, under the guard of his dog Charles, and visited. Sober for over 30 years, Brave At the Shoalwater Tribal Community Center Lakota girls from Pine Ridge play basketball at the first pri- Heart spoke of how his Lakota Native spirituality influenced vate girls school on the reservation, called Anpo Wicahpi his recovery. He describes indigenous spirituality as a “higher (Morning Star). The college preparatory school incorporates vibrational understanding of the divine.” Lakota spirituality and culture in its curriculum and restores the traditional belief that Lakota women had “the final say” News From Around Indian Country

culture and language to her community.

Greg Grey Cloud, Lakota, dresses Red Clouds of the Sunka Waken Oyate (Horse Nation) at the Tiwahe Glu Kini Pi

(bringing the family back to life) equine therapy ranch near the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Ranch foreman Grey Cloud helps coordinate therapy for children who have been Mindimooyenh, or one who holds things together, is the Ojibwe sexually abused. Grey Cloud gained strength and healing from word for woman elder. Dora Mosay Ammann, 76, of the the horses and recently began publicly sharing his own horrific St.Croix Ojibwe tribe of Wisconsin, is the “boss lady” for her story of being sexually assaulted at age 9 by several teenagers. lodge. Her Ojibwe name is Ashazhawaagiizhig (Crossing Sky “Greg is the first Native man I ever heard talk in such depth Woman). “We were put here to keep our ceremonies alive. about what happened to him. He let us know that we can no Without our spirituality, we have nothing!” she said. longer be silent,” says Amanda Takes War Bonnet, public edu- cation specialist for the Native Women’s Society of the Great Plains.

Members of the Tlingit tribe welcome back sacred items re- stored to the tribe during the annual Clan Conference in Sitka, Alaska. The power of Ojibwe women as represented by Babette Sand- man, who is White Earth Ojibwe from Minnesota. Sandman, or Makada Miigwan (Black Feather), credits her Ojibwe spiritual- ity for guiding her life. “The ancestors taught us that there is

some kind of energy that comes right out of the Earth, into our feet and into our hearts if we take time to put down tobacco and listen,” she said.

Curtis Pine, 17, of the Serpent River Ojibway tribe in Ontario, is learning to speak his language; he attends language and cul- ture camps in nearby Elliot Lake.

Mary Pember wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Mary, an independent journalist, has been writing about Native American people and issues since 2000 for Indian Country Today Media Network, ReWire News, the Guardian, and Louise Brady, Tlingit member of the Kiks a’di clan of Sitka, others. Alaska, is an activist working to bring awareness of Tlingit