Shamy Tommie’s Students from Italy visit Immokalee kids restaurant opens Billie Swamp Safari participate in clinic COMMUNITY Y 3A EDUCATION Y 1B SPORTS Y 4C
Volume XLI • Number 3 March 31, 2017 Hard Rock buys former Trump Taj Mahal
BY BEVERLY BIDNEY Staff Reporter
The iconic Hard Rock guitar will take its place on Atlantic City’s famed boardwalk sometime next summer. Hard Rock International, owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, purchased the former Trump Taj Mahal from investor and business magnate Carl Icahn. Scheduled to close March 31, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City will feature more than 2,000 guest rooms, a 168,000-square-foot casino and a Hard Rock Live that can accommodate more than 5,000 music fans. Guest rooms and most of the SXEOLFVSDFHVZLOOEHUHQRYDWHGWRUHÀHFWWKH Hard Rock vibe. “The Tribe and Hard Rock International are always looking to expand the brand,” said Jim Allen, CEO of Seminole Gaming and Chairman of Hard Rock International. “This was an opportunity we felt would EH EHQH¿FLDO WR ORQJWHUP VXFFHVV ,W LV D project that continues to expand the Tribe’s global presence.” Majority ownership of the 17-acre property on prime boardwalk real estate, Beverly Bidney in one of the largest gaming locations in From left, Big Cypress Board Rep. Joe Frank, Chairman Marcellus W. Osceola Jr., Immokalee Board Liaison Gale Boone, new tenant Gwen Garcia, Immokalee Council project manager Pete Aguilar, President the U.S., is expected to have a positive Mitchell Cypress, Naples Council Liaison Brian Zepeda and Big Cypress Councilman Cicero Osceola cut the ribbon together at Garcia’s new home in Immokalee on March 15. impact on the Tribe and the city. Hard Rock International is in partnership with the Morris and Jingoli families of New Jersey, who have a minority share of the business. New homes debut in Immokalee “The Hard Rock brand is incredibly iconic and when we open new locations, there’s a tremendous amount of excitement BY BEVERLY BIDNEY out faster than we can build.” on a waiting list for housing tribal wide. has been done since then and housing is still and optimism,” Allen said. Staff Reporter Each of the three- and four-bedroom Three-story apartment buildings will be sorely needed. Godspeed for the next 50 The hotel and casino is expected to rental homes are well appointed and come part of a new master plan, which is being units in Immokalee.” create more than 3,000 jobs and add to with two bathrooms, generously-sized worked on now. Hollywood, Immokalee All the dignitaries recognized and the revitalization of Atlantic City. Allen IMMOKALEE — The keys to brand fenced yards, laundry rooms, large pantries, and Lakeland are good candidates for the thanked the staff for their hard work said reaction to the sale has been positive new homes on Alice Jimmie Circle in granite countertops in the kitchens and a multifamily units. completing the project. throughout the state, including Gov. Chris ,PPRNDOHH ZHUH RI¿FLDOO\ KDQGHG RYHU walk-in closet in the master bedroom suites. 2WKHU 7ULEDO RI¿FLDOV LQ DWWHQGDQFH DW “This has been a long time coming,” Christie and state senate president Stephen March 15 to seven families who had been Most of all, the homes provide a secure place the opening ceremony included President Boone said. “We look forward to the future Sweeney. waiting years for a home on the reservation. to raise a family. Mitchell Cypress, Big Cypress Councilman and, to the families, welcome back home to “It has been nothing but positive,” Allen “This is a step in the right direction and “This is a small step to providing Cicero Osceola, Big Cypress Board Rep. Joe Immokalee.” said. it took a lot of people to make this happen,” housing for Tribal members,” said Chairman Frank, Naples Council Liaison Brian Zepeda Gwen Garcia has been waiting seven President Donald Trump opened the said Immokalee Council project manager Marcellus W. Osceola Jr. “We have a long and Immokalee Board Liaison Gale Boone. years for a home on the reservation. In hotel and casino in 1990 but his company Pete Aguilar. “Soon we will have to update way to go, but this is a start. The challenge ³$ERXW \HDUV DJR WKH RULJLQDO the interim, she lived in a trailer home in ¿OHGIRUEDQNUXSWF\LQ,FDKQSXUFKDVHG our master plan and go vertical with our is to build homes on all the reservations and Immokalee families had a dream,” Rep. Immokalee. it, retained the Trump name and shut its structures. More than likely we will have to we’re working hard to get more built.” Frank said. “The Tribe just built 12 or 15 take care of more people in the reservation’s doors for good in October 2016. The Tribe Chairman Osceola said 300 people are KRPHVZKHQD¿UHEURNHRXW$ORWRIZRUN )See HOUSING on page 4B announced the purchase March 1. limited space. These kids are popping them Seminoles play big role in Chalo Nitka celebration 7KH 0DUFK SDUDGH WKH FHQWHUSLHFH parade route and kids gleefully gathered 6, and Allekeao Billie, 3. children waited patiently as mom made sure BY BEVERLY BIDNEY of the two-day festival, was led by Mingo candy as quickly as it was thrown. Seminoles The festival grounds offered Seminole, all the important details were in the right Staff Reporter Jones and grandsons Justin and Cisco and non-Seminoles alike donned colorful local and carnival food as well as rides, plenty place. Rodriguez in traditional Seminole garb on patchwork as a tribute the Tribe. The entry of shopping opportunities and entertainment. Chalo Nitka means big bass in Creek, MOORE HAVEN— – Although Moore KRUVHEDFN0RRUH+DYHQ¶VHOHFWHGRI¿FLDOV fee into the fairgrounds was waived to all The Country Rhythm Cloggers opened the VRRIFRXUVHWKHUHZDVD¿VKLQJWRXUQDPHQW +DYHQ¶V&KDOR1LWND)HVWLYDOEHJDQLQ and Seminole and Chalo Nitka royalty those wearing the traditional Seminole onstage entertainment, were followed by the Feb. 25 on Lake Okeechobee. Like a county to commemorate paving of Main Street, followed, along with the Moore Haven fashion. clothing contest and alligator wrestling. fair, the event lasted the entire week and it has evolved into an annual celebration Middle and High School marching band and “We don’t come to Chalo Nitka often, A conveniently placed chickee made included a 5K run, royalty pageant, ranch of small town life near the banks of Lake other Glades County groups and businesses. but this year we are competing in the an impromptu dressing room for clothing rodeo and country and western dance. Okeechobee. What makes the festival unique A slew of horses and their riders brought up clothing contest,” said Alice Billie, who was contest competitors. Families helped each is how the culture of the Seminole Tribe is the rear. there with her children Tahniya, 9, Mohayla, RWKHUZLWKWKHLURXW¿WV7RGGOHUVDQG\RXQJ )See CHALO NITKA PHOTOS on page 7A intertwined into the festivities. Residents and Tribal citizens lined the
Beverly Bidney Beverly Bidney Betty Billie and her grandson Myron Billie ride their decorated ATV in the Chalo Nitka parade March Mingo Jones and grandson Cisco Rodriguez lead the Chalo Nitka parade through the streets of Moore Haven on March 4. 4 in Moore Haven.
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Testimony of Ryan K. Zinke, Secretary U.S. Testimony of Jefferson Keel, Department of the Interior, before the U.S. Senate Chickasaw Nation Lt. Gov., before Committee on Indian Affairs, March 8, 2017 the U.S. Senate Committee on
potential by extending the Indian Coal the Bureau of Indian Education must be Indian Affairs, March 8, 2017 • Ryan K. Zinke Production Tax Credit and demanding their addressed to ensure long-term stability rightful seat at the table with the federal in Indian country. I read the Government • Jefferson Keel SURWHFWLRQRIWULEDOVRYHUHLJQW\6SHFL¿FDOO\ ood Afternoon, Chairman government to actualize their treaty rights. $FFRXQWDELOLW\ 2I¿FH *$2 +LJK 5LVN the Board concluded that non-tribal labor Hoeven, Vice-Chairman Udall, I am grateful to have Chairman A.J. Not Report for 2017; the determinations were organizations could assert the protections Gand Members of the Committee. Afraid sitting next to me today to tell his disheartening and devastating. Words cannot of the National Labor Relations Act against hairman Hoeven, Ranking Thank you for inviting me to testify before story about their future goals and priorities capture how terrible it is that children in tribal government employers—treating you today. I would also like to extend a thank Member Udall and members of for success and look forward to working schools overseen by Bureau of Indian the committee, thank you for tribal governments in a manner that no you to my fellow Montana Senators, Steve C state or territory has ever been subjected to. together in my new capacity of Secretary of Education are so poorly served. Each of inviting me to testify in today’s important Daines and Jon Tester, for their service on the Interior. them deserves a high-quality education The Chickasaw Nation litigated the matter this Committee and for welcoming me here hearing to identify Indian Country priorities I now have the honor to lead the very that prepares them for the future. Having for the new Trump Administration. My name IRU VHYHUDO \HDUV EHIRUH WKH %RDUG ¿QDOO\ WRGD\ 7KLV LV P\ ¿UVW KHDULQJ VLQFH EHLQJ Department that, unfortunately, has not served as Chairman of the Senate Education acknowledged that our sovereignty and FRQ¿UPHGDV6HFUHWDU\RIWKH,QWHULRUDQGLW is Jefferson Keel. I serve as the Lieutenant always stood shoulder to shoulder with many Committee during my time in the Montana Governor of the treaties with the United States demand the is truly an honor to be here before the Senate State Legislature, I have a keen interest parity of treatment Committee on Indian Affairs to discuss the Chickasaw Nation in education in rural communities. It is and speak today on we claimed. But Trump Administration’s vision for Indian unacceptable that some of our students other tribes do Country. I am also fortunate to share the behalf of Chickasaw are attending schools that lack the most Nation Governor QRW EHQH¿W IURP panel today with an esteemed group of basic necessities, like insulation and clean our treaties, and Tribal leaders from across the country. I look Bill Anoatubby and water. We must also craft clear standards, the people of the nothing necessarily forward to working together with each of develop measures for assessment, hire precludes the you as equals to grow and strengthen Indian Chickasaw Nation. TXDOL¿HGWHDFKHUVDQGSULQFLSDOVWRSURYLGH We look Board from again Country. much needed leadership, and hold people changing its mind I entered the Department just a few forward to working accountable for mistakes. I do not expect with and supporting as to what respect it days ago, but the importance of my mission to resolve these issues quickly, but I am should afford these to partner with American Indians and Secretary Zinke in personally invested in making real changes protecting our treaty sources of federal Alaska Natives is one I do not take lightly. that will last. law. I want to thank It is an issue of incredible importance to me rights and carrying There are plenty of other issues I know out the federal this committee personally. Regardless of political party, we will grapple with during my tenure at and our champion our duty as Americans is to uphold our trust trust relationship to Interior. I have plenty to learn, but with your tribes. Full federal on this issue, Sen. responsibilities and consult and collaborate assistance I remain optimistic that we can Jerry Moran, for on a government-to-government basis with recognition of tribal work together with Tribes to foster stronger sovereignty, as that recognizing the Tribes from Maine to Alaska. and more resilient Native communities. untenable position Growing up in Montana, I learned very status is recognized Conclusion One of the great privileges of in the United States in which this put quickly that our Tribes are not monolithic. my life was participating in the memorial tribal sovereigns and There are seven federally recognized Tribes Constitution, is ceremony for Michael Bell, a fellow Navy of paramount the quick approval in Montana, along with the Little Shell Tribe SEAL from the Fort Peck Assiniboine and of S.63, the Tribal of Chippewa Indians who are in the midst importance to Indian Ryan K. Zinke Sioux Tribe. In between deployments in country. We look to Jefferson Keel Labor Sovereignty of the federal recognition process. Each of 2006, he was tragically murdered. Mike was Act. Mr. Chairman, them are spread throughout the entire state, this Congress and a warrior I had the privilege of instructing as the Trump Administration to continue the I respectfully urge working on their diverse priorities to provide of the Tribal communities for which it is he began his SEAL career. To meet his family you to work closely with your colleagues to for their people. In whatever form their long-standing federal policy of engaging WDVNHGWR¿JKW0DQ\UHVHUYDWLRQVFRQWLQXH DQGSD\UHVSHFWWRWKHOLIHDQGVDFUL¿FHVKH with tribal sovereigns on a government- bring this important issue to a vote by the full economic development takes, from online to struggle with high unemployment rates made was truly humbling. In an incredibly Senate as soon as possible. Basic fairness lending to energy development, all tribes are to-government basis. This principal is and a lack of business opportunities. Indian moving tribute that same day, I was adopted fundamental to all issues that will come and adherence to long-standing policies sovereign and we must respect their right to schools, roads, and houses are literally falling into the Assiniboine family as an honorary regarding tribal sovereignty would support self-determination. before you arising from Indian country. apart. Despite all this, the Administration member, and given a name and song. Federal policies supporting American such action. In my experience, one thing is clear: has an opportunity to foster a period of I carry the honor of my traditional We also urge swift action to reauthorize sovereignty should mean something. As Indian tribal self-determination and self- economic productivity through improved name, Wowonga Intacha, Seal Leader, with governance grows directly from the the Native American Housing Assistance and Montana’s lone Congressman, I made it my infrastructure and expanded access to an all- me today. As Secretary of the Interior, I will Self Determination Act (NAHASDA) by the priority to remain accessible to each of our government’s respect for the importance and of-the-above energy development approach. hold true the sacred words of my song, ‘as value of tribal sovereignty. It is a simple fact committee and the Senate. For several years Tribal members, from the Crow Nation to the I fully understand that not all nations have I walk this road in life, I will help people running, the House has overwhelmingly Blackfeet Nation, so we could collaborate on that these policies work because they rest on access to energy resources or choose to as I go.’ That said, there is strength in the core principal that tribal peoples are in the passed a NAHASDA reauthorization with a their priorities on a leader-to-leader basis. I develop them and I respect their position. As numbers, which is why I will need each and large bipartisan majority, but Indian country viewed them as equals, not rivals. We shared best position to address the issues affecting I have mentioned earlier, sovereignty should every one of you to assist me. This includes their own communities. This committee has has been forced to wait on reauthorization in and debated our priorities and ideas while mean something and the decision to develop being accountable for your actions as we the Senate because one or two senators have seeking common ground. As a warrior, I helped lead the way in crafting policies that resources is one that each tribe must make warrior ahead and make tough decisions support tribal self-determination and self- put holds on the measure—blocking the will respected their culture and traditions greatly for itself. to strengthen Tribal communities. In the of the body and ignoring the needs of Native and I agree with the core value, ‘if you have governance, and while we have accomplished The President has remained steadfast SEALs, we are frequently reminded that great things, much remains to be done. peoples. This issue is too important to let WR¿JKW¿JKWIRU\RXUSHRSOH¶ in his commitment to infrastructure and “The Only Easy Day was Yesterday.” As another two years go by without approval. I am incredibly proud of the work All too often, federal statutes and seeks to address the excessive maintenance we begin the hard work before us, we must regulations treat tribal governments Indian country and this successful program Congress did to advance Montana tribes’ backlog that directly impedes our nation’s recognize that failure is not an option. I am deserve better. priorities, such as the Blackfeet Water Rights differently than every other form of economic growth and potential. Safe roads here to listen, to accomplish your goals, and government. While the Constitution Another timely issue of critical Settlement, which was signed into law as part and bridges support Tribal economic self- to move Indian Country forward to the best concern is the status of the Indian Health of the Water Infrastructure Improvements establishes tribal governments as sovereigns determination by incentivizing investment of my ability. with rights and responsibilities similar to Care Improvement Act. That measure was for the Nation (WIIN) Act. The warriors of in tribal communities. My team at Interior Thank you for the opportunity to permanently reauthorized after a decade- the Blackfeet Nation, led by Chairman Harry those of states, in practice, policies are is already working to identify these top share my views with the Committee. I look almost always more restrictive for tribes. long bipartisan effort to enact the measure; %DUQHVJUHDWO\VDFUL¿FHGWLPHDQGUHVRXUFHV priorities within Indian country. I look forward to working with you all and Tribes however, it was unfortunately tucked into for this historic achievement. Congress also Indian country has, accordingly, long forward to working with each of you here across the country to better the Bureau of called for parity—for the treatment of tribal the Affordable Care Act in 2010. The Indian made tremendous headway on the Little today and the Tribal leadership across our Indian Affairs, Bureau of Indian Education, Health Care Improvement Act, which Shell Federal Recognition bill, which passed sovereigns in a manner consistent with what nation to continue this important discussion. and all programs at Interior that impact states and other sovereigns within the United stands apart from the rest of the Obamacare out of the House Committee on Natural While economic development and Indian Country. measures, is critical to the provision of health 5HVRXUFHVIRUWKH¿UVWWLPHLQKLVWRU\$QG States system are afforded by federal law. infrastructure investments will play an ,QGHHGJLYHQWKHIHGHUDO¿GXFLDU\REOLJDWLRQ care throughout Indian country and must be lastly, Congress worked with the Crow important role in revitalizing Native safeguarded in any effort to change federal Nation to support their energy development to protect tribal sovereignty, we believe our communities, the immediate issues facing argument for such treatment is even stronger health care laws. than the states, in many instances. There are a number of other issues We commend the new administration’s inside the Affordable Care Act that I would SROLF\ WR DI¿UP DQG FRPPLW WR H[LVWLQJ like to bring to the committee’s attention. Time to recognize Indigenous people tribal consultation policies, which establish We believe, for example, that the employer frameworks for meaningful government-to- mandate represents an unwarranted intrusion government engagement and collaboration. on tribal self-government. In addition to as one of Canada’s founders: Steward We believe such frameworks are essential health services to our tribal citizens, the to a high functioning federal-tribal dynamic Chickasaw Nation provides generous and call on this Congress and Administration health care insurance coverages to all its reserve there but the government had other traders, and buffalo hunters was perhaps the HPSOR\HHV²EHQH¿WV WKDW IDU H[FHHG WKH • Gillian Steward ideas and they were sent much further north worst indignity. Without the sure knowledge to deepen and enhance its commitment to effective consultation, wherever and standards in the prevailing market—and the to the Fort Battleford area. of how to survive in the northern wilderness, Act’s mandate created complications and It is a story that resonates across the KRZ WR ¿QG DQG WUDS IXUEHDULQJ DQLPDOV whenever possible. We believe all executive As people fearful of living in Trumpland departments and agencies should consult and burdens where no problem could be shown. straggle to our border through bitter cold and Prairie Provinces where once nomadic how to track the vast herds of buffalo, the We would also point out that the Act uses peoples such as the Cree, Blackfoot, and newcomers might have given up and gone collaborate with tribes on the development deep snow trailing suitcases behind them, of federal policies with tribal implications, DGH¿QLWLRQRI1DWLYH$PHULFDQVWKDWGLIIHUV they seem reminiscent of an earlier time. Sioux were forced to abandon ways that home. It might have been well past 1867 from that found in other parts of the U.S. had sustained them for thousands of years when Canada started to come together as a and we believe this is true whether the A time when some aboriginal people government is considering the establishment Code and the regulations, which has been had to gather all their possessions and walk to live in a much smaller world where food country. widely acknowledged as a drafting error over was scarce and disease was plentiful. So when are we actually going to of a new statutory or regulatory provision or to the piece of land that had been deemed the repeal or abrogation of an existing one. the years. We urge the committee to correct their new home. Too bad, as the joke goes, the First formally recognize that Canada has three this error in any legislation on the subject. Nations didn’t have an immigration policy founding peoples — Indigenous, French, Doing so will strengthen our government- Of course, those people weren’t to-government relationship and further Finally, tribal health departments have well walking to the kind of freedom the current at the time so they could slow the onslaught and British — not just two? developed third party payer arrangements of settlers who were pushing them aside and 7KH ¿QDO UHSRUW RI WKH 7UXWK DQG empower the unparalleled progress made 86 HVFDSHHV DUH KRSLQJ WR ¿QG 7KH\ in Indian country since the advent of these with Medicare, Medicaid, the Department of ZHUH ZDONLQJ WR FRQ¿QHPHQW DQG LQ VRPH taking over their land. Reconciliation Commission recommended Veterans Affairs, and other federal programs. “ ... it’s kind of odd as an Indigenous that the oath of Canadian citizenship include policies in the late-1960s. instances starvation. One example of this body’s pragmatic Congress should pay careful attention to This is exactly what happened to Doug person to sit and watch refugees cross the a promise to honour Indigenous treaties. nuance and detail in overhauling the Act so border into Canada,” writes Cuthand. “It’s It also recommended that government responsiveness to strengthening the federal Cuthand’s ancestors. The Saskatchewan law’s provision of parity to tribal sovereigns that these relationships are not inadvertently ZULWHU DQG ¿OP SURGXFHU HYRNHG WKDW HUD kind of late to complain about immigration. information packages designed for disrupted or unsettled. There are 35 million people in Canada and newcomers include Indigenous history. is recent action relating to the National recently in a thought-provoking piece for Labor Relations Board. Several years ago, President Trump has spoken for many the [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]. only 1 million of us are members of the The government is already following months about a wide-ranging infrastructure original First Nations. What difference will through. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s the Board administratively set aside decades He detailed how his people originally of settled policy and law and determined, package. We support the concept of lived in the Cypress Hills in what is now a few more make?” mandate letter for new Immigration vigorously investing in our nation’s roads, That First Nations were so brutally notwithstanding its own profession of southeastern Alberta near the U.S border. having no expertise in federal Indian law, After signing Treaty 6, their chief wanted a pushed aside after they had in fact worked )See CANADA on page 4B )See KEEL on page 4B with French and British explorers, fur that tribal actors are not all entitled to the
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Restaurant opening fulfills dream for Shamy and Wanda Tommie
BY AARON TOMMIE to expand their horizons as entrepreneurs. Special to The Tribune Over the years they discussed the idea of owning a restaurant, but did not act upon FORT PIERCE — After more than 15 it until years later. Wanda stated that it has years of being caterers, Tribal citizen Shamy been a long time since Fort Pierce has had Tommie and his wife Dr. Wanda Tommie’s a restaurant that offers homemade types of vision of being restaurant owners came to food. Shamy’s Rib and Chicken Shack also fruition March 4. Over 300 close friends, differs because it is able to introduce a new relatives, and patrons attended the much culture of tastes to the community, she said. anticipated grand opening of Shamy’s Rib “God gives us a gift, but we have to and Chicken Shack to fellowship and feast discover it,” Wanda said. “That’s what on an array of dishes. happened to me and Shamy. You can’t “This is a place of peace and love,” said separate God and your gift.” Dr. Wilhelmina Lewis-Lyons, a close friend The menu consists of Native American of the Tommies. “I like the care that goes and traditional soul food dishes such as into the food.” Shack’s Meatloaf, Wanda’s Mac ‘N’ Cheese, The process to open Shamy’s Rib frybread, and other popular choices such and Chicken Shack began in October as rib dinners, collard greens, and potato 2016. Located in the heart of Fort Pierce, salad. There are also specially made teas renovations took place to transform a once and desserts for guests to enjoy. Wanda GULYHWKURXJK YHQXH LQWR D IXOOÀHGJHG mentioned that many of the foods offered on restaurant, which is located about a 20- the menu are based on what people request. minute drive from Chupco’s Landing, the “Tribal members tell me what they Fort Pierce community’s reservation that want. They always get a mixture of foods,” is named after Shamy’s grandmother Sallie she said. “They tell me what they want me Chupco Tommie. to cook.” As many as 35 people can be seated in As co-owners, Shamy and Wanda the restaurant, and there is ample space for work together to manage and operate the parking and dining outside. Within a few restaurant. They have lived in Fort Pierce weeks, alcoholic beverages will be available. most of their lives. After having spent many “We have been improving since we years working various professions in and started,” said Shamy Tommie, who also outside of the Tribe, Shamy and Wanda, serves as Chupco Landing’s Ranch Director. who is the head pastor at World Harvest “We worked hard to get to where we’re at.” Eagle Ministries, wanted to leave something behind for their family. Due to their success and popularity as Aaron Tommie Tribal vendors – coupled with a passion “I have always been a family man. All for cooking – Shamy and Wanda wanted of us in Fort Pierce, we’re family,” Shamy Lavivian Renee (far left) and Dr. Wanda Tommie chat with attendees at the grand opening of Shamy’s Rib and Chicken Shack March 4 in Fort Pierce. said. “We should support one another. When you have family Tommie, Sallie Tommie and Larry Howard; standing behind me.” back you up, that DOOKDYHEHHQLQÀXHQWLDOLQWKHLUUHVSHFWLYH means a lot.” positions within the Tribe. Shamy is a distant Family cousin to the late former Chairman Howard Shamy’s Rib and Chicken Shack is and culture are Tommie. located at 1311 Avenue D., in Fort Pierce. extremely important Shamy and Wanda will continue to Hours of operation are: Wednesdays and to Shamy, who is be vendors for the Tribe. Their catering Thursdays 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Fridays and African-American is available for weddings, baby showers, Saturdays 10 a.m. to midnight; Sundays: 12 and Seminole. His corporate parties and other events. No matter p.m. to 6 p.m. The restaurant is closed on late mother is the who and what he is serving, Shamy said he Mondays and Tuesdays. Bird Clan’s Minnie will always embrace his culture. Tommie Howard. “I believe in my history and my people. He is the eldest Nobody can take that from me,” Shamy of four siblings, said. “I am carrying my heritage on until I who include Leona die. I am thankful to the Seminole Tribe for
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Aaron Tommie Shamy’s Rib and Chicken Shack is located at 1311 Ave. D. in Fort Pierce.
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In accordance with the Amended Constitution and Bylaws of the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the Amended Corporate Charter of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Inc. a Regular Election is scheduled on Monday, May 8, 2017 for the following offices:
SEMINOLE TRIBE OF FLORIDA TRIBAL COUNCIL Aaron Tommie BIG CYPRESS RESERVATION REPRESENTATIVE (1) The namesake for Shamy’s Rib and Chicken Shack, Shamy Tommie, grills chicken during the grand opening March 4. BRIGHTON RESERVATION REPRESENTATIVE (1) HOLLYWOOD RESERVATION REPRESENTATIVE (1)
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4A • The Seminole Tribune • March 31, 2017 Performance pays tribute to Betty Mae Jumper
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WWW.STOFINC.COM THE LAW OFFICES OF ALAN S. BERNSTEIN, PA. We are a full Commercial and Residential Construction Service Contractor, who’s 2131 Hollywood Blvd., Suite 303 301 Clematis St., Suite 3000 committed to providing each of our clients a LIKE US ON STOFI Hollywood, Fl 33020 West Palm Beach, Fl 33020 superior product with exceptional service. 6A • The Seminole Tribune • March 31, 2017 Beverly Bidney The 21st annual Junior Cypress Cattle Drive passes the water tower, a Big Cypress landmark on Josie Billie Highway, as it travels from the spillway to the rodeo grounds March 18 on the Big Cypress Reservation. Cattle drive evokes fond memories of Morgan Smith BY BEVERLY BIDNEY ap Staff Reporter e wa a reat attle an an he alwa ha oo hor e per ai e wor e leather an a e b llwhip e BI RE — n hor eba an al o ha a booth at alee illa e where he in b ie o en of ribal an non ribal a e thin owbo reli he the e perien e of the rin the i point brea per t ann al nior pre attle ri e on rea an ori inal poe abo t ith title ar h in Bi pre n ian owbo rea he e ent wa a trib te to onorar n i i al a e fro both oa t an rail Bo or an ith one of the i f rther to parti ipate in the attle ri e ori inal tr tee of the attle pro ra that whi h wa open to the p bli o e bro ht be a e the bl eprint for ribal o ern ent hor e other followe the attle in wa p in e wa a Bi pre attle owner b ie or e enth ia t in l in a DQGRQHRIWKH¿UVWFDWWOHPDQDJHUV ro p fro the ia i a e an Browar e wa li e a fore an o t here ai hapter of the o th lori a rail i er rail Bo a l Bower e ro e a little o iation a le p their tee an hor e b t he wa a bi an too are of oine the row the attle t wa open ran e in tho e a o ete ar ia of lewi ton ha o ha to o h nt the attle parti ipate in e er attle ri e in e it Bi pre wa abo t a re in eption of open ran e in the an e ot ile on hor e o eti e it wo l ta e a to ro n p the ar ia ai e ha the a e hor e an wan erin attle an o e the to the pen the a e wo an for all thi ti e lo ate where the p bli afet b il in hirteen e ber of the i a o fa il tan to a he nearl ile attle ri e of orth ort er ha e atten e the attle ro te followe the path fro the pillwa to ri e for abo t e en ear o t ro e in the p bli afet b il in an then own the the wa p b b t two fa il e ber enter of town on o ie Billie i hwa to ro e on one of their two n al ian hor e the nior pre o eo rena e ippe with pani h a le Beverly Bidney attle e to r n thro h the e e li e the ri e t well or ani e Participants on horseback keep the cattle in line during the Junior Cypress cattle drive in Big Cypress. woo ai o e per r whoe her an f n for the fa il ai rwin i a o of orriente attle wa the one bein who rai e how hor e n the area i o e to the ro eo arena reat her of bea tif l e inole attle roa e entral lori a for Bea t an a ent re were o on an ear the e a on ri er per an brother a l an i har e a e o t to en o the nat ral Bower reate the attle ri e to honor bea t ai ennifer ole ori inall of pioneer of the ribe attle in tr whi h lewi ton b t now of al Bea h ar en ot off the ro n abo t ear a o when he ho pitalit i reat the ribe i paniar bro ht the ani al to lori a nown for that a e e iree a hn al o he i ea for the e ent a e fro the reat of al Bea h ar en he be t iew of lori a attle ri e that o e orate the lori a i fro hor eba tate attle in tr in Bi pre Boar ep oe ran a ith wa ori inall fro Bri hton an attle owner new ith an re e bere o e to Bi pre few of hi fa il the ol a p with their win ill e ber parti ipate in the attle ri e an new hi when wa reall o n re e bere hi a the attle re te an before the ribe wa or ani e ran hor e were watere at the i point of the VDLG³2XU¿UVWPRGHUQJRYHUQPHQWZDVWKH ro te attle pro ra re e ber hi an o ie re e ber when a e to Bi Billie tal in abo t how ribal o ern ent pre with brother to i it hi he wo l be han to tho e tr tee we o l wo l alwa p t in the eep an ta e or ani e into the for of o ern ent we o t to the attle ai ne a ith ith ha e now he lai a oo ro n wor an ran a hter e alwa a e thin to the ribe i in oo hape to a be a e of o an ta ht o an thin e whi tle it an hi hor e a e r nnin o er to hi e en before he went thro h the ate li e weat i i tantl relate to ith her nie e i hi ran a hter b t he too ha tron e orie of the an Beverly Bidney n h r h he ha h a eep o n in Trail Boss Paul Bowers leads the 21st annual oi e an till hear it weat ai an Junior Cypress Cattle Drive through the heart of in the a e on b t not the wa he i Big Cypress on Josie Billie Highway March 18. ith a p wa near an ol re barn in Bi pre near the bri e b a ie per ha hil hoo e orie of the ERMD hosts RTOC semi-annual meeting he e inole ribe n iron ental e o r e ana e ent epart ent ho te a e ional ribal peration o ittee e i ann al eetin ar h at the ati e earnin enter in oll woo he eetin feat re pre entation fro e plo ee of the e inole ribe atawba n ian ation i o ee ribe the n iron ental rote tion en an other are wor in o ittee that in l e Kevin Johnson Kevin Johnson ribal an per onnel Roberto Luque, Environmental specialist for the Seminole Tribe, explains the history and potential future of the Seminole Kristen Mills, Water Resources manager for the Miccosukee Tribe, gives a presentation during the Farms brownfield site to a group from the RTOC’s semi-annual meeting March 15 during a tour of the Big Cypress RTOC semi-annual meeting March 15 at the Native Learning Center in Hollywood. Reservation. 7A • The Seminole Tribune •March 31, 2017 Seminoles, Moore Haven celebrate Chalo Nitka Beverly Bidney A fire burns close to Interstate 75 in Collier County on March 8. Beverly Bidney Wildfire forces evacuation of Sisters by birth and royalty Jr. Miss Brighton Leilani Burton and Miss Brighton Krysta Burton wave to the crowd as they ride in the Chalo Nitka parade March 4 in Moore Haven. Naples field office BY BEVERLY BIDNEY Staff Reporter ALE— $ DFUH ZLOG¿UH LQ i a ne tran tate ore t pro pte the e a a ation of the e inole ribe aple ¿HOGRI¿FH0DUFK(PHUJHQF\ SHUVRQQHO re o e ribal a et an al able fro WKHRI¿FHWKHQH[WGD\ e ter a we o l n t ell the o e b t now we an an the a h i all o er the b il in aple liai on Brian epe a ai 0DUFK³)LUH¿JKWLQJKHOLFRSWHUVKDYHXVHG WKHODNHEHKLQGWKHRI¿FHWR¿OOWKHLUEXFNHWV ZLWKZDWHUWR¿JKWWKH¿UH´ 7KH ¿HOG RI¿FH RQ 3ORYHU $YHQXH LV ne t to nter tate e it whi h i part of a tret h of the hi hwa that wa lo e GXHWRWKH¿UHWKDWVWDUWHG0DUFK e ber of the e inole oli e epart ent ire e e i e et an B il in an ro n epart ent too in entor an re o e ite in l in o p ter ewin a hine pathwor pie e pi t re on wall an other e ip ent he ite were relo ate to o alee for afe eepin o alee i lo al an it will be ea to et e er thin ba o er to aple when ZHUHVHWWKHRI¿FH´VDLG63'&KLHI:LOOLDP Beverly Bidney Beverly Bidney at hfor Mila Leah, 16 months, waits as patiently as a Nearly ready to go onstage for the clothing hi ha been an e tre el r r toddler can for the Chalo Nitka clothing contest contest, Chance Madrigal, 5, waits for his turban ea on B telei ion eteorolo i t Beverly Bidney to begin. in a nearby chickee. ob n ai in an inter iew with Items from the Naples field office are loaded onto a truck March 8. ra io e ha e one ore than i onth witho t nor al rainfall n er ontrol than to the wor of abo t per onnel %\ 0DUFK WKH ¿UH ZDV SHUFHQW ¿UH¿JKWHUV LQFOXGLQJ 6HPLQROH ZLOGODQG 7KH¿HOGRI¿FHUHRSHQHG0DUFK Beverly Bidney Beverly Bidney Toddlers Jilayne Jamison, Kylynn Laurence and Krysta Burton, Thomlynn Billie and Talia Beverly Bidney Mila Leah show off their finest Seminole garb at Rodriguez pose for a photo during the clothing Seminole Tribe police officers tag photos during the removal of items from the Naples field office March 8. the Chalo Nitka clothing contest in Moore Haven. contest at Chalo Nitka. RICHARD CASTILLO 954.522.3500 Helping the Seminole Community For Many Years 24 HOURS A DAY Since 1990 I have protected rights like yours. 0\RãFHGHIHQGV'8,VGUXJRIIHQVHVVXVSHQGHG OLFHQVHVGRPHVWLFYLROHQFHDQGDOOIHORQLHVDQG PLVGHPHDQRUVWKURXJKRXW)ORULGDDQGWKH 8QLWHG6WDWHV The hiring of an attorney is an important decision that should not be based solely upon advertise- ment. Castillo worked as a Public Defender in Broward County from 1990-1996 and has been in private practice since 1996. In 1995, he was voted 5,&+$5'&$67,//2 the Trial Attorney of the year. He graduated from )/25,'$&5,0,1$/'()(16($772851(< Capital University in 1989 and was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1990, Federal Bar in 1992, and the Fed- :::&$67,//2/$:2)),&(6&20 eral Trial Bar in 1994. 8A • The Seminole Tribune • March 31, 2017 The chairmanship of Billy Osceola: First chairman of the Seminole Tribe of Florida BY MARY BETH ROSEBROUGH ob ohn enr pre rti eola Research Coordinator, Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum a o ie an a ra ae eola repre ente their re pe ti e re er ation t wa at one of the e eetin where a ra This year, 2017, is an important year 0DH WROG IHGHUDO RI¿FLDOV ³LQ \HDUV of anniversaries for the Seminole Tribe of the e inole won t nee o r help Shako: From military to Florida. It marks the 200th anniversary of ow i he now he new be a e of the beginning of the Seminole Wars. It is the the wor bein one ba ho e in lori a 60th anniversary of federal recognition of the b e en ant of tho e who re i te marching bands Seminole Tribe of Florida as a government ilitar effort to be re o e rie and a business enterprise. During the year, three e alation of the e inole ar an BY ROBIN CROSKERY HOWARD bo illi that allow the leather to be hape this column will alternately explore key re aine n on ere he ribe won the Conservator, Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum an then tiffen a iti e h a ani al fat events of the so-called First Seminole War le al ri ht to ta e ontrol of the tr t lan an a onia ar en the leather an pro i e and highlight the great advances of the Tribe a ree to raft an a epte a on tit tion n e a pop lar hat t le for ilitarie VRPH ZHDWKHUSURR¿QJ 7KH JROGFRORUHG during the last 60 years. This month we an b law the worl o er the ha o i now rarel een tarb r t with horn ap plate on the front FHOHEUDWH WKH ¿UVW HOHFWHG &KDLUPDQ RI WKH Bill eola at thro h lon eetin o t i e of hi h hool an olle e ar hin of the ha o e i nate the wearer a either Seminole Tribe of Florida, Billy Osceola. a a e ber of the on tit tional o ittee D SDUW RI WKH LQIDQWU\ RU WKH ULÀHPHQ 7KH Photo courtesy Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum ban of orth eri a nown for it an wa ele te hair an of the ribe after Billy Osceola tall lin ri al hape the ha o onit leather hin trap are eorate with ol he e inole ribe of loria it for al or ani ation he o e orati e of a r t le rown hort i or or bill olore ale that at h the har ware of the FRQVWLWXWLRQZDVZULWWHQVLJQHGDQGUDWL¿HG i e of he e inole rib ne elebratin rin whi h he on entrate on ettin p hin trap an enerall a pl e or other wool pl e in t of after an ear of the ran openin of the ar o the a ini tration of the ribe reatin a tall e oration ea enter front with the he ha o i he le to o o t on the nite tate tr in to wran le awa oll woo tate that the new on tit tion oli fo n ation on whi h to b il e orna ental ap plate in i nia below it loan ne t ear b t for now it i re ei in pport an lan lai fro tribe a ro alle for the ribe to be o erne b a he alee rt an raft illa e opene 7KHVKDNR¿UVW o e h neee WKH FRXQWU\ %LOO\ 2VFHROD WKH7ULEH¶V ¿UVW &RXQFLO RI HOHFWHG RI¿FLDOV IURP WKH WKUHH rin thi ti e hool whi h ha been a e an appearan e attention ele te hair an wa e re ate were in the n arian with all or ani there thro h it all opene to e inole ar rin the aterial the he boo t ent hair an th ent r t leather ha be n elebratin the eola aw the pop larit i l to brea own th anni er ar of EHQH¿W RI D IRUPDO prea thro ho t the ha o i pla the i nin of the e ation when rope rin the ra inor re on tit tion an o petin with the earl th entr rot o on to in orporation tell the non e inole worl pe the tlanti leather of thi era a a Bill eola an en o ra e all an be a e a an a li ht tear to wa ent to repre ent ribal e ber to taple of ilitar the i or he etal the people of Bri hton o to hool t wa nifor rin har ware in l in before the fe eral rin hi ten re the the eri an iil the ap plate ha o ern ent at the lar e t re er ation oll woo Bi ania e er ation bea e the oll woo ar B t b the ar in e ree of /DQG&ODLPV&RPPLVVLRQ¿JKWLQJIRUODQG pre an Bri hton hair an eola e er ation f t re ho e of a e f l be innin of the o i ation an la er ri ht an o erei nt e an hi fellow of Bri hton wa ele te b ribe wi e ar o otel an a ino th ent r the of ol he i al on tit ent o ie Billie i pre ote in an er e for ear ha o wa o tl bra poli h rele ate to a alr o erate la er of an ere onial t ha ettle in nifor repla e all of the roo e with the ore of the felte wool pra ti al etal pl e o t of o h bo t le the e i e will be hel et t pi al a re e rin of orl ar the on er ation o a er few treat ent of the ilitarie in l e ob e t that will ta e the ha o a a part pla e prior to the of the ere onial e hibition nifor pani h o f rther are o al ar for the ob e t it ani h ar will be in talle ar e i ent b the on er ator e olti e r e on a pe ial be tho h o nt to prote t an till e it a a it fro an other part of their ilitar a a e in l in a a e nifor ini i in the e t oint he Photo courtesy Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum effe t of ra it on ita el aint r A shako hat the i or hen the he h ah ha o ret rn to the hi i e e a itional ha a won erf l e a ple in the olle tion on er ation effort to tabili e the ob e t of a ha o fro the hei ht of it pop larit will be ta en hi ha o ir a wa li el worn b o l o li e to learn ore abo t how ilitia rin the e inole ar he pl e to are for o r fa il heirloo or learn ore abot on er ation lea e onta t e oration i not a e of feather rather it Photo courtesy Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum i felte wool he r t le rown an obin ro er owar at bill are a e of boil pro e e leather ir et Tribal Council gathered around a table in a classroom. From left to right are Frank Billie, Mike Osceola, John Cypress, John Josh, Chairman Billy Osceola Secretary Laura Mae Osceola, Betty Mae Jumper, Charlotte Tommie Osceola and Howard Tiger. Around the world with Carl Folke Sahlin: Including Seminole and Miccosukee paintings from South Florida BY PATSY WEST ran father b t when hi father ie two a frei hter hea in for ew or it ear later the all fa il be a e po ert arri in ew ear a oon he tri en hen arl wa ear ol he ha VDZ D QHZVSDSHU DG ³:DLWHUV :DQWHG LQ arl ol e ahlin prono n e ah to it hool to wor in a lothin fa tor to lori a an left the it on a prepai ti et leen wa born in to hol we en help hi other a e en eet on the lori a a t oa t ailroa bon in i father ha been a ar at arl other ie when he wa IRU0LDPLDQGWKH¿QHGLQLQJURRPRIWKH the ala e of in ar a wa hi e then i ne on a a rew e ber on ran al on otel in owntown ith enr la ler railroa then bein n er on tr tion fro ia i o th o er bri e all the wa to e e t arl aw opport nit oon he be a e the aptain of one of the on tr tion bar e Ba in ew or it he enae in YDULRXVMREVEXWKH¿QDOO\UHDOL]HGWKDWZKDW he reall wante wa to be o e an arti t ne of hi bo on a e hi to ill trate a boo that he ha t written hen the boo ol well ahlin then rea he o t for o e for al art trainin at the rt t ent ea e he ea e i now in it th ear an a re o ntin of it tea her an t ent repre ent the rea of re nown arti t worl wi e o e onnett i har a fa il frien of ahlin fro ia i e i t a hi ole bio rapher h of thi hroni le i fro KHU DFFRXQW ³9LNLQJ :LWK D 3DLQWEUXVK´ SXEOLVKHGLQ+LVWRU\0LDPL¶V³6RXWK)ORULGD +LVWRU\0DJD]LQH´LQ ³%\ KHZDV wor in a a fa hion ill trator an a in oo one he note ro ahlin EULHI 9LWD RQ ¿OH DW WKH %XWOHU ,QVWLWXWH RI eri an rt in o n town hio we ¿QGWKDWKHKDGLQGHHGEHHQVXFFHVVIXOLQD IDVKLRQGHVLJQFDUHHUUHWLULQJ\RXQJ³DIWHU operatin tone ri ht an o e ri ht t io in ew or an hi a o n ahlin o e per anentl to ia i ho h han i appe b failin hearin in the earl he be an to tra el an paint e elopin hi arti ti t le o btle a he ha in hi fa hion t ie in water olor of nati e b e t i har ZURWH RI KLV DUWLVWLF SURFHVV ³,Q WKH ¿HOG he often et h on a all pa a in Courtesy photo olor note then o plete the paintin later A Sahlin oil painting “Seminole” in the collection of Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum. in hi hotel roo t ti e he wa able to b the a t al o t e off the ba of the an er hi no o bt a o nt for the rini a an the o ini an ep bli e tate to paint we tern n ian tribe ro o eti e intri a in hi epi tion of the then wor e hi wa to o th eri a n o n ele he went to the trai ht of ar ent fa t rin thi inten e arti ti perio of hi a ellan on on to r e ran fort to e initiall tra ele own the e t life he a e ore than trip to o th on on ia o e airo a i rabia n ian hain of lan paintin in ba eri a where he o rne e to the a on ara hi an al tta to tralia i har hi e hi h into the a orian n e wa UHFRXQWHG ³,Q 7DLZDQ KH KDG WHD ZLWK Courtesy photo a ht in a ate alan re ol tion where “Seminoles - Miami,” A watercolor by Carl Folke he painte in hi hotel roo ntil the b llet )See SAHLIN on page 5B Sahlin in the Miami Daily News, February 16, 1947. VWRSSHGÀ\LQJ +HEXVVHGDFURVVWKH8QLWHG 9A • The Seminole Tribune • March 31, 2017 Stressing less stress as reservations focus on heart health BY BEVERLY BIDNEY +HDOWK DQG +XPDQ 6HUYLFHV 2I¿FH RI Staff Reporter inorit ealth fo n that ati e eri an are ore li el to be ia no e with heart eri an eart onth in ebr ar i ea e than their white o nterpart a e ribal iti en opportnitie to learn i fa tor for heart i ea e in l in how to aintain a health heart ariet hi h bloo pre re obe it an i arette of a ti itie in Bi pre Bri hton o in are ore pre alent a on ati e oll woo an o alee feat re a eri an than white o bination of e ation han on f n an hil ren al o nee to learn abo t rewar that an la t a lifeti e heart health o the e a eart a e pon ore b the ealth epartent an appearan e at e a et aha in e ent thro ho t the onth fo e Bri hton an at the er an eola on heart health b wal in eatin well LQ%LJ&\SUHVV7KHJLDQWLQÀDWDEOHKHDUWLVD e er i in an rela in f n han on tea hin tool ³:H DGGHG VWUHVV UHGXFWLRQ WKLV \HDU ³7KHUHDUHIRXUFKDPEHUVLQWKHKHDUW be a e tre i o ba for o r heart two re ei e bloo an two en it ba o t ai anne a i llie ealth prora o r heart beat ti e a a ai PDQDJHU³:HZDQWWRKHOSSHRSOHUHFRJQL]H -XVWLQ 5HLVZHUJ RI 0HGLFDO ,QÀDWDEOHV when the are tre e an tea h the how a he too the i thro h the e hibit an to ba awa fro it e eal with a lot of pointe o t the i portant part of the heart wo en who o a lot for other an for et DQGWKHLUIXQFWLRQV³:HZDQWWKHVWXGHQWVWR abo t the el e e all nee to a e ti e learn how the heart wor an how to eep for o r el e it health or in to infor ation fro the 7R¿JKWKHDUWGLVHDVHWKURXJKHGXFDWLRQ enter for i ea e ontrol an the WKH+HDOWK'HSDUWPHQWEURXJKWIDFWV¿JXUHV eri an eart o iation heart i ea e an f n to the re er ation ew a ti itie i the n ber one iller of all eri an thi ear inl e o a ai hi an oo in in l in ati e eri an la e to pro ote fellow hip f n an tati ti how the rate of heart atta learnin ealth e ator Barbara Bolin in wo en i li bin he eri an e en bro ht the a lt olorin ra e to eart o iation eti ate abot Bri hton where olorin intri ate pattern illion eri an wo en are affe te b in olorin boo a e the arti t to rela ar io a lar i ea e an per ent ha e ³,I \RX EOHQG WKH HGXFDWLRQ ZLWK one or ore ri fa tor eart atta an o ethin en o able the infor ation i tro e ill abo t one wo an e er Beverly Bidney DVVLPLODWHG EHWWHU´ 'DYLV VDLG ³0HQWDO eon Big Cypress heart participants in heart health awareness activities pose for a photo at the field office Feb. 26. ph i al an e otional health reate a report b the epart ent of better path to wellne Beverly Bidney Photo courtesy Barbara Boling Beverly Bidney Tai Chi, the ancient Chinese graceful form of exercise, was a hit for these Big Cypress heart health Beulah Gopher works on her stress reducing America Ramirez, Clarrisa Garza and Andrea Kuzbyt took a brisk two-mile or so walk through the awareness participants. adult coloring project in Brighton Feb. 28. Immokalee Reservation Feb. 23. Beverly Bidney (2) Above, Caylie Huff, Hyatt Pearce and other eighth-graders learn about the heart by walking through a larger than life version at Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School March 22. Justin Reiswerg, at left, teaches about the parts and functions of the heart. At right, seventh-graders learn about the danger of smoking from health educator Jamie Diersing outside of the Mega Heart at PECS. 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Courtesy photo HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BOBBY: Bobby Henry enjoys a peaceful moment during a birthday celebration for him in February at the Tribe’s Lakeland property. Tribune file photo REMEMBERING A LEGEND: Rock ‘n’ roll star Chuck Berry is shown here performing during the Seminole Tribe’s Christmas party on Dec. 18, 1998 at the Broward County Convention Center. Berry passed away March 18 at age 90. Photo courtesy Miami Dolphins DOWN IN FRONT: A cow in the back tries to poke his head above others during the 21st annual Junior Cypress Cattle Drive on March 18 in Big Cypress. Maury Neipris WATER BOYS: Big Cypress youngsters enjoy a splash in a canal March 11. Beverly Bidney BIRD’S EYE VIEW- A lone farmer plows a field near Immokalee March 7. When viewed from above, it is easy to see the importance of the canal, which keeps the forest from taking back the land. Beverly Bidney DUNK CITY: Tony Billie and R. J. Garza enjoy an informal Beverly Bidney game of hoops at the Immokalee Boys and Girls Club on BATH TIME: A panther takes a relaxing mid-morning bath at Billie Swamp Safari on March 16. Feb. 21 and found the perfect place for a promotional photo op. Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa (2) HARD ROCK DONATIONS: Charity organizations Hands Across the Bay, above, and Bill Edwards Foundation of the Arts, below, accept $10,000 checks from Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa in March. The DeBartolo Family Foundation and Metropolitan Ministries also received $10,000 checks. The checks to the non-profits were part of Hard Rock Tampa’s 13th anniversary celebration. Photo courtesy Alex Johns WINNING OFFSPRING: The reserve grand champion steer award at the Hendry County Fair belongs to Windfall Tindall, who bought the calf from Joe Frank’s Big Cypress herd and raised it. At the sale, Big Cypress Councilman Cicero Osceola purchased the calf from Tindall on behalf of STOF. 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It is a product of artificial insemination using the Tribe’s elite Salacoa bull herd. 11A • The Seminole Tribune • March 31, 2017 NATIONAL NATIVE NEWS IU reate u i t impr e of nat ral re o r e an e an e the a ino b ine illion a ear in re en e t rne o er to the 1DYDMR1DWLRQSROLFHRI¿FHU ati e Ameri a re ati new a ini tration honor treatie with e are not a e a arl on tate the i e of a thir a ino re ain t ie rep ig t in i eno people ai e nee to ha e a er ontrolle er n lear ho e i e were rawn into harp en iron ent if we re oin to o thi he bill that wo l fa or the two tribe me ti i e e a BLOOMI TO I niana fo la t ear rin the onth lon he i ea fa e oppo ition fro ar ne t hea to the tate enate he other ni er it i for in an a i or ro p ¿JKW RYHU WKH 'DNRWD $FFHVV 3LSHOLQH DW )R[ FKDLUPDQ RI WKH 7KUHH $I¿OLDWHG pie e of le i lation whi h o l open p a ALBU UER UE M ²$1DYDMR to tren then the ni er it relation hip the tan in o re er ation il i et ribe who warne a in a ino wo l tatewi e o petition hea to the o e 1DWLRQ SROLFH RI¿FHU LQ 1HZ 0H[LFR with the ati e eri an o nit WRÀRZDVHDUO\DVQH[WZHHNWKURXJKWKH p et an e ilibri an at rate the he le i lati e e ion en ne wa hot an ille while re pon in to hi new a i or ro p the ir t ation SLSHOLQHDELOOLRQPLOHSURMHFW ar et n etail annon e b ep oe a o e ti iolen e all athoritie ai ea er hip ba a or on il will r nnin fro orth a ota to llinoi a ino are allowe on tribal lan erren ia e t artfor ohair an 0DUFK a i e on how be t to re r it an eep in e the er be innin we in orth a ota thro h fe eral law an of the o ittee the latter bill wo l allow 2I¿FHU+RXVWRQ-DPHV/DUJRZDV ore ati e eri an t ent an fa lt XQGHUVWRRGWKDW'DNRWD$FFHVVZDVMXVWRQH o ai the re en e it e for ario for re e t for propo al ne t an ar o t prono n e ea at ni er it of ew a or in to an pre relea e SDUWRIDJUHDWHU¿JKWIRULQGLJHQRXVULJKWV er i e wo l be reatl i ini he if town wo l ea h hol a lo al referen e i o o pital in lb er e where he 7KH&RXQFLOZLOOPHHWZLWK,8RI¿FLDOV an in i eno o erei nt ai alla the tate opene it own a in fa ilitie an be eli ible for illion pa ent ha been airlifte after the hootin in the pril an before the ann al owwow ol tooth of the n i eno n iron ental +HDOVRSRLQWHGWRWKHKXQGUHGVRIMREVWKDW innin a ino propo al wo l all town of rewitt he o n il will be a e p of etwor one of the ore a ti e ro p ea h ite pro i e LQFOXGH PLOOLRQFDSLWDOLQYHVWPHQWV thoritie ai a pe t wa i e ber ea h of who ha tate behin the a ota e prote t at ³ April 1 April 5 JIM JEFFERIES DURAN DURAN April 22 April 27 THERESA CAPUTO RON WHITE May 26 & 27 July 6 FRANKIE VALLI ROD STEWART & THE FOUR SEASONS WITH SPECIAL GUEST CYNDI LAUPER July 14 July 16 STEVE MILLER BAND NEW KIDS ON WITH PETER FRAMPTON THE BLOCK PAULA ABDUL & BOYZ II MEN August 8 August 10 BLONDIE & GARBAGE AUSSIE PINK FLOYD WITH DEAP VALLY Ticketmaster.com or charge by phone: 1-800-745-3000 MYHRL.COM t SEMINOLEHARDROCKHOLLYWOOD.COM 1B • The Seminole Tribune • March 31, 2017 B Italian exchange students learn Living the ACD experience: Seminole culture at Billie Swamp Safari Cherished time spent BY BEVERLY BIDNEY in Broadcasting Staff Reporter BIG CYPRESS — A group of Italian BY AARON TOMMIE high school exchange students received a Contributing Writer taste of authentic Florida during a visit to Billie Swamp Safari on Feb. 21. Archbishop My time working in the Seminole Media McCarthy High School senior John Osceola Productions’ Broadcasting Department is joined the group, which spent two weeks at coming to an end. Starting April 3, I will the school and other South Florida attractions. begin a six-month stint working in Business “I enjoyed showing them our culture,” Marketing, another sector of SMP. This will said Osceola, 18. “I wanted them to see the be my third rotation to another department culture of the true Americans, the true people since I have been in the two-year Advanced of this land.” Career Development program. The exchange program, in its third year Broadcasting manager Sunshine Frank at the Southwest Ranches school, lasts just a has been incredibly supportive of me. few weeks and is mostly a cultural exchange, She, too, has a family, and understands the but the exchange students attend classes with importance of balancing one’s professional their peers at McCarthy. and private life. This “We want to increase understanding past Valentine’s Day, between the cultures and build bridges I covered a rodeo in instead of walls,” said English teacher Ryan Brighton with one Parrish. “We come from different countries, of my co-workers, but we are just the same.” Carlos Menendez, The day’s itinerary for the 12 Italian who is Broadcasting’s and 10 McCarthy students included a snake senior editor. We were show, critter show, airboat and swamp buggy unable to spend that rides. During lunch, the students shared their day with our wives, impressions of Florida. They were impressed but when we returned with the landscape and said there are no WR WKH RI¿FH ZH ERWK swamps in Italy. had packages of candy Perhaps the most important lesson the waiting for us, which was one of the nicest students learned was the difference between Beverly Bidney gestures a manager has ever done for me. the American and Italian high schools. Prior to working in Broadcasting, it never The Italians noticed how frequently the Archbishop McCarthy High School and Italian students pose for a photo with McCarthy senior John Osceola, far right, who helped organize the cultural exchange outing to Billie Swamp Safari on Feb. 21. occurred to me how much time and effort it McCarthy students are quizzed and tested on takes to cover and run events such as Council the material and that they change classes all through high school.” consists of 12 subjects per term, so they don’t the McCarthy students. meetings and other Tribal community events. day long. Another student mentioned that it have each one every day. After a box lunch on the porch at the There is so much preparation and attention “We are always with the same class; the might be nice to change classes so they can The Italian students attend a science Swamp Water Café, John’s father Gem to detail that takes place behind the scenes. teachers move around,” said Irene Vitabila, make new friends. Unlike their American magnet high school in Palermo, Sicily. They Osceola welcomed the students and treated 2IWHQVDFUL¿FHVDUHPDGHWRJHWWKHMREGRQH 16, of Italy. “We are close because we stay counterparts, the Italian students don’t have pointed out that they use books instead of them to a cake with the Seminole Tribe of On multiple occasions, I have worked on together and are with the same kids all the same classes daily. Their work load iPads in class and seem to study more than Florida logo. weekends and hours outside the traditional 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. schedule. This has helped increase my appreciation for the people who work for us. In addition to Sunshine Frank and Carlos Menendez, there are three other staff members. Records specialist coordinator Carlisle Jebodh is the newest addition to the team, followed by videographer Carlos Fuentes, and Ishma Fray, the audio and writer specialist. Each has aided in my development as a professional in their own ways. I feel we all have developed a strong camaraderie due to the amount of time we have spent together working. Broadcasting has been an interesting department to work in. Ms. Frank has a vision of taking the department into a direction the Tribe has not yet experienced, and I am excited to see it progress. As was the case during my time with the Tribune, I have been welcomed and treated as part of the team. I would not consider myself an expert yet, EXW,GH¿QLWHO\IHHOPRUHFRPIRUWDEOHGRLQJ work as a videographer and editor now than I did months ago. Although I am a Tribal citizen, I have Beverly Bidney Beverly Bidney always wanted to be treated as if I were a Archbishop McCarthy senior John Osceola and his father Gem Osceola treated the group at Billie Archbishop McCarthy High School students and exchange students from Italy enjoy an airboat ride at regular employee so I could have as authentic Swamp Safari to a Seminole themed cake. Billie Swamp Safari on Feb. 21. of a work experience as possible, and that has been accomplished thus far. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time working for the Tribe and have matured as a professional. I have continued to learn the importance of patience and being optimistic. As is the case with anything, things will not always be perfect, but the journey is what is most important. Aaron Tommie is a participant in the Tribe’s Advanced Career Development program. He is currently working for the Broadcasting Department in Seminole Media Productions. Poster contest for Native American artists GAINESVILLE — USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is holding the 2017 American Indian Heritage Month poster contest for American Indian artists in Florida. The submission deadline is June 14. The winning artist will be awarded $2,000 and the poster will be distributed nationally to celebrate the American Indian/ Alaska Native Heritage Month in November. This year’s title is “Big Water of Life,” and the theme: “Water is the Essential Element” (Okeechobee means Big Water in Chairman visits the Seminole language). The guidelines are: Hollywood Preschool for - Open to American Indian/Alaska Native artists in Florida. - Submit one original piece of artwork, Read Across America 18 by 24 inches, acrylic or oil on canvas. - Include a brief written narrative about how the artwork relates to the title and theme. Kevin Johnson (2) - Winner must sign an agreement As part of Read Across America Week, the Hollywood Preschool allowing NRCS the right to reproduce and welcomed Chairman Marcellus W. Osceola Jr. as a guest reader Feb. 28. distribute copies of the artwork. The chairman read a story from Betty Mae Jumper to two classes. Artwork will be judged on creativity and originality; portrayal of the heritage and culture of American Indians in Florida; incorporation of the title and theme and, artistry and skill. Submit artwork, narrative and contact information by June 14 to USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, /DEHOOH )LHOG 2I¿FH 3UDWW %OYG Labelle, FL 33935. 2B • The Seminole Tribune • March 31, 2017 Deven Osceola earns MAP award BY BEVERLY BIDNEY ceremony March 3. Staff Reporter “He scored really well,” said Ruth Osceola, Deven’s mother. “He was surprised and said last year he didn’t try, but this year Deven Osceola’s efforts at Mount Dora he’s really putting in the effort. It takes Christian Academy have paid off. His score dedication and focus.” in the winter MAP (Measures of Academic Osceola said Deven loves school and Progress) tests for mathematics, reading, excels at math, science and history, but has language usage and science were in the top a passion for music. He plays piano, has 10 percent of all students nationwide and been a percussionist in the school band for showed a 10 percent or higher gain in one of six years and creates electronic dance music the four subjects. under the stage name Panthreks. Deven The 10th-grader’s accomplishments plans to pursue music at Full Sail University were recognized in front of family and after he graduates high school. friends at the school’s academic awards Kevin Johnson Youngsters take off from the starting line in a sprint event at Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School’s track and field meet in February. PECS students display their track skills BY KEVIN JOHNSON Senior Editor BRIG N Pemayetv Emahakv &KDUWHU6FKRRO¿JXUHVWREHZHOOUHSUHVHQWHG DW WKH 2NHHFKREHH &RXQW\ WUDFN DQG ¿HOG meet in May. In February, PECS held its own meet to determine which students ages 9-14 would represent the school at the county meet. ounger students also participated, but not IRUTXDOL¿FDWLRQ The county meet is organized by the Okeechobee Parks and Recreation Department. 3(&6¶ TXDOL¿HUV IRU WKH 2NHHFKREHH &RXQW\WUDFNDQG¿HOGPHHWDUH Raylen Smith Brandon Gabbard Preslynn Baker Aaryn ing Truly Osceola Kevin Johnson Bryce Ward Courtesy photo Ross Jones, left, and Joshua Torres compete in Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School’s track and field Mount Dora Christian Academy sophomore Deven Osceola receives an academic honor March 3. Carriss Johns event in February. Sydney Matthews Ashlynn Collins Trace Wilcox Jrayko Billie Brighton Boys & Girls Angelie Melton Jacee White JB Anderson Bryce Trammell Club among national Lason Baker Tiyanni Anderson Jarrett Beecham finalists in contest Renae Ringer Caleb Burton FROM PRESS RELEASE Voters are allowed to vote a maximum Lexi Thomas of one time per hour per machine/device Carlee Osceola during the duration of the voting period. David ing BRIG N In preparation for The Brighton Boys Girls Club door Dathen Garcia National Boys Girls Club Week, March is titled “Endless Possibilities.” It depicts Corey Jumper 27-31, Boys Girls Clubs of America has how great futures start at the Club because anyon Billie partnered with Lowe’s to host the annual children are allowed to be themselves and Jordan Johnson Blue Door Decorating Contest. More than are encouraged in daily activities to do Maricella Garcia 600 Boys Girls Clubs across the country anything they set their mind to do. Saniyah Rodrigues submitted photos of decorated doors that “The Boys Girls Clubs of the Seminole Nena oungblood illustrate how their Clubs are opening the Tribe of Florida is a pillar in the community, Bryce Baker door to great futures. serving nearly 700 kids and teens. This grant Trace Wilcox The Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Boys would allow us to grow the Brighton Boys Jacey White Girls Club in Brighton was selected as one Girls Club to be able to serve the expanding Penelope of the top seven entries to compete in the and newly introduced ids Club which is Steel Gopher national online voting campaign for a chance for 5- and 6-year-olds,” said Valentina Arce, Merleaysia Billie to win $20,000 to make improvements to the outh Events Coordinator. Creek Gopher Club’s facilities. The winner will be the door The Club with the most votes will Ramone Baker with the most overall votes. Voting is open UHFHLYHDJUDQWDQGWKHRWKHU¿QDOLVWV Haylie Huff from March 13-31. will receive $1,000 grants. Mariah Billie Alyssa Madrigal Greyson Johns Waylon ates Chovi Weimann alissa Huff Candice Melton Jace Brown Charlie Armstrong Santana Alvarez ach Riley Elaina Simmons Madison Taylor Kevin Johnson Ila Trueblood competes in the standing broad jump. Photo courtesy Boys & Girls Club Brighton’s Boys & Girls Club entry in a door decorating contest advanced to the final seven in the Kevin Johnson nation. Ross Jones receives a ribbon for his outstanding performance in the track and field event. 3B • The Seminole Tribune •March 31, 2017 National 4-H’ers shine in Big Cypress show, sale Museum of BY BEVERLY BIDNEY Staff Reporter American Indian BIG CYPRESS After years in Brighton, the annual Seminole 4-H show and sale to host program shifted to the Junior Cypress Rodeo Arena in Big Cypress on March 23 and 24. for educators An enthusiastic group of 62 4-H’ers vied for awards and accolades as friends and family cheered them on from outside the ring and stands. AS ING N C Smithsonian’s Before the show, the kids washed and National Museum of the American Indian groomed their animals onsite to get them show- will host a Teacher Training Institute at the ready. Hoses, soap, clippers, brushes and other museum in Washington, D.C. this summer as a tools were used to bring out their best attributes. part of its national education initiative, Native Grooming was not exactly like putting lipstick on nowledge 360. This in-depth, weeklong teacher a pig, but it did make those pigs, heifers and steers training experience will provide foundational look as good as possible for the judges. information about American Indians and support As they primped their animals, the 4-H’ers effective use of a new online interactive lesson, KDGWLPHWRUHÀHFWRQWKHLUWLPHUDLVLQJWKHP ³$PHULFDQ,QGLDQ5HPRYDO :KDW'RHV,W0HDQ “He likes to play and eat my hair; he thinks To Remove a People ” it’s hay,” said Caniah Billie, 13, of Immokalee. “I The sessions will focus on the impact of feel great about it, but I don’t want to let him go.” removal on Native Nations before, during and It was Caniah’s third year raising a steer and after the passage of the Indian Removal Act in although selling her steer was not something she 1830 under Andrew Jackson’s presidency. liked to think about, she knew it was something Applications are open for middle and high she would do. school educators, including classroom teachers, Jayton Baker, of Brighton, said the hardest librarians, curriculum or content coordinators and school administrators in the following SDUWRIUDLVLQJKLV¿UVWVWHHUZDVJHWWLQJXSLQWKH morning to feed it before going to school. VWDWHV $ODEDPD $UNDQVDV )ORULGD *HRUJLD The 4-H program teaches youth to be Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma and responsible and care for the animals but it also Tennessee the region most affected by teaches them about the business of raising removal. Applications for the program will be livestock. The youth tracked every cent they accepted through April 14. spent on food, supplies and veterinarian costs The goal of Native nowledge 360 is to inspire and promote the improvement of DQGNHSWLWLQDORJ7KH\NHSWZKDWHYHUSUR¿WZDV made from the sale. teaching and learning about American Indians. “This steer is calmer and was easier to The summer institute is a pilot project funded train than the one I had last year,” said Priscilla through a Smithsonian Institution outh Access Grant. Alvarado, 14, of Immokalee. “I liked watching Beverly Bidney him grow and it will be sad to sell him, but I The Teacher Training Institute will Cloverbuds show their small animals at the Seminole 4-H show March 23 at the Junior Cypress Rodeo Arena in Big Cypress. Kulipa Julian cradles her take place July 10-14. Each selected educator learned a lot about responsibility and will be chicken as she steps out of line to survey the competition at the other end of the show ring. more responsible from now on.” will receive an honorarium. Participants At age 11, Jalee Wilcox is already a 4-H are responsible for arranging their own veteran. Over the years she’s had hogs and steers. transportation and housing. Summer institute This year she raised a steer and a heifer. participants will take part in scholarly lectures “Having both was fun because when one was and discussions, tour the museum’s collections being hard, I could play with the other one,” said and work with staff, Native scholars and Jalee, of Big Cypress. “They like being together education experts throughout the week. so it was hard to get them used to walking in the )RUPRUHLQIRUPDWLRQYLVLWKWWS QPDL ring alone.” si.edu/explore/education/summer-educator- institute/. -DOHH¿JXUHGRXWDQHIIHFWLYHUHZDUGV\VWHP for the steer; he enjoyed being scratched, so she used that as a reward whenever he was cooperative. Her work paid off. Jalee’s heifer won Reserve Grand Champion and she earned the Intermediate Showmanship award for steer. NIEA to hold First up during the show were the youngest competitors. Beginning at age 5, children may convention in join the 4-H Cloverbuds and learn to care for small animals such as hamsters, guinea pigs, Orlando UDEELWVDQGFKLFNHQV7KHJURXSSURXGO\¿OHGLQWR the show ring with their animals. By age 8, the Cloverbuds are old enough to raise a hog and at 10 RLAN The 2017 National they are responsible enough for a steer or heifer. Indian Education Association convention While the 4H-ers showed their heifers and will be held Oct. 4-7 at the Caribe Royale steers in the ring, judge Allen Gahler pointed out in Orlando. positive attributes of the animals and explained The convention theme, “Building why the winner in each class was chosen. Education Nations by Amplifying “There is a tremendous amount of good in Innovative Voices,” recognizes the role this heifer, in terms of a breeding female,” Gahler educators and communities play in shaping said about Jalee’s heifer. the future leaders of Native education. Big Cypress’s Brianna Bowers’ Grand The convention will include participatory Champion heifer was an obvious choice to workshops, research presentations, poster Gahler, who said, “She has the most natural sessions, and keynote addresses by muscle shape. This is just a nicely made female educators and advocates. from end to end.” Early-bird registration opens April 1. When the steers entered the ring, Gahler Bevely Bidney Bevely Bidney For more information visit www.niea.org. said, “These are the ones we will put on the Steer judge Allen Gahler examines Jacee Jumper’s steer in the show ring at the Seminole 4-H show in Jaylen Baker walks his steer around the show ring kitchen table. They need enough fat and muscle Big Cypress. The 1,189 pound steer took second place in its class. at the Seminole 4-H show. and these have that very well. They will all make tremendous carcasses.” A pair of steer-raising sisters dominated the competition. Canaan Jumper won Grand Champion Steer and Ahnie Jumper won Reserve Grand Champion Steer. After the show, the Big Cypress sisters )/25,'$,1',$1<287+352*5$0 UHÀHFWHG RQ WKH HYHQW DQG WKHLU UHODWLRQVKLS ,W ZDV WKH ¿UVW WLPH &DQDDQ KDG EHVWHG KHU older sister. x &ROOHJH3UHSDUDWRU\3URJUDPIRU1DWLYH$PHULFDQ G C S Canaan Jumper, Big Cypress /($'(56+,3$&$'(0< R G C S Ahnie Jumper, Big Cypress x )RUVWXGHQWVHQWHULQJWKHLUVHQLRU\HDURUUHFHQWO\JUDGXDWHGIURPKLJKVFKRRO G C Brianna Bowers, Big Cypress x $GGLWLRQDODFWLYLWLHVVHSDUDWHIURP BY BEVERLY BIDNEY Staff Reporter BIG CYPRESS — Students at the Ahfachkee School in Big Cypress joined millions of others around the country to celebrate Dr. Seuss’s 113th birthday March 2 by reading his books. The event was part of Read Across America Week, founded by the National Education Association in 1998 to celebrate reading, a critical factor in student achievement. According to the NEA, students who read more do better in school. At Ahfachkee, students celebrated the week of Feb. 27 to March 3 with a series of fun events based on Dr. Seuss books. For Green Eggs and Ham day, the appropriate breakfast was served; on Fox on Socks day, crazy mismatched socks got students into the Seussian spirit; Thing 1 and Thing 2 day SDLUHGVWXGHQWVXSLQORRNDOLNHRXW¿WV &DWLQ the Hat day found them in Dr. Seuss inspired garb; on Oh The Places ou’ll Go day they donned college t-shirts. During parents’ reading night March 2, students enjoyed whimsical activities related WR 'U 6XHVV¶V IDPRXV ZRUNV DW ¿YH KDQGV on stations. ids created green slime at the “Bartholomew and the Oobleck” table, just like in the book. At the Hat’s Off table, kids made fruit skewers with grapes, strawberries and bananas mimicking the Cat’s famous red and white head topper. The hat was also created with red and white cups at the Cat in the Hat table’s VWDFNLQJ FKDOOHQJH 7KH JROG¿VK FUDFNHUV were all orange at the One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish counting activity, but the students didn’t seem to mind as they gobbled them down after the count. The cozy story time area featured a kindergarten teacher Beverly Bidney reading Hop on Pop to the gathered children, Beverly Bidney comfy in their bean bag chairs. Kindergarten student Laila Osceola does her best impression of the Cat in the Hat at Ahfachkee’s Read Fourth-grader Abbiegale Green tries her best to stack cups during Ahfachkee School’s celebration of Across America Week celebration March 2. reading and Dr. Seuss during Read Across America Week. of a wide variety of services to our citizens. citizens access only internet connectivity is affordable, below market rate for Collier )KEEL Often times, we administer federal programs speeds that are far below the FCC broadband From page 2A )HOUSING County. Currently the Immokalee Housing under 638 self-governance compacts. We VWDQGDUG 7KLV OLPLWDWLRQ VWLÀHV HFRQRPLF From page 1A Department has a waiting list of about 60 have been a leader in the Indian Health development, technical advances like tele- who want homes of their own. airports, waterways, water and sanitation Service’s joint venture program, which we medicine, and negatively impacts education “This is a whole different thing,” said “People see the growth and want to systems, and other critical infrastructure. used in conjunction with $220 million of our by accelerating the already increasing Garcia, who moved into a three-bedroom come back to the reservation,” said property Indian country has, for generations, faced own funds, to construct and equip three health homework gap. Current federal funding home. “When I was in the trailer I had to tell coordinator Alicia Gamez. chronic shortages of public and private facilities, including the 80-bed Chickasaw PRGHOV DUH DLPHG SULPDULO\ DW IRUSUR¿W my grandchildren not to run and jump, trail- Justin Garza, his wife and seven children investment in this area, which adversely Nation Medical Center in Ada, Oklahoma, EXVLQHVVHV DQG RIWHQ IRFXV RQ VSHFL¿F ers are too scary. Now my grandchildren can moved into their four-bedroom home after affects public safety as well as opportunities which serves American Indians throughout institutions that provide too little service run all they want.” living on the reservation with his mother. for sustainable economic development and southeast Oklahoma. Our facilities in Ada, to those in need. Tribes are dedicated to (ULFD*RQ]DOH]KHU¿DQFpDQGIRXUFKLO- “This is the beginning of our new life,” Ardmore, and Tishomingo provide critically improving the lives of the traditionally VHOIVXI¿FLHQF\:HEHOLHYHWULEHVVKRXOGEH dren moved into a four-bedroom home after *DU]D VDLG ³, ¿QDOO\ KDYH D SODFH WR FDOO full participants in any and every program needed health services in this region, which underserved including tribal citizens, rural living in town with her father-in-law. home with my kids. They are very excited authorized by Congress for the rehabilitation we operate in conjunction with other services schools and health care institutions, and ³,¶P H[FLWHG WR ¿QDOO\ KDYH P\ RZQ and can’t wait to spread out in their own of aging or the development of new and programs addressing suicide prevention, those living in economically depressed place on the reservation,” Gonzalez said. rooms.” infrastructure. We further believe funds for mental health and substance abuse, child areas. Directing funds to groups such as ³,¶YH EHHQ ZDLWLQJ QLQH \HDUV DQG WKH ¿UVW Raymond Garza was Immokalee’s VXFKSURMHFWVVKRXOGÀRZGLUHFWO\WRWULEHV welfare, domestic violence, and sexual tribes could improve the likelihood of these thing I plan to do is cook, probably some- Council liaison when the project was being assault. Without continued federal support rather than be run through state governments, IXQGVEHQH¿WLQJWKRVHZKRQHHGLWPRVWDQG thing traditional with fry bread and Native SODQQHGDQGNQRZVKRZKDUGLWZDVWR¿QDOO\ which have not always adequately addressed for self-governance compacts, Indian we ask that you remember Indian country food.” get it approved and built. country, American Indians, our citizens when considering any measure to upgrade Indian country needs. In Oklahoma, we Construction management director Ce- ³,NQRZWKH¿JKWLWWDNHV ZHKDGQ¶WVHHQ work closely with our colleagues in local would be deprived of these programs and the country’s internet availability. dric Jenkins and his team are proud of the new homes for 15 years,” Garza said. “Put- government and the Oklahoma Department services, and we commend you for your Chickasaw identity is founded upon a 1,600- and 1,800-square-foot homes that ting people in their own houses puts a warm of Transportation to identify and execute continued commitment to ensuring that the unique and special heritage embodied in our were built to be maintenance friendly and spot in our hearts. I know we did something projects that help the entire community but compacting system remains strong and vital language, our sacred sites and our traditional comfortable. important. We want to keep our people on are of particular importance to tribal citizens. to the federal-tribal relationship. knowledge. Repatriation of our ancestors’ The lease term on the homes is for one the reservation.” Without an ability to bring funds under our We appreciate Congress’s passage of the remains is extremely important to us. The year and is renewable each year. The rent control to the bargaining table, tribal needs Violence Against Women Act, which statute repatriation process, however, can take many and interests would likely not receive the is key to the protection and well-being of years to complete. The Chickasaw Nation prioritization they deserve. American Indian women among the most aboriginal homeland in the southeastern We believe tax reform would present basic responsibilities of any government. United States is rich with generations of our great opportunities to incentivize tribal This legislation provides American Indian ancestors, including archaeological sites and investment and bring badly needed tribes the tools to enable to do even more sacred burial places. In 2016 the Chickasaw opportunities to Indian country. We to help keep Native American women safe Nation actively pursued 21 repatriations, commend the Native American Financial through effective law enforcement and which will allow us to take care of 4,034 of 2I¿FHUV $VVRFLDWLRQ DQG WKH RXWVWDQGLQJ prosecution. our ancestors and thousands of their funerary work they have done identifying workable Our own work under the Violence objects. We ask the government to continue tax and pension reforms that would have Against Women Act supplements our other to provide supportive funding for tribal DQ LPPHGLDWH EHQH¿FLDO LPSDFW RQ WULEDO law enforcement programs throughout UHSDWULDWLRQHIIRUWVERWKFXOWXUDOO\DI¿OLDWHG economies. In particular, we commend the Chickasaw Nation. We have made it a DQGFXOWXUDOO\XQLGHQWL¿DEOH efforts to repeal the “essential governmental priority to work closely with federal, state Finally, I want to touch on a recent function” rule that applies to tribal bonds and and local law enforcement agencies within announcement by the Department of the which forces tribes to maintain two separate a complicated jurisdictional landscape to Interior about reforming the Indian Trader pension or employee retirement programs. protect and serve all citizens of Oklahoma, Act and attendant regulations. We believe Members of this committee and the Senate and federal support for these efforts this effort to be representative of the Finance Committee have been working through the Self-Governance Compact well-intended work by career staff across hard to address this particular matter, and and Community Policing Act is important Administrations of both parties. We support we thank you. our success in these efforts to continued success of the Chickasaw this effort and believe there is good work would have tremendous positive impact on Lighthorse Police. to be done on this front. We would, and Indian country. Additional governmental services will, encourage the Department both to We also believe that the New include the Johnson-O’Malley education modernize the regulatory framework and to Markets Tax Credit program has already program, high school equivalence tutoring streamline mechanisms for tribes to conduct demonstrated its utility for Indian country and testing. Education has long been a direct oversight of the federal regulatory development and suggest the program should high priority for the Chickasaw Nation. system via appropriate self-governance be expanded and stabilized. The Chickasaw Therefore, we request the Chickasaw Nation compacts. We would, and will, also urge Nation was recently awarded a $20 million High School Equivalency (HSE) testing the Department to proceed carefully in its allocation and is facilitating economic FHQWHUV DQG FHUWL¿FDWLRQ DQG WUDQVFULSW effort with the principal of “do no harm” Beverly Bidney development projects throughout Indian LVVXLQJSURFHVVHVEHFHUWL¿HGDQGUHFRJQL]HG clear and foremost in mind. Given the Delores Jumper, President Mitchell Cypress, Big Cypress Councilman Cicero Osceola and Gwen Garcia, country with these monies projects that by the U.S. Department of Education. While complexities of the federal common law of among others, tour Garcia’s new Immokalee Reservation home March 15. are creating jobs, enhancing infrastructure, the U.S. Department of Post-Secondary Indian affairs, any statutory and regulatory and deepening service provision and tribal Education currently only recognizes state- change must be approached carefully entrepreneurship. We previously used a New issued HSE transcripts, the Chickasaw and with due consideration of potential Markets Tax Credit allocation to completely Nation HSE testing center policies are set up unintended consequences. Indeed, a number redevelop an outdated and dilapidated Indian to adhere to equivalent security and testing of important Supreme Court decisions rest Health Service facility in Ada, Oklahoma, to practices as those of state recognized testing on the preemptive scope of the Indian Trader serve now as the Carl Albert Service Center, centers. We have a signed and approved Statutes and implementing regulations. In a multi-purpose tribal government facility. Educational Testing Service contract in attempting any update of those laws, the Both the construction and the operation place to provide the HiSET exam which is Department must not displace or alter the of this new facility has been an economic one of three HSE tests federally recognized careful balance of sovereign interests that and programmatic boon to the community. by the U.S. Department of Education and has those decisions uphold. While we support We believe Congress should support the been approved in 21 states. The exam aligns update and reform indeed, we would allocation of a stable revenue stream to itself to the College and Career Readiness applaud it we also ask that caution be support the implementation of this program Standards for Adult Education. observed in all future actions. in Indian country. Broadband internet availability is The Chickasaw Nation works closely an important aspect of the infrastructure efferson eel is the lieutenant governor with the federal government in the provision challenges facing Indian Country. Tribal of the Chickasaw ation in klahoma. of a “Métis Nation,” as all Canadians sit colonizers had already been signed at the )CANADA within the circle of the aboriginal people time but technically Aboriginal Peoples are From page 2A ZKR LQKDELWHG WKLV ODQG ¿UVW DQG ZKRVH not considered founders. Minister Ahmed Hussen lists making the descendants are still here. As we celebrate the 150th year of change to the citizenship oath as one of athleen Mahoney, a law professor at Confederation surely it is time to recognize his key priorities. Consultations between the University of Calgary, wants to take the that Aboriginal Peoples are intrinsic to what bureaucrats and Indigenous representatives recognition of Canada’s Indigenous roots we are as a country. are already underway. even further. It would be a symbolic gesture but it Talk about squaring the circle: Hussen She would like to see Indigenous people would go a long way to recognizing and is a former refugee from Somalia. Perhaps recognized in the Canadian constitution as embracing the idea that First Nations have refugees understand the isolation and one of the founding peoples. Of course, always been much more than refugees in humiliation of Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples there were no aboriginal people at the table their own country. better than anyone else. when the Fathers of Confederation came to Philosopher and author John Ralston an agreement and called it Canada. Some illian Steward is a Calgary writer. Beverly Bidney Saul asserts that Canada’s story is one treaties between Indigenous groups and the This commentary appeared in thestar.com. Sisters Mohayla and Tahniya Billie, age 6 and 9, run carefree on the driveway of one of the new Immokalee Reservation homes. 5B • The Seminole Tribune • March 31, 2017 Horseshoes, ribs highlight fun afternoon in Big Cypress Maury Neipris Romeo Osceola smiles at the offerings in front of him during a rib cookoff contest in Big Cypress on March 11 on the grounds of Junior Cypress Arena. The day also featured a horseshoe tournament. Maury Neipris Kenny Tommie sends a horseshoe to its target in the horsehoe tournament. Maury Neipris (2) Above, Alvin Buster tosses a horseshoe toward its target in tournament action. At right, Big Cypress Fire Rescue firefighter Gus Ajuz, left, and Lt. Steve Pagan help judge the entries in the rib contest. Maury Neipris Stanley Cypress III, left, and Lonniebe Billie participate in the rib cookoff contest. the school on the Brighton Reservation. “Seminole” and at that date were recent gifts A comprehensive compilation thnohistorian Patsy est is Director )SAHLIN The location of the painting, advertising from a donor to the newly opened Museum. of Sahlin’s total works, with special of the Seminole Miccosukee Archive in ort From page 8A the show was Mikasuki women making Two additional art museum collections emphasis on those depicting Seminole and auderdale and author of The nduring patchwork, entitled “Seminoles - Miami.” that contain paintings by Sahlin of Seminole Miccosukee subjects, is in the beginning Seminoles A Seminole egend with In 1998, it was displayed in an exhibition and Miccosukee subjects; “Seminole stages. Please contact Patsy West if you have Betty Mae umper and Seminole and Madame Chiang ai-shek and was startled of Ah-Tah-Thi- i Museum’s paintings at Indians, Florida” and “MIAMI” a more rare any information on the artist or his works: at Miccosukee Tribes of Southern lorida. to see his paintings on her walls. (But) he the Okalee Hollywood facility gallery with “oil painting” that was gifted by the artist westpatsy aol.com. rom Ms. est wrote the was too shy to ask where she had got them.” curator Tom Andrew. They were the two Are both in the collections of the American His works usually bear his initials “C F DZDUGZLQQLQJ ³5HÀHFWLRQV´ FROXPQ IRU 6DKOLQ¶VVHHQWKHUHWKH¿UVWDZDWHUFRORUWKH Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, the Seminole Tribune. S” uniquely entwined together, most often in second a more rare “oil painting“ ascribed Washington, D.C. the right bottom corner of the work. Often too, near his initials in these ethnographic works, he added a reference to where the painting originated: Malaya, Hong ong, RUDVSHFL¿FDUHD ³1LNNR´ DVPDOOFLW\LQ Japan’s mountains north of Tokyo), “ andy” (an area of Buddhist sites in Sri Lanka), or the familiar South Florida destination: “Tamiami Trail.” He painted dancers in Sumatra, Bangkok, Bali, the Celebs, the Maori Canoe Dance in New ealand, snake charmers in Mexico, sampans in Hong ong Harbor, and “Chief Jimmie Doctor of the Seminoles” in Florida. Sahlin “ claimed he’d been in every country but Siberia,” said Richards. Because of the intrinsic value of his ethnographic works in Central and South America “ depicting the types and dress of little known tribes in almost inaccessible jungles and highlands of the American continent,” he was given membership in the elite Explorers Club, an invitation only’ voted in society. Forty of Sahlin’s paintings of South American Tribes are in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution. A catalog, “Watercolors of Latin America” by Sahlin was produced for a show running January 4-28, 1945 at the National Museum, Washington, D.C., while “Watercolors and Oils of Latin America by Carl Folke Sahlin” was published by the Corcoran Gallery of Art” Washington, D.C. in 1946. The University of Miami’s Lowe Art Museum has 22 Sahlin paintings in their collection including: “Tamiami Trail,” a depiction of a Mikasuki family. “Travel,” Sahlin believed, “is the most potent medicine in the world.” And at 89 Sahlin Rose Richards recalled that he was “full of plans for future journeys. He recalled that, “ he wanted to bus the length of South America again to Buenos Aires However, he passed away after an accident in 1976, a week before his 91st birthday. A 1947 newspaper clipping of an art show discussed a show of Sahlin’s art in Miami; the article itself had been saved Courtesy photo Courtesy photo by Edith M. Boehmer and William D. A Sahlin watercolor in the collection of the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum Oil Painting “Miami.” Gift to the Smithsonian by the artist Carl Folke Sahlin in 1963. Boehmer who were long associated with 6B • The Seminole Tribune • March 31, 2017 Picking sweetgrass brings back sweet memories BY BEVERLY BIDNEY $ERXW ZRPHQ RI YDULRXV DJHV SLFNHG VLQFH FKLOGKRRG RU LW ZDV WKHLU ¿UVW Staff Reporter DQG UHVHUYDWLRQV WUHNNHG LQWR D VPDOO DUHD H[SHULHQFH RI IRUHVW ZLWK SOHQW\ RI WKH SDOPHWWR 7KH ³,WWDNHVSDWLHQFHWR¿QGLWDQGLWLVQ¶W I ALEE — Sweetgrass is the VOHQGHUJUDVVLVDERXWDVZLGHDVDSLHFHRI HDV\´VDLG$OOHJUD%LOOLH³ Beverly Bidney (2) At left, Skyla Osceola removes a brown strand and takes it out of the bunch of green sweetgrass she picked in Immokalee. 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A picture of Herman is on the wall in the background. Soul Clean - Third place Men’s Division Big Town wins Herman L. Osceola tournament BY KEVIN JOHNSON 70, in the second game. Hart paced Big Town Senior Editor with 32 points, which included 10 3-pointers. Gore accounted for half of Native Soldiers’ BIG CYPRESS — Nobody was able production with 35 points. to slow down Big Town’s big offense in the In the third game, Big Town used 22 32nd annual Herman L. Osceola Memorial points from Runnels to outgun Soul Clean, Basketball Tournament on March 25. 71-64. Soul Clean was led by Jackson Frye Big Town won all three of its games (20 points) and Isiah Billie (16 points). including a slugfest against Native Soldiers Native Soldiers ousted Just Buckets in that featured more than 200 points to the fourth game. Frankie Garcia and Neshoba claim the title in the Men’s Division, which Reed led Just Buckets with 17 points each. featured four teams. Native Soldiers came right back to edge Playing in the Herman L. Osceola 6RXO&OHDQ DQGDGYDQFHWRWKH¿QDO Gymnasium, the tournament is a tribute Hunter Osceola propelled Native Soldiers to Lance Corporal Osceola, who died in a to victory with 21 points. Baker paced Soul military helicopter accident in 1984 while Clean with 23 points followed by Jackson serving the country with the U.S. Marines Frye with 17 and Caden Blanchard with 12. in South orea. Members of Herman’s The tournament opened March 24 with family attended the two-day tournament and the Legends Division. Two men’s and two provided meals and snacks for players and women’s teams battled for championship spectators. The family presented the prizes bragging rights. to the winners of three divisions: Big Town, The Lady Seminoles needed just two the Seminoles (Men’s Legends) and the Lady games to claim the women’s Legends title Seminoles (Women’s Legends). There were against the Hollywood Ladies. The Lady no teams for the adult women’s division. Seminoles’ Rita Gopher was the offensive In the men’s championship, Big Town star of the division. She scored 11 points in opened up a 57-44 halftime lead and held WKH ¿UVW JDPH DQG SRLQWV LQ WKH VHFRQG off Native Soldiers, 106-97. Jerome Davis game. set the tone early by scoring all 25 of his Kevin Johnson The men’s Legends Division between the SRLQWVLQWKH¿UVWKDOI:KLOH'DYLVWKULYHG Members of Herman Osceola’s family gather at the conclusion of the 32nd annual Herman L. Osceola Memorial Basketball Tournament on March 25 at Seminoles and Old School went the distance down low, Jess Hart lit up the scoreboard the Herman L. Osceola Gymnasium in Big Cypress. From left, Klaressa Osceola, Herman’s mother Ruby Osceola, Caroline Osceola, Kalina Cavazos, 6, and with three games. The Seminoles won game from the outside. Hart poured in 21 points on Veldina Osceola. one, but Old School answered with a 37- seven 3-pointers. Big Town also received a with six points each. 26 points from Duelle Gore, who made eight featured an outstanding performance from 35 win in game two behind 18 points from dominant performance from Rob Given, who The hottest hand of the game belonged 3-pointers. Greg Carter chipped in with 15 Adrian Baker, who scored 46 points in Soul Preston Baker before the Seminoles captured drained a team-high 33 points. Lucias Liotta to Hunter Osceola, who led Native Soldiers points and his brother DeForest Carter had 8 Clean’s victory against Just Buckets. WKH ZLQQHUWDNHDOO ¿QDOH +RZDUG had eight points while Jim Archambault, with a game-high 46 points, which included points. In what turned out to be a preview of the Tommie had 10 points for the champions. Wayne Runnels and Jay Liotta chipped in a dozen 3-pointers. Native Soldiers received The opening game of the men’s division ¿QDO %LJ7RZQ HGJHG 1DWLYH 6ROGLHUV Hard Rock Stadium to host clash of international soccer powerhouses FROM PRESS RELEASE The ICC and El Cl sico Miami management team will develop a program IA I GAR ENS — Defending La of events leading up to the match including Liga champion FC Barcelona and defending concerts, brand activations, team pep rallies, UEFA Champions League winner Real art activations, and more which will be Madrid C.F. will meet on July 29 at Hard hosted in and around Hard Rock Stadium as Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens as part of part of an immersive experience site during the 2017 International Champions Cup. the week. Additionally, El Cl sico Miami The International Champions Cup was week will provide an opportunity for fans to launched by Stephen Ross and Matt Higgins experience the culture of Miami by creating in 2013 with the creation of Relevent Sports, events around Miami Beach, Wynwood and led by Charlie Stillitano and Jon Sheiman. El Bayfront Park. &OiVLFR0LDPLZLOOPDUNWKH¿UVWHYHUPDWFK As part of the week’s activities, four- between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid time defending Ligue 1 champions Paris C.F. to take place in North America. The 6DLQW*HUPDLQ)&DQG¿YHWLPHGHIHQGLQJ current rosters for each club feature some of Series A champions Juventus F.C. will the best players in the world. Real Madrid square off at Hard Rock Stadium on July 26. C.F. is anchored by recently crowned FIFA In an 18-year deal announced last Men’s Player of the ear and Ballon D’Or $XJXVW ZLWK RI¿FLDOV IURP WKH 6HPLQROH winner, Cristiano Ronaldo, alongside Welsh Tribe on hand, the stadium changed its name superstar Gareth Bale, while perennial to Hard Rock Stadium. The stadium is the world-class Argentinean national Lionel home of Miami Dolphins and University of Messi leads FC Barcelona. Miami football. Hard Rock Stadium hosted “I am thrilled to bring the International the Orange Bowl on Dec. 30 between Champions Cup back to the city of Miami,” Florida State and Michigan. Upcoming said Stephen Ross, RSE Ventures chairman special events include the Super Bowl in and co-founder and Miami Dolphins owner. 2020, more college football playoffs and “The opportunity to showcase two of the concerts by U2, Coldplay and Metallica. most storied clubs in the history of the sport The facility is in the midst of Phase III is why we created this tournament. That of a $500 million, multi-year renovation privately funded by Ross. it will take place at Hard Rock Stadium is Photo courtesy Miami Dolphins a testament to the recent transformation For more information about of this venue into a global entertainment the soccer games visit www. HARD ROCK SOCCER: Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, center, announces El Clásico Miami on March 10 at Fountainebleau in Miami Beach. El Clásico destination.” internationalchampionscup.com. will feature world powerhouse soccer programs Real Madrid and Barcelona in a match at Hard Rock Stadium on July 29. 2C • The Seminole Tribune • March 31, 2017 Defending state champion American Heritage picks up where it left off BY KEVIN JOHNSON to deep left-center brought home the winning Senior Editor run for the Patriots. Senior catcher Ahnie Jumper caught the PE BR E PINES — American entire game and drew one walk in two plate Heritage-Plantation clawed its way out of a appearances. deep hole to edge Pembroke Pines Charter, “She’s been our No. 1 catcher. She’s our 6-5, in an opening round game at the senior catcher, leader. She’s been back there Speedball Classic softball tournament March probably 85 percent of the time,” Cooper 16 in Pembroke Pines. said. Tournament host Pembroke Pines American Heritage followed up the Charter built an early 5-0 lead at the Silver victory against Pembroke Pines Charter with /DNHV 3DUN 6RXWK FRPSOH[ EXW GHIHQGLQJ wins against Doral Academy and Monarch, state champion American Heritage, whose but the Patriots had to settle for runner-up roster includes Seminoles’ Ahnie Jumper, honors as they fell to Coral Springs Charter, Budha Jumper and iauna Martin, rallied 5-0, in the Classic’s championship game. ZLWK VL[ XQDQVZHUHG UXQV LQ D EDWWOH RI American Heritage, which had a 10-2 powerhouse programs. UHFRUG DV RI WKH ¿QDO ZHHN RI 0DUFK KDV American Heritage was ranked No. 3 won seven state championships, including overall in the state by Miracle Sports and No. WKUHHLQWKHSDVW¿YH\HDUV&RRSHUVDLGKH¶V 1 in Class 6A as of mid-March; Pembroke WU\LQJWR¿QGWKHULJKWPL[DVWKHWHDPHQWHUV 3LQHV&KDUWHUZDVUDQNHG1RLQ$ WKH¿QDOPRQWKRIWKHUHJXODUVHDVRQ Kevin Johnson “ Pembroke Pines Charter had a lot “We have a lot of talent on the team; we The Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School softball team celebrates a run in its 18-2 win against Moore Haven on March 7. to do with how we played. They played have a lot of depth,” Cooper said. “We have well,” said American Heritage coach Marty NLGV5LJKWQRZZH¶UHMXVWWU\LQJWR¿JXUH Cooper. “Would I have liked to see us play out who our top 10 or 12 are going to be. We a little cleaner I thought we could have have to give them opportunity to do that; we played some better defense at times, and we have to see them play.” Cooper said he’s been pleased with the PECS softball cruises to ran ourselves out of an inning, but they were putting the pressure on the whole game.” play of the Seminole players. 7UDLOLQJLQWKH¿QDOLQQLQJ$PHULFDQ “They’re doing well,” he said. Heritage knotted the game when Martin, as a “Whenever they come in they produce; courtesy runner, scored from second base on they do a nice job. I’m happy with their victory in home opener a one-out single by Marley Felder. With two performance.” outs, atherine Rodriguez’s walk-off double BY KEVIN JOHNSON PECS evened its record at 1-1 after an arey Gopher (C), aroline Urbina (CF), Senior Editor opening day loss against LaBelle. Lashae ing (3B) and Angelie Melton (LF) “They’re doing good,” said PECS coach with Shylynn Testerman as a substitute. Melissa Hines. “It was a little rough in the With only two eighth-graders the Huff BRIG N — After falling behind beginning, but they’re coming together sisters Hines said the team has time to early, the Pemayetv Emahakv Charter really well. We’re proud of them.” grow. School softball team wasted no time in PECS enjoys strength in the circle and “Just continue to improve, come racing past Moore Haven, 18-2, in the Lady behind the plate with Thomas and Haley together and have fun; that’s the most Seminoles’ home opener on March 7 at Ollie Huff handling pitching duties, and Thomas important thing,” said Hines, who is assisted Jones Memorial Park in Brighton. and arey Gopher sharing the catcher by assistant coach Nicole Platt and parent PECS trailed 1-0 after a half inning, but position. volunteer coach Mona Baker. “I think they WKHQVFRUHG¿YHWLPHVLQWKHERWWRPRIWKH “We’re fortunate enough we’re able to have fun for the most part. We try to keep it ¿UVWVL[LQWKHVHFRQGDQGVHYHQLQWKHWKLUG switch them out. That helps tremendously,” positive. We don’t want to break them down, when the game was called. Hines said. we want to build them up.” Winning pitcher Elle Thomas had three The starting batting order against Eighth-grade parent night and the home hits, including two triples. ayln Hammil Moore Haven consisted of: Haylie Huff had an inside-the-park home run. arey ¿QDOHZLOOEH$SULODJDLQVW2NHHFKREHHDW (2B), alyn Hammill (SS), Caylie Huff 5 p.m. Gopher blasted a double. Mariah Billie had (2B), Elle Thomas (P), Mariah Billie (RF), two RBIs. Kevin Johnson American Heritage’s Ahnie Jumper eyes the ball during an at-bat against Pembroke Pines Charter on March 16 in the Speedball Classic. American Heritage rallied for a 6-5 win. Kevin Johnson Kevin Johnson Elle Thomas drills a triple into left field against Moore Haven on March 7 in Brighton. Lashae King cranks out a base hit against Moore Haven. Kevin Johnson American Heritage’s Kiauna Martin reaches second base safely as a throw from the outfield eludes Kevin Johnson Pembroke Pines Charter’s Isabella Devasa during the Speedball Classic on March 16. Martin scored the tying run in the Patriots’ 6-5 win. PECS’ Kayln Hammil rounds second base with her eyes on third against Moore Haven. 3C • The Seminole Tribune • March 31, 2017 Pooh King named Big Smoky Conference Player of the Year BY SCOTT MCKIE Cherokee One Feather Staff Reporter C ER EE NC — For the second year in a row, Cherokee has taken home the top post-season honors in girls basketball in the Big Smoky Mountain Conference. Identical to last season, Pooh ing, senior point guard, was named Player of the ear, and Chris Mintz, Lady Braves head coach, was named Coach of the ear. “It’s always an honor to be acknowledged Courtesy photo by your peers,” Mintz commented. “It’s all The Neshoba Central High School bowling team celebrates winning Mississippi’s Class II state because of what our team did and what the championship. girls did that I even got nominated for this award. So, I give all of the credit to them.” ing, a member of the Seminole Tribe of Allie Williams, Neshoba Central win Florida, has played at Cherokee two seasons where she averaged 15.3 points per game, 5.5 high school bowling state championship VWHDOVDQGDVVLVWV³,¶PKRQRUHGWRJHWLW two times in a row, and I just wouldn’t have SUBMITTED ARTICLE done it without my team.” In speaking of her time in Cherokee, she P ILA ELP IA Feb. 16 said, “I’ve enjoyed it. They welcomed me was a big day for Allie Williams (Seminole here, and I was just blessed to play with this Tribe’s Panther Clan). The seventh- group of girls. We’re more like a family than grader at Neshoba Central Middle School a team, and I just really enjoyed that.” in Philadelphia, Mississippi helped the On ing, Mintz noted, “She’s a special Neshoba Central High School’s Lady player that has given her all for two years Rockets win the MHSAA Class II state here. She has played really great and been bowling championship in Jackson. consistent. I’d put her up against any point The Lady Rockets went undefeated in guard in western North Carolina, and I think Scott McKie/One Feather the regular season with a 9-0 record. They we have the best one.” Pooh King, shown here playing for Cherokee High School in North Carolina, was named the Big Smoky also won North Regionals. For the season, the Lady Braves went Conference Player of the Year for the second consecutive season. What started as another weekend hobby 25-3, won the BSMC regular season title, has turned into one of Allie’s favorite sports and took second place in the conference The Braves ended the 2016-17 campaign were named Honorable Mention. QH[WWRIDVWSLWFKVRIWEDOO$OOLHZDVWKHRQO\ tournament. middle school student who made the high In addition to ing, Tori Teesateskie at 19-9. They took second place in the BSMC regular season, and they won the conference This article appeared in the Cherokee VFKRROWHDP$OVRVKHLVRQHRIWKHWRSVL[ and Shelby Wolfe were named to the All- bowlers on the 12-person team. Her highest Conference team, and Timiyah Brown tournament. ne eather newspaper. Tye Mintz and Holden Straughan were score this season was 206. and Raylen Bark were named Honorable During the state championship games, Mention. named to the All-Conference team and Sterling Santa-Maria and Josiah Lossiah WKH/DG\5RFNHWV¿QLVKHGLQVHFRQGSODFHLQ WKH¿UVWURXQG7KH\WKHQZHQWRQWRERZO a Baker Series out of the top two teams to determine who wins state. On a Baker Series RQO\ ¿YH JLUOV FDQ ERZO WRZDUG RQH WRWDO All-Broward County First Team score. They also combine to bowl 10 frames SHU JDPH $OOLH ZDV RQH RI WKH ¿YH JLUOV selected to bowl in the Baker Series. Her teammates called them the clutch players honor for Skyla Osceola because they always came through when Courtesy photo they needed them. Allie Williams holds the Division 2 state bowling The Lady Rockets played best-of- championship trophy. Allie was the only middle BY KEVIN JOHNSON ¿YH JDPHV LQ WKH %DNHU 6HULHV ,Q WKH ¿UVW school student on the Neshoba Central High Senior Editor game the Lady Rockets won 178-128 over School team. D’Iberville. D’Iberville won game two teammate Hailey Copeland, a senior, was the American Heritage senior Skyla Osceola DQG JDPH WKUHH ,Q last bowler. She got the spare; then on her earned a postseason honor in March when the fourth game the Lady Rockets won by ODVWERZOVKH¿QLVKHGVWURQJZLWKDVWULNHIRU the 5-foot-10 standout guard was named Sun RQH SLQ 7KH ¿IWK DQG ¿QDO JDPH the state victory. Sentinel First Team All-Broward County for was a nail biter. Allie (2nd bowler) got two Allie’s family said they are very proud classes 1A through 6A. strikes to keep her team in the game. It all of Allie and encourage her to continue to be As a starting point guard, Osceola helped FDPHGRZQWRWKH¿QDOIUDPHZLWKWKH/DG\ the best she can be. the Patriots compile a 27-3 record. She was 5RFNHWVGRZQE\DVSDUHDQGVL[SLQV$OOLH¶V a force in the 6A playoffs. She scored 28 points and dished out 11 assists in a district championship victory against Archbishop 0F&DUWK\,QDUHJLRQDOTXDUWHU¿QDOYLFWRU\ New council to oversee against Fort Pierce-Westwood, she had 17 points and 10 assists. Osceola, of the Hollywood Reservation, Indian Relay racing helped the Patriots earn only their second FROM PRESS RELEASE trip to states in the program’s history by scoring 22 points and 12 assists in a regional championship win against Leesburg. PINE RI GE S — Calvin Heritage was ousted by state champion Ghostbear, a member of the Oglala 5LEDXOW LQ WKH VWDWH VHPL¿QDOV )HE LQ 6LRX[ 1DWLRQ DQQRXQFHG 0DUFK Lakeland. Osceola scored seven points, had 1 that a new organization has been WKUHHDVVLVWVDQGZHQWIRUIURPWKHIRXO formed to manage and operate line. Indian Relay races in 2017 and into Overall, Osceola led American Heritage the future. The new organization, in assists with an average of 10 per game, Horse Nations Indian Relay Council twice as many as anyone else on the team. (HNIRC), is comprised of all Native She was second in points per game with 16, American members of the Horse behind only Sun Sentinel Player of the ear Nations. The goal of HNIRC is to Femi Funeus. Heritage claimed more honors support and promote the traditional as coach Greg Farias was named Coach of lifestyle of the Native people through the ear. Indian Relay racing. (QWHULQJWKHVWDWHVHPL¿QDO2VFHRODZDV Board members include the team leader in free-throw percentage with President Calvin Ghostbear (Oglala 81 percent. 6LRX[ 9LFH3UHVLGHQW&DURO0XUUD\ Osceola and her teammate Taylor (Blackfeet), Secretary Benita Smith have signed with Nova Southeastern Plainfeather (Nakota), Treasurer University in Davie. Marlys Langdeau (Lower Brule Before the loss to Ribault, Heritage had 6LRX[ -DPLH+RZDUGRI2NODKRPD won 22 straight games, a streak that lasted DQG 5LFKDUG .DLO DQG 'LDQD 9RON more than two months. both of Wyoming. Bill Kemp Indian Relay features Diana Volk competition between the Indian American Heritage’s Skyla Osceola provides tough defense against Ribault in a state semifinal Feb. A scene from an Indian Relay race. 23 at the Lakeland Cnter. Nations of the Northern Plains. Bill Kemp American Heritage senior guard Skyla Osceola controls the ball against Ribault’s La’Quanza Glove during a Class 6A state semifinal Feb. 23 at the Lakeland Center. 4C • The Seminole Tribune • March 31, 2017 FSU spring Triple Crown Fishing Series kicks off in Big Cypress game set for April 8 ALLA ASSEE — Florida State University’s Spring Weekend will feature the football team’s annual Garnet and Gold spring game on April 8 at Doak S. Campbell Stadium. ickoff will be at 3 p.m. The 2017 Seminoles, which include Seminole Tribe member Justin Motlow, return six starters on offense and nine starters RQ GHIHQVH IURP ¶V WHDP WKDW ¿QLVKHG 10-3, defeated Michigan in the Orange Bowl DQGZDVUDQNHGHLJKWKLQWKH¿QDO$VVRFLDWHG Press poll. Seven early enrollees from Florida State’s consensus signing class will go through spring practice and are expected to play in the game. General admission tickets to the spring game are $5. Entrance is free to FSU students with valid ID’s, while FSU’s regular season ticket policy will apply to non-FSU students including children. Seating in the Champions Club is available through Seminoles.com. The price for Champions Club season ticket holders and University Center Club members is Maury Neipris $40 per ticket while the general public can Fishermen, families and Recreation staff pose for a photo at the conclusion of the Bass Buster’s Fishing Tournament on March 11 in Big Cypress. purchase tickets in the club for $50 each. The price of admission includes all food and soft BY STAFF REPORT drinks. As part of the spring weekend, FSU BIG CYPRESS — The annual athletics will host a free Friday Night Block Seminole Sportsman’s Triple Crown Fishing on April 7. lemen Plaza in downtown Series started March 11 with the Bass Tallahassee will be blocked off with assorted Buster’s Fishing Tournament in Big Cypress. street vendors, food trucks and a free concert Mario Posada had an outstanding day on by country artist Eric Paslay. the water. He was awarded the Josiah Johns In addition to the Block Party, FSU’s Memorial plaque for capturing the biggest beach volleyball team will play doubleheader ¿VK SRXQGV )UHG 3KLOOLSV ¿QLVKHG home matches on Friday and Saturday and runner-up. the men’s tennis team will play on Friday Posada was also part of the winning team and Sunday. The three-day Word of the as he and Frank Marrero teamed up to win the South’ literary and music festival will begin team competition with more than 17 pounds on Friday. RI¿VK3KLOOLSV¶WHDP¿QLVKHGVHFRQG0DUW\ Tommie and Marvin Newkirk came in third. The second leg of the series will be the Ashton Howard Tiger Memorial Fishing Tournament on April 8. The series will wrap up May 13 with the Seminole Sportsman’s Tournament. Locklear signs An overall champion will be crowned. Tournaments are open to Tribal and Community members and STOF employees. with Nike N7 Each team must have at least one Tribal member. Maury Neipris Maury Neipris Moses Jumper Jr. casts in Big Cypress. Mario Posada holds the plaque he won for reeling in the biggest fish of the day. Ashton Locklear Instagram Gymnast Ashton Locklear (Lumbee Tribe) displays her Nike N7 signing document Feb. 9. Locklear, 19, of North Carolina, signed as a N7 ambassador. Locklear was a member of the USA’s World Championship gold medal team and she served as an alternate on the 2016 Olympic squad. Proceeds from the N7 program go to Native American youth sport and physical Maury Neipris Maury Neipris activity programs. Frank Marrero, left, and Mario Posada hold the first place trophies they won in the team competition. Marty Tommie, left, and Marvin Newkirk hodl their third place trophies in the team competition. Lessons for Immokalee kids stretch beyond basketball BY BEVERLY BIDNEY honed their skills on the court through Staff Reporter skills and drills intermixed with those all- important life lessons. I ALEE — Life’s lessons can “A lot of things on the court correlate to often be learned while playing sports a real life,” Perkins said. “Respect the rules, philosophy adhered to by former St. Thomas pay attention, play hard all the time and University basketball player Tony Perkins follow directions.” during his basketball clinics. Originally from Immokalee, Perkins Perkins brought his Tony Perkins is also a scout and attends AAU events to Basketball Academy to the Immokalee identify young basketball talent throughout Reservation’s Boys Girls Club on March the state. His academy also offers summer 16. More than 20 youngsters age 7 to 16 basketball camps and skills training sessions. Beverly Bidney Tony Perkins teaches Immokalee kids how to get into defensive mode during a well-attended basketball clinic in the gym March 16. Assisted by former Florida Memorial coordination and stamina drills. Learning to “When the clinic was over, they all University basketball head coach enny be tough on the court was another important wanted more,” said Immokalee Boys Bellinger, the clinic taught the fundamentals lesson imparted by Perkins. Girls Club manager Patrick Shepard, who of the game and life, along with the discipline The budding athletes also learned attended Immokalee High School with necessary to succeed at both. proper shooting technique and form, zig zag Perkins. “They were excited and wanted me “As coaches, we encourage you guys to dribbling and had a fun lay-up relay race. to get him back in the future. Until then, we Beverly Bidney mess up,” Perkins said. “That’s the only way Another relay race combined the defensive will keep it going with our staff a couple of Young participants in the Tony Perkins Basketball Academy clinic in Immokalee are run through \RXJDLQFRQ¿GHQFHDQGOHDUQWKHJDPH´ slide maneuver to the out-of-bounds line and times a week.” their paces March 16 as they learn the proper way to move sideways on the court. That led to a couple of hours of foot work, then a sprint to the middle of the court. 5C • The Seminole Tribune • March 31, 2017 Big night of action at Junior Cypress Rodeo Arena Maury Neipris Maury Neipris Norman Osceola gets tossed during bull riding at the Junior Cypress Memorial Rodeo on March 17 at the Junior Cypress Rodeo Arena in Big Cypress. The event featured a full night of rodeo action, including Justin Gopher has a firm hold in Tie Down Roping. 10 riders each in Tie Down Roping, Lady’s Breakaway and Barrel Racing, and 12 teams in Team Roping. The following day the annual Junior Cypress Cattle Drive was held on the reservation. Maury Neipris Norman Johns manages to smile during Senior Breakaway Roping. Maury Neipris Boogie Johns’ cowboy hat soars into the air near her lasso as she focuses on her target during Lady’s Breakaway Roping. Maury Neipris A bull appears ready to pounce on a rider. THRIFTARELLA'S Furniture-Home Goods-and More! 4300 Davie Road-across from Rodeo Tuesday-Saturday 10-6 pm www.thriftarellas.com 954.587.0818 Christine & Dominick Signed sports memorabilia, jewelry & more! Maury Neipris Maury Neipris Jonah Cypress addresses the audience during Cisco Rodriguez competes in bull riding. the Junior Cypress Memorial Rodeo. 6C • The Seminole Tribune • March 31, 2017 United States Department of the Interior BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS KMٻI[\MZV:MOQWVIT7- 545 Marriott Drive, Suite 700 Nashville, TN 37214 Thank you Thank you Veronica for loving me the NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND way you do. FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT Baby without you I’m nothing. With you, I am everything I ever AGENCY: BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS wanted to be. If God made you any more perfect He ACTION: NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY would’ve kept you for himself. Veronica you are my blessing sent SUMMARY: The Seminole Tribe of Florida (Tribe) is currently evaluating a modernization project from up above. of the Ahfachkee Indian School located on the east side of County Road 833 (Josie Billie Highway) ou been riding with me through this approximately 17 miles north of Interstate 75 on the Tribe’s Big Cypress Reservation in Hendry little 24-month bid I caught. Baby you got my back 1000. County, Florida. The Ahfachkee School serves members of the Tribe living on the Big Cypress I can’t complain. Reservation with a current enrollment of approximately 156 students. The existing school is over There’s no better way to express my capacity and currently requires the use of several portable buildings. The planned modernization appreciation than to put in the paper for would improve existing buildings and add 30,000 square feet of new space for the school. 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NOTICE: This is a Notice of Availability, that the EAs and FONSI for the project are available for public review. The FONSI determination was based on review and analysis of the information in KMWZ\PMٻPM)[AW]UIaWJ\IQVIKWXaWN \PM-)[IVL.76;1NZWU\PM*1)-I[\MZV:MOQWVIT7\ Environmental Resources Management Department of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, 6365 Taft Street, Suite 3008, Hollywood, FL 33024, telephone (954) 965-4380. MK\[VW\ILMKQ[QWV\WXZWKMML_Q\PIVIK\QWV\PMZMNWZMٺPQ[.76;1Q[IÅVLQVOWVMV^QZWVUMV\ITM> cannot be appealed. 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(Registration required) SUMMARY: The Seminole Tribe of Florida (Tribe) is currently evaluating a modernization project of the Ahfachkee Indian School located on the east side of County Road 833 (Josie Billie Highway) approximately 17 miles north of Interstate 75 on the Tribe’s Big Cypress Reservation in Hendry County, Florida. The Ahfachkee School serves members of the Tribe living on the Big Cypress Reservation with a current enrollment of approximately 156 students. The existing school is over capacity and currently requires the use of several portable buildings. The planned modernization would improve existing buildings and add 30,000 square feet of new space for the school. Several ]IQZٺ(J]QTLQVO[IVLI]`QTQIZa[\Z]K\]ZM[WV\PM)PNIKPSMM+IUX][IZMW_VMLJa\PM*]ZMI]WN 1VLQIV (BIA). The Tribe has requested that ownership of the structures be transferred from BIA to the Tribe prior to beginning the important modernization improvements. Due to the need for federal approvals, this project was reviewed in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). The BIA has reviewed and adopted the Environmental Assessment (EA), prepared by the Tribe’s Environmental Resource Management Department, dated February 2017 and titled “Environmental Assessment for Ahfachkee School” to determine the environmental impacts that may result from the project. The EA is well written and considers all direct, indirect and cumulative environmental impacts that may be associated with the project. DETERMINATION: Based on review and analysis of the EA and supporting documentation, it MK\QVO\PMٺPI[JMMVLM\MZUQVML\PI\\PMXZWXW[MLIK\QWVQ[VW\IUIRWZNMLMZITIK\QWV[QOVQÅKIV\TaI quality of the human environment within the meaning of NEPA. Therefore, according to Section 102(2)(C) of NEPA an Environmental Impact Statement is not required and the BIA is issuing this .QVLQVOWN 6W;QOVQÅKIV\1UXIK\ Should undiscovered archaeological remains be encountered during the project, we all have difficulty balancing social life, culture, health, substance use/ work will stop in the area of discovery and the stipulations in 3 6 CFR 800.11 will abuse, self-esteem, sense of belonging, emotions, our hopes and dreams. be followed. F. Date: Regional Director, Eastern Region 3/2/2017 Office: (954) 965-4414; cell: (954) 317-8110; 6528 Osceola Circle, Hollywood, Florida 33024