Follow us on Twitter #CATribalTribune www.c-a-tribes.org/tribal-news March 15, 2017 -Volume 13, Issue 6 Trump administration considers $6 billion cut to HUD budget Impacting Section 8 housing vouchers for homeless veterans Section 202 housing for elderly, Section 811 housing for people with disabilities and Native American housing block grants

By Jose A. DelReal budget would shrink by about About $1.3 billion would be and vouchers to local residents, federal dollars into programs that Washington Post 14 percent to $40.5 billion in fiscal cut from the public housing cap- would be among the hardest hit. combat poverty and urban decline, 2018, which begins in October. ital fund, under the preliminary Under the preliminary budget, and fund other local improvement The Trump administration has HUD Secretary Ben Carson plan when compared to funding in those operational funds would be efforts. considered more than $6 billion in has taken a staunchly conservative 2016 and an additional $600 mil- reduced by $600 million or 13 per- The Community Development cuts at the Department of Housing stance on public assistance in the lion would be cut from the public cent. Funds for big-ticket repairs at Block Grant Program, which has and Urban Development, according past, saying dependency on HUD housing operating fund. public housing facilities would be enjoyed bipartisan support in Con- to preliminary budget documents programs could become “a way of HUD spokesman Jereon Brown cut by an additional $1.3 billion, gress, is budgeted to receive $3 bil- obtained by The Washington Post. life” for recipients. While suggest- said the budget document “is still about 32 percent. That could have lion this fiscal year, according to the The plan would squeeze public ing significant cuts, the preliminary a work in progress.” The budget a major quality-of-life effects on document. The proposal would cut housing support and end most fed- budget maintains the same level of document appears to be part of a the low-income families who rely those funds entirely. erally funded community devel- funding to rental assistance pro- back-and-forth with federal budget on public housing: Tens of billions Sayles Place, a subsidized co- opment grants, which provide ser- grams and avoids reductions that officials, and it is unclear whether of dollars in backlogged repairs al- op in Southeast Washington, in a vices such as meal assistance and could directly put families on the the proposed cuts will be included ready plague the country’s 1.2 mil- photo from 2007. (Susan Biddle/ cleaning up abandoned properties streets. Instead, it targets fund- in the president’s final budget pro- lion public housing units, according The Washington Post) in low-income neighborhoods. ing for building maintenance and posal. The Trump administration to a 2010 HUD report. The program has been used to It’s the latest evidence that the community development projects, has said it will release its complete The proposal would also re- develop a pedestrian and bike trail administration is following through although HUD recommends in the budget plan next week. shape the federal government’s in- in New Orleans and affordable on President Trump’s goal to cut budget document that those proj- Budgets for public housing au- volvement in local community de- housing projects in Milwaukee. A domestic spending by $54 billion to ects receive funding from another thorities, city and state agencies velopment, potentially eliminating bolster the defense budget. HUD’s source. that provide subsidized housing a decades-old program that funnels HUD budget cuts / pg. 6 NSU to host Standing with DAPL 2017 InterTribal Language Summit (TAHLEQUAH, OK) The Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes Lan- guage Committee will be hosting a two-day Language Summit April 12-13 at Northeast- ern State University. The summit will run concurrently with NSU’s annual Symposium of the American Indian. The summit’s theme is “Breaking the Inhibitions” and topics will focus on over- coming inhibitions that stand in the way of successful language learning among tribal communities, challenges of creating adequate social spaces for language learners and deal- ing with generational trauma caused by gov- ernment policies that suppressed Indigenous languages. The keynote speaker for the summit will be Dr. Colleen Fitzgerald, professor of lin- guistics at the University of Texas at Arling- Hundreds of people turned out in Oklahoma City on Saturday, March 11 despite wet and frigid temperatures to show ton and National Science Foundation Pro- their support in fighting against the Dakota Access Pipeline and other pipelines proposed to go through Oklahoma. gram Director for Documenting Endangered Languages. Entry to all summit sessions is free and open to the public. However, due to limited Resistance against Dakota Access seating, attendance for the keynote luncheon will be capped at 70 attendees. Tickets are re- Pipeline still prevalent throughout US quired for entry to the keynote. Tickets will (OKLAHOMA CITY) A few hundred people marched be $20 each and include a BBQ buffet meal. through downtown Oklahoma City Saturday morning to Melanie Frye, Seminole Nation language protest a pipeline making national headlines. education specialist and president of the In- The protesters were marching to the Oklahoma City ter-Tribal Council Language Committee, said Civic Center against the construction of the Dakota Access she encourages all who can to attend. pipeline (DAPL). The Oklahoma City Powwow Club orga- “Our languages are the sacredness that nized the rally. holds our cultures together and helps the “You can’t drink oil. Keep it in the soil,” protesters cultures and peoples flourish. Our languag- chanted. es allowed us to converse with one another, The majority of the marchers were members of Native govern ourselves, perform our ceremonies American tribes, and they are against oil pipelines and the and teach our youth. The peoples of each possibility of them contaminating groundwater. tribal nation are meant to be the caretakers “We’re doing what we can to support them,” Blas Pre- of their language and culture. We all need to ciado said. work as a collective in order to find ways to Organizers said events like this help spread public save our languages. We are coming together awareness about Native American rights, the DAPL and to share our ideas and to learn more ways to what many of them stand for, protecting the earth and the fight language loss amongst our respective water. nations. We would like for you all to join us at In March 2016, the United States Fish and Wildlife Ser- the 2017 Inter-Tribal Council Language Sum- vice issued a sovereign lands construction permit for the As supports marched through the streets of Oklahoma City, mit,” Frye said. DAPL. In late May 2016, the permit was temporarily re- thousands were marching in Washington D.C. to show their re- For more information, email Teresa Work- voked in three counties of Iowa, where the pipeline would man, Chickasaw Nation language manager, at sistance to the approval of the Dakota Access and Keystone XL cross the Big Sioux River and the Big Sioux Wildlife Man- [email protected] or Melanie pipelines by President Donald Trump. (Courtesy photos) agement Area; these are historic and cultural sites of the Frye at [email protected]. Standing with DAPL / pg. 6 PAGE 2 Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribal Tribune Tsistsistas & Hinonoei Life’s Journeys Elder led the party life until the tugging in his heart gave way to God

By Rosemary Stephens, Editor-in-Chief

He answers the door sitting in his wheelchair, his right leg stretched straight out from a recent knee sur- gery. He maneuvers through his apartment at the In- dependent Living Center with amazing ease as he of- fers a cup of coffee. Describing Ron Starr, 65, in one word would be the word ‘ease.’ He has an ‘ease’ about him. A gentle way of putting one at ease immediately with his kind voice and genuine laughter. Born Oct. 3, 1951 at the Clinton Indian Hospital in Clinton, Okla., Ron is at home in Clinton Amer- Ron Starr with his ica. He was born to Beulah Starr and raised by his mother Beulah Starr in his grandparents Moses Starr Sr. and Helen Heap of late 40s. Birds Starr. “They pretty much raised me, I called my grand- parents mom and dad for a very long time. When people ask me if I am related to Moses Starr Jr. I tell them, ‘yea he’s my older, uglier brother,’ but he’s really my uncle, 19 years older than me,” Ron said as he transitioned into that contagious laugh he has. You can’t tell by looking at him today, but Ron will tell you during his youth he was no stranger to a good party. “I started drinking around 16 years old and by the time I went to college over in Weatherford I was pretty heavily into partying. Getting drunk with the guys almost every weekend,” Ron said. Ron was raised in the north side of Clinton in the 1950s during segregation. “Blacks could only live on the south side and we had the Indians, Mexicans and some white people who lived in our area. The deal was back then Native Ameri- cans couldn’t buy property on the south side and it was just common knowledge. And basically we knew there was a racial difference, an economic difference because our Indians were in the low income area, but we all just knew where we belonged.” Ron Starr - March 2017 Life was pretty good Ron said, playing ball, mostly fast pitch softball and when they didn’t have enough people to play they just made up new rules, “like four on a team, there was one base and if you hit five fouls you were out.” lasted a year while his partying increased and his direction decreased. Ron went to Washington Elementary School in Clinton where he said you had to know “Because of alcohol I was placed on probation for getting into a fight at a ball game in Clin- how to defend yourself sometimes because white boys would pick fights with the Indian boys. ton with the bench boy and that just added to my thoughts of, ‘what’s the use, I’m not doing “But you know nothing ever escalated where we were pulling out guns or stuff like they do any good here,’ so I quit and joined the Navy.” now. If someone was tough we just acknowledged that and went on,” Ron said. “I had white Backing up a bit, Ron said all during his youth he has struggled with really stiff joints friends, I had Native friends and we just grew up with all the different races. I was here until especially in the mornings. He would take aspirin, work out his joints and go on with his day. the 7th grade where we all attended Wilson Junior High over where the old post office sits He shared this with his recruiter who didn’t think it would be a big deal. But after joining the now.” Navy he didn’t have access to the aspirin and he was struggling with joint stiffness on a daily After the 7th grade Ron’s parents moved him to Custer City and at first he said it all seemed basis, especially at 3:30 in the morning when they would get them up and start pushups or okay, he made the local ball team and was getting invited to the white kids’ birthday parties, jumping jacks. but there were not many Native Americans living in that area at the time. “After about a week of this my chief petty officer, CPO, said to me, ‘Starr go to sick bay “As we got older there was a difference. My classmates would talk about Indians like say- and find out what’s going on.’ So I did and they diagnosed me with rheumatoid arthritis at 18 ing, ‘those drunk Indians’ and such and I didn’t like that. There was a disparity and I became years old. After a couple more months they gave me an honorable medical discharge. I was angry, really angry and I just didn’t want to be there,” Ron said. happy to be out, but when I look back on it I wished I would have stayed and made something He talked to his parents about sending him to boarding school, but they said no, so Ron of it. It was in 1970, the end of the Viet Nam war and I talk to my friends who were over there did what he had to do and graduated in 1969 from Custer High School. Not really having a and they always say to me, ‘Starr you didn’t miss anything,’ direction, partying, doing nothing, he decided to attend college in Weatherford. But that only so I guess it was a blessing in the long run.” Life’s Journeys / pg. 8 StrongHearts Native helpline launches new crisis-line First of its kind for Native American survivors of domestic violence and dating violence American Indian and Alask Native people level of specificity.” experience domestic violence and dating Advocates at the StrongHearts Na- violence every day,” said Lucy Rain Simp- tive Helpline are trained to navigate each son, executive director of NIWRC and caller’s abuse situation with a strong un- a citizen of Navajo Nation. “It has never derstanding of Native cultures, as well as OPINION been more evident that our Native people issues of tribal sovereignty and law, in a need a Native helpline to support efforts to safe and accepting environment, free of restore power and safety in our tribal com- assumption and judgment. Callers will be munities. The StrongHearts Native Help- treated with dignity, compassion, and re- line is ready to answer that call.” spect by a well-trained professional. The StrongHearts Native Helpline was “To enhance access to services and meet created by and for Native Americans who, the unique needs of Native survivors, a compared to all other races in the U.S., are dedicated Native helpline that provides twice as likely support and connec- to experience Native victims of domestic violence and tions to shelter, advo- rape or sexu- dating violence on reservations can also cacy, and other ser- al assault, two face unique barriers in seeking safety and vices is critical,” states and a half times support services, including: Marylouise Kelley, more likely to Geographic isolation (ex living in a rural FVPSA Program Divi- experience vio- tribal community far from town and appro- sion Director. lent crimes and priate services) Initially, Strong- five times more Lack of law enforcement (ex. in remote Hearts will focus ef- AUSTIN, TEXAS) For the first time in at no cost, one-on-one, with knowledge- likely to be areas) forts on providing ser- history, a culturally-relevant, safe and con- able StrongHearts advocates who will pro- victims of ho- Fear of being identified when seeking vices to survivors who fidential resource is available for Native vide support, assist with safety planning micide in their help or services in one’s own small, tight-knit live in Kansas, Ne- American survivors of domestic violence and connect them with resources based lifetimes. Even community braska and Oklahoma, Lack of trust between victims of abuse and dating violence, who now make up on their specific tribal affiliation, commu- though a stag- which combined make and local law enforcement authorities more than 84 percent of the entire U.S. Na- nity location and culture. Callers outside gering four in up more than 12.5 per- tive population. The National Indigenous of these states can still call StrongHearts five experience cent of the country’s Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC) and while the helpline continues to develop its violence, Native Americans have histori- entire Native American population. Rosemary Stephens, Editor-in-Chief the National Domestic Violence Hotline services network. All services available cally lacked access to services. “The team will leverage the large num- 405-422-7446 / [email protected] (The Hotline) today launched the first, na- through the helpline are confidential and “The Hotline has served victims and ber of Native-centered resources estab- tional crisis line dedicated to serving tribal available by dialing 1-844-7NATIVE (1- survivors of domestic violence for 20 lished within these states to begin provid- communities affected by violence across 844-762-8483) Monday through Friday, years, and we recognize that Native Amer- ing services, with further outreach to tribal the U.S., called the StrongHearts Native from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. CST. Callers after ican survivors have uniquely complex communities as StrongHearts continues to Helpline. hours will have the option to connect with needs,” said Katie Ray-Jones, CEO of The grow,” said Simpson. Starting today, Native survivors in Kan- the National Domestic Violence Hotline or Hotline. “Through StrongHearts, domestic The StrongHearts Native Helpline plans sas, Oklahoma and Nebraska, the helpline’s to call back the next business day. violence advocates will be able to address to purposefully and thoughtfully expand its initial service areas, will be able to connect “The reality is that so many of our those complex needs with an unparalleled StrongHearts crisis line / pg. 6 Tsistsistas & Hinonoei Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribal Tribune PAGE 3

‘Standing Rock’s Last Stand:’ Thousands take anti-pipeline fight to the White House By Alejandro Alvarez, New2Share “WAKE THE HELL UP!” Native Nations Rise, billed as statues and a nearby rally-owned bus It’s mid-morning in Judiciary “Standing Rock’s next stand,” was a for a glimpse of a Native American Square, a maze of government offices chance to vent that frustration while prayer dance at the doorstep to Trump’s in the heart of the nation’s capital. Well plotting a course forward for the indig- DC property. Before long, they were on over 2,000 people are gathered in the enous rights movement and anti-big oil the march again. Destination: the White roadway in front of the Government movements. Leaders of the Standing House. Accountability Office, headquarters Rock Sioux nation issued a call to ac- “What they’re literally doing is to the US Army Corps of Engineers. tion shortly after Trump’s election and genocide,” said a woman of the urgen- The strong scent of burning sage drifts the revival of the Dakota pipeline proj- cy underlying Friday’s action, “as soon through the poncho-clad crowd, hud- ect. And, despite the initially miserable as that pipeline breaks, in 30 minutes or dled in shelter from driving sleet on the weather, people answered. By the thou- less, all of the water in the reservation is late winter morning. Nevertheless, G sands. contaminated.” Street is alive with the sounds of drums “Wake the hell up,” said Mike Wil- Marchers gathered in Lafayette and thousands chanting “mni wiconi” - lenborg, in DC by way of Detroit. Wil- Square outside the White House for “water is life” in Lakota. lenborg, a veteran of the 1960’s civil a rally with a wide range of speakers, This is Native Nations Rise. Thou- rights movement, drew comparisons including indigenous activist Faith sands gathered in Washington, DC on between that struggle and the present Spotted Eagle, who received one pro- Friday, hoping to send the new admin- day fight for Standing Rock, where he’d test vote from Washington State in the istration a defiant message that, despite been months prior. “I’d tell the Corps electoral college. Others continued to the recent conclusion of a long chapter that the cultures that were here before peacefully protest in the park for hours in the struggle against the Dakota pipe- us are valid, and the property they own after the march reached its final desti- line, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and is valid,” he added. nation. its allies aren’t done fighting just yet. After a round of chants includ- “I’m fighting for native sovereign- “Our ancestors have inhabited that ing “black snake killer” and “water is ty, for cultural sovereignty,” said Carl land for over 8,500 years,” said one life,” thousands set off on a long march Moore, dressed in traditional indig- Native American marcher, asked about through downtown Washington for the enous garments. “Native Americans the significance of the remote Standing White House. The sleet continued, but have been trampled for years, this coun- Rock reservation near Cannon Ball, the march - including many who had try is built upon oppression of Native North Dakota. “Our writings are still on journeyed to DC from North Dakota Americans, of black people – globally, the rocks, we use the plants for medic- and further - didn’t stop. actually.” inal and spiritual purposes – that land A dozen or so activists with long He added: “I’m here to fight for hu- has a pulse, as does the entire Earth.” wooden poles wrapped in white pieces manity.” It’s been almost exactly a year since of fabric worked their way to the front Alejandro Alvarez is a Washington, the struggle between the indigenous of the march on Pennsylvania Avenue. D.C.-based journalist, photographer, community and Army Corps of En- They sprinted up to the Trump Inter- and digital media expert focusing on gineers began with a protest on lands national Hotel in formation. “We’re conflict, politics, and activism. He marked for the construction of the con- building a teepee,” they announced to heads digital newsgathering at News- troversial Dakota Access pipeline. Over media, whom they attempted to keep 2Share, and has had bylines at the At- 300 injuries and nearly 500 arrests later, back while the tall structure was erected lantic Council, Durango Herald, and the project is moving again, revived by over a matter of minutes. Hotel security The Eagle. He has also worked as a a new administration under the promise looked on from the behind the barricad- stringer with the Associated Press, an of promoting job growth, casting aside ed entrance, and hotel guests peered out assistant at the European Parliament in public outcry and, occasionally, even from the rooms above. Brussels, and the Embassy of Australia bloodshed in the name of protection Within minutes, a tall tent overshad- in Washington. water resources. owed the entrance. Marchers climbed

OPINION To the Leaders of our Tribe, How Can You Publicly Endorse Indian Mascot? Endorsing the El Reno Indian Spirit Charter Indian mascot sends the wrong message My name is Alison Black the Indian mascot for the El that football team from hands of someone of a dif- and I am a tribal member Reno Indian Spirit Charter. Washington D.C. ferent race.” – National Con- living in Northern Oklaho- I cannot stress enough the The facts (just a few and gress of American Indians ma. My mother is the late detriment of your involve- many more can be provided): (NCAI 2016) Freda Ann Roman Nose ment in supporting a name Derogatory “Indian” To understand the det- (Primeaux), a full blood linked with so much unre- sports mascots have serious riment is to understand the Cheyenne woman who was solved historical trauma. psychological, social and power struggle we as Chey- a descendant of Chief Hen- Native mascots have been cultural consequences for enne & Arapaho (C&A) peo- ry Caruthers Roman Nose deemed harmful by aca- Native Americans, especial- ple face from a micro and and the Sand Creek massa- demia through extensive re- ly Native youth. – National macro level perspective. I cre. This is a lineage I carry search and studies resulting Congress of American Indi- have no doubts of your pride proudly as I raise my own in conclusive and empirical ans (NCAI 2016) in your Indigenous heritage children and serve Native data. Also, most mainstream According to Department and your people, which is youth in Northern Oklahoma media recognize the harm of Justice analysis, “Amer- why I hope you consider as an educator. in Native mascots. Popular ican Indians are more likely what I am sharing with you. I am writing regarding sports journalist Dan Costas than people of other races to On a micro level, you your public endorsement of took a public stance against experience violence at the Indian mascot / pg. 8

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Joe,Chavez Norma Jean,Bearshield Norma Jean,Fisher George Keith,Hawk Jr, Cheri Lynn,Fletcher Karen Lyn,Standingwater Johnny,Chavez Pete,Bearshield Angeline Charlene,Fletcher Jessica D,Hawkins Jamie Tyrel,Flying Out Kayla Marie,Standingwater Randee Kristine,Chavez Reed Collier,Bearshield Anthony Robert,Fletcher Richard Alexander,Hawkins Jesse Burt,Flying Out Christina Louise,Steele Virginia E.,Chavez Reginald Lee,Bearshield Charles Elwood,Fletcher Sandy Jean,Hawkins Joseph G.,Geary Renee,Steele Autumn Lea,Christoff Ruby T.Marie,Bearshield Charles J,Fletcher Debra Gayle,Haworth Betty Zane,Gould Loretta Ann,Steere Melissa Jo,Chuckluck Ruth Juan,Bearshield-Fire Clyde Kenneth,Fletcher Arthur,Heap Of Birds Debra Marie,Gould Ricky Bob,Steere Carmen,Clelland Justin A.,Beasley Freida Dawn,Fletcher Carl,Heap Of Birds Gunar,Gould Michael R,Stewart Christopher Earl,Clevenger Amelia Arlene,Beaver Kateri D.,Fletcher Cheevers,Heap Of Birds Jeffrey D.,Gould Anna Holland,Tags Sarah Jean,Clevenger Amos Malcomb III,Beaver Shalicia Marie,Fletcher Cleo,Heap of Birds Michael Dean,Gould Tisha K,TallBear Danelle Ruth,Cling Bobbi Jo,Beaver Sheila Michelle,Fletcher Guy Daniel,Heap Of Birds William Perry,Gould Patricia Lynn,Tello Gloria Lanette,Coffey Earlene,Beaver Eula Lee,Flores Janet Rade,Heap Of Birds Lisa Michelle,Haag Martina Rose,Tenorio Priscella Mae,Cole Floyd Allen,Beaver Christopher David,Flores Jr Kingsley,Heap Of Birds Richard Dwight,Haag III Augustine A,Tenorio Jr Ruby Clara,Cole Kimberly Path,Beaver John Allen,Flying Out Krystal Marie, Beverly Irene,Hadley Crystal Jean,Thompson Annie Sidonia,Collins Mary Ruth,Beaver William David,Flying Out Heap Of Birds Leanna Marie,Hadley Christopher Gordon, Allison Annette,Cometsevah Roy Dean,Beaver Forrest Deal,Flying Out Sr. Lianna Kay,Heap Of Birds Marland G.,Hadley Thunderbull Bradley A.,Cometsevah Shanna Raye,Beaver Darrell G.,Flyingman Pamela Jean,Heap Of Birds Marland Glenn,Hadley Doris Delease,Thunderbull Gregory Louis,Cometsevah Amos Malcolm,Beaver Jr Robert,Flyingman Rachael Lee,Heap Of Birds Shawn Lee,Hadley Judy Lee,Topaum James Frank,Cometsevah Sheldon Timothy,Ben Jasper Weldon,Flyingout Robert,Heap Of Birds Marland Gene,Hadley Sr Babe Jesse,Torronez Kathryn Elizabeth, Herschel Herbert,Benton Sr. Robert Harold,Flynn Chasity Luv,Heap-of-Birds Andrew Wayne,Harrington Deanna Lynne,Wandrie Cometsevah Ruth Ellen,Bible Constance Michelle,Fox Freedom S,Heap-of-Birds Charlene Rose,Harrington Denecia,Wandrie Miranda Cometsevah Gary H.,Big Horse Lisa Dionne,Fox Lavonna,Henry Donna Louise,Harrington Stephanie Delease,Wandrie Nona Sue,Cometsevah Hiram Stanley,Big Medicine Ramona Dawn,Franklin Eddie,Henry Jr. Kyle Batisle,Harrison John Enos,Washee III Ramona Marie,Cometsevah Cedrick Lowell,Bighorse Robert Dean,Franklin Helen Ann,Henson Lois Lavonne,Harrison Reva Elaine,Wassana Raymond Charles, Dulcie,Bighorse Adam,Fraser Ronnie D.,Henson Roberta Fern,Harrison Ruben Dale,Watan Cometsevah Rosanna Denise,Bighorse Casandra,Fraser Angela D,Hernandez Roberta Maye,Harrison Tusheena,Watan Robert Melvin,Cometsevah Stella Sue,Bighorse Gayland Perry,Fraser Imogene V.,Herndon Shirley Dawn,Harrison Rodney Everett,Waterman Sophia D.,Cometsevah Wanda Marie,Bighorse Jerry Wayne,Fraser Mark Vincent,Herndon William,Harrison Samantha E.,Waterman Wilma Lu,Cometsevah Bobby Ray,Bighorse Jr Latisha Collette,Fraser Hipolito,Herrera William Franklin,Harrison Terry S.,Waterman Winona Jean,Cometsevah Donia Ranea,Bird Marilyn,Fraser Jesse Roberto,Herrera Alton Lewis,Harrison Jr. Aaron,Weaselbear Yolanda, Cometsevah Raven Javon,Bird Angela Suzette,French Teresa Marie,Herrera Neal,Henry Linda,Weaselbear Adrian R.,Conneywerdy SABRYNA,BLACK Robyn Tenaya,French Elaine,Herrera Elaine,Herrera Brian Keith,Whiteshirt Theresa F.,Conneywerdy Jacob G,Black Bear Lorraine Victoria,Fuller (Yellow Eagle) Belva J.,Hicks Beljean,Williams Mia,Contreras Rechenda L.,Blackdeer Jada Lynn,Fulsom Alberto,Herrera Jr. Eleanor Kaye,Hill-Bianchi Kimberly Jo,Williams Michele Rene,Crabtree George Allen,Blackowl Jissena Aurelia,Fulsom Mary Louise,Herrera Jr. Karin Kay,Holden Patrick Lloyd,Williams Kelly Jenise,Cromer Michael Regis,Blackowl Sr. Ronald Gene,Fulsom Jon David,Herrod Martha Aline,Johnson Marsha Sue,Wills Merlin Kaye,Cross Bradley Warren,Blackwell Vearl,Fulsom Nadina V,Herrod Euline Yvonne,Lee Ernest,Wolf Chief Jr Regina Ann,Cross Anthony Tre,Blackwolf Wanda Jean,Galaviz Tony,Herrod Hollis,Lee Wesley,Woolsey Jr. L Paul,Crowder Bradley B.,Blackwolf Samarrah K.,Gallegos Bobby Lee,Herzer Michele Esther,Lee Zola Alice,Crowder Brian Scott,Blackwolf Cheyenne Dawn,Galvan Angela Grace,Hicks Thomas Allen,Lee Danielle,Cruz Karen Sue,Galvan Cora,Hicks Damion,Lefthand-Bianchi Daniel Parrish,Blackwolf Tsistsistas & Hinonoei Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribal Tribune PAGE 5 Mary Belle,Lonebear William Lee,Pedro - III Lisa Marie,Rsheidat-Willis Sandra,Thunderbull Carlotta May,White Crane CHEYENNE Randall Keith,Lonebear Chana Rochelle,Penaloza Justin A.,Ruiz Benny Thomas, Flora K.,White Crane Robert B,Lonebear Beulah,Penn Eduardo Simental,Ruiz Jr. Thunderbull Jr. Arthur Merle, DISTRICT 3 Brenden Kelly,Loneman John H.,Penn Natasha Michele,Russell Larry Gene,Thunderbull Sr White Crane Jr. Continued Kelly,Loneman Lori Ann,Penner Wendall Rainier,Russell John,Timothy Andrew J.,White Crow Denise Marie,Lopez-Gomez Amanda Lucia,Perez Robert William,Rutledge Velma L.,Tolar Elisabeth Angela, Geraldine Ann,Hicks Edna Louise,Luna Leighanna,Perrin Lorene,Sagebark William Harrison,Tonihka White Crow George,Hicks Jr Alexander,Mack Stacy Lynn,Peters EILEEN,SALCIDO Carol Y,Toppah Linda Kay,White Crow Anna Joyce,Hidrogo Billie Jo,Mack Michele Dawn,Phillipy Karen Lynn,Sam Juanita Joyce,Trout Robert Keith,White Crow Nick Robert,Higgins Louise,Sam Frances Joyce,Mack Jacqueline Francine, Sheena Jo Anna,Trout Tammy Joyce, Davetta Rena,Hinds Clifford Ray,Sam Jr. Marilyn Nicole,Mack Pipestem Erma Jean,Tsotaddle White Crow Evetta Roshell,Hinds Shawn Brandon,Mack Carolyn Sue,Plummer Shalane Ann,Sampson Hope Ann,Turtle Denise Pearl,White Eagle Jason Scott,Hines Timothy Christian,Mack Larry Joe,Pointer Alicia Leigh Michelle, Jewel Aletha,Turtle Gina Ann,White Shield Joshua Keith,Hines Vivien Christina,Madbull Melissa Blynn,Poole Sanchez Kathy May,Turtle Lauren Danielle, Marvin Keith,Hines Amy,Magpie Elizabeth Jane,Posey Gilbert Jack,Sanchez Rodney Wayne,Hines Keith Ryan,Magpie Holly Ann,Possley Michael Clemente,Sanchez Timothy Orin,Turtle White Shield Viola Eunice,Hines Kenneth Dale,Mallonee William Bradley,Postelwait Stephanie Raynell,Sanchez Joyce Marie,Twins Wannie Jean,White Shield Anosta Sue,Horn James Anthony,Mann Arthur Lee,Power Truman M.,Sanchez Justin,Twins Carol,White Skunk Christopher Wayne,Horn Morton), Henrietta, Everett Lloyd,Power Jr. Sean Robert,Sandlin Marion Marvin,Twins Claressa J.,White Skunk Jessica Rose,Horn Mann (Whiteman) Andrew Nolan,Prairechief Alana Joyce,Sankadota Raphael Wesley,Twins Hallie Irene,White Skunk Keri Irene,Horn Christopher Lee,Marris Adrian Shaun,Prairie Chief Danny,Sankadota Thalia Joyce,Twins Josephine,White Skunk Rebekah Lynn,Horn Edwn Denny,Marris Annabelle L.,Prairie Chief Lily Maria Ann,Sankey Wanda Renee,Twins Orville Lee,White Skunk Robert Del,Horn Carlos Thomas,Martinez Brian C.,Prairie Chief Cameron Aaron,Sapcut Wesley Robert,Twins Hailman,White Tail Jr. Sheri Beth,Horn Joe Michael,Martinez Eugene,Prairie Chief Clendon Allen,Sapcut Lucian Marvin,Twins Jr. Esther,Whitebird Marcus Leroy,Horn Sr Tasha Amelia,Martinez Linda Sue,Prairie Chief Colton A.,Sapcut McClain Harvey,Twins Jr. Alice Leatrice, Leland Roy,Howling Jessie C,Martinez Jr Loni Gail,Prairie Chief Loretta,Sapcut Lucian Marvin,Twins Sr Whitecloud Buffalo Crystal Nichole,Mason Phillip E.,Prairie Chief Rachel Ann,Sayerwinnie Michael,Twins, Jr. Veronica R.,Whitecloud Nora Jo,Howling Buffalo Regina Louise,Mata George E.,Prairie Chief Jr. Yolanda,Schapansky Ramona Denise,Two Crow Oliver Charles, Charles Dean, Connie Lynn,McCoy Cedric,Prairie Chief Sr. (Yellow Eagel) Trina H.,Verjan Whitecrow Howling Water Jaqueline Rae,McCoy Amy Michelle,Pratt Christian Todd,Scherdin Christopher Riley,Wahnee Alicia Joye,Whiteman Byron Theock, Laura Denise,McCoy Anna Kay,Price Erica Rose,Scherdin Letha Gail,Wahnee Amelia Dawn,Whiteman Howling Wolf Sandra Ann,McCoy Barbara Ann,Propps Julia Ann,Scherdin Emilia Gail,Walker Jackie L.,Whiteman Jana Beth,Howling Wolf Jeffery Shawn,McDow Michael Todd,Propst Brandon Ellis,Scott Lisa J,Walker LaQuita Marie,Whiteman Margaret Ann, Jeremy Samuel,McDow Lattona Faye,Puente Charlene Catherine,Scott Rene Elizabeth,Walker Lesley V.,Whiteman Howling Wolf Lana Michelle,McIntosh Joseph Mark,Quintana Cheryl Ann,Scott Anthony Levi, Montoya Ann,Whiteman Donald Deshane,Scott Rhonda Ann,Howling Wolf Shawn Dale,McKeaigg Celia M.,Ramirez Walking Bear Frank Paul,Whiteman Jr. Wesley Dean,Howling Mallory Cae,Seat Jason Calvin,McKeaigg Jr. Hilbert Oliver,Ramirez Chelsea Janae,Warden Ercel Louise,Whiteshield Wolf Jr. Jason C.,McKeaigg Sr. Leonard,Ramirez Alice Marie,Seger Verna,Warden George Harvey, Lisa Marie,HowlingBuffalo Elizabeth Ann,McKinney Mary Jane,Ramirez Martha Allison,Seiber Alexis,Warledo Whiteshield Susan E.,HowlingBuffalo Florence Louise,Meat Mary Lou,Ramirez Janice Marie,Sevenstar Ashley,Warledo Robert T,Whiteshield James Anthony, Lena Abby,Meat Esperansa Rivera,Ramos Michael Justin,Sevenstar Geraldine Amelia,Warledo Sara L,Whiteshield Howlingcrane III Billy Dale,Medicine Bird Marnita,Ramos Laila Dawn,Shadaram KC,Warledo Christopher Alicia Deann,Howlingwater Deidre Dawn, Patricia Ann,Ramos Sara Roya,Shadaram Dennis Lowell,Washa Michael,Whiteshirt Delores Ann,Howlingwater Medicine Chips Eusebio,Ramos Jr. Nicole Lea,Sharp Jasper Kevin,Washa Eugenia Lynn,Whiteskunk Hayley,Howlingwater Lawerence,Medicine David Vincent,Raya Stacia Tai,Sharp Dana Lynn,Howlingwolf Chips jr Leslie Ann,Realrider Carol Linda,Shawnee Jimmy Tom,Washa Shelly Ann,Whiteskunk John Alfred,Howlingwolf Celeste,Medicinebird Jolene Olympia,Red Hat Kristin Kay,Sherwood Keeharto,Washa Shylia Lyn,Whiteskunk Agatha Norene,Hudgins Thomas,Melendez Jr. Ronald Gene,Red Shin Onebah,Slinkey Mandy R.,Washa Sonya Lea,Whiteskunk AshleyDachea Carlos WhiteTail,Mendivil Ronda Lynn,Red Shin Richard Samuel,Slinkey Nova Caprice,Washa Summer S,Whiteskunk Rose,Hudgins Christina Kay,Mendivil Jessica,Redbird Sylvia Ella,Slinkey Oscar Davis,Washa Sylvia Rae,Whiteskunk Christian,Hudgins-Wade Irene-Frances F.,Mendivil Wilma Jean,Redbird Benjamin Daniel,Smart Stephen Eugene,Washa Charles Gary,Whitetail Elizabeth,Hulett Winnifred E,Mendivil Nellie Kimberley,RedShin Heather Tonya,Smart Harold Joseph,Washa Jr Peggy Sue,Whitetail Robert,Hulett Denise Rene,Meshaya Ronald Lance,RedShin Rueben,Smart Porfirio Dean,Washa Jr Mary Elizabeth,Whitmyer Sarah Nicole,Hulett Norene V.,Milligan Alfred,Reyes Carol Ann,Smith Jasper Homer,Washa Jr. Aaron Ray,Williams Sue Ellen,Hulett Marilyn Sue,Miner Alta F.,Reyes Vanesa Paula,Smith Jasper Homer,Washa Sr. Betty Jo,Williams Diana,Humphrey Shally,Moncada Daniel Cuellar,Reyes John Augustine,Soliz Tallsun,Washa,Sr. Christopher Garrett, Summer Elaine,Hyslop Harvey Kenneth, David Andrew,Reyes Annavita Happy,Soto Adam,Washee Williams Iris Kaye,Ibanez Monetathchi Mario C.,Reyes Jon Ramon,Soto Kelly Darrell,Washee Jon Allen,Williams Maynard Doyle,Idleman Beverly Jo,Moore Mark E,Reyes Alfredo,Soto III Lisa Renee,Washee Paulene Danelle,Williams Terry Daniel,Ishcomer Deborah Jean,Moore Matthew Wade,Reyes Dalena Marie,Spahr Lodema,Washee Ray Alan,Williams Mark Alan,Jackson Landon Patrick,Moore Nick,Reyes Myra Lynn,Spence Stacia Rae,Washee Sherol Ann,Williams Heather Dyanne,Spencer Paula Jo,Jackson Phillip Alan,Moore Noah,Reyes Anderson Wade,Washee Jr Shirley A,Williams Brian Kelly,Sperle Damien,Jacobs Michelle Happy,Morales Ronnie Lee,Reyes Andrew Allen,Wassana Virginia Sue,Williams Wanda Faye,Morgan Skylar,Reyes Shawn Patrick,Spottedwolf Marcianna,Jacobs Breanna,Wassana Woxie Annette,Williams Carole Sue,Morris Trayla,Reyes Anita Sue,Spradlin Mary Katherine,Janssen Brittany Iilene,Wassana Charles James,Williams Jr. Melanie Rose,Motah Angeline Marcelle,Reynolds Samuel,Spradlin Cindy Lou,Jarnagin Charlene Amelia,Wassana Brandon Taz,Wilson Edward Fredrick,Mott Anthony Kim,Reynolds Vincent,Spradlin Deanna Lynne,Jenkins Christian,Wassana Dana Demars,Wilson Dorothy L.,Jenkins Amber Dawn,Mount JoAnn,Reynolds William Gene,St. Clair Christopher Lee,Wassana Dru David,Wilson Edison Jr,John Brian Douglas,Murray Kirby Levi,Reynolds Toby Jon,StandingBird . Craig Phillip Paul,Wassana Edward Paul,Wilson Gloria J.,John Esther,Murray Michael Nelson,Reynolds Crystal Dawn,Starr Drew Allen,Wassana Ferrell Lee,Wilson Monique Danielle,John Phillip Kirwin,Murray Ralph William,Reynolds Jacob,Starr Richard Kee,John William Jackson,Murray Rhonda Christine,Reynolds Jeanette Sue,Starr Homer Delos,Wassana Janice Lee,Wilson Edison,John Jr. Nizhoni Ruth,Naranjo Shaelynn Jan,Reynolds Moses Edward,Starr Lehomahte Chester, Jeffrey Allen,Wilson Bobby Joe,Johnson Elizabeth,Natseway Tiffany A,Reynolds Ronald Wesley,Starr Wassana John Derling,Wilson Yolanda K,Jones Leonard Stanley,Natseway Tony K.,Reynolds Shila Nicole,Starr Reggie Len,Wassana John Marshall,Wilson Johnnie James,Jones Jr. Summer D.,Natseway Sheldon,Reynolds Jr. Zachary,Starr Rosanna Lee Ranelle Sue,Wilson Christopher L.,Joseph Raymond Lewis, Caroline,Rhoads Moses Gerald,Starr Jr. Bear Woman,Wassana William Alfred,Wilson Stella A.,Joseph Natseway Jr. Caroline K,Rhoads Terry Lee,Stebens Roxanna Coral Crystal, William Keith,Wilson Steven Ray,Kammerzell Margaret,Nava Isaac Paul,Rhoads Corrine Jesse,Stewart Wassana Audrey Edith,Winship Cheyenne,Kasworm Shonda K,Neihart Murray Adrians,Rhoads Jr. Contastino Anthony,Stonecalf Semahoye Deere,Wassana Patsy,Winship Evelyn Beatrice,Kasworm Angie Dale,Newcomb Johnathan T.,Rhodes Kent,Stonecalf Timothy Charles, Ramona Allison,Wohl Winter N G,Kasworm Robert Rupert,Nibbs Carol A.,Rice Sherrill Jeanne,Stonecalf Wassana II Charles L.,Wood Cecelia Ann,Katkowski Theodore Raymond,Nibbs Michael Joe,Rice Sterling Paul,Stonecalf Aprill Ann,Watan Karen Rose,Yeahquo Johnathan,Kaulay Easton,Nibs Tersea,Rice Tonya Kim,Stonecalf Capacine Doreen,Watan Alden Dee,Yellow Eagle Della Ruth,Kelley Sandra Lynn,Nibs Lucien George,Rice III Virginia,Stonecalf Chereesa Marie,Watan Cathy May,Yellow Eagle Terri Lynn,Kemp Tia Lae,Nibs Kenndyl Keith,Richardson Wilma Rae,Stonecalf Dorene,Watan Donald C.,Yellow Eagle Barbara Sue,Kester Timothy E,Nibs Jr. Robert Dale,Riggs Tina Annette,Stover Max Julien,Watan Gerald,Yellow Eagle Justin Todd,Sumpter Christopher,Kester Pamela Jean,Nichols Mary Lyn,Rios Michael Bryan,Watan John Leonard, Mitchell,Sumpter Joe Lewis,Ketcher Roselyn,Nolasquez Michelle Hellen,Rios Max Allen,Watan Jr. Yellow Eagle Tammy Jeanell,Rios Scott C,Sumpter Yvonneda Jean,King Brandon,Nowlin Sterling Herman,Watan Sr. Jose Santos,Yellow Eagle Aaron Lee,Rivers Mitzi Lynn,Sutton Adrienne,Kinney Darla Gean,Ocenar Christina Mae,Waters Martin,Yellow Eagle April Dawn,Rivers Sharon Kay,Swartz Stacy Duane,Kinney Jennifer L.,Ocenar Evelyn Angie,Waters Matthew Leonard, Charlene Esther,Rivers Cora E,Sweetwater Deborah R.,Kodaseet Chester LeForce,Old Bear Brittney,Weasel Bear Yellow Eagle Douglas Harding,Kodaseet Danell Le Rayne,Rivers Jonita Lynn,Sweetwater Calvin Lee,Old Camp Shirley Ann,Weasel Bear Melissa Dawn, Keegan S.,Kodaseet Nicoma John,Old Camp Lance Eric,Rivers Lucinda Amelia,Sweetwater Bruce Allen,Webb Yellow Eagle Thomas LaVern,Koons John Matthew,Old Crow, III Quannah B.,Rivers Francis,Sweetwater Jr Leland Gus,Weber Michael Lee,Yellow Eagle Mary A,Koons (Cross). Regenia Nicole,Oldbear Randall Scott,Rivers Dylan N., Sweezy Blake A.,Welbourne Robert,Yellow Eagle Jr. Willard Alvan,Kyrk Sr., Lavonne Rose,Oldman Ryan Shawn,Rivers Gladys Deanna, Sweezy Ramona Dean,Lampkin Josephine,Oliver Christie Louise,Roberts Mike Cornell, Elwin Paul,Welbourne Shane Dean,Yellow Eagle Brenda Joann,Largent Rita Kay,Oliver Anthony,Roby Tahdooahnippah Georgiann P,Welbourne Shannon Dane, Frances Jean,Lawrence Kristin Dawn,Olsson Roberto Jesus,Rodriguez Raechel Josephine, Kathy Lynn,Welbourne Yellow Eagle Allison Jean,Leedy Manona Lynne,Olsson Jerolyn Juanita,Rodriquez Tahdooahnippah Tennyson Leroy,Welbourne Skylene,Yellow Eagle Brandon Dean,Lena June Cynthia,Orange Jesse,Rodriquez Ralph Joseph Sean,Tall Bear Teri Lavonne,Welbourne Vida Lena,Yellow Eagle Lesley Renee,Lena Karyn Ann,Orange Edwin,Roman Jr. Lewis Keith,Tall Bull Sr. Angie Little Bird,Welch John L.,Yellow Eagle Jr. Marsha Ann,Lena Nina Ray,Owen Clifford Jay,Roman Nose B.G.,Tallbear Ramona Josephine,Welch Felicia Michelle, Rullison Jacob,Lena Delana Marie,Panana Jerry Wanye,Roman Nose Daniel Lee,Tallbear Jacqueline A.,Welsh Yellow Eyes Bertha Marie,Lettic Dyrone Steven,Panana Jobe,Roman Nose Ladonna Shawn,Tallbear Agnes Genevieve,Wermy Alex Wade,Yelloweagle Gary,Lime GRANT,PANANA Randall R.W.,Roman Nose Teisha Marie,Tallbear Edward Glenn,Wermy Ashley,YellowEagle Antonio Francis,Limpy Leslie Dana,Panana Renee Lynn,Roman Nose William D.,TallBear Jr Roberta Ann,Wermy Beth,YellowEagle Ula Glenna,Lira Gerald,Panana Jr Stella Jean,Roman Nose Alfred D.,Tallbird Billy H,West Grace,YellowEagle Spencer Ray,Little Calf Anthony Albert,Paniayua Zakkary,Roman Nose Gloria Jean,Tallbull Kendall Ray,West Alvin Lee,Yelloweyes Keesha,Littlecalf Crystal La Rue,Parker Jerel S.S.,RomanNose Richard,Tallbull Jr Chief Allen,Weston Bernice Ann,Yelloweyes Norman Lynn,Littleman Melissa,Parris Patricia Ann,Roque Shannon,Tapia Betty L.,White Christy Lee,Young Teddy Ray,Tasso Kimberley Dean,Lone Bear Bertha M.,Partridge Nancy L.,Ross Mary Josephine,White Barbara,Youngbear Quixote,Tate Nevaquaya Chas Steven,Lonebear Valerie Amber,Patterson Norma Jean,Rouse Robert A,White Monica Renee,Youngbear Norman L.,Rouse Maria Roselyn,Thorpe Francis Keith,Lonebear Michael James,Pawnee Tracy Dulcie,White Mary Lou,Youngbull Raymond James,Rouse Matthew Thomas,Thorpe George Henry,Lonebear Edward,Pedro William Michael,White Lola Jean,Zipperer Elliott A.,Roy Bertha Colleen,Thunder Bull Lance Michael,Lonebear Lisa janay,Pedro Emma Myra,White Buffalo Melvin Gene,Zwirtz Ronald J.,Roy Marvin Roy,Thunderbull Laquita Margaret,Lonebear Reata Von,Pedro La Freda,White Buffalo PAGE 6 Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribal Tribune Tsistsistas & Hinonoei HUD budget cuts continued from pg. 1 Boys and Girls Club in Maryland is applying for CDBG indicated that it would include anything related to housing. funds to construct a gym next year. Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, In the budget document, HUD employees recommended said such cuts would be “devastating and hardhearted,”­ po- ATTENTION: “inclusion of funds in infrastructure package” for the Com- tentially leading to rent increases­ for those in subsidized Any Native land owners within the munity Development Block Grant, indicating the money housing. Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal land base could come from outside the HUD budget as part of a sep- “These sorts of cuts could . . . increase the number of interested in the Land Buy Back Program arate White House bill. families and people that are homeless because housing The HOME Investment Partnerships Program, which is less affordable,” Morial said. “It’s a slap in the face of please contact us at 405-422-7403 or by provides block grants for local communities to build af- working Americans, urban communities, to suggest that email [email protected]. fordable housing, and Choice Neighborhoods, a program you should make all these cuts to buy more tankers, aircraft Fax number is 405-422-8254. that invests in redeveloping low-income communities, also carriers and missile systems.” Ask about our upcoming informational would be cut. HUD salaries and administrative expenses will be cut by events. Find ore updates on the Cheyenne & In total, about $4 billion in community planning and de- 5 percent, down from $1.36 billion in 2016 to $1.28 billion Arapaho Facebook page and velopment grants, which have been used to clean up strug- in 2018. It is not yet clear how that reduction in staff or Land Management Facebook @calmo16. gling neighborhoods, would be eliminated under the Office wages­ would be achieved. of Management and Budget’s proposal. In the process of developing the federal budget, agencies Under the proposal, direct rental assistance payments submit an initial funding request to OMB, which makes ad- including Section 8 Housing and housing vouchers for justments and returns the budget markup. The budget docu- homeless veterans would be cut by at least $300 million, to ment obtained by The Post details OMB’s budget priorities, $19.3 billion. Additionally, housing for the elderly known program by program. Brown, the HUD spokesman, said as the Section 202 program would be cut by $42 million, the preliminary document is likely a HUD working draft nearly 10 percent. Section 811 housing for people with dis- as part of the budgeting process and might not have been abilities would be cut by $29 million, nearly 20 percent. reviewed by OMB, which is responsible for finalizing the Money available for Native American housing block grants president’s budget proposal before it is sent to Congress. would fall by $150 million, more than 20 percent. Given deadlines and the length of the process that prob- Barbara Sard, vice president for housing policy at the ably happened before Carson was confirmed last week by Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said that even flat the Senate. funding for HUD’s core programs ultimately could affect White House spokesman Sean Spicer referred questions the number of subsidized housing vouchers available to to OMB spokesman John Czwartacki, who called the doc- families because of inflation. As a result, she said, hundreds ument an “internal discussion” and said it would be “pre- of thousands of vouchers could be eliminated in the coming mature for us to comment.” years if the department’s funding allocations for subsidized “The president and his Cabinet are working collabora- housing stay the same. tively as we seek to create a budget that keeps the presi- She noted that, while it appears likely that Trump will dent’s promises to secure the country and prioritize taxpay- propose an infrastructure package, the White House has not er funds,” Czwartacki said. Standing with DAPL continued from pg. 1

Upper Sioux tribe, including graves in Lyon project on federal land bordering or under for the Midwest Alliance for County. Also in May 2016, Iowa farmers the Lake Oahe reservoir. The US federal Infrastructure Now (MAIN) filed lawsuits to prevent the state from using government asked the company for a “vol- Coalition, called the Corps’ eminent domain to take their land. untary pause” on construction near that area announcement “yet anoth- the EIS, which concerns the crossing of Lake Citing potential effects on and lack of until further study was done on the region ex- er attempt at death by delay” and said the Oahe. The proposed EIS would consider al- consultation with the Native American tribes, tending 20 miles around Lake Oahe. Energy Obama administration, “has chosen to further ternative locations for the pipeline crossing most notably the Standing Rock Sioux, in Transfer Partners rejected the request to vol- fan the flames of protest by more inaction.” the Missouri River, direct and indirect risks March and April 2016 the Environmental untarily halt construction on all surrounding North Dakota Senator John Hoeven said in a and impacts of an oil spill on the lake, the Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of private land and resumed construction. On statement that the delay, “will only prolong Standing Rock Sioux’s water supply, and Interior (DOI), and the Advisory Council on Sept. 13, 2016 chairman and CEO of Energy the disruption in the region caused by pro- their water, treaty fishing, and hunting rights; Historic Preservation asked the USACE to Transfer Partners Kelcy Warren responded to tests and make life difficult for everyone who as well as their treaty rights to the lake. The conduct a formal Environmental Impact As- the federal government’s request, saying con- lives and works in the area.” same day U.S. District Judge James Boas- sessment and issue an Environmental Impact cerns about the pipeline’s impact on the wa- Speaking to CBS News in November, berg denied ETP’s request to delay the EIS Statement. However, in July and August 2016 ter supply were “unfounded.” Warren said, Kelcy Warren said that it would be “100 process. USACE approved the water crossing permits “multiple archaeological studies conducted percent that the easement gets granted and On Jan. 24, 2017, four days after being and issued all other but one permissions nec- with state historic preservation offices found the pipeline gets built,” when newly elected inaugurated, President Donald Trump signed essary for the pipeline construction. no sacred items along the route.” He said the President elect Donald Trump came into of- an executive order to advance the construc- In June 2016, the IUB voted two to one company would meet with officials in Wash- fice on Jan. 20, 2017. tion of the pipeline under “terms and condi- (Libby Jacobs and Nick Wagner in favor ington, “to understand their position and re- On Dec. 4, 2016 the USACE announced tions to be negotiated.” The order would ex- and Chairwoman Geri Huser against) to al- iterate our commitment to bring the Dakota that it would not grant an easement for the pedite the environmental review that Trump low construction on non-sovereign lands to Access Pipeline into operation.” pipeline to be drilled under Lake Oahe and is described as “incredibly cumbersome, long, continue. The Sierra Club said this action On Nov. 1, 2016 President Barak Obama undertaking an environmental impact state- horrible permitting process.” was illegal before the US Corps of Engineers announced that his administration is moni- ment to look at possible alternative routes. On Feb. 7, 2017, the USACE sent to the authorized the project. In late June 2016, toring the situation and has been in contact The Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil United States Congress a notice of intent to construction was allowed to resume in Lyon with the USACE to examine the possibility Works), Jo-Ellen Darcy said, “the best way grant an easement under Lake Oahe no earli- County after plans were changed to route the of rerouting the pipeline to avoid lands that to complete that work responsibly and expe- er than 24 hours following notification of the pipeline 85 feet (26 m) below the site using Native Americans hold sacred. On Nov.14, ditiously is to explore alternate routes for the delivery of the notification. On Feb. 9, 2017, directional boring, instead of trenching and 2016 the USACE announced, “the Army has pipeline crossing.” the Cheyenne River Sioux sued the easement disturbing the soil on the surface. In Decem- determined that additional discussion and Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Lo- decision, citing an 1851 treaty and interfer- ber 2016, the approval was disputed in the analysis are warranted in light of the history gistics Partners issued a same-day response ence with the religious practices of the tribe. Polk County District Court. of the Great Sioux Nation’s dispossessions saying that the White House’s directive, “is On Feb. 22, 2017 the protest site was On July 27, 2016 the Standing Rock Sioux of lands, the importance of Lake Oahe to the just the latest in a series of overt and trans- cleared, as that was the deadline for the camp Tribe sued the USACE in the United States Tribe, our government-to-government rela- parent political actions by an administration to be cleared by protesters. Although many District Court for the District of Columbia. tionship, and the statute governing easements which has abandoned the rule of law in fa- left voluntarily many were arrested in con- On Sept. 9, 2016 U.S. District Judge James through government property.” vor of currying favor with a narrow and ex- flict of this event. Boasberg denied the motion for preliminary Energy Transfer Partners responded by treme political constituency.” They said that “If one of those pipelines was to break, it injunction. On Sept.10, 2016 the Standing criticizing the Obama administration for “po- the companies “fully expect to complete would destroy the water, the drinking water,” Rock Sioux Tribe filed an appeal, which was litical interference” and said; “further delay construction of the pipeline without any ad- Tom Morgan said, with the powwow club. denied on Oct. 9, 2016. in the consideration of this case would add ditional rerouting in and around Lake Oahe. “We were here first. We’re still here, and In September the U.S Department of Jus- millions of dollars more each month in costs Nothing this Administration has done today we’re going to be here tomorrow, too.” tice received more than 33,000 petitions to which cannot be recovered.” changes that in any way.” The protest also featured speakers from review all permits and order a full review North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrym- On Jan. 18, 2017, the USACE filed its for- across the country, and rally leaders are of the project’s environmental effects. On ple criticized the decision saying the pipe- mal Notice of Intent to conduct the Environ- working with politicians to try and stop fu- Sept. 9, 2016, the US Departments of Jus- line would be safe and that the decision was mental Impact Statement process. The notice ture pipelines from being built. tice, Army, and Interior temporarily halt the “long overdue.” Craig Stevens, spokesman opened a thirty-day comment on the scope of StrongHearts crisis line continued from pg. 2 services to Native American survivors cost service dedicated to serving Native nationwide based on utilization, de- American survivors of domestic vio- mand, and resources available. lence and dating violence, along with “Verizon is proud to be the first cor- their concerned family members and porate sponsor of the StrongHearts Na- friends. By dialing 1-844-7NATIVE tive Helpline, a resource that will pro- (1-844-762-8483) Monday through vide a crucial space for Native people Friday from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. CST, to find support,” said Stuart Conklin, callers can connect at no cost one-on- program manager at the Verizon Foun- one with knowledgeable StrongHearts dation. “We look forward to its success advocates who can provide lifesaving and continuing to build on a lasting tools and immediate support to enable partnership.” survivors to find safety and live lives About StrongHearts Native Helpline free of abuse. Learn more about the Created by and built to serve tribal StrongHearts Native Helpline at www. communities across the United States, strongheartshelpline.org. the StrongHearts Native Helpline, a This project was made possible project of the National Indigenous through a grant from the Administra- Women’s Resource Center, the Nation- tion on Children, Youth and Families, al Domestic Violence Hotline, and the Family and Youth Services Bureau, Family Violence Prevention and Ser- U.S. Department of Health and Human vices Program, is a culturally-appropri- Services. ate, anonymous, confidential and no- Tsistsistas & Hinonoei Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribal Tribune PAGE 7 Connecting Native youth and colleges through the game of football

Photos & Story by Latoya Lonelodge, Staff Reporter With the combination of different Native backgrounds, each student ath- lete came with one thing in mind … pursue their interest in football. According to statistics, 9.3 percent of Native Americans graduate with One athlete from Saturday’s combine traveled all the way from Gallup, a college degree compared to the national average of 20.3 percent of all N.M. Jaice Henry is a senior from Gallup High School and from the Navajo college graduates. With the goal of prioritizing Native youths’ college at- Nation. tendance the fifth annual Native American Football Scouting Combine was “There’s all these other kids from everywhere else that want the same held on March 4 in Oklahoma City. Top-tier football coaches from various thing as me and they’re all the same, they have the same abilities as me. colleges were present to scout potential Native American athletes. Qualifi- I’ve been playing football since I was 6 years old, I play football because cations included being of tribal descent, current high school seniors or past my family loves football, I love playing football, especially my grandpa, he high school graduates not currently enrolled in college. passed away a year ago and I’m joining college football for him,” Henry Along with fierce and time consistent combine drills, the main goal of said. the scouting event was to educate students on the importance of attending With the goal of playing football at the next level, combine was an op- college. portunity for athletes to get familiar with the idea of college. Henry said his “Our goal is to help connect students to colleges. What that means is let main goal of participating in the scouting combine was to get scouted. them meet someone today, build a relationship with the recruiting coach, “I just want to be able to play football again, I love playing,” Henry said. with the school, with a college program and that’s important, but bottom While students who participated in the combine that day were educated line is we have to get them to follow through and leave. Have the courage to about college, there were also many Native students who were unable to leave home, have the courage to leave their communities, have the courage join that day. to leave what they know is comfortable and invest and take a chance on their “The interesting thing is that there are students that weren’t able to make self,” James Pryor, Eastern Arizona College assistant football coach said. it so we’re still going to serve them, the day actually serves 70 students, The Native American scouting combine first began five years ago when it we’re going to help more students because they were in state champion- was brought to the attention of tribal leaders in the communities. ships, weightlifting, they couldn’t make it because their car broke down, we “They all had a vision to create second chances and create opportunities still go to work for students that weren’t able to make it,” Pryor said. to connect our youth with college opportunities. Credit should be given to Pryor said that some of the challenges among Native American student Chairman John Berrey and his vision in leadership, he’s part of the Quapaw athletes are getting them to believe that they can come to a day when they Tribe, as well as John (Rocky) Barrett, Chairman of the Potawatomi Tribe, can connect with colleges and have success. and truth be told, it was with their vision and leadership that they said let’s “Convince them to believe, remind them that they can be a college stu- create an opportunity to connect our youth with college opportunities,” Pry- dent, whether they’re the first in the family, whether they come from a situ- or said. ation of low-income, whether they come from a situation of circumstance, I With over 20 college representatives present at the scouting combine, want these students to know that they can come to a day like this and have Pryor said coaches are trying to build belief and courage among Native success,” Pryor said. athletes. With the combination of various tribal representations on the field that “We also want to build a plan that they can follow through with that’s day, opportunities for success in college were open on and off the field. tangible, that they can follow step by step so they can connect with the col- “Let’s say they don’t come from any of those situations, they can still leges because we want our men on a college campus come August,” Pryor come here and have success, this is an opportunity for second chances, this said. is an opportunity for first chances but at the end of the day we’re trying to Over 40 Native students attended the combine, all from different tribal get Native students into college,” Pryor said. backgrounds. Tribes represented included the Cherokee, Quapaw, Chey- For more information on the Native American Scouting Combine, con- enne and Arapaho, Comanche, Apache, Navajo and Potawatomi. tact Pryor at 928-919-1908 or by email, [email protected].

Teaching C-A culture at Oklahoma City based elementary school Story & photo by Rosemary Stephens, Editor-in-Chief Cheyenne and Arapaho Culture & Heritage Project followed. Manager Greg Spottedbird is used to teaching Native “When we won the race we had to find out what the youth the history and traditions of the Cheyenne & rules would be from then on and what that was is the Arapaho tribes. He took his teachings one step further winner of that race would hunt the loser through time, on March 3 to educate non-Native students at Edge- so that’s why today we hunt the buffalo,” Spottedbird mere Elementary in Oklahoma City some of the history told the kids as they sat with their eyes glued to him. of the tribes … specifically the importance of the buf- “So we won and we had a celebration, painting our- falo. selves and dressing in bright colors, like you guys are From pre-k to fourth grade, students filed into the all dressed in bright colors today.” assembly area where they got their first glimpse of the He told them the birds also painted themselves, such many items made from the buffalo, along with a genu- as the red bird, the eagle with their white heads and ine buffalo skull and a giant buffalo skin laid flat across the blue jays. He said the buffalo also went and painted the table. That’s when the excited chatter erupted, fin- themselves, the color of the earth so they would blend gers pointing, a million questions being shouted all at in and camouflaged themselves into the earth, making once. it harder for them to be hunted. After quieting the endless chatter, Spottedbird asked “The buffalo told us we would use them for all time them, “how many of you have grandparents?” to feed our young, to clothe ourselves and to help build Hands shot up in the air at once, giving Spottedbird our houses and lodges,” he said. a chuckle and an opening. As he finished up sharing his story, the students lined “Well when I was growing up I was raised by my up to experience a show and touch procession of each elders, my grandparents. Growing up with my grand- of the items Spottedbird brought made from the buffalo. parents I learned about my culture and traditions, so From a necklace made of buffalo teeth, to skin used when I grew up I began to teach Cheyenne and Arapaho for soles on moccasins, cloth for clothing, the bladder kids, like yourselves about our traditions,” Spottedbird for holding water and the horn to used to make soup said bringing him to the many buffalo items laid out on ladles, cups and hold fires. a long table on the stage. Each child seemed fascinated and glued their at- He shared a story about the buffalo he had been told tention to the items on the table as Spottedbird went growing up at bedtime. The story of when animals talk- through and demonstrated what each item was used for. ed to humans and the great race between the four legs This was the first year for Edgemere students to en- and the two legs. gage in learning about the buffalo’s importance to the Spottedbird spun the story of how the bird people, Native people and it is almost a certainty they talked Greg Spottedbird shows fourth grade student at who had two legs just like humans, helped to win the about their experience long after the school bell rang Edgemere Elementary how to scrape a skin. Spottedbird race against the buffalo and the giant celebration that for them to go home. had a hands on ‘show and tell’ about the buffalo. PAGE 8 Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribal Tribune Tsistsistas & Hinonoei Life’s Journeys continued from pg. 2

With a couple of hundred dollars in his pocket Ron headed minute I don’t know I want to go that far,’” Ron laughingly back home, blew the money and went to work in Elk City said. at the Broom 6 Slacks company pressing slacks. He said he What he did do the next weekend was he went to visit his would press ‘those bell bottom’ slacks and there were a lot of grandfather Mo senior. He had some questions and he knew Indian guys working there. where to go to ask. Shortly after, his parents got him into Okmulgee Oklaho- “We were driving to the store to get some groceries and I ma State Tech. was telling him about my visit to the church and what they “The West boys, one of them was director over the Smith- asked me. I said to him, ‘what do you think about that, I said sonian, but one of them was friends of my family and he had as Natives we have our own religion and we have our own come by to visit. He asked me what I wanted to do and told way … what about this Christianity?’ And he never said any- me he would get me into the tech to learn drafting. I finished thing, we went on to the store and we came back and he final- up in two years and went to work at Star Manufacturing.” ly said, ‘you asked me all that, and look at all these churches, Ron stayed for a couple of years than moved on to Tulsa there’s got to be something behind that.’ And I said okay … and went to work for Rawley Southwest up until 1978. that’s all I needed. I went to the next service at Eastwood and “I was just going along having a good time, but there was they had this big invitation to come forward and accept Jesus always this emptiness inside of me. I always just brushed and I went forward.” it off,” Ron said. “There were about 10 of us who became Ron said that was on Jan. 1, 1978 and he will always re- friends at Rawley’s, all in our 20s and we all buddied togeth- member that Sunday. er, played ball together, bowled and took canoe trips. Mostly “I remember that because that was a Sunday morning and white guys but there was one guy, Gary Bear, who was half the Saturday night before I went to a party and I left early Indian. He used to always tell me, “I’m only half white,’ and after drinking a half of a Miller’s beer. I never just drank a Ron Starr and Tom Anderson, Choctaw minister in I would say, ‘oh that’s White Bear.’ One time we were on this half of anything. I didn’t tell anyone I was leaving or nothing, canoe trip and the two Indians ended up in one canoe, we I just left. Everyone was getting drunk, in a festive mood and the 1980s. were beating all the other guys and Gary yells out at me, ‘ha I just slipped out, got into my car and went home, got up the really rough inner city and spent three or four years there. I two Indians in a canoe,’ like what a concept.” next morning and got ready for Sunday school.” got involved with the Inter-Tribal Club there in the Richmond Ron sat a moment as he looked up and said, “You know Ron said he stayed at Eastwood for a few months, thinking area and we would have Bible studies and go out into the there I was, I had a good job making more money than I had all the time, ‘how great this stuff was.’ He began to go out into communities. We held services on Sunday afternoons in San ever made, had lots of friends in my life, but there was just the communities and talking to Native people, telling them Pablo. It was a struggle in San Pablo, hardly anyone com- something missing in my life. Every time I would go out and about Christ, about his experience. He talked to a pastor at ing so I finally went down to San Jose from 1988 to 1992 try to have good time I would become just empty.” Bowen Indian Baptist Church who told him he needed to be and from there I went to Montana for three years until 1995, It was about this time Ron was involved in a bad car acci- with his own people. then I went to Sacaton south of Phoenix with the intention of dent heading to a bachelor’s party. He said it was just another “So at age 27 I joined Bowen Indian Baptist Church and working on my doctoral program because Golden Gate had reason for all the guys to get drunk, but he was in a partying it was there I began to feel a calling inside of me. I didn’t an extension in Phoenix, but the church had a lot of problems mood so he headed out, stopping at a club on his route to the know what it was I was supposed to do, but I knew there was and I couldn’t really focus on both, so I put the doctorate on bachelor party. something,” Ron said. hold and dealt with the issues at the church. But I always felt “Around Southern Hills Golf Club on 61st I was headed It was about this time Ron’s grandfather, Mo senior was that one of these days I would come home,” Ron said. west in my little Mustang when this guy driving a Grand Prix hospitalized. He traveled home to spend the weekend at the And eventually Ron did come home to Oklahoma. He cur- lost control and hit me on the passenger side, spun around hospital with him. He knew inside there was something he rently lives in the Cheyenne & Arapaho Independent Living and their car ended up on top of my car. I made the Saturday needed to do and it came to him as he sat by his grandfather’s Center in Clinton, Okla., and he enjoys each and every day he morning news in Tulsa. I fractured my leg, broke my nose, side. He called pastor Paul and told him he thought he needed is given. He attends powwows and dances whenever he can concussion, bit my tongue almost in two. But the deal was to go to seminary school. and enjoys having friends to hang out with at the center. He my grandmother had prayed that I would be all right, because “One thing Paul told me on the phone was if you go don’t still has a message to share and especially to the youth. my grandmother Helen was a lady of prayer and I was out of look back. He read a scripture out of either the Book of Luke “I would tell young people you’re not alone. God has a that hospital in less than two or Matthew that primarily said if you turn back you’re not plan for you. People say Maheo and different things, but Ma- weeks and back to work. But fit for the kingdom of God. To me it meant if you make the heo had a son … His name is Jesus. With me I was fortunate you know I was still doing decision you have to follow through with it,” Ron said. “That because my grandmother was Mennonite, they believed in that partying deal but inside I night in the hospital with my grandfather it really came into God. Be proud of who you are because that’s the way God still felt that emptiness and I my heart. He was a pastor’s son; he was the son of Harry Starr made you. We still have racism sometimes still today, not all thought to myself what’s go- who was one of the first Native American ordained Baptist the time, but sometimes in the way we’re treated, but God has ing on.” preachers over in Kingfisher. Moses senior wasn’t much of a plan for you and loves you.” Life rolled on for Ron a church person but he was a spiritual man teaching by ex- Ron said he would want people to know they are not giv- seemingly in the same man- ample. I thought what if I put it off until I’m old when I was ing up anything to follow Jesus, but actually they will gain so ner, until one day after work, called to do something at a young age and I don’t do it? So I much more. as he was going into his thought I better carry this through and go on to OBU.” “You’re gaining a new life. I hear things like, ‘well what building to go home he no- Ron made a vow that day and never looked back. He en- about my friends, my partying,’ but once you give it all to the ticed a little ‘gal’ sitting on rolled at Oklahoma Baptist University in the fall of 1979. Lord He gives you so much more. For my example, you know the steps. He had noticed her “All my bills were paid from the settlement from that that’s where I was. All my friends and the drinking, all my before and knew she went to bad wreck I had, my car, everything I owed and there wasn’t friends would say ‘that ole’ Starr he’s a pretty cool guy,’ you church a lot. anything stopping me but me. So I became a 28-year-old know. So I was over there thinking, ‘man if I start going to “We became friends, freshman with all these kids. I was like a fish out of water church and start witnessing they’re all going to laugh at me,” would go out to eat and play Ron Starr’s 1983 year- surrounded by all these middle-class white kids. There were he said. “When I was in Oakland with those inner city Indian racquetball, that was the big book photo in the Yahnseh. times I thought to myself what am I doing here, but then one kids I just told them my story, where I came from and here in thing back then was rac- day a little gal gave me a plague, it said, “Trust in the Lord Oklahoma City the kids are looking for something and it’s not quetball, but we never really with all your heart and lean not unto your own understanding weed, or amphetamines or prescription drugs but it’s what the dated, just friends. Well she ended up moving and I didn’t …” and I said to myself I felt God call me here so He’s going Lord can give you. I know how it is to be in a class where they have her phone number, so I said, ‘well her last name is Zim- to provide a way and He did. God always brought the teacher make fun of the Indian guy or to be drunk with my friends and merman,’ so I looked in the phone book and called the first in front of me.” partying. You know I call a lot of people my friends but when Zimmerman I saw and asked if Kathy was there, and she said Ron graduated from OBU in 1983 and went onto semi- I call you my brother that really means something.” yeah this is she. So we talked and I ended up telling her how nary school at, what was once called, Golden Gate Seminary Before saying goodbye Ron looked up and said, “People I was feeling inside, the emptiness, and she ended up invit- in Mill Valley, Calif. He became associate pastor at Oakland may not understand this, but when I became a Christian I be- ing me to church at Eastwood Baptist. So I went and what American Indian Baptist for a year, and then went to San came more human, I became more Cheyenne because that’s happened is some guys came up and asked me if I wanted to Francisco American Indian Baptist Church for a year. what I was meant to be. I need to be with Native people but I make a decision for the Lord and I was like, ‘hey now wait a “I went on to have my own church in Richmond, Calif., a minister to all people, we are all beautiful people.” Indian mascot (opinion) continued from pg. 3 must strive to look past the NCIA also reports that “At words instantly accessible your endorsement. I worry subjected to ugly taunts support from a select few the local community level, to the global community at for your tribal youth who from the crowd. Per- who were methodically in- 28 high schools in 18 states large. Overall, Indigenous attend these schools and the haps they will endure the vited to the table. Native that have dropped the “R” Peoples are largely misrep- development of their identi- same racial assault as our alumni who had great expe- word as their mascot’s name resented, so please under- ties. I worry for my Native 6th grade girls team this riences as athletes in the El in the last 25 years.” We do stand the detriment of your students here in Northern fall when a parent from Reno school program were not have to surrender to the endorsement. Oklahoma because society a school with an Indian invited to provide input. As status quo in the name of di- And for what? What did at large tends to take one mascot called them dirty a former High School ath- plomacy. we as C&A people gain? “Indian’s” word for it. Will little Indians after we beat lete and mother of two cur- On a macro level, every Has curriculum at the char- they be subjected to taunts them. rent varsity Native athletes, I time our Native athletes step ter been inclusive of C&A by other students because There is too much em- am certain the alumni would on that court or field, they tribal history and culture, their peers (and administra- pirical data that shows have had the same pride are often subjected to mock- both consistently and ef- tion) can only connect their the harm on our Native had their mascot been any ery of their Native identity fectively? Has El Reno’s identities to a caricature? youth to sit idly by in other name. Furthermore, alone. Indian mascots add to educational pedagogy been Will they be subjected to the name of skewed di- even though some alumni that significantly. No mat- updated to include cultural being discriminated against plomacy. Please take the had great experiences, that ter how much you and this sensitivity and awareness? because their administra- time to read the American does not mean the mascot charter may strive to control How many Native or C&A tions can only connect their Psychological Associa- does not cause harm. Did this image with “morale” faculty and staff work in this identities to a political ide- tion Resolution Recom- you involve the Department videos or diplomatic hand- charter that are not funded ology? Will their history be mending the Immediate enne & Arapaho Tribes of of Education to advise your shakes, you absolutely have through Title VI or Impact stifled because this is the Retirement of American Oklahoma and is the Di- decision to openly support no control over those indi- Aid funds? Have you ad- best example of an “Indi- Indian Mascots, Symbols, rector of Indian Education the charter mascot? viduals who are willfully vocated for these issues on an” partnership? Will their Images and Personalities by at Frontier Public Schools In the video presented, ignorant to the people we the same level you did for curriculum continue to be Schools, Colleges, Univer- which is predominately pop- you and the Lt. Governor are. You should be striving the harmful mascot? Even if filled with rhetoric instead sities, Athletic Teams, and ulated by Native students. spoke of working together to make sure that we are ed- you were promised all these of meaningful conversation Organizations. She lives in Red Rock, OK with the charter to provide ucating our neighbors and things, is it enough to en- about their identity? Please consider in the fu- with her family and is grad- the best experience of a working to rid our C&A dorse something so harmful Why endorse this mas- ture to properly inform your uating from Oklahoma State “diverse” population. I can people of the stigma and as- to your tribal youth? cot, but instead make an people and include their in- University in the Curric- assure you there are other sault Indian mascots ingrain What can Mr. Roblyer institutional change? I ask put in making public state- ulum Studies and Leader- ways to be diplomatic and in our youth’s psyche, not the Diversity Officer, who that you answer these ques- ments in support of Native ship master’s program. It is considering the C&A peo- endorsing them. We should visibly lacks diversity, pos- tions to those of us whom mascots. I will be speaking ranked in the top 10 of cur- ple’s contribution to the also refrain from being the sibly tell you or others about you have left out of the con- with the legislators as well. riculum studies programs local economy and at the poster child for acceptance Native or C&A identity or versation. I ask you to also I look forward to your re- in the US and is recognized state level, we should be ex- of these harmful Indian honoring our people? answer those questions to sponse here and publicly. by distinguished curriculum ercising our sovereignty to mascots in a public forum. The battle today is not of your tribal youth when they Alison Black is an en- scholars as a nation center the fullest and not settling. Technology has made your the mascot itself but rather travel to play sports and are rolled member of the Chey- for graduate study. Tsistsistas & Hinonoei Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribal Tribune PAGE 9 Shawnee Tribe secures final approval Benefits coordinators at the Clinton Service Unit for off-reservation casino The CSU offers the ser- ternate resource programs. (SHAWNEE, OK) The tribe an- vice of Patient Benefits Failure to complete the nounced plans for the Golden Mesa Ca- Coordinators to assist our application process to such sino a little over two years ago. Both the patients in exploring all al- program if an individual Bureau of Indian Affairs and Gov. Mary ternate health care resourc- qualifies, may result in a Fallin (R) have since blessed the project, es they may qualify for. denial of payment assis- which will be located in the Panhandle Current Federal regulations tance through PRC if such region of the state. require those within IHS care is needed. Utilization "As a landless tribe, the granting of to exhaust all alternate re- of alternate resources will land represents a historic event of in- sources prior to IHS’s Pur- not only assist the patient chase Referred Care (PRC) in obtaining the best care describable importance to us. As we eligibility to expend funds, available, but will help re- look ahead, we will extend the hand of as IHS is the payer of last duce cost in PRC services, friendship and partnership to the citizens resort. which enable CSU to serve of the Panhandle," Chief Ron Sparkman Patient Benefits Coor- more people. said in a statement on Tuesday. dinators are located within For more information, The tribe's prospects appeared to be all three facilities of CSU contact CSU Benefits Co- uncertain because the BIA finalized the to educate patients on their ordinators at the Clinton In- environmental assessment near the end Artist's rendering of the proposed Golden Mesa Casino in Guymon, Okla. health care choices and are dian Health Center, Teresa of the Obama administration. But the (Photo / Shawnee Tribe Environmental Assessment) available daily to speak on Murray at 580-331-3364 or Trump administration gave the go-ahead the benefits of enrolling in Julie Cox at 580-331-3402. for the project in early February. Fallin said on Tuesday. “It is fitting that we follow the various Medicaid programs, For El Reno and Waton- The tribe pursued Golden Mesa under the two-part acknowledgment by Congress to offer this tribe the Medicare, Disability, In- ga Indian Health Centers determination provisions of the Indian Gaming Regula- ability to self-determination and self-governance by al- sure Oklahoma, Vocational call Juanita Benally-Mor- tory Act. The law gives the state governor final say over lowing economic development opportunities.” Rehabilitation, Crime Vic- sette at 405-234-8425 off-reservation casinos. The 107-acre casino site is in Guymon, more than tims Compensation, Medi- The vision of the CSU Only a handful of tribes have completed both steps 400 miles from Shawnee headquarters. The BIA noted cation Assistance, Veterans is to provide quality health of the process since IGRA became law in 1988. Two of that the tribe, whose federal recognition was restored Affairs Administration, or care services focusing on them happen to be located in Oklahoma and both were by an act of Congress in 2000, had to look far away for private insurance through prevention, restoration and approved by Governor Fallin. land due to restrictions in federal law. the Affordable Care Act’s collaborative relationships “I appreciate the growing partnership our state and The tribe has partnered with Global Gaming Solu- Health Insurance Market- that are valued and “ex- the tribes have developed and improved over the last tions, a business owned by the Chickasaw Nation, to place. ceed the needs” of our pa- All patients are encour- tients, community and trib- several years. I believe the Shawnee Tribe has demon- operate Golden Mesa. A groundbreaking and construc- aged to make a good faith al partners. strated its commitment to our country and this state,” tion schedule have not been announced at this point. application to necessary al-

BRIEFS AT A GLANCE Indian Land Founda- March 29-30, 2017 in Conference on Child Abuse tion Self-Governance annual The 2017 Leadership tion-Seventh Tribal Land Phoenix, Ariz. For more in- and Neglect April 10-13, 2017 at the Consultation Conference Summit Staff National Conference formation or to register visit April 2-5, 2017 in San San Diego Convention Cen- April 23-27, 2017 at the April 27-29, 2017 at the March 21-23, 2017 at the www.falmouthinstitute.com. Diego, Calif. For more in- ter in San Diego, Calif. For Spokane Convention Center wild Horse Pass Hotel & Ca- Tamaya Resort and Spa in formation or to register visit more information or to regis- in Spokane, Wash. For more sino in Chandler, Ariz. For Santa Ana Pueblo, N.M. For Management and Con- www.nicwa.org. ter visit www.ncai.org. information or to register more information or to regis- more information or to regis- trol of Tribal Assets and visit www.tribalselfgov.org. ter visit www.summit.aises. ter visit www.ncai.org. Property Federal Bar Associa- The ninth annual Tribal org. March 30-31, 2017 at the tion’s Indian Law Confer- Public Health Conference - NAFOA 35th annual Conducting Credible Flamingo Hotel in Las Ve- ence Public Health Evolution in Spring Conference Tribal Law Enforcement Tribal Elections gas, Nev. For more informa- April 6-7, 2017 at the Indian Country April 24-25, 2017 at the Executive Symposium, March 27-28, 2017 in tion or to register visit www. Talking Stick Resort in April 12-13, 2017 at the Hilton Union Square in San “Breaking Down Tribal Ju- Phoenix, Ariz. For more in- falmouthinstitute.com. Scottsdale, Ariz. For more River Spirit Casino & Resort Francisco, Calif. Economic risdictional Walls” formation or to register visit information or to register in Tulsa, Okla. For more in- and financial issues facing May 10-11, 2017 at the www.falmouthinstitute.com. The National Indian visit www.fedbar.org. formation or to register visit Indian Country. For more Kah-Nee-Ta Resort in Warm Child Welfare Associa- [email protected]. information or to register Springs, OR. For more in- Indian Country’s Indi- tion’s 35th annual Protect- NIGA Indian Gaming email Michelle Taunton at formation or to register visit rect Cost Summit ing Our Children National Tradeshow and Conven- The 2017 Tribal [email protected]. www.ncai.org. PAGE 10 Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribal Tribune Tsistsistas & Hinonoei Eating healthy Tara Conway, MS, RD, LD, CDE C&A Diabetes Wellness Program for DIABETES March Is National Nutrition Month By Caitlyn Deason, OSU Intern March is National Nutri- ents you need to be healthy. cohol, saturated fat, and trans correctly answered, that per- tion Month when the Acad- Nutrients include: proteins, fat intake in your diet. son’s name will be placed in emy of Nutrition and Dieti- carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, Limit eating processed a daily drawing and then the cians reminds everyone to minerals, and water. Which foods because they contain monthly drawing. The more return to the basics of healthy can be found on the nutrition a lot of sodium (salt) to pre- people play the more chanc- eating. Some may not know labels on food packaging. serve them for longer shelf es they have to win. If par- the basics of healthy eating How to eat healthy. life. ticipants play every day, all so: Eating healthy is not as Limit or cut sugary drinks month they will be eligible What exactly is nutri- hard as people think. The key out of your diet. for a participation prize. The tion? to healthy eating is to have a Saturated fats and trans grand prize will be a Fitbit Nutrition is the science nutrient dense diet. Nutrient fats are the unhealthy fats. HR. To get your email added that interprets the interaction density just means that the Trans fats are the worst, and to receive the daily nutrition of nutrients and other sub- food has a lot of nutrients for should be avoided. Processed question, contact Conway at stances in food in relation to the amount of calories the foods, margarines, and short- 405-422-7685. maintenance, growth, repro- food contains. enings contain a lot of trans NYPD Camp is around duction, health, and disease Key to Healthy Eating. fats. Unsaturated fats are the the corner, June 12-16, 2017. of an organism (person). It Eat a variety of foods in- healthy fats. A few foods that Space is limited to 10 partic- includes, but is not limited cluding vegetables, fruits, contain unsaturated fats are ipants. (See flyer for more to, food intake, food absorp- and whole-grain products. avocados, almonds (unsalt- information.) tion, and excretion. Eat lean meats such as; ed), and fish. For more information and What is good nutrition? poultry, fish, beans, and low- March’s National Nutri- tips on eating healthy con- Good or healthy nutrition fat dairy products. (1 percent tion Month nutrition quiz of tact Conway at the Diabetes is based on the food that you or Skim Milk) the day is going well. Cur- Wellness Program 405-422- give your body. Food pro- Drink lots of water. rently there are 48 participat- 7685 or email tconway@c-a- vides the energy and nutri- Limit your salt, sugar, al- ing. Each time an answer is tribes.org.

Oklahoma Indian Nation Powwow Committee ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR 2017 PRINCESS CONTEST Age Categories for Princess Candidates:

Senior Miss: Between Ages 14-19 years of age by April Junior Miss: Between Ages 7-13 years of age by April Little Miss: Between Ages 1-6 years of age by April

Applicants must be of American Indian Descent Princess Contest will be judged by Penny A Vote on April 26, 2017 OIN Committee will count Penny Votes 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at the Darlington School. All candidates must turn in their votes at that time. All coins must be converted to bills.

May 27, 2017 Princess Coronation Dance held at Darlington School

Applications can be obtained and submitted to Dara Franklin, 405-262-0137 Christine Morton, 405-422-7919 David Ramos 405-422-7480

Oceti Sakowin / Seven Council Fires Mni Wichoni – Water is Life To the young people and their determination to protect our water. The willingness to stand up to attack dogs and gun-wield- ing police. For having the heart to stand in solidarity. John Paul Cutnose Tsistsistas & Hinonoei Cheyenne & Arapaho Ogala Lakota, 2016

Calendar Watonga Cultural ment Event up call 405-422-7596 or MC Nathan Littlehawk, 2017 at the Concho Commu- Buffalohead, AD Ron Classes every Thursday 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. March 25, email mhalfred@c-a-tribes. HS Jason Goodblanket, nity Center in Concho, Okla. Plumley, Waterboy Thomas in March 2017 at the Watonga Com- org. HMD Lorenzo ‘Bo’ Beard, Please call for details and ap- Primeaux. 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. every munity Center in Watonga, HLD Amy Pineda, HLB pointment at 405-943-6457. Vendors welcomed. For Thursday at the Watonga Okla. For more information Graduation Honor Jeffrey Whiteshirt (11), more information contact Al- Public Library, 301 N. Prouty or for a foster home appli- Dance for Sylvana Levi- HLG Tina Mae Ortiz (11), Graduation Dance for ison Black at 580-830-6600 in Watonga, Okla. Incentives cation call 405-422-7592 or er-Jessepe AD Cato Red Hat, Honored Benjamin Spottedwolf or Velda Rocha at 580-362- for students who attend the 405-431-8951. April 1, 2017 at the Con- Veteran Trevor Aguilar, US April 15, 2017 at the 6435. most classes. For more infor- cho Community Center in Army, Honored Elder Norma Clinton Community Cen- mation call 405-422-7428. Southwestern Okla- Concho, Okla. Riggles and Co-Host Scraper ter in Clinton, Okla. Gourd Graduation Dance for homa State University Gourd dance at 2 p.m., Family of Watonga. dancing at 3 p.m., supper at Ahk-ta-na-hi Goodblan- Oklahoma Indian Na- second annual Spring supper at 5 p.m. and dance to 5 p.m. with evening session ket tions Powwow Commit- Inter-Tribal Powwow follow. Barefoot Powwow to follow. April 29, 2017 at the tee Benefit Dance March 25, 2017 at the MC Alan Fletcher and Benefit Dance MC Burl Buffalomeat, HS Clinton Community Center March 18, 2017 at the SWOSU Wellness Center, on Burl Buffalomeat, HS Rog- April 1, 2017 at the Geary Mike Pawnee, HMD Sonny in Clinton, Okla. Dinner at 5 Darlington School gym. the corner of 7th Street and er Davis, HMD Deswood Community Center in Geary, Redshin, HLD Hannah Little p.m. with dance to follow. Supper at 5 p.m. Davis in Weatherford, Okla. Koshiway, HLD Bobbie Ann Okla. Gourd dancing begins Coyote, HLB Jakobe White MC Burl Buffalomeat, MC Alan Fletcher, HS Supper begins at 5 p.m., Hamilton, HLBD Harding at 5 p.m., dinner at 6 p.m. Shirt, HLG Kynlee Hart, AD HS Creg Hart, HL Hannah Jesse Hamilton, HMD T.J. Grand Entry at 7 p.m. All Levi, HLGD Cayden Little Funniest joke contest, hat Isaac Rhoads, Special guest LittleCoyote, HM Heartsill Sheridan, HLD Theresa princesses, organizations and Coyote, AD Roy Bates, Host dance and shawl dance. Evelyn Reyes, OK Indian Sweezy, HLG Amariah Bea- Kiley, HLB Smoke Hawk, club are invited to attend. Red Moon Gourd Clan, Hon- MC TBA, HS Aaron Bikers Club Princess and ver Ramirez, HLB Angel HLG Olivia Silva and AD MC Cy Ahtone, HS John ored Chief Moses Starr Jones, HM Merlin Lit- Host Red Moon Gourd Clan. Zamora, AD Roy Bates and Marshall Williamson. Invit- Hamilton, HMD Kendrick Flag of the late Joe tleThunder, HL Roni Allen, For more information call Honored Elder Margie Pewo. ed guests are the 2017 ORES Sleeper, HWD Bruce Neco- Jessepe, US Army and Viet- HLB Jayden Plentybears, Patrice Spottedwolf at 405- State Basketball winners, nie, HLD Samantha Wells, Nam veteran will be flown. HLG Audrina Greeley, AD 541-6435 or Anna Spotted- Tunica-Biloxi 22nd Darlington boys and girls. HLB Jaylen Pherigo Ahtone, Joe is the grandfather of Syl- Ralph Birdshead, Honored wolf at 580-309-4947. annual Powwow HLG Cookie Weller, Col- vana. Veteran James Blackbear Jr. May 20-21, 2017 at the ETA Career Fair or Guard Riverside Indian Sponsored by Elk Riv- Frontier Inter-Tribal Earl J. Barbry Sr. Conven- 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. March 23, School, AD Randy Frazier. er-Whiteskunk Sisters. For The 11th annual Okla- Youth Council annual tion Center, Mari Showroom, 2017 at the Clinton Commu- For vendor booth reserva- more information call Rose homa City University Spring Powwow Paragon Casino Resort in nity Center in Clinton, Okla. tion call Dr. Siriporn Peters at 785-966-2670 or Carol at Spring Contest Powwow 1 p.m.-8 p.m. April 23, Marksville, LA. Sponsored by the Employ- at 580-774-7138. 580-819-2941. April 1, 2017 at the Freede 2017 at the Frontier Public Contest registration is 8 ment and Training Adminis- Wellness Center, NW 27th Schools’ Lower Gymnasium a.m. - 12 p.m. Saturday, May tration (ETA) Program and Defensive Driving Graduation Honor Street and Florida Avenue in in Red Rock, Okla. 20 in the Mari Showroom Voctional Rehabilitation Pro- Course Dance for Seth Young- Oklahoma City. Free admis- Gourd dancing at 1 p.m., lobby. Contest points begin gram. For more information 10 a.m.-5 p.m. March 30, bird sion, doors open at noon. potluck dinner at 4 p.m. with at 1 p.m. Grand Entry on Sat- call 405-201-6304 or 580- 2017 at the Concho Trib- April 1, 2017 at the Wa- exhibition dancing and cake urday. 331-2320. al Complex, large confer- tonga Multi-Purpose build- Oklahoma Indian Le- walk at 5 p.m. For more information ence room in Concho, Okla. ing in Watonga, Okla. Sup- gal Services, Inc. Free MC Frank Carson, HS contact Ryan at 800-272- Cheyenne & Arapaho Lunch will be provided. For per at 5 p.m. with dance to Wills & Estate Clinic John Arkeketa, HLD Tristan 9767 ext. 6433 or email rlo- Foster Home Recruit- more information or to sign follow. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. April 7, Roubedeaux, HGD Noah [email protected]. Tsistsistas & Hinonoei Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribal Tribune PAGE 11

March 2 Happy Birthday to our sis Happy Belated Sweet 16th Happy Birthday baby sis Angelica Amerie Sam! Happy Birthday Ben & March 8 Birthday Angelica I love you Love always, mom, lil sis, Caelen!! Remember to Happy 7th Birthday March 6 and I’m very proud of you dad and family! always choose the right Braden David Charley We are very proud of you, From sis Ashlee & mom Ana March 31st (CTR). We love you! Love your mom, Ragan, Pratt and everything you do! You are Terrence Gene mom, Kenna, Mary & & Charley family! amazing, and we love to hear you Happy Birthday son, I love grandma Mary sing like an angel. I hope you enjoyed you and miss you! your day and we all love you very Congratulations to Love, mom much! Love, mom, Raymond, and Sylvana Levier-Jessepe Angel eyes, you’re restless daddy Hiram, Dante’, Badger, Snoopy, on her upcoming May 19 tonight, cause I wasted the Pollo,Theo & Leo graduation from Haskell light; between both our lives Angelica Berrios is the daughter Indian Nations Unversity and these times, I had drew a of Hiram and the late Nettie Big rather thin line, It’s nothing in I planned and not that I can; Medicine, also Anna J. Hidrogo, all of Lawrence, Kansas But what we had, you should Thomas, Okla. Sylvana was an honor be mine, across that line; If student throughout high I traded it all. If I gave it all school and the President’s away for one thing, just for one March 20th Honor Roll at Haskell Un- thing. If I sorted it out, if I Happy 70th Birthday March 24th versity with a 4.0 GPA. knew all about this one thing, John Paul Cutnose Happy Birthday We are so proud of her wouldn’t that be something? I The last of the eleven Alisun Kaylene and her many accomplish- promise now I might not walk children of Theodore March 27 April 1 ments! on by, maybe next time, but not Happy Birthday Alyssa this time. Even though I know, “Diamond” Cutnose and Happy Birthday Sylvana is the Pearl Higheagle Cutnose Reyzha Two Babies Hannah Ailene great-granddaugter of you didn’t wanna know, yeah I grama Quoint loves you guess I knew; we just hate how Love you both dearly, God Chief Henry Elk River and it sounds. If I traded my life very much couldn’t have blessed me Lilly Elk River. The grand- and it all; if I gave it all away with better daughters. daughter of Edward Sr., for one thing, just for one thing. Happy Birthday to my babies, WWII Veteran & Heads- Only if we sorted it out, If we Patrick Suniga Jr. and man, and Mary Elk River, knew all about, this one thing; Kit Fox Society sister. could’ve that been something? Alessandra Patricia Suniga Even though we know, yeah March 5 Her parents are John I guess we know, you know, Love, mommy and Jacquelyn Jessepe about when we was young, you Levier. Her maternal know that something, so now grandparents are Mike & Angel Eyes, Happy Belated Dolly Pahmahmie Rich- 37th Birthday and you know ard and paternal grandpar- you’re something, always that Happy Belated 11th ents are Ron and Rosanna one thing yeah I guess I know, Birthday Tommy Whiteskunk Jessepe, all March 20 I just love and hate how it March 2 from Mayetta, Kanasas. sounds. May Maheo continue We’re so proud of you! Happy 12th Birthday Boo, to bless you and that one thing, Love, Russell, Amy, I love you. cause you’ll always be the Junior, Janae and g-ma From auntie Codi Angel Eyes and something. I’d like to wish a very Happy belated 37th Birthday special and lovely lady, my Ms. Sarah Orange, your friend Cheyenne Neske’eehe, Mrs. forever. CHW Margie Pewo a happy lovely THANK YOU special birthday on March Hugh and Alena George give thanks to Edward Wilson 23rd. May the great Maheo and Red Stonecalf, from the Concho American Legion bless you and continue to Post 401, for helping the George family lay to rest the bless you. I miss you and love cremated remains of their mother Christine Hart, father you dearly and many ha-ho’s Congratulations Huey, and brother James, who are all Navy veterans. They for always being a special March 6th Zoe VanHook Factor are grateful for the additional blessing honoring James, lovely Cheyenne lady to me Happy Birthday to the March Student of the Month who completed his vow. Special appreciation also and our family. Happy 80th bestest spoiled rotten at Lincoln Learning Center of to Eric Sandoval and Trent Redbird, from the Tribes Birthday neske’eehe, Brother in the world! Your El Reno. burial program, for their hard work at the Bethel Mrs. Margie Pewo. sisters love you Byron We are so proud of you! Mennonite Cemetery. Love your son, Chuck. Byrd! Love mom and all your family

Hilda Ann Bent Patrick Edward Lonnie Williams Jan. 30, 1951 Holliman March 2, 2017 April 14, 1960 Funeral services were Wake services were held held March 4 at the First Feb. 8, 2017 March 8 at the Clinton Indi- Memorial services were Baptist Church in Geary, an Baptist Church. Funeral held March 4 at the Holliman Okla., followed by a private services were held March 9 Residence in Weatherford, burial at the Lumpmouth at the same venue, followed Okla. Family Cemetery. by an Interment at the Clin- ton Idian Cemetery.

LaVerne Verzine (White Horse) Lime of Seiling, Okla. passed into the arms of her Savior on Feb. 21, 2017 at the age of 83 years, 6 months and 27 days. HELP ME FIND MY MOTHER’S PICTURE LaVerne was born to Harry and Irene (Watan) White Horse in Concho, Okla. on July 25, 1933. She attended the Pump- It’s been 60 years Lucy Mae Big Eagle-Stone. My father was kin Ridge one room schoolhouse. On Nov. 28, 1953 she mar- My name is Alex J. Stone, my Cheyenne Amos ‘Duke’ Stone. I have been looking ried the love of her life Robert G. “Arlie” Lime in Watonga, name is Mis-sauk. I was raised mostly in for any photos since 1962. I really don’t re- Okla. The couple lived in Seiling, where LaVerne was a mem- boarding school beginning in 1960. That member what they look like and the photos ber of the Rusty Needles Sewing Club. She gave her heart was the year that my mother ‘walked on.’ would really help. I could show them to my to the Lord and attended the Elm Grove Community Church My sister Lillian and I were placed in the children and granddaughter. for over 30 years. Her favorite activity was taking care of her old Cheyenne and Arapaho school, which All my elder relatives (aunties and un- grandchildren. is no longer there. I went to Chilocco and cles) are gone. I remember stories of my In addition to her parents, LaVerne was preceded in death graduated in 1968 and then to Haskell. I parents that were told to me by my mom’s by her husband Arlie Lime and four brothers Truman, Oliver was drafted out of Haskell and went into sister, Eula Hill. After my mom’s passing I Charles, Sterling and Terry White Horse. the army. called my aunties mom. Left to carry on her legacy are the family she loved so much, eight children, Rosina Lone I live in the great northwest (Portland, What I have gone through is something Bear of Clinton, Harriet Whiteshirt and husband Virgil of El Reno, Manuel Lime of El Reno, Ore.) and have never returned to Cheyenne I do not wish on any other Indian boarding Charlene Mendoza and husband Ramon of Thomas, Gary Lime and wife Angie of Clinton, country except for an occasional visit or fu- school students, especially those who had Irene Lime of Weatherford, Myron Lime and wife Irene of Thomas, and Leona Miller and hus- neral. My father died while I was serving in to be taken away at a very young age. I was band Shannon of Seiling. Two adopted children Wayne Montgomery of Seiling and Christy Viet Nam in 1970. After returning home I 9 years old when I was taken away. Cheek of McLeod, a brother Merlin White Horse, a sister, Louise White Horse, 42 grandchil- have buried all of my siblings and I am the If there is anyone out there who can help dren, 71 great grandchildren and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. only one left. me, please write or call me at: Wake Services were held Feb. 26 at the Restoration Church in Seiling. Funeral Services I’m looking for help. Someone who can Alex J. Stone, 3626 NE 157th Avenue, were held at Feb. 27 at the Elm Grove Community Church in Chester. Interment followed at help me find a photograph of my mother Portland, OR 97230 or call 503-287-0107. the Cantonment Cemetery under the direction of Redinger Funeral Home. PAGE 12 Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribal Tribune Tsistsistas & Hinonoei EMPLOYMENT LEGAL NOTICES Employment: Submit a tribal application, resume, diploma(s), transcripts, valid copy of Oklahoma state driver’s license and a copy of CDIB (if applidable) to Personnel Department, PO Box 38, Concho, OK 73022 or email [email protected].

CASEWORKER EXECUTIVE CHR GENERALIST CHIEF FINANCIAL Indian Child Welfare DIRECTOR CHR Program OFFICER Office Dept. of Social Services Closing: Until Filled Dept. of Treasury Closing: Until Filled Closing: Until Filled Closing: Until Filled Qualifications: Qualifications: Qualifications: Qualifications: Prefer bachelor’s degree Completion of Master’s Valid Oklahoma state Completion of a bache- in social work or related field Degree of Social Work and driver’s license required lor’s degree at an accredited or an equivalent combination demonstrated basic profes- and be insurable under the college or university in ac- of education and experience. sional competence in the Tribe’s insurance. Must re- counting, management, fi- Require one year of experi- techniques, methods, theory side in service area. Must nance or business or comple- ence in professional related and practice of social work. possess or be willing to at- tion of a master’s degree at capacity. Knowledge and an Must possess a working tend training program to gain an accredited college or uni- understanding of the Indian knowledge and understand- CPR certification. Must be versity in accounting, man- Child Welfare Act of 1978. ing gained through graduate able to attend a two week agement, finance or business Ability to work flexible and study and supervised Basic CHR Training & First and/or equivalent work expe- hours and willing to work work of case work, group Responder Training, Na- rience. CPA-Certified Public other than normal working work and/or community tional CPS Certification or Accountant experience re- hours including weekends, organization practice and other necessary training to quired with a minimum of holidays and after 5 p.m. the skill to apply these fac- keep certifications up to date. two year’s experience. Must have knowledge of tors to department clientele. Must pass OSBI background SALARY: Negotiable crisis theory and interven- Knowledge of various laws check. Must have minimum tions, understand and strive related to the administration of high school diploma or to implement the program’s of the department programs GED certification. Must goals, objectives, rules and including but not limited to have own reliable vehicle regulations. Must have basic the Indian Child Welfare Act, and residential telephone. knowledge of early child- HIPPA, recommendations Must pass a pre-employ- hood education and child for actions that can have ment drug screening process welfare casework, child significant on clients. Abili- and subject to random drug abuse and neglect indica- ty to prioritize, manage and testing. Must maintain clean tors. Possess communication complete multiple tasks and driving record. Must possess skills, written and oral, to re- responsibilities wherein time the ability to communicate late to Indian and non-Indian management and delegation effectively both orally and communities, other agencies skills must be solid. Knowl- written. Cheyenne Arapaho and the general public. Abili- edge of tribal and communi- preference. ty to maintain a high level of ty resources in order to refer SALARY: Negotiable confidentiality on all client clients to the most appropri- Don’t miss your copy of matters and other matters ate source of assistance. Pos- protected by the Privacy Act sess communication skills, the Tribal Tribune. as well as other confidenti- written and oral, to relate to Send address changes to ality regulations. OSBI and Indian and non-Indian com- Tribal Tribune, PO Box 38, criminal background check munities, other agencies and Concho, Okla. 73022 required and be adjudicated the general public. Ability appropriately. Must possess to maintain a high level of a current Oklahoma driver’s confidentiality on all client license to operate a govern- matters and other matters ment owned vehicle. Prefer protected by the Privacy Act knowledge of Cheyenne and as well as other confidenti- Arapaho /Native American ality regulations. OSBI and cultures and values. Ability criminal background check to work with difficult clien- required and be adjudicated tele. Must complete OKDHS appropriately. Must possess Criminal History Review a current Oklahoma driver’s and supplemental applica- license to operate a govern- tion. Cheyenne-Arapaho ment owned vehicle. Prefer preference. knowledge of Cheyenne and SALARY: Negotiable Arapaho/Native American OKLAHOMA INDIAN LEGAL cultures and values. Ability SERVICES, INC. COORDINATOR to work with difficult clien- Indian Child Welfare tele with various social prob- Program lems and/or needs. Will be conducting a Free Wills & Estate Clinic Closing: Until Filled SALARY: Negotiable For Low Income Tribal Members who are Resi- Qualifications: dents of Oklahoma and have Tribal Land Master’s degree in social TEACHER work or related field pre- Child Development / 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Friday April 7 Clinton Location ferred or an equivalent com- Closing: Until Filled Cheyenne & Arapaho Community Hall bination of education and ex- 2100 Dog Patch Rd. Clinton, OK 73601 perience. Must have ability Qualifications: Teachers hired after July to work with high number Please call for details Mon. thru Thurs. 9 a.m. - 12 of clients and work as effi- 1, 1995 are required to be at p.m. and 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. You must have an appoint- ciently as possible. Ability to least 18 years of age, have a work flexible hours, willing high school diploma or GED ment to see an attorney. If you are unable to make to work other than normal certification or have com- your appointment, please call Norma @ 405-943- working hours, weekends, pleted the 10th grade and be 6457. and holidays as needed. in the process of obtaining a Oklahoma Indian Legal Services, Inc. Must have knowledge of GED for a period not to ex- 4200 Perimeter Center Drive, Suite 222 crisis theory and interven- ceed 12 months. Must sign Oklahoma City, OK 73112 tions. Must understand the employee contract stating www.oilsonline.org program’s goals, objectives, employee will attain CDA 405-943-6457 rules and regulations. Pos- or Mastery Certification to 800-658-1497 sess communication skills, maintain employment. Must 405-917-7060 (FAX) written and oral, to relate to have a valid Oklahoma driv- Oklahoma Indian Legal Services, Inc. is a non-profit law firm Indian and non-Indian com- er’s license and pass phys- funded principally by the Legal Services Corp. For additional NOTICE TO LAWN CARE information regarding other legal services, call Oklahoma Indian munities, other agencies and ical exam. Must be able to Legal Services, Inc. CONTRACTORS the general public. Ability lift 50lbs., be physically fit to work daily with children and to maintain a high level of Informational meeting confidentiality on all client demonstrate basic knowl- matters and other matters edge of early childhood de- IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PARTICI- protected by the Privacy Act velopment. Must attend staff PATING IN THE 2017 ELDER LAWN CARE as well as other confiden- meetings as well as parent PROGRAM THERE WILL BE AN INFORMA- tial regulations. OSBI and meetings when require, sub- mit monthly reports, attend TIONAL MEETING AT THE DEPARTMENT criminal background check OF HOUSING’S CONFERENCE ROOM required and be adjudicated workshops and have ade- appropriately. Must posses quate transportation. Must 10 A.M. MARCH 22, 2017 a current Oklahoma driver’s have skills to relate to the license to operate a govern- community in general. Must TRIBAL ELDER’S pass a criminal background ment owed vehicle. Prefer 2017 SUMMER LAWN PROGRAM knowledge of Cheyenne and check, mandatory drug and Arapaho cultures and values. alcohol screen and be willing Ability to work with difficult to work flexible work sched- CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHO clientele. ule. Cheyenne-Arapaho pref- TRIBES HOUSING DEPARTMENT SALARY: Negotiable erence. 2100 DOG PATCH RD. CLINTON, OK 73601 SALARY: Negotiable CONTACT INFORMATION: DARYN WEST, Boys & Girls Club of Darlington SPECIAL PROJECTS OFFICER Hosts Annual PHONE: 580-331-2400 BBQ Dinner Fundraiser E-MAIL: [email protected] DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING WILL BE PROVIDING 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. March 31 at the ELDER LAWN CARE SERVICE FOR THE 2017 SUM- Darlington Public School Gym MER LAWN PROGRAM. WE ARE ASKING ANYONE Students will be selling tickets THAT IS INTERESTED IN CONTRACTING SOME $6/pulled pork sandwich, potato salad, LAWNS PLEASE ATTEND THE INFORMATIONAL potato chips, pickle and dessert MEETING TAKE OUT AVAILABLE “DOING A GOOD DEED BY ASSISTING OUR ELDER’S NEEDS” ALL CONTRACTS ARE PAID BY LUMP SUM All funds raised go towards the Boys & Girls Club Programs Tsistsistas & Hinonoei Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribal Tribune PAGE 13

Interview & photo by Latoya Lonelodge get no IRs, to get As and Bs in my classes, do all my as- signments and turn them in on time, ask questions a lot, be on top of my game pretty much and stay off the D and F list. What actions are you tak- ing to reach these goals? For sports, being in the gym everyday with my team and pushing them to be the best they can be and also pushing myself to be the best I can be and perform what we need to perform for From Laguna, N.M., Darrian Diwayan, the classroom. For the class- 18, focuses on her final moments of her room, it would be listening in class, put- senior high school year of basketball. ting my phone away, taking my earphones Standing at 6’0, Darrian is a center for- out when I come to class, just keeping to ward for the Riverside Indian Braves. She myself and not socializing during class but also plays for the Cheyenne and Arapaho just keeping it outside of class. R.E.Sp.E.C.T. basketball league since her What has been the most exciting game sophomore year of high school. you have played in? When did you first begin playing and Our most exciting game would be how? against Comanche and Sasakwa. We I started playing my fourth grade year, played Sasakwa back in December and which was back at home in New Mexi- we played Comanche in January in our co. I just started playing. I was forced to regular season games. Sasakwa are really play from the beginning, just cause I was athletic and they’re our competitor to see overweight and just needed to get moving where we are on our measuring stick be- and so we started doing that and my fourth cause they’re really athletic and they ran a grade year, fifth grade year, sixth grade high, what we call broccoli, which is a high year, seventh grade and then I fell in love 2-3 and then for Comanche it would just be with it after my brother Evan helped me. another game where we could play in an- He’s the one who actually expanded my What is your favorite meal before or af- and the outsiders don’t influence what I other measuring stick cause they’re also in game and made me better. He helped me ter a game? do. I would advise talking to a counselor, our class and they’re ranked number four a lot with footwork and fundamental stuff. They get us pizza so we have to eat it. sometimes a best friend or friend, grand- during the season, we lost to them by eight I wasn’t that great but between my eighth Who has had the biggest impact on your parents, a lot open up to their grandparents. points, which we had a bad first quarter but grade and freshmen year is when I actually life? Its hard opening up to parents if you’re not they’ve been beating everybody by 30 or started finding good coaches. My brother and my coach, coach Kelly really close, that’s how I was, but as I got more points. We got beat by Sasakwa by What is it about the sport that you love and my brother Evan Ortiz. My brother al- older I learned to cherish them a lot more. three points. the best? ways pushed me and gave me advice when How do you combat drug & alcohol use What is the best advice you have ever It just pushed me to be the best that I I thought I didn’t need it but he gave it to by peer pressure? been given and who gave you that advice? could be and as long as I work hard I got me anyways, he kind of started off my ca- I really never tried, I don’t drink, I don’t My brother, he’s always told me to be what I wanted and put up easy points and reer in basketball where I started loving the smoke. Just learn from other people’s expe- the best that I can be and to work hard for rebounded and did everything my coach game and my coach, he taught me things riences and choose not to take that road and everything and to not let the outside world told me to do. I do it to the best of my abil- about the world. The way energy affects choose not to do what they do. If they ask affect my game, would be my brother Ed- ity. different things and about going for my I just say no I have bigger, better dreams. mond. What has been your biggest accomplish- post moves, how to just turn my body into If you could change one thing in the Do you have a saying or motto that you ment in the sport so far? a machine. world, what would it be? live your life by? Well when I was younger when I start- What are some of your hobbies (what do To be taller. You are strong, you are victorious, you ed watching the older girls playing in you like to do when not playing sports)? What would be a dream come true for are anointed, you are powerful, there is R.E.Sp.E.C.T. I always wanted to be like Sleeping and going to class you in your life? nothing that has happened to you that you them, to win a championship or all-tourney What kinds of music do you enjoy lis- People say world peace, but we have cannot overcome. or MVP. We went up to All-West last year tening to? to have the good with the bad that’s why Who or what inspires you the most? and I got all-tourney, I made the all-tour- I listen to everything to the oldies to rap it makes the world the way it is. But my My family is really a big part of what nament team. We got second place but the to hip-hop to pop. dream would be to play for the Seattle I do. My grandparents especially because girls that we played were a really tough What is one thing about you that no one Storm in the WNBA. I’m out here and I’m not out there and I’m team. else knows? Who is your favorite athlete of all time? losing a lot of my language, so that’s my What is your biggest accomplishment in I can’t stay in the same spot for a long Kevin Durant, Westbrook and Skylar inspiration is to play hard for them and I the classroom so far? time when I’m sleeping. Diggins. know when they pass away they’ll be able I made the principle’s honor roll, it Were you ever bullied in school? What Which team is your favorite team? to watch me. I’ve lost a lot of grandparents means having good grades like As and Bs. steps do you feel should be taken to protect I have like three. I like the chemistry of while I’ve been here. What is your GPA (if known)? those being bullied in schools today? Golden State, Thunder because of West- What does your routine workout consist 3.0 Yes, I was always bullied in my ele- brook and the Spurs because of the move- of to stay fit for your sport? How often? What goals have you set for yourself in mentary and middle school years. What I ment of the ball. I don’t drink soda, I don’t eat junk sports, school? think, when it starts with the person that is What are your immediate plans after food like hot Cheetos, hot chips, I just eat To go to state and win state for 3-A girls being bullied is to not accept it but kind of graduating high school? snacks in between, I do drink a lot of water. basketball, we got district champs. Also to accept it the way it is to forgive the per- I’m talking to a college right now in I stretch every night, I prac- son who’s doing it to you because forgive- Canada, Vermont, Sterling, Montana and tice too and we practice six ness is for you and not them but the way I Haskell. The school I want to go to is Okla- out of seven days a week for learned to live with it is just to forgive and homa University. I just want to play basket- two to three hours a day. We forget.That’s why I moved out to Oklaho- ball during the summer and hangout with do conditioning drills, ball ma. I was getting to the point where I was my family more, enjoy time. handling drills, defensive suicidal. Which I didn’t tell anybody, my What would be your advice to younger drills, offensive drills. mom kind of. I had to go to counseling and kids coming up behind you? What are one or two I talked to a counselor for a little bit but To work hard, listen to your elders, they things in your training, that that really didn’t help and I had to just learn are the wise ones. Do what you feel is right you feel are keys to you be- how to face it on my own on the inside. for yourself, if you have time to, experi- ing successful in your sport? Basketball is where I found it at the most. ence life. Just have fun. Conditioning is one, so I just turned off and silenced everybody Darrian’s parents are Audrey Ortiz and we can keep up with every- off from what they had to say about me. It Bruce Whiteman Jr. She has four siblings, one and not be so tired and doesn’t matter what they think about me, Evan Ortiz, Darius Diwayan, Robert Kie have to get taken out during its about what I think about me. I am who and Bruce Whiteman III. Her grandmother the game, you can play I am because of me and the choices I make is Ethel Scott on her mother’s side. more minutes. And another would be not letting the out- side world affect you, like there’s basketball and then there’s your life outside of basketball. It’s two different things, basketball has more meaning to me than my out- side life, I just kind of fig- ured that out the past two years that I’ve been playing and with scholarship offers and the schools that have been talking to me. You have to find balance, don’t let the outside world affect your game, leave your emo- tions off the court. PAGE 14 Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribal Tribune Tsistsistas & Hinonoei

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