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COCOPAH INDIAN TRIBE October 2014 ISSUE Tribal Phone Directory

ADAPP (Ext. 235) 627- 2161 Saturday, October 18, 2014 from 11:00am to 4:00pm Children’s Home 627- 1298 Cocopah Casino 726- 8066 Cocopah Korner 341-1444 Cocopah Resort 722- 6677 Enjoy all day Cocopah Speedway 344-1563

Cocopah Wellness (Ext. 210) 627- 2681 Community Center 627- 5658 Cultural Resources 627- 4849 CVT 627- 8026 Cocopah West Reservation  Cultural Performances Daycare 627- 3729 14515 South Veterans Drive  Bird singing and dancing 627- 4973 Education (Ext. 230) Somerton Arizona 85350 Elderly Program 627- 4166  Arts & Crafts booths EPO (Ext. 290) 627- 2025 11:00am …………………...WELCOME Head Start 627-3197  Informational booths Housing 627- 8863 11:30am to 1:00pm ……….FREE LUNCH  Children’s fun area IHS 1(800) 862- 4911 1:00pm ……ENTERTAINMENT STARTS  Pony rides IT Department (Ext. 280) 627- 2025 Judicial 627- 2550 Special Guest: Billy Mills, 1964 Olym-  Watermelon eating contest Museum 627- 1992 pic gold Medal Winner for 10,000 me- Manpower 627- 0616 ter run, second Native American to  Snow cones win an Olympic Gold Medal. Native Eatery 217-1001  Free drawings and much more! Pesticide 627- 2025 Meet Yuma area royalty & the new Miss Cocopah PHEP/CTERC 627-2025

Prosecutor (Ext. 270) 627- 2025

Public Works (Ext. 240) 627- 0616

Purchasing (Ext. 201) 627- 2025 Resort Gift Shop 217-1068 Rio Colorado Golf 627- 0057 RV Park 343- 9300 Social Services 627- 3729 Title VI/XX 627- 1148 Tribal Gaming 217- 7718 Tribal Headquarters

Administration (Ext. 205) 627- 2102

Finance (Ext. 310) 627- 2102 Tribal Police (Ext. 215) 627- 8857 For more information: (928) 627-1992 or [email protected] Wild River 627- 0980

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ELDERS LUNCH MENU OCTOBER 2014

Nutrition Program Lunches Provided Monday—Friday Faye Ortega, Title VI/XX @ 627-1148 * Menu may be substituted due to shortages of needed items.

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5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Beef Macaroni Turkey & Cheese Meatloaf Gr. Salad Hamburgers Corn Sandwich Boiled Potatoes w/diced Chicken Lettuce Macaroni Salad Green Beans Wheat Crackers Tomatoes

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COCOPAH ELDERS CULTURAL COUNCIL (ECC)

Meeting will be held October 9th 10:00a.m. to 11:30a.m. OPEN TO ALL COCOPAH ELDERS & SENIORS 55+ Please be advised, this will serve as your notice for the meeting. Any questions please call: (928) 627-1992 Susan Taylor, Director ; Serena Thomas, Office Manager; Marilyn Hayes, Curator; Art Negrete, Maintenance Supervisor; Marjorie Manuel, Gift Shop Clerk; Mitchell Davis, Maintenance; Jesus Moreno, Maintenance; Deanna Thomas, Receptionist; Pamela Banfield, Gift Shop Manager.

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MEXICO’S COCOPAH PEOPLE REFUSE TO DISAPPEAR

Thursday, 11 September 2014 “The government violated the Cocopah’s people’s fish begin their migration to the shallow waters of right to consultation as outlined in the Internation- the Colorado River delta, and fishing season 10:05 By Daniela Pastrana, Inter al Labour Organisation’s Convention 169,” which starts. Press Service Mexico ratified in 1990, said Ramírez Baena. ILO El Mayor, Mexico - In their language, Cocopah Convention 169 Concerning Indigenous and The Cocopah go to sea in their “pangas” or fishing boats and sit quietly until they hear the weak- means “river people”. For over 500 years the Tribal Peoples requires prior consultation of local fish and throw their “chinchorros” or nets. The members of this Amerindian group have lived indigenous communities before any project is Cocopah capture between 200 and 500 tons of along the lower Colorado River and delta in the authorised on their land. fish per season. Mexican states of Baja California and Sonora But in 1993, without any prior consultation, the and the US state of Arizona. government decreed the creation of the Alto “What the government has done with us is segre- Golfo de California y Delta del Río Colorado gation,” Juana Aguilar González, the president of They fish and make crafts for a living, have Biosphere Reserve. The nucleus of the reserve is the El Mayor Cocopah Rural Production Society, strong family ties, and are united by their Kuriku- the Zanjón, where the Cocopah have fished for told Tierramérica. “They know that we Indians ri or rituals and funeral ceremonies – and, now, the Gulf weakfish (Cynoscion othonopterus) for don’t threaten the environment.” by the struggle to keep from disappearing, in a centuries. battle led by their women. Today, the Cocopah The Cocopah are not the only ones who catch number just over 1,300 people, most of whom The Gulf weakfish lay their eggs between Febru- weakfish. There are also two non-indigenous live in Arizona. ary and May in shallow waters in the Gulf of cooperatives in the area – San Felipe in Baja California where the states of Sonora and Baja California and Santa Clara in Sonora – with a “I’m Hilda Hurtado Valenzuela. I’m a fisherwom- California meet, and the fish are widely sold fishing capacity 10 times greater, according to an. And I am Cocopah,” says the president of during Lent, when Catholics abstain from eating statistics from the governmental National Com- the Cocopah Indigenous People Cooperative meat on Fridays. mission for Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity Society. (CONABIO). After the biosphere reserve was created, a Re-

She and other women of this community intro- serve Management Plan was adopted in 1995, The weakfish “captured by the Cocopah are ap- duce themselves this way at an assembly at- along with a string of laws and regulations – such proximately 10 percent of the recommended tended by IPS, held to discuss the federal gov- as the Law on Ecological Balance and a fishing quota, which shows that the fishing done by that ernment’s promise to finally consult them about quota and ban – which restricted the fishing activ- indigenous community, even if they fish in the a fishing ban which took away their livelihood ities of the Cocopah to levels that have made it nucleus of the reserve, does not hurt the ecologi- and practically condemns them to extinction. impossible for them to make a living. cal balance or threaten the species with extinc- “No government has the right to take our habitat “The case of the Cocopah is an example of how tion,” says recommendation 8/2002 of the Nation- from us,” Hurtado told IPS during a visit to the El ultra-conservationist policies can endanger the al Human Rights Commission addressed to the Mayor Cocopah Indigenous Community, where existence of a native community,” said Yacotzin ministries of the environment and agriculture. the Red de Periodistas de a Pie (Journalists on Bravo, another lawyer with the Citizens Commis- “The decree creating the reserve changed our Foot Network) and the Mexican Commission for sion of Human Rights of the Northwest. lives,” Mónica González, the daughter of the late the Defense and Promotion of Human The Mexican constitution defines indigenous Cocopah governor Onésimo González, said sad- Rights are carrying out a project for the protec- people as the descendants of the populations ly. “Now, instead of being busy organising our tion of human rights defenders, financed by the that inhabited the area before the state was dances, we have to be worried about the legal European Union. formed and who preserve their ancestral cultural action, the trials, confiscations and arrests.” or economic institutions. The Cocopah, descendants of the Yumano peo- In May, the 61-year-old Hurtado, a mother of Article 2 of the constitution establishes that native ple, are one of the five surviving indigenous four and grandmother of 10, sat down on the people have “preferential access” to the nation’s groups in Baja California. road connecting the port of San Felipe on the natural assets.

Gulf of California with Mexicali, the capital of the In the 17th century, some 22,000 Cocopah were state of Baja California, which abuts the US, and “Indigenous rights are the rights of peoples,” living in the Colorado River delta. Today there are refused to budge until the federal government expert in indigenous law Francisco López Bárce- only 1,000 in the Cocopah Indian Reservation in formalised its promise to hold a consultation with nas told IPS. “Not of persons, not of municipali- the southwest corner of Arizona, and just over the local communities. ties, not of rural communities. With respect to 300 in Mexico, in Baja California and Sonora, indigenous rights, we are talking about the appro- according to the governmental National Commis- “The government agreed to do something that it priation of territory, which is necessary for a peo- sion for the Development of Indigenous Peoples. should have done 25 years ago,” said the lawyer ple to be able to exist as such. According to the United Nations Educational, Ricardo Rivera de la Torre of the Citizens Com- Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) , mission of Human Rights of the Northwest, an “They depend for a living on fishing, on a close Cocopah is an endangered language. There are organisation that has been documenting viola- relationship with their natural surroundings. It’s only 10 Cocopah speakers still alive. Years ago tions of civil rights in Baja California since 2004. not only about money. First, as a result of the one of them, 44-year- old Mónica González, Rivera de la Torre and Raúl Ramírez Baena laws on agriculture, their territories were shrunk began to make an effort to revive the language. took the case to the Inter-American Commission to small spaces, and now their main livelihood “Sometimes I think our leaders talk about the on Human Rights in 2008. activity is reduced. And if they can’t fish, they Cocopah as if we had already died, but we are have to go to other parts to find work,” he said. Every year, just after the waning moon, the weak- alive and still putting up a struggle,” she told IPS. Page 6 Cocopah Times Newsletter

OCTOBER POW WOW’S

Festival of the 2014 San Manuel 32ND ANNUAL Americas Pow Wow Pow Wow NARD POWWOW Submitted by Pow Wow Calendar Submitted by Kshoji– Added on: Submitted by Freedy Alvarado– – Added on: February 27, 2014 August 14, 2014 Added on: September 10, 2014 Status: Active Status: Active Status: Active

When When When

Date/Time October 4 to 5, 2014, Date/Time October 10 to 12, Date/Time October 11 to , 11:00 All Day 2014, All Day am10:00 pm

Where Where Where

El Dorado County Fairgrounds: Cal State San Bernardino: 5500 Madison Park Middle School: 100 Placerville Drive University Parkway 1431 East Campbell Road Placerville, CA San Bernardino , California Phoenix, AZ

Contact Information Contact Information Contact Information

Contact: Phone: 530-621-3096 Contact: Kenneth Shoji Contact: Loretta Sanders Phone: 909-425-3450 Phone: 602-507-5781 Email: Email: powwow- Email: [email protected] Website: coming soon [email protected] Website:

Website:www.sanmanuel-nsn.gov Additional Information: NO Additional Information: All Drums WALKING VENDORS ALLOWED and Dancers Welcome. Free Ad- mission, Competition Dancing, Drum Contest, Open Gourd Dancing, Exhibition Dance Groups, Quality Arts/Crafts. Head Staff To Be Announced. Grand Entry: Saturday: 1pm & 7pm, Sunday: Noon. Absolutely no drugs, alco- hol, or weapons. This is a smoke free event. COCOPAH INDIAN TRIBE Page 7

OCTOBER POW WOW’S CONTINUED AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Auburn Big Time 31st Annual Roy ATTENTION LOCATION Pow Wow Track Memorial HAS BEEN CHANGED Submitted by Loren N– Added Powwow on: May 13, 2014 FOOD HANDLER’S TRAINING Submitted by UrbanN8VWarrior Status: Active DATES AND LOCATION: – Added on: September 15, 2014  DATE: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 When Status: Active TIME: 8:00AM—10:00AM LOCATION: Community Center Date/Time October 17 to 18, When 2014, 12:00 am9:00 pm Michael Fila

14515 S. Veterans Dr. Date/Time October 24 to 26, Somerton AZ 8535 Where 2014, 6:00 pm Cell phone: (928) 750-6612 Email: ([email protected] Gold Country Fairgrounds: Where 1273 High St. INTERESTED IN SIGNING UP Auburn, California Pioneer Park: 525 E. Main St. TO RECEIVE EMERGENCY Mesa, AZ NOTIFICATIONS Contact Information Contact Information THROUGHOUT THE

COCOPAH RESERVATIONS? Contact: Loren Nakai Contact: Phone: 530 888 8767 Phone: 602-799-0260 Please contact Michael Fila, Email:lorenn@sierranativeallianc Email: [email protected] Emergency Manager for the e.org Cocopah Indian Tribe Wesite:www.sierranativealliance @ (928) 750-6612 .org/events

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COCOPAH NATIVE AMERICAN DAY

COCOPAH’S HEAD START

Our Cocopah Head Start for their Field Trip came to Tour the Cocopah Museum on September 24, 2014 COCOPAH INDIAN TRIBE Page 9

COCOPAH WISHES . . .

Happy Birthday to my (2) Sisters: Molly & Mariella. You two are growing up too fast, I can still remember when you were just babies (tear). Have an awesome birthday. Better do well in school and behave :) I Love you!! Love Your Big Sis Melissa & Your Crazy Lil Niece Danielle. Happy 12th (Pre-teen) Birthday To our Nephew Benicio Esquerra on October 22nd, You're growing so fast & have accomplished so much We’re very proud of you!!!! This is your day & hope you have fun, I hope the Monster Truck show comes in time! Love You- Auntie Laura & Uncle Shawn Happy Birthday to the Lil Cuz Timo, the Bros/Uncles Isaac and Jonny & Lil Sis/Auntie Destiny. Happy Birthday to the most wonderful Fa- Hope you guys have an ther/Grandpa in the world, “Mickey.” I’m so glad to have a Father like you in my life. I Love that you awesome birthday. would do anything for me whenever you could. I From Melissa, Danielle & Sonny wouldn’t trade you for anything in the world. Dan- ielle is also thankful to have a Grandpa like you as well. We Love You So Much! Hope you have an October 12, 2014 awesome birthday. Love Your Daughter Melissa Happy Birthday Fawn & Your Granddaughter Hazel Nut :) Michael Barley 4-Years Old Love Auntie Deanna & Family

Happy Birthday to a wonderful Lady who has taken me in and raised me as HAPPY HALLOWEEN one of her own children, Ms. Veronica Mack! Hope your birthday is as MARCUS, TYLONNA & RENZO wonderful as you are. LOVE ALWAYS YOUR COUSINS, Love Melissa & Danielle BRIANNA, RAINY & DAMIAN Page 10 COCOPAH WISHES CONTINUED . . .

Wishing my big boy Sending out a Birthday wish Ivan Avalos Jr. (Lil John Cena) a Happy 7th Birthday. to my Hero– Words are simply not enough to express how amazing I My Father Dale Phillips feel to have you as my son. I am so proud of the smart young boy you have become. My Love or you is endless Thank you for all you do an no matter how old you are you will always be my for our family “Baby Ivan” forever. you are our Super Hero! Proud to be you Mother; Christie (Mom) P.S. Congratulations on being the first 1st grader stu- Happy Birthday. . . We love You dent of the month at Alice Byrne School. Love You! Deanna & Family

October 7th 2014 Brianna Dee Twist “B-Gurl” Good Luck to you, Congratulations 4years old, You’re growing so fast, you’re so Amazing at Shelyne Twist Tearsey Lau everything you do, at home, in school, its your Journey In the run for the For being elected coveted title in the Treasure for Baby Girl. We love you so much. Student Council at rd Happy Birthday Brianna 53 Annual Gary Knox Love Daddy, Mommy and your Brothers & Sisters Miss Indian Elementary School Hugs & Kisses. Arizona Pageant Love your Family Cocopah Newsletter Submission Form

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