A Letter from the Publisher

Vol. 2, Issue 33 March 18, 2015 1 Indian Country Today

Shekóli. This coming weekend at the Denver March Pow We always look forward to producing our annual Pow Wow, Indian Country Today Media Network will distrib- Wows edition of This Week From Indian Country Today. ute our annual Pow Wow magazine, one of the most an- It is one of our most visually stunning, popular publica- ticipated special print editions of the year. Readers of the tions. In it, you’ll find news and notes on the latest trends digital form of This Week From Indian Country Today and upcoming events in Indian country. It also carries our will find this special issue attached to this week’s newslet- signature guide, the ICTMN Pow Wow Listing. Turn to ter. Consider it a 64-page bonus magazine. the back of the magazine for the most comprehensive compilation in print of titles, locations, dates and times It’s fitting that we kick off a new Pow Wow season in for hundreds of events. Spring. It’s a time of renewal, a time of promise and a time of many colors. Today’s Pow Wow gatherings offer the Many months from now, the season will end. What will best of contemporary Indian culture, in as many varieties remain are memories, and the spirit of community that as there are blossoms on the horizon. It is here that we such gatherings bring. That spirit lives in all of us. We welcome each other with pride, that we hear our many must use it to remember the good times, the good people, languages spoken, that we revel in our athleticism and and the right path. Remember that we caress the sacred physical gifts. It is an opportunity to display new beadwork crafted Mother Earth gently with our dancing, and caringly, because it em- during a long winter, and to meet with old friends and family. We are braces the faces beneath the ground and the dust of our ancestors for happy, and free from all concern and worry. a thousand years.

Pow Wows have grown and evolved in ways that mirror the growth NΛ ki� wa, and rebirth of our traditions and way of life. They are not static; they are not presented behind a wall of plexiglass. When we dance, we dance to the heartbeat of Mother Earth, the drum. We sing and we dance for each other, for our elders and ancestors, for the Creator, and for our children. Ray Halbritter

Table of Contents 2 commentary 10 classifieds

3 News 11 week in photos

6 Bad news for foxwoods 12 web, events, letters and mohegan sun 13 cartoon, alerts 7 dying of thirst 14 how did i miss that 8 the power of seeds 15 pow wows 9 9 sally jewell and ‘the pressure of time’ 16 big picture ap i m ages

IndianCountryTodayMediaNetwork.com March 18, 2015 2 commentary

Disenrollment Is a Federal is included in the tribal constitution.” tribes are now inflicting upon them- Action That position results from a decision selves. To be equally clear, as a matter Gabriel Galanda, managing lawyer made by a few Bureau of Indian Affairs of federal law, the United States has, or of Galanda Broadman, PLLC, resists personnel not even 10 years ago—an un- had, been integrally involved in tribal the Obama administration’s hands-off written decision that was made without disenrollment controversies for more approach to the current trend of tribal any agency rulemaking or tribal con- than a century. What’s more, it is still disenrollment: sultation whatsoever. These people at federal law and policy that the Interior BIA simply decided from behind closed Secretary must be involved in any tribal As the tribal disenrollment epidemic doors that the agency should no longer disenrollment action. But Interior and only worsens, our trustee—the United get involved in disenrollment contro- BIA officials simply ignore those federal States and its Department of the Inte- versies. Even worse, Indian Country has dictates. rior—continue to turn a deaf ear to des- accepted the BIA officials’ self-serving The Obama administration has failed perate pleas for help from Indians who position as our own position. to do anything to help fix today’s feder- are facing disenrollment or have already To be clear: Disenrollment is not an ally caused tribal disenrollment crisis. been terminated. exercise of tribal sovereignty or self-de- Not only is it the federal government’s Interior says it “does not get involved termination. Disenrollment is instead fiduciary obligation to all Indian peoples in individual tribal matters [of disenroll- an exercise of federal removal, assimi- to do so, but it is the morally correct ment] unless the agency’s participation lation and termination policies, which thing to do. http://bit.ly/1B2bemd 0

The Hair of My People piece of uncommon beauty. Its thickness body, and the way it caresses the wind, Kasie Apo Takayama (Native Hawai- reminds me of the strength and power shines through as a symbol of the com- ian) became one of five winners of this that runs through our bloodline. fort, embrace, and safety that I feel when year’s Young Native Writers Essay Contest Today, in times of economic hardship, I think of my family and the culture that with a literal and metaphorical tribute to disease, and war, our mind looks for a we come from. Hawaiian hair: place to escape from the dangers and Its bulkiness and persistent rhythm ugliness of the world around us. We seek of flow and kink is like the beating and Sometimes, a specific hair, rare like a beauty and a refuge that is uncommon pulsing of our warrior built hearts. Its the blood of my ancestors, is white. to our eyes. Today, many people of my thick roots serve as a reminder of the Thicker and stronger than even the dark culture find this refuge with their fami- honed roots that we have to our past, colored others, to me, it embodies the lies. They find it watching our relatives our present, and our future. wisdom and experience of the person to dance hula and throw nets at the beach. Today, as I walk amongst our kupuna whom it belongs. As we admire these traditional beau- (elders), the hair of my people is the I see this uncommon hair and it re- ties, one thing that always catches our icon that ties me to who I am. http://bit. minds me that my family and I are a eyes is that beautiful Hawaiian hair. Its ly/1KVj2Bx 0

Understanding The Racists racism against the Indian kind. two SAE members leading the chant who Following the expulsion of two Sigma Al- I remember when they were calling one issued public apologies and were expelled pha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity members at of my Native flag football teammates by for their exploits. I feel bad for them the University of Oklahoma for chanting the moniker “chief.” He was actually in because obviously their parents didn’t racist epithets, Harlan McKosato (Sac their fraternity. After every touchdown teach them any better. What’s especially and Fox) offers his take: I scored or threw as quarterback in our concerning is that, in my opinion, these 20-point win against those Greeks I would boys (and the other students) did not Some of my fondest memories of at- ask them, “How do you like that, chief?” think that what they were chanting was tending the University of Oklahoma By the second half they stopped using the racist—or that it would be exposed. They are whipping up on frat boys on the in- term “chief.” I assume our playing ability didn’t think that it was hurtful. tramural football fields and basketball (and my cocksure attitude) shut them up. I never felt threatened by racism at the courts. They couldn’t stand me. I was a We all make mistakes. We all wish we university. I never felt scared of racism. brash and arrogant Native American who could take back and do over certain ac- I knew that those frat boys were just as was a mile ahead of them athletically and tions and decisions in our lives. Lord uncertain about their futures as I was. wouldn’t sit idly by and take their subtle knows I have my share. I feel bad for the http://bit.ly/1GPpJSA 0

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Lawsuits Challenge tal assault on this iconic animal, and it Federal Killing of Wolves needs to stop.” and Other Wildlife In mid-February, five conservation groups filed suit in U.S. District Claiming Within three weeks, two lawsuits have Court in Idaho over what they called been filed against the Department of the indiscriminate killing of wolves, an Indian Agriculture’s Wildlife Services pro- coyotes and other fauna. The Idaho gram over the federally sanctioned lawsuit also includes the U.S. Fish and Exemption for killing of wolves and other wildlife. Wildlife Service as defendants because the 2014 Tax The Western Environmental Law the groups allege that the agency is in- Center filed suit in U.S. District Court adequately enforcing the Endangered Year is Easy in Seattle, Washington, on March 3 on Species Act by not challenging Wild- behalf of five conservation groups, al- life Services, according to the Associ- Use form 8965 when you leging that Wildlife Services has over- ated Press. file your income taxes. stepped its authority in killing wolves Both suits allege that Wildlife Ser- to protect livestock. The complaint vices’ actions are antithetical to the states that the agency’s efforts are requirements of the National Envi- If you have your Exemption based on outdated analysis of how to ronmental Policy Act, which man- Certificate Number (ECN): deal with wildlife, Reuters reported. dates that federal agencies conduct “Wildlife Services’ activities related thorough environmental analyses of to wolves in Washington have been the effects of their activities. extremely harmful,” said Western The Endangered Species Act pro- Find Part I and enter Environmental Law Center attorney tects wolves in the western two-thirds your ECN. John Mellgren. “The science tells us of Washington State, but in eastern that killing wolves does not actually Washington, protection is up to the reduce wolf-livestock conflicts, but state. The same rule holds true in Ida- If you don’t have Wildlife Services is continuing its bru- ho. http://bit.ly/17ZA7bN 0 your ECN:

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BIA Puts Land Into Trust into action. Even if you get services from for Cowlitz Tribe “It is very much a historic mo- IHS, you might need to claim ment for the Cowlitz people, who an Indian exemption for the The Bureau of Indian Affairs have been waiting 160 years for the 2014 Tax Year. has moved 152 acres of land into return of part of their homeland,” trust for the Cowlitz Indian Tribe said tribal chairman Bill Iyall. “We to build a casino near La Center, are no longer a landless tribe. … Questions? Washington. For more than a de- The Cowlitz reservation offers new Call cade the tribe had sought the land, opportunities in our aboriginal 1-800-318-2596 but its opponents had barred its land and the community which the 24 hours a day, 7 days a week progress in court. In December, tribe will deliver from generations (TTY: 1-855-889-4325) or visit federal judge Barbara Jacobs Roth- to come.” www.healthcare.gov/tribal stein ruled that the Indian Reor- The opportunities on this newly ganization Act of 1934 gave the returned land include a plan to government the authority to take build a 134,000-square-foot casino land into trust for a reservation. and a 250-room hotel and space Following an appeal, Stanley for shopping and dining. The first Speaks, regional director of the phase of the project will produce Bureau of Indian Affairs, signed at least 3,000 construction jobs, the final agreement for the estab- and the venue will add at least lishment of the tribe’s reservation 1,500 jobs, Iyall said. http://bit. on March 9, moving the decision ly/1wX1qPO 0

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Indigenous Lawsuit Against Occidental Petroleum Is Settled by barbara fraser A long legal battle between five Ach- uar communities on the Corrientes River in the northern Peruvian Ama- zon and Occidental Petroleum over pollution from oil drilling has been settled out of court. Although details are confidential, the communities will receive an undisclosed sum for community development, according to lawyers and leaders involved in the case. “The Achuar communities are very satisfied,” said Pablo Kukush Sandi of the community of Pampa Her- mosa, who is managing the fund. He said that the communities will use the settlement fund for food- and income-producing activities such as fish farms, as well as for education and health care. The lawsuit, originally filed in Los Angeles in 2007, accused Occidental Petroleum of harming the environment, health and livelihoods of people in the five Achuar communities located in the lease known at the time as Block 1AB. Although a federal district court judge in Los Angeles ruled in 2008 that the case should be heard in Peru, the Ninth Circuit Court re- versed that decision in 2010. In April 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the case. Occidental and the Achuar of- ficially closed the case in 2013. But the announcement was not made until March 5, at a press conference in Lima organized by EarthRights Inter- national. Sources said the announcement apparently was delayed until the development fund was established. The case could set a precedent, said Marco Simons, regional program director for EarthRights International and principal attorney for the Occi- SUBSCRIBE NOW dental lawsuit, because the courts accepted that a company could be sued in the United States for damage caused by its operations in another country. http://bit.ly/18weTCi 0

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Eagle Feathers Returned To Lipan the Redskins name with “re- joined Wall Street in De- of Nez Perce leader Chief Jo- Apache Leader spect and honor.” http://bit. cember 2010 and purchased seph be installed in the U.S. ly/1KKWinS 0 a seat on the stock exchange Capitol’s National Statuary Dispute over federal the following August. Its Hall. If approved by the sate jurisdiction is resolved Honor For Northern interests in proposed ex- legislature, Chief Joseph’s Nine years after the federal Cheyenne Professor tractions in Ontario’s Ring statue would be the eighth of government seized 42 eagle Scholar is named a of Fire—where deposits of an indigenous figure in the feathers from religious leader Leopold Fellow chromium, copper, zinc, hall; the others include Will and feather dancer Robert platinum, vanadium and Rogers (Oklahoma), King Soto of the Lipan Apache Gail Small, a professor of gold have been discov- Kamehameha I (Hawaii) and Tribe of Texas, they have Native American Studies at ered—could benefit at least Sacagawea (North Dakota). been returned to their owner. Montana State University 13 First Nations. http://bit. “[It] will be a great honor to The return follows an August and a member of the North- ly/1AVG2Fg 0 Chief Joseph and to all those decision by the Fifth Circuit ern Cheyenne Tribe, has who have been left a legacy U.S. Court of Appeals, which been named a 2015 Leopold Native American that has helped mold who ruled unanimously that the Leadership Fellow. Based at Studies Professor we are today,” said Jim Boyd, 2006 seizure had violated So- the Stanford’s Woods Insti- Gets Support chairman of the Confederate to’s rights under the Religious tute for the Environment, Boycotts continue at Tribes of the Colville Reser- Freedom Restoration Act. As the program honors leaders University of Illinois vation, where descendants a member of a tribe that is in environmental research of Chief Joseph’s Wallowa not formally recognized by from 16 institutions in the Princeton University pro- band are currently enrolled. the federal government, Soto U.S. and Canada. The fellows fessor Cornel West is the http://bit.ly/195jP2c 0 was accused of unlawful pos- receive intensive leadership latest academician to boy- session of feathers taken from training to help them engage cott the University of Il- Native Business the endangered birds. http:// effectively with leaders in linois Urbana-Champaign Leaders Are bit.ly/1GpS9iG 0 the public and private sec- to protest its dismissal of Recognized tors who face complex de- Native American studies Honored at National Two High Schools cisions about sustainability professor Dr. Steven Salaita. Won’t Play Reservation Economic and the environment. “It is West was scheduled to de- Summit ‘Redskins’ Team time for me to help grow the liver the prestigious Marjo- Protest over use of discipline, time to give back rie Hall Thulin Lecture in Five Native American busi- controversial name and to build a new cadre of April. But he canceled the ness leaders were recognized student leaders,” Small said. engagement following the by the National Center for Akron and Lake Shore high http://bit.ly/1EfzxTG 0 university’s firing of Salaita, American Indian Enterprise schools, both in western New a Palestinian American, af- Development at this year’s York, have cancelled lacrosse For First Nations, A ter Salaita tweeted criticism National Reservation Eco- games that were to take place Seat On Wall Street of Israel’s bombing of Gaza nomic Summit at the Man- this month in protest over Shares purchased in last summer. Since Salaita’s dalay Bay Resort and Casino the “Redskins” nickname financial holding firm dismissal, more than 5,000 in Las Vegas last week for and mascot of their sched- academics from around their contributions to Indian uled opponent, Lancaster Two of Canada’s First Na- the country have pledged country. They were Victoria High School. Eleven percent tions—Beardy’s & Okemasis to boycott Urbana-Cham- Vasques, owner and presi- of Akron students and 15 First Nation of Saskatch- paign. As a result, more than dent of Tribal Tech, LLC; percent of Lake Shore stu- ewan and the Nibinamik three dozen scheduled cam- Stephen Mills, founder, pres- dents are Native American, First Nation of Ontario— pus talks and conferences ident and CEO of AQIWO, according to Fox Sports. “It have purchased shares in have been cancelled. http:// Inc.; George Tiger, princi- was an easy decision for us,” NativeOne Financial Hold- bit.ly/1GGJXOD 0 pal Chief of the Muscogee Lake Shore Schools Superin- ings LLC, the only Native- (Creek) Nation of Oklaho- tendent James Przepasniak owned broker-dealer with a Chief Joseph In U.S. ma; Mabel Tsosie, president told The Buffalo News. “We seat on the New York Stock Capitol? of Spottedhorse Infosystems; feel this action is in support Exchange. Founded in 2009, Likeness would grace and Lance Gumbs, execu- of the Native American com- NativeOne aims to help National Statuary Hall tive director of the Native munity.” In a statement, Lan- tribes achieve greater par- American Financial Ser- caster administrators said ticipation in the financial An Oregon commission has vices Association. http://bit. that the school district treats services industry. The firm recommended that a statue ly/1D9T7SA 0

IndianCountryTodayMediaNetwork.com March 18, 2015 6 Indian Country Today Bad News For Foxwoods And Mohegan Sun

Regional gaming expansion is blamed for shortfalls by gale courey toensing

Bottom Line: The powerhouse Fox- tion, and inter-state cannibalization.” spending by Maine residents, who had woods Resort and Mohegan Sun casinos At Foxwoods, total revenues dropped previously traveled to Connecticut to are experiencing a decline. Faced with by 43 percent, or $685 million, in the wager. regional competition, their fortunes are last eight years—from an estimated And Massachusetts and New Hamp- in jeopardy. $1.6 billion in 2006 to $892 million in shire residents have begun spending 2014. Total revenues at Mohegan Sun their gaming money at more conve- Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mo- Casino declined by 35 percent, or $545 nient destinations in Rhode Island and hegan Sun Casino, once the two larg- million, during that time—from an es- Maine, according to the report. est and most successful casinos in the The plunge in revenue at Connecti- world, are being crippled by the North- cut’s two casinos has resulted in a huge east’s expanding gaming market. reduction in their workforces. Fox- Connecticut’s two Indian-owned woods employed 12,800 people at its Connecticut casinos have experienced A ‘gambling arms 2006 peak but currently employs only combined drops in their revenues and 7,558. Mohegan Sun formerly em- workforces of almost 40 percent in the ployed 10,500 persons at its 2006 peak last eight years. Moreover, a new report race’ is hurting but now has only 7,205 on its payroll. states, conditions are not likely to im- The decline is likely to continue, prove any time soon. Connecticut’s two the report said, pointing to several in- Increasing regional competition and dicators. The report cited a new $800 the recent recession have caused the de- Native-owned million MGM casino that will open in cline, according to the 11th annual edi- 2017 in Springfield, Massachusetts, less tion of the Northeastern Casino Gaming casinos. than half an hour from Hartford, Con- Update. The Northeastern Gaming Re- necticut. search Project issued the report earlier Other challenges appear likely to this month. arise from a proposed hotel at Rhode “The New England casino gaming Island’s Twin River Casino. In addition, market is developing and changing as a timated $1.6 billion in 2006 to $1 bil- new casinos are being proposed in New result of two recent developments,” the lion in 2014. York City and Albany. And the Mash- report states. The first development, The main challenge to the casinos, pee Wampanoag Tribe has proposed a the report said, was “the lingering im- the report emphasized, has been new casino in southeastern Massachusetts. pact of the Great Recession (December and expanded gaming facilities in sur- “It is possible that up to one-third 2007-June 2009), which continues to rounding states. During the period in of the Connecticut casino’s remaining depress discretionary spending on ca- question, two massive slot parlors have customer base, including residents liv- sino gaming.” opened in the New York City area. ing in the Greater Hartford area could The second development, according They are Empire City Casino at Yon- be lost to new competition—all things to the report, has been “the emergence kers Raceway and Resorts World Ca- remaining the same,” the report stated. of an increasingly competitive North- sino New York on Long Island. Currently, 40 percent of the visitors eastern gaming market that encom- Furthermore, Rhode Island’s Twin to Foxwoods, and 30 percent of visitors passes both the New England and the River Casino became the third largest to Mohegan, are from Massachusetts or Mid-Atlantic states.” slot parlor in the United States and has New York. The report continued, “As the na- added table games to complement its “The gambling arms race in the tional and regional economy continues expanding array of video lottery ter- Northeast has essentially been a war its slow recovery, state casino gaming minals. waged against Connecticut and New policy and individual gaming operators Also, small, commercial (non-In- Jersey—and, for Connecticut, that arms are shifting their attention to questions dian) casinos have opened in Maine. race will continue,” the report deter- of regional competition, market satura- They have attracted much casino mined. http://bit.ly/1Bp6wUL 0

IndianCountryTodayMediaNetwork.com March 18, 2015 8 Indian Country Today Dying Of Thirst?

Washington has neglected Indian irrigation projects

Bottom Line: Many western reservations the government upholds its promise to one of the many projects, with others do not have enough water. But new federal build and maintain irrigation projects by in Montana, Washington, Arizona, New legislation could make a difference. providing Indian country with $35 mil- Mexico and Idaho. These are states, Bar- lion, to be disbursed from 2015 to 2036. rasso pointed out, that have sitting com- Water projects that serve some 25,000 The funds would go toward operations mittee members. Indian users have, for too long, lacked and maintenance, including all struc- “This bill is simply vital to our ef- adequate funding from the federal gov- tures, facilities, equipment, or vehicles forts,” Mitchel T. Cottenoir, tribal water ernment. But now these projects are re- used in connection with the projects. engineer for the Shoshone and Arapaho ceiving attention with a bipartisan bill At the March 4 hearing, senators Tribes of Wind River Reservation, told that the Senate Committee on Indian and witnesses alike testified to the im- the committee. “We realize that only Affairs took up at a hearing on March 4. portance of the IRRIGATE Act. “Many through our efforts, and yours, will this The Irrigation Rehabilitation absolutely essential rehabilitation and Renovation for Indian Tribal occur.” Governments and Their Econo- “We would certainly encour- mies Act (the IRRIGATE Act), age you to support this bill,” said S.438, would hold the federal Harry Labonde Jr., director of the government accountable for ad- Wyoming Water Development dressing the growing maintenance Commission. “I can tell you that backlog of aging Indian irrigation when irrigators can’t get their projects. Washington initiated the water in the spring time or the projects throughout the west in summer months their crops do the late 1800s and early 1900s. not flourish and as a result it is a “These irrigation projects were significant impact on the reserva- intended to be a central compo- tion.” nent for tribal economies,” said Charles Headdress Sr., Fort Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyoming), Peck Tribal Councilman, testified chairman of the Indian Affairs that agriculture is a top industry Committee. on the reservation. He pointed out But by the 1940s, construction Mitchel T. Cottenoir, tribal water engineer for the Shoshone that Fort Peck’s irrigation system on these projects ended, leav- and Arapaho Tribes, and Harry Labonde Jr., director of the has deferred maintenance costs of ing many of them unfinished. In Wyoming Water Development Commission, testified about $12.7 million. 2006, the Government Account- irrigation in Indian country. Tester cautioned that fixing irri- ability Office found a slew of is- gation systems is only one part of sues plaguing many of them. ranchers and farmers, both Indian and the problem. He called for a plan to look The issues included lack of mainte- non-Indian, still depend on the Bureau at water projects and settlements in Indian nance, structural deficiencies and insuffi- of Indian Affairs to deliver water for country in a comprehensive manner. “We cient funding for operations. Since then, their needs,” Barrasso said. cannot continue to authorize water settle- the Indian Affairs Committee has held “Irrigation systems are critical eco- ments and water projects without a plan to a field hearing in 2011 and an oversight nomic components on a number of fund them,” he said. hearing last September. reservations throughout Indian coun- “Careful management of water in In- “Those hearings confirmed a serious try,” said Sen. Jon Tester (D-Montana), dian communities is essential if we are backlog in deferred maintenance exists vice chairman of the committee. “Un- to ensure a reliable supply for the future,” and continues to grow,” Barrasso said. fortunately, and what seems par for the Barrasso said. “The IRRIGATE Act would That backlog of deferred maintenance, course with a lot of tribal issues, we’ve bring the Indian irrigation projects into the Bureau of Indian Affairs estimates, never done a good job of ensuring tribes the 21st century. The federal government’s amounts to more than $567 million. have the resources to make these irriga- promise to Indian country to build and And some tribes say the figure is much tion systems successful.” maintain these projects needs to be ful- higher. The Wind River Reservation in Bar- filled. This bill is a start in the right direc-

The IRRIGATE Act would ensure that rasso’s home state of Wyoming is just tion.” http://bit.ly/1NtjLJ2 0 CI A 2015 Flickr/S

IndianCountryTodayMediaNetwork.com March 18, 2015 8 Indian Country Today The Power Of Seeds A reconnection with Native soil by lee allen

Bottom Line: An innovative agricultural beans, corn, and squash, and have gone Richard Silvas, of the Pascua Yaqui program is planting for the future on into non-traditional crops like cucum- tribe, who plans to plant organic food- several levels. bers, broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflow- stuffs at the tribally owned, 39,000- er,” he said. “The success of our efforts acre Tortuga Ranch. The initial garden “Feel them. Smell them. Taste them.” has expanded to the point now where grows melons, cantaloupe, and bell Melissa Kruse-Peeples, the conserva- tribal groups in the various communi- peppers for community members. tion program manager at Native Seeds/ ties have adopted them and are anxious “Just to see people’s faces when you SEARCH (NSS), was urging on a group to learn more about how to grow crops give them a watermelon is reward of agricultural aficionadoes at a Native for healthy eating, in particular, for the enough for me,” he said. American Seed Growers Workshop in elders and children.” Calvin and Tanya Woods represented Tucson, Arizona. community gardeners in the Tesuque Spread out on a classroom table were Pueblo outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. containers of unidentified seeds. The “Our agricultural department broke up students’ goal—similar to that of NSS two acres into individual family plots itself—was to identify the traditional where we grow what our ancestors taught seed crop items. They were also trying us, traditional foods for survival,” said to learn more about the art and science Calvin. He is learning how to plant, store, of seeds and the growing and stewarding harvest, and share his white corn, sweet of some of the crops that have fed Indig- corn, pumpkins, and watermelons. enous Peoples for centuries. Now in its 30th year, the nonprofit NSS NSS distributes 8,000 seed packets seed bank offers over 2,000 ascensions to Native Americans annually and has of seeds, about half of which originated a new program in place to disseminate from indigenous communities in Mexico pounds of seeds to larger scale Native and the Arizona/New Mexico Four Cor- farmers. ners region. “Workshops like this are part of what “We exist to keep those seeds around we’re all about, our mission of work- and get them into the field,” said Kruse- ing with Native American communities Peeples. She encourages a return of some concerned about food security,” said of the crop in seed form to continue the NSS Executive Director Larrie Warren. distribution process to even more Native “Providing free seeds and planting tips farmers. to Native American farmers is part of Free seeds from NSS are available what we’re all about—distributing seeds to Native peoples living in the Greater to people in need, that’s our goal.” Southwest region (the Colorado River More than two dozen people attended Learning and renewing with Mother Earth on the west; the eastern border of New the two-day workshop to learn how to Mexico and Chihuahua; the Four Cor- grow, save and store seeds. Coming from He credited Native Seeds/SEARCH ners area of the U.S. on the north; and out of town and out of state, represent- with helping Native American farm- the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico ing the Tohono O’odham, Pascua Yaqui, ers realize the value of crops that have on the south). For Natives living in the San Carlos Apache, Gila River Indian been around for centuries. “New life region, 10 free seed packets are available Community, Navajo, and other tribes, has been breathed into the agrarian in a calendar year. they were backyard gardeners, educators community,” Sotomayor said. “Native “There’s certainly been a big revival of and large-scale farmers. crops have survived all this time and interest and effort in the reconnection One was Bob Sotomayor, Yaqui, of the for a logical reason, they’re far superior of NSS and indigenous farmers,” said San Xavier Co-op Farm. He trains staff in their genetic makeup. People have Kruse-Peeples. “We’re now working with members who work with different types depended on them for a long time and New Mexico’s Acoma Pueblo, providing of vegetable crops. they mustn’t ever be allowed to go out seeds to young farmers as part of a fo- “Our 800 acres are primarily alfalfa, of production.” cus to bring youth back into traditional but we also farm traditional crops like Another workshop attendee was farming.” http://bit.ly/1AksB1R 0 Lee A ll en

IndianCountryTodayMediaNetwork.com March 18, 2015 9 Indian Country Today Sally Jewell And ‘The Pressure Of Time’

‘Difficult to get things done,’ says the Interior Secretary by vincent schilling Bottom Line: Secretary of the Interior make that happen. We know the end date President Brian Cladoosby of the NCAI Sally Jewell, who upholds trust responsi- is January 2017. We know how long things said this is the best administration ever bilities to federally recognized American take and we have a map of progress. We are for Indian Country. What are your Indian tribes and Alaska Natives, recently holding ourselves accountable for making thoughts of being part of this admin- held forth to ICTMN: istration? The White House Tribal How has your position as Nations Conference, that Secretary of the Interior was held last year by the been? Do you ever think, president, I do not see go- “What have I gotten myself ing away. I think a future into?” president would be crazy Oh yeah, all the time. It to not welcome our nation’s doesn’t feel new anymore. We first people and leaders to joke that these are dog years. Washington, D.C. to truly I am almost through year two be partners in these gov- and almost through the first ernment-to-government half of my term here. I feel the relationships. I see that pressure of time. I recognize continuing. how difficult it is to get things The White House Coun- done. Indian water rights cil on Native American settlements take decades. Affairs was established by How do you come in to move an executive order. That things forward? How can you means it continues unless a win the hearts and minds of future executive order un- career staff who will be here does that executive order. I long after you are gone? cannot see that happening. We are revamping Indian As people continue to education. So how do I make engage with tribes—and Jewell: “We know how long things take and we have a map of progress.” a case that is compelling for we have a lot of momentum the career staff who other- to do this down to the staff wise could just outlast me, Monty Russell progress and I’m optimistic we can get a lot level—that is a real working relation- and Kevin K. Washburn? Because it has to of stuff done. ship with tribal leaders and recognition make sense for them, we have to listen to for everything that they have to offer. them and the people they serve. There is What is your position on tribal entities This will move us away from what has no ramp-up time in this job. You are thrust and marijuana? been around for as long as the U.S. gov- in from day one. People interview you and I don’t have a comment because I am not ernment has been around, which is a everything that you say that’s goofy will be in the thick of this. It is very complicated paternalistic relationship. I think this used against you the entire time you are in and I think if I was a tribal government of- is unhealthy. this office. So the pressure is on. ficial, I would let some of this sort itself out Changes that have occurred with this The ability to get stuff done in this job is before I dive into the middle of it because it administration will persist. I think the very real and I would say what’s happen- is so complicated—especially when you are tribes and tribal leadership have been ing in Indian country is a good example of talking about something that has the po- more empowered to stand up for their that. There are things that are difficult to tential to be a substance that some people rights as government-to-government get done because of process but it doesn’t can abuse. I think the dust needs to settle a partners. I don’t see them backing mean you don’t try with all of your might to little before we try figuring this out. down, either. http://bit.ly/1GGYOZd 0 ap images

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Upcoming represented by more than 300 partici- nance within the health service. This is pants. Conference tracks include behav- one of four quarterly committee meetings. Events ioral health, health promotion/disease Location: Embassy Suites DC Convention prevention, and wellness. Continuing Center, Washington, D.C. AMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE AND education credits are available at more ENGINEERING SOCIETY LEADERSHIP than 35 workshops that feature best prac- SENATE COMMITTEE ON SUMMIT MARCH 19-21 tices, public health research and cultural InDIAN AFFAIRS ROUNDTABLE The major focus of the summit is to de- knowledge. The keynote address, “The DISCUSSION MARCH 25 velop AISES members in the realm of Role of Public Health in Strengthening The subject of this roundtable discussion, professional and career development, Tribal Communities,” will be delivered which will be open to the public, is “The the better to prepare them to attain jobs by Dr. Donald K. Warne (Oglala Lakota), Carcieri v. Salazar Supreme Court Deci- and careers in STEM (science, technol- director and chair of the Master of Pub- sion and Exploring a Way Forward.” ogy, engineering and mathematics) fields. lic Health Program and American Indian Location: 216 Hart Senate Office Build- Goals will include increasing the skill Public Health at North Dakota State Uni- ing, Washington, D.C. and aptitude level of AISES members versity. in professional and career development; Location: The Town & Country, San Di- THE COMMONS ABORIGINAL developing professional members as role ego, California WORKSHOPS MARCH 25-27 models; and providing Native college and This series of in-depth professional de- graduate students with support and con- INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE TRIBAL velopment forums, each lasting two full fidence building. SELF-GOVERNANCE ADVISORY days, delves intensively into a given topic, Location: Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort COMMITTEE MEETING MARCH 22-25 utilizing a mixture of lectures, role-play- and Spa, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico The Indian Health Service Tribal Self- ing and experiential learning to develop Governance Advisory Committee (TS- the skills of participants. Workshop topics NATIVE WOMEN AND MEN’S GAC), which comprises tribal leaders will include aboriginal matrimonial real WELLNESS CONFERENCE from each Indian Health Service (IHS) property, aboriginal interest-based nego- MARCH 22-25 Area, provides advice to the IHS Director tiations, and aboriginal consultations and This annual conference brings together and offers assistance on issues and con- engagement. more than 75 American Indian, Alaska cerns pertaining to tribal self-governance Location: The Albert at Bay Suite Hotel, Native and First Nation communities, and the implementation of self-gover- Ottawa, Ontario letters to the editor You can be “arrested” for nearly any- usually end in death. This is the main Re: “Jailed In Mexico,” about how thou- thing, but if sufficient cash makes its reason that Juarez was the murder capi- sands of indigenous persons end up be- way into the hand of the arresting of- tal of the world for several years run- hind bars because of language barriers ficer, all can be forgiven. The cartels are ning. (March 8): less forgiving. The best way to keep Natives out of This is one reason why I don’t venture Cartel brutality in Juarez, Mexico jail in Mexico is to warn them not to into Mexico. If the drug cartels don’t (which is about 40 miles south of my go there. get you, the police will. There is even a home) is legendary and it only takes a name for police corruption there. It is suspicious “finger man” to peg you as —Michael Madrid “La Mordida” which means “The Bite.” a rival cartel member. Those instances Las Cruces, New Mexico

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FUNDS FOR TWO TRIBES Washington. Community mem- attempt to keep fracking from origin route of sacred sites ARE UNFROZEN bers first envisioned the long- harming the Chaco Canyon. of the Indigenous Peoples The Cheyenne and Arapaho house nearly 40 years ago, to The groups object to the ap- of the eastern Tucano lan- Tribes have received almost acknowledge the presence of proval over the past two years guage group. This year, the $6.5 million in trust funds that the region’s First Peoples and of more than 130 proposals group has registered almost had been frozen over the last provide a learning and gather- for fracking operations. “The 40 sacred sites in 12 days. three years. The Custer County ing place for Native American Bureau of Land Management District Court of Oklahoma students and faculty. “What is not taking serious consider- TRIUMPHANT INDIAN ordered the freeze in April it will say to Native students ation of the sacredness of the EXHIBIT AT THE MET 2012, following a dispute be- is that the university honors greater Chaco region,” said “The Plains Indians: Artists of tween tribal factions. But after the indigenous perspec- a Diné CARE spokesperson. Earth and Sky,” a major ex- the dispute was resolved, the tive,” said Michael Vendiola hibit at New York City’s Met- tribes were allowed access (Swinomish/Lummi), program MAPPING OF AMAZON ropolitan Museum of Art, has again as of March 4. “It’s a supervisor for the state Of- REGION CONTINUES opened to positive reviews. blessing to the tribe to have fice of Native Education. The mapping of sacred in- Holland Cotter of The New these funds returned to us,” digenous sites along the York Times called the show said Cheyenne and Arapaho NAVAJOS JOIN IN Black River in Brazil’s Ama- “one of the most completely Lt. Gov. Cornell Sankey. FRACKING LAWSUIT zon region by the Anaconda beautiful sights in New York A coalition of environmental Expedition—a group of indig- right now.” In The New Yorker, NEW LONGHOUSE groups, including the Navajo enous leaders, environmental Peter Schjeldahl described it IN SEATTLE organization Diné Citizens activists, government officials as “a peak artistic achieve- The second longhouse to be Against Ruining Our Environ- and filmmakers—has moved ment.” The installation com- built in Seattle since earlier ment (Diné CARE), filed suit into its second phase. In Janu- prises some 130 war clubs, longhouses were destroyed in against the Bureau of Land ary 2013 the entourage trav- shields, garments, pipes, dolls the late 1800s was opened on Management and the Interior eled nearly 500 miles along and other artifacts drawn March 12, at the University of Department on March 11 in an the Black River to track the from many collections.

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Jim Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), chair of the Red Cross fundraiser in Florida to attend understand that Leonard has no family Senate Environment and Public Works Nimoy’s funeral. named Clinton, but we don’t want him to Committee, threw a snowball in the Sen- Cousin Ray opined that Mr. Spock would miss out on getting pardoned again on ac- ate last week to prove once and for all that say, “The needs of the many outweigh the count of being outbid by somebody like he does not understand the difference needs of the few—or the one.” Marc Rich.” between climate and weather or the connection between hotter hots and colder * * * * * * colds. In this month of cold and very cold, the While Shatner’s critics agreed the Red The Toronto Star reported that Canadian Cherokee Marshal Service participated Cross represents “the needs of the many” law enforcement has discovered the build- in the 2015 Polar Plunge, which involved during national disasters, they claimed that ers of a mysterious tunnel near the site of taking a dive into the Illinois River to raise Shatner could have kept the charity com- the upcoming Pan American games. The money for Special Olympics Oklahoma. mitment if he had chartered a private jet to tunnel contained an electric generator, The Cherokee marshals raised $4,674. My attend the funeral. tools, food and drink containers, and a cousin Ray Sixkiller observed that only “Who do they think Shatner is,” Cousin rosary hung on the wall. Turned out, two one member of the Tribal Council took the Ray asked, “Aaron Schock?” working class twenty-somethings were plunge, Curtis Snell. building the tunnel as “a place to hang out.” “That’s a different kind of cold,” Ray re- * * * Cousin Ray said he thought they were marked, “unless the rest of the Council looking for Hillary Clinton’s emails. bought their way out of it by sponsoring Buzzfeed broke the story that ISIS has de- Curtis.” clared war on Twitter generally and on co- * * * founder Jack Dorsey in particular because * * * Twitter has enforced its terms of service Early polling for 2016 recalls the roller and taken down ISIS-linked accounts that coaster of Republican Primary polling Thanks to Chicago Sun-Times reporting, threatened people. last time. Or Democrats in 2008. Bar- Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Illinois) has paid “ISIS without threats,” Cousin Ray rels of ink are at stake. back $1,237 billed to the public for taking mused, “would be like a Cherokee election General election polling has former a chartered jet to a football game between without a hog fry.” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton beat- the Chicago Bears and the Minnesota Vi- ing all the Republicans, with former kings. According to the Sun-Times, the cost * * * Florida Gov. Jeb Bush losing by only for the private jet was $1,700 an hour plus three points and Wisconsin Gov. Scott landing fees, and reporters were unable to The New York Times reported that Hillary Walker losing by nine. Rasmussen, a determine who paid for the Bears tickets. Clinton ran her Secretary of State business Republican outfit, has Walker losing to Rep. Schock is the same Congressman who out of a private email account, contrary Clinton by only five points, with Bush paid the taxpayers back $40,000 spent on to federal policy. The Clinton idea of fix- losing by nine. redecorating his office in the style of Down- ing the problem was to have an aide look In state primaries, Gravis Marketing ton Abby. though her emails and decide which ones has both Bush and Walker leading South Cousin Ray was outraged that the tax- were State Department business. Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham in South payers were billed for a Vikings game. “I Cousin Ray said I didn’t get it: “Transpar- Carolina. Bush beats Walker by only one could understand if it was the Packers.” ency rules don’t apply to Clintons.” point in Florida. But Walker mops the floor-ida with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, * * * * * * by a percentage of 22 to 11. Early polling for 2008 and 2012 teach- R.I.P. Mr. Spock, I mean Leonard Nimoy, Then Ray claimed that Indian entertain- es that polling for 2016 right now is only who walked on from natural causes at 83, ers are planning benefit concerts to fund a entertainment. having lived long and prospered. Admiral “Leonard Peltier-Marc Rich-Roger Clinton “Unless,” Cousin Ray chuckled, “you Kirk, I mean Bill Shatner, got a social me- Pardon Fund.” are a candidate or working for one.” dia roasting because he did not bail on a He quoted a Lakota guitar picker: “We http://bit.ly/1Nr5jRT 0

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Pow Wows have grown and evolved in ways that mirror the growth and rebirth of our traditions and way of life. They are not static, they are not presented behind a wall of plexiglass. When we dance, we dance to the heartbeat of Mother Earth, the drum. We sing and we dance for each other, for our elders and ancestors, for the Creator, and for our children.

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What is going to happen “I see the young people becoming in- hand drums. Before, females at hand in the Pow Wow world terested again. The renewed interest drums was taboo. in 2015? is encouraging me. I think they are “It is happening because it is sup- It looks like it’s all good news: a better watching the First Nations Channel, posed to happen. People are starting economy and lower gas prices could and really looking at it; they realize to see that traditions have a begin- mean greater attendance at pow wows. that a lot of us are still alive and do- ning. New things have to happen to ICTMN asked pow wow regulars, ing this. It sparks their interest. become new traditions. When it and those who travel to pow wows, to “My sense is that a good pow wow comes to regalia, dancers are sticking share their perspectives on what 2015 should have lots of social elements to their own particular tribe and com- will bring for the pow wow world. peting in their own tribal gear.” Michael Knapp: Men’s Winn Harjo: Northern Traditional Chikasha Hithla dancer, designer and owner “There will be Chickasaw Stomp dancer of KQ Designs Custom “The Southeastern stomp dance is Beadwork getting to be popular through differ- “Now that gas prices are lower, I more female ent states. When people see Native think dancers are going to travel more American dances they think of it as and more to pow wows. With a bet- feathers, but we wear leather leggings ter economy, we will see some new leadership in and ribbon shirts. When they see us clothes and nice sets of beadwork this demonstrating the dance they like it, year. People are starting to incorpo- and they want to see more of it. We rate contemporary colors with more the drum circle” have full calendar in 2015 that will traditional designs. Young people include performing in Oklahoma, want the traditional patterns of their Alabama, Georgia, Texas and possi- tribes, while continuing with contem- bly Florida.” porary beads and finishes.” in the arena and outside the arena. It is a social function, and it is a good Amy Morris: Cira Larry Yazzie: Champion way for people to meet each other. Photography and Design Fancy dancer, founder and One of the things we did differently “In the past couple of years, I have artistic director of Native last year was the Grizzly Bear Dance. seen a noticeable change in the youth Pride Arts It was phenomenal. I am really happy dancers. They are really putting great “It’s becoming more of a trend to live- people gather around the dancer. We effort into making sure their regalia stream pow wows in more locations. I need role models like her. and dance are representing traditional think this is great because live-stream- “These days we are smothered by ways. I have seen a level of maturity ing gives the people who aren’t able to technology. We should use more of in these young dancers that shows in travel the ability to enjoy pow wows the spirit. I see that beginning to hap- their skill and confidence when they so they can follow their favorite danc- pen. I am encouraged.” enter the arena. It’s hard to take your ers and dancers can keep an eye on eyes off of them. They enter and you their respective categories.” Paula Nelson: Living history think—awww, well this will be cute, educator, performer and expecting them to be somewhat awk- Joseph Standing Bear multimedia artist ward and clumsy— but they imme- Schranz: Pow Wows Found- “[In 2015], There will be more fe- diately correct your misconceptions er/President of Midwest male leadership in the drum circle. I with spot on footwork, excellent tim- SOARRING Foundation definitely see more female presence at ing and a commanding presence.” 0

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he pow wow circuit expanded People Traditional American Indian well-timed—announcement. “I want in 2014, going beyond tradi- Powwow, but he decided 2014 would to do something crazy,” he said. “Right Ttional borders both geograph- be the final year for the pow wow. “I in front of my home crowd, my home ic and cultural. In July, hundreds of just don’t have the time to devote to people. It’s about time – Yendi Juarez, Natives gathered in Washington, D.C. it and keep my day job,” Sanchez told will you marry me?” The galvanized at the First Gathering of the National crowd erupted with joyous drumming Congress of Black American Indians; and Native wails of approval. A visibly and in September, Vanderbilt Univer- stunned Juarez, tears in her eyes and sity hosted its first-ever pow wow. hands covering her mouth, nodded A few pow wows delivered some yes (see photo). surprises, while others celebrated big anniversaries or kicked off some new Vanderbilt Steps Up traditions. Here are some of the big A newly formed student organization headlines from the year: called Native Americans in Tennessee Interacting at Vanderbilt (NATIVe), Nansemond Tribe hosted its inaugural event, called “Na- Celebrates Land Grant tions Within States: Citizenship, Pot- A 77-acre tract of land was granted tery & The Catawba Indian Nation,” to the Nansemond Tribe in Febru- on September 17. NATIVe’s goal is to ary by Suffolk, Virginia, and in Au- increase the public profile of Ameri- gust, the tribe held its 26th Annual can Indians in Tennessee by bringing Nansemond Indian Tribal Powwow, them together. marking the first time they had celebrated the event on their own land. Gathering of Nations The tribe plans to construct a full- Honored fledged Indian village called Mat- The American Bus Association tanock Town, complete with a tribal Pow Wow ends with a heartfelt moment. (ABA) named Gathering of Nations center and Nansemond cultural mu- one of the Top 100 Events in America seum. ICTMN reported that the for the fifth consecutive year. It is the gift of land to the tribe was not free. ICTMN. Sanchez, Apache, is a pro- world’s largest gathering of Native A stipulation requires that the tribe fessor in the College of Communica- American and indigenous people and raise an estimated $5-6 million dollars tions at Penn State University, where was chosen from hundreds of events to complete the village, tribal center he is the only American Indian fac- nominated by ABA members. and museum within five years. If they ulty member. And although his pow meet those deadlines, the land could wow is fading out, he is confident he First Gathering of Na- go back to the city. can continue to be a positive force tional Congress of Black for Native causes. “Penn State was American Indians Mile-High Powwow Still very receptive to the kinds of things In July, hundreds of black Indians Flying High I wanted to bring to this university. I gathered in Washington, D.C. for In 2014r, the Denver March Powwow, just bought burial plots here,” he told the First Gathering of the National which has grown from its modest be- StateCollege.com. “I see myself here Congress of Black American Indians ginnings to become a major draw for the rest of my life.” (NCBAI). Speakers and attendees throughout Indian country, celebrat- included spiritual and community ed its 40th anniversary. A Shocking Proposal leaders. Black Indians have been the Headman dancer Johnny Nieto sur- subject of books, documentaries and Farewell, Pennsylvania prised the crowd (and his girlfriend) an exhibit at the Smithsonian, but For 11 years, John Sanchez coordi- at the 11th annual Tule River Band of this gathering was the first massive ef- nated The New Faces of an Ancient Yokuts pow wow with a major—and fort to bring the people together ROBLES DIEGO JAMES . 0

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AMERIND Risk Chief Executive Of- ficer Derek Valdo, a member of the AMERIND Risk Acoma Pueblo, told Indian Country Today Media Network. This means 92 percent of the insurance market is Cutting Costs controlled by non-Tribal owned insurance companies. “Our small, Indian-owned company Recirculating Money in Indian Country and Meeting has been operating for 29 years. Tribes More Tribal Insurance Needs don’t realize just how much more control and flexibility they have by buying BY KRISTIN BUTLER from themselves [within Indian country] than sending their money off to corporate America,” stated Valdo. AMERIND Risk is a sovereign enti- ty and thus not limited by state rules, laws and regulation—or the “one size fits all” approach. State workers’ compensation fails to provide tribal protection, and instead pays claim benefits based only upon what is required by a state law. “We’re a Section 17 Corporation. Basically what Section 17 does is it makes AMERIND a sovereign en- tity like the tribes that incorporated us, and it gives us the same tax sta- tus, so we’re tax exempt,” Valdo told ICTMN. “Thus we don’t pass those taxes on to our tribal clients,” making AMERIND Risk’s cost of operation typically 10-15 percent less than traditional insurance companies. According to Dennis McCann, Chief Operating Officer, the benefits of sovereign protection through AM- ERIND Risk are most apparent in its workers’ compensation program. Casey Riddle, CFO; Derek Valdo, CEO; Dennis McCann, COO “We deliver a tribal workers’ compensation product to tribes that gives esigned by 400 tribes, for include traditional medicine men in them the ability to leverage their tribes, in 1986, this sovereign, its workers’ compensation program. sovereignty and solid benefits, but Dtax-exempt nonprofit pro- It prides itself on keeping money outside of the state system,” McCann vides the same insurance coverage at in Indian country and reinvesting in said. “A lot of times tribes don’t real- roughly 10-15 percent less than what tribal communities. ize they subjected themselves to state most mainstream insurance compa- And this not-for-profit risk pool/ workers’ comp. But we’re outside of nies charge tribes. insurance carrier, AMERIND Risk, is [state] law. We give them the ability Culturally sensitive and Native continually finding new ways to in- to level out the cost of insurance over owned and operated, it’s based on the novate, expand and meet the needs time.” Santa Ana Pueblo in Bernalillo, New of our people. Still, AMERIND Risk It’s a way for a tribe to insulate and Mexico. It’s privy to the unique chal- has tapped less than 10 percent of protect itself, Valdo explained. “On lenges of tribal entities. And it pos- the insurance market in Indian coun- the attorney side, AMERIND protects sesses the legal authority to uphold try. “In the insurance market space, tribes when they get sued through specific cultural intricacies that most tribes spend half a billion dollars general liability coverage. Our tribal standard insurance companies simply across Indian country, AMERIND lawyers utilize tribal codes and laws to

do not understand—like the ability to provides $40 million of that market,” protect them.” MARES PHOTOGRAPHY AMERIND/RAY

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McCann adds, “They also have the Valdo said. “We developed a direct terprises within Indian country. We’re ability to practice in tribal courts. repair program.” continually evolving and developing in- We’re not afraid to handle claims in “Because Indian country is so rural novative, specialized coverages with the tribal court. We do it all the time.” in nature and not a lot of companies capabilities to insure these diverse enti- According to Valdo, this is more want to drive an hour to replace dam- ties,” McCann said. And the recent ad- relevant than ever since the Supreme aged property, we developed the di- dition of Chief Financial Officer Casey Court ruling in State of Michigan v. rect repair program. If you use one of Riddle, a member of the Osage Nation, Bay Mills Indian Community. While our vetted contractors, we will waive to AMERIND’s executive team brings the high court ruled in favor of fed- your deductible and do the work di- new talents and perspective to the com- eral jurisdiction and tribal sovereign- rectly for you, the client. In 2014 we pany. Riddle previously served as the di- ty, Chief Justice Kagan clarified that have spent about $2 million using rector of finance at the Muscogee Creek “Michigan could bring suit against Native-owned companies to repair Nation’s River Spirit Casino in Tulsa, tribal officials or employees [rather Native properties,” states Valdo. Okla. Prior to that, he helped open the than the Tribe itself ] seeking an in- AMERIND also contributes money Quapaw Tribe’s Downstream Casino & junction.” Resort in Joplin, Mo. where he The clarification set a dan- managed their financial pack- gerous precedent for states to ages as their director of finance. control tribes through their “In the insurance market At AMERIND, Riddle is fo- employees and vendors, Valdo cused on tailoring insurance stressed. packages to meet the very spe- “The Supreme Court in space, tribes spend half a cific needs of tribal governments the Bay Mills Case laid the and businesses. framework for states and reg- “I step back from the insur- ulators on how to get around billion dollars across Indian ance-only perspective and listen tribal sovereignty to control to the finance industry profes- the behavior of tribes,” said sionals,” Riddle told ICTMN. Valdo, additionally pointing country, Amerind provides “I interact with them more on to unions and labor relations a pure level—I help find out boards that try to influence what they need, and work to Indian country and push their $40 million of that market.” mold the program with them to rules on tribes. achieve their goals, lower their “Tribes are sovereign; you costs, and improve their bot- can’t sue them. But you can tom line. Having been in the sue everyone else that works for them, directly back into Indian country. industry for so many years, I understand and their suppliers and vendors,” Val- “I’m fortunate my board of directors hinge points. I understand why there’s a do said. reinvests $450,000 annually in non- problem, because I’ve worked through Unlike state workers’ compensa- profit organizations like the National those processes.” tion, AMERIND’s coverage protects Congress of American Indians, the As AMERIND keeps growing to meet employees under tribal law. AMER- Native American Finance Officers its client needs, Valdo wants to drill IND’s workers’ compensation pro- Association, the Native American home the importance of putting money gram was introduced in 2004. In the Human Resources Association, the back into Indian country. last two years, under Valdo’s helm, the National Indian Child Welfare Asso- “I went to Stanford. I wanted to program has seen almost 200 percent ciation, the Native American Rights be an engineer and work in Florida at growth. “It’s really taking off,” Valdo Fund,” and more. “We give back to NASA,” Valdo said. “Fortunately, fifteen said. “Tribes are finding it in their Indian associations that help Indian years ago, I started working at a strong best interest to take control.” country. All our competitors together, Indian-owned insurance company- AM- And Valdo is particularly interested do not give back as much, to entities ERIND Risk.” Two and a half years ago, in keeping work in Indian country. that support tribes. We’re more than the board of directors selected Valdo, “I know that when $1 stays in tribal just an insurance company.” based on his leadership merits, to be the communities, it grows six to eight Despite all its unique advantages as a first Native CEO in the history ofAM- times,” Valdo said. tribal-owned insurance company, AM- ERIND risk. “Our annual revenue is $40 That’s one reason he touts the com- ERIND has plenty of room to grow. million, and it’s growing by 12.5 percent pany’s direct repair program, which “Tribes have multiple enterprises from year over year. I’m very fortunate to be a helps bring business to tribal and Na- government contracting to casinos to benefactor of Indian people believing in tive-owned companies. “Typically, in- seed stores to tech and communica- themselves. Let’s put Indians in charge surance companies just write checks,” tions. There’s a whole multitude of en- of Indian business.” 0

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NIGA chairman Ernie Stevens, Jr. recalls the organization’s early heroes and its current challenges BY GALE COUREY TOENSING

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s the National Indian Gam- ing Association celebrates its “Many of the folks involved A30th anniversary this year, it’s ™ amusing to hear that the man who has in the early NIGA years been at the helm of the biggest, most powerful Indian gaming advocacy or- were vehemently opposed I am a friend, a brother, and ganization in North America for half Cherokee/Lumbee. of its life wasn’t fond of bingo when to IGRA; they were kind And I am living with HIV. he was young. “I despised it,” Ernie Stevens Jr. told of heroes in that they fought ICTMN. Stevens, a citizen of the Oneida Tribe it tooth and nail.” of Indians of Wisconsin was elected NIGA chairman in 2000. He’s facing his eighth re-election to a two-year chairs around and do my workout and term at the 30th Indian Gaming Trade then I’d leave, leaving the tables and Show & Convention in San Diego chairs where I’d moved them. I was in- March 30-April 2. (At press date, no dignant because the bingo operation one is running against him.) And he is was taking away my chance to play the third Oneida citizen in an unbro- basketball.” ken line to serve in a leadership posi- It wasn’t long before one of the tion in NIGA since the organization volunteer women who ran the bingo was formed in 1985. games approached Stevens for a little Tommy (right) has lived with Stevens was an aspiring basketball chat. (These women are memorial- HIV since 1985. player in his teens in the mid-70’s ized in a book published last year when the Oneida tribe began its bin- called The Bingo Queens of Oneida: I am a grandma, a mother, go operation. “We only had one good How Two Moms Started Tribal Gam- and a public speaker. gym on the reservation and that’s ing in Wisconsin. The book tells the And I am living with HIV. where the tribe’s new bingo opera- story through the eyes of Sandra Nin- tion took place. I really despised the ham and Alma Webster, the Oneida bingo tables and all the traffic and women who had the idea for a bingo stuff,” Stevens said. ”So I used to go operation run by the tribe to benefit in there and move all the tables and the tribe. The bingo operation started

Shana (right) has lived with HIV since 1993.

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Month Day, Year THIS WEEK FROM INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY 24 INDIAN COUNTRY GAMING TODAY in 1976 and became the tribe’s first we have a right to conduct gaming and National Governor’s Association, the moneymaker on a reservation where pursue economic development, but National Attorney Generals, League about half the population was living that we could run our operations in a of Cities, religious groups, commercial in poverty.) professional manner.” gaming,” “She sat me down and said, ‘Ernie,’— Th e leaders were prophetic – in 1988 When Hill took the helm, NIGA and she was pointing her hand up at Congress passed the Indian Gaming had no money, its structure had fallen the ceiling—‘if we don’t have bingo we Regulatory Act (IGRA), which con- apart and there was no staff. “He did a can’t turn on these lights. In summer strained the tribes’ inherent author- lot of single-handed work for a while we wouldn’t have enough baseball bats ity on their lands that Cabazon had – he established a membership cam- to go around.’ She did the math for me confirmed. “Many of the folks that paign and went out to Indian country so I had a new-found appreciation of were involved in the early NIGA years to raise the funds to hire and pay the the bingo operation,” Stevens recalled. were vehemently opposed to IGRA, so staff. The board at the time brought “And, also, they didn’t have to call my they were kind of heroes in that they in Tim Wapato as executive director Uncle Purcy, who had to have a talk fought it tooth and nail and it would and Gay Kingman as the media per- with me every now and then. He was have diminished our sovereignty even son, and under Hill’s administration, the fi rst to teach me about Indian gam- more if they hadn’t had input into that they created a sustainable organiza- ing and he mentored me.” tional structure that continues Stevens’ uncle was the late to this day.” Purcell Powless, a visionary trib- Going into its fourth decade, al leader who served as Oneida NIGA will continue to protect chairman for 33 years and was “We need to continue tribal sovereignty and the gam- among the group of tribal leading industry that has provided ers who formed NIGA in 1985 tribal governments with the – two years before the U.S. to educate the American revenues to build their na- Supreme Court’s California v tions and provide services for Cabazon ruling, which found their people, Stevens said. “I that the state had no author- public about what Indian think we need to continue to ity to enforce its gambling laws educate the American public within the reservations. about what Indian gaming Purcell was NIGA’s fi rst vice gaming has done to has done to transform Indian chairman; the other leaders in country and also about tribal the group included Bill Houle sovereignty and why we have (Fond du Lac Band), NIGA’s transform Indian country.” the right to have gaming. It fi rst chairman; Josephine Jack- sounds like a simple thing but son (Saginaw Chippewa Tribe); there are a lot of underlying is- James Billie (Seminole Tribe of sues, like taxation, self govern- Florida); Stan Jones (Tulalip Tribes); legislation,” Stevens said. “Th e heroes ing powers, the right to regulate.” Rocco Knight (Yocha Dehe Wintun of today have been able to get the most More work is needed, Stevens said. Nation); Fred Th omas Sr., (Kickapoo out of that restricting law for our tribal Fewer than half of the 565 federally Tribe of Kansas); and Merlin Red governments.” recognized tribes have gaming. A vast Cloud (Ho-Chunk Nation). In Stevens’ 15 years as NIGA chair- majority of tribes live in isolated areas, In the decade before the Cabazon man, Indian gaming revenues have plagued by unemployment rates as high ruling, approximately 80 Indian tribes grown from $11 billion in 2000 to as 70 or 80 percent, rampant alcohol were engaged in some form of gaming, $28.6 billion in 2014. and drug abuse, health issues and all mostly bingo and card games, generat- Stevens spent much of the 1990’s the social ills that poverty spreads, Ste- ing an estimated $100 million to $500 as a member of the Oneida Council. vens noted. “Th e funding guaranteed million a year in revenue. Th e leaders Debbie Thundercloud, his chief of by treaties has never been adequate who formed NIGA anticipated that staff at NIGA, was Oneida Council – that’s why the leaders looked for so there would be trouble ahead, Stevens vice chairwoman and Rick Hill was long to find an economic tool that said. “I think the leaders found a bond both Oneida and NIGA chair dur- would help Indian country. Gaming in that they really wanted to protect ing that time. “Rick Hill was chair [of did [that] because it was a cash-based the integrity of gaming and they want- Oneida] and we loaned him to the business that brought revenues quickly, ed to protect their rights because they NIGA in the midst of all the gam- but it didn’t help all. Th ere’s still a lot knew that we’ve always had to fi ght for ing wars,” Thundercloud said. “There of suff ering out there and until we can our rights and so forming NIGA was a were a lot of organizations that were bring parity to all of Indian country, pro-active action to show not only do coming after Indian gaming, like the the outlook won’t be rosy.” 0

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LEIZENS March 2015 the event online. the event online. who can’tpeople travel, show organizers efficiently possible. To as accommodate its traditional roots andmake itrun as want soars,the organizers to maintain ity competition quizbowls.” in local preparingclub time as well as forlanguage is learning hand drum anddanceduring hosts wow apow eachyear. “Our youth throughout the year, whiletheir school wowing,”and pow Bajan. said tional ceremony, tanning, hide wildricing, study,in Ojibwemowin language tradi- Powwowled Club. Our clubparticipates Anishinaabe nation, with anactive youth- totraditionalcommitted education ofthe options. “Wepursue post-secondary are to graduatethe and need credits they dents leadtheir own that projects achieve at their learning project-based stu- school, students’ year, school adding that hesaid, members.”Chippewa BoisForte students all Bandof attending, Weone participate in dancing. have eight clude more students this yearandeach attended the event. “We toin- are trying have this yearthey istheBajan said second muchstill involved very in the wow. pow Powwow in 1974and1975. Center Youth and was called Enrichment was aweekly event at the Denver Indian way from when its it humble beginnings participants. a dancecompetition, with 1,600dancer- tival, with more than 40drum groups and amusical fes- on175vendorlimit booths; andcrafts anarts events: jor show,a with tothree ma- credited canbe said, Gillette year.” in from thechanges yearto programs of the wow. pow “We don’t have many (Arikara),Gillette executive director the run,” wow pow be should Grace said of 55,000,with over 95tribes represented. anaudience expect In organizers fails. all, groups andthe young generation never drawing power tovendors, dancers, drum in Colorado,isin its 41st year, and its At the Coliseum, meanwhile, stream- As Denver March Powwow’s popular- isto attend wows pow The eight goal The trip is for the capstonetheir project Fast-forward totoday, andthe youth are The powmulti-honored wow isalong The success formula for pow the wow, hardest of is job part the the “The way he said. mid-February. excited,” “Our club isvery for the trip, there and were in halfway $3,000 wowspow need of2015.They students his get tooneofthe biggest ing amad to the dash finish orderin to Princess. wow nation ofthe year’s Denver March Pow- through culture andmusic, andthe coro- educate listeners ofhope with amessage sentations that empower the youth and contemporaryrytelling, hip-hop pre- Judge. (Comanche) Head as SouthernSage Northern andJoNeda Judge; Weryawah Topskyney Head (Chippewa-Cree), Whit- Hawk Lakota) emcees; as (Oglala (Mandan andHidatsa) andChris Eagle LawrenceSioux), arena Baker director; “Chico”Leo Her Many Horses (Oglala crowd entertai Gillette. $55,000 to$60,000,said anywhere be the could from prize money to the In addmore they pot. money as all, straight, buckskin, cloth andchicken. northern grass, southerntional, straight, fancy, andinclude jingle, tradi-vary Thedances for teens and32foradults. sixforjuniors, categories, seven several music.new to render traditional andintroduce songs thatsaid historically, drum groups come and five Canadian provinces. Gillette Gillette. ny. “A lotofdancers don’t register,” said but creep up to1,600during the ceremo- ers who registered, average about 1,200,as Gillette. said emony hours, run could forclosetotwo three-day event, the GrandEntry cer- have patient.” tobe Gillette. “If there are many, too just they the We groups. can’t turn them away,” said year, 43came.“We hate tohave tolimit number fordrum groups is35,but last tation” Acomfortable fordrum groups. particularly when there isan“open invi- task, lining the event aneasy has notbeen Meanwhile, toavoid Bajanhopes mak- Other attractions are the tribal sto- Keeping the participants in line and Family sponsors addtothe excitement, This year, dancers cancompete in year,Last dancers camefrom 37states the arenaExpect packed tobe by danc- That means that onSaturday ofthe 0 ned arestaff members: ned

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their legs fully covered, but there is a stan- wear to a pow wow is a costume. This That dard of modesty that they abide by.” includes the Boy Scouts who show up with war paint and synthetic feathers, Swimsuits, halter tops or or the wannabe Indians who dress in Pocahontas bikini tops homemade buckskins or breechcloths. Regardless of where they are in the arena, “A lot of this is non-Natives coming with ‘Costume Is women should avoid tight clothing or any- warbonnets on and thinking that they’re thing that shows cleavage, Charette said. honoring Native America,” Zah said. That includes halter tops, bikini tops and “For some reason, non-Natives think Never the spaghetti straps. It also includes any style that mimicry is a way to honor, but these worn without appropriate underwear. “We are our real clothes, not costumes.” know it’s hot, but please cover up,” she said. Right Choice “Going braless at a pow wow is inappropri- Anything that can be ate. Bosoms need to be contained.” considered revealing Pow Wow Fashion Faux Pas When in doubt, go with your “Sunday Bare feet best,” Zah said. If you’re dressed appro- BY ALYSA LANDRY Wearing shoes isn’t just a fashion state- priately, you will be more likely to feel the ment, but also a safety precaution, Cha- spiritual power. “The overall goal of the t a pow wow, wardrobe choices rette said. She recommends spectators pow wow is to help people,” he said. “So often depend on your role at the wear closed-toed shoes to keep feet clean the singing, dancing, drums and feath- Aevent, but whether you’re dancing, and safe. The same standard applies to ers, all of that comes together. Everyone singing or just watching, there are fashion dancers and singers, said Erny Zah, a who takes part in that, whether singing or faux pas to avoid. singer and emcee who has traveled the dancing or watching, will feel that and it Some universal standards apply at all pow wow circuit all over the country. will give them strength.” pow wows, regardless of location, weather “For singers, regardless of how hot it is, or purpose. Here are some tips to keep you wear long pants and nice shoes,” he said. Cheap or fake regalia from committing embarrassing – or offen- “The general rule is that you don’t want Dancers in full dress can carry around as sive – fashion blunders: to show skin, so a long-sleeved shirt is also much as 40 extra pounds from their moc- appropriate.” casins, leggings, belts, bustles, capes and Ripped, ragged or sagging other accessories, Charette said. But in the pants Clothing with profane or pow wow arena, quality matters. “It can Pow wows represent a mixture of the so- inappropriate slogans get very heavy, but you wear it,” she said. cial and the spiritual, said Reno Charette, An element of sacredness exists in the “This is our formal wear, and as a dancer, a women’s traditional dancer and director pow wow arena, said Zah, who is Navajo, the materials you select and the quality of of American Indian outreach at Montana Jicarilla Apache and Choctaw. Dress and your regalia should always bring pride to State University Billings. If you’re not appearance should show respect for that. your tribe. It’s important to set for your- dancing, casual attire is appropriate, but it “This is more than just a show,” he said. self a very high standard of quality, and do should fit properly and be in good repair. “For some of these tribes, this is their ritual your best to meet that.” “Our young men go around with their that has been with them for generations. pants hanging low,” said Charette, who is We’ve got to remember where it came Anything that sends the Crow and Turtle Mountain Chippewa. from and respect that.” wrong message “That’s especially bad when they’re in the Pow wows often are open to the public drum group and they lean forward.” Extremes and outsiders are welcome, Zah said. Just as styles that are too casual or reveal- But the burden to educate the masses Shorts or miniskirts ing should be avoided, so should clothing falls on participants – the organizers, Showing too much leg is inappropriate that is too dressy or formal. “There’s a line emcees, dancers and singers – who are for anyone in the arena, including spec- between too casual and too dressy,” said tasked with providing an authentic Na- tators, Charette said. She recommends a Sammy Tonkei White, a Kiowa emcee, tive experience in an inauthentic world. style that is “casual without being reveal- who has been working with pow wows Zah encourages all participants to think ing.” Even in 100-degree weather, Daisy since 1959. “Just as young people who are about their clothing before they attend a Duke-style shorts or miniskirts should be not dressed appropriately should leave, it pow wow. “Native America is being pre- avoided. would look funny if an Indian got up and sented in the wrong way because people For some male dancers, bare legs are danced in a tuxedo.” are learning from teachers like Disney, part of the regalia, but singers and spec- Peter Pan and Pocahontas,” he said. “It’s tators should cover up, Charette said. Costumes important to do this right because we’re “Some of our male dancers may not have Perhaps the most offensive thing you can educating a new generation.” 0

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JAMES the tribe sets aside every yearjustthe tribe every sets aside camefrom anallotmentThe money out during the three-day celebration. the handed $250,000in prize money strong singer/drummers turnout and It andstaff: wow was the organizers the ofpride pow amongst a feeling numberpected ofdancers, there was tribe members.” are adrum group with many different Pueblo we and we candoitbecause Menominee, Hopi, Blackfeet, Navajo, Ho-Chunk, play Chippewa, Lakota, Jay “We Bull toldICTMN. Dusty over the Midwest andThe Plains,” diverse “We style. from all sing songs forits sought-after Express ishighly Paulneapolis/Saint Midnite area,

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Teen fancy shawl dancers compete gi wse gises Sponsored by Forest County of them through inclem- because the San Manuel Indi- ent weather, for the glory ans know how to treat drums. Potawatomi of warm weather in Octo- “Most of these pow wows are Community ber and a shot at $20,000 in geared towards the dancers,” first-place prize money. “If Robe said. “It’s pretty good you have top prize money here because they know with- for dancing, and singers get out the singers there is really the same amount of money, no pow wow.” October 16–18, 2015 we feel the same amount of Most dancers were happy respect,” Dusty Bull said. to dance regardless of the “Dancers dance for four or quality of the drum, but Na- five songs for good money,” than Chasing Horse, Lakota, UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena he said. “For us, we have to immediately felt the differ- sing for three days up to thir- ence at this pow wow. “When ty songs for just a fraction these guys sing for dancers, 400 West Kilbourn Avenue of that money. But now, this they are thinking about them pow wow here, is a singer’s and their beat will change Milwaukee, WI 53203 pow wow.” especially when some of the Encompassing a completely dancers might be old,” Chas- different approach, the Black ing Horse said. “Out there Lodge Singers are a Blackfoot we are giving it all from our family drum from White heart and they feel it,” he HuntingMoonPowWow.com Swan, Washington. “We are said. “When the drummers probably best known because are singing from their heart, we are a family drum with a it makes you that much more core of brothers who sing,” able to dance.” group member Kenny Scabby Pow wow organizer Tom- Robe said. “We are a contem- my Ramos and his tribe were porary drum, but we do sing just happy to spread the love. original songs because that is “We were down for years and how we got started.” years and now that we’ve run The Black Lodge Singers into this big blessing that we made the trek down Califor- have,” Ramos said referring to nia’s Interstate-5 because they tribal gaming, “We just want knew the competition would to share it with all of the peo- be well worth the effort and ple.” 0

March 2015 THIS WEEK FROM INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY 32 INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY Don’t Go Pow Wow Without It

sprays you see on the shelves. Instead, A dream shopping list for getting the most out of make your own, and pour it into a dollar store spray bottle. For ticks, mix one your next pow wow part tea tree oil, and two parts water to spray on socks, shoes and pant legs. VINCENT SCHILLING For mosquitoes, use witch hazel and 30 he pow wow season is always a jump in to capture the memories with drops of essential oils such as rosemary, busy, exciting time of the year, you. So, what is the solution? A selfie clove, cinnamon, peppermint, eucalyp- Tfull of celebration, dancing, stick! It’s an arm extender for your tus, and lavender to do the trick. drumming and singing. But despite all selfies. No more strained arms or cut of the great sights and sounds, Helio Pressure Shower we think things could be This shower is not like those turned up notch. Here are a wimpy hanging showers that few items you wish that could dribble freezing cold water. make your pow wow season This is an air-pumped and even more fun. -pressurized shower that blasts warm water, thanks to the A Portable Cooler- black insulated material warms Offer the water via sunlight. This This might seem weird, but one is for those times when a Amazon sells a USB/Battery three-day pow wow leaves you Powered Mini Portable Hand out in the wilderness...with no Held Air Conditioner. There shower. And you become a bit, is no telling how well this shall we say, fragrant? works, but since buckskin is not the coolest material to be Beaded Sunglasses wearing on a 95 degree sum- We all know the native regalia mer day, this gadget couldn’t look is a bit more intense with hurt. sunglasses, so why not sport some beaded sunglasses to Travelchair with make your pow wow look even Cooler Garia Edition Soleil de Minuit golf cart more stylish. Look Out Grand A place to keep your cold Entry! drinks and sandwiches, and a place to off photos. Check out Looq – they sit all in the same place? Yes, we see all have a great example. World’s Most Expensive Golf of you folks out there with your fold- Cart ing camping chairs, but do they have Floorless Tent While the $52,000, Garia Edition Soleil a cooler connected? We think not! Be It is just what you think it is. And that’s de Minuit golf cart may be just a smidge the envy of the 2015 pow wow season a very good thing. If the day is hot and out of our reach, but that doesn’t mean when you roll in with one of these. long, and you want to set up a bit of shel- we don’t want to take it out for a spin. ter with a bit less set-up time, a floorless The Garia is an amazing little beast; Selﬁe Stick tent can be a great option to help keep with a carbon fiber roof, like a BMW, a Picture this (literally). You are all the hot sun from coming down too hard gearbox made by the Ducati Motorcycle regalia’d out, your makeup and hair on your little head. There are some nice Company, and front-end suspension, is on point, and it is just before the examples on BackCountry.com. like an F1 racecar. And the elders we dancing begins. Now is the perfect will pick up in the parking lot wouldn’t time for a selfie! But at a pow wow, a Homemade Bug Spray mind the hand-stitched seats, the cup lot of your friends probably want to Forget all those chemical-laden insect holders, and the refrigerator. 0

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Donna Devine, a tribal member, and tiago-Peterson said. “To make a small, the pow wow’s treasurer, explained that cup- size basket, it takes 20 hours of just Put a Ring the pow wow was known throughout the gathering [the grass]; not to mention region for its hospitality and inclusiveness, cleaning and everything else.” regardless of tribal affi liation or race. One of the highlights of the 2014 sea- On It! Under the canopy of a small tent, and sons (see page 8 for photo and quotes) surrounded by intricate yet simply de- was when headman dancer Johnny Nieto Tule River Foothills signed Yokut baskets, tribal member Lin- put on more than the usual show and pro- Powwow Ends With da Santiago-Peterson waited for people’s posed marriage to his girlfriend in the pow questions. Th e tall woman, adorned from wow circle during his northern traditional Surprise Proposal head to toe with Native jewelry, oft en had special. She accepted. DIEGO JAMES ROBLES to say “No” when asked if her baskets were “I was speechless, surprised,” Yendi for sale. “People always want to buy them, Juarez, Guatemalan/Mexican, later said ore than 150 dancers and a few and I decline because I feel our Yokut bas- of the proposal. thousand spectators attended kets need to come home to us,” Santiago- In many ways, it was a fitting place to Mthe Tule River tribe’s last pow Peterson said. do it because the two met at a pow wow wow of the season in 2014. “The pow A cultural arts teacher and educa- in college. Juarez credits Nieto with wow is here to bring all the people togeth- tional advocate, Santiago-Peterson’s changing her life for the better. “I was er, of all ages and from all over,” pow wow mission in the pow wow was to teach a party girl, drinking all the time, and committee chairman Herald Santos said. as many people as possible, or as many he introduced me to his culture, and it “We have people from Canada, Wash- who would listen, exactly what goes into caught my attention, especially spiritually ington, Oregon, and as far away as the a Yokut basket. Made primarily out of [speaking],” Juarez said. “Oh man, I was Dakotas.” On September 19-21 in Tulare deer grass, and a combination of other cramping, my body was ailing when I was County, California, the Tule River Band smaller roots, the process is labor in- proposing,” said Nieto. “But my people of Yokuts presented their 2014 Tule River tensive and time consuming. “Th e grass taught me to never show weakness, and Pow-Wow. needs to be picked and cleaned,” San- to always push forward.” 0

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The Crow Fair Powwow is the largest Native encampment in the U.S. BY JACK MCNEEL

Learning the tradition

ndian country is loaded your “bucket list.” least 1,000 teepees that are pow wow for many, many with pow wows. Many The Crow Tribe of In- stretched into the Montana years. He says that part Iare outstanding, but dians promotes its fair as sky (some years, the esti- of the fair’s magic is that, a few seem to rise to the the “teepee capital of the mates are closer to 1,500 “nowhere else would you top, to have something world.” It’s the largest Na- teepees; it’s acres and acres see as many teepees as at that draws attention and tive encampment in the of teepees). It’s a wonderful Crow Fair; nowhere in the encourages you to drive country, and the pow wow sight. world.” those extra miles to be part usually takes place over the Quirky Old Horn, an el- But there are also several of something special. Many third weekend in August der in the Crow Tribe, has attractions. Each year the people would agree that —this summer it’s August long been associated with fair holds a parade, which Crow Fair is one of those 14-18. But long before the the Crow Fair. Quirky’s winds its way through the special pow wows. Perhaps pow wow begins, the camp late father, Allan Old campsites. What’s most im- even an event to put on site starts to fill up with at Horn, was the voice of the pressive is the large number SINGS IN THE TIMBER/SINGSINTHETIMBER.COM ADAM

IndianCountryTodayMediaNetwork.com March 2015 INDIAN COUNTRY TODAY 35 of women on horseback us- life. The relay is basically ing the old-style saddles of a reenactment of when the bone and rawhide, a style warriors had to jump horses that’s been around almost to survive and escape from as long as the tribe has enemies.” Many now con- had horses. Many of the sider it the most exciting saddles are cherished fam- event to watch; the horse- ily heirlooms. Old Horn manship while riding bare- pointed out that in addi- back and dismounting and tion to these old saddles remounting horses eager to are the paraphernalia of get going. Cowboys say it’s the warriors, the spirit cas- the only event they’ll climb es, shields and other things up on the fences to watch.” which would display their Then, there’s the danc- bravery and accomplish- ing, which is a lot like pow ments in battle. “It’s a re- wows throughout the west. enactment of a way of life But there is a difference. back before the coming of There’s more emphasis on the Europeans,” Old Horn traditional dance styles as said. “The band, when Small Salmon commented. University of New Mexico -“The Pit” they moved, would kind of Old Horn said, “The attire. caravan. There was an ap- You can pick out [the Crow APRIL 23-25, 2015 Albuquerque, New Mexico “Relay racing basically Miss Indian World Traditional started in Crow country, Thursday,Talent Presentations April 23, 2015 ALBUQUERQUE CONVENTION CENTER 401 2nd Street NW (Downtown) way back when the Showtime at 7 pm Sharp!! Doors Open at 6 pm HOSTS: Lisa Meeches (Canadian TV Personality) Winnipeg, Man. & Jason Whitehouse (Powwow Personality) Madison Hts, MI SPECIAL ENTERTAINMENT: The Luna Blues Machine - Chicago, IL animal came to this part TICKETS: Tickets Sold at Door: $14 • Doors Open at 6 pm Advance tickets at www.gatheringofnations.com Miss Indian World Contestant Applications, Call (505) 836-2810 of the country.” or Go Online at www.gatheringofnations.com AN ENCHANTING EVENING FOR ALL WHO ATTEND! CROWNING OF MISS INDIAN WORLD: Saturday, 7:30 pm at the Powwow STAGE 49 Featuring the best in Native American traditional and contemporary music! peal made to the forces of tribe’s style] from hundreds Check www.gatheringofnations.com for Tickets and updated schedules and performers. nature, and the Almighty, of dancers because the dress Managed by Emergence Productions that the journey, the cara- ways are the same as the turn TRAVEL HEADLINING CAST Double Tree: van, [would] be safe. That’s of the last century. The only HEAD MAN DANCER: Juaquin Hamilton - Shawnee, OK 1-800-584-5058 HEAD LADY DANCER: Tanksi Clairmont - Denver, CO Ask for GON Rate $99 what we’re reenacting in additions are material things HEAD YOUNG MAN: George Gillette - Falls Church, VA MCM Elegante: HEAD YOUNG LADY: Victory Randall - Sacramento, CA (505) 884-2511 the parade.” to decorate their regalia.” NORTHERN DANCE JUDGE: Shirley Hill - Calgary, Alb. Ask for GON Rate $89 SOUTHERN DANCE JUDGE: Bonnie Monoessy - Fletcher, OK In addition to the mas- Darrell Tso, Navajo, point- SOUTHERN DRUM JUDGE: Jay Mule - Norman, OK Crown Plaza Hotel: (866) 384-4934 NORTHERN DRUM JUDGE: Jordan White-Eye - Walpole Island, Ont. GON Rate Starting $89 sive number of teepees and ed out another aspect of the ARENA DIRECTORS: Randy Medicine Bear - Loveland, CO George “Cricket” Shields - Shawnee, OK Sheraton Airport: outstanding parade which Crow Fair that’s, perhaps, not ANNOUNCERS: Sammy “Tonkei” White - Anadarko, OK (800) 227-1117 help place Crow Fair in so obvious, but separates this Dennis Bowen, Sr. - Tuba City, AZ GON Rate Starting $99 Vince Beyl - Bemidji, MN Official Airline that elite category, is ro- pow wow from many others. Ruben Little Head - Happy Flats, MT (Roving) Jason Whitehouse - Madison Hts, MI deo and racing, especially “They don’t hesitate to speak (Roving) Larry Yazzie - Tama, IA www.southwest.com INVITED DRUMS: Young Bear - Mandaree, ND -‘14 No. Champs 1-800-I FLY SWA relay racing. “Relay racing their language. They don’t hes- Thunder Hill - Weatherford, OK - ‘14 So. Champs White Fish Bay - White Fish Bay, Ont. Official Sponsor basically started in Crow itate to make clear what they Buc Wild - Chinle, AZ Iron Boy - Prior Lake, MN country,” Old Horn said. still value. When I go there, I MISS INDIAN WORLD 2014-15: Taylor Thomas - Fort Hall, ID www.wellsfargo.com “We had horseracing way feel that language very strong. back when the animal came People go there because they www.GatheringofNations.com to this part of the country. feel that spirit of the language Competition was a way of and spirit of the culture.” 0

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Ada Claire’s Digital Pow Wow podcast, Episode 1, ”Identity,” with Greg Grey Cloud Cloud Communing Direct from Estonia, Apache Teen’s Digital Pow Wow Podcast

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rom the enrolled to the unenrolled, country of 1.3 million people, located in [money] to travel and working around the from the reservations to the cities, the Baltic Region of Northern Europe. world,” she said. Ffrom South Dakota to as far away Claire is a young girl with big dreams and Claire’s foray into podcasting began as as Europe, a call for unity is coming from a history of making them happen. a moderator for the sub-Reddit commu- a Reddit group called “Indian Country: Claire has already lived in more places nity. Reddit is an online site for diff erent Many Nations One Community.” With a than many think to visit. “Let’s just start interests and communities, where the goal of bringing people together from ev- off saying that my childhood and idea world has become a much smaller place. ery possible Native experience, the group of ‘home’ is really untraditional. I have Founder of the group Kiros Auld saw has just released its first podcast, which spent signifi cant time with family across the need for an inter-tribal community on will become a regularly scheduled event the U.S., and the world, in New Mexico, Reddit. “Th e next largest Reddit commu- entitled “Digital Pow Wow.” Colorado, Georgia; and I lived in Japan, nity is not really moderated. Th ere was a Th e series will be coming to you direct Macedonia, and the Philippines for a lot of inter-tribal racism, racial purity, and from the Republic of Estonia. The host while.” She graduated high school at 15, the like, and I thought we could do bet- of the program is Ada Claire, 19, Jicarilla and has been traveling since, studying in ter than that. I was looking for a unifying Apache/Iranian, hailing from Kansas, but Estonia the last two years, and will gradu- idea, to capture the pan-Indian feel and currently studying at the Tallinn Univer- ate with her law degree at 21. “My parents appeal.I was hoping to give people an out- sity Law School in the tiny Indigenous have always been supportive of my saving let, an inter-tribal sense of being. I think

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about his organization “I was hoping to Wica Agli, the first Na- tive organization for men give people an against sexual and domestic violence in Indian outlet, an inter-tribal Country. Claire is hoping Jennifer Himmel, a survi- sense of being.” vor of domestic abuse and operator of the Facebook community, “Healthy Ac- we are on the right track.” tive Natives” will join them. The membership runs the Currently, “Indian Coun- expanse of Native experi- try: Many Nations One ences with Indigenous people Community” has about 260 from throughout the Western subscribers with many more Hemisphere. “We encourage who visit the site and its off- people from South Central shoots. “We are super-tight,” Americas, the Caribbean, and Claire said. “We branched First Nations to join, and we out with a ‘Real Indian Talk have Native Hawaiians who Challenge’ and are encourag- contribute to our community,” ing our members to make a Auld said. video or a vocal recording of Jackie Malstrom, host of one sentence, once a week, in Portland Oregon’s Rose City their language. You know, one Native Radio, KBOO radio, sentence a week, for 52 weeks is a production team member a year, that’s really nothing out for the podcast. She said, “It of your week to write down a is a very active community, sentence, speak your sentence we get replies the second we out loud and post it so we can post, from all over the world. see it. It varies by time zones, and it “I am working so hard to is amazing to see all these Na- learn my language, to teach tives come together to work my language, to promote my towards a common goal, to language, but here I am in get our voices out there.” Europe, and I have no con- The first Digital Pow Wow nections here to my tribe. I Seattle University School of Law oﬀers podcast features an interview am separate from everything, the full-tuition Douglas R. Nash Native by Ada Claire with Greg Grey and I know a lot of Natives American Law Scholarship. Cloud, who won fame when feel that way — and that’s es- he was arrested for singing an pecially true for city dwellers,” Our Center for Indian Law and Policy Honor Song after Congress Claire said. provides educational and training successfully blocked the XL The site also has a large opportunities that beneﬁt students, tribes Pipeline. The “Digital Pow language data base for learn- and communities. Wow” podcast appears on ing and teaching. “Language, Vimeo, and features the topic language, language!” Claire Join our diverse student body and we’ll of Identity and all that comes said. That’s my big platform help you become a great lawyer and with the issue, from living because for me, it’s the best powerful advocate for justice. situations to blood quantum. way to promote your culture. Learn more at www.law.seattleu.edu/admission Grey Cloud said, “It was an It’s keeping it traditional in important topic, it was Ada’s the modern world; walking first show, her first podcast, in two worlds, that’s what it’s and I thought she did a great gotta be in the modern world. Apply for free until January 15! job. She is a very well-educat- Social media has become an ed young lady.” outlet for us to become stron- Grey Cloud will join Claire ger as a people; it’s what’s go- in another podcast to speak ing to keep us alive.” 0

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National Guard Armory Fife Indian United NSU Event Center [email protected] 3550 Creek Path Road Methodist Church Tahlequah, OK Guntersville, AL Azalea Pow Wow 918-444-4354 Montana State Uni- [email protected] 4/18/2015 offices.NSUOK.edu/ versity Sweetgrass Society Pow Wow Air-Corp.org Muskogee Civic Center centerfortribalstudies/ 4/24/2015-4/25/2015 425 Boston Street NSUPowwow.aspx MSU Northern Gym Texas Gulf Coast Tia- Muskogee, OK [email protected] Harve, MT Piah Pow Wow 918-684-6363 or 918-478-9227 30th Annual Sher- 4/17/2015-4/19/2015 Facebook.com/pages/Fife- 406-945-3637 Albert V. Sallas County Park Indian-United-Methodist- man Indian High [email protected] New Caney, TX Church/108081072558218 School Pow Wow MSUN.edu/stuorgs/ 4/18/2015 GulfCoastTiaPiah.com sgs/powwow.aspx 13th Annual Ponca Ira Hayes Football Stadium 29th Annual Arizona Tribe of Nebraska 9010 Magnolia Avenue Meherrin-Chowa- State University Healthy Living Run/ Riverside, CA noke Pow Wow Pow Wow Walk and Pow Wow 951-276-6326, ext. 120 4/24/2015-4/26/2015 4/17/2015-4/19/2015 4/18/2015 [email protected] Ahoskie Recreational Complex ASU Band Practice Field Ponca Tribal Gym sihs.BIE.edu/ Ahoskie, NC 6th Street and Rural Road 1800 Syracuse Avenue 252-301-6081 Tempe, AZ Norfolk, NE University of Massa- meherrinchowanokepowwow@ [email protected] 402-438-9222 chusetts - Amherst gmail.com powwow.ASU.edu [email protected] Pow Wow Meherrin-Chowanoke.com PoncaTribe-NE.org 4/18/2015 Duke University Pow Curry Hicks Cage 22nd Annual Ohlone Wow 32nd Annual Michi- 100 Curry Hicks Way Gathering and Pow 4/18/2015 gan State University: Amherst, MA Wow 4/24/2015-4/26/2015 Chapel Drive / Durham, NC Pow Wow of Life 413-577-0970 4/18/2015 Tony Cerda Park Native American Jenison Field House Gathering of Nations 400 West Grand Avenue Earth Festival East Lansing, MI 4/23/2015-4/25/2015 Pomona, CA 4/18/2015 517-353-7745 University of Mexico 909-524-8041 Reed Canal Park [email protected] Arena, The Pit [email protected] 2871 South Nova Road Facebook.com/ Albuquerque, NM CostanoanRumsen.org South Daytona, FL events/584494355027695/ 505-836-2810 GatheringOfNations.com 22nd Annual Choc- Louisiana State 23rd Annual North- taw-Apache Pow University Native side Aztlan Commu- Musical Echoes Na- Wow American Student nity Center Spring tive American Flute 4/24/2015-4/26/2015 Organization Spring Pow Wow and Art Festival Tribal Grounds Pow Wow 4/18/2015-4/19/2015 4/24/2015-4/26/2015 217 Gene Knight Road 4/18/2015 Northside Aztlan Fort Walton Landing Noble, LA Community Center John M. Parker Coliseum 139 Miracle Strip Parkway SE 318-602-8291 112 Willow Street Ag Center Dr. Fort Walton Beach, FL [email protected] Fort Collins, CO Baton Rouge, LA 850-837-9828 ChoctawApache.org 970-498-0290 225-578-5507 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] MusicalEchoes.org Spring Honor Dance FortNet.org/PowWow/ and Pow Wow Cel- NCIPA_powwow.html Rio Rancho Pow Mobridge-Pollock ebration Wow 4/24/2015-4/25/2015 Northeastern State School Spring Pow 4/18/2015 University Pow Wow Wow Minot State University Dome Rio Rancho High School 3rd Annual Sympo- 4/24/2015-4/25/2015 400 11th Avenue North West 301 Loma Colorado Boulevard sium on the Ameri- 1107 First Avenue East Minot, ND Rio Rancho, NM can Indian Pow Wow Mobridge, SD 701-858-3365 Facebook.com/rioranchopowwow 4/18/2015 605-845-9211 annette.mennem@

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Dartmouth College 23rd Annual Monacan Tunica-Biloxi Pow Wow Pow Wow Pow Wow 5/16/2015-5/17/2015 5/9/2015-5/10/2015 5/15/2015-5/17/2015 Earl J. Barbry, Sr. Convention Center Dartmouth College Green Route 130 West Marksville, LA Hanover, NH Elon, VA “800-946-1946, ext. 2034” 603-646-2110 434-946-0389 TunicaPowWow.org [email protected] [email protected] MonacanNation.com Honoring Of The Elders 26th Annual Cherokee Intertribal Pow Wow County Indian Festival and 35th Annual Flagstaff 5/16/2015-5/17/2015 High School Pow Wow Mother’s Day Pow Wow Tamworth Camping Area 5/15/2015-5/17/2015 5/9/2015-5/10/2015 194 Depot Road Flagstaff High School Gym Tamworth, NH Boling Park 400 West Elm Avenue 1200 Marietta Highway 603-617-5852 Flagstaff, AZ [email protected] Canton, GA 928-853-0077 honoringoftheelders.Wix.com/powwow 770-735-6275 Facebook.com/indianeducationsupportprogram [email protected] Metcalfe County’s Annual RThunder.com 1st Annual Armed Forces Native American Style Day Pow Wow Pow Wow Oakville Indian Mounds Mul- 5/15/2015-5/17/2015 5/16/2015-5/17/2015 ticultural Indian Event 306 Camden Road Harris Pow Wow Grounds 5/14/2015-5/16/2015 Wadesboro, NC 464 William Judd Road Oakville Indian Mounds Education Center NearRiverDwellers.com/powwow_info.htm Edmonton, KY 1219 County Road 187 15th Annual Tesoro Cultural 270-432-3295 Danville, AL Center’s Indian Market and [email protected] OakvilleIndianMounds.com Contest Pow Wow 5/16/2015-5/17/2015 New Hampshire Intertribal Annual Grandmother Morn- Tesoro Cultural Center Council Pow Wow 5/16/2015-5/17/2015 ing Dove Pow Wow 19192 Highway 8 Dulac Land Trust 5/15/2015-5/18/2015 Morrison, CO Osgood Road 336 Nimble Hill Road 303-839-1671 Newington, NH [email protected] Sanbornton, NH 603-651-8769 TesoroCulturalCenter.org/Calendar.html 603-651-8769 26th Veterans of the Menom- 6th Annual “Honoring Our 22nd Annual Drums on the inee Nation - Gathering of Warriors” Gourd Dance Pocomoke Pow Wow Warriors Pow Wow 5/16/2015 5/16/2015-5/17/2015 5/15/2015-5/17/2015 580 South Navajo Route 6830 Cypress Park 1 Bridge Street Woodland Bowl Birdsprings, AZ Pocomoke City, MD N559 Liberty Road [email protected] 302-381-3698 Keshena, WI 928-587-4852 [email protected] 715-851-4748 Facebook.com/Annual.BirdspringsGourdDance AssateaguePeopleofDelMarva.org/ [email protected] 30th ‘In Honor of Our Children’ Pow Wow 20th Annual United Native 8th Annual Ontelaunee Park 5/16/2015 American Cultural Center Intertribal Pow Wow Kelso High School Gym Unity Days Pow Wow 5/15/2015-5/17/2015 1904 Allen Street 5/16/2015-5/17/2015 Ontelaunee Park Kelso, WA United Native American Cultural Center 7344 Kings Highway Road 360-501-1655 29 Antietam Street New Tripoli, PA Kelso.wednet.edu/Programs/ Ayer, MA 610-298-2645 IndianEducation/Powwow.aspx 978-772-1306

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5/23/2015 Trout Run Village off Route 15 Sycamore Shoals Alabama-Coushatta Ballpark Heritage Park Secondary Trout Run , PA Native American 571 State Park Road 56 33700 Prentis Avenue 570-995-5177 or 570-928-9044 Festival Livingston, TX Mission, B.C., Canada 5/30/2015-5/31/2015 936-563-1116 committee@e- Memorial Day Pow Sycamore Shoals State [email protected] mamawohkamatotan.ca Wow Historic Area Alabama-Coushatta.com Facebook.com/ 5/25/2015 1651 West Elk Avenue emamawohkamatotan.powwow Mille Lacs Indian Museum Elizabethtown, TN 12th Annual Metis of 43411 Oodena Drive SycamoreShoalsTN.org Maine Gathering and Gissiwas Creek Pow Onamia, MN Pow Wow Wow 2015 320-532-3632 Al-Anon Desert Pow 6/6/2015-6/7/2015 5/23/2015-5/24/2015 [email protected] Wow Yellow Feather Cultural Center Gissiwas Creek Grounds MNHS.org/millelacs 6/4/2015-6/7/2015 105 Gould Road 13819 - N 5th Avenue Renaissance Esmeralda Resort Dayton, ME Marion, MI Connecticut Native Indian Wells, CA 207-793-4801 616-813-7639 American Inter- DesertPowWow.com MetisofMaine.org [email protected] tribal Urban Council Facebook.com/ Founder’s Day Pow 29th Annual Red 62nd Annual events/345171515637856/ Wow Earth Native Ameri- Chicago Pow Wow 5th Annual Urban can Cultural Festival 6/6/2015-6/7/2015 6th Annual Native Pow Wow 6/5/2015-6/7/2015 Busse Woods Forest Preserve 5/30/2015-5/31/2015 Woodland Gathering Cox Convention Center Elk Grove Village, IL East Rock Park 5/23/2015-5/24/2015 Oklahoma City, OK 773-275-5871 New Haven, CT Hall-Fawcett Park 405-427-5228 AIC-Chicago.org 4595 CR 153 203-397-8507 or 203-215-1521 [email protected] Zanesfield, OH CNAITUC.org RedEarth.org/red-earth-festival/ 16th Annual 937-441-1565 Intertribal Gathering [email protected] 13th Annual Riv- Prairie Band 6/6/2015-6/7/2015 loganhills.Homestead. erbank Traditional Potawatomi Fort Robinson State Park Pow Wow com/gathering.html Pow Wow Crawford, NE 5/30/2015-5/31/2015 6/5/2015-6/7/2015 Spring Planting 201 East Shiawassee St. Prairie Peoples Park Hon-Dah Casino So- Moon Pow Wow Lansing, MI 12305 150th Road cial Dance and Pow 5/23/2015-5/24/2015 517-721-1502 Mayetta, KS Wow in the Pines Powers Farm [email protected] PBPIndianTribe.com 6/6/2015-6/7/2015 592 North Main Street Hon-Dah Festival Grounds Randolph, MA 34th Annual Yuba- Gateway to Nations 777 Highway 260 617-642-1683 Sutter Pow Wow New York Native Pinetop, AZ 5/30/2015-5/31/2015 [email protected] American Heritage Hon-Dah.com MCNAA.org Beckworth Riverfront Park Celebration Marysville, CA 6/5/2015-6/7/2015 9th Annual Miami American Indianist 530-749-6196 Aviator Sports Complex/ Indian All Nations Society Pow Wow [email protected] Floyd Bennett Field Gathering 5/23/2015-5/24/2015 3159 Flatbush Avenue 6/6/2015-6/7/2015 Camp Marshall 4H Worcester Intertribal Brooklyn, NY Miami Indians of Indiana Land Campgrounds Indian Center Pow 718-686-9297 11515 East US Highway 36 92 McCormick Road Wow [email protected] Rockville, IN 5/30/2015-5/31/2015 Spencer, MA RedhawkCouncil.org 765-210-7670 Treasure Valley Boy 508-254-2098 [email protected] Scout Reservation 47th Annual MNIGathering.com Wolf Run Festival 394 Pleasantdale Road Alabama-Coushatta and Native American Rutland, MA Tribe of Texas Pow Delaware River Pow Wow 774-578-5385 Wow Bears Circle 5/23/2015-5/25/2015 WIICCenter.com/powwow.html 6/5/2015-6/6/2015 6/6/2015-6/7/2015

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Delaware County Route 28 Table Mountain Pow 20th Annual 4050 Mission Avenue Margaritaville, NY Wow Grounds Aboriginal Oceanside, CA 607-746-6833 Friant, CA Gathering 760-727-0595 or 760-724-8505 [email protected] 559-822-2890 or 559-284-4701 6/13/2015-6/14/2015 [email protected]; Peace River AIC [email protected] Deer Run Mini Pow Coushatta Pow Wow Agricultural Grounds SLMiissionIndians.org Wow 6/12/2015-6/13/2015 Peace River, Alberta, Canada 6/6/2015 PeaceRiverAIC.com Dancers of the Th e Pavilion at Coushatta Plains Deer Run Camping Resort Casino Resort 111 Sheet Iron Roof Road University of Calgary 6/13/2015-6/14/2015 777 Coushatta Drive Graduation Banquet Gardners, PA Archway Grounds Kinder, LA Pow Wow 717-776-1075 Kearney, NE 337-584-1545 or 337-584-1603 6/13/2015 [email protected] [email protected]; University of Calgary Nanticoke Lenni- Red and White Club 3rd Annual Hidden [email protected] Lenape Indian 1833 Crowchild Pow Wow Valley Pow Wow CoushattaPowWow.com Trail Northwest 6/13/2015-6/14/2015 6/6/2015-6/7/2015 Calgary, Alberta, Canada 25th Annual Fort Salem County Fairgrounds Hidden Valley Golf/ UCalgary.ca/nativecentre/ RV Campgrounds Ancient Celebration community/pow-wow Pilesgroves, NJ Derry, NH 6/13/2015-6/14/2015 856-651-7335 508-880-6887 6123 Street Route 350 19th Annual [email protected] Oregonia, OH Intertribal San Luis Table Mountain Ran- Rey Band of Mission Wollomonuppoag cheria 15th Annual 800–283–8904 Indians Pow Wow Indian Council An- Pow Wow [email protected] 6/13/2015-6/14/2015 nual Pow Wow 6/12/2015-6/14/20015 FortAncient.org San Luis Rey Mission Grounds 6/13/2015-6/14/2015

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Cody, WY 580-628-2561 Northern Cheyenne 218-760-7955 CenteroftheWest.org/ 4th of July [email protected] explore/events/powwow Circle The Bluffs Pow Wow LLOjibwe.com Pow Wow 7/2/2015-7/5/2015 Wesget Sipu 6/27/2015-6/28/2015 43rd Annual Oneida Veterans Memorial Legacy of the Plains Museum Kenneth Beartusk Pow Wow Pow Wow 2930 Old Oregon Trail Memorial Pow Wow 7/3/2015-7/5/2015 6/20/2015-6/21/2015 Scottsbluff, NE Grounds Norbert Hill Center To g u s VA Lame Deer, MT 308-2251325 N7210 Seminary Road Togus, ME 406-477-6284 [email protected] Oneida, WY 207-446-7997 CheyenneNation.com 920-496-5311 Kanatsiohareke Muscogee (Creek) Mohawk Community 143rd Annual ExploreOneida.com/ ai1ec_event/2015-oneida-pow- Nation Festival Strawberry Festival Quapaw Pow Wow 6/25/2015-6/28/2015 wow/?instance_id=5515 6/27/2015-6/28/2015 7/2/2015-7/5/2015 Claude Cox Omniplex 4934 State Highway Route 5 555 Tank Farm Road Quapaw Tribal Pow 94th Annual Mash- Fonda, NY pee Wampanoag Okmulgee, OK Wow Grounds Pow Wow 918-732-7995 Quapaw, OK The Miami Valley 7/3/2015-7/5/2015 [email protected] 918-542-1853 Council for Native Cape Cod Fairgrounds CreekFestival.com American 27th QuapawTribe.com Annual Keeping the 1220 Nathan Ellis Highway Winnebago 21st Annual Falmouth, MA Tradition Pow Wow Wildhorse Pow Wow Pow Wow 6/27/2015 508.420.5566 ext.123 7/3/2015-7/5/2015 6/25/2015-6/28/2015 [email protected] 2301 West River Road Wildhorse Resort & Casino Winnebago Veterans Dayton, OH MashpeeWampanoagTribe. Memorial Park I-84, Exit 216 SunWatch.org com/powwow Winnebago, NE Pendleton, OR 402-878-2272 39th Annual Chief 800-654-9453 40th Annual Eastern One Bears Topic [email protected] Band of Cherokee CANCELLED- Pow Wow wildhorseresort.com Pow Wow Pechanga Pow Wow 6/27/2015-6/28/2015 7/3/2015-7/5/2015 Typically held 6/26; Fort William Henry Acquoni Expo Center postponed until 2016 Prowse Farm Pow Wow 1501 Acquoni Road Pechange Resort and Casino 5 Bluehill River Road 7/3/2015-7/5/2015 Cherokee, NC 45000 Pechanga Parkway Canton, MA Fort William Henry Museum 800-438-1601 Temecula, CA 508-292-7773 48 Canada Street 877-711-2946 Lake George, NY 117th Annual Arlee Indian Plaza Inter- [email protected] Celebration 607-776-6776 tribal 4th of July [email protected] Pow Wow 18th Annual Peoria 7/1/2015-7/5/2015 Pow Wow Arlee Pow Wow Grounds Abenaki Odanak 7/3/2015-7/6/2015 6/26/2015-6/28/2015 Arlee, MT Pow Wow Indian Plaza Campgrounds Peoria Pow Wow Grounds [email protected] 7/3/2015-7/5/2015 Charlemont, MA 60610 East 90 Road ArleePowWow.com Conseil de bande Odanak 413-339-4096 Miami, OK Abenakis Band Council 918-540-2535 Navajo Nation Odanak, Quebec Festival of Native Peoples Pow Wow PeoriaTribe.com Pro Rodeo Contest CBOdanak.com Pow Wow 7/4/2015-7/5/2015 Tonkawa Tribal Pow 7/1/2015-7/5/2015 Leech Lake 4th of Cherokee Indian Fairgrounds Wow Navajo Nation Fairgrounds July Pow Wow Cherokee, NC 6/26/2015-6/28/2015 Window Rock, AZ 7/3/2015-7/5/2015 800-438-1601 Fort Oakland [email protected] Leech Lake Veterans Grounds RomanticAsheville.com/ To n k aw a ,O K NavajoNationFair.com Cass Lake, MN festival_of_native_peoples.htm

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Mother Earth’s Mni Sose Wakpa Yellow Bird Honor the Earth Creation Pow Wow Pow Wow Intertribal Pow Wow Homecoming 7/4/2015-7/6/2015 7/10/2015-7/12/2015 7/10/2015-7/12/2015 Celebration and Pow Wow Grounds Wacipi Grounds Indian Plaza Pow Wow Grounds Pow Wow 2145 White Mountain Highway Fort Pierre, SD Charlemont, MA 7/17/2015-7/19/2015 Center Ossipee, NH 413-339-4096 Lac Courte Oreilles Marcellus Norwest Pow Wow Grounds 603-539-6697 Veterans Pow Wow 16th Annual Mount 8575 North Round spiriteagle@ 7/10/2015-7/12/2015 Kearsarge Indian Lake School Road motherearthscreation.com Uyxat Pow Wow Grounds Museum’s Intertribal Hayward, WI Pow Wow Ranch Mountain 9390 Highway 22 715-634-8934 Spirits Native Ameri- Grand Ronde, OR 7/11/2015-7/12/2015 TravelWisconsin.com/events/ can Festival 503-437-3052 Mount Kearsage history-heritage/lco-honor- Indian Museum the-earth-pow-wow-38913 7/4/2015-7/5/2015 [email protected] 18 Highlawn Road Hobby Horse Ranch GrandRonde.org Wa rn er, N H Marvin “Joe” Curry 428 Hartz Road 12th Annual Strong 603-456-2600 Veterans Pow Wow Fleetwood, PA Sun Pow Wow [email protected] 7/17/2015-7/19/2015 610-944-5797 7/10/2015-7/12/2015 IndianMuseum.org Veterans Park [email protected] Ivey Redmond Sports Complex 520 Broad Street Kernersville, NC Annual Howard Salamanca, NY Monroe Indepen- 336-618-0561 County, Maryland 716-532-4900 ext: 5015 dence Day Pow Wow Pow Wow NearRiverDwellers.com [email protected] 7/4/2015-7/5/2015 7/11/2015-7/12/2015 SenecaPowWow.org 34396 State Route 7 31st Annual Summer Howard County Fairgrounds Sardis, OH Great Mohican Pow 1022 Fairground Road 53rd Annual Mii- 740-934-9353 Wow West Friendship, MD Gwitch Mahnomen [email protected] 7/10/2015-7/12/2015 252-532-0821 Days Traditional Mohican Reservation [email protected] Pow Wow Sac and Fox Nation Festival Grounds 7/17/2015-7/19/2015 Pow Wow 23270 Wally Road 25th Annual Echoes on US 2, 6 miles west 7/9/2015-7/12/2015 Loudonville, OH of a Proud Nation of Deer River 920883 South State Highway 99 800-766-2267 Pow Wow Ball Club, MN 7/11/2015-7/12/2015 Stroud, OK powwow@ 218-398-2893 Kahnawake Mohawk Territory 800-259-3970 mohicanreservation.com LLOjibwe.org MohicanPowWow.com Routes 132 & 138 (off North American Mercier Bridge) 7th Annual Sacred Indian Days Midnight Sun Inter- Kahnawake Visions Competition Pow Wow 7/9/2015-7/12/2015 tribal Pow Wow 450-632-8667 7/10/2015-7/12/2015 [email protected] 7/17/2015-7/19/2015 Blackfeet Celebration Grounds 2010 2nd Avenue KahnawakePowWow.com Big Bend Ranch 124 2nd Avenue Northwest Fairbanks, AK Wadsworth, NV Browning, MT Facebook.com/pages/ World Eskimo Indian Facebook.com/ 406-338-7406 Midnight-Sun-Intertribal- Olympics SacredVisionsPowwow BrowningMontana. Powwow/117544551593557 7/15/2015-7/18/2015 com/naid.html The Carlson Center Children of Many 30th Annual Taos Fairbanks, AK Colors Intertribal Prairie Island Dakota Pueblo Pow Wow 907-452-6646 Pow Wow Wacipi Celebration 7/10/2015-7/12/2015 WEIO.org 7/17/2015-7/19/2015 7/10/15-7/12/15 Taos Pueblo Pow Wow Grounds Moorpark College Prairie Island Community Ben Romero Road / Taos, NM Quileute Days 7075 Campus Road Prairie Island, MN 575-741-0181 7/17/2015-7/19/2015 Moorpark, CA 800-554-5473, ext. 4024 [email protected] La Push / La Push, WA 805-217-0364 prairieisland.org TaosPuebloPowWow.com Facebook.com/quileute.days [email protected]

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RedbirdsVision.org 3rd Annual Wolf SagChip.org/pow-wow Aldersgate Conference Grounds Creek Pow Wow 7790 Marion Road Southeast 25th Annual Tamka- 92nd Annual Nipmuc 7/24/2015-7/26/2015 Turner, OR liks Celebration Nation Pow Wow Old BLand County 360-546-1867 7/17/2015-7/19/2015 Fair Grounds 7/24/2015-7/26/2015 [email protected] 70956 Whiskey Creek Road 251 Main Street Hassanamesit Reservation Wiconi.com Wa l l owa , O R Bland, VA 80 Brigham Hill Road Grafton, MA 541-886-3101 336-618-0561 [email protected] 508-853-5575 Wildﬁre Phillips NearRiverDwellers.com/ Annual Intertribal WallowaNezPerce.org Powwow_Info.htm Cheroenhaka Pow Wow Robert Woolery 21st Annual (Nottoway) Green 7/25/2015-7/26/2015 Corn Dance Pow Senior Memorial Native American 13 Sharon Road Pow Wow Celebration in the Wow and Gathering 7/25/2015 Fairhaven, VT 7/17/2015-7/19/2015 Park Contest Pow Wow and Festival Tribal Land- 802-683-6133 Missouri State Fairgrounds Cattashowrock Town 7/24/2015 1600 South Limit 27345 Aquia Path 49th Annual Liberty Park Sedalia, MO Courtland, VA Menominee Nation Salt Lake City, UT 660-826-5608 757-562-7760 Contest Pow Wow [email protected] Facebook.com/ nacippowwowfestival [email protected] 7/31/2015-8/2/2015 Cheroenhaka-Nottoway.org 7th Annual Colorado Woodland Bowl Springs Native 36th Annual Thun- Keshena, WI derbird American Richard Twiss Me- American Intertribal morial and Living 715-799-5114 ext.1267 Pow Wow Indian Mid Summer Pow Wow Waters Pow Wow [email protected] 7/18/2015 7/24/2015-7/26/2015 7/25/2015 Menominee-NSN.gov Freedom Financial Queens County Farm Museum EXPO Center 73-50 Little Neck Parkway 3560 North Nevada Avenue Floral Park, NY 24TH ANNUAL Colorado Springs, CO FORT OMAHA 718-347-3276 719-559-0525 [email protected] INTERTRIBAL [email protected] QueensFarm.org OneNationWT.org POWWOW 2015 THEME: CARETAKERS OF THE EARTH 17th Annual Summer Moon Onigum Traditional Pow Wow Pow Wow Saturday 7/18/2015-7/19/2015 7/24/2015-7/26/2015 Sept. 12, 2015 Endicott Park on County Road 13, 13 1-7:30 p.m. Zero Dean Street miles east of Walker, MN Danvers, MA Onigum, MN Free and open to the public. 617-642-1683 218-547-2270 or 218-252-6484 Metropolitan Community College [email protected] [email protected] Fort Omaha Campus 5300 N 30th St. MCNAA.org LLOjibwe.com Omaha, Nebraska 68111

22nd Annual Suscol 31st Annual Saginaw For more information: Intertribal Council Chippewa Pow Wow [email protected] 800-228-9553 ext 2253 or 402-457-2253 Pow Wow mccneb.edu/intercultural 7/24/2015-7/26/2015 Reigning Princess 7/18/2015-7/19/2015 Saginaw Chippewa Indian Jamie Colvin Yountville Veterans Home Tribe Campground Seminole Nation of Oklahoma Yountville, CA 7525 East Tomah Road 707-256-3561 Mount Pleasant, MI [email protected] 888-732-4537 SuscolCouncil.org [email protected]

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Grand Village of the 10/9/2015-10/11/2015 Long Hunter State Park Wolf Den Pow Wow Kickapoo Park 269 River Landing Road 2910 Hobson Pike 10/17/2015-10/18/2015 8144 North 3100 East Road Chattahoochee, FL Hermitage, TN Wolf Den State Park Arrowsmith, IL 850-209-7083 or 850-277-1026 615-232-9179 Pomfret, CT 309-261-3043 or 309-846-6720 chattahoocheepowwow@ [email protected] 860-428-7271 grandvillagekickapoopark@ yahoo.com NAIATN.org/ gmail.com Berkeley Indigenous 4th Annual National GrandVillage.net 45th Annual Wac- Peoples Day Pow Championship In- 41st Annual Wow and Indian camaw Siouan Tribal dian Pow Wow Honolulu Intertribal Market Pow Wow 10/17/2015-10/18/2015 Pow Wow 10/10/2015 10/16/2015-10/17/2015 9333 Southwest Loop 410 10/3/2015-10/4/2015 Berkeley Civic Center Park 7230 Old Lake Road San Antonio, TX Thomas Square Park Berkeley, CA Bulton, NC TradersVillage.com/ 925 South Beretania Street 510-595-5520 910-655-8778 san-antonio/events/4th- Honolulu, HI [email protected] Waccamaw-Siouan.com annual-native-american-indian- 808-392-4479 or 808-392-9239 IPDPowWow.org championship-pow-wow [email protected] 23rd Annual Land of Lanchester HonoluluIntertribalPowWow.com Abenaki Nation of Falling Waters Tradi- New Hampshire tional Pow Wow Harvest Festival Lakota Dakota Abenaki Heritage 10/17/2015-10/18/2015 and Pow Wow Nakota Language Weekend Middle School at Parkside 10/17/2015-10/18/2015 Summit & First 10/10/2015-10/11/2015 2400 4th Street Salisbury Park Nations Education Mi-Te-Jo Campground Jackson, MI Gap, PA Convention Milton, NH 10/8/2015-10/10/2015 Facebook.com/ Facebook.com/ 603-473-2746 landofthefallingwaters lanchesterharvestfestival Rushmore Plaza Holiday Inn 444 Mount Rushmore Rd 11th Annual Hunting Rapid City, SD Moon Pow Wow 605-867-5193 10/16/2015-10/18/2015 [email protected] Sponsored by Forest County Potawatomi Community Tuswecatiospaye.org UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena San Manuel 400 West Kilburn Avenue Pow Wow Milwaukee, WI 10/9/2015-10/11/2015 414-847-7320 California State University, huntingmoonpowwow.com San Bernardino 5500 University Parkway 14th Annual Chero- San Bernardino, CA kee’s of Alabama 909-425-3450 Fall Indian Pow Wow [email protected] 10/16/2015-10/18/2015 SanManuel-NSN.gov National Guard Armory Highway 69 West Indian Plaza Colum- Arab, AL bus Day Pow Wow 256-590-8109 10/9/2015-10/12/2015 [email protected] Indian Plaza Pow Wow Grounds Facebook.com/ Charlemont, MA CherokeesOfAlabama 413-339-4096 34th Annual Indian Chattahoochee Education Pow Wow River Park Landing and Fall Festival Pow Wow 10/16/2015-10/18/2015

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Oklahoma State University 16th Annual Benefit for Saint Serving Indian Country Native American Student Labre Indian School for over 30 years. Association Pow Wow 1/9/2016 11/14/2015 John Carroll School Payne County Expo Center 703 East Churchville Road 4518 Expo Circle East Bel Aire, MD Stillwater, OK 410-838-8333 ex.2002 405-744-0401 [email protected] [email protected] Litchfield Park Native National Native American American Arts Festival Heritage Day Pow Wow 1/9/2016-1/10/2016 11/15/2015 Attorneys at Law Litchfield Elementary School Grounds Bridgewater State University Baldwin, Crocker & Rudd, P.C. 34 Park Avenue 255 East Wigwam Boulevard www.bcrattorneys.com 307.332.3385 | Lander, WY Bridgewater, MA Litchfield Park, AZ 617-642-1683 623-935-9040 Wyoming does not certify any lawyer as a specialist or expert. Anyone considering a lawyer should independently investigate the [email protected] lawyer’s credentials and ability, and not rely upon advertisements [email protected] or self-proclaimed expertise. MCNAA.org orgLitchfield-Park.org

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