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August 15, 2019 Law governing Safety Town well attended What’s New This Week adoptions of Page 2/Local Shawano man Native American carves dugout children upheld canoe. By Kevin McGill Page 17/Local Associated Press Annual Family NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A 1978 law Night Out Three giving preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption Sisters Picnic. proceedings involving American Indi- an children is constitutional, a federal Pages 13/Local appeals court ruled Friday, reversing a lower court judge in a case fraught with Oneida members represent at emotional arguments over adoptive fam- Gus Macker Tournament. ilies being ``torn apart’’ and the urgency PO Box 365 - Oneida, WI 54155 Oneida Nation KALIHWISAKS of protecting tribal families and cultures. The decision from a three-judge panel the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal in New Orleans upholds the Indian Child Welfare Act in a lawsuit involving non-Indian families in multiple states who adopted or sought to adopt Native American children. Kali photos/Christopher Johnson Opponents of the law called it an un- Safety Town 2019 took constitutional race-based intrusion on place August 5-9 at the states’ powers to govern adoptions. But Clifford Webster Recre- the 5th Circuit majority disagreed, say- ation Center in Oneida. ing the law’s definition of an “Indian Sponsored by the Onei- child’’ is a political classification. da Health Center and its The opinion by Judge James L. Den- nis said the U.S. Supreme Court has Cooperative American long recognized that Congress has broad Indian Health Grant, the power to regulate Native American annual event is now in its tribes. And it said the act’s definition of 19th year. The five-day Indian child is broad. program is designed to “As Defendants explain, under some teach children various US POSTAGE PAID US POSTAGE tribal membership laws, eligibility ex- safety skills such as per- ONEIDA, WI 54155 tends to children without Indian blood, sonal safety, car/seatbelt such as the descendants of former slaves safety, animal/pet safety, PRSRT STD of tribes who became members after PERMIT #4 helmet/bike safety, play- they were freed, or the descendants of ground safety, fire/police safety, and water safety. • See 7 ICWA upheld August 15, 2019 Local Shawano man carves canoe Friday & Saturday, Aug. 23 & 24 • 10am–10pm OVER $50,000 AWARDED Photo courtesy Ben Thomas Shawano resident Ben Thomas tests his dugout canoe he carved com- OVER 4,000 WINNERS pletely with hand tools. An avid outdoor enthusiast and researcher, Thom- as plans on completing a birchbark canoe in the near future. make wigwams and camp out in them. I’d always wanted to make a dugout ca- Instantly noe but I lacked the means to get a big enough log and axes to do that. But my friend, who now owns Mike’s Tree and Win Free Play Outdoor Service, found a residential log Prizes up to $100! Outdoor enthusiast and Shawano in Mountain, Wis., and delivered it to resident Ben Thomas recently finished my house.” making a dugout canoe almost exclu- Thomas had originally planned to sively using hand tools. Thomas, 35, carve a 17-foot canoe from the log. “It Spin the Preseason said a chainsaw was used to down the actually bowed the trailer when we put tree used in the project, but the rest was it on because it weighed so much so we done by hand. “No power tools were had to cut it down,” Thomas said. “The used because I wanted to do this first one finished length of the canoe ended up Prize Wheel entirely by hand just to see that I could being 12.5 feet after losing some length Prizes up to $500 free play! do it,” Thomas said. “I even carved my due to shrinkage and carving paddle from a maple log. The canoe log “I used 100 percent pine tar which was a yellow popple. For my next one would have been traditional for this area I’ll allow myself to use chain saws to as well as Siberia in Russia,” Thomas accelerate the process, so instead of it said. “They would have made theirs taking me 100 hours to complete it may and pitched them with pine tar as well. ONEIDA CASINO only take me 50. When you do it with pine tar you have “I’ve always enjoyed anything that • See 4 YEARS Official Casino of the has to do with the outdoors,” Thom- 1994 2019 Details at Players Club. Please gamble responsibly. Green Bay Packers as said. “When I was a child I would Dugout canoe Local August 15, 2019 • Áhs< 3 Cohen to play for Maccabi in Israel What’s New This Week Maccabi FOX Tel Aviv signed Page 39/Sports Guard-Forward Sandy Cohen III (23, Oneida/NEW United 1.98m) on a long term contract for the prepare to take the next 4 years. football field. “Sandy Cohen is a very talented player whose potential can fit into a high-level In This Issue team like Maccabi,” said coach Giannis 2-10/Local/Education 38/Good News Sfairopoulos to maccabi.co.il. “Mac- 11-13/Local, OBC 40-41/Culture cabi has already shown that it wants to 14-23/Obits, Local 42/OFF 24-28/Health, Drums 43-44/Local work with prospects and give them a 29-32/Local, Events chance, so we are very happy that San- 33-34/Local, Legals dy is joining the club’s program”. 35-36/Local Sandy Cohen III (23, 1.98), who is ca- 37/Classifieds pable of playing in the Guard and For- ward positions, was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin. 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Thomas said. “There aren’t a lot of peo- [email protected] By pine pitching it you’re actually seal- ple in American carving canoes any- ing it and making it last nearly forever.” more and I do hope that my efforts will The recent severe storms that rolled inspire someone else to go for it.