July 31, 2018 PECS’ Joy Princesses Crowned at 61St Pageant Prescott Wins FL Teacher of the Year
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Scott Air Force Academy, VMI championship in Phoenix COMMUNITY Y 7A EDUCATION Y 1B SPORTS Y 1C Volume XLII • Number 7 July 31, 2018 PECS’ Joy Princesses crowned at 61st pageant Prescott wins FL Teacher of the Year BY BEVERLY BIDNEY Staff Reporter 7KHKRQRUVNHHSSLOLQJXSIRU3HPD\HWY (PDKDNY &KDUWHU 6FKRRO WHDFKHU -R\ 3UHVFRWW $OUHDG\UHFRJQL]HGWKLV\HDUZLWKDZDUGV IURPKHUVFKRRODQG*ODGHV&RXQW\3UHVFRWW HDUQHG DQRWKHU DFFRODGH -XO\ ZKHQ WKH IRXUWKJUDGH PDWK WHDFKHU ZDV QDPHG WKH )ORULGD 'HSDUWPHQW RI (GXFDWLRQ Teacher of the <HDU )LUVW/DG\ $QQ 6FRWW DQG Commissioner RI (GXFDWLRQ 3DP 6WHZDUW PDGH WKH announcement Kevin Johnson Kevin Johnson DQG SUHVHQWHG Newly crowned Jr. Miss Florida Seminole Princess Allegra Billie, left, and Miss Florida Seminole Princess Cheyenne Kippenberger are joined by Seminole Miss Florida Seminole Princess Cheyenne 3UHVFRWW ZLWK Tribe leaders at the 61st annual Miss Florida Seminole Princess Pageant on July 14 at Tribal headquarters auditorium in Hollywood. 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The resulting pain and suffering, and too many are becoming desensitized and are Outside Online boundaries likely long-term trauma, should have been normalizing these events and actions that Penobscot Indian Nation anticipated and understood, which makes we know in our hearts run counter to our Earlier this year, the Trump Chief and United South this deliberate and intentional act even more childhood teachings of right versus wrong. eep in the Grand Canyon, on land Administration shrunk Bears Ears by 85 appalling. The political discourse in this country has that Havasupai Native Americans percent. That means large swaths of land and Eastern Tribes Indian Country is particularly sensitive moved beyond political differences of have called home for generations, rich with cultural resources are no longer D protected as a national monument. Yet to headlines such as these. Indian Country opinion and is unlike any we have seen in is a place known as Beaver Falls. It’s an President KDVDORQJFRPSOLFDWHGDQGRIWHQFRQÀLFWHG recent history. It has exposed a truth about unimaginative name for an otherworldly Balenquah says that doesn’t make them any relationship with the United States. We who we are; that there are fundamentally landscape, where turquoise water tumbles less worthy of respect. Modern boundaries are viewing today’s headlines through different views across this country about over a series of terraces gouged into red RIWHQ GRQ¶W UHÀHFW D SODFH¶V IXOO FXOWXUDO different lenses, including genocide and human dignity and respect, morals, values, desert walls. To legally reach the falls, you history. “To say that there’s only a handful crisis is unfolding in this country intergenerational trauma. We are saddened as ethics, and justice which serve to weaken have to pay the Havasupai $140, hike ten of areas that deserve special attention does and it is one that jeopardizes we are reminded of the many injustices that us as a society. The sad truth is that America miles to the tribe’s campground, then hike a disservice to the cultural history of this Athe principles on which the we experienced, together with