$150,000 art installation in Gig Harbor will honor history, resilience of Puyallup people P. 8 Issue No. 350 Serving the Puyallup Tribe of Indians February 20, 2019 Puyallup Tribal members at the Jan. 19, 2019, MMIW March at the state capital in Olympia. From left to right – Judith Miles, Juliette Estacio, Katie Miles, James Miles, Pedro Sanchez, David Bean, Sophia Ford, Denae Shippentower, Selena Shippentower, Anna Bean, Dakota Case, Teshay Firethunder, Nancy Shippentower and granddaughters, Dakota Case, Makaylah Michael and Jocelyn Squally at the Olympia State Capitol MMIW March. Photo by Tribal Member Jennifer Squally. MarchingMissing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s to Marches Remembercommence across the nation. P. 2 PUYALLUP TRIBAL ELDERS Paid US Postage Tacoma, WA Tacoma, PRSRT STD PRSRT Permit No 899 Stories from Matheson and Rasberry Honoring our elders P. 3 I-940 SPORTS FEATURE Justice Meet Chief for Jackie Leschi Warriors OR CURRENT RESIDENT OR CURRENT PTOI and families Athletes on the Chief Leschi Warriors and join Gov. Inslee for de- Lady Warriors basketball teams speak on escalate signing P. 5 their struggles and successes P. 6 Puyallup Tribe of Indians Tribe Puyallup 3009 E. Portland Ave. 98424 WA Tacoma, Puyallup Tribal News February 20, 2019 1 Puyallup Tribal elder Nancy Shippentower speaks at the MMIW March in Olympia. Photo by Tribal member Jennifer Squally. Lead by the Puyallup Canoe Family, “Our people have lived along these Marching to Tribal members and leaders marched waters for thousands of years. The in Olympia, Wash., on Saturday, Jan. 19 changes that have come to these lands and gathered again for the Missing actually have been very recent. And remember and Murdered Indigenous Women’s with these changes has brought people (MMIW) March in Seattle on Jan. 20. The to our lands that didn’t understand By PUYALLUP TRIBAL NEWS STAFF march in Seattle was a gathering of the who we are, didn’t understand our urban Native community, dressed in red, values, our relationship to our children, Women’s Marches across the nation marching with drums from Occidental our relationship to one another, our were led by the drums and songs of Square to Seattle City Hall. relationships to this land, the water and Indigenous matriarchs, young women, to our sacred mountains. We are all girls and their families. Many carried The weekend’s marches were connected. We are spiritually connected signs reminding the world that “we are empowered by the gathering and to this land and to each other. … still here.” Elder women, young women, healing voices of Indigenous women two-spirits people, girls and their fathers, leaders, sharing stories and songs of The weekend’s marches were brothers, husbands, uncles, grandfathers survivance. Puyallup Culture Director empowered by the gathering and allies were in tow, walking with and Tribal elder Connie McCloud opened and healing voices of Indigenous their family members to help uplift their the event in Seattle with an offering women leaders, sharing stories voices in the demand for justice. Their to the people of the Coast Salish lands, and songs of survivance. cries were for the safe return and honor sharing words that gave reason to our of their missing relatives. gathering and action: “Today we want to recognize those people that have been lost to us and that we still search for. Their memory is always with us; we feed them, we acknowledge them, we talk to them all of the time. We build memorials, we offer tobacco, we offer flags, that they’re not forgotten. We gather today in this manner, to continue to move forward the message that we’re still here and that we remember.” According to Urban Indian Health Institute’s 2018 report, 5,712 Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) were reported missing or murdered in 2016 in the United States. Forty-five of those cases were in Seattle, the highest instance of MMIWG Above Puyallup Tribal member Autumn McCloud and out of the 71 cities surveyed. baby Solstice McCloud march in Olympia at the MMIW March. Photo by Puyallup Tribal member Jennifer Squally. Left Puyallup Culture Director Connie McCloud opened We march to remember. We march for the Seattle MMIW March on Jan. 20 with a Blessing and a Prayer, as she did on Jan. 19 in Olympia. Earth our sisters and relatives. Sovereign Feather stands with her. Photo by Puyallup Tribal member Jennifer Squally. 2 February 20, 2019 Puyallup Tribal News HONORED TRIBAL ELDER school in golf and became one of the top 10 golfers in Washington state. Golfing Walter Matheson continued during his life and he became a greenskeeper for most of the golf January 21, 2019—Speaking on behalf courses in this area. Music was another of Walter Matheson, was his first cousin passion for Walter. “As a musician the and Tribal Council Chairman, Bill Sterud. guy was unequal,” said Sterud. He “Walter was an incredible, incredible formed a band called Waylon Walt the individual.” Remarking on Walter’s One-Man-Band, where he played drums, passion for aquariums, Bill stated organ keyboard, guitar and sang. “The that Walter even raised salmon in his guy was a pro, but he claimed that he aquariums, but always had aquariums couldn’t keep a tune no matter what, in his homes. “But it didn’t stop there, he and he said it didn’t matter because ‘he could catch fish in a mud puddle… sport was an entertainer.’” He could put on his fishing, commercial fishing.” Graduating pack and get everyone going, laughing, Tribal elder Walter Matheson, honored on January 21, 2019. Photo by Tribal member Jennifer Squally. from Mt. Tahoma High School, he led the dancing. “He enjoyed his life to the T.” HONORED TRIBAL ELDER to sing the National Anthem at the AquaSox game where 3,311 people were Mary Rasberry in attendance. That landed her on the front page of the newspapers. Raising Mary Rasberry was born in Toppenish, her children and working two jobs at Wash., in 1949 on her parents’ 13th times, Mary worked as a bus driver for anniversary. She grew up and attended 22 years. She drove about 3 million miles school in Wapato, Wash., highlighting within that time while also working as herself as a singer. Singing in a group a long-distance telephone operator at of 12 called the Modernettes, she the General Hospital, before moving on traveled and sang all across the state of to Tulalip Casino for 13 years. Suffering Washington. After dropping out of high multiple medical issues, Mary was able school her senior year, she married and to move from a different assisted living had three children she raised in Lake facility into our Puyallup Tribe of Indians Stevens. Mary ensured her kids that she Assisted Living Facility. Mary was able to would graduate and did just that at the come home, and said of being greeted age of 39. Continuing her passion for at the gate, “It felt good that I had singing, Mary started to sing at various somebody caring about me. Just me. local establishments and began to enter I parked my car and they were just as singing contests. Winning first place loving as could be, and the nurses came at many events, her most notable was down and greeted me … and I said, ‘You Honored Tribal elder Mary Rasberry. when she won first place at a contest know? I feel like this is home.’” Photo by Tribal member Jennifer Squally. Bill Sterud & Patrick Brown Nancy, Barbara, Bill, Binah Evelyn, Ramona, Collen Bill and Teresa Puyallup Tribal News February 20, 2019 3 Language By ARCHIE CANTRELL Good Day to you, honorable people. My name is Archie Cantrell. haʔł sləx̌ il txʷəl gʷəlapu siʔiʔab. Archie Cantrell ti dsdaʔ. Chief Leschi School - High School Lushootseed 1 Class. Photo by Archie Cantrell. I work for the Puyallup Tribal Language We have worked on washing hands, and I am honored to work with these Program, however, I have taught we are making sandwiches and cereal. honorable students. txʷəlšucid class at Chief Leschi School for two years. ʔuyayus čəł ʔal ti c’agʷačib, čəłə qʷibid ti ʔuhigʷətəb čəd ʔə tiił dsyayus ʔəsq’ʷuʔ ʔə tiił səpləldaliłəd yəxʷ ti səpləlalc. siʔiʔab dxʷləhaydxʷ. ƛ’uyayus čəd txʷəl ti syayusadiʔ ʔə tə txʷəlšucid, tux̌ ʷ, ʔugʷəlčšid čəd ʔal tə The students have begun translating I am finished. ləhaydxʷadiʔ ti txʷəlšucid ʔal ti siʔab ləšx̌ ay’ their own sentences. x̌ alalʔtxʷ txʷəl saliʔ dᶻaladub. huyəxʷ čəd. ʔil ʔutulalikʷ ti dxʷləhaydxʷ ʔə tiił sgʷaʔs In our class, we learn the txʷəlšucid st’əducids həlgʷəʔ. Until we meet again. alphabet, have conversations in txʷəlšucid and work on domains. We converse in txʷəlšucid for 30 minutes huy’. every day. ʔal tə ləhaydxʷadiʔčəł, ləhaydxʷ čəł ti sx̌ alx̌ al ʔə tə txʷəlšucid čəłə tatabəb ʔal ti txʷəlšucid ƛ’utatəbəb čəł ʔal ti txʷəlšucid txʷəl słixʷačiʔ čəłə t’ayšid. dᶻələl ʔal ti bək’ʷ sləx̌ il. • Chop veggies and mix into your Early detection is next to prevention. eggs to make a vegetable omelet Health Tips or quiche. By DR. PAUL REILLY, ND, LAC, FABNO • Have a vegetable appetizer with most meals. This could be a soup or gazpacho, or something as simple as chopped up vegetables or a salad. • Add salsa to everything. It adds flavor and another splash of vegetables. • Top chicken or fish with pesto or chopped and sautéed peppers and onions. • Add chopped vegetables to meatloaf, hamburgers and pasta dishes. • Add shredded carrots and chopped celery or onions to tuna Photo by Dane Gregory Meyer. sandwiches. Why eat healthy you ask? Nutrition • Make chili with ground turkey and affects every aspect of your day from chopped vegetables.