3 24 430 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/97876fa6ae8f88532a0b0fd4792e5d25.pdf dc515ee83c996cb468ff4eae725e86f8 PDF Text Text f Af'K *NrwSLETTER '' NATIVE AMERICAN 1 PREVENTION 615 Tutner Ave., NW Rmr::3 2-B Grand Rapids, Ml 49504 . Telephone: (616) 458-4078 Fax: (616) 458-2096 ~' »»> JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1999 SERVICES Mnidoo-Giizis (Spirit Moon) INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Hungry Hollow 1 I Hear You 4 Festival 1999 6 Winter Camp 98 8 M.I.C. WA. 9 Calendar/Birthdays 11 Prag. Name Change 12 Newsletter Coordinator: Hunter Genia Volunteer Editor: Sharon Horton Layout: Wanda Blanco Contributors: IFR/NAPS Staff Turtle Talk's mission is to provide its readership with reports of local and national interest which may affect and impact our Native American community. Special emphasis will be placed on prevention information. Turtle Talk is published by Native American Prevention Services, in cooperation with the Kent County Health Department Turtle Talk due dates: Submissions to Turtle Talk must be received in our office by the first of each month for the upcoming month's issue. (Not all material submitted can be used.) If you have a story or information you would like to share with Turtle Talk, please send it with your name, address and phone number. You will be recognized by name in Turtle Talk if your article is used. Indians of Hungry Hollow! By the time you have received this newsletter the book, ln_dians ofliungry:l-l_o_ll_o_w, may already be on bookstore shelves. Local Odawa elder, Bill Dunlap, had his wishes come true when The University of Michigan Press, one of five publishers interested, called and said they wanted to publish his book. This book isn't some romanticized version of what someone thinks of Indians from a long time ago. It is not a book of how a non native settler fell in love with this Native American man and a group of white settlers were trying to look and save her. No, in fact it's hard to measure how much impact this will have on families who lived through this and similar incidents throughout the country. This book shares the experience through the eyes of Bill, as told and lived by the Indians from Hungry Hollow. The book features factual information during a period where it wasn't "cool" to be Anishinabe. The Indians of Hungry Hollow refers to an area near Petoskey, between Goodhart and Middle Village where about fifteen Native American families lived. The stories shared in the book take place from the 1920' s to World War II. In fact, the stories that Bill remembers, took place when he was a boy growing up. Many stories heard take place from a back porch behind a barber shop while listening to relatives and friends. Not having read the book myself, I had the opportunity to listen to Bill at our office. The stories he shared with me were with great emotion as he struggled to hold back tears of memories. One of the stories is told on page three of our newsletter. Hopefully, this will inspire you to purchase the book and share it with your children and neighborhood schools so that the other side is told. �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 2 Native American Prevention Services Winter Camp 98 Staff: Lora Church Program Director Hunter Genia Prevention Specialist/Educator Renee Dillard Prevention Specialist /Educator VACANT Prevention Specialist/Educator Wanda Blanco Office Services Coordinator The goal of Native American Prevention Services is to deliver services and information that encourage healthy lifestyles while discouraging the use of alcohol and other drugs. Our program strives to ensure the information and services provided that are culturally relevant and age-appropriate. We Provide: Information - relevant to the Native American lifestyle. Assistance and referrals - can be provided to community members as well as professionals about issues related to A.T.O.D. (alcohol, tobacco, other drugs) Native American Youth Groups - are divided according to grade level and meet once a week throughout the year. Consultations and Presentations - can be provided to schools, organizations, community groups, including parents, on substance abuse prevention and/or culturally related topics. Special Programs and Activities - are provided to youth, parents and elders. Readers Input Valued! Every now and then readers write to us or call us and tell us how we are doing with "Turtle Talk." We appreciate all input, suggestions, and your comments to let us know what you like, don't like, and what ideas you may have to improve the newsletter. We are currently mailing out nearly 1,600 newsletters a month to homes, businesses, organizations, and tribes throughout Michigan and out of state. We try to insert information, articles, and community happenings in order to inform you of what's happening on a local and national level with Indigenous affairs. We also insert information consistent (Continued on page 4) �Turtle Talk Newsletter Pa e 3 Indians of Hungry Hollow By Bill Dunlap Cigarettes were 7 cents a pack. Gasoline was 8 cents a gallon, a loaf of bread cost 9 cents and a spaghetti dinner with one small meatball the size of a marble cost 17 cents. The trouble was, where was one to get the 17 cents? These were the times the white man would come to call the heart of our country's Great Depression. A time when all of America was down for the count. There was no welfare, no social security and no dole of any kind. Work was as scarce as hen's teeth and if one didn't work, one didn't eat. Being the last hired and first fired meant the Indians in Hungry Hollow missed more meals than most. (Editors Note:) The following is an excerpt from Bill's book, which is just one of several handed down orally to Bill or actually experienced by him and several others in the Anishinabe communities throughout Michigan. You can find his book, Indians of Hungry Hollow, at Barnes & Noble in the area soon. As the depression deepened, people got more desperate. Riding the rails was dangerous and against the rules. People did it anyway because freight trains were the only transportation they could afford. They crissed-crossed the country going hither and yon and back and forth. People would hear about the fruit needing to be picked two states away or a canning factory needing labor somewhere else. With little more than a rumor on which to hang their hopes, they would pick up and head to the nearest freight yard. The place didn't matter. They were heading nowhere while looking everywhere for the only thing that did. It was work. Dressed in ragged and torn cloths, rail riders were dirty from head to foot. Dirty, not because they didn't care to wash, but because of the soot and black smoke the steam engines belched out. At first, I tried to catch their eyes so that I could send them a smile of encouragement. It didn't work. Empty eyes staring back through was all I ever saw. My heart went out to that little girl. She was standing in the box car door holding on to her father's pant leg. Her hair was wind blown and her face was dirty from the train engine soot. Her only clothing was a flour sack someone had taken and tried to turn it into a shift. Her feet were bare. I knew they would remain that way until winter demanded otherwise. She smiled and waved as her dad took the water. I could feel my heart melting. Soon her whole family had joined her. They called out thank you after thank you. Handing out all that water made us feel as good as I can every remember feeling. It's best not to clog up that kind of thing with words. I thought of her from time to time. I'd get to wondering if times were ever going to get better and she'd pop into my head. Once in awhile I'd ask my sister, who knew just about everything, "why?" She'd tell me, "Good things will come to us, we just have to wait." I'd wonder what kind of answers that little girls daddy gave her and if those answers satisfied her more than the ones I got. She had to feel choked by the same poverty that had it's hand around my neck. I'd close my eyes, and see her lying on the floor of a box-car rumbling and rattling thro11gh the night. Her hands were always clutching an empty belly and her eyes were shut tight. I could see her trying to squeeze out all her pain. She just wanted to escape into her dreams. I hope she did. I hope they got where they were going to safe and sound. I hope her daddy found work. And most of all I hope he replaced that flour sack shift with the prettiest dress money could buy. Spring water was all we had to share with those freight train families. We took a lot of bottles from the dump as the summer wore on. We left a lot of misery there in exchange. ------------ -------- �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 4 I HEAR YOU Information obtained from "I hear you", a booklet to help American Indian parents in raising their children. This booklet is a product from the organizations of National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse and Northwest Indian Child Welfare Assocfation, Inc. What do we mean by punishment? When you punish your child, you are trying to change a behavior by doing something that makes the child feel bad or hurts the child. The punishment may be mild: 1) sending him to his room 2) taking her bike away 3) slapping him on the hand. Or the punishment may be harsh and painful: 1) slapping him on the face 2) spanking or beating her 3) whipping him with a switch. What do you really want to happen when you punish your child? You probably want to make your child stop by doing something that you don't like or to get him to do something he won't do. Can you remember back to when you were little? How did you feel when you got punished? When your mom or dad took something away from you, you probably felt bad, and if they spanked you hard or beat you, it made you hurt. Chances are you didn't feel very good about yourself afterward. Most parents don't really want to make their children feel bad or actually hurt them. They punish because they think they need to. Or because it is the way their parents dealt with them. Sometimes parents punish harshly because it is done in anger or it helps to relieve their own frustrations. But this only causes more frustration. Lots of parents who were punished when they were growing up think that children have to be punished so that they will be happy, responsible, well-behaved persons when they grow up. And many parents just don't know any other way to make their child stop doing things they don't like. Parents sometimes have the ideas that if children are ashamed of their behavior, the behavior will stop. So the parent shames the child. But children then believe that the parent disapproves of them rather than the behavior. A child who is ashamed has low self-esteem and learns to distrust those who shame them. But there are other ways that work better. Let's look at how Nathan's dad learned a way to get his message across without spanking: One day, Nathan's family was holding a give-away in honor of his dad who was just elected to tribal council. His dad was all dressed up in a new ribbon shirt and sitting in his chair waiting to go to the community center. Little Nathan ran into the room and was about to climb onto his dad's lap. But just in time, his dad noticed that Nathan had been eating fry-bread and jam and that his hands were all sticky. His dad realized that Nathan was too little to understand what gooey hands do to clean clothes. Quickly, his dad kept Nathan from climbing up. Then he gently led Nathan into the bathroom and helped wash the grease and jam off his hands. After that he took him by the hand, led him back to the chair, lifted him up into his lap. Without hitting or slapping or yelling, his dad showed Nathan by his actions what he wanted. Nathan's dad is using NON-PUNISHMENT to COMMUNICATE. (Continued from page 2) with the goals of our organization which deal with alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention. Letters we have received tell us that you enjoy articles, information, calendars, and photos that add to the layout of our newsletter. We would also like to hear more from our readers to help us consider what could be improved with our newsletter. As the Newsletter Coordinator, I encourage all readers to submit an article for the "Turtle Tafk" newsletter to share information that would be interesting for our readers to read. As long as you are consistent with submission deadlines, and we can credit your name to the article, then it has a better chance of being used. We will try our best to make sure it is inserted. I hope you all enjoy the newsletter and if it isn't to your liking, I welcome your input. Volunteers are encouraged to call me or our office and let us know if you are available for volunteer work with newsletter projects and untouched ideas in the making. Thank you for your support. HAVE A GREAT 19991 �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 5 Youtb Drum Circle Niqb.tl Another Successful New Year's Eve Celebration By Di.in Hossler On December 31st we came together as one big family to enjoy the last few hours of 1998. With that, we enjoyed our humorous M.C.s Debra Muller and Matt Blumke. A delicious pot luck, an art raffle and a 50/50 raffle hosted by June Fletcher, Mary Cody, and myself, a night of entertaining Karoake, and a wonderful presentation by the Northern Sky Singers and our very own Owashtinong Chung-a-ming drum. As the last few minutes of 1998 passed, we gathered around the drum and stood together looking each other's faces remembering what 1998 brought to us! The New Year' s Eve celebration brought us an estimated 200 familiar faces, without whom the celebration could not have been Circle of Relatives Circle of Relatives is a gathering of people concerned about children. We share ideas and offer support to each other about raising youth. We will be meeting during the Fall and Winter months twice a month. The following guest speakers will offer presentations during January and February: ~ nope to see you February 2nd! Three Fires Pow Wow Meeting January 26 at 6 p.m.: Medicine Wheel Teaching. - Renee Dillard January 28, 1999 February 9 at 6 p.m.: Dealing with Grief and Loss. Grand River Bands of Ottawa Indians, Inc. 1251 Plainfield NE, Suite B, PO Box 2937 Grand Rapids, Ml 49501-2937 February 23 at 6 p.m.: Parenting in balance with culture. Meetings are held at: Indian Family Resources 615 Turner NW (Entrance on Broadway) Room #35 For more information contact Mark Sanford at 616-458-1641. For more information contact Kelly Wesaw at 616-458-8759. ., _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1. ~ 4 �Turtle Talk Newsletter Pa e 6 Festival '99 - Here We Comel We have wonderful news for those of you who always wanted to help our agency but didn't know how to go about volunteering. We have a huge project started that will only be successful 'rt enough people will come forward to help. Festival '99 has accepted our application for a food booth that will take place on June 4-6, 1999, one weekend before the Three Fires Pow-Wow. The menu is simple but will take many dedicated people to have this project come to it's potential. Fry bread and Buffalo Joes (which is buffalo meat fixed like sloppy joe on a piece of fry bread) and Lemonade is the complete menu. Thousands of people come to the festival every year to celebrate the diversity within this urban community. Our program has the opportunity to help bring about awareness of the Native American community within the community at large. It is a big project with possibilities that can really benefit the growth of our programs. If we can increase our financial resources for our programs, the potential for more needed programming will become closer to reality. Volunteers I00 volunteers minimum are needed for the four-day event. T earn leaders to be determined will make up the Festival '99 Anishinabe Food Booth committee. The committee will meet twice a month starting in January, then they will meet once a week starting the first Thursday in May. Committees will meet on first and third Thursday of each month, until May then committees will meet every Thursday until the event. Times for meeting will be 6:00 p. m. to 8:00 p.m. in the Indian Family Resources office. (see time-line for meeting schedule). Team leaders will be responsible for setting up appropriate meetings with their crew. T earn leaders will help with the recruitment of crew members. Shift schedule forms will be supplied to team leaders for crew sign up. A copy will be supplied to committee members. Prospective team leaders need to be approved by committee chair and co-chair prior to assignment of duties. No smoking in the booth or around the booth area will be tolerated. We need team leaders for all of the following crews: a.) Set Up Crew b.) Clean Up Crew/ Drivers c.) Kitchen Worker Crew d.) Runner Crew/ Drivers e.) Booth Crew f .. ) Cooks A complete description of all crews and scheduling are available at the Native American Prevention Services office and at the Committee meetings. Timeline Mandatory Festival 99 committee dates to be attended by team leaders in the Indian Family Resource office space is as follows; Thursday, January 7th Thursday, January 21st Thursday, February 4th Thursday, February 18th Thursday, March 4th Thursday, March 18th 6:00 6:00 6:00 6:00 6:00 6:00 p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. - 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, April I st April 15th May 6th May 13th May 20th May 27th 6:00 6:00 6:00 6:00 6:00 6:00 p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. - 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 8:00 p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. Decorations of Booth The decoration of the booth is important so the public will be able to spread from word of mouth where a certain food item was purchased. This description will be printed in the Festival '99 program. The booth decoration is as follows: ,., Four color ribbons to be hung above the four corners of the booth representing the four directions of the medicine wheel. ,., Medicine wheels to be hanging from the cross bar in front of the serving area are to be visible to the public. As an addition to the booth decorations, a large poster sign with the explanation of the medicine wheel could also be available. Any other suggestions are welcome. I • I �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 7 NATIVE AMERICAN AA MEETINGS THURSDAYS AT 6:00 P.M. NATIVE AMERICAN PREVENTION SERVICES 615 TURNER AVE. NW, ROOM 35 CRAND RAPIDS, Ml 49504-5246 (SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO SCHOOL DISTRICT CALENDAR) ANY QUESTIONS, CALL LORETTA AT 616-458-6156. NATIVE AMERICAN ALATEEN MEETING M 0 N DAY AT.. 7 : 0 0 P • M • FIRST STEP HOUSE 435 BRIDGE NW (UPSTAIRS) CRAND RAPIDS, Ml 49504 ANY QUESTIONS, CALL PATTY AT 616-363-9537 COME SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE, STRENGTH, AND CULTURE TO ACHIEVE SOBRIETY AND RECOVERY. SATURDAY AT 12:00 P.M. SECOND CHANCE 624 W. FULTON CRAND RAPIDS, Ml 49504 ANY QUESTIONS, CALL SUE AT 616· 363-9537 TUESDAY AT 8:30 P.M. SECOND CHANCE 624 W. FULTON BASED ON THE MEDICINE WHEEL ANY QUESTIONS, CALL SUE. WANTED! CARING ANISHINABE ADULTS WANTED - Caring Anishinabe adults to mentor and guide local Native youth in the Juvenile Mentoring Program (JUMP) here on the west side of Grand Rapids. Students who are looking for mentors attend Straight, Sibley and Stocking Elementary schools. This program has been designed with an emphasis to serve Indian students. Please consider sharing your lessons and stories with a young person in the JUMP Program. For further information feel free to call 771-2746, or stop by the Learning Club office on the first floor of the West Middle School building. Megwetch. Chet Eagleman Jr. We, at the Native American Prevention SeNices (NAPS) and Indian Family Resources (IFR), are seeking your help in offering suggestions for an overall program name. We wanted this process to include you. To assist in your creative thinking mode, here are the goals of both programs: NAPS - The goal of NAPS is to deliver seNices and information that encourage healthy lifestyles while discouraging the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. (Continued on page I 2) �Turtle Ta.lk Newsletter Page 8 Winter Camp 98 By Renee Dillard -. We had so much fun I didn't want it to end. We had a total of 36 youth from grades K through 61h come this year. Our camp was held at the Camp Ana Behrens of the Michigan Trails Girl Scout Camp in Greenville. What a wonderful facility and we are very grateful to the Girl Scout Council for all their assistance while this year's Winter Camp. We were very fortunate to have so many people come forward to help the youth have a good time with learning more about Honesty, Kindness, Respect and Sharing. The kids participated in a lot of outdoor activities including a snow shoe hike, cross country skiing, and sledding. The kids said that the sledding was the best although that was the activity that seemed to be most prone to injury. The snow that came on Tuesday was a welcome sight to everyone and it was really beautiful. The indoor activities were fun and challenging for each age group of Young Eagles. We had alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (A.T.O.D.) prevention activities and materials for each youth available in their packet. We also made jiimons (canoes) and makuks (boxes) out of paper bags using the same pattern that we would ordinarily use with actual birch bark. We also focused on language as much as we could during most activities. We were blessed to have Larry Plamondon (Odawa) from the Gun Lake area travel up north to visit us as he shared many stories with the children and adults. As you probably know, many of the stories are Nanabozho stories that teach all who listen, important values and lessons of how we can treat each other respectfully. The day-wa-gun from Grand Rapids (Owashtinong Chung-a-ming) also visited with our kids on the Monday evening, sharing songs and teaching those young boys who were so interested about the drum. They also learned what it's like to try drumming as well. At the Winter Camp we had a sacred fire (ishkodeh) that was kept lit the whole time the camp was on. We are all grateful for the fire tenders, in particular Ernest and Jack, who accepted the honor of ensuring the fire would be lit the whole time. For many of the youth, it was their first time learning what the fire is all about and why it is sacred. They all learned how to respect the fire and how we actually feed the fire. It was cold and sometimes a lonely job, but it felt good knowing that it was there whenever we needed and that an Odawa and Ojibway shkinwayuk (young adolescent boys) could keep the ishkodeh going. If anyone went home hungry it was their own fault. Our kitchen help, in particular Olive Pigeon, Joan "Tinky" Otten, Julie Bennett, Mary Cody, and Amanda Loonsfoot, were all excellent as usual this year even if they got up at 3 a.m . in the morning ("thanks Renee") by accident. Nothing was burnt this year, mainly because I didn't cook, and the all the meals seemed to be pretty nutritious and well-balanced. On the menu this past year was : pancakes, chicken, spaghetti and meatballs, and fruit just to name a few. Request for zagidikwadence (fry-bread) and the toppings to go with it and penabo (potato soup) is already on the menu for next year's winter camp. Like last year, the children had a chance to cook their food in tinfoil on the fire. It was great to know the food preparation was taken care of for every meal by wonderful people. We were also very grateful for Tina Horne who volunteered to be our camp nurse this year. She did an excellent job and was very organized to ensure the children got their medications on time. In fact, we would like to recognize all of our volunteers who have made winter camp successful. They are: Casey Church, Mike Kelley, Dan Hossler, Ernest Loonsfoot, Jack Otten, Hunter Genia, Kristy Dayson, Becky Williams, Amanda Loonsfoot, Amanda Pigeon, Monica Otten, Olive Pigeon, Julie Bennett, Mary Cody, Joan Otten, Jennifer Jones, Jackie Homant, Tina Horne, Larry Plamondon, Owashtinong Chung-a-ming, Variety Club (van), and First Evangelical Covenant Church (van). Already some parents and volunteers have explored ideas for activities for next year's camp and how we can continue to make it better and even more action packed. If you have some ideas, are interested in volunteering, or would like to lead a particular activity for the camp we would be glad to hear about them. Or if you have a youth that would like to be included in the fun Young Eagles activities call me at 458-4078. (See Winter Camp Pictures on page 2) �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 9 MEMBERS OF THE GRAND RAPIDS NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY MEET WITH MICHIGAN INDIAN CHILD WELFARE TO HEAR ABOUT SERVICES AND DISCUSS CONCERNS BY HUNTER GENIA -. On December 8th, 1998, members and friends in the West Michigan Native American community attended a meeting at the Circle of Relatives Program at the Native American Prevention Services / Indian Family Resources office. The meeting was attended by nearly thirty individuals who were interested in listening to Cheryl Gandhi and Amy Larva of Michigan Indian Child Welfare Agency (M.l.C.W.A.) discuss programs and services they offer, as well as, ask questions they wanted answered. As the meeting progressed into the evening numerous questions were asked by community members who had concerns about MICWA and how it serves the Native American community and child welfare issues. Questions centered around issues of native children being adopted or fostered out to non-Indian families to how are "native homes" defined. Other questions pertained to how a relative is defined and a request for clarification of how M.l.C.W.A. works with Native American community organizations. Assistance in the finding of relatives and families who can take in the children who are at risk of being removed was also discussed. It was apparent that perhaps a more distinct "visibility" within the community it serves could help in identifying "Native American homes", which has been a concern of M.l.C.W.A. Although the meeting had its tense moments, it was pretty much determined that perhaps on everyone's mind was the question, "why has it taken nine years and longer in this community to begin forging a relationship with community agencies and tribes to establish a strategic plan to help our children?" It is also apparent that perhaps some of the guidelines and parameters don't necessarily meet the Indian child's needs at the federal level where the Indian Child Welfare Act was established. A list of recommendations was brainstormed with participants from the community, staff of MICWA, and staff of Indian Family Resources. The recommendations were as follows: l. Another meeting between Circle of Relatives and a MICWA administrative representative was requested to continue dialogue regarding our mutual concern for welfare of Native children in the area. 2. An administrative response to questions was requested. In particular further information was requested about statistics and policy and procedure questions. 3. There was a request for Sylvia Murray to come to the Circle of Relatives. 4. There was a request that MICWA share information regarding other Native programs and services with MICWA clients. This can begin with sharing of brochures etc, but ultimately should be more personal, such as a face to face introduction to staff in these programs. 5. It was requested that a MICWA representative attend the Coalition of Indian Programs and Services meetings. 6. It was recommended that MICWA utilize Native publications to disseminate information. 7. It was recommended to have potential new foster parents attend the Circle of Relatives to assist in supporting culturally appropriate parenting skill building. 8. It was recommended that tribal representatives attend the recommended next meeting with MICW A administration. 9. There was a recognition of the need for more trust building between MICWA and the Native communitynity. A MICWA presence at community events would likely assist in this effort. l 0. Questions were raised about what can be done to change some of the MICWA standards. l 1. A strategic plan was requested highlighting MICWA's goals and objectives: a) to recruit Native homes and foster families, b) to market MICWA's programs and services to the Native community, and c) to collaborate with the Native community and other Native programs and services in the area. For more information about this meeting and future meetings to take place with MICWA please call Mark Sanford of Indian Family Resources at 616-45 8-1641. �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 10 r,~/ - - - - - - - - - - 1 M.l.E.T.S. Has Moved! · p Michigan Indian Employment and Training Services {formerly at 2442 28th St. SW) has moved to 2367 Byron Center Rd in the Lamar Plaza {near Lamar Park). Stop by to see: Mary Cody - Program Director and Dan Hossler - Office Coordinator Or give them a call at 616-538-9644 I I 1 i I ~~~~-J'v"/'J r~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --- - I I The Michigan Commission on Indian Affairs Resource Manual is now available. The Resource Manual is divided into four sections: Cultural, which includes museums containing Indian exhibits and information on tracing Indian ancestry; Education, which includes educational scholarships; Youth programs; and Senior programs and services. If you are interested in receiving a copy of the Resource Manual, please contact the Michigan Commission on Indian Affairs at: Michigan Commission on Indian Affairs 741 N. Cedar Street, Suite. 102 Lansing, Michigan 48913 517-334-8632 - phone 517-334-8641 - fax '•>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>X•>>>Jt>>>>Jt>>>>>>>>>>>>lt>'>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>X•>:I•>>:I•>:I•>>>>>X•X•:I•>>>>>>>>>>X•>:I•l:•I•~i ~ New Years Eve Sobriety Gathering would like to thank all the volunteers, contribu- ~ iiwtors, and community who donated items (door prizes), talents or assistance to help ~make the 3rd Annual New Years Event a fun one. We would like to thank the artist w ~who donated their talents to help make the art raffle a profitable one to help with ~ S start up costs for this year's as well. w w w ~ Dolores Laban (stained glass) Renee Dillard (birchbark Mukok) w w w ~ Christine Marcus Stone (pictorial artwork) ~ ~ w ~ ~ John Pigeon (Blackash Basket) Mary Cody (Quilt) ~ ~ w ~ w :~ ~ S w w w ~ w w w I ~ w w ~ ~ ~ l•>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>"'!"•>":'•>>>>-:-•>>':"•>>>>>>>>>>>>~ �Turtle Talk Newsletter CALENDAR OF EVENTS Page 11 M 11 N WA MUN A DI BISH KAW IN! I\''''''Birtt.ldays I\I\ The Anishinabek Friday Night Bowling League ~I\' 1\1\l\l\,lt\. ~ of Grand Rapids is Sponsoring their: ~ 2nd Annual Anishinabek Bowling Tournament '~~ February 2 7, 1999 ~ location: Fairlanes Bowling Center 4560 Chicago Dr., Grand Rapids, Ml. Fairlanes Ph#: 616-534-6038 Shift #1: 11 :00 a.m. Shift #2: 2:00 p.m. Team Entry Fee: $100.00 U.S. Dollars ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ' ~ It\. ~ ~ ' '~ 1st Place Prize - Depending on Team Entries! ' Must be Native American or married to Native American. ' Average will be based on 48 games, or 1997-98 book average (must bring book). No average, then 180 for men and 160 for women.! Registration forms call : John Day or Mary Jo Wert at 616-456-1601. Pre-registration is encouraged! 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" Chief Seattle The Native Son You will live your few brief years, Then pass to grandmother earth; While the manitou roams the dunes, As he did on the day of your birth. He will bear the spirit of you, Until earth's last day is done. Your children will feel your lips With the kiss of the summer sun. They will hearken to your song, Sung at a tempest roar. They will hear when poplars rattle, And when waves caress the shore. When trading your bits of paper, Making seals and parchment your goal, You say, "Under the land lies the title." I say "Under the land lies my soul." Robert Lawrence Horton IFR - The goal is to provide a program that will provide Native American families in Kent County with useful, ·i::elevant information and access to services which will help preserve and strengthen family structure, and to raise children successfully. This is the timeline we will use: Tues., February 2nd -All suggested names from the community are due to the NAPS/IFR office. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Native American Prevention Services Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Genia, Hunter (Editor) Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/037e2bdf0a8dc27747f45bc211dcc005.pdf 3b7b7effc47132f7b619dff8378341c0 PDF Text Text TALK EWSLETTER NATIVE AMERICAN 615 PREVENTION SERVICES Grand Valfey State December 1998 ••• . INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Theater 1 Dance Gathering 3 Sewing Circle 4 Anishinabe Youth 5 Circle ofRelatives 7 Youth Groups 9 Calendar/Birthdays 11 Newsletter Coordinator: Hunter Genia Volunteer Editor: Sharon Horton Layout: Wanda Blanco Contributors: IFR/NAPS Staff Turtle Talk's mission is to provide its readership with reports of local and national interest which may affect and impact our Native American community. Special emphasis will be placed on prevention information. Turtle Talk is published by Native American Prevention Services, in cooperation with the Kent County Health Department Turtle Talk due dates: Submissions to Turtle Talk must be received in our office by the first of each month for the upcoming month's issue. (Not all material submitted can be used.) If you have a story or information you would like to share with Turtle Talk, please send it with your name, address and phone number. You will be recognized by name in Turtle Talk if your article is used. ==~ :=": ·~· = ••••• =- PE:G ~-1i~••• Mnidoo-Giisoons (Little Spirit Moon) · ••· .Theater of the ~~lftres Shines for Initia1 Series of Debuts! A lot of excitement was in the air after watching the debut of: "Harvest Ceremony: Beyond The Thanksgiving Myth" presented by Theater of the Three Fires. The first of several performances in a ten day span debuted at the Van Andel Museum (Meijers Theater) on November 15th and closed on November 24th at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, here in Grand Rapids. Theater of the Three Fires matched the excitement level of what one would hope could be presented in a performance that was both educational and entertaining to observe. Watching from the seats no one knew exactly what to expect or how it would play out adding to the anxiety as a board member of the theater organization and as a community member. Perhaps, the nervousness was for the actors and actresses whom most of us knew, as they started their theater debut. One thing is for certain, the level of expertise could not have been more appropriate for the level of quality that the Theater Board is striving for. The directorship of Doug Pettinga and Larry Plamondon, the clothing designing of Chris Marcus Stone, and the numerous hands that stayed after to pack up and prepare for the next performance are only part of the intensity. The number of hours rehearsing and laboring over lines, new skill development, and the tears of frustration and happiness tell the other part of what this historical moment represents. Nearly 200 people observed the debut of the theater performance, and most of those I met afterwards were left searching for words to describe what they saw. Perhaps even more important is the implications it could leave an individual wondering about the true meaning of Thanksgiving. Definitely, it opens the question of how do we bring (Continued on page 2) �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 2 A to all of the educators and teachers from IGndergarten on up, the story of what happened at Thanksgiving Staff: ~ some three hundred years ago. Lora Church As community members, we are often called Program Director upon to come to schools and be a part of the ThanksHunter Genia giving gala this time of year. Perhaps, we should all Prevention Specialist/ Educator continue doing so as we can seize the opportunity to Renee Dillard Prevention Specialist/Educator educate others on the masses about Anishinabek culVACANT ture through our eyes, even if it is around ThanksgivPrevention Specialist/ Educator ing time. Wanda Blanco Theater of the Three Fires is on the right track Office Services Coordinator - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - a s it provides community members an alternative to be The goal of Native American Prevention Services is a part of something new and exciting. Whether it's asto deliver services and information that encourage sisting with the set like Alberta Popma or Angelo Franhealthy lifestyles while discouraging the use of alchi, being a stage assistant which most of the actors/ cohol and other drugs. actresses and board members tended to be most of the Our program strives to ensure the information and t ime, or attending the theater board meetings and getservices provided that are culturally relevant and ting involved, there is a lot to be tended to. It can also age-appropriate. be something moving as we have a vehicle in place to tell our stories whether historical or contemporary. We Provide: Information - relevant to the Native American lifeThe presentation of Harvest Ceremony: Beyond style. the Thanksgiving Myth, perhaps will never be told on Assistance and referrals - can be provided to comtelevision or movie screens, but the story was told here munity members as well as professionals about isto a captive audience in Grand Rapids, by our own sues related to A.T.O.D. (alcohol, tobacco, other Anishinabe community members. To this we finally drugs) Native American Youth Groups - are divided acsay, it's about time! Howah! Native American Prevention Services 1--------------------- cording to grade level and meet once a week throughout the year. Consultations and Presentations - can be provided to schools, organizations, community groups, including parents, on substance abuse prevention and/or culturally related topics. Special Programs and Activities - are provided to youth, parents and elders. Massasoit (foe Cardinal) is telling his people about the boat people. Submitted by: Hunter Genia Aunt Molry (Helen Hillman) explains to Jane (Becky Williams) about Moshep �Turtle Talk Newsletter Pa e 3 Older Style Traditional Dance Gatheri~g By Renee Dillard On October 16 & 17 of this year, a special gathering had taken place for the Native Community. One of the main reasons for the Gathering was to heighten awareness of the older style women dances that haven't been danced as a regular part of our Pow-wow gatherings. Another purpose was to support the female members of our community with positive communication techniques. Native women from all around the state came to learn and offer information about dances that they have seen in the past. Our teacher, Alvina Marshall, was full of helpful information that added to our overall experience. Alvina shared personal details about her dancing experiences as a younger lady that helped us all understand the role of women in the Native Community, and how that role keeps changing with every generation. The weather was a bit unpredictable due to rainy weather predictions, so we did move our dance to the Westside Complex for this reason. As it turned out, we had a beautiful day (that figures) so we improvised and moved some of the teaching circles out on the lawn. Our local drum, Owash-ti-nong Chung-aming, was present to offer assistance to Joe Mitchell, who also was a participant/singer-drummer with Alvina Marshall. We are always looking for more information to share those older songs with the many different drum groups all around the state. The food was wonderful and provided by Camburns Home Bakery, a Native American family-owned business in the Grand Haven area, as well as, the many community members who helped with the potluck on Saturday. Megwetch to everyone, especially Rod Crampton for his wonderful corn soup on Saturday. Although we did not get all the dances that everyone wanted to be able to learn, we did provide information for many of them. The Gourd dance/ The Corn Grinding Dance/ The Ribbon Dance/ The Rabbit Dance/ The Women War Dance/ The Fish Dance, were taught and practiced by most of the participants. Alvina shared a written documentation of instructions for each of these dances, as well as, some we could not cover. This information contains some personal history of Alvina and interesting facts about women and the role that was expected from them. If you'd like a copy of this information please call or write the office and we will send you that information. Thanks to the evaluations, we have different ideas on how we can improve upon this type of gathering in the future. Although nothing is definite we are looking towards April 8-10, 1999 for an additional dance teaching/learning opportunity. If you are interested in coming and learning or if you have information that would be helpful to this type of gathering please call so we can add you to our list of interested persons. See you down the Red Road. Ribbon Dance Rabbit Dance �Page 4 Turtle Talk Newsletter Sewing Circle Schedule The purpose of the Sewing Circle is to create an atmosphere where the imagination can have room to develop new concepts using the older traditional woodland designs. Already we have many different regalia created from many hours of hard work. Here the participants will be encouraged to challenge themselves by trying a new area of artistic creativity. The teachers consist of others from the community, as well as, some elders and artisans from the Grand Rapids area. Sewing machines are available for everyone to use while working on their project. Our creativity does not end there. We also have worked with quills and beads, leather, and different natural fiber. This is an exciting time to become more involved with programs and activities offered in our community. We have much to offer one another while we heal our spirit from years of submission. We also have regular discussions on the medicine wheel teaching of "balance" in our lives. In order for us to learn these beautiful life ways, we must be teachable. The only requirement to be a participant with the Sewing Circle is to strive for and/or be clean and sober. Once you come to understand the traditional life values of the ancient culture you will better understand yourself and why we are all spiritual sacred beings. We meet every Monday from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, in the Multi-purpose Room at the Native American Prevention Services Office. Different people come every week, so come on down and meet new friends and help each other understand the cultural arts whether it be Pow-wow dances, preparing regalia, basket making, beading, weaving, or whatever might be appropriate. Winter time has traditionally been the time that was set aside to work on long projects while the snow was falling. Come help us as we continue this older tradition while we rediscover new ones together. Our next formal scheduled presentation is December 14th 1998 in the multi-purpose room. This is your invitation to come on down and bring or wear your regalia and share with others when and how you became a dancer. Share with us what motivated you to become active in the pow-wows. If you have started a project at Sewing Circle or already have finished a project, please consider sharing with others who are looking for someone to help them understand the process of regalia making. We are now offering child care on Monday nights for Sewing Circle participants. Different activities will be offered to the youth such as videos and various art projects. If you are interested in helping us with our child care or if you have any questions or would like more information about Sewing Circle please call Renee at 458-4078. Grant Received by Grand Valley State University to Recruit Native American Students in the Masters of Social Work Program • $75,000 grant will allow school to recruit Native American tribal members to School of Social Work program at the Master's Degree level. + Targets five tribal populations in Michigan including: Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa Indians, Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians, Bay Mills Indian CommunifYt and Pokagon Band of Potowatomi, and various tribal groups represented in the Grand Rapids area. + Hope to recruit at least eight Native American students for the initial year. • A three year grant that runs through September of 2000 + LeAnne Silvey, Proiect Coordinator, assistant professor at GVSU, past director of Michigan Indian Child Welfare Agency for 10 years. �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 5 atWfiinalk 'IJoutfi ~ t1re gcw.t., do, a WoJUWt/ul 'fefi! ean day. One thing is for certain for me, continuing to provide opportunities for our young people, while valuing our elderly is where it's at. Does that mean an opportuBy Hunter Genia nity doesn't exist for you to help or be involved if you've chosen a path that isn't as healthy? No, in fact making a . Over the years, I have had the pleasure to watch decision today to start down that Red Road may be the Anishinabe youth grow into beautiful people capable of best example for all of us who rely on the strength of tackling the world. I have thought to myself hundreds of peers and the Creator for direction. times over, that if they were given the chance, leaders If we choose not to make a decision that is await us. healthy, the young people don't get there as easily. We I still believe that today. A long time ago, we can decide to get our minds together along with them (not didn't have to worry as much about our youth because for them) and decide what kind of future we want for our there wasn't the influences that we have today. As a generations to come. What will you decide? Become incommunity, we always worked together to ensure the volved in the state of affairs for our Anishinabe commuday and the future. nity by lending a hand, sharing your ideas or knowledge, As many influences progressed over the years due volunteering, or putting your positive ideas into action. to many factors, we should all be looking out for our Many of our community members have excepyouth . It is our responsibility as Anishinabe people, and tional talents that could help our young people steer tothese aren't rules that I made up. They say it's an Afriward a positive and healthy direction. What is needed is can proverb, but I believe it's an Indigenous proverb your time. Make the decision to become involved today, from all over the world that says, "It takes a village to and volunteer, in the long run it will be worth it for all raise a child." If we could only live by those teachings our nations. more intensely, perhaps some of the common issues that adolescents and parents face today wouldn't seem so ' fl> ' fl> ' fl> ' fl> ' fl> ' fl> ' fl> ' ' ' ' ' fl> 9 9 9 ' enormous. As we approach the coming New Year and years to follow, we should be asking ourselves as a community what kind of future awaits us. For some reason, many communities haven't looked to their youth for direction and answers. That may seem silly to you to look that direction in the first place, but generations upon generations have been impacted severely by influences that have been very negative. So it may be the case that many Of Our youth are making more healthy decisions than We 9 fl> are, or poorer decisions of living and decision-making based on the values they've learned. Which generation can have the most ~ositive impact if given the proper tools? You guessed it. The youth. Many things are happening in our community that are positive, as well as, some things that aren't. We have seen many of our relatives, brothers, and sisters incarcer- ~ fl> ' ; ••••• f1> ' Y : ' 9 f1> ' : down a scary path before we reach out and say, "Heythere is a better path!" I feel strongly about our community and what it can do, we can't change the past but we are allowed to decide the future. What will I, you, and they decide de- f1> ~f fl> f1> fl> fl> 9 ' fl> fl> From Now fl> ated, or have chosen the Western door prematurely or had no choice at all. How many will we allow to walk val~es A Hundred Years ' ' h it wil I not matter w at b k t th my an accoun was e sort of house I Iived in or the· kind of car I drove... but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a I I C. H I L D pends heavily upon the we feel worthy holding ; fl> f1> fl> f1> ' f1> fl> fl> fl> ' fl> f1> fl> f1> ' f1> fJ ' ' ' onto. It depends on the actions we choose to display to- ; , fl> ' : : fl> 9 f1> ' ;p ,9 9 fl> ; 'I> 9 �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page6 Maximum of 60 Campers REGIST/iB EARL YI Deadline: Friday;,1,;li)ecember 18, 1998 Registration fee: Minimum of $10.00 per family Young Eagles K-f1h Grade and otherNative Youth Volunteer Orientation December 22"d @ 5:30 - 8:00 pm . (Meet at NAPS office) Monday, December 28th Tuesday, December 29th Wednesday, December 30th Camp Ana Be,~t~ns 9841 Colby Road Greenville, Ml 48838 ~.QCATION: '.''. .~f);' x,,.;; <_, . . -);£ CALL: RQJtiee Dillard at Native American Preventie'a~fservices @ 458-4078 for Regi~t~qtion forms. ·~- - __ ,_c.-,o Odlqoor Games will include: • • • • • i3~oom Ball Sledding Orienteering Camp Fire st~~,~telling Snow shoe tijR~~ "'°,· : ;-:,___ • COME AND JOIN THE FUN IN THE SNOW! NAPS, 615 Turner NW, Rm. 328 Grand Rapids, Ml (West Middle School Building, Ground Level) '~~ ~ __::,~ ~ �Turtle Talk Newsletter Circle of Relatives: Page 7 on Community Parenting of Youth. An in depth Medicine Wheel teaching will be offered. This presentation will also serve as a training for those parents wishing to serve as.chaperones for the Winter Camp. The Circle of Relatives is a gathering of people concerned about Native children. Included are open sharing of ideas, cultural teachings and guest speakers on a wide range January 12: There will be a presentation on "Taking of topics related to families and children. The Circle Care of Myself as a Parent." includes parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, foster parents, guardians, and others. The Circle is open at January 26: Cultural Teaching to be announced. all times to anyone to participate. Come to the NAPS/ IFR office and check it out and bring your ideas. Meetings are held at: The schedule for December and January are as follows: *All meeting times are at 6:00 p.m. * December 8:- Amy Larva and Cheryl Ghandi from Michigan Indian Child Welfare Agency will present an overview of MICWA services. Indian Family Resources 615 Turner NW (Entrance on Broadway), Room 35 Multi-Purpose Room Grand Rapids, MI 49504 Child care is available. For more information contact Mark Sanford at 458-1641. December 22: Renee Dillard will offer a presentation Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians and the Bay Mills Indian Tribe are issuing their own hunting licenses. The DNR has asked the tribes not to do so until The Associated Press courts resolve the meaning of the 1836 treaty. "They have elected to proceed over our proPetoskey - Some hunters and state officials are at tests," Ekdahl said. odds over whether members of the Little Travers Bay Ekdahl said a test case isn't the only way to setBands of Odawa Indians need state hunting licenses. tle the issue. He has asked the attorney general and the The Michigan Department of Natural Resources tribes to negotiate an agreement. says they do. The tribe says they don't. The Odawa tribe this year has issued 197 li"They are violating the law until the court says censes covering both hunting and fishing. Most of the otherwise," Lt. Jeffery Pendergraff, a district supervisor of them have also gotten tags for people in possession for the DNR office in Gaylord, said. deer season. "We're not breaking the law," countered tribal Under tribal code, the members can take up to chairman Frank Ettawageshik, saying members have two deer - one buck and one doe - and must report hunting rights under an 1836 treaty. each kill to the tribe's conservation office. A DNR officer on Sunday stopped two Odawa Ettawageshik said the tribe's code is similar to hunters who had a dead deer in the Chandler Hill area. that used by the state. It was developed with the input Neither had state licenses but did possess tribal licenses by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. and deer tags. Tribe, state at odds over deer licenses The officer confiscated the deer. It hasn't been decided whether to prosecute the men. The Michigan attorney general's office considers such cases individually because of their potential to set legal precedents that would apply to other tribes, said Jim Ekdahl, the DNR's coordinator for American Indian issues. "You don't want to create a test that doesn't clarify the issues," Ekdahl said. In addition to the Little Traverse Bay Bands, the �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 8 STOP Violence Against Indian Women Discretionary Grants (Reprinted with permission from Pathways September/October 1998) Fifty-seven Indian tribal governments in 20 states will be able to provide better services for adult Indian women victims of domestic violence and prosecute more domestic violence cases. This comes as a result of $4.9 million in Fiscal Year 1998 STOP Violence Against Indian Women grant funds awarded in June by the Justice Department. This year there are 24 new tribal grantees, bringing the total number to 112 tribal governments that have received STOP funds since the first grant awards were made in 1995. These tribal grantees serve a total of 233 Indian communities. "This program has allowed us to help an unprecedented number of Indian tribes improve their services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault," said Laurie Robinson, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs, the agency that administers the grants. The 24 tribal governments that have not previously received STOP funds will receive grants ranging from $34,860 to $84,000. Another 33 tribal grantees will receive grants up to $104,000 to continue funding projects begun with FY 96 STOP grant funds. The remainder will be awarded to tribal applicants requesting continuation funding, pending successful completion of monitoring activities, including site visits. The American Indian Law Center, Mending the Sacred Hoop and Sacred Circle also will receive grant funds later this year to provide technical assistance and training to the STOP Indian tribal grantees. The consultants include tribal judges, prosecutors, law enforcement officers, advocates and Indian law scholars. The Fiscal Year 1998 STOP formula and discretionary appropriation is $172 million. Four percent of each fiscal year appropriation, which this year is $6.8 million, for the STOP Violence Against Indian Women grants program is statutorily reserved for the discretionary grants to tribal governments to develop and strengthen tribal law enforcement, prosecutorial strategies and victims services in cases involving violent crimes against Indian women. The STOP Violence Against Indian Women Grants Program awards are authorized under the Violence Against Women provisions of the 1994 Crime Law. For more information about STOP and other violence against women efforts, visit the Violence Against Women Grants Office Web site at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/VAWGO or OJP's Web site at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov, or call the National Criminal Justice Reference Service toll-free at 1-800-851-3420. �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 9 ANISHINABEK YOUTH GROUPS UPDATE Young Eagles Trisha, 10 years old John, 8 years old Anthony, JO years old Youth Council Hosted An Open House minutes. Each group was then given the task of presenting their solution to the scenario. This allowed each and Plans for a Youth Lock-In! participant a chance to experience not only the planning Members of the Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council hosted an open house for American Indian youth on December 2 to invite potential new members to get a feel for what they do in their group. Twelve new people showed up from not only the Grand Rapids community but also the Muskegon community. The evening was started by a couple of icebreakers (fun warm-up exercises) then an introduction from youth council members. Examples of what the youth council has been involved in so far, as well as, how it's been a positive experience to the members was shared. Why the Youth Council exists was also explained. After the warm-ups and sharing circle, a whole lot of pizza was gobbled up by everyone in attendance along with a very enticing cake made by one of the parents. The evening concluded with the youth breaking up into five groups with each group given a scenario to work on for about 30 that makes things happen, but also some of the issues that a youth council might work on. Each presentation was given in front of a mock foundation board. All the presentations were very good. In January, a youth Lock-In is being planned by the Youth Council. Alock-in is a set aside time in one location where youth participate in multiple healthy activities along with having the opportunity to socialize and meet new friends. This lock-in is positive for many reasons: a. To meet new friends in a fun and safe environment. b. To participate in fun activities. c. Is chaperoned by fun, enthusiastic, and caring individuals. (Continued on page 12) �Page 10 PREVENTION SPECIALIST/EDUCATOR (Part-time) For Native American Prevention Services, Grand Rapids, MI. B.A. or B.S. in Education, School/Health Education, Human Services or equivalent related experience. The Prevention Specialist needs an understanding of prevention theory practices, exhibit a willingness to learn about the Native American culture and community. Skills in planning, promoting and delivering community-based substance abuse prevention programs, with public speaking and/or teaching experience. Will facilitate a youth group. Good organizational skills with attention to detail. Send resume with three (3) Letters of Reference to Lora Church, Program Director, Native American Prevention Services, 615 Turner, NW, Room 32-B, Grand Rapids, MI 49504. Closing date is Friday, January 8, 1999. EEO agency. Inquires call (616) 458-4078. Theater ofthe Three Fires The Theater of the Three Fires Board would like to thank the many participants, volunteers, organizations, and businesses who stepped forward to make the first production a reality. A complete list of everyone who volunteered and offered their guidance and help will be compiled for the January issue of "Turtle Talk." At this time, we would like the community members who receive "Turtle Talk" to know that we , are continuing to meet and are outlining the 1999 year in which productions will be coming alive on stage. We are always in need of people to become involved and you can do so by contacting any of the Theater of Three Fires Board members. Kchi - Migwech! JThe sisters, Autumn McDonald (far left) and Kristy Dayson (far right) explains to Jane what has happened to the village of Patuxet. Members of the cast, share all the different Thanksgivings, that different cultures share. �Turtle Talk Newsletter CALENDAR OF EVENTS December 31: New Year's Eve Sobriety Party & Celebration. UAW Hall on Clyde Park between Burton and Chicago Drive. Raffles, art, door prizes, singing, laughter, karoake, dancing, etc. Volunteers interested please call June Fletcher at 616-336-711 0. Page 11 M 11 N WA MUN A DI BISH KAW IN! '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' '~. '~ Birthdays '~ '~ , ~. ' ~ '~. ~· '~ ''~ New Years Eve Sobriety Celebration & Feast ! ~. Thursday, December 31 , 1998 UAW Local 19 Union Hall 1750 Clyde Park, SW Wyoming, Ml 6:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Midnight: Feast Entertainment and Raffles Begin Karoake & Other Dancing Owashtinong Chung- AMing (welcome New Year) Activities for the Whole Family!!!! ~ ~. ~. ~· ~•, ~ ~ ~ ~ ' ' '~ ' '~. ~ ~J:s.n . . .:. ~ ~~~ ''' ~. lliii~~iii~ii~;.,;~~iii~~;i;.,;i.i~;.,;~~iii~~iii~~~;.,;~~~i ' For more information, contact Michigan Indian Employment and Training Services@ (616) 538-9644 or (616) 458-4078. Facts and Figures Youth who begin drinking before age 15 are four times more likely to develop alcohol dependence than those who begin drinking at age 21. The risk for alcohol dependence decreases by 14% with each increasing year of age of drinking onset. ~ ' ' ~· ~ '~~ '~· ~ ~ '~ ' '' '~ '' Harvey Anderson Sarah Andrews Derek Bailey John Bennett Sarah Bissell Matthew Boyer Isabel Campos Ruth Ann Chivis Christopher Cuellar Comer Melissa Daniels Lanelle Ferrere Kathleen Floyd Trisha Genia Robin High Jenny Ives Michael Kelly Jerry King Carrie Martinez James Mataxagay Jeremy Merryweather Anna Nadowegesa Deb Pigeon Edmund Pigeon Alberta Popma Andrea Popma Joseph Raphael Richard Raphael Robin Raphael David Russell Billy Schrubbe Christine Shomin Joshua Shomin Cherish Skinner Shayna Skinner Tracy Wesaw ll!'ll!2!'.2!!2!2!1!::1!!2!11!!!2!!'.l!lil!!2!2!!2!'.2!!2!'2!1!::1!!2!11!!!2!!'.l!li1!!2!2!!2!'.2!!2!'2!1!1!!2!2!!!!2!!'.l!lil!'J!".Z!!. ' " ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' •, ~ '~ ~ '~. ~ '~ '· ,~ ~ ~ ~. ~ '' ~ ~ ~ ~ ' ' '~ ' '~· '' · ''~. ~· ' ' ~ ~· ~· ~ ~ '~ ~ ~ '~ ' '-.. '~ '"''''''II!\ll\'''"'''''''''''''''' �Turtle Talk Ne ws letter Page 12 House Availa~le for Sale (Continued from page 9) d. Is held in one area all night that is alcohol, tobacco, and drug free. Invitations are being mailed to the Native Pride Youth Conference participants from September, as well as, the mailing list which was compiled from the Open House. This is not limited to them however. If you are a Native American youth and are interested in participating in the Lock-In or want more information, please contact Hunter Genia at 616458-4078. 819 D~VIS NVV Dreaming of home ownership? Feeling like ownership is out of your reach? Maybe we can help. ICCF is dedicated to providing housing for low to moderate income families. We can help you remove obstacles and get you started on the road to home ownership. If you are interested or have any questions, please give us a call. Inner City Christian Federation at 336-9333. 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Vaffey Statt? 61 S'Turner Ave.(' Telephone: (616) 458-4 ~. rLJ NOV 0 2-1998 October IN ovember 1998 UniversifI Library INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Youth Conference 1 Redskins - Lawsuit 3 Smokers Awareness 5 Prevention Report 7 Three Fires Theater 9 Calendar/Birthdays 11 Vet's Pow Wow 12 Turtle Talk C onfributors: Hunter Genia Renee Dillard Turtle Talk's mission is to provide its readership with reports of local and national interest which may affect and impact our Native American community. Special emphasis will be placed on prevention information. Turtle Talk is published by Native American Prevention Services, in cooperation with the Kent County Health Department Turtle Talk due dates: Submissions to Turtle Talk must be received in our office by the first of each month for the upcoming month's issue. (Not all material submitted can be used.) If you have a story or information you would like to share with Turtle Talk, please send it with your name, address and phone number. You will be recognized by name in Turtle Talk if your article is used. ••• •&~===-·-=~····· =: ~=:··· Native Youth Show Pride at :H Youth Conference! By Hunter Genia American Indian middle school youth gathered at the Kent Intermediate School District building on September 18 & 19 to participate at the Native Pride Youth Conference with the theme of, "United Youth Today For Tomorrow." This conference to my knowledge is the first ever to solely concentrate on bringing American Indian youth from Grand Rapids together for the purpose of learning about different youth societal issues, but in a fun and meaningful way. It was also a wonderful chance for youth to meet from the area which was enhanced through participation in games, leadership exercises, and a cultural gathering. Presenters from various agencies and organizations were on hand to share information in the "not so traditional classroom environment." By using a jeopardy game format, drama theater, an ex-youth violence offender, and activities encouraged youth to move around and share their thoughts about critical issues. This conference format proved to be a meaningful and fun experience. This conference was planned by the Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council and had been working together for months to get all the pieces together in order to make their conference a reality. So indeed this was a success not just for the participants but also the youth who planned it. "To get youth involved and make the circle stronger", was how Kristy Dayson, (an Odawa teenager and a member of the youth council), describes the reason for all the hard work. She noted that the youth council had been working for approximately five months in putting this conference together. Becky Williams (a Potawatomi teenager and president of the Youth Council), would like to see the youth come back together for continued meetings. 111s--._ ----~--·-- ===~~- - ••••.: (Continued on page 2) --~~-- ;. .,. ;,. -:• •• �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 2 "We're planning on having a follow-up meeting, share about the youth council, and bave another conference next Staff: year." Lora Church Nearly 100% of the youth conference participants Program Director said they would like to be involved in the planning for upHunter Genia coming activities and events for youth their age, according Prevention Specialist /Educator to conference evaluations. Amanda Pigeon, one of the Renee Dillard Prevention Specialist /Educator youth conference planners, thinks this is great. She notes, Jennifer Jones "This is a good idea because they would get to know each Prevention Specialist/Educator , other a little bit more and become more involved with the Wanda Blanco community." Aaron Chivis, PotawatomijOttawa teenager Office Services Coordinator ___________________ attending the ninth grade at Byron Center High School conThe goal of Native American Prevention Services is curred with this. By having youth involved, "It would be to deliver services and information that encourage more fun and be more for us and not the adults." healthy lifestyles while discouraging the use of alFor a complete list of all the conference particicohol and other drugs. pants, volunteers, and donors please see page six. Native American Prevention Services ---~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-- Our program strives to ensure the information and services provided that are culturally relevant and age-appropriate. We Provide: Information - relevant to the Native American lifestyle. Assistance and referrals - can be provided to community members as well as professionals about issues related to A.T.O.D. (alcohol, tobacco, other drugs) Native American Youth Groups - are divided according to grade level and meet once a week throughout the year. Consultations and Presentations - can be provided to schools, organizations, community groups, including parents, on substance abuse prevention and/or culturally related topics. Special Programs and Activities - are provided to youth, parents and elders. • The Nathte American Spirit in Contemporary Art - No.,ember and December 1998 Nov. 1-14 - The North American Indian Center presents an exhibit of the work of local Indian Artists in UICA' s Event Space. The work in the show will be sold in an auction to benefit the Center from 6-9 p.m., Nov. 14, at UICA. Tickets are $15. Call 336-4194. Fri. & Sun., Nov. 6 & 8- Screening of Pow-Wow Highway, Friday screenings at 7 & 9 p.m.; Sunday screenings@ 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $6; $5 for UICA members & students. For details, call 454-7000. Sat., Nov. 14, 6-9 p.m. tails, call 336-4194. North American Indian Center art exhibit & auction in UICA' s Even Space. Tickets are $15. For de- Fri., Nov. 20, 6-8 p.m. - Opening reception for exhibit of the work of regional and local Native American artists @ 8:00 p.m. - Reading by author Gordon Henry (Continued on page 4) �Turtle Talk Newsletter Pa e 3 Trademark Board considering "Redskins" suit By Kara Briggs Newswatch Project- Summer 1998 (ICC) Seven Native American leaders are suing the owners of one of the country's most hallowed institutions over a trademark name they call scandalous, scurrilous and derogatory. The institution? A professional football team. The name? The Washington Redskins. "All these sports team names are going to be gone in 10 years," predicted Suzan Shown Harjo, a Cheyenne political lobbyist based on Capitol Hill. "When people look back at the 1990's, these names will be looked on as an oddity." Harjo believes names such as "Redskins" will become a part of history the way segregated football teams did. And like segregation- which the Washington team held onto longer than any other team in the National Football League until the federal government intervened- it will probably take a similar government action before the offensive team name is dropped. Team managers say that's wishful thinking on Harjo's part. But a growing number of sports journalists are giving the use of Native American names for team logos and mascots a second thought. Three newspapers - The Oregonian in Portland, Ore., The Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minn., and The Salt Lake Tribune - have established a policy not to reprint the names "Redskins," "Indians" or "Braves" in stories. Instead, they simply refer to the teams' cities: Washington, Cleveland and Atlanta, respectively. Some television news photographers at game events have chosen to bypass fans who wear turkey feather head dresses and paint their faces to mock Indian warriors. And columnists for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio, and The Washington Post have called on their local teams to abandon the names. The name "Redskins" is dated, admit the Washington team's owners, but no more offensive than the word "colored" in the name National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. That argument may hold in the court of public opinion, among the thousands of ticket buying fans for whom sports team name border on the sacred. But the administrative trial judges at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - who will issue a decision on the use of "redskins" later this year - are having to look at a few of the facts. Along the way, there are lessons to be learned by both team owners and sports journalists alike. Sports fans could use a bit of enlightenment as well. The word "redskins" first appeared in the Oxford University dictionary in 1699. It was defined as derogatory name for North American Indians. It dates back to an era when bounties were offered for each Native American killed. Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, dropped the "redskins" name from its sports teams a decade ago after the Miami Indian tribe, for which the university is named, complained. In the last 30 years, dozens of universities including Stanford, Dartmouth, Syracuse, Marquette and Oklahoma have given up team names offensive to their Native American students. One college in New York state squelched the nickname "squaws" for its women's teams after a Seneca tribal elder advised them of the word's meaning: vagina. School districts as large and diverse as the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Dallas School District, and as tiny as the local high school in Enterprise, Ore., have abandoned similar Native American names within the last year. Still, several professional and collegiate sports teams have hung onto names like Redskins, Indians, Chiefs, and Braves. Harjo said such names reveal an attitude that says Native Americans are less than human and insignificant historical figures. It dismisses and trivializes Native American culture and religion. (Continued on page 4) �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 4 This attitude pervades American society like "poison gas," Harjo said. Vernon Bellecourt, president of the National Coalition Against Racism in Sports and Media and a longtime Native American community leader, agrees. Otherwise, he asks, how could Time Warner, Inc., one of the nation's largest, most respected media companies, acquire and continue to operate the Atlanta Braves? Or how could Jane Fonda, who once considered herself a political activist, do the tomahawk chop along with a stadium-full of fans? For Native American activists, the biggest challenge is convincing fans. Michael Wilbon, a Washington Post sports columnist, said it's worth remembering that the word "fan" is derived from "fanatic." Bud Shaw, columnist for The Plain Dealer, believes fans aren't necessarily racist, they just haven't thought through the significance of Indian names and logos. "Every opening day, a group of Native Americans assemble outside Jacobs Field with signs that say, 'We're people, not mascots,' and there is absolutely no response from people in town here," he said. "I don't know if talk radio is a barometer for anything, but people will call in and say, 'What's their problem? Is the name Dolphins an attack on dolphins?"' The teams defend their logo or name as something that, in fact, honors Native Americans. Mike McCall, director of public relations for the Washington team, said his organization's logo is a dignified profile of a Native American, not a cartoonish character or a tomahawk. "Our logo is not a caricature like the Cleveland Indian's logo, he said. Bob DiBiasio, Cleveland's vice president for public relations, said his team wants to be sensitive. "There's always been a touch of controversy surrounding our nickname and our logo," he said. "And understanding that it's an incredibly sensitive issue, we have tried to act accordingly." Chief Wahoo (the team's buck-toothed, feather-wearing Native American mascot) won't get a speaking voice or a body. That's out ofrespect, DiBiasio said. John Sanchez, a Yaqui-Chiricahua professor of communications at the University of Pennsylvania, doesn't see any nobility in the Cleveland team's gesture. For Sanchez, the use oflndian names and symbolism for sports is more than a subject of his research, it is a personal one. Five years ago, the professor's nine-year-old nephew came home from school one day refused to go back. His teacher had asked the little boy with braids and brown skin to do a war cry like she had seen on television. Sanchez captured his nephew's story on video tape and now shows the tape to journalism students to demonstrate to them how stereotypical media images can hurt people's feelings and affect a person's self-esteem. "When you say the 'n' word, you're talking about an entire race of people," Sanchez said. "When you say 'redskins,' you're talking about an entire race of people, too. If you say it to me, then you are saying something negative about my mom, my dad, my grandma, my children. Why would you do that?" Kara Briggs, Yakama, is a reporter for The Oreganian in Portland, Ore., President of the Native American Journalists Association and UNITY: Journalists of Color coalition. T/Je Nalil'e American Spiril in Conlemporary Ari Nol'em/Jer & Decem/Jer 1998 CONTINUED... Friday - Sunday, Nov. 20- 22 - Screenings of Smoke Signals, a film written, directed, produced and acted by Native Americans. Fri. & Sat. screenings at 7 and 9 p.m.; Sun. screenings at 5 and 7 p.m. Tickets are $6; $5 for UICA members & students. For details, call 454-7000. Tuesday, Nov. 24, 7 p.m. - Theater of the Three Fires, a drama presented by a local Native American group, in the UICA Theatre. Saturday, Dec. 5, 8 p.m. - Rosalie Jones & Daystar: Contemporary Dance-Drama of Indian America present No Home but the Heart at Ladies Literary Club, 61 Sheldon Blvd., SE. Tickets are $8; $6 for UICA members & students. Friday, Dec. 11, 7 p.m. - California performance artist James Luna presents "Collages: Thoughts, Dreams & Hallucinations." In UICA's Event Space. Tickets, which include a post-performance panel discussion and reception are $10; $8 for UICA members and students. 8:30 p.m. - Luna joins author Gordon Henry, North American Indian Center Director Levi Rickert and others for a panel discussion about Native American art and humor. �Turtle Talk Newsletter ~~©~~~~ /A'W (A~~~~~ Page 5 ~©~00 ent flavors.) Make plans to stay really busy during the withdrawal process. Some of the temporary symptoms will likely be feeling nervousness and grouchy. CoughGreat Reasons to quit Smoking ing means recovery, and is caused by the lungs' ability Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 to remove mucous. Try sipping cold water, fruit juice chemicals, and 200 of these chemicals are poisonous. or tea to help with dry mouth or sore throat. On the average, smoking will take 4 to 8 years off your Things that help your recovery are simple but life. Also it will reduce the quality of your life, by leav- very important, such as saying out loud the reasons why ing you less money (two packs a day for a year is you are quitting. You might consider changing your $1 ,344.00), and less energy and more illness. Native routine a little, get up and walk around instead of sitting Americans are twice as likely to die from smoking at the table after a meal. When you feel an urge to than any other addiction/disease!!! Nearly all people smoke, breath in. Hold your breath while you count to who die of lung cancer, throat cancer or emphysema, five, then breath out. Remember nicotine is a stimulant, are smokers. Native Americans have the lowest lung you might feel sleepy, take a nap when you can. With cancer survival rate for any ethnic group in the U.S. all the money you are saving you could afford to do If you are a parent and have small children in something special for yourself. Do a small ceremony your home you need to hear this. Women who smoke for yourself, say a prayer asking for courage. Once you when they are pregnant take a big risk. Their babies are have changed your relationship with tobacco by taking at risk for several life threatening illnesses, such as be- it out of your mouth, put it in your hand and offer saying born prematurely and very small, also those children maa (tobacco) to Mother Earth. are at very high risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (crib death). Children who are around tobacco smoke "My spirit is with You the Mother Earth, have more coughs and colds, asthma and allergies and with the waters and with the trees. pneumonia and lung disease. Children who have never Strength flows from my spirit, smoked a cigarette can get cancer from just breathing in through my body and through my family. second hand smoke. If they make it through all that Native Spirit give me strength." you may not see results of smoking until school, because they are more likely to be born with learning dis- ~,,,,---------------------~ abilities. Are these the same children that we want to Circle of Relatives protect from harm? If you thought your decision to smoke was not hurting anyone other than yourself, Circle of Relatives is a gathering of people guess again! Children learn by watching their parents concerned about children. We share ideas and are more likely to smoke if their parents smoke. So now what should you do? You already know and offer support to each other about raising youth. We will be meeting during the Fall and what needs to be done. Once you finally made up your Winter months twice a month. The following mind to quit you need to plan for long term success. guest speakers will offer presentations during Decide on a date when you will quit. Make sure this is your decision not your family or doctor, it's your addic- October and November: tion, your decision, your responsibility. Tell everyone November 10th 6:00 p.m. Helen Yunis from about your decision to quit so it will make it harder for you to change your mind. Make sure your home will be Michigan Indian Legal services will be presenting on the Indian Children Welfare act. smoke free, you might even want to post it outside NO SMOKING, and throw out the ashtrays. Ask for help from others who have been through the quitting process November 17th 6:00 p.m. Native Pride Game or from others who do not smoke. will be the fun activity for the night. Come and Get ready today before your quit date by buying relax and laugh with community members as low calorie foods to replace cigarettes. (Fruit, vegetayou learn about PRIDE in the Native Commubles, popcorn, hard candy, and chewing gum in differnity. ~ A ~-----------------------------------------,. �Turtle Talk Newsletter I, !. I ,. ....... Native Pride Youth Conference Participants, Volunteers,_and Donors A Kchi-Migwech To All of You for Making It Happen! 1 I1·".I Participants: I I: i, ~ II' Amanda Loonsfoot Andrew Black i ~ Wayne Horne Frances Wesaw 'I Naonquat Genereaux 1 .' Ii' Samantha Fowler Curtis Vos Jimmie Stewart Natasha Stevens Leigh Mccann Jack Otten Alec Saboo Georgianna Memberto Arianna Memberto Cammie Castenada Jenna Pigeon Michelle Malmgren Nastacha Robertson 1i i :i 11 I :I I., • i Ill I I iI I~ p! •• ii !" ; Youth Conference Planning Committee (a.k.a the Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council) Kristy Dayson Ernest Loonsf oot Amanda Pigeon Heather Green Cory Loonsf oot Autumn McDonald Becky Williams Isaac Dillard Tim Loonsfoot Jr. Volunteers Derek Bailey Joan Otten Karen W111iams • • ~ Donations !I .. • "• I" ,~ ii IJI Ill! i Trisha Trosky Lora Church Dorothy Mccann James McCann Candi Wesaw Mary Cody John Pigeon Tracy Lee Jim Genia Betty Davis Prevention Network Meijer Presenters Lori VanHarmelen Jack Chambers Terry Sare & Rick Gutierrez I I••• "••"' !" iii •!' : c • "••• ji •!i • •!I •• •• • it It .~ 'ti ••~ ..• ·pi ~ •• •~ • ':ill"• '•a :c Ic II ii ; '•I!' ~ Catholic Human Develop Office {Sharon Detz) Arnies Bakery ,I......,.........................,..·!··--····--·-· iii !I !I Aaron Chivis Jessica Emery Ronald Robertson Joshua Gaddy Gilbert High Matthew Robertson Kevin Ives Robert Ives Dustin Gibson Shaun Albrecht Monica Otten Elizabeth Gibson Vera Tipkey James Tipkey [Ill; Jack Tipkey Michael Medawis Ill I . il ,Car Wesaw Jr. !l1Eric Norman ill!' :!Ii Jessica Norman f I """ ' :1 ii , Page 6 .. . 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THE FETAL ALCOHOL PAREHT .SUPPORT GROUP MEET.S: FIR.ST MOHDAY Of EVERY MOHTH @7:00 PM 5T. LUKE'.S LUTHERAN CHURCH FOR MORE INFO: JANET 532-3689 OR HAHCY AT 871.-87 3 5. "Prevention is the Key" Says Chair of Mayor's Task Force on Drug Policy Reform Sometimes subtle or even unnoticed, often denied, other times shocking and tragic, always resulting in a loss of something for someone, somewhere, substance abuse seems pervasive. Substance abuse was identified as a Healthy Kent 2000 priority health concern, but it's clear link to violence, sexually transmitted infections, chronic disease, and infant mortality the other Healthy Kent priorities - make reducing substance abuse critical. One thing that has always been true of Healthy Kent 2000 since its inception in 1993, is that Healthy Kent is a community process. All of the priority health problems identified by Healthy Kent 2000 are community problems meaning that they impact, either directly or indirectly, the entire community and all require community solutions. Likewise, substance abuse is clearly a community problem, and oft-repeated listings of the many places drugs and users turn up - schools, playgrounds, the workplace, the church - while both shocking and true, probably fall far short of presenting the true scope of the problem. And acknowledging that substance abuse requires a community solution, while an important step, is not itself a solution. On January 9, 1997, Grand Rapids Mayor John Logie in his State of the City address, put the issue to the community, publicly and provocatively, calling for "a round table of experts in medicine, treatment, law enforcement, and drug policy" to enter into what turned out to be an unprecented public discussion of drug policy. Dr. Rob Deane, who chaired the Mayor's Task Force on Drug Policy Reform and oversaw both the process and the development of the resulting recommendations, believes the essentially threepronged approach put forth by the Task Force makes a lot of sense, allowing the community to address the many facets of substance abuse, and to do so as a community. "There is overlap and synergy" says Deane of the prevention-treatment-enforcement foundation of the Task Force's recommendations. "It is not really an 'either/or,' but an 'and.' These are comple(Continued on page 8) �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 8 mentary approaches; they go hand in hand." While few would argue the value of enforcement in reducing substance-related crimes, the Task Force recommendations leave little doubt that most members felt enforcement alone is not enough. Deane says there is more that needs to be done if we are to really have an impact on substance abuse, especially in reducing the number of repeat offenders. "No one felt we should reduce enforcement, but that we should emphasize and add to treatment and prevention" he says. Especially in the area of mandatory minimum sentencing laws (which the Task Force recommends repealing) "we need treatment during incarceration or as an alternative to incarceration if we truly want to reduce recidivism and return these people to the community" says Deane. But it was the treatment recommendations of the Task Force Report which in fact garnered the most headlines, especially regarding harm reduction. Harm reduction - a somewhat complex and many-tiered process to empower drug users to reduce their personal risks and get help - is typically seen as a euphemism for a small but politically charged component of the whole: needle exchange. Deane likens the needle exchange component of harm reduction to the 'loss leader' sales item used to entice shoppers into a store. Only in this case the 'store' is the community services system treatment, health and social services, referral - with the profits to be gained benefiting everyone in the community. Harm reduction, says Deane, is more than just getting addicts clean needles, "but bringing them into regular contact with a system where they can be made aware of treatment and other services available to them, and allowing them to take advantage of those services to help themselves." But while both treatment and enforcement continue to be critical components in reducing substance abuse, it is prevention which, clearly and unequivocally, is seen as the first line community solution. One only needs to take a casual glance at the final report of the Mayor's Task Force on Drug Policy Reform to notice that prevention is the first recommendation, has the most pages devoted to it, and is outlined in the most detail. According to the Report, "A community effort to improve existing enforcement and treatment systems must, first and foremost, stress prevention." And two paragraphs later, in bold type, "prevention is a process, not an event." Deane himself responds with an "Absolute yes" when asked in he believes prevention is the most critical component of any drug reduction strategy. "If you prevent the problem, you don't have to deal with it down the line" he says. "You don't have to deal with the lives that have been effectively destroyed, and the costs." In other words, an effective prevention process would render nearly all the other recommendations of the Task Force - drug court, harm reduction, treatment alternatives - moot. And that would be a truly good thing for this community and its residents. Since the completion of the Task Force report in March of this year, the recommendations have been presented to the Grand Rapids City Council, and various members of the Task Force have also spoken to the Council about different aspects of it throughout the year. While the ad-hoc Task Force has been officially disbanded, Deane says it is now up to the various communities to take action. "I see this report as a stimulus to be used by whatever entities at whatever level to do things they want to see accomplished" he says. "It is up to individuals and the organizations they represent to help make things happen." And that perhaps will be the biggest challenge of making a true impact on substance abuse. Says Deane: "Things don't get done unless people do them." �Turtle Talk Newsletter ~r H E Page 9 I H EA 'f ER 0 F 'f H E ~r H RE E F• RE s p RE s EN·rs HAR VEST CEREMONY: BEYOND THE THANKSGIVING MYTH PREMIER PERFORMANCE, STARRING OUR OWN NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY MEMBERS: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER l 5TH 4:00 P.M. GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM VAN ANDEL MUSEUM CENTER RECEPTION FOLLOWING TICKETS: $5.00 ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCES FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH 7:00 P.M. GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC MUSEUM VAN ANDEL MUSEUM CENTER RECEPTION FOLLOWING TICKETS: $5.00 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24TH 7:00 P.M. URBAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS 14 Sheldon Blvd. S.E., Grand Rapids, Ml TICKETS: $1 0.00 (non-members) $ 8.00 (UICA members) Students are free TO ORDER TICKETS: CALL@(616) 458-4078 OR (616) 243-1046 111-"''' HQ all~\ fe f.tDral Sponsored by: Native American Title IX Parent Committee Tuesday, November I 0, 1998 @ 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. West Middle School, Room 241 615 Turner, NW, Grand Rapids, Ml Join the fun and make a black ash basket. Dessert and beverages provided. One pendleton blanket drawing and other drawings will be held Ashort Parent Committee meeting will be held for the purpose of promoting and recruiting new members to help enhance Educational Services for our Native American children in Grand Rapids and Kent Intermediate Public Schools. Childcare provided during the meeting. (Pendleton blanket drawing eligibility: Adults over 18 with Native American children in Grand Rapids and Kent Intermediate Public Schools with a 506 form on file). For more information call @ 771-3318 �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 10 FOR POSTING: CASEWORKER/WELLNESS EDUCATOR (Part-time) For Indian Family Resources. Min BA or BS in Social Work, Public Health, or related profession. Experience facilitating support groups, implementing mental health/wellness educational services, casefinding, outreach, and case management. Prior experience working with families of multicultural background looked upon favorably. Salary neg. Send Resume with 3 Letters of Reference to: Lora Church, IFR Program Director, 615 Turner, NW, Rm. 32-B, Grand Rapids, MI 49504. Closing date: Friday, December 4, 1998. EEO Agency. Inquiries call: (616) 458-1641. I~ I PREVENTION SPECIALIST/EDUCATOR (Part-time) for Native American Prevention Services, Grand Rapids, MI. B.A. or B.S. in Education, School/Health Education, Human Services or equivalent related experience. The prevention specialist needs an understanding of prevention theory practices, exhibit a willingness to learn about the Native American culture and community. Skills in planning, promoting and delivering community-based substance abuse prevention programs, with public speaking and/or teaching experience. Will facilitate a youth group. Good organizational skills with attention to detail. Send resume with three (3) Letters of Reference to Lora Church, Program Director, Native American Prevention Services, 615 Turner, NW, Room 32-B, Grand Rapids, MI 49504. Closing date is Friday, November 13, 1998. EEO agency. Inquires call (616) 458-4078. �Turtle Talk New sletter CALENDAR OF EVENTS November 5: Annual Elders Ghost Supper. Lexington School. 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. Please bring a dish to pass. For more info call Joe John at 458-3569. November 7-8: 3rd Annual Spirit of the Harvest Pow Wow & Gathering and Native American Speakers Forum. Houghton, Ml. For more call Carole LaPointe 906-4872920. November 14: American Indian Art Show & Auction at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts. A Fund-rosier for the North American Indian Center of Grand Rapids. For more info: Levi Rickert at 616-336-4194. November 15: Theater of the Three Fires at VanAndel Museum. 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. For more info call Debra Muller at 616-458- 1641. November 20: Theater of the Three Fires at VanAndel Museum. 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. For more info call Debra Muller at 616-458- 1641. November 21-22: 6th Annual Native American Festival & Mini Pow Wow. Novi Expo Center. Novi, Ml November 24: Theater of the Three Fires at Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts. 7 p.m - 9 p.m. December 31: New Year's Eve Sobriety Party & Celebration. Time and location to be announced. Volunteers interested please call June Fletcher at 616-336-7110. ~------------------~ Annual Elders Ghost Supper November 5th Lexington School Gym 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. "Remembrance and respect to all our dead and in special honor to our Veterans who left and have returned." Main meat and refreshments provided. Please bring a dish to share. Any questions please contact Joe John at 458-3569. lil!l!Z!!"'.ll!!!'Z!"..l!:z!!'Zl!"J!".ll!Z!!"'J!!!2!"'J!:l.'!l!:!Z!!"'J!!!!'2!2!2!2!!'ll!l!".2!Z!!"'J!!!2!"'J!:l.'!l!:!Z!!"'J!!!!'2!2!2!2!P.I Page 11 M 11 N WA MUN A DI BISH KAW IN! ''' 'l\''''''' Blr l\'l\'' ' ''''''~"thdII\'''''''''"~ ays ''~ October '~ November ' Lilly Bennett ~ ~ Jonie Abella I\ 'I\' . ~ Suzanne Allman ~ Chris Anderson ~ Jeremy Anderson ~ Matt Anderson ~ Jesse Arizola ~ Linda Bessey ~ Dorothy Boda ~ James Bueschel ~ Eugene Chisholm ~ Lora Church ~Amos Day ~Shirley Day ~Tracy Dougherty ~Anthony Emery ~ Hunter Genia ~ Ronnie Judson ~ Diane Lett ~ Rebecca Lett ~ Terri Leaureaux ~ Fawn Loonsfoot ~ Robert Memberto ~ Jeanette Pierce ~ Angie Pigeon ~ Art Pigeon ~ Lorraine Pinero ~ Tyrone Raphael ~ Marilyn Rueckert Kathy Bowen Don Bower Jr. James Brown Dennis Bush Frosty Chandler Phillip Chippewa Jeff Davis Renee Dillard Marcia Emery Nicolette Emery David Face Michelle Ferrerre Colby Genereaux James Genia Susan Ives Luke Jacko Georgia Jacobson Larry King Robin King Diane Leaureaux George McDonald Marie Medacco Toni Medawis Sara Nadowegesa John Pigeon Mary Pigeon Steve Pigeon ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Leesa Sams ~ Danielle Sheahan ~ Robert Sheahan ~ Steven Sheahan ~ Nancy Shenenah ~ Gary Shomin ~ Mary Smith ~ Paul Terpenning ~ Barbara Toothman _~ A.N. Wesaw ~ Duane Wesaw ~Linda Wheeler ~ Robert Williams ~ Sharon Winters ~David Yount A-dawa-qua Pontiac Pete Recollect CJ Rubinson Sally Rueckert Mary Sandoval Julie Shananaquet Erica Smith Jessica Smith John Tadgerson John Zakem Patrick Loonsfoot Diana Tourangeau ~ ~ ' ~ • ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ I\ '~ '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''~' �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 12 llnnual VeWtatM :J>ow Wow 1998 3rd Annual Sobriety Walk t-shirts are still available at a discount rate of$ 5.00 each. Come by the NAPS office to purchase one or two or three .... "Honoring the Caregiver" Location: St. Mary's Church Gymnasium 1st St. & Broadway NW Grand Rapids, Ml. The 4th Annual Sobriety Walk is in the planning stage for June 12, 1999!! Join the planning committee on Thursday, October 29th at 5 :30 p.m. at the NAPS office. Extra helping hands are appreciated. When: November 7, 1998 Time: 1:00 & 7:00 p.m. - Grand Entry Nattve American New Years Ere Sobriety Basil! For more information please call Grand River Bands of Ottawa at 458-8759. Want to help plan, organize, and set up this fast growing event? .J( ~re If you interested in volunteenng please call Roger Williams at 245-4316. It's a happening thing! '•J~t~ ~ ]\~ Public is Welcome (space is limited) Absolutely no alcohol or drugs! Call 771-3318 or 458-4078 Grand Rapids Public Schools West Middle School 615 Turner NW Grand Rapids, MI 49504 NON-PROFIT ORG US POSTAGE PAID Grand Rapids, MI Permit No. 319 • Grand Valley state Uni\tersity Ubrarv Allendale Ml 49 40 ~ I :-; � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Native American Prevention Services Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Genia, Hunter (Editor) Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/583bc3806b18a12aa28ecf95f282a6b2.pdf a521aaeaf7123d8ab9fd432858509067 PDF Text Text Mdaamini Giizis TU Rf l E TALK NEWSLETTER NATIVE AMERICAN (Com Moon) PREVENTION SERVICES Mishikenh Geegadohawen 615 Turner Ave., NW Rm. 32-B Grand Rapids, Ml 49504 Telephone: (616) 458-4078 Fax: (616) 458-2096 GranCJ Valley State SEPTEMBER 1998 ·····--'--~~P. ~::l_ )g. •••Clinton Urges More Attentiollflv~ Library INSIDE THIS LS.SUE: ' Attention for NA. z Summer Day Camp 4 Young Eagles 3-6 6 Circle ofRelatives 7 Horse-n-A round 9 Calendar of Events 11 Contemporary Arts 12 Turtle Talk C onfributors: Hunter Genia Renee Dillard Jennifer Jones Turtle Talk's mission is to provide its readership with reports of local and national interest which may affect and impact our Native American community. Special emphasis will be placed on prevention information. Turtle Talk is published by Native American Prevention Services, in cooperation with the Kent County Health Department Turtle Talk due dates: Submissions to Turtle Talk must be received in our office by the first of each month for the upcoming month's issue. (Not all material submitted can be used.) If you have a story or information you would like to share with Turtle Talk, please send it with your name, address and phone number. You will be recognized by name in Turtle Talk if your article is used. Plight of Native Americans Arlington, Virginia (AP/ICC) I Following up on the adyice of his advisory board on race, President CJinton says American Indians. need special attention in getting over the "pathetic and inadequate" conditions created for them by the :lfooeiraJ government. During a roundtable discussion on race July 8, Clinton encouraged the American public to act to ameliorate the isolation and neglect that Indians feel. He admitted he did not know much about Indians until he ran for president in 1992 and, after visiting a few reservations, concluded that this country has given them a raw deal. "The paternalistic relationship the U.S. government has kept them in was pathetic and inadequate," Clinton said. "They literally got the worst of both worlds. They weren't getting enough help, and they certainly didn't have enough responsibility and power, in my view, to build a future." Clinton spoke after his race advisory board reminded him that he should develop a strategy to address American Indian concerns. That suggestion grew out of a meeting in Denver in March, where protestors complained about Clinton's failure to appoint an American Indian to his race panel. The president's remarks pleased Sherman Alexie, an author-filmmaker who directed a film on Indian life. He said Indians were tired of being ignored in discussions of race, when so many of their problems are based on race. "A poor Native American faces more hurdles than a poor anybody," Alexie said. "I didn't have running water until I was 7 years old. I still remember when the toilet came. "Nobody talks about Indians," Alexie said. "Usually what they'll do to me is come up and tell me they're Cherokee." That drew laughter from the president, who had said his grandmother was one-quarter Cherokee. Clinton's session with eight panelists was taped to air July 10 on PBS' television program "NewsHour." The White House billed it as Clinton's third town hall meeting on race, but there was no audience or live broadcast, as there (Continued on page 2) __ ·-·-...... ,....... --""""',,,_.. .. .. ~~.. -· ... ·-····- -....~;·-· ~- �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 2 had been in the previous two. The session was held as Clinton's advisory board Staff: was preparing a report for him to use in writing his own asLora Church sessment of race, due at the end of the year. The \\t11i te I Program Director House has said Clinton would keep the discussion alive in II Hunter Genia some form through the rest of his term. I Prevention Specialist /Educator The July 9th panel, which comprised authors, colum- 1 Renee Dillard nists and other commentators, urged Clinton to use his of- 1 Pre vention Specialist /Educator fice to remind Americans that integration is still an admiraJennifer Jones Prevention Specidfist /Edt1cator ble goal. Clinton called for "a vocabulary that embraces Wanda Blanco America's future," while acknowledging the country's past Office Services Coordinator enors on race - starting with the first ones against Ameri1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - c a n Indians. Native American Prevention Services The goal of Native American Prevention Services is to deliver services and information that encourage Cynthia Tucker, a columnist at The Atlanta Consfitu- ! tion, said there must be "an acknowledgment that African i hol and other drugs. Americans and Native Americans especially have suffered 1----------------·----• burdens others have not. But I also think that all of us, inOur program strives to ensure the information and cluding African Americans, need to acknowledge how much services provided that are culturally relevant and the world has changed." age-appropriate. The following is an excerpt from the dialogue: We Provide: Mr. Alexie: A poor Native American faces more Information - relevant to the Native American lifehurdles than a poor anybody. style. The President: Anybody? Assistance and referrals - can be provided to coml\llr. Alexie: Anybody, in this country- certainly. munity members as well as professionals about isWe 're talking about third-world conditions fourth-world sues related to A.T.O.D. (alcohol, tobacco, other conditions on reservations. I didn't have running water. ... drugs) Mr. President: ..... Lets just talk about the Native Native American Youth Groups - are divided acAmerican population . When I was running for President in cording to grade level and meet once a week throughout the year. 1992, I didn't know much about the American Indian condi Consultations and Presentations - can be provided to tion. except that we had a significant but very small popula schools, organizations, community groups, including tion of Indians in my home state, and that my grandmother parents, on substance abuse prevention and/or culwas one-quarter Cherokee; that's all new. And I spent a lot turally related topics. of time going around to the reservations and to meet with Special Programs and Activities - are provided to leaders and to learn about the sort of nation-to-nation legal healthy lifestyles while discouraging the use of alco- youth, parents and elders . .,..::-::=================~relationship that's supposed to exist between the U.S. government and the Native American tnbes. r concluded that the American Indians had gotten the worst of both worlds - that they had not been given enough empowerment or responsibility or tools to make the most of their own lives, and the sort of paternalistic relationship the U.S. government had kept them in was pathetic and inadequate. So they literally got the worst of both worlds. They weren' t given enough to help and they certainly didn't have enough responsibility and power in my view to build the future. So what do you think the most important thing is for Americans to know about American Indians? What do you think is the most important thing American Indians should be doing for themselves or should ask us to do to change the future? Mr. Alexie: I think the primary thing that people need to know about Indians is that our identity is (continued 011 page 3) �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 3 much less cultural now and much more political, that we really do exist as political entities in sovereign political nations. And that's the most important thing for people to understand, is that we are separate politically and economically and should be. For Indians, themselves, I think we have to recognize the value of education, which is something culturally we have not done. And with the establishment of the American Indian College Fund and the 20 American Indian colleges on reservations and in the communities throughout the country, I think we've begun that process of understanding that education can be just as traditional, just as tribal, as a pow wow or any other ceremony, that education should become sacred. FMI on the President's Initiative write to PIRl New Executive Office Building, Washington D.C. 20503 or e-mail to OneAmerica@whitehouse.gov Keepers of the Treasures - Keepers of the Language By C.L. Nez Santa Fe, New Mexico (ICC) Many generations of American Indian students were beaten and punished for speaking their native language at federal, state, and mission schools. The impact is still being felt. The Indian languages are dying with the tribal elders, say members of the Keepers of the Treasures organization. The Keepers of the Treasures is a cultural council oflndians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians who are helping preserve native languages by hosting conferences and serving as a clearinghouse for information. "I think collectively, all the tribal people are concerned about the loss of their language and are very much concerned about the young parents who are not focusing on teaching their language to their children ," said Tessie Naranjo, board member of Keepers of the Treasures. At the time of the first European contact in the 16th century there were about 300 languages compared to about 175 Indian languages spoken today. The languages are continuing to be endangered, says Naranjo, a Santa Clara Pueblo . . . . . . .,..,.,,. •••,,,..,, , _,_ . , . , ,. . . . . .,.,..1 "I know that your tribal language and your world view and your behavior :(i ----- --- -- --------- 1;1are all meshed together," said Naranjo who teaches her native Tew~ language. "I ~. l · t 0 i jknow that speaking the language is i~ot enough. It's more than that. It's about ur goa is !.I knowing how to behave- social gestures, social courtesies, your world view and 1 d k J" i :pro uce spea ers O; I! your belief system within the community. All of those are important." ';; language not : : Last month at a conference, "Native Languages: Repatriating the Spirit of ;I ' )i Nations," David Herrara and Ann Ke-hee, teachers from Cochiti Pueblo, taught the d l • li t stu en ts t Jat can Iiiaudience some words in the Keres language. ii say bear" :!' Using stuffed animals and pantomime, Herrara expertly rolled the words !i "O 1 1 " ' ljil ii ]~ I off his tongue for bear, quail, duck and other wild animals for the audience to re~ • .............-:u~~..-~,~·;~~~:~::·~ peat. When he picked up the stuffed skunk, he held his nose and said the word for skunk. Laughter followed, then the word was repeated. Chuckles are the typical response to Herrara· s lessons. There is no dictionary or grammar guide for the Keres language he is teaching. "Our goal is to produce speakers of language, not students that can say bear," Herrara said. ''What about the bear? We want the full sentences and we want them to have the communication skills in our lan(Co11/i1111ed on page ./1 �Turtle Talk Newsletter CoN'T KEEPERS Page 4 OF THE TREASURES guage- not just a computerized program to learn from." In Cochiti Pueblo, knowing Keresan is vital to being a part of a community. All tribal council meetings of traditional societies, ceremonies and songs are in Keresan. But only one-third of the Pueblo's 1,150 population speak fluent Keresan. That population is 35 and older. But overall, New Mexico is one of the states that has the healthiest population of fluent Indian language speakers. Other pueblos, and tribes such as the Navajo Nation, have programs to teach at least the fundamentals of tribal languages in schools and community centers. However, other communities have made a strong comeback to revitalize their languages. Such is the case with the Native Hawaiians. A Hawaiian Native and Keepers of the Treasures Board member Larry Kimura said, "The situation seems to be pretty drastic. We are coming back from almost extinction." A Native Hawaiian language college has been established and a masters program has been approved, Kimura said. "The first native language and literature program will accept our first students this fall." You have to have a written language today. Our language wasn't written until the American missionaries came. Of course, they needed the Bible translated. That was how they established our alphabets." Someone walks by and says "Aloha." Kimura smiles and returns the greeting, "Aloha." Then he says, "If we don't preserve our language then we disappear from the face of the earth. It's us we're talking about not just the language." For more information call (202) 588-6207. This year we had a three day camp at Townsend park, and everyone came out to play. We had many volunteers and parents come and spend quality time with their children and community youth. It was refreshing to see the older youth helping their cousins and younger siblings with the various projects and activities. There were many interesting things to make and learn at this year's first Native American Prevention Four Winds of Summer Day Camp, held July. The Peer Educators told Red Cliff stories about sharing, honesty, respect and kindness, as well as conducted the ice breakers. Nobody went home a stranger, and we all made many new friends. Thanks to Lorna and Kate who are new friends from the Girl Scouts, the youth were taught how to make a really cool kite and got to fly ~t too. It is amazing what we can create with string, straws, tissue paper, and determination! The scavenger hunt and water exploration was a fun way to acknowledge the world around us. The Medicine Wheel activity was a hands-on project that teaches the youth how to utilize the four sacred medicines. The kids took home a medicine wheel they created to help remind them of the lesson. Another popular new friend was Kevin who came from the Lansing area to teach flint napping and ancient fire-starting techniques with only a stick and very fast hands. Each youth who worked on a flint point was very proud of the piece they were able to nap using only an antler and muscle. Kevin also brought with him an ancient hunting tool called the atladel. Each young person was given a turn to throw it using the special extended arm. All of these activities were brought to the youth to help them understand how rich our culture is. My teaching philosophy is "if you understand your past you will better understand yourself therefore having a clearer direction for your future." The youth learned more about the world we live in and how to better take care of the one Mother Earth we have. This Day Camp helped the young people gain and reinforce the (Continued on page 5) �Turtle Talk Newsletter necessary tools they need to decide what kind of lifestyle they will choose. Thanks to the many parents and volunteers who made themselves available, we had a safe and fun learning environment for everyone. Jennifer and Renee are grateful for your input and availability for such a rewarding experience as working with the young people. If you have some time or talent that you would like to share with the young people in the Native American Prevention Services youth programs, call Renee or Jennifer at 458-4078. Submitted by Renee Dillard Parents, volunteers, and day campers take time out for a Kodak moment. ~oung Eagle~ As we gear up for school and our summer comes to a close, we will start meeting again with the Young Eagle Group in early October. This will give the youth time to adjust to their new grade and/or their new school. Renee has some exciting new projects planned for her 3rd to 6th grade group. (Note the grade change). As always, Native language and culture is always apart of each two hour session. We will have art projects and activities in six week sessions with two weeks off before we start another six week session again. Young Eagles 3rd through 6th grade will meet on Wednesday night from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. If you know a young person who would like to be involved with the program, please call Renee and let her know. Page 5 We at Native American Prevention Services are very proud of the accomplishments that many of the Sewing Circle participants have been able to achieve. Rebecca is a member of our Peer Educators group called "Da Native Thang". She has the support of her family and the community as demonstrated at the Three Fires Pow Wow. Recently she was the head youth female dancer representing the Potawatomi Tribe at at Three Fires Pow-wow in Grand Rapids. Keep up the great attitude Becky! My name is Rebecca Williams. I am 15 years old and I attend Ottawa Hills High School where I am in ninth grade. I currently attend the Sewing Circle on Monday nights sponsored by the Native American Prevention Services. I really appreciate Sewing Circle. I am alcohol, tobacco and other-drug free . Sewing Circle has helped me to be ATOD free in many ways. One way it has helped me is by making my regalia that I have been able to sew on Monday nights. I love my new regalia, and it is one of the things that has kept me ATOD free. Out of respect for myself and the circle of community when I dance, I know I need to stay ATOD free. Another way my regalia has kept me A TOD free is by the respect I have for my regalia and knowing that by smoking it can be very hard to breath when I dance because of my lungs. (I am a fancy shawl dancer.) Another way Sewing Circle has kept me ATOD free is just being there. When I'm at Sewing Circle I don't smoke or anything because those kind of unhealthy ways are not acceptable. If I wasn't in Sewing Circle I could be on the streets or hanging with other kids that smoke, but I'm not. From left to right: Autumn McDonald, Becky Williams, Amanda Pigeon, front row: Alicia Black �Turtle Talk News l etter Page 6 1 r -- - i.I:1 i -Young Eagles 3rd-6th grade Six Week schedule 111 1~1. October 71-h- November 11th I. J 'I I la iJ,11 l I !t Wednesday October 7th l'i• 1· Week #1 1 Our first time together this school year as a Young Eagles group we will be having an opening I ceremony for those who haven't been here before. We will be learning a new game with the 1. Native language and making the game pieces. 1 1 I Wednesday October 14th I• 1 • Week #2 I !We will be looking at the environment and the effects we have on it. This is the start of the !j!pollution project concerning the water. We will be discussing different ways we can make a difference in the future with water conservation. This project will be fun and engaging. Ii 1.•[Wednesday October 21st I Week #3 I • ' I l·i: Bring in all the newspapers and magazines you can find , we will be looking at alcohol and tobacco I I ~ 1 1 I I· advertisement s and how they may or may not effect our decisions. We will also look at making our own advertisement that will be an anti-smoking or drinking to be published in "Turtle Talk" 11 i newsletter. i" i' Wednesday October 28th • I Week #4 Continue activity from week 3. 11 Wednesday November 4th • Week #5 !eeN;:i::n;:;~a;~c~:~:g:~a;ow:o:::::r;~~:::~:st I~e;:~ ~~g:::~~~e:e~n;~;e~hi~ :~:":ome '11 I!the learning is so much greater. !Wednesday November 11th ·1 · Week #6 I· I 1 I 1.1 11 J 1 What is Thanksgiving? Talking Circle discussion on how we understand the holiday will be the main . ' topic. We will experience the foods of the tradition with a feast during this time of year. I ��Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 8 PA WA TING MA CED WIN UMC'S Senior Meals P~ogram Will start the regular twice a week schedule on Tuesday, September 8th at Lexington School 11 :30 a.m. Elders age 50 and over eat free. Small donation for others. Transportation available. Please call 246-5257 to schedule a ride the day before a ride is needed. ANNOUNCING .... THE THEATER OF THE THREE FIRES The mission of the Theater of the Three Fires is to develop and enrich the understanding of the Anishinabek culture, from historical and current perspectives, through artistic, creative and cultural works. You may have heard rumors of a new Native American Theater group forming in the Grand Rapids area. Beginning in the summer of 1997, several community members met with the objective of organizing the production of a theater work about the Anishinabek tribes indigenous to Michigan. Over the following months, planning and networking with others from the Grand Rapids arts community was made to see what would be involved in producing a work specifically about the People of the Three Fires. As of this writing, we have two playwrights putting the finishing touches on an original work. We have also secured a director and will be contacting a recommended set designer in the near future. Most importantly, we need your support as volunteer actors, sound and light technicians, set designers, and other jobs . This is to be a work by, about and using Native Americans from our own community. The following time schedule has been set: D_aie Wednesday, September 16th Wednesday, September 23rd Saturday, September 26th Monday, September 28th Sunday, November 15th Auditions Auditions Auditions Rehearsals Begin Premier & Reception 6:00 p.m. NAPS Multi-Purpose Room NAPS Multi-Purpose Room 6 :00 p.m. Community Media Center 1 :00 p .m. To Be Announced 4:00 P.M. Van Andel Museum The members of the> Three Fires Theater Board of Directors are: Derek Bailey Courtney Biggs Tony Deahl Renee Dillard Joe Dulin :r .. · Hunter Genia Gordon Henry Debra Muller Larry Plamondon ,.Kemo Smith Christine Marcus Stone Robert J. Swanson Cedric Ward · Roger Williams We are in need ;f.a!I community members' input, support and commitment to guarantee the success of our first locally based theatrical presentation . Please contact anyone from the list above with your offer of assistance . .- ~-. �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 9 Gun Lake Picnic Native American Prevention Services Youth programs took the K-6 Young Eagles youth to the Flying Horse Shoe Ranch near Hasting for a horse back riding adventure. We were able to offer a bus ride from the office to the Ranch, thanks to the Grand Rapids Public School. Megwetch to Dr. Newby and Lorna VanTil for helping. We had a good time. For some of the urban youth it was the first time ever seeing a horse up close, let alone riding on one. We went out on a back-woodsy trail for about a hour ride in small eight person groups. The horses were beautiful and very well kept. We were glad to know their names so we could get to know them. A few horses were feeling a little spunky and some of us went back to the beginning rather than finish the entire ride. Johnny Pigeon fell and walked his horse the rest of trail. Even so it was still an adventure to remember. I am sure it was an activity that none of us will forget any time soon. After our morning on the trail we went to Gun Lake for a quick swim and picnic lunch. It was a beautiful day and the volunteers were most helpful in every possible way. Megwetch to everyone who is responsible for the new positive memories that youth will have about the summer of 1998. September 18 & 19, 1998 For American Indian Middle School Youth in Kent County Hosted by: Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council of LOCATION: Kent Intermediate School District Center 2930 Knapp St., NE Grand Rapids, Ml 49505 For further information & registration forms, please contact: Hunter Genia @ (616} 458-4078 NATIVE AMERICAN PREVENTION SERVICES This conference is in cooperation with: • • Native American Prevention Services • G.R.P.S. - Multicultural Services Kent Intermediate School District Center "1st 60 youth to pre-register will receive a conference T-Shirt and a chance to win door prizes." �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 10 Indian Family Resources JOB POSTING: CASEWORKER/WELLNESS EDUCATOR (Part-time) For Indian Family Resources. Min. B.A./B.S. in Soc. Wrk. and Pub. Health, or related profession i.e. Sub. Abuse or Mental Hlth. Exp. fac. support groups, impl. mh/wellness ed. srvs., casefinding, outreach and case management. Prior exp. wrking with families of multicultural background looked at favorably. Salary neg. Send Resume and 3 Letters of Reference to: Lora Church, 615 Turner NW, Rm. 32-8, Grand Rapids, Ml 49504. Closing date: September 18, 1998. EEO Agency. Inquiries call C. Hewitt, (906) 635-4208 or L. Church (616) 458-1641. NEWS... from the Grand Rapids Public Schools - Multi-Cultural Office: The Multi-Cultural office will be providing training for anyone that is interested in becoming a tutor for the Binoojiinhagmaampii afterschool program at Sibley Elementary. This past school year we had seven tutors in the program. We still need more people to volunteer to help our children. Please don't say no if you feel you wouldn't be able to help, just your presence is helpful. We need our children to know that we, as a community, care about their achievements. Our first session will start on Tuesday, October 13 from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. and continue on Tuesdays and Thursdays until December 10. The second session will start in January and end in March, so if you can only do one session that wil! be great. If you are just a little curious as to what we do, please come to our training on Thursday, September 17, at 6:00 p.m. The location of the training is 1331 Franklin in Room 10 l. It is a three hour training, and we will provide dinner for all participants. If you should have any questions, please call the Multi-Cultural office@ 771-2016, Courtney Biggs@ 458-8432 or Trisha Trosky@ 784-5001. The Multi-Cultural office is also looking for parents to get involved with our Native American Advisory Council. Here is a list of some of the activities we sponsored or co-sponsored this past school year: • Senior trips to visit coileges • Senior Day (our office along with GVSU helped our Seniors with information regarding Financial Aid) • Senior Banquet (our office along with MIETS, GVSU, NAIC, • Spring Gathering (our office put on a day at Sibley Elementary for our 2nd-6th graders. This was our grand finale for • our Binoojiinhag-maampii afterschool program) Presenters packet (we need a lot of help with this project, we are compiling a list of local presenters to go into our • schools) Recognize Seniors in the "Turtle Talk" Newsletter & NAPS sponsored a banquet for our graduates) If you are interested or would like to attend a meeting, please call the Multi-Cultural office@ 771-2016. �Turtle Talk N ews letter Page 11 CALENDAR OF EVENTS DIBISHKAWIN! September 12-13: 37th Annual Grand Valley American Indian Lodge Pow Wow "Honoring Each Other, in Friendship". Grand Rapids, Ml. Riverside Park. For more info call: 61 6 -459-6820. ' September 18-19: Native Pride - "United Youth Tod ay for Tomorrow" American Indian Youth Conference for Middle School youth in Kent County. Grand Rapids, Ml. For more info or to receive an application by mail call Hunter Genia at: 61 6-458-4078. September 26-27: The 2nd Annual "Land of the Lakes, Gathering of the People" Traditional Pow Wow. Warsaw, Indiana. For more info call: 616-849-0431. October 5: Fall Conference in New Baltimore, Ml. American Indian speaker and workshops. Call 81 0598-1 222 for more information. October 17-1 8: 5th Annual Land of Falling Waters Traditional Pow Wow. Jackson, Ml. For more information call 616-781-6409, 616-781-5661, or 517784-3557. November 7-8: 3rd Annual Spirit of the Harvest Pow Wow & Gathering and Native American Speakers Forum. Houghton, Ml. For more call Carole LaPointe i 906-487-2920. I Do you have anything to announce in "Turtle Talk"? It's simple. Just send us the information including your name, address, and phone number by the 10th of the month for the following month announcement. ti\ ~ ~ ~- Muna Dibishkawin Birthdays Jeremy Atwood Kiana Atwood Daniel LaBlanc Bissell Elizabeth Caldwell Bissell Katie Bissell Karen Boda Faron Bowen Jimmy Bush Jr. Nicholas Cavasos Helen Chippewa Robert Comer Jr. Darcy Crampton Colleen Floyd Bart Gibbs Rob Herr Helen Hillman Rachelle Hillman Kevin Ives Jr. Kathleen Kahgegab John Kozar Florence Loonsfoot Jacob "Nebinan" Mackey Jonie Mackey Dorothy Medacco Jacob Medura Johnny Noah Grace Peters Brian Pierce Paula Pierce Jennie Pigeon Loraine " Olive" Pigeon Tanya Raphael Gary Rueckert Sandra Sanchez Harold Shaw Melissa Shomin Toni VandeVoren Sean Winters Louis Wesaw Loretta Yount iz ., ~- �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 12 Urban Institute For Contemporary Arts Will Feature Native Americans During November, 1998. A Contemporary Dance Presentation To Be Performed The Michigan Indian Leadership Program of Michigan State University is sponsoring a college visit to MSU and Lansing Communtty College. We are offering an overnight visit specifically for American Indian youth in the Grand Rapids area who are in 7th grade through 1' 2th grade. These youth should be interested in learning more about opportunities available at these two institutions. The agenda is set to be fun and engaginffi . Transportation, housing, and meals will be provided at no charge to the students. A tentative- date is being set for the month of Novemher. For more information please contact Hunter Genia at 616-458-4078 or Jolee Webb at. 1-800-644-4522 ext. 1864. t The Urban Institute for Contempo~ '1'\ l rary Arts will feature Native Ameri~-Pr~ ., ......1~· ,~ cans during the month of November, ~ 1998. One presentation \vill be a ' \ f / -. I contemporary dance work showcasing our local talent. TI1e dance lessons will be provided to Native American community members, teens through adults, for FREE!!!! TI1e instruction and choreography \Vill be tmder the direction of Debra K. Muller, Nottawaseppi Huron Potawatomi, and will plimarily focus on jazz dance. All teens and adults, with or without previous dance expelience are welcome. We need men and boys too!!! Classes be offered at illCA's new location in downtown Grand Rapids, at 41 Sheldon Boulevard, S.E. on September 16th from 6:00 - 7 :30 p.ni. For more information, please contact Debbie at (616) 243-1046 or illCA at (616) 235-8422. If you haven't studied dance before, but have always wanted to, now is your opportunity. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Native American Prevention Services Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Genia, Hunter (Editor) Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/ef7786dc68f915ec01b06163cc8965ee.pdf 4b889a619d7b63d9c7f5ec3366919c58 PDF Text Text TURTlE TALK N.EWSLETTER ' NATIVE AMERICAN PREVENTION SERVICES - - - - - - - - Mishikenh Geegadohaw-en. (; AUGUST 1998 Grani INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Odawa Youngster 1 Indian Movies 2 Women in Action 3 Sewing Circle 4 UNITY Experience 7 Youth Conference 10 Golf Tournament 12 Turtle Talk Contributors: Hunter Genia Renee Dillard Jennifer Jones Turtle Talk's mission is to provide its readership with reports of local and national interest which may affect and impact our Native American community. Special emphasis will be placed on prevention information. Turtle Talk is published by Native American Prevention Services, in cooperation with the Kent County Health Department Turtle Talk due dates: Submissions to Turtle Talk must be received in our office by the first of each month for the upcoming month's issue. (Not all material submitted can be used.) If you have a story or information you would like to share with Turtle Talk, please send it with your name, address and phone number. You will be recognized by name in Turtle Talk if your article is used. Va1ley 615 Turner Ave., NW Rm. 328 Grand Rapids, Ml 49504 Statt Phone: (616} 458-4078 Fax: (616) 458-2096 .4/;1 Library ·: ..... Odawa Youngster Lifting His Way To New Heights . ... John Kelsey of the Little River Band of Ottawas and son of former Grand Rapids resident Norbert Kelsey, helped his Olympic Health Club of Cleveland, Ohio win the team championship at the Michigan State Weightlifting Championships on May 17 in Mount Clemens, Michigan. John took third place in the junior division and was the youngest, at age 13, to be entered . His totals were good enough to qualify John to enter the United States AAU Nationals, August 8-10 in Virginia. John will enter high school at national football power house Saint Ignatius in Cleveland this fall. He loves history, anthropology, and weightlifting. He talks of being a physician one day. John is acutely aware, no American Indian has made the olympic team and he thinks that he would like to be the first. His coach John Schubert has'-='=~~~'--'-------------_, John Kelsey with his father Norbert Kelsey. trained dozens of National & PanAmerican games champions. One student won gold at the Olympics and others have made various U.S. Olympic teams, so when Schubert says, "John has the ability and good attitude, he could go far", it is no understatement. Meanwhile John studies computers in summer school and looks forward to the Ohio games where he would like to break the record for fourteen year old juniors. John has lifted only since October 1997, and he holds the state record for thirteen year olds in Ohio. John is also a brown belt in GOSEI Karate which he loves but now weightlifting is so uplifting. Way to go John! �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 2 Alexie sends clear 'Signals' for Indian movies Rewritten from USA TODAY by Claudia Puig Los Angeles- "Bad art comes from assimilation," says Sherman Alexie, one of the most sue- ) i; cessful Native American artists. !J ~1 1 The novelist, poet and filmmaker- whose first film, Smoke Signals, is now in thea- r1. ~ ters- is committed to casting only American Indians in the Indian roles and wants to make movies with as many "brown skinned" people as possible. "Obviously," he says "white people do great in the movies, and black people do all right. It's the people in between that don't. I want to bring in the neglected brown people of all Q.ues." The 31 year old writer had done that already in such critically acclaimed novels as Indian Killer and the Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Smoke Signals, which Alexie adapted from the book Lone Ranger, chronicles a young Indian man's coming of age after his estranged father's death. Alexie participated in every phase of the film's production, even co-writing five songs. For Alexie, in Los Angles briefly to promote Smoke Signals, the transition to writing screenplays was a smooth one. "Script writing is like a form of poetry," he says. "It's like a sonnet. There's meter and rhythm and repetition of phrasing." Alexie, a Coeur D'Alene Indian who grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation, got a jump-start in his film career at the Sundance Institute Filmmakers Lab, which he calls a "crash course in film school." The month long program in Utah at the scenic Sundance resort, owned by Robert Redford, provides promising filmmakers hands-on assistance from Hollywood veterans. Alexie started Smoke Signals there last summer, and this summer he began translating Indian Killer to the big screen; he'll write, pro- i•:&•:&•:&•:&•:&•:&•:&•:&•:&•:&•:&•:&•:&•:&•:&•:&•:&•:&•i duce and direct. ~ ~ . For Alexie, the lab experience has been a key career builder. "I don't have the luxury of four years of film school," he says. "I have so many things going on in my ~ "white people do ~ life- my career, my family, my friends- that directing seemed like a huge burden. But ~ great in the ~ in 10 days (at Sundance), I learned a lot" >~ ~ Among the lessons: "To be surprised and to welcome that-instead of being the :~ movies, and black ~ control freak I am. I'm the Fidel Castro of my books, but when it comes to movies, I ~ people do alright. :~ end up being the senator from Wyoming." ~ ~ He may feel a bit ineffectual on the set. But he's starting to be recognized as a ~ It's the people in ;~ powerful talent in Hollywood, making it onto the "100 most creative people in enterbetween that tainment" list compiled by Entertainment Weekly magazine. :~ ~ Still, his attitude remains distinctly un-Hollywood. His personal mandate is ~ don't. I want to ;~ to make Indian projects, despite all the offers that have come his way since January, bring in the when Smoke Signals won the audience and the awards at the Sundance Film Festival. ~ ~ >' neglected brown ":~ "Like any other successful Sundance filmmaker, I've received all sorts of ob- :•: scene offers," Alexie says. "I have a chance now to tell stories about Indians by Indi-1 people ofall hues." ans, and that's a revolutionary thing. I'm not going to throw it away to take the ~ ~ money to do an action-adventure movie. I make a great living writing books; I don't ~ ~ ........-......-...-..-...-...-...-..-................-........-.........~ need the money. I'm proud to be a Spokane-Coeur D'Alene Indian. I would live to 'I>..-. ...................................... .. make an action-adventure movie with Indians. Or a romantic comedy with Indians. Or a science fiction movie with Indians. I can see making a movie with, say, Italians and Indians. But I'm not interested selling out." n Ji I " I " " e: I I I " I �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 3 Matthew Whip - Making The Grade Matthew Whip will be a senior at City High School and is the son of Michelle and Steven Whip and the grandson of Lyle and Elaine Lett. Matthew is a Grand River Band Ottawa who has done quite well in school and plans on attending the University of Michigan where he will pursue a degree in the health care field. In school he has been awarded the Outstanding Junior Award, Macy's Scholar Award, and has been accepted to the Minorities in Medicine Program at U of M. His hobbies include hockey and soccer. A recent article was written in the Exchange newsletter about Matthew and his recent internship at Butterworth Hospital. Profile: Matt Whip, Intern, Echo Cardiology Technology Matt Whip's internship was not his first time in the Echo Cardiogram Lab at Butterworth Hospital. "I was in that waiting room when my dad had a heart scare,'' said the City High School junior. "That's what got me interested in cardiology." Matt completed his four month internship with Joe Lehman, Chief Echo Cardiogram Technician at Spectrum Health - Downtown Campus in January as part of required coursework at City High School. "Matt called me on the phone and told me he was interested in being a cardiologist. The Echo Lab is a good place to start," said Lehman. For his internship, Matt spent five hours a week observing ultrasounds, stress tests and heart exercises and working with doctors and patients. "One of the things we try to teach students is what life is like in the work environment,'' said Lehman. "Matt has seen some of that." AMERICAN IND/AN WOMEN IN ACTION CONFERENCE By Dolores Laban Sometimes being laid off from work has its advantages. You can sleep in, stay up . as late as you want, visit friends, relatives, look for work if the layoff is serious. For my. ' self, this time off gave me time to take in the "Michigan Indian Women in Action" workshop in July, right here in Grand Rapids. This was my first, and I can't express enough what a great feeling I got from this workshop. From meeting Native women who are involved with programs that deal directly with health and wellness, but also the extent of the programs that are available to the native person. We all are aware of alcohol and drug programs, child welfare and teen programs, health services to mention just a very few of the many. At this workshop we had the opportunity to experience a short exercise for people who have desk jobs (we all enjoyed this), Char Campbell gave a talk on acupuncture for an alternative to stress and emotional illness reduction. Char asked me to be her victim(!!) which I agreed to do, showing how little pain there is in getting seven needles in your ear! We also had a "hands on" program, the Healing Power of Touch Massage Therapy, by Brenda Eagle from Sault Ste. Marie. This was done in two's by those of us in attendance. Candi Wesaw gave us the teachings on the Medicine Wheel, then showed us how to make one. Did you know not all beads are made equal? After many sore fingers trying to string the leather times with the beads we were given (Renee, thanks) we all had a good laugh when we discovered how small the openings were on some of the beads. (continued on page 9) �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 4 FAMILY FUN DAY My children and I attended the Family day at Gun Lake County Park in June. We had a very nice time and the Lord blessed us with a beautiful day of warm weather. We enjoyed the picnic followed by a relaxing pontoon boat ride featuring stories about Chief Noonday (Nowequakgezhig). The children were acquainted with other children when playing the games presented by Conrad Church, followed by a water balloon fight to cool off. To end the day we were able to have a leisurely game of miniature golf before a nice shower came up to send us on our way. Thank you for all those involved in putting together the family day. It's nice to get together and do things as a family. By: Jennie Brown SEWING CIRCLE Sewing Circle Schedule of Special Events The purpose of the sewing circle is to create an atmosphere where the imagination can have room to develop new concepts using the older traditional woodland designs. Already we have many different regalia born from many hours of hard work. Here the participants will be encouraged to challenge themselves by trying a new area of artistic creativity. The teachers consist of others from the community as well as some elders and artisans from the Grand Rapids area. Sewing machines are available for every one to use while working on their project. But our creativity does not end there as we also have worked with quills and beads, leather, and different natural fiber. This is an exciting time to be involved with the Sewing Circle. We have much to offer one another while we heal our spirit from years of submission. We also have regular discussions on the medicine wheel teaching of Balance in our lives. In order for (Continued on page 5) �Turtle Talk Newsletter Native American Prevention Services Staff: Lora Church Program Director Hunter Genia Prevention Specialist /Educator Renee Dillard Prevention Specialist /Educator Jennifer Jones Prevention Specialist /Educator Wanda Blanco Office Services Coordinator The goal of Native American Prevention Services is to deliver services and information that encourage healthy lifestyles while discouraging the use of alcohol and other drugs. Our program strives to ensure that the information and services provided that are culturally relevant and age-appropriate. We Provide: Information - relevant to the Native American lifestyle. Assistance ancl referrals - can be provided to community members as well as professionals about issues related to A.T.O.D. (alcohol, tobacco, other drugs) Native American Youth Groups - are divided according to grade level and meet once a week throughout the year. Consultations ancl Presentations - can be provided to schools, organizations, community groups, including parents, on substance abuse prevention and/or culturally related topics. Special Programs ancl Activities - are provided to youth, parents and elders. us to learn these beautiful life ways, we must be teachable. The only requirement to be a participant with the Sewing Circle is to strive for sobriety. Once you come to understand the traditional life values of the ancient culture you will understand yourself better and why we are all spiritual sacred beings. The following is a schedule so far: Page 5 Black Ash Baskets August 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st (Limited to first 15 applicants) - atANAHBAWEN PARK This Special event will be taught by John Pigeon, all supplies will be provided. John would like you to know that he will teach you not only how to construct a basket, but you will also prepare the splints. To help with costs and to reserve your spot a $10.00 donation is asked for. This donation will be forwarded to Anishnabek Youth Leadership Council for future activities. John will share some of his experiences with black ash and how this ancient art form has helped him understand himself and the Creator's creations. Don't miss this opportunity! Quill Night September 7th - For those of you who started a quill project and need to finish or perhaps learn a new technique with porcupine quills, this is your night. Quills will be provided; if you have a medicine wheel that needs a little touch to it, now is the time to bring it. If you need a medicine wheel bring in a small piece of rawhide and we will show you how to make one. You will understand what color has specific meaning, and how balance is so helpful in our everyday activities. September 14th - Come and finish up on your projects or continue with your regalia. There are many teachers in the room to ask for help. This is a good time to get to know your community members as well as get some real satisfying projects started. September 21st - Enjoy the company of others with projects to finish or get going on that new regalia you always wanted. Sweet Grass Basket September 28th - You must bnng your own braid of sweet grass and a bowl to get it wet in. Other than determination, all you need to learn is how to make a great project. This lesson will include teaching on how to use sweetgrass in a spiritual way. �Turtle Talk Newsletter Pa e 6 AMERICAN INDIAN WOMEN IN ACTION BY : ANDREA L. II BRELAND (LITTLE RIVER BAND OTTAWA) If ever there was a place for brilliant Native American women to meet, that this was it. This conference is a meeting of Michigan Tribal women, women who work for Tribal organizations and national committees. Here we met to celebrate one another's accomplishments, be stupefied by each other's enthusiasm and overwhelmed by our dedication to the health of our sisters. The outcome of this conference was to develop a network of women in the state who are advocates for women's health. Women from all over the state presented information on clinic. Many times during the course of two days I was moved to tears. When I had the opportunity to see all these women and what they are doing, it made all my work make sense. When I shared the pipe with all those women and prayed with them all, I felt connected to them. These women are all working as hard as-they possibly can to improve the mental, spiritual, physical and emotional health of all women so that our children and we as older people may reap the benefits of the good life. This meeting also gave us a chance to get ideas, to see what we can offer one another and to work collaboratively on improving the health status of Native American Women. "W'hen I shared the pipe with all those women and prayed with them all, I felt connected to them. " What: Hour & a half horse trail ride & lesson What Else: Lunch and swim at the park (Gun Lake) When: Wednesday, August 19th, 1998 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (We will leave NAPS office at 9:00 a.m.; return to office at 3:00 p.m.) Where: Flying Horseshoe Ranch Yankee Springs Road Middleville, MI (9:45 a.m. - 11 :30 a.m.) Where Else: Gun Lake County Park (12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.) Who: Young Eagles, K-6 grade For further information, please contact Jennifer Jones or Renee Dillard at (616) 458-4078 Who Else: Adult chaperones interesting in helping How: Pre-register with attached form & $3.00 per child fee Sponsored by: Native American Prevention Services �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 7 THE UNITY EXPERIENCE BY RENEE DILLARD AND AUTUMN McDONALD Renee - The UNITY Conference was exciting and truly an experience that I believe every parent should be a part of. This was unlike any conference that I have ever attended. I am proud of each one of the group that earned their way to our Nation's Capital. In my opinion Michigan was very well represented by the young peoples' behavior and attitude. C-span did cover different parts of the conference lived, so some of you saw Autumn McDonald as she was chosen to escort Colin Powell on the stage to address issues and encourage the youth to continue to make positive change in their communities. Autumn was one of four young ladies and four gentlemen to be representative of the four corners of Turtle Island to have the honor and privilege to meet the most decorated general of our time. We did have time to take in some sights and many monuments in D.C. We looked like typical tourists with our cameras flashing and mouths gapping as we witnessed so many historical sights. If you have the opportunity to speak to one of the youth that was in attendance of this wonderful opportunity ask them what they thought of the events that had happened. Once again I would like to say to all of the Grand Rapids area Native American community that it was a privilege and honor to escort our well represented future to this most memorable event. Autumn - Ahnii, my name is Autumn McDonald and I am the secretary of the Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council of Grand Rapids. While at the UNITY conference, everybody was excited about General Colin Powell coming to speak to the youth. Well, I didn't think too much about it, since I wasn't really sure who he was or what he did. And I was expecting Monday morning's general session to be very boring because there were a bunch of speakers scheduled, boy was I wrong. On Sunday evening, during the not so exciting variety show, Renee Dillard, our female chaperone, pulled me aside to talk to me. At first I thought she was going to yell at me, until I saw how excited she was. Apparently, some of the big wigs at the conference heard that our youth council had brought our traditional regalias, so they asked if one of us would like to help escort General Colin Powell to and from the speaker stage. Of course I wanted to do it. And the people who asked us preferred a traditional style dancer. So it came down to who was going to do it between Amanda and I. Finally, after some heavy duty discussion, it was decided that I should do it. Everybody was wishing me luck and Amanda helped me get ready. I was glad that I had a really nice outfit to show off. I felt like I was famous when I went through the lobby because everyone was looking my way and smiling. Then, I met the eight other youth that were asked to escort Genera1 Powell. There were three guys from Arizona, one guy from California, a girl from Oklahoma, a girl from Alaska, and one girl from Arizona. We all got along great and sat together while we listened to the first few speakers. I didn't get nervous until I actually met General Powell and shook his hand. I recognized him immediately and finally realized who he was. Then I felt really proud to be standing on that stage, representing Michigan, the youth council, and my parents. The only time I freaked out was when I had to walk back down the stairs. But what really put the frosting on the cake was when I called my parents, and found out that they were watching on the C-SP AN channel. Everything that happened motivated me to do a better job at everything I do. I'm going to try and set a better example for others to follow. Too many cool things are happening to me!! (Pictures available Oil page 8) �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 8 Youth Council UNITY Conference 1998 in Washington, D.C. WOMEN'S TRADITIONAL DANCE CIRCLE We have a'. excellent opportunity here in the Grand Rapids area for a unique teaching circle. We are developing the eventto take place perhaps in October of this year. Some parents have Ir""''""'"'"-~"··•-•"""""'-"'!!; w expressed concerns about how the young ladies may be sending a mixed message to IiI others through their dress, language and attitude. These topics were brought up to a ; Anyone who used to ! I ~ respected teacher in the Petoskey area through conversation about how the Pow-Wow l participate in the ii culture has changetl. The discussion continued and it was thought that perhaps if these !1 !.I i earlier pow wows ·i l young people had the chance t~ better understand the tr~d.itional dan~es and values of li•i can remember Pow-Wows from yesterday, this would help make a positive change m the way our fudances and a ture generations view themselves. l;i '.! : Anyone who used to participant in the earlier Pow-Wows can remember dances 111 different kind of !ii and a different kind of etiquette that some believe can be taught to help our young la- '·I etique_tte that some Ii! dies to better understand themselves. I believe can be 1: This is the 0pportunity that is coming to Grand Rapids very soon. So far we 1 taught to help our ·: have two women who remember the dances and are willing to come and teach. Every II l d. · wi' l•.•.I young a zes zn grandmother, mother and auntie should bring their female family members with them l 1 to come and learn together what only a few generations ago was a common day prac- 11 understanding ·I tice of leadership and humility in the Native American community. lj themselves. ljl Ii 1 ii i 1 1 1 1 I 1 l__.~~=-. ,. _ 1 ~ -~ Just recently on the UNITY Washington D.C. trip, the music for these old ..... ..... .., dances was found. Through research that was many months in the making these older style songs have finally come home to be once again part of our active culture today. The written words and cassette tapes have been passed over to Owashtinong Chung a Ming, and are being relearned, so once again these traditional dances can be a active part of our young people's memory when they are blessed with the responsibilities of being parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles. If you would like to become involved with helping this project unfold, please call the Native American Prevention office to become part of the planning committee for this wonderful event. We are very excited about the onset of this project and look forward to meeting new people and getting actively involved with our precious future. For more information please contact Renee Dillard at 616 458-4078. 1 �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 9 AMERICAN INDIAN WOMEN IN ACTION CONFERENCE - CoN'T. Two of the speakers that left an impression on me were Andrea Breland from the Little River Band of Odawa, and Regina St. James, Program & Patricia Ecker (Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota) - "Resources where a cohesive group can provide all aspects - medical, physical, and spiritual." Staff Development Coordinator, and also the Grand Traverse Band Program Director for Jr. Tribal Council. Andrea spoke from the heart on Native Women who live with abuse, and left all of us sharing the feeling of closeness and tears, knowing of a loved one or a friend who walks in these shoes. Regina spoke of "How Can Successful, Healthy, Happy Indian Women Nurture and Mentor Indian Girls and Young Adolescent Women." She is a wonderful speaker, funny and gets a great message across. I would love to see her speak to our community, she is blunt, relates to young people and cuts to the core of parent-children situations. VOICES Tina Horne (Huron Potowatomi) - "Empowerrment is important. Be aggressive when taking care of yourself. We take care of everybody else and forget about ourselves. Have enough respect and love for yourself and remember the positive effects of our spiritual beliefs." This month "VOICES" is centered around health and wellness concerning women. The question is: What do you feel is important for Native women to know regarding their health and wellness? Paula Hill (Little Traverse Bay Band) - "They're in total control. To listen to their bodies and to take care of it .. Becky Gann (Grand Traverse Band) - "That it's imporDo what it's telling you to do." tant and it's worth putting your effort for yourself and every aspect of your life. To make sure you're healthy in every way, emotionally, physically and spiritually." �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 10 j For American Indian Middle School Youth in zKent County ' l Pride Native "United Youth Today for Tomorrow" Special Presentations: • ·• Project Respect Yourself "Native Pride" "Respect Yourself, Respect Your Partner" ~ For further information & registration forms, please contact: Hunter Genia (616) 458-4078 "The Uncool Gang Banger" Special Guests: Jack Chambers Cultural Facilitator Brad "Ace Meikal" Smith Youth Facilitator, Rapper, Motivator This conference is in cooperation with: Native American Prevention Services G.R.P.S. - Multicultural Services Kent Intermediate School District Center �Turtle Talk Ne w sletter Page 11 CALENDAR OF EVENTS August 14- 16: "Strengthening the Circle, Honoring the Youth" Peshawbestown Annual Pow Wow. Suttons Bay, Ml. For more information call: 616-271-7277 or 616-2714966. August 15-16: The 7th Annual MSU American Indian Heritage Pow Wow. East Lansing, Ml. For more info call 517. 353-9757. August 15-16: 16th Annual Traditional Pow Wow. Lebanon, Indiana. Boone County Fairgrounds. For more info call 317-545-5057. MllNWA MUNA DIBISHKAWIN! ''''''''~'''''''''' ' '' ~ l\, ti\. l\, ti\, {\, August 21-23: 9th Anual Traditional Pow Wow. Rapid River, Ml. For more info call 906-786-0556. ' August 22: 2nd Annual Traditional Pow Wow. New Boston, Ml. Call 734-753-0522. ~, August 22-23: Summer Pow Wow. Climax, Ml. For more info call 313-763-8631. August 22-23: Three Fires Homecoming Pow Wow. New Credit Reserve, ONTARIO. For more info call (905) 7685147. September 3-6: Six Nations Anuual Fall Fair & Pow Wow. Oshweken, ONT ARIO. For more info call: 51 9-445-0732. September 4-7: Tecumseh Lodge Labor Day Pow Wow. Tipton, Indiana. Call 317-773-4233. September 5-6: 6th Annual "Honor Our Elders" Traditional Pow Wow. Hart, Ml. Oceana County Fairgrounds. For more info call 616-873-2129, 616-894-8361, or 616861-5352. September 5-6: Kee-Boon-Mein-Kaa Traditional Pow Wow. South Bend, Indiana. For more info call 616-7828998. September 5-6: Michinenmackinong Traditional Pow Wow. St. Ignace, Ml. For more info call 906-863-9831. ~ September 1 2- 1 3: 37th Annual Grand %< Valley American Indian Lodge Pow Wow \ "Honoring Each Other, in Friendship". Grand J Rapids, Ml. For more info call: 616-459-6820. Muna Dibishkawin Birthdays ' fl\, fl\, ~\- ft\, l\, ti\, ' l\, l\, ft\, =~ ~ l\\, I\: l\. Doris Allerding Clifford Bailey Nizh6ni Moon Church Jacob Davis Johnny Day l~aac Dillard nnie Detz Corvin Emery Jim Foster NeegonquetFox Joseph James Genia Debra Gibbs Taylor A. Hatfield Rose Hunt Jim Kelly Toni Kozar Mary Loonsfoot Wayne Loonsfoot Sr. Sherri Mamagona ~ Elizabeth Marshall James Mccann Maudeline McDonald Francis Peters Eddie Pigeon Jenna Pigeon Michael Pigeon Jr. Brendan Pierce Michael J. Pierce Earl Schoenboer Nikki Schoen Sally Schoen ' .., Kelly Skinner Bob Stone ,, 'l\' Martin Wesaw I\_ fi\ ft\, ~\, ' ~ I\ ft\, ~ "'-'\- l\ ~ l\ ~-----------' l\' ' '' 'fl\: ~· ~. • \, • \. • ,. l\, ~ l\, I\ ' • \- I\, •, • \, l\, l\, I\, ~: • • \, • • • • • • :: \, \ \, , \, I\ •\ I\. •\. • \. : \ ·~: ' fi\. ~\, ~' ll\.ll\.,,t\,~\.l\,ft\.l\ ft\ ti\.l\.l\.l\.~,. �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 12 cording to grade level and meet once a week throughout the year. Consultations and Presentations - can be provided to schools, CITY KlDS GOLF WHO: NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AGES 9 TO 15 Grand Rapids Anishinawbe Golf Tournament YEARS WHAT: GOLFING September 26, 1998@ 11 :00 A.M. Briarwood Golf Course 2900 92nd Street SE Caledonia, Ml Phone: (616) 698-8720 WHEN:AUGUST1~1998 TIME: 8:30 A.M. -1:2:30 P.M. WHERE: GRACEWIL GOLF COURSE CONTACT: HUNTER GENIA, NATIVE A.MERICAN PREERVATIONS. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Native American Prevention Services Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Genia, Hunter (Editor) Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/b7f43dec6a46b47e61aa31adc1866911.pdf f2e2695824c47d8ce9b61736a25d34da PDF Text Text Mskomini Giizis (Raspberry Moon) Mishikenh Geegadohawen JULY1998 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: 615 Turner Ave., NW Rm. 328 Grand Rapids, Ml 49504 Phone: (616) 458-4078 Fax: (616) 458-2096 Sobriety Walk 1 Tradition 4 Sobriety Walk Report Bill ofRights 4 Parenting Circle 6 Story Time 8 Day Camp 10 by Susan Ives The 3rd Annual Native American Sobriety Walk was officially a fundraiser for Native American Prevention Services and Indian Family Resources. But perhaps more significant was the community support for sobriety that was demonstrated when around 100 people participated in the event. Golf Tournament 12 Turtle Talk Contributors: Hunter Genia Renee Dillard Jennifer Jones Turtle Talk's mission is to provide its readership with reports of local and national interest which may affect and impact our Native American community. Special emphasis will be placed on prevention information. Turtle Talk is published by Native American Prevention Services, in cooperation with the Kent County Health Department Turtle Talk due dates: Submissions to Turtle Talk must be received in our office by the first of each month for the upcoming month's issue. (Not all material submitted can be used.) If you have a story or information you would like to share with Turtle Talk, please send it with your name, address and phone number. You will be recognized by name in Turtle Talk if your article is used. Sponsors of the walk included Clarity Plus, Paul Collins, D.A.D.D.'s Magic Bus Inc., Spartan Stores, Sam's Detailing, MC Sports, The Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, and DesignTech Commercial Screen Printing. A raffle for a Paul Collins print was held, and was won by Casey Church. Also, there were prizes for the highest pledge amounts collected. First prize was a Pendleton blanket won by Trisha.---------------------, Trasky. Second prize was a custom car painting job won by RuthAnn Chivis. Finally, third prize was a shawl made by Lora Church, which was won by Deb VanDenBerg. Participants gathered at the 6th Street Bridge Park to begin the walk. Lora Church hosted the~------------~-~ opening ceremonies and Joe John 1998 3rd Annual Sobriety Walk opened with prayer. Community members, including Susan Ives, Leiha McCann, Tim Loonsfoot Sr., and Loretta Castaneda shared their personal experiences of the effects of alcohol abuse. This was followed by an honor song for the Sobriety Walk by Owashtinong Chung-A-Ming, host drum for the Three Fires Pow Wow. The two and a half mile walk to the Pow-Wow grounds followed. The walkers stopped three times for refreshments and door prizes. Fellowship and laughter were shared by all. Upon reaching the grounds, the walkers were greeted by the crowd at the Pow-Wow. Owashtinong Chung-A-Ming once again performed as �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 2 SOBRIETY WALK CONTINUED ... the walkers entered the dance circle. It was quite an honor to be the first to enter the circle. To celebrate sobriety first at the Three Fires Pow Wow was very significant. If sobriety is placed first in one's priorities, other healthy choices such as tradition can follow. The highlight of the walk was the community support for sobriety. So plan on attending the 4th Annual Sobriety Walk and be a part of increasing the support for our community and sobriety. Sobriety Walk Speaks by Jennifer Jones So what do all of these Sobriety Walk activities that Susan speaks of mean? Most importantly, it provided an opportunity for our community to join together with pride and stand for an alcohol, tobacco, and drug free lifestyle and to support those on the red road. As we all stood as one bonded circle, we listened to and were touched by the testimonials that reminded us of the real effects that drugs and alcohol can have on an individual, a family, and a community. And on we walked down Monroe and into the Three Fires Pow Wow grounds with pride and support from the crowd. Oh, and this was a fund raiser too! Although important, this fact stood second to the real reason we were there and left my mind, and I'm sure others, completely. But as I sit here and tabulate the pledges the walkers collected, I can see not only a supportive presence at the walk, but a commitment to sobriety through the collection of pledges as well. On behalf of the Native American Prevention Services and Indian Family Resources staff, youth, parents, and families, I would like to i:::.•::.•::.•::.•::.•::.•::.•::.•::.•::.•::.•::.•::.•::.•::.•::.•::.•::.~ ~ ! thank each and every walker for contributing to the over $2,300.00 collected in the~~ : name of an alcohol, tobacco, and drug free lifestyle. These monies will go toward~ : our cost of sobriety walk, youth programs and activities, community wellness ac- ~ "As we all stood as : tivities, and special events coordinated by Native American Prevention Services and one bonded circle, Indian Family Resources. ~ I ~ ~ we listened and were touched by I also would like to thank all of the volunteers and sponsors for their support, com- ~ mitment, and contribution toward the Sobriety Walk. Our sponsors were very gra- ~ ~ . . cious and helped us to put on a very successful, worthwhile event. Our volunteers testimonials that : have put in tears and sweat, some since the end of February, working very hard with~ reminded us o+ the :! ~ 'J a true commitment to the wellness of the Native community. ~ l ,+£ h : S • >I >' rea e;1 ects t at i ~ alcohol can have ; ~1NE ijEffiC~K W~lK ~OR SOBR!Cf( ! ~ I on an individual, : ~ ~~UKElHE~ 0 ~ :~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ !~ ~ ~ ! ·zy, and a a 11:amz community. ! : ! ! " ! i ! ! ! ! ! ! f•X•X•:I•X•X•:I•X•X•:I•:I•X•X•X•:I•:I•X•:I•X• 0 0 STAY AWAY FROM ALCOHOL AND DRUGS �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 3 SOBRIETY WALK CONTINUED .... With a special migwetcfJ to. Crucial to the meaningful success of the 3rd Annual Sobriety Walk, and deserving of all our gratitude and thanks are: Morton Abish Nancy Abish Keith Baker Julie Bennett Alicia Black Tom Botham Loretta Castaneda Betty Davis Kristy Dayson Maggie Gillis Keith Haller Paul Hildebrandt Helen Hillman Tina Horne Susan Ives Joe John William Love Ron Marsiglia Leiba McCann Debbie Muller Stephen Nyenhuis Tom Peterson Rachel Saboo Rosemary Saboo Scott Saboo Diana Tourongeau Trisha Trasky Lorna VanTill Owashtinong Chung-A-Ming And to our $100 Plus Sponsors: Spartan Stores Clarity Plus O.A.0.0. 's Magic Bus Design Tech MC Sports Paul Collins Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Ml. Sam's Detailing And to our food donors: Bierling's Bakery Meijers 50th Native American A.A. Meetings Thursday at 6:00 p.m. Native American Prevention Services 615 Turner Ave. NW, Room 35 Grand Rapids, MI 49504-5246 (Schedule is subject to school district calendar) Any questions, call Loretta at (616) 458-6156 Saturday at 12:00 p.m. Second Chance 624 W. Fulton Grand Rapids, MI 49503 Any questions call Sue at (616) 363-9537 Come share your experience, strength, culture to achieve sobriety. Anniversary Open House i i Leonard and Mary Church invite you to their Open ~ House on July 26 to cele~ brate their 50th Anniversary ~ @ 2970 138th Ave. Dorr, Ml ~ 49323. ~ Time is from 3 p.m. - 6 p.m. ~ For more information call ~ Betty McBride at 896-8281. ~ ~ ~ ~~ �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 4 HOLDING ON TO Tl?ADIT/ON Aanii, my name is Autumn McDonald. I'm nineteen years old and am a member of the Peer Educator group (Da Native Thang) and secretary of the Anishinabek Youth leadership Council. Last fall, I started coming to the sewing circle on Monday nights mostly because my friends were going. I started working on a new traditional style regalia, with the help of Renee Dillard. I have never sewed anything before that I actually finished and I had no idea what I was doing. But after we figured out my pattern and I began working on the skirt, I started to get a little excited. The panels on my skirt were crossed stitched by hand, and it took me nearly three months to do it. But it was definitely worth it. After the skirt was finished, everything else sort of fell into place. I finished a set of beaded hair-pieces to match, and I found the perfect material for my blouse. My mom was in the hospital for a while, and every day I'd go and visit and show her what I was working on. She'd always ask what's that for? What did you buy now? She would look at me kind of funny but after I had almost everything finished, I showed it all to her. Even though she won't say it, I know that she's proud of what I've done. When she asked if I wanted help, I said no, because I wanted to be able to say that I did it all by myself! I wouldn't wait to wear the new regalia at the Three Fires Pow Wow and since I had everything finished, I wore it at East Jordan. It was cold, but I didn't care, I knew I looked good. And if it wasn't for everyone's help at the Sewing Circle, I don't think I ever would have gotten it finished. I just want to say Migwetch to everybody. '7 know that she is proud of what Tve done." Parenn' Bill of Righn Even though you are a Parent, you have rights. Be concerned with your own rights. You have a right to a night's sleep without: • • • worrying where your teenager is. being awakened by your teenager coming in drunk, stoned, etc. phone emergencies from police, hospitals, stranded teenagers. You have the right to: • • • • • live in a clean house. expect cooperation and courtesy in your home. expect responsible behavior from your children in school. stop paying others fines. stop helping your teenager and • start taking care of yourself make changes in your behavior that your teenager does not like. You have the right not to be treated badly or inconsiderately by your teenager. Loving your child is no excuse for accepting rude, violent, inconsiderate behavior. Help your teenager learn about your rights. If you do not make sure that your rights are respected, you cannot expect others, even your own, children to respect your rights . If you have: • • • • reviewed the process of change relaxed for a moment changed some of your responses recognized your own rights then your are on the road to making real changes in your life and to ending your crisis. �Page 5 Native American Prevention Services Staff: Lora Church ~ I JOB VACANCY Program Director Hunter Genia Prevention Specialist/ Educator Renee Dillard Prevention Specialist/Educator Jennifer Jones Prevention Specialist/Educator Wanda Blanco Office Services Coordinator The goal of Native American Prevention Services is to deliver services and information that encourage healthy lifestyles while discouraging the use of alcohol and other drugs. Our program strives to ensure the information and services provided that are culturally relevant and age-appropriate. We Provide: Information - relevant to the Native American lifestyle. PROGRAM SERVICES COORDINATOR For Inter-Tribal Council of Ml, Inc., dba, Indian Family Resources. Minimum B.A. or B.S. Or accreditation/ certification in Social Work, Education, Public Health, or a helping profession. Experiences in organizing and facilitating support groups, planning, developing and implementing mental health/wellness educational services, casefinding, outreach services and case management. Expertise in program promotion and marketing/ advertising will be looked upon favorably. Must have strong writing and oral communications skills with attention to detail. Prior experience working with families of multicultural background. Send resume with 3 letters of reference to: Lora Church, 615 Turner, NW, Room 32-B, Grand Rapids, Ml 49504. Closing date: July 17, 1998. EEO Agency. Inquiries call Char Hewitt, (906) 635-4208 or Lora Church (616) 458-1641. Many people have called Assistance and referrals - can be provided to community members as well as professionals about issues related to A.T. O.D. (alcohol, tobacco, other drugs) Native American Youth Groups - are divided according to grade level and meet once a week throughout the year. Consultations and Presentations - can be provided to schools, organizations, community groups, including parents, on substance abuse prevention and/or culturally related topics. Special Programs and Activities - are provided to youth, parents and elders. ~/VVV~ and are willing to help with this project with the work and with ideas. We also have a rototiller available. All we need is a place to plant things. If you have a little room to share on your property or if you know someone who does please call Mark Sanford at 458-1641. We are still hoping to do a spring planting. ENTERPRISE STUDENTS VOTE TO STICK WITH "SAVAGES" Savages will still run the halls of keep their nickname, despite the school Enterprise High School, but the smiling board's repeal of the politically incorrect mascot last year. Indian will have to go. (Continued on page 6) Students voted on April 9 to �Page 6 "SAVAGE" CONTINUED ... He (Sam Miller) The accompanying Indian logo will be changed to either a fiery muscular man or axe-wielding monsters, depending on the results of a run-off election April 11 . "We're not surprised," said principal Ron Brown. "People were pretty well set on the savage." Savages won 75 percent of the vote, beating out 26 nicknames. entries that included the Silverback, the Savage Bighorn, Savage Storm and the Wolverines. When the new logo is chosen, Brown said the school will need to replace the tomahawks in the center court of their gym. Uniforms will be changed as they wear out. "We just don't have the money to get rid reminded the board of everything at once," he said. of the Nez Perce's • With the return of the Nez Perce as recent acquisition of Oregon landowners, the Enterprise School 10,300 acres ofland.• Board voted last year to change the school's nickname. They later decided to give students a say in the replacement as long as the logo didn't include depictions of Native Americans. Joseph resident Sam Miller spearheaded the proposal for change. He reminded the board of the Nez Perce tribe's recent acquisition of 10,300 acres in northeastern Oregon, the first land the tribe has owned in Oregon since Chief Joseph's band was driven out in 1877. • A NAME CHOSEN FOR PARENTING CIRCLE Many ideas were offered at the June 9th meeting. It was decided to call the gatherings "Circle of Relafives" so that everyone will feel welcome to come (Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles, Foster Parents, Parents, etc.). Meetings will continue every Tuesday from 6 pm until 8 pm (with the exception of not meeting on the 5th Tuesdays of the month. and 4th Tuesdays with cultural teachings offered on the 2nd Tuesday and Educational teachings on the 4th Tuesday. The Circle of Relatives is open at all times for anyone to participate. Come to the NAPS/IFR office and check it out and bring yom ideas. The group will develop its agenda on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays. Guest speakers will be arranged for the 2nd President's Initiative on Race hires .issuessenior advisor on Indian Washington, D.C. (ICC) During March, D. Bambi Kraus joined President Clinton's Race Initiative (PRI) as a senior advisor on outreach and policy issues. During the next several months, Kraus will focus on interacting with national groups and community organizations and engaging them in the nationwide effort to encourage leadership. Kraus, a Tlingit whose family is from Kake, will help to strengthen that outreach effort by devoting attention to those issues as well. One of her key responsibilities will be to ensure that concerns raised by the American Indian and Alaskan native communities are included in the work of the Initiative. Judith Winston, executive director of the PRI, said, "We are pleased Bambi has joined us (continued on pg. 7) �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 7 SENIOR ADVISOR HIRED ON INDIAN ISSUES CONTINUED ..... in this extremely important effort to promote a national dialogue on race and continue educational outreach to all Americans. Not only does she bring to the Initiative her strong ties to the American Indian community, but also a wealth of valuable experience and knowledge on issues of importance·to Native people." Kraus has spent more than 14 years working on national Indian affairs. Prior to joining the President's Initiative on Race, she was the executive director of the Keepers of the Treasurers. She has also worked for the National Indian Policy Center, the U.S . Department of Education's National Advisory Council on Indian Education, and the Smithsonian Institution's National Anthropological Archives. NATIVE DEATH ROW INMATE DENIED SWEAT LODGE Glennon Paul Stewart was put to death shortly after midnight, April 22, 1 998. Sweet asked for the sweatlodge as a final request to prepare for the transformation to the Spiritworld. A Native from the Carolinas, Mr. Sweet had been incarcerated 1 0 years. He was sentenced to die for the 1987 murder of Missouri State trooper, Russell Harper. This year, Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan has given the thumbs up to three death penalty inmates. Asked whether the State would honor Mr. Sweet's request for a "He doesn't need sweatlodge the governor's only response was, "He doesn't need a sweatlodge." a sweat lodge", Missouri is defensive and belligerent in providing incarcertaed Native inmates an says Missouri opportunity to practice their 1st Amendment right to pray in traditional spiritual services. Governor. Traditional Native spiritual advisors are discouraged from teaching or conducting pro~ A grams. Currently, Department of Corrections procures advice on spiritual matters from il ,. non-native William Gunier, according to Department of Correction spokesman, Tim Kniest. When checking with Gunier, the prison had been told a sweat was not necessary for Sweet. "We've been told a smudging ceremony can serve the same purpose," Kniest said. According to Amnesty International documentation, as of July 1 995, some 45 American Indians were under sentences of death in 1 3 U.S. states. The federal penal system has allowed sweat lodge ceremonies for more than 20 years. State's, however, are far less likely to allow for Native religious freedoms. ATTENTION ANISHINABEKQUAKUK!! (Indian Women) • Are you wanting to help Ml Indian agency representatives enhance programs and services for young Native women, mothers and grandmothers? We would like your ideas, wishes and visions for an even brighter future for Native women. Special speaker: Ms. Carolyn Lofgren, Indian Health Services, Albuquerque, New Mexico Come to a free 1 1 /2 day MICHIGAN INDIAN WOMEN IN ACTION workshop set for Wed. and Thurs., July 15- 1 6, 1 998 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids. Meals and workshop materials will be provided for all workshop participants. Call Lora Church, IFR/NAPS Program Director, at (616) 458-1641 to register and for further information!! Time is short to register!!!! Space available for 50 participants. �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 8 "How THE ROBIN GOT ITS RED BREAST" Story telling is an ancient art form that has always been used to teach lessons while using the imagination to visualize the scenes. The following is a story that was rold to the Young Eagles 4-6 grade to teach them how to respect their surrounding creation. The •. activity that helped bring the lesson into contemporary terms was building a biodegradable bird feeder. Long before the non-Inrlian people came here to the Land of the Anishnabek people, the language between the animals and creations of the Earth was the same language. This story is about hope, courage and respect for everyone. It was during the time of the falling leaves when all the men went far to find moose for meat, hides to make cloths and hair to~ design embroidery on moccasins. Every part of the animal was used, even the bones made tools of all sorts ... Moose was the difference between survival or not. When the men would leave, it was a lonely time for the family members left behind because they would be gone for months. They all knew they must bring back moose for their wives, mothers and sisters to survive the up coming big snow. This year a young boy would go for the first time, it was an honor to be included in the hunt. He was very proud and laid down his saymaa with sincere thanks to the Creator for being included. He asked that the arrows bring a moose "This year a young soon, so his mother would not worry for too long. And he knew how important it was to bring food home. boy would go for So off they went to moose camp, where the structure from the last wigwam the first time, it was still up waiting for a whole year to once again have mats up against the sturdy was a honor to be frame. Coming to the area was like visiting an old friend for many of the hunters. They have been coming to this camp for a long time and knew all the best areas to included in the hunt. The young boy was instructed to stay and guard the camp while the more exhunt." perienced hunters went out to find moose. As much as the boy wanted to go on his first hunt he respected his elders and stayed behind as instructed. But sadly each of the hunters fell sick and their arrows never brought down a moose. And each day the boy watched as each hunter walked on through the Western door where the sun sets and the big mystery is. Only he was left to carry on with the deed of being the only chance of bring a moose back for his families and village. Not being as experienced as the hunters who brought him out there, he was nervous and began to doubt he could really hunt an animal as honorable as the moose. He was thinking why would the moose want to give himself to a little boy anyway. This thinking br.ought in negativity and he too felt sick. He was so sick that he couldn't get water for himself anymore and the wood for the warm fire was almost burned up. Day after day the boy worried and time went by until he noticed almost all the leaves had fallen, he knew soon the snow would come. As he laid there the boy realized his situation was pretty desperate. The little boy was thinking about his mother and all the Nishnabek in his vill'age. What would they do without moose, he would not allow himself to even think of (Continued on page 9) �Turtle Talk Newsletter How Page 9 THE ROBIN GOT ITS RED BREAST CONTINUED .... the possibilities. He realized his negative thoughts were the major cause of not succeeding in the hunt. So the boy began to pray and remembered what his mother told him, "the creator always answers our prayers, but sometimes we don't accept the answer." As ifhe were trying to convince himself he began calling out loud, "Some one will How did the Robin get its Red Breast? come and help me! Some one will come and help me!" The little boys voice was growing weaker and weaker, until some one did come and help him. One small beautiful white breasted bird, who was normally shy and didn't come out to visit the human beings very often, flew to the top of the wigwam and knew right away what the young one needed. Cautiously the bird quickly looked through the coals to find at least one hot one, the beautiful bird knew only the human beings have been given the gift of fire. He also knew to respect it because of the powerful possibilities. The white breasted bird did find one small hot coal and quickly went to work finding twigs and dried leaves to get the warmth of the fire to help the little boy. Once enough twigs were gathered he flew down through the top of the wigwam and laid the tinder next to the small hot coal and flapped his wings to encourage the twigs to flame up. Over and over the little bird flew down and got very close to the powerful fire. When the warmth of the fire started to help the boy feel better the small bird asked if he needed anything else. The boy asked for water, the little bird didn't know if he could bring a lot at once but said he would try to bring as much as he could. Through the smoke hole at the top of the wigwam the little bird flew bringing in with him a leaf folded as a cup with only a few precious drops of the life giving water in it. After several trips, the boy felt even stronger, as he leaned forward to offer "The Creator his thanks to the answer of his prayers. He came to realize that the beautiful white always answers our breasted bird stained his front to a burnt orange. The little bird tried to clean it but just seemed to spread more. prayers, but One last time the little boy went to hunt the moose and this time his arrows sometimes we brought down a moose big enough to feed the whole village through the winter. As the boy packed up the meat for the journey back to his family, he asked the red don't accept the breasted bird to stay with him and his people. The bird agreed that the friendship answer. " that was made was special to him too and would build a nest near him always. In the spring the red breasted bird took a mate and had a nest full of red breasted little birds. This is how the Robin got his name and why he always builds his nest near the lodges of men. 1998 tl~ofthe,, Tfwee-FW~Pow-Wow He dances like his cousin there, across the circle, Another row of fringe below his knees. Next year, his brother's outfit is waiting for the Grass Dance, And a new young eagles soaring in the breeze. Sharon Horton �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 10 FOUR WINDS OF SUMMER DAY . CAMP JULY 29, 30, 31 WHEN: WHERE: JULY 29, 30, 31 TOWNSEND PARK ROCKFORD, Ml WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY AGE GROUP: KINDERGARTEN - A 6TH GRADE $10.00 DONATION IS APPRECIATED PER HOUSEHOLD. JULY 29&30:10 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. - BRING A SACK LUNCH JULY 31:10 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. - LUNCH PROVIDED ACTIVITIES GAMES (RAFTS KITE MAKING BUBBLES ENVIRONMENTAL LESSONS (WINDS & WATER) VALUE LESSONS FOR MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION FORM TO BE MAILED OR PICKED UP, PLEASE CALL JENNIFER JONES OR RENEE DILLARD AT (616) 458-4078. SPONSORED BY: NATIVE AMERICAN PREVENTION SERVICES �-- Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 11 CALENDAR OF EVENTS MllNWA MUNA DIBISHKAWIN! July 17-19: Lac Courte Oreilles Honor the Earth Homecoming Celebration. Hayward, WI. For more info call 71 5634-8924. July 1 8- 19: 14th Annual "Honoring our Heritage" Pow Wow. Flint, Ml. For more info call: 1-810-239-6621. July 18-19: Walpole Island Pow Wow, Walpole Island, Canada. For more info call: 51 9-627-1481 or 51 9-6271475. July 24-26: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Pow Wow. Ojibwa Campgrounds in Baraga, Ml. For more info call: 906-353-6623 ext. 11 3. July 25-26: Honoring Native American Artist Pow Wow. Port Sanilac, Ml. For more info call: 81 0-622-811 2 or 313-535-7602. July 31- Aug 2: 14th Annual Contest Pow Wow. Mt. Pleasant, Ml. For more info call: 517-775-4052 or 517-7755266. August 1-2: Odawa Homecoming Pow Wow. Odawa Stadium in Harbor Springs, Ml. For more info call: 616-5266939 or 616-439-3825. August 1-2: Whitecloud Annual Purple Heart Pow Wow "Honoring the Purple Heart Recipient" For more info call: 616-689-0344. August 7-8: "The Place Where Eagles Dance" Pow Wow. Watersmeet, Ml. For more info call: 906-358-4226 ext 317 or 906-358-4801. August 8-9: Leonard J. Pamp Memorial Pow Wow. Burlington , Ml. For more info call: 616-729-9434. August 14- 16: "Strengthening the Circle, Honoring the Youth" Peshawbestown Annual Pow Wow. Suttons Bay, Ml. For more information call: 616-271-7277 or 616-2714966. ('''''''''''''''''' I\ ~ ~ I\ I\ I\ I\ I\ I\ I\ 111 ~ ' Muna Dibishkawin July Birthdays Christopher Abella Russell Alex Betty Anderson Erika Anderson Trina Atwood Marie Bailey Mark Bowen Carren Cady Sylvia Contreras Linell Crampton Lulu Two Crow Robert Cuellar Ill Alice Gorney Eva Hinman Melody Harris Kevin Ives Sr. Robert Ives Culver Judson Dakota Jacko Wilma Kelly Charlie Korn Don Leaureaux Kelly Loonsfoot Sky Loonsfoot Robin Mashka Dorothy Mccann Mike McSauby Steve Medacco Tim Medallo Steve Parson Adam Pigeon Amanda Pigeon Deborah Raphael Freddy Raphael Peggy Raphael Twyla Shomin Richard Sprague Marcia Sutherland Jamie Taylor Pam Wesaw Jennie Whitepigeon Wicker Kim Yates Andrea Yount ~ I\ I\ I\ I\ I\ I\ I\ ~ ' -- �Turtle Talk Newsletter Page 12 Grand Rapids Anishinabe Golf Tournament Rescheduled Coming September 26 Briarwood Golf Club 2900 92nd SE - Grand Rapids 2 person best ball, Men & Women's Division. 40.00 pre-paid entry by September 11th. 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Rm. 32-B 8/fey sgrand Rapid~, MI 49504-5246 ZIN a/e>rELE: (616) 458-4078 }0h FAX;_·(616) 458-2096 ~~ ~t:· L E T T E ~,~, . '// & Mishikenh Geegadohawen 1 . June 1998 Highlights The Three Fires Pow WowHas Come A Long! . . . . . . . . . . 1 LJTTLE VOJCES . . . . . . . . . . . 2 CALENDAR . .. .... . .. . ... . 3 June Birthdays "Muna di bish ka win" . . . 3 . Full Circle Completes Its Second Year .................. 4 Muskegons Wins 2nd Straight Basketball Championship! . 4 Communications Training Session 11 . ....... ... ..... .... 5 Turtle Talk Contnbutors: Hunter Genia Renee Dillard Jennifer Jones Turtle Talk 's mission is to provide its readership with reports of local and national interest which may affect and impact our Native American community. Special emphasis will be placed on pl"evention information. Turtle Talk is published by Native American Prevention Services, i~ cooperatiOn with the Kent County Health Department Turtle Talk due dates: Submissions to Turtle Talk must be received in our office by the first of each month for the upcoming month 's issue. (Not all material submitted can be used.) ifyou have a story or information you would like to share with Turtle Talk, please send it with your name, address and phone number. You will be recognized by name in Turtle Talk ifyour article is used. Archeology Camp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Fundraiser Fol/owup! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 More American Jndian High School Graduates! . 8 Native Parenting Series .................... 9 Parenting Circle to continue.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 NATJVE AMERICAN A.A. MEETJNGS ....... 11 Bill of Rights for a Healthy Relationship . . . . . . 11 THREE FIRES POW WOW CHINANDUM OWASHTINONG . .. ... ... .12 The Three Fires Pow Wow Has Come A Long! The Three Fires Pow Wow of 1998, being held June 13 & 14, will be the 19th year that it has happened along the banks of the Owashtinong (Grand River). From its initial start in 1979 on the banks of the Grand River at Ah-Nab-Awen Park to the present day site of Comstock Riverside Park, the Three Fires Pow Wow has not changed its goal of educating people while also celebrating our heritage. Joe John, an elder, remembers himself and Bea Bailey meeting to disscuss the idea of having "an Indian Pow Wow" with the immediate goal to have it be educational. Soon after the location was named by Joe, it became known as it is today, Ah-Nab-Awen Park, which means the resting place. This is where the Three Fires Pow Wow began. Having a wigwam, quillwork, pounding black ash, and weaving sweetgrass was part of the idea to meet the goal of being · educational. Bea Bailey has passed on as well as Percy St. Claire but many commu~ity members still remain that played a role in that first year including but not limited to: Percy & Jeanette St. Claire, Evelyn Biggs, John Boisen, Simon & Shirley Francis, Ron Yob, Dr. Flanders, and Fran Boss were just some of them in the beginning. Through the years many have served in the capacity of being a pow wow committee member and have watched it grow and blossom to be the one of the largest pow wows in Michigan. In the beginning, there were just a few vendors selling and demonstrating their particular cultural art and there were maybe four drums according to Joe. Thirty to fifty dancers were the largest it got when it started. Shirley Francis remembers it being a "community effort from all three tribes". She also remembers an emphasis on it being educational. She remembers the Pow Wow grounds being the site for an on-hands educational exhibit by Rose and Solomon Shalifoe. A wigwam village being created was the result of hard work by community members who helped make it happen. · Jeanette St. Claire, who describe; her involvement as minimal, remembers it being "new and · (Continued on page. 2) . �•2June 1998 Today, the City of Grand Rapids estimates that nearly 25, 000 people will be visiting the Staff: celebration on the banks of the Lora Church Owashtinong this year over the Program Director · course of the weekend. Hunter Genia Nearly sixty vendors will Prevention Specialist/Educator be on hand to share their arts and Renee Dillard food. That is not including the Prevention Specialist/Educator · many that have been turned away Jennifer Jones to keep the event manageable. Prevention Specialist/Educator Approximately seven to ten drums Wanda Blanco will be sharing the sounds and Office Services Coordinator voices of our people. The goal ofNative American Prevention This year stepping into the Services is to deliver services and theme of The People of the Three information that encourage healthy lifestyles while discouraging the use of Fires, each session will feature alcohol and other drugs. different head adult and youth Our program strives to ensure the dancers from their respective informaiion and services provided are tribes of the Odawa, Ojibway, and culturally relevant and age-appropriate. Potawatomi tribes respectively. We Provide: Not much has changed Information-relevant to the Native which is expected since traditional American lifestyle. values and beliefs don 't change Assistance and referrals-can be provided much either. The size has grown to community members as well as professionals about issues related to and is one of the most looked A.TOD. (alcohol, tobacco, other drugs) forward upon events for the Native American Youth Groups-are Anishinabek people and nondivided according to grade level and Anishinabek community as well. meet once a week throughout the year. However, it is where our people Consultations and Presentations- can be gather to celebrate, socialize, and provided to schools, organizations, community groups, including parents; on have good feelings. See you there! Native American Prevention Services substance abuse prevention and/or culturally related topics. Special Programs and Activities- are orovided to vouth, varents and elders. interesting" and even to this day takes part in the dancing just like she did back then. She appreciates and finds her greatest satisfaction in that it "brings the Indian community together and is a way to communicate with other Indians in town. " their big plans are this summer? John Pigeon Jr., 8 years old "Swimming, playing with cousins, Michigan Adventure, and shopping in the mall. " Jessica Valdez, 8 years old"Swimming, summer school, sleeping in. " Jesse James, 8 years old"grandmas and go-karting. " LITTLE VOICES We handed the microphone over to the younger children of our community to let us know what James Klimaszewski, 10 years old- "Summer Camp Blodgett, summer school, swimming at friends, ice cream, and visit grandpa a couple of times. " �•3June 1998 CALENDAR June 13: Third Annual Native American Walk For Sobriety; Registration at 8:30 a.m., walk begins at 10:00 a.m. For more information call: 458-407814581641. June 13114: Homecoming of the Three Fires Pow Wow, Riverside Park. Grand Entry Saturday 1:00 p.m. -7:00 p.m., Sunday 1:00 p.m. . For more information call Kelly Wesaw at 616-458-8759. June 19120: North Port Sesquicentennial Pow Wow. North Port, ML Contact- 616-386-7859 or 616-271-4640. June 27128: Great Lakes Area Pow Wow. Wilson, ML For more info call: 906-466-2342 ex.106 or 906466-5494. July 213: Spiritual Gathering. · Sault Ste. Marie, ML Sault Tribe Pow Wow grounds. For more info call: 906-635-6075. July 3-5: Sault Tribe July 4th Weekend Pow Wow. Sault Ste. Marie, ML For more info call 906635-6075. July 415: "Reuniting the Sacred Circle" Traditional Pow Wow. Onekama, ML Manistee County Fairgrounds. For more information call 616- 723-8288. Grand Rapids Anishinabe Golf Tournament Coming August 8th Briarwood Golf Club 2900 92nd SE - Grand Rapids· 2 person best ball, Men & Womens Division. $40.00 pre-paid entry by July 24th Entry rules & forms - Ron Chivis @ 616-878-1957. Cash prizes based on entries. Grand ValleyAmerican Indian Lodge's Pow Wow is September 12 & 13. Anyone who is interested in volunteering for their pow wow is encouraged to call them for more information. Please call Lori Shauster at 3644697 or Simon Francis at 4596820. Migwech from the Pow Wow committee of Grand Valley American Indian Lodge. June Birthdays "Muna di bish ka win" Amy Anderson FredBell RitaBlumke Ronald A. Boda Lisa Brummitt Connie Cady Jennifer Cantu Chaun Castenada Loretta Castenada Terry Chivis William Chivis Mari Comer Kayle Crampton Ashleigh Day Shawn Day Nebin Floyd Elizabeth Gibbs Jeff Gibbs John Hart Melinda Hinmon Rob Horton Jamie Hubbard William Jones Cullen Kelly Ken Leosh Brian Lett Ernie Loonsfoot Roseanne Martell Sue Maturkanich Joe Memberto Ollie Pierce Andrea Kaye Priest Dennis Rickert Mable Ramos Cathy Rotan Billie Jo Russell Marcus Russell Anthony Sams David Sams Martine Sanchez Bill Schrubbe Kay Shagonaby Brandi Shomin Douglas Martin Shomin Paul Shomin Rose Shomin Phyllis Sprague Karen Taylor Vicki Upton Jessica Valdez Anna Ward Jamie Whitehead Full Circle Completes Its Second Year by Betty Davis Full Circle has come to an end for this school year. We all had such a wonderful time with the Anishinabe children who attend Sibley. · As the supervisor of this program, I sought out information that was needed in order to know how the program could improve. The following are questions that I asked tutors about the afterschool program and here are some of their answers. Question #1: What do you enjoy most about this program? Scott Saboo- The opportunity to work with our children; to help them feetproud of who they are in our community. Also, I enjoyed the feeling of (Continued on pg. 4) �• 4 June 1998 friendship from the student I worked with this year. Question #2: Why did you decide to becon:e a tutor for this program? Nicole Shananaquet- It's the sort of thing I wish I had growing up. Role models are very important. . Question #3: Why would you encourage other Native people in the community to become a tutor? 1aylor Shepard- I got a lot out of the program, the kids I hope were · enriched, and anyone connected with this program probably came out feeling the same. Question #4: What would you like to see happen next year? Trisha Trasky - More community members to get involved. To · see all of us working together to help all Anishinabe children believe in themselves and to know there are people out there who really do care. Question #5: Would you tutor next year if the program continues and why? Courtney Biggs - I've been in this program since it first started in the Spring of 1997. Yes, I would tutor again, and my reason for this answer is I can't think of anything else I'd rather do for our children. These tutors helped out with both sessions this year. We did have three other tutors that made themselves available for the first session. Thanks to Toni Vande Voren, Yvonne Labryer, Kristy Dayson, and Noni Leo who helped us have a successful first session. We also had Diane TourongeauVriese, a part-time tutor who shared her many talents with us every Tuesday. I also helped as a volunteer on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I can't tellyou how rewarding this program was for me and how I enjoyed attending the tutoring sessions. We as tutors looked upon these children as our own. I hope next year we have more people from our community volunteering in the schools to help all our children. Ifyou are interested in being a volunteer for this program please call Betty Davis at 771-2189. Muskegons Wins 2nd Straight Basketball Championship! (Full Circle participants and tutors show off their basket project.) Seven teams from around Michigan came down for the 3rd Annual Anishinabek Grand Rapids Basketall Tournament to compete and have fun. Although only one team comes out on top, all the teams were winners as they competed on the hardwood floors. (Rebound that basketball. Muskegon's Paul Walters & Co., whose team took 1st place, getting into rebound position.) This year's tournament which used a round robin format, crowned Muskegon as the champions with a perfect 6-0 record, followed by 2nd place winner Cedar Springs with a 5-1 record, third place winner Grand Rapids with a 4-2 record, Grand Traverse Band endedwith a 3-3 record, Grand Rapids - Douglas Park with a 2-3 record, Petoskey with a 1-5 record, and Mt. Pleasant with 0-6 record. All the teams played hard and represented their respective families and communities well. Each individual received a free Tshirt, enjoyed a Saturday dinner, and overall had a good time. Muskegon took home the hardware of a first place trophy, individual trophies, and each member of their team will receive tournament jackets for their valiant effort. The second and third place teams also received a trophy. Mt. Pleasant received the (Continued on pg. 5) �• 5 June 1998 team sportsmanship trophy for all around good sportsmanship. contribution. Look for more tournaments down the road. Ifyou have any questions, comments, concerns or suggestions please call me or send it in writing, along with a name, address, and telephone number where you can be reached. Migwech! Communications Training Session II by Amanda Pigeon (The referees even had a good time.} Many people pitched in to help make this year's tournament successful! again. Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians and Gun Lake Band ofMatche-be-nash-she-wish · of Potawatomis contributed to the tournament monetarily and we appreciate their support again this year. Ruth Sprague coordinated the dinner on Saturday and did another wonderful job. Many volunteers helped out including: John Pigeon, Roger Williams, Bruce George, Julie Bloch, Jennifer Jones, Char Campbell, Heather Wilcox, Chet Eagleman (tournament committee), John Day (tournament committee), and Derek Bailey (tournament committee) all played integral roles on and off the court. Countless community members brought food to help with the dinner and there are too many names to remember but they are nonetheless thanked/or their. (Editor's Note: This is the recollection ofAmanda Pigeon's trip and participation in the Communication Training. This is the 2nd and.final session of the training with the goal being to educate and train American Indian youth to work positively with the media.) Five members of the Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council attended the Communications Training in Madison, Wisconsin from April 17 through April 19th. The five who went were Becky Williams, Tim Loonsfoot, Heather Green, Kristy Dayson andAmanda Pigeon and our advisor Hunter Genia. Karen Williams and her daughter Jennifer as well as Hunter's son Anthony attended. We arrived at the hotel and the training was already in session. The clerk at the hotel had given our rooms away beause she said that they never received a check. Somehow, we finally got rooms and after we went upstairs and dropped off our luggage, we went down to the conference room to do interviews. (Amanda doing the "um" game.) After the interviews we went to Spurs across the street to eat. It was karoake night and Hunter sang Proud Mary by CCR. and Kristy, Amanda, and Heather tried to sing Heart's Magic Man, but they were so bad they made them stop. After dinner we went back to the hotel and went to bed, after we went swimming. (Working on our Public Service Announcements.) On Saturday we went to · the University of Wisconsin for another session of the training. A speaker, Judy Newman, came in and talked about radio interviews. She interviewed each of the.· groups separately in order to give us a real experience of conducting and taking part in one. Before we (Continued on pg. 6) �• 6June 1998 left for lunch we played the "um" game. Each of the youth were assigned a topic for thirty seconds to ta!k about and without trying to say "um" one time during that thirty seconds. Kristy was the only one in our youth council to not say it one time and Becky couldn't say anything but ''.um". For lunch we went to the Hacienda for Mexican food This time Hunter went so we couldn't forget his burrito. When we got back, a gentleman from the Toastmaster's Club, was the next trainer. Toastmaster's are people who compete by making speeches all over the country against other · teams. . We had to give a speech about ourselves. After the training got out for the day we went for a walk on State Street. State street has a bunch ofstores and restaurants and is where a lot of the university students hang out. The mall, swimming and ordering pizza was next on our agenda and finally we went to bed Sunday we packed up our bags and put them in the vans and headed over to the University of Wisconsin. When we got there we · had a talking circle and heard from the Native American Student Club who invited us after lunch to play volleyball. Learning to do Public Service Announcements was next and upon completfon of them we read them to the whole training class. Each youth council received a certificate of completion before we went home. (Receiving that training certificate, presented by Russell Coker, Unity's Youth Council Coordinator.) We left after saying goodbye to everyone and went to State Street for lunch. We headed home and got back to the office late Sunday evening; this time we didn't get lost. Archeology Camp by Annie Detz Originally written on September 13, 1997. The day was hot and steamy. The air was still; also, the soybean plants were motionless. The river whispered to me, calling me to decipher the past. I knew that as soon as I cautiously stepped out of the van with my anxious friend, Patty, that I was embarking on an adventure that would change my life, an adventure that helped me to choose my future career: archeology. That morning I met the archeology student that I worked with, Steve. I remember how I slowly, gingerly walked with him to our site. I wanted to act more mature then I was because I was working with Steve, who was a sophomore in college, and I was a junior in high school. Anyhow, he explained to me about the plow zone, which is the first layer of dirt. Any artifactsfound in the plow zone were useless because the dirt was disrupted by farming machinery. I found this puzzling to me because I was under the impression that any artifact found was of value, no matter where the artifact was recovered Next, Steve introduced me to the various tools that I would be using over the next couple of days. I was surprised to see that most of the tools I had previously used in my life. For instance, the shovel, the diverse paintbrushes, the trowel, the bucket. · Then, I learned how to scree,n the dirt that was taken from . the dry, parched earth. . I was very delighted because I acquired the knowledge ofscreening rather quickly. After the dirt was effortlessly pitched into the screen by my partner, Steve, I would sift through the dirt by running my gloved hand over the screen. The tiny, insignificant pieces would fall through the screen, but the larger pieces, about the size of a dime, would remain (these were, in most cases, artifacts). Later in the week, Steve taught me how to pitch the dirt into the screen. It was a rather tedious task to accomplish. While I was down inside the trench, I would scoop the dirt onto the blade of the shovel. Next, I would (Continued on pg. 7) �• 7 June 1998 swing the shovel backwards, aiming towards the screen, then swing the shovel forwards, letting the dirt fall into the screen. It took me over a fatiguingly hard hour of trial-and-error. Finally, I managed to pitch the dirt accurately. I was so elated, I could _n ot contain my delight. I was content to know that other students had the same trouble that I had. In conclusion, I had an exceptionally good time at camp. Jam delighted that I participated in the archeology camp last summer. I made numerous friendships that I hope to keep; I made connections with the archeology professor, Dr. Janet Brashier, from Grand Valley State University. I used this experience as a catalyst for choosing my career, archeology. Archeology interests me because I want to learn about my heritage and the life that my ancestors lived. I feel that by studying the way that my ancestors I lived I will have a better understanding of myself, my Native American culture, and the modern world. I also want to be able to share my knowledge with my family and friends, as well as the Native American community. I hope to apply the experiences with Grand Valley State University towards my career choice. I have already participated in an anthropology summer school with the Michigan Summer Institutes at Ferris State University. It was cool. We intensively constructed a sweat lodge from trees that we went out and cut down! (After we cut down the trees we made a tobacco offering.) I am looking in the direction of anthropology and/or archeology for my career choice and I think that having opportunities to volunteer with GVSU will be beneficial to my future. When I graduate from college, I want to work as an archeologist. I need to go to college to become an archeologist. By becoming an archeologist, I will be able to serve the Native American community to which I belong. I am very interested in the history of my people and I want to be able to share my knowledge with others. I know that the road to success is hard; but, I also know that dedication and a desire to be the best will help me to achieve my goals. I have received a five week scholarship to attend the high school program in Kampsville, , Illinois this summer. Fundraiser Followup! Native Plays; "According to Coyote" and "Franklin Squandum 's Death Dream" were a sold out event at the Van Andel Museum Center. Thanks to a lot ofhelp from our community this fundraising event for Native American Prevention Services and Indian Family Resources was very well attended. The Peer Educators did an excellent job with "Franklin Squandum 's Death Dream" and "Coyote" entertained us all and provided food for thought. (Hey Giizhigoquay, smile. Sky is not camera shy at thefundraiser) There was a reception afterward with punch and cookies and drumming and singing provided by Owashtinong Chunga-ming. It was great to see such a good turn out and people having a good time. A special thanks to the following individuals, businesses and organizations for their generous support for this evening: Jan Brashier Ph.D, Jeff Davis and family, Falcon Foam Corporation (a Divison of Owens Corning), Grand Rapids Community College- Printing Department, Grand Rapids Public Schools Multicultural Services, Grand Valley American Indian Lodge, Gordon Henry Jr., Manda Bee Aki, Inc - Printing Services, Owashtinong Chung-a-ming, Sewing Circle, Steelcase Corporation, VanAndel Museum Center, Candi Wesaw, Karen Williams, Roger Williams, Debbie Muller, Olive Pigeon, Julie Bennett, Rosemary Saboo, Rachel (Continued on pg. 8) �• Bjune 1998 Saboo, Trisha Trasky, .Alicia Black, Casey Church, and Michael Dillard. He received his letters in both wrestling and baseball and is currently involved in the Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council. Tim will be attending Ferris State University in the fall and studying Criminal Justice. No Photo Available (Hey Mister Roger,find a seat will ya?) Winners of the silent auction were Helen Hillman - blackash basket, Scott Saboo- originaf.painting by David Shananaquet, David Villarreal-Pendleton blanket. Total funds raised were over $850.00. Much thanks to the community for their generous donations of time, money, and talent! More American Indian High School Graduates! Tim Loonsfoot Jr. - is the son of Tim and Kelly Loonsfoot of Belmont. Tim is graduating from the high school of Comstock Park. Ryan Levi Rickert - is of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribe and is the son of Levi Rickert and Deanna and the grandson of Jennie Whitepigeon Wicker. Ryan will be graduatingfrom Wyoming Park High School this year where he is a regular A & B student. Ryan was also involved in athletics where he was the starting point guard for the varsity basketball team and placed 5th in the state final track relays. Extracurricular achievements include being the editor of the school newspaper. Ryan's also likes to go sailing as one of his hobbies. In the fall he will be attending Grand Valley State University. Amber Shawa - is a member of the Burt Lake Band of Ottawa & Chippewa's. She will be graduatingfro.m Pellston High School in which she has been a member of the drama class yearbook committee, and student tutor. Her future plans are to attend Grand Rapids Community College and then go on to Michigan State. She is the daughter of Gary Shawa and Susanne Fox. Patty Ives - is graduating a year early from Westbridge Academy with a 4. 0 grade point average. She is the daughter of Kevin and Sue Ives, and is a member of the Bay Mills Band of Chippewa Indians. In her academic career, she received the "President's Award/or Academic Excellence." Patty participated in the Minority Journalism Workshop sponsored by the Grand Rapids Press, and had an article published. She has also had other writings and poetry published nationally. She plans on attending Grand Rapids Community College this fall, and pursuing a degree in youth services. Patty does beadwork, and has fashioned her own regalia including moccasins. She is very proud of her culture. (Continued on pg. 9) �• 9 June 1998 Native Parenting Series Melissa Harris - whom is graduating from Inland Lakes High School in Indian River, MI, is a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. Melissa formerly lived in the Grand Rapids area attending the Jenison schools until her freshman year. Sarah Bray (Kenwabikise) & Bill Harris are the proud parents and Isabelle Kenwabikise & John Paul Kenwabikise are the grandparents. Awards in Excellence in Drama and Mathematics are two academic awards that she achieved in high school. While in her senior year, she was the coordinator for the Talent Show and Mistress of Ceremonies for the last two years. Melissa was also a cheerleader this year. Her grade point average for her senior year was 3.26 and she just missed being an honor student. Melissa's hobbies include drama, reading, and gardening. Melissa has been accepted at Western Michigan University and will be majoring in English for secondary education with a minor in theater. Career goals include teaching on a reservation either in Michigan or somewhere out West. The series is off and running better than any of us hoped after a couple offalse starts (the blizzard and power failure back in March). Attendance has been incredible with 35 people the first night and an average of more than twenty for the following evenings. Here is a summary of the evaluations from the sessions: 1st Session: Teaching Native Cultural values to vour adolescent. - Guest Speaker: Jack Chambers (Odawa) . Mr. Chambers offered teaching about the Medicine Wheel, The Seven Grandfathers and balance. This presentation was open to the community and Jack appeared in an article in The Grand Rapids Press on Saturday May 19th. Comments from participants included: "Nice integration of spirituality and parenting. " "We received knowledge on the Traditional ways" and are also looking for guidance" Comments from facilitators included: -"What a great turnout! It was a good learning experience. " - "I believe everyone enjoyed themselves and it was reflected in some of the verbal comments that they felt safe to talk. " 2nd Session: "Nobodv "' told me it was going to be this way - Guest Speaker: Valorie Gibbs (Ojibway) Ms. Gibbs offered her original ideas and diagrams about Native family structure and the spectrum of identification with Native culture and Euro-American culture. Her presentation was powerful and thought provoking and the visual aids really helped. Comments from participants included: "Very informative! A whole new look at life in general, most appreciative of Native Wisdom." "Valorie was great. She gave so much information." Comments from facilitators included: "I learned the teachings of the medicine wheel so now I can teach my children. " flt was valuable] "to hear others who have the same difficulties (Continued on pg. 10) �•JO June 1998 "Val did an excellent job with explaining the material she presented. The diagrams were useful." "The presentation far exceeded my expectations and the visual aids were very effective. " 3rd Session: "Tough love: Mean what ..-vou sav .. sav ..- what .vou mean! Speaker: Mary Roberts (Ottawa) Mary has a wealth of experience she offered us through her job and her family. As a mother and Grandmother Mary gave us all deeper insight on mixed ethnic background with in our family structures. Acceptence of each other was a beautiful teaching delivered in a interactive session. Parents and grand parents were encouraged to share their knowledge of consistency's successes. Mary told us we have a great deal of lessons of parenting skills from our own experiences within our families. Comments from participants included: "Grate/ul to have a chance to share with other parents. " "I liked the workshop because it allows us to gain information from others." Comments from facilitators included: Comments from facilitators included: "It is exciting to see the group coming together and see the sharing of ideas and concerns. Mary helped make the room/or this to happen. " "All the handouts.were great. Also the structured activities were helpful." "Trust was developing between the group enough for open comments. Great review and presentation I" "It was very helpful that Pat focused on building on the positive and that she emphasized play and conversation with children and parents of all ages." Parenting Circle to continue.... 4th Session: "Because I said so ... that's whv!" . Helping your adolescent understand the limits ..vou have taught. Guest Speaker: Pat Lynn (Th under clan) Pat Lynn came to help us wrap up the first series of Native American Parenting. Her gentle style came through loud and clear. The handout information was helpful and appreciated/or future reference for our participants. Comments from participants included: "Different paths teach dijferent things." "Pat was very. valuable to me in how you have to state what you mean and follow through." It was agreed upon by the participants that we will continue to meet on Tuesdays from 6 p. m. to 8p. m. at !FR/NAPS The first meeting will be June 9th at 6 p .m. This will be a planning meeting where we will talk more about all of the ideas for the circle. Please feel free to attend. The circle is open to new people at all times. Call Mark at 458-1641 , for more information. �• I I June 1998 NATIVE AMERICAN A.A. MEETINGS Thursday at 6:00 p .m. Native A merican Prevention Services 615 Turner Ave. NW, Room 35 Grand Rapids, MI 49504-5246 (Schedule is subject to school district calendar) Any questions, call Loretta at (616) 458-6156 Saturday at 12: 00 p . m. Second Chance 624 W Fulton (near the corner of Lexington St.) Grand Rapids, MI 49503 Any questions, call Sue at (616) 363-9537 "Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other in order to solve their common problem, alcoholism and to help others to achieve sobriety. " Bill of Rights for a Healthy Relationship (Editors note: Recently some young Anishinabek participated in a healthy relationships training provided through RA VE of W. Michigan. One of the exercises was to determine a bill of rights for themselves and they wanted to share it in Turtle Talk.) 10 things I will accept in a relationship: Student #1: 1. I will accept individuality. 2. I will accept respecting each other. 3. I will accept balance. 4. I will accept an alcohol, drug and tobacco free relationship. 5. I will accept our caring for each other. 6. I will accept him to respect me. 7. I will expect him to respect my goals. 8. I will accept the 3 c 's. (caring, communication, compromise.) 9. I will expect him to respect my boundaries. 10. I will accept own independence. 10 things I will not accept in a relationship: 1. I will not accept him hurting me in any way. 2. I will not accept him trying to say that he has all the control. 3. I will not accept him telling me what to do or when to do it. 4. I will not accept him calling 24 hours a day or 7 days a week: 5. I will not accept him hanging all over me. 6. I will not accept him to be fake . 7. I will not accept him trying to threaten me. 8. I will not accept him trying to intimidate me. 9. I will not accept him trying to change my traditional ways. 10. I will not accept him to play me. Student #2: Will Accept 1. I will accept an understanding relationship. 2. I will accept you as individual. 3. I will respect your space and privacy. 4. I will accept your trust. Will Not Accept 1. I am not taking responsibility for your own actions. 2. I am not being fabled a trophy or a catch to you. 3. I will not accept any threats or verbal abuse. 4. I will not tolerate any physical abuse. 5. I will not accept any invasion of my personal space or privacy. 6. I will not change to suit your needs. Will Accept Student #3: 1. Positive communication 2. Likes me as a person. 3. Respects me, themself & our relationship. 4. Accepts me for who I am and can feel comfortable. 5. We can be individuals and have our own lives. Will Not Accept 1. Avoiding important concerns. 2. Controlling me in any way. 3. Hurting me in any way. 4. Not taking me seriously. 5. Not respecting me. 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Rm. 32-B Grand Rapids, MI 49504-5246 TELE: (616) 458-4078 FAX: (616) 458-2096 Nmebine Giizis (Sucker Moon) Mishikenh Geegadohawen L E T T E R May 1998 A Matter of Degrees . . . . . . . . . 1 VOICES . . . . . . . . . . . 2 American Indian information about colleges, financial aid, and organizations available to you . .................. 5 Young Eagles go to Chicago ............... 5 Youth and Family Summer Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Community Garden . . . . . . . . . 7 Training for Volunteers . . . . . . 7 Sewing Circle update . . . . . . . . 8 your article is used. Where did that sewing machine go? .... ...... . 8 Attention Native American Artist Lectures and Presenters . . . . . . . . . . 8 Native American Seniors Banquet ........ . ... 9 A REMINDER FROM MARK.... . Drugs in the home ...... .. . ..... ..... : . 9 May Birthdays "Muna Di bish ka win" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Calendar of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1O Camp Gives Kids a World of Good .......... 10 Soon It Will Be Time to Walk Down the Red Road. ... . .. ............................. ... 11 It's A Photo Opportunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Turtle Talk In this Issue: Highlights A Tribute to Indian Education Contnbutors: Hunter Genia Renee Dillard Jennifer Jones Turtle Talk 's mission is to provide its readership with reports of local and national interest which may affect and impact our Native American community. Special emphasis will be placed on prevention information. Turtle Talk is published by tvative American Prevention Services, in cooperation with the Kent County Health Department Turtle Talk due dates: Submissions to Turtle Talk must be received in our office by the first of each month for the upcoming month's issue. (Not all material submitted can be used.) If you have a story or information you would like to share with Turtle Talk, please send it with your name, address and phone number. You will be recognized by name in Turtle Talk if A Matter of Degrees Sending American Indians to College by Melissa L. Gedachian-lndian Report Lillian Rainer's grandfather didn't start school until he was 18, but he still taught her to value an education. A graduate student at Brigham Young University, Rainer, 25, considers her college education an investment in her future. She is among a growing number of American Indian youth who are attending colleges, both tribal and mainstream, across the United States. Many of them are the first in their families to do so. "My grandfather believed that as Indian people, we need to be educated to have the best life possible. Not only for ourselves, but for our people." As decades of poverty become a distant memory for some Indian tribes, their youth are beginning to reap the benefits of their economic prosperity. Even some of the less prosperous tribes are encouraging their children to seek financial aid so that they too may be competitive in a world that demands more than a high school diploma. Bachelor degree holders earn 73 percent more income over a lifetime than do high school graduates. But according to U.S. Census statistics, economically disadvantaged high school graduates are two-and-a-half times less likely to enroll in college than their middle- and upper class counterparts. That trend may be changing for American Indian students. From 1982 to 1995 the number of American Indians enrolled in college increased by 49.2 percent. And in 1995 . American Indians had the highest enrollment increase (7.4 percent) at four-year institutions of any minority group, according to the 1997 Status Report on Minorities m Higher Education. Yet, in 1995, only 131,000 tribal students attended college; 8,450 were enrolled in graduate school and as few as 2,130 were in professional schools. Poverty, anti-academic peer pressure, family obligations and personal fears all work to distract students from their goals of college (Continued on page. 3) �•2 May 1998 Native American Prevention Services Staff: Lora Church Program Director Hunter Genia Prevention Specialist/Educator Renee Dillard Prevention Specialist/Educator Jennifer Jones Prevention Specialist/Educator Wanda Blanco Office Services Coordinator A tribute to American Indian High School Seniors in West Michigan and their Voices. THIS MONTH "VOICES" IS A TRIBUTE TO AMERICAN INDIAN HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS WHO ARE MOVING ON TO THE FUTURE. litunquist at Church, debate class for one year, and playing guitar. College plans include either the University of North CarolinaCharlotte, University of Michigan, or Grand Valley State University. The goal of Native American Prevention Services is to deliver services and information that encourage healthy lifestyles while discouraging the use of alcohol and other drugs. Our program strives to ensure the information and services provided are culturally relevant and age-appropriate. We Provide: Information-relevant to the Native American lifestyle. Assistance and referrals-can be provided to community members as well as professionals about issues related to A.T.O.D. (alcohol, tobacco, other drugs) Native American Youth Groups-are divided according to grade level and meet once a week throughout the year. Consultations and Presentations- can be provided to schools, organizations, community groups, including parents, on substance abuse prevention and/or culturally related topics. Special Programs and Activities- are rovided to outh, arents and elders. JACOB DAVIS ZEKE FLETCHER Zeke is of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Gun Lake Band of Potawatomi. He graduated from Wayland Union High School and is the son of June and Richard Fletcher and the grandson of Laura Mamagona, Honor Simmons, and David Mamagona. Zeke achieved many awards in school both academically and athletically. These achievements include being a member of the National Honor Society as well as receiving letters in basketball and golf. In golf he received a State Medalist award in the state tournament. Extracurricular achievements include being involved in the Business Professional Association ' Jacob Davis is of the Turtle He Mountain Ojibway tribe. graduates from Cedar Springs High School and is the son of Jeff and Betty Davis and the grandson of Church & Yvonne Frederick, Stella & the late John Davis. Academic achievements include being on the honor roll with a 3.99 grade point average, a member of the National Honor Society in which he also was inducted into the ·c edar Springs chapter. His most popular hobby is playing basketball. Jacob is presented with an opportunity to be selected with the Bert Price scholarship and the State of Michigan Scholarship. College plans at this time are undecided. �("A Matter of Degrees" continued from pg. 1) LIZ McBRIDE Liz McBride is of the Potawatomi and Ottawa tribes. She will be graduating from Wayland Union High School in which she has been she has been very active in sports and achieved a lot academically. Liz has been_on the student council and on the honor roll. She was also a homecoming representative her junior and senior years in high school. Her future plans is to attend the Grand Rapids Community College and study business management. She is the daughter of Betty McBride and the granddaughter of Leonard and Mary Church. MARC RAMIREZ Marc graduated from Westbridge Academy this year and will be attending Grand Rapids Community College in the fall. enrollment, said Jacob Schramm of College Summit. College Summit helps economically disadvantaged youth in beginning a college education by assisting them in the application process. The centerpiece of the program is a four-day workshop held at college campuses around the country. During the workshop, rising high school seniors are coached in understanding their options and selecting colleges . where they will be able to receive both academic and financial support. They also explore their goals and fears in daily "rap" sessions with their peers and a trained group leader. As part of the workshop, students complete their college applications and compose the accompanying essays. "Through the rap sessions and the essay process, we ask them to dig down and talk about this from their heart," Schramm said. "We want them to talk about what it means to get into college." PinPoquin Theresa Downey attended College Summit when she was a senior at Santa Fe Indian School. Her application to Stanford University in California, where she is now a student, included this reflection: "Native Americans have already been cheated out of so much land due to their lack of education. I feel it is my responsibility to ensure the protection of native lands. w.ith all this knowledge, I have gamed the desire to become an environmental lawyer. I feel that as long as I am protecting my land, my culture will survive. My people will survive. I will . " survive. Once enrolled, applicants must find money for their tuition. Financing the rising costs of college may seem like a daunting task, but funds are available. It is just a matter of uncovering them. Lance Lujan, of New Mexico State University, developed "The 1998 Sources of Financial Aid Available to American Indian Students" with the assistance of his staff at the school's Indian Resource Development Center. The book provides a list of sources to be used as a starting point for college-bound American Indians. In addition to listing a number of federal, state and schoolbased financial aid programs, Lujan names a variety of sources sp~cifically for American Indi~s including the Bureau of Indian Affairs Higher Education Grants, tribal scholarships and corporate funds. Although there are few programs that offer to ~ay .for a student's full ride, a combmat10n of loans, grants, scholarships and fellowships may pay for tuition at many colleges. "Whatever the situation is, don't hold off going to college for fear of being in debt," Rainer said. "Look at your education like an investment. College wasn't about the tests and about the grades although that was important. It was about broadening your mind and �• 4 May 1998 strengthening yourself and your people." In addition to financial aid, there are other things to consider in choosing the right college or university. Students can pick from a pool of private, public or tribal schools in all sizes and in many locations. Rainer recalled some of the concerns her peers had when they were choosing colleges. For some, being far away made them think about quitting especially if there were problems at home. For others being far away meant asserting their independence, while others were better off at community college closer to home. "It is better to go somewhere than nowhere because sometimes the longer you wait the harder it gets to go," she said. There are 31 tribal colleges and a host of mainstream educational institutions that offer specialized programs for American Indians. According to a report from the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, tribal colleges fulfill the "unique higher education needs of Indian people who may otherwise never know educational success. Despite minimal funding, the colleges have among the highest rates of success with tribal students in terms of student retention, matriculation, ongoing education rates and job placement." Most tribal colleges are located in remote areas that are not served by other post-secondary institutions. All of the schools are accredited and offer two-year degrees, while some offer four-year degrees, and others offer four-year and graduate programs. Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College in Cloquet, Minn., offers tribal students the opportunity to earn an associate's degree in a casual environment that is not far from home. It also serves as a comfortable entry point for tribal students interested in later attending a four-year college or university. At Fond du Lac each classroom has less than 20 students and the curriculum is geared toward cultural learning, native languages, art, recreational activities and history. Admission is available to anyone with a high school diploma or a GED certificate and day care is also readily available for students with children. Fond du Lac also offers a program for first generation college students: PROP (Providing Resources Opportunities and Possibilities). PROP helps to meet the needs of students that have no other reference point for coping in the college environment. The program offers study-skill workshops, academic assessment and classes on how to plan for a career after college. Thanks to an agreement Fond du Lac administrators made with the state, students interested in attending a state university can easily transfer credits to those schools. Many students take trips to visit the state schools' campuses for a few days. The visits are meant to help students become familiar with a larger college or university atmosphere so they are not overwhelmed when they arrive on campus for the first time. Although the numbers of tribal students enrolled in colleges are increasing, so are the dropout rates at many of the nation's mainstream colleges. Rainer found that the key to her success was becoming active in student organizations and activities. "When I first started college I was really scared," she said. "I didn't know· anyone and at first I felt really alone. But then I got involved in a dance troop with other Native Americans. That is what helped me stay in school because it is really important to have support." Students involved m organizations and who are getting support from social groups and professors tend to persist in college and graduate, said Cal Seciwa, director of American Indian State Institute at Arizona University. But at many colleges the dropout rate for American Indians is 60 to 70 percent with the biggest drop out occurring between freshman and sophomore years. ASU had a dropout rate of 56 percent nine years ago. There were a number of reasons for ASU' s poor retention statistics, Seciwa said. Some students were experiencing culture shock, lack of cultural support and lack of financial support. In 1989 ASU started its American Indian studies program in response to a state legislative initiative that directed the university �• s May 1998 to address minority recruitment and retention issues. University officials brought together a team of people for student support. They hired counselors to work with the tribal governments on identifying and addressing Indian student's needs. Academic advisors and work-study students provided class scheduling assistance, crisis assistance, timeand money-management counseling, scholarships and academic survival workshops. A large pool of graduate assistants was also hired to tutor in math, English, natural sciences, business, humanities, social sciences, and computers. In 1996, Seciwa's office entered an agreement with the Navajo Nation to develop to develop the Student Achievement Program. Under the agreement, the nation funds a portion of their student's college tuition as long as they participate in certain university programs designed for better student retention. The prngram has a threepart agenda aimed at college freshman. Each scholarship recipient is required to attend an orientation program, take at least one class in the Campus Match program and visit with instructors and advisors several times a semester in order to retain their scholarship. The Campus Match program designates several core classes that are highly attended by other American Indian students. "Whether or not Native American studies programs help is still being debated," Seciwa said. "But one program and one school cannot solve the problem alone." American Indian Graduate Center 4520 Montgomery Blvd. NE, Suite 1-B Albuquerque, NM 87109-1291 American Indian information about colleges, financial aid, and organizations available to you. Indian Organizations: Scholarships available The American Indian Science and Engineering Society has several scholarship programs available to Native American students m various fields of study. For more information contact: AISES Scholarship Coordinator 5661 Airport Blvd. Boulder, CO 80301-2339 phone: (303) 939-0023 email:ascholar@spot.colorado.edu Deadline for Application is June 15 for most of the programs. Fellowship awards are available through the American Indian Graduate Center to fund members of federally-recognized American Indian tribes or Alaskan Native groups to pursue graduate (masters and doctoral degrees) study in the U.S. The deadline for application is June 1, 1998. To obtain an application call (505) 881-4584 or write to: American Indian Council American Indian Graduate Student Organization American Indian Science and E~gineering Society Native American Business Organization Native American Student Organization Native American Students United Native American Law Student Association Young Eagles go to Chicago Field Museum We were excited to finally be on our way to Chicago. The Young Eagles youth group worked very hard for quite some time on the goal of getting to go to Chicago and see the Field Museum. Your support for the Young Eagles All You Can Eat Pancake Dinner helped finance this wonderful opportunity for these young people. Another goal that was met was the making of a banner �• 6 May 1998 for community events such as the Pancake Dinner. The banner reads WE SUPPORT AN ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, AND OTHER DRUG FREE COMMUNITY and will be visible at many community events. The Young Eagles measured and cut out all the letters that made this banner. If you didn't get to see it the night of the Pancake Supper look for at this years sobriety walk and also at the Three Fires PowWow youth booth. Back to The Chicago Field Museum trip. The Native American exhibit is well known throughout the country, but that's not all the Young Eagles saw. We went through most of the Museum, after getting there we decided we would need at least two days to go through everything the Museum has to offer. The Egyptian exhibit was one of the most popular (because of the mummies). We had a night on the town in Chicago meeting other Native youth and storytelling by staff at the prevention office in Chicago was a nice time. A special thank you to the prevention staff in Chicago. Robert "Bobo" Smith and Netawn Kiogima were extremely helpful through their office. Our own Grand Rapids youth taught Chicago youth how to make a medicine wheel and put together a tobacco pouch. The Young Eagles explained the Three Fires People teaching on Honoring the sacred Medicine from the East (saymaa) and how we shouldn't abuse this gift from the Creator. Then the youth showed off their Native Language skills. We had a great representation of Grand Rapids and we can all be proud of them. Some of the chaperones go for a trolley ride in Chicago. Thanks to Mavis Neconish (Menornnee) who works at the Museum and also works closely with the Native Community in Chicago. We were special overnight guests in the Pawnee Earth Lodge which is in the center of the Native American exhibit inside the It was a special Musellin! opportunity and a special night for all of us to remember. The sleeping arrangements were primitive but the youth and chaperones were tired enough to fall asleep. Some of the Young Eagles get ready for bed in the Pawnee Earth Lodge. The next day we went to the Shed Aquarium which was within walking distance from the Field Museum. We saw lots of fish of many different colors and shapes. Then we came home. Young Eagles do lots of different activities and we are always open to suggestions and volunteers to help chaperone these special events. As facilitators for the K-3 and 4-6 grade Young Eagles youth groups, we are proud to go anywhere with these young 'people. They were all courteous to one another and well mannered, truly a joy and we have hopes of other fun activities to share. If you know of a Native American youth between the K-6 grades and this sounds like fun call Renee or Jennifer at 458-4078. We would be happy to tell you more about what is happening, and explain more about this fun group of Native American Youth. Youth and Family Summer Activities Once a month, during the summer, the Native American Prevention Services will be sponsoring activities for youth and/or family. The Pow-Wow season is pretty intense and families take summer vacations, so here is the season's schedule for you to plan your busy summer. We are excited for fun in the sun and look forward to meeting new families and visiting and learning with our friends as well. �• 7 May 1998 Gun Lake Family Picnic and Fun Day .............. June 24 ....... . 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Native Youth "Four Winds of Summer" Day Camp -July 29-30 July 29-30 - 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. July 31 - 10 a.m. to lp.m. Horse-n-Around/ Trail ride ................ August 12 (Time to be announced) Please call the office for more details and ride arrangements. We look forward to seeing you and if you are someone who likes to become more involved with community events then call Renee or Jennifer at 458-4078. Watch for more information about the upcoming events in Turtle Talk. Community Garden This is a project that everyone can get involved with. Indian Family Rescmrces staff member (Mark Sanford) has been working to find space for a community garden here on the West side. Now we have a space and we need your involvement. You can help by letting us know what you would like to grow and by making a small commitment to a satisfying project. Food grown in the garden can be used for senior meals and ghost suppers. This is a magnificent way to Honor the bountiful gifts we receive from Mother Earth. What a wonderful way to work together with our community members for a common goal, and you get to eat the results! If you would like to know more about this new project, or would like to sign up to help call Mark Sanford at 458-1641. Training for Volunteers We are looking for volunteers who are available to help Native American Prevention Services. Existing programs focus upon the awareness of Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug prevention education, to the Native and NonNative community. You will have an opportunity to work with Native American people both in the office and within the Native American community. An opportunity to learn about this rich and beautiful culture will also exist. This can serve as an opportunity for you to better understand the values within our culture. Training Agenda May 27th 1998 615 Turner Ave. NW, Rm. 32B Grand Rapids, Michigan 49504 (616) 458-4078 5:30pm OPENING I SMUDGE AND INTRODUCTION OF PREVENTION AND STAFF 6:00pm VIDEO AND OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAMS. 6:30pm DINNER 7:00pm SPIRITUAL TEACHING 7:15pm NATIVE AMERICAN PREVENTIO SERVICES STAFF INTRODUCE THEIR PROGRAMS. 7:45pm QUESTIONS I CLOSING MENU ............... MEEJIM Staff at Native American Prevention Services would like to offer you a chance to help us make a difference with the people we work for and on behalf of. The impact you can have on the community can be positive and fulfilling, and a culturally enlightening experience as well. Through this opportunity you will have a chance to learn more about the Native American Culture, including spiritual teachings that promote our · strengths, values and traditions. Potato Soup.... Penabo Wild rice..•.•.... Mndaamin Frybread........ Zaagidikwadance Sassafras tea.. Nbiishshabo What do we provide to the community? Various programs and events throughout the year are hosted by N.A.P.S. Our programs can be even more successful through community support and involvement. Here is a small list of some programs/services we have �• 8 May 1998 If you would like to start building provided in the past and will continue to provide effectively with your support. regalia or have knowledge of any of the numerous art forms of the Native American people, the people of the Sewing Circle would like to invite you to come on down and join us! For more information call 4584078 and ask for Renee. * Youth Groups- K-12 grades * Peer Educators Youth Group * Educational programs in Schools * Sewing Circle * Drum Circle * Community Feasts * Parenting Series * Cultural Events * Sobriety Events * Pow-wow Displays * Transportation to and from various events * "Turtle Talk" * Various Fundraising Events * Adult Chaperone Opportunities Call Native American Prevention Services for more information or to register for the training at 458-4078. Sewing Circle Update Sewing Circle participants working with porcupine quills and birchbark. Mae Ring came in April with a slide presentation as well as her personal collection of her current projects. Mae has a wealth of knowledge and is always excited to be included with the learning and education of the richness our culture has to offer. Currently Mae works at the Grand Rapids Public Museum in the Van Andel Building, where she demonstrates her talents for school groups and patrons. We are honored to have her share with our group. As a result three more people started weaving a sash. Megwetch Mae! The Sewing Circle is wrapping up its six week session and from the attendance alone I would say that the gatherings have been a great success. New families are attending and cultural learning is happening, such as regalia, which is being worked on for the upcoming Three Fires Pow-Wow (June 13 and 14). Where did that sewing machine go? One of our participants with the Sewing Circle had let us use her sewing machine. It seems it has been mistakenly borrowed from the Multipurpose Room of Native American Prevention Services. If the person who borrowed the machine could return it to our office, it would be appreciated. Many people are waiting to start the sewing part of their regalia and need a machine. Call Renee at 458-4078 if you have the sewing machine. Attention Native American Artist Lectures and Presenters If you are Native American and give presentations on your form of art or feature another Native American focus, we might be interested in promoting your presentation. Parents and youth working together. The Grand Rapids Public School/ Multi cultural Services/ Parent Advisory Council is gathering information about artist and Native American based presentations that are age and culturally appropriate. This information will be available �• 9 May 1998 to other school districts and learning classrooms upon request. The information you submit will be reviewed by a volunteer Native American committee for accuracy and appropriateness to classrooms before being listed. For an application piease call Renee Dillard at (616) 458-4078 Native American Seniors Banquet Main Meat and Refreshments provided, please bring a dish to pass. Invocation: Simon Francis Emcee: Matthew Blumke For more information please contact: Trisha Trasky at 784-5001 or Betty i;:>avis at 771-2189. Location: West Side Complex 215 Straight N.W. So far about 20 American Indian high school and GED graduates of 1998 have been identified and will be sent a letter of invitation in the mail, has yours? If you're not sure your son or daughter is on the list you can call the numbers listed above. A REMINDER FROM MARK..... Drugs in the home Speakers: Matt Fletcher University of Michigan graduate 1998 & Zeke Fletcher -Wayland Union High School Graduate 1998. Usually when we think about youth using substances, we think of the youth who first tries tobacco or alcohol or maybe marijuana. However this is frequeritly not the case. Many youths report that the first substance used to get high was a household product that they sniffed or inhaled. These substances are easily accessible. They can be purchased inexpensively and legally by anyone at any age. Use is difficult to detect and does not show up on a drug screen. Music: Honor Song by Owashtinong Chung-a-ming and a song by Deb Muller. These substances, commonly known as inhalants, are highly damaging to the brain and central Purpose: To acknowledge and celebrate the graduation of Native American High School Seniors in our community. All community members young and old are asked to come and celebrate this special time in our young people's lives. Let's remember in talking to our children about drugs to be sure to have conversations about these poisons. Mark Date: May 21st Time: 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. nervous system. "Sudden sniffing death" can occur any time the substance is used, as a result of lack of oxygen or heart failure. May Birthdays "Muna Di bish ka win" Charles Anderson Sue Barz Jim Braddock Jimmy Bush Jr. Sha'ndiin Church John Crampton Gus Day Leah Denhof Mike Denhof Misheka Floyd Dave Fox Selina Gibbs Paul Hart Tashia Hillman Linda Holt Sharon Horton Paul Jackson • Dolores Laban Toni Leaureaux Roger Martell Jr. Isaac McCann Thomas Mccann Georgianna Memberto Kitt Pigeon Dennis Resterhouse Rockey Russell Billie Jean Sams Dave Shananaquet Larry Shananaquet Jr. �• IOMay 1998 Mary Shananaquet William Shananaquet Taylor Shepard Edward Sherman Chris Shomin Jordan Shomin Paul Shomin Kari Sprague Denise Skorka Ivanna Swainston Rita Wemigwans LizWesaw Calendar of Events May 12: Native Parenting Series, "Nobody told me it was going to be like this!!'', with guest speaker Valerie Gibbs (Ojibway). Time 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. For more info call (616) 458-4078 or 458-1641. May 14: Coalition Meeting at GRPS-Native American Education Program, 615 Turner NW, 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. May 19: Native American Parenting Series, "Tough Love: Mean what you say, say what you mean!" with guest speaker, Mary Roberts (Ottawa). For more info call: (616) 458-4078/458-1641. May 21: Three Fires Pow Wow Planning Meeting, Grand River Band of Ottawa Office, 6:30 p.m., 458-8759 for more information. May 21: Senior Banquet at Westside Complex, 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Honoring Native Youth graduating from High School or GED completion. Potluck and everyone welcome. Call Betty Davis at 771-2189 or Trisha Trasky at 784-5001. May 23-24: 7th Annual Holton Pow Wow. Holton, MI. Muskegon County-Holton Fairgrounds. Contact Brian Gibson (616) 7738312. May 23-24: Gissiwas Creek Pow Wow. Marion, MI. For more information call Bruce or Rose at (616) 281-3640. May 26: Native Parenting Series, "Because I said so .... that's why! Helping your adolescent understand the limits you have taught." With guest speaker Pat Lynn (thunder clan); 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. For more info, call (616) 458-4078/4581641. May 29-31: Indian World&Native American Events. Taylor, MI. Gibraltar Trade Center. For more info call (313) 535-9728. June 5-7: 8th Annual First Peoples Pow Wow. Mt. Clemens, MI. For more info call (810) -756-1350. June 13: Third Annual Native American Walk for Sobriety. Registration at 8:30 a.m., walk begins at 10:00 a.m. For more info call: (616) 458-4078 or 458-1641. June 13-14: Homecoming of the "Three Fires Pow Wow". Grand Rapids, MI. For more info call (616) 458-8759. Camp Gives Kids a World of Good This year Native American Prevention Services will be hosting the 1st Four Winds of Summer Day Camp for Native children entering grades kindergarten through six. We will be learning medicine wheel teachings and values (4 directions), ATOD healthy lifestyles, exploring Mother Earth's winds and waters through kite making and flying and teachings on understanding water environments, and many other fun activities and games. Join us on July 29, 30, & 31. For more information, call Renee or Jennifer at the NAPS office, 616-458-4078. Other Camps in West Michigan *Camp Anna Behrens, Greenville Michigan Trails Girl Scout Council For 38 years Camp Anna Behrens has been offering girls (1st - 12th ,grade) the opportunity to experience first hand the out-of-doors while growing, learning, and sharing under the guidance of trained staff. Activities include swimming, boating, arts and crafts, horseback riding, campcraft, tripping, and low ropes. Resident camping (overnight) opportunities are open to non-Girl Scouts as well as Girl Scouts, and without regard to race, color, religion, or national ongm. Financial assistance is available. For more information call Kate Krueger at 784-3341 or 1-800-442- �• 11 May 1998 1401. Michigan. Call Jennifer at 4584078 for information. *Camp Manitou-Lin, Middleville YMCA For 85 years these Gun Lake shores have been buzzing with excitement as children learn to swim, sail, canoe and ski. Horseback riding, learning arts and crafts and other fun camp activities take place under the watchful eye of our trained staff. Each day ends with the counselor leading the group through "reflections" to share and explore values and attitudes. The YMCA also has day camp opportunities at Camp Optimist in Standale. Financial assistance is available for both camps. Camp is open to any child, regardless of age, race, sex, handicap, national origin, or religion. *Camp O'Malley, Alaska GR Youth Commonwealth Located on the Thornapple River, Camp O'Malley offers a week in a natural setting for youth in Kent County. Activities such as arts and crafts, biking, hiking, swimming, campfires, ropes courses, sports, and much more are lead by trained staff and two police officers. Camp O'Malley is open to all youth regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or ability. For more information, contact Kim at 616241-3066. The N.A.P.S. office has information on more summer camps in West Soon It Will Be Time to Walk Down the Red Road .... Yes, the Sobriety Walk is coming soon! Yes, we are still welcoming more volunteers to help out on the day of the race! Yes, we have pledge sheets ready for participants to fill! Does this sound exciting or what? Good, then mark your calendars for Saturday, June 13, 1998, and join us for the 3rd Annual Native American Walk for Sobriety. We will be walking from the Sixth Street Bridge Park to the Three Fires Pow Wow at Riverside Park. This event is to heighten the awareness of the role that drugs and alcohol play in our lives, and does so by acknowledging support for those who are recovering, those who have chosen to live drug and alcohol free, for the wellness and healthy lifestyle concept, and to honor our people, culture, and traditions. You can participate in this fund raising event for youth programs, community wellness activities, and special events in many ways. 1) You can become a participant in the walk and collect pledges with your own pledge sheet (available at the NAPS/IFR offices). 2) You can become a volunteer on the Planning Committee or help volunteer on the day of the walk. 3) For a contribution of $25 or more, we will respectfully print the name of the person you would like to honor on the back of the T-shirt. Payment deadline to NAPS is Friday, May 15, by 4:30 p.m. Take your pick and encourage others as well! Public welcome to participate as well. Megwetch for your support and have fun!!! NAlMdM WAlK fOR SOBR!m ~~~MtlQt 0 Schedule of Events 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. FRIDAY NIGHT REGISTRATION AT RIVERSIDE PARK. 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Registration 9:30 - 9:45 a.m. Blessing 9:45 - 9:55 a.m. Words of Thought 9:55 - 10:00 a.m. Honor Song Walk Begins 10:00 a.m. \ STAY AWAY FROM ALCOHOL AND DRUGS �• 12 May 1998 It's A Photo Opportunity Oren Lyons, keynote speaker at the "Keeping A Healthy Circle" symposium sponsored by North American Indian Center, poses with Owashti-nong Chung-aming at the community pot luck. "According to Coyote" was a big hit with the little ones at the Native American Legends and More fund raiser for Native American Prevention Services and Indian Family Resources. Grand Rapids Public Schools West Middle School 615 Turner N.W. Grand Rapids, MI 49504 What are you looking at? Some of the fellas from the play, "Franklin Squandum's Death Dream" resting up before the crowd comes in. 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Rm. 32-B Grand Rapids, MI 49504-5246 TELE: (616) 458-4078 FAX: (616) 458-2096 L Nimebine Giizis (Sucker Moon) Mishikenh Geegadohawen R April 1998 A Path Leads to a Journey of Lessons.. .. .. . . ........... 1 Sovereignty amendment reintroduced in Congress .................... .... 2 VOICES .............. . ..... 2 "Restoring the Pride " ......... 3 Become a community partner ... 3 Peer Educators "Native Thang " is rolling along! .. . . . ....... 4 Sewing Circle . ............... 4 Young Eagles Summer Activities ...... . . . 5 Turtle Talk Contributors: Hunter Genia Renee Dillard Jennifer Jones Turtle Ta/k's mission is to provide its readership with reports of local and national interest which may affect and impact our Native American community. Special emphasis will be placed on prevention information. Turtle Talk is published by Native A merican Prevention Services, in cooperation with the Kent County Health Department Turtk Talk due dates: Submissions to Turtle Talk must be received in our office by the first of each month for the upcoming month's issue. (Not all material submitted can be used.) Ify ou have a story or information you would like to share with Turtle Talk, please send it with your name, address and phone number. You will be recognized by name in Turtle Talk ifyour article is used. Volunteer Training To Be Offered ............ . 5 Young Eagles Say Migwech to Community for Pancake Supper Support! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Native American Parenting Series To Be Rescheduled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 April Birthdays "Muna di bish ka win " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Calendar ofEvents ..... _....... . ... . . ... . . _ 7 AHAANA ... . .... .... _............. . .. . . . _ 7 A Quick Glance about our Prevention Programs Serving Youth and Adults ...... ............. . . . . .... .... 8 BE PROUD LIKE THE EAGLE, STRONG LIKE THE BEAR, WISE AS THE OWL, COURAGEOUS AS THE WOLF. . . . . . . . . . . 9 "An Evening with Native American Legends and More .... " .. ___ ..... . . ... . . . ..... __ . . . . 10 Graduating Seniors! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Calling all Graduates!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Grand Rapids Anishinabe Basketball Tournament .. . ......... . ..................... .. . 12 A Path Leads to a Journey of Lessons .... Our ancestors ' journey of life was surrounded by the teachings that promoted oneness with the Creator, oneness with all living creatures, as well as promoted the importance of family unity, caring for one another in a manner of respect that recognized each other' s uniqueness. It is these teachings that help us in providing programs and services that will reinforce the strengths of our community. The use and abuse of Alcohol, Tobacco and other drugs have presented many damaging effects upon our community, family, relatives and friends . Our little children are innocently caught in its net when the substance use surrounds the home. The effects have spread across generations and across geographic locations - urban, rural and reservations. The disheartening effects touch all of us in a way where we have opportunities to choose to meet the challenges by becoming a "doer" that will help to bring about positive change and healing for our community. I feel this occurs when we honestly admit that we are willing to let down our defenses and the thoughts of being "in control" and look upon a strength greater than ourselves. I also believe the Creator allows us to walk a journey that carries us through pain, anguish, hurts, joys, and laughter, where one day we will fully understand and when this happens, it's a lesson learned. Journeys that take our people to encounter the effects of substance abuse, violence, child abuse and neglect, parent-child power struggles, criticism, illnesses, death, etc. seem to be a long road. But I'm confident to say when we look upon the enriched power of our community to help us, the journey seems less burdensome. Our programs and services wish to help promote the strengths of our community. The Native American Prevention Service-s (NAPS) promotes the awareness, education and programming that will reinforce healthy (See Journey pg. 6, second column) �Grand Valley State • 2 April 1998 APR o7 1998 Native Am~rican Prevention Services Staff: Lora Church Program Director Hunter Genia Prevention Specialist/Educator Renee Dillard Prevention Specialist/Educator Jennifer Jones Prevention Specialist/Educator Wanda Blanco Office Services Coordinator The goal ofNative American Prevention Services is to deliver services and info nnation that encourage healthy lifestyles while discouraging the use of alcohol and other drugs. Our program strives to ensure the information and services provided are culturally relevant and age-appropriate. We Provide: Information-relevant to the Native American lifestyle. Assistance and referrals-can be provided to community members as well as professionals about issues related to A.T.O.D. (alcohol, tobacco, other drugs) Native American Youth Groups-are divided according to grade level and meet once a week throughout the year. Consultations and Presentations- can be provided to schools, organizations, community groups, including parents, on substance abuse prevention and/or culturally related topics. Special Programs and Activities- are provided to youth, parents and elders. Sovereignty amendment reintroduced in Congress On February 27, Senator Slade Gorton (R-Wash.) introduced legislation that would remove American Indian tribal sovereignty immunity and make tribal governments subject to law suits in federal and state courts. The bill (S. 1691), similar to a budget rider offered last year, was referred to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, which will begin holding hearings on this issue on March 11, 1998. educate the non-Indian people about what it means for Indians to be sovereign nations. The U.S. Government has to deal with us as Nations rather than as tribes or individuals who can be pushed around constantly and dictated to." VOICES You have read the article pertaining to the proposed legislation to remove sovereignty rights from Tribal Nations here in America, what are your thoughts and feelings on this? No Photo Available Renee Dillard - " This is another example of how our people can define who our opponents really are. It is not the non-Indian community but rather the Government and the policies that are trying to inflict cultural genocide." Jeff Davis - "It's the most recent affront on tribal sovereignty. Tribes need to take this seriously, not because it will succeed, but rather because other less intrusive infringements on tribal sovereignty may find an audience in Congress." No Photo Available Loretta Antoine - " Historically, Indian Sovereignty has been acknowledged or threatened as it befits the United States Government's needs. Land, money, or treaty rights being the primary reasons. The Senator should know that we were sovereign nations at the time of the invasion and we will continue to be living nations of people 1f we stand together. We have got to June Fletcher - This lawsuit seems to be perceived by the U.S. Gov ' t as a chance to break down the sovereignty status of the tribes. When we didn 't have anything (money, power, status, etc.) we could be ignored. As we gain more independence we become a threat to the established power structure. We must do what we can to support the continuance of our tribal sovereignty by writing letters to our senators and congress people." �• 3 April 1998 "Restoring the Pride" one of many projects coming up for youth leadership council. The Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council comprised of Native American youth from the 7th grade on up are working hard on upcoming activities and events that they will be involved in or sponsormg. One of the projects that they are working hard on is a youth conference for middle school Native American youth in the Kent County area. With the Kent Intermediate School District office commg on as a co-sponsor we have identified a conference site and have narrowed the dates down significantly to the month of September of 1998. As more information is known, it will be distributed out to the community through events and mailings. If you are interested in being involved in helping with the conference please call and let us know. A community youth lock-in is also being planned. This will also let them know more about how they can be involved in the youth leadership activities and be a part of planning future events in the community. Besides these two main projects, other activities, events, projects have become yearly traditions. Service projects like volunteering at pow wows, at community functions and being asked to participate as a Native youth voice on different issues have become more available to our group. An example of this was having a youth council member, Kristy Dayson, provide testimony about youth issues at the KidSpeak forum in front of dignitaries, program directors, and legislators. The National UNITY Conference being held this year in Washington, D.C. will be the third year in a row that our youth council has taken part in. The first two years were in Oklahoma City, OK and Phoenix, AZ. This is only done through the hard work of youth who have made a commitment to being abstinent from alcohol and other drugs and are considered in "good standing" at school. Outings which promote fun and teamwork are sprinkled in to reward the youth for their efforts. The purpose of this article is to let you know that there are good things happening in our community for youth. There is still more that can be done because there are many other Native American youth who are putting themselves in risk by indulging at risky health behaviors all too common throughout society. Until we can raise every child with the values that they deserve, our work is never done. I share this to encourage you as a parent, relative, or extended family member to get your youth involved in something positive. Whether it's a program offered through a Native American program or sports, at least you have involved them in something positive. Become a community partner because your help is needed! I propose to everyone that is reading this to get involved in some way that will help the life of our people by volunteering your time. I ask you one question, "Do we want the future of our communities to be healthy?" If you answered yes, then I encourage you to contact one of the centers, programs, or an individual you know. Let them know you are interested in being involved and want to volunteer your time. Programs like the Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council, Sewing Circle, Young Eagles, or Peer Educators could use your assistance. Other American Indian programs in the community could use volunteers as noted in a previous issue of Turtle Talk. So I encourage you to become a community partner in the mobilization of the Anishinabek community toward healthy lifestyles. �• 4 April 1998 Peer Educators "Native Thang" is rolling along! This new project as of August 1997, has been pretty successful to date. By all evaluations they have reached about 2,500 people, which are mostly youth. Presentations have become more effective and creative due to the input from the peer educators and from evaluations. (Autumn and Becky of Native Thang showing how large a smoking addiction can get.) So far the skits have been created to address issues such as: alcohol and driving, smoking, and parental role modeling to our youth. All of the presentations to date have incorporated cultural values from the music and dance of our people. The most exciting project to date will be the training for, ''Franklin Squandam's Death Dream", which is a play written by an Ojibway author. This is also broadening their skills into the theater world and delivers a message of dealing with confusion, misunderstanding, and relationships with other cultures. Since this is our first year and Renee and I not having any prior skit development or theater skills to lend, it has proven to be a learning experience for us all. As we move along however, our ability to deliver creative messages while staying focused on our goals has increased. So it is an exciting time and those with an artistic and creative mind are asked to come on board to lend your knowledge. The most pressing need is to have someone volunteer to assist in the writing of skits to fall in line with the abstinence message of the program. If you are that person( s) please call us. Migwech! Sewing Circle Update Jackie Pratt's presentation which moved to March 16th due to the school closing on March 8th, very well attended. Jackie kind enough to show us her technique in bead work. She brought with her beautiful examples of some contemporary artwork that she has created. Some of the work had ancient designs incorporated and included porcupine quills to add to the authenticity. It also explained that trading artwork for artwork is one of the best ways to acquire a wide range of beautiful pieces. Jackie explained how she sells some of her pieces and needs to be compensated for her efforts. We are proud and honored that Jackie came and shared with us. (Betty, Trisha, and Jackie working on their Anishinabe dress design.) If you would like to come and learn about how to make regalia for the upcoming pow-wow season or if you have talent in: sewing, weaving, beadwork, or leather, we would like to invite you to come and share your expertise with us. Many people are coming to learn about dancing and how designs are made and why. We meet every Monday night with a featured guest speaker every other meeting. There is something for everyone on Monday nights at Native American Prevention Services, the Sewing Circle and Drumming Circle both meet on the same night at the same time at West Middle school at 615 Turner N.W. Call us if you have any question or want to know what is coming up next, 458-4078. �• s April 1998 Young Eagles Summer Activities The Young Eagles will have a new summer schedule different from prior years. With so many youth who were gone due to family obligations in prior years, we have decided to change the schedule for the summer only. Jennifer Jones who facilitates the K-3 Little Young Eagles and Renee Dillard for the 4-6 grade Young Eagles, have decided to combine their programs for the summer months and have one big activity each month. We are still working on the schedule and it looks exciting. The tentative schedule looks like this: June 24 .. ... ...... ..... ........ Family picnic at Gun Lake (all day activity) July 29,30,31.. ... ........ ... Day camp at Townsend park (9:00 am to 4:00pm) August 12 ........... ......... .Horse-nAround, a horseback riding activity. Each activity will be fun and educational, while incorporating activities within each that promote our program' s goals and objectives in a fun way. We would like to invite you to come and help us with each of these activities, call either Jennifer or Renee at 4584078 . If you know of a young person from the grades k-6 and would like to come and join us please call the office and we can tell you more about the program and how we approach alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention.(A.T.O.D.) Volunteer Training To Be Offered Purpose: To make known volunteer opportunities at Native American Prevention Services and Indian Family Resources. When: May 14, 1998 Time: 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Where: Native American Prevention Services, 615 Turner N.W. Suite 32B, Ground level 6:30 Multipurpose Room. The Peer educators are doing more and more skits and need help with the props, and other various activities. The Sobriety Walk could use some volunteers to help with refreshments offered throughout the walk. The summer activities are coming closer and we have in the planning some fun and informative activities. Other opportunities such as: assistance in driving, food preparation and chaperoning are also opportunities. As always if you have any questions or would like to sign up for the Volunteer Training please call the office before May 7th. We need to know how many people would be involved to acquire adequate space for the training. Send us your name and address or leave a message at the office 4584078 . The prevention program has been in a growth spurt for some time now and been offering some exciting programs and services. If you have time in the evening or anytime during the day and would like a rewarding activity, perhaps you should consider volunteering at some of our events. Helping us create and continue more quality programs for our community is also an opportunity. We need help with child care during our Sewing Circle. The youth groups are getting larger and staff could use assistance with some of the hands-on activities. Don't miss Oren Lyons (JO-AGQUIS-HO) at the American Indian Symposium on April 9th. Mr. Lyons, the keynote luncheon speaker, will be addressing American Indian health needs. �• 6 April 1998 Young Eagles Say Migwech to Community for Pancake Supper Support! Funds will support Young Eagles trip to Chicago. The weather great and the kids were excited and if you came you were full of pancakes at the "A fl You Can Eat Pancake Supper". The banner at the front of the room said it all, and so did the Young Eagles in their opening remarks ''We support an Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug free community." The youth worked on that banner for quite some time and their efforts paid off The community members that attended made very generous donations for the Young Eagles' Cultural Enrichment trip to Chicago. Megwetch. We will have pictures and stories about our Chicago trip to share with everyone when we come back. So watch for the article in Turtle Talk. The plan is to leave April 8 and stay over night at the Chicago Field Museum and meet other urban Native American youth in the Chicago area. Our own Young Eagles will be demonstrating some activities and Language that they have learned during Young Eagles' meetings to the youth group from the Chicago area. the youth will be encouraged to get addresses and write letters to stay in touch as pen pals. The next day the group will attend the aquarium before corning home. This trip isn't only special because of the activities but these youth earned their way there by working on fund raising events like the Pancake Supper. Way to go Young Eagles!!! (Journey continued from page. 1) lifestyles while discouraging the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. Indian Family Resources (IFR) promotes wellness by giving support and linking individuals and families to agencies and organizations for daily assistance needs (housing, medical services, employment, etc.) and providing a "listening ear" and a "helping hand" when it feels like the pressures oflife heat up. IFR has a master's-degree counselor on staff to provide confidential services to youth and adults. These programs are your programs and we certainly welcome your comments, suggestions, ideas and volunteered time. Please contact our office if you are interested in helping in any upcoming events. Together we can journey a road toward health and wellness. Lora Church Native American Parenting Series To Be Rescheduled in May of 1998! Due to unusual circumstances the Native American Parenting Series will be rescheduled for May of this year. The dates will be May 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th. The time will be 6:00 - 8:30 p.m. for all sessions at the Native American Prevention Services office. The weather wasn't on our side for the first week of the parenting series which scheduled to have Jack Chambers as our first presenter. Unfortunately the weather caused the G.R.P.S. school closing and we were forced to start the series with Valerie Gibbs the following week. Then the second week, a large portion of the west side community had a power outage and we were forced to cancel once again. The presenters are disappointed that we couldn't get started as planned but we are excited about the new scheduled dates in May starting with Jack Chambers again on Tuesday presenting from 6:00 to 8:30 at our office. The Native American Prevention Services and Indian Family resources are providing child care to eliminate any barriers to attending. We hope to see those who are interested in coming to the May series. Any questions please call us at 458-4078 or 4581641. Thanks for your patience. �• 7 April 1998 Jesse L. Boda Doug Bohjanen Don Bowen Sr. Misty Bowen Dawn Bush Isabela Nadowegesa-Benavides Casey Church Michael Corby Levi Albert Crampton Whitney Davis Robin Ensley JoAnne Fox John Hart Charlene J. Hatfield Monica Kelly Edna Kenoshmeg Denise Kimble Mickey Kiogima Robin Korn April Marie Leaureaux Corey Loonsfoot Mary Ann Mashka Roseanne Moore Madelyn Nadowegesa Cindy Pigeon Sam W. Pigeon Josie Sams Judy Shriner Patricia Silverthorn Pam Smith Sandy Whiteman Susan Wesaw Calendar of Events April 9: Symposium "Promoting a Healthy Circle," at GVSU Eberhard Center, 8:30 a.m. 4:00 p.m. For more info call: Levi Rickert at (616) 336-4194. April 14: Title IX Native American Parent Meeting. Open to all parents of Native American students in Kent County. West Middle School in Rm #241at6:30 p.m. For more info call: 771-3318. April 24-26: 10th Annual CMU PowWow. Mt. Pleasant, MI. For more information call (517) 774-2508. April 25-26: American Indian Council, 7th Annual Traditional Pow Wow. Lebanon, Indiana. For more info call: (317) 5455057, or (765) 482-3315. May 2 & 3: 3rd Annual Grand Rapids Anishinabe Basketball Tournament. 5 on 5 basketball tournament at Union High School. For registration info call: Hunter at (616) 458-4078 or Derek at (616) 336-3919. May 9 & 10: Free the Children 5th Annual Traditional Pow Wow. Climax, MI. For more info call: (313) 763-8631. May 14: Coalition Meeting at Grand Rapids Public School Native American Education Program, 615 Turner NW, 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. For more info call: Wanda Blanco at (616) 458-4078. May 23 & 24: Gissiwas Creek Pow Wow. Marion, MI. For more info call: (616) 281-3640. AHAANA (Asian, Hispanic, African American, Native American) Teacher Education Program (A TEP) Grand Rapids Public Schools, in partnership with Grand Rapids Community College and Grand Valley State University, is accepting applications for its AHAA.i""JA Teacher Education Program. This program is designed for minority students, in high school (GRPS) and college (GRCC and GVSU), who are interested in teaching as a career choice. GRCC and GVSU offer scholarships to qualified applicants. For additional information regarding this program, please contact Ollie Browley at 771-2039 or fax her at 771-2172. • �• 8 April 1998 A Quick Glance about our Prevention Programs Serving Youth and Adults Myth Fact Young Eagles and Youth Council is for Native American youth who have problems with substances. ~!4!1•-:-•lli~<::.~ 1 -:- 1 0:!1'l ··-:-•iii~ The youth programs teach about culture, healthy lifestyles, social skills, and leadership to participants of all experiences who just want to learn in a fun and healthy way. You have to be Ottawa, Potawatomi, and Ojibwa to be a part of the groups. ~iu-:-• !!J~t;: "'-:-·a~l'l•11 -:-"',;~ The groups are open to all Native Americans. Each group targets a certain age or grade level. I have to have prior knowledge about culture and traditions in order to "fit in" the groups and programs. ~ ·,·-:-r ~i: •-:-rr rr~,, 1 -:-mirr In order to teach about the harms of chemicals like drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, we enhance the activities by learning about how culture and traditions can assist us in the resistance to them. So we all learn together and come in at different levels which we respect. Our programs only serve people who are "high risk" for alcohol and other drugs. ~1:a-:-•lll~<::m-:-li%~1'l1n-:-1 ;;i~ Our programs do help with those that need the support. "Support" to abstain from prior use is good, but our programs put an equal emphasis to serve those that want to just have fun and learn and may have never used. A commitment is needed in order to participate. ~~1-:-•is;~t;:.:;•-:- 1 • ~~ · •-:- 1 s~ Some programs have goals they want to reach and in order to reach them need a level of commitment. For other programs you can come at your leisure. Information about all of our programs and services can be mailed to your address by contacting Wanda Blanco at 458-4078 or 458-1641 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday thru Friday. �• 9 April 1998 BE PROUD LIKE THE EAGLE, STRONG LIKE THE BEAR, WISE AS THE OWL, COURAGEOUS AS THE WOLF In 1996, the Sobriety Walk originated from a suggestion and vision by one of our community members, Betty Davis, about the possibility of having a walk similar to the Sobriety Ride in North Dakota. An event which promotes sobriety and support for those individuals on the recovery road. From that point, we at Native American Prevention Services and Indian Family Resources wanted to include the support for: • Those individuals whom have decided to be alcohol, tobacco, and drug-free Heightening the • awareness of how alcohol and drugs impact our lives • The wellness and healthy lifestyle concept • Honoring our people, culture, and traditions We then decided to present this walk as a fundraising event for our two programs (Native American Prevention and Indian Family Resources) as a way to increase financial support for prevention and wellness programming. And so, two years ago, an annual Sobriety Walk put into action here in Grand Rapids. Many people shared words and emotions that touched many others. Sobriety walkers and supporters shared the losses they encountered due to their substance use as well as the substance use of friends and family members close to them. They also shared the gains, growth, and healing they have received since choosing to walk the road to remaining alcohol and drug-free. Supporters were walking as well, encouraging and honoring those in recovery and those who have walked on due to substance involvement. The First Annual Sobriety Walk held on June 9, 1996. The registration tables were set up at the Sixth Street Bridge Park. Following the opening ceremony, the walk began with the destination point at the Three Fires Pow-Wow grounds at Riverside Park (about 2.5 miles). We thought this event would also provide support for the PowWow, as we wanted the community to know that we acknowledge the efforts of the Pow-Wow committee. The Second Annual Sobriety Walk held on June 8, 1997. Again, the beginning point set at the Sixth Street Bridge Park with the designation point at the Three Fires Pow-Wow grounds at Riverside Park. Lorna Mackie designed the Sobriety Walk logo that used on T-shirts for walkers and supporters. Proceeds benefitted the youth groups, community wellness activities, and other special events sponsored by our programs. It is already time to plan for The Third Annual Sobriety Walk. The walk is set to be held on June 13, 1998, at 8:30 a.m. at, of course, the Sixth Street Bridge Park and heading toward Riverside Park to join with the Three Fires Pow-Wow. The planning committee has been meeting and plans are coming together. We are still looking for volunteers to help during the day of the walk. If you are interested in helping support this event as a volunteer or as a walker, give Jennifer a call at 458-4078 for information and pledge sheets. Come and join us in our walk down the red road! (Sobriety Walk participants from 1997.) �•IOApril 1998 COMING SOON!! Youth ages 5-18 "An Evening with Native American Legends and More.... " for you, your family, relatives and friends!! This is a fundraising event where fun, excitement, laughter, music will surround the auditorium! ! "According to Coyote,'' is a vibrant and wonderfully entertaining anthology of tales featuring the legendary hero of American Indian mythology. This will be presented by The Mixed Blood Theater Company of Minneapolis, MN. The "Native Thang" is a Native American Peer Educators group of NAPS, and they will present ''Franklin Squandum' s Death Dream". A play written by Ojibway Author: Gordon Henry, Jr. Date: Tuesday, April 14, 1998 Time: 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m). Location: $ 2.00 FREE - Children under age 4 **SEATS ARE LIMITED ** Purchase tickets at the office of NAPS/IFR, 615 Turner, NW, Room 32-B, (West Middle School), Grand Rapids, MI (use the Broadway Ave. entrance). Make checks payable to: Native American Prevention Services. This is a fundraising event for the Native American Prevention Services and Indian Family Resources working in partnership with the VanAndel Museum Center. For more information, please call Lora Church at (616) 458-4078. Interested persons are asked to submit information which will be reviewed by a Native American committee for appropriateness before approval. The deadline for submission is May 29! ,\ Adults $ 3.50 Couples $ 6.00 Attention Native American Artists, Lecturers, and Presenters The Grand Rapids Public Schools, Multicultural Services and Parent Advisory Council is putting together a Native American presenters resource handbook for distribution to area schools. VanAndel Museum Center Meijer Auditorium 272 Pearl, NW, Grand Rapids, MI Admission: Native Thang will present the play, "Franklin Squandum 's Death Dream" for the opening performance at 7:00 p.m. Mixed Blood Theater presents, "According to Coyote. " This performance will follow the opening. For more information and application please contact Renee Dillard at (616) 4584078. �• 11 April 1998 Graduating Seniors! The Multi-Cultural Office, the Native American Advisory Council, and GVSU would like to acknowledge our Native American Seniors for their achievements. To show our support, we will be featuring our Seniors in Turtle Talk. To all our Native American Seniors we wish you "good luck" and hope that your future is successful. Micmac tribe, is the daughter of Howard R. And Marie D. Higgins and attends Central High School. While attending Central, JoNita has received the Purple Heart, Superior Cadet, Varsity letter in cheerleading, and also received the Veterans of Foreign Wars Award. JoNita's career choices are Psychology and Business. She would like to attend GRCC in the Fall. Psychology and she will be attending Western Michigan University this fall. If you know of a Native American student (young or older) who will be graduating this year and would like to have his or her accomplishment announced in Turtle Talk please do the following: Elizabeth L. Rickert, Randina Owens, is the daughter of Phyllis Owens, and attends Ottawa Hills High School. While at Ottawa, Randina has received awards in R.I .F. and the Grand Valley Blood Program. She has also been active in T.S. Dance Comp. and the Show Choir. Randina is pursuing a Business degree thru GVSU. 1. Send a little Bio, can be similar to the ones you read here. These can include interests, future goals, accomplishments. Due to space, please limit to two paragraphs. Potawatomi, is the daughter of Dennis J. Rickert and attends Ottawa High School. Elizabeth's favorite sport is golf She will be attending a nursing program at GVSU in the Fall. Rebecca Lett, 2. Send a photo, this can be a color photo or black/white. Please make sure the background is not to dark for picture quality in Turtle Talk. future 3. For announcements be sure to include tribal background. * Photos will not be available to be picked up until after the printer is done printing newsletter. JoNita Higgins, is the daughter of Dianna Lett and attends Central High School. Rebecca has received 2nd place medals in band for solo and ensemble. Her career choice is �•12April 1998 Calling all Graduates!! Are you going to graduate at the end of this school year? Have you graduated? The Three Fires Pow Wow committee wants to Honor all our Anishinabe graduates. In recognizing the importance of education for our People, the committee is gathering names of individuals who have received certification or graduated with a GED, diploma, or degree. The committee has been honoring graduates the past two years by recognizing them over the Pow Wow weekend. We hope that you can become part of this tradition by notifying Derek Bailey at 458-8759. If no answer, please leave a message that includes a contact name and phone number. Migwech! Grand Rapids Anishinabe Basketball Tournament Scheduled for May 2 & 3rd. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Native American Prevention Services Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Genia, Hunter (Editor) Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/d634e9887c0d8d961dcd2d830628908e.pdf df22457edf5ac9b58fdf27745ef5ba18 PDF Text Text N s Turtle Talk Native American Prevention Services 615 Turner Ave., N.W. Rm. 32-B , Grand Rapids, MI 49504-5246 TELE: (616) 458-4078 FAX: (616) 458-S\i(I L E T T R \ ·r uu u'\\\t1 , .. ·.a. Onaabadin-giizis (Snowcrust Moon) Mishikenh Geegadohawen · March 1998 . JI iglf liglfts Parenting ls A Reward With M any Questions! ........ . ... . .. 1 VOICES ............ . . . . .... 2 Na tive Parenting Series . . ...... 3 About the G uest Sp eakers: .. . .. 3 March Birthdays "Muna di bish ka win " . . .. 5 Calendar ofEvents ... . ...... . 5 Ta lking With Your Child A bout A lcohol, To bacco, and Other Drugs ...... . ... . . . ...... 6 How to Ta lk With Yo ur Kids A bout Sex ...... . .. . .... .... ... 7 Turtle Talk Contnbutors: Hunter Genia Renee D illard Jennifer Jones Turtle Ta/k 's mission is lo provide its readership with reports of local and national interest which may affect and impact our Native A merican community. Special emphasis will be placed on prevention information. Turtle Talk is published by Native American Prevention Services, in cooperation with the Kent County Health Department Turtle Talk due dates: Submissions to Turtle Talk must be received in our office by the first of each month for the upcoming month 's issue. (Not all material submitted can be used.) Ifyou have a story or information y ou would like lo share with Turtle Talk, please send ii with your name, address and p hone number. You will be recognized by name in Turtle Ta lk ifyour article is used. \_\'ot'arj ;~w~~GCiJ;;_~[,£s.... Un~ts\\'! . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4-6 Grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Parenting R eaders Poll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 R ed Cliflreaches area schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Parenting Is A Reward With Many Questions! We are dedicating this issue of Turtle Talk to Parenting, since the Nation celebrates March as "Parenting Awareness Month. " I did say celebrate, right? Well of course I did, but many of you are snickering and rolling your eyes. What do you know that the rest of us don't? That's what were talking about in this issue. Indeed parenting is arguably the toughest role most of us will take on during this lifetime. For grandparents and parents, they know this all too well. And for the younger parents, well, hang in there because the rewards can be great. For the parents of adolescents, it seems getting them through high school and getting them off to college unscathed is the biggest goal. Usually, on the way out the door they say, "and don't do anything stupid, please." Ah come on people, it's not that bad, is it? Throughout this issue we will talk with parents and grandparents, about what their biggest fears, rewards, and even so-called "secrets of the trade" are. Special segments in this issue are "Voices", as we hear from community members as they respond to the all important question (well, you have to look on page 2, to see the question.) Look on page three, four, and five there we announce the Native ' Parenting Series and their speakers, which is going to be exciting and filled with some wonderful information. We will also give you some tips on parenting and how to deal with the all important issues of talking with your child about alcohol, drugs, and yes, sex. Most of us cringe when we hear that word, but you don't have to as there are tips on that as well. Don't most of us wonder if we're doing okay as a parent? Geez, it didn't seem this hard when mom and dad raised me. Part of the reason is that we as children and adolescents are looking out for our own interests. Now that the shoe is on the other foot as a parent we have to look out for the interest of our family. To help us enhance our parenting skills, we will look at the anonymous readers poll on page six, and see what our community readers had to say about some of the 'all important questions and keys to success. Hey, I told you we had good stuff in this issue so go ahead, read on and CELEBRATE PARENTING. �• 2 March 1998 Native American Prevention Services Staff: Lora Church Program Director Hunter Genia Prevention Specialist/Educator Renee Dillard Prevention Specialist/Educator Jennifer Jones Prevention Specialist/Educator Wanda Blanco Office Services Coordinator The goal ofNative American Prevention Services is to deliver services and information that encourage healthy lifestyles while discouraging the use of alcohol and other drugs. Our program strives to ensure the information and services provided are culturally relevant and age-appropriate. We Provide: Information-relevant to the Native American lifestyle. Assistance and referrals-can be provided to community members as well as professionals about issues related to A.T.O.D. (alcohol, tobacco, other drugs) Native American Youth Groups-are divided according to grade level and meet once a week throughout the year. Consultations and Presentations- can be provided to schools, organizations, community groups, including parents, on substance abuse prevention and/or culturally related topics. Special Programs and Activities- are rovided to outh, arents and elders. VOICES What would be your most important tip that you would give about parenting? Bob Stone - "With little children and babies, it doesn't matter how old they are, tell them you love them." Roger & Karen Williams "Consistency. Be firm and consistent. If you make a decision, stand behind it. It may be strict but you have to set boundaries that are flexible to their age." Scott Saboo - "Be honest with yourself and children. Remember why you are a parent, because you chose to bring a child into this life, so devote and give your time to them." Charlotte Lewis "Keeping the communication lines open is important. The issues that young people face can be extreme and if they are unable to go to their parents, then where do they go?" �• 3 March 1998 Coming in March atNAPS/IFR Native Parenting Series For more information 458-4078 or 458-1641 ask for Renee or Mark 4 parts Sessions will be 2 hours with Yz hour refreshment break 1st session title: Teaching Native Cultural values to your adolescent. March 10, 1998 - Guest Speaker: Jack Chambers (Odawa). This is about the Seven Grandfathers and how to share them with your family. (Honesty, Respect, Love, Truth, Wisdom, Humility, Bravery) We will look at ways of sharing some of the inner meaning that life has for all of us within the family. Our young people learn in the early years by mimicking what they see the other children or adults doing. It is never too late to teach our young people about our Native culture and why we are so proud to be Native American. This session will include the teaching of the Medicine Wheel and also a Talking Circle. 2nd session title: "Nobodv told me it was • going to be like this!!" March 17, 1998 - Guest Speaker: Valerie Gibbs (Ojibway) We will look at ''what to expect from a 'normal' adolescent". The presentation will also explore how drugs and alcohol complicate matters for teens and their parents. Interaction between parents and with the presenter will reassure parents that they are not alone and that many families share similar 'normal' struggles in raising children throughout their early and teen years. 3rd session title: "Tough love: Mean what you say. say what ..vou mean!" March 24, 1998 - Guest Speaker: Mary Roberts (Ottawa) This is a difficult topic to deal with because we are dealing with our own children. We will look at discipline techniques and how to be more consistent. This session will reinforce the teachings of respect between parents and children. 4th session title: "Because I said that so.... that's why!": Helpingyour adolescent understand the limits you have taught. March 31, 1998 - Guest Speaker: Pat Lynn (Thunder Clan) Structure and consistency are the two best tools for parents to use in nurturing their children. We will look at ways to adapt these techniques to enrich your child's well being. We will also look at ways of reinforcing positive behaviors. We will use role playing to practice the skills we've learned. Native Parenting Series Teaching Native Cultural Values To Your Adolescent Sponsored By: NATIVE AMERICAN PREVENTION SERVICES & INDIAN FAMILY RESOURCES 1st of 4 sessions Tuesday, March 10, 1998 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm 615 Turner N.W.(Multipurpose Room) (616) 458-4078 �-• 4 March 1998 About the Guest Speakers: Jack Chambers (Odawa) Photo unavailable Jack Chambers is a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa Indians where he is serves as the tribe' s official Spiritual Advisor and Cultural Traditionalist. Jack has been honored to·be used as a vehicle to carry a community pipe for many years. Jack is a father of four children and is a grandfather of six grandchildren. Jack is a veteran of the Viet Nam War where he obtained the rank of Sergeant. Jack brings a wealth of experience as an elder and as a traditional teacher. Jack believes we are to live a cultural spiritual life or we will cease to exist as a people. Valerie Gibbs (Ojibway) We are fortunate to have Valerie Gibbs present based on her wealth of prior experience. She has 25 years experience in Human Services, specializing in work with children and developmental issues. She has two bachelor's degrees, one in Psychology and one in Fine Arts with a Master's degree in Social Work. She is an experienced trainer in the social work community in providing education regarding working with Native clients. She is originally from Flint and has been a member of the Native Community in Grand Rapids for 23 years. She has organized rallies for the Native American Grave Protection Act. She has served as Vice-Chair and Council member for the Grand Valley American Indian Lodge. She is a traditional woman's dancer. As a traditional Native parent of two children, she shares the unique parenting struggles that Native parents face. Since her professional career as a social worker was ended due to an auto accident and traumatic brain injury, she has decided to contribute to her community in other ways. Val will join us to share her knowledge and join in as a participant. Mary Roberts (Ottawa) Mary Roberts, MSW, ACSW is the featured presenter for the evenmg. She will be presenting on "Tough Love" and will discuss ways of disciplining children and adolescents. Mary is a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. She was born and raised in Peshawbestown. She is a mother of five children and a grandmother of six grandchildren. She is also a step-mother of four children. She speaks from the heart when she talks about discipline and about blended families . She received her Masters degree in Social Work from Western Michigan University in 1978. She has worked for Kent County Family Court (Juvenile Court) for 17 years in the Crisis Intervention Program. She has worked as a· counselor and as a supervisor of two family counseling programs. She has continued to involve herself as a volunteer in numerous Indian Community events and programs and sits on the Board of Directors of the North American Indian Center. �• s March 1998 Pat Lynn (Thunder Clan) March Birthdays "Muna di bish ka win" Calendar of Events Amanda Abella Charles V. Allman Mary Cody Destry Contreras Michael Dillard Darcy Emert Maryanne Fasburg Lillian Garcia Cherri Gibbs Ed Gillis Joe John Tammy Leaureaux Craig Lett Julius Lewis Wayne Loonsfoot Jr. Jonnie Mackey Henry Mark Kyle McSauby Arianna Memberto Paul Morrisson Jennie P. Pigeon Norman Pigeon Pat Pigeon Elsie Raphael Al Recollect Tina Sams Will Shananaquet Gary Shawa Richard Shenoskey Jr. Lance Shirley Bret Shomin I Bret Shomin II George Shomin Joe Shomin Linda Shomin Edna Shriner Grace Shriner Daisy Sprague Taneasha Stevenson Tawas Thomas James Wesaw JimmyWesaw Wanda Wesaw Steve Waukazoo March 4th: Family Science Workshop "Making Science Fun". West Middle School Rm #325. Time 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Door prizes. Refreshments provided. Due to class size, reserve your spot by March 3rd. For more information call 7713318. Sponsored by Title IX. (No Photo Available) Pat Lynn has been working with children and families for the past sixteen years. For the past fourteen years she has worked with court referred youth and their parents through the Youth Service Bureau in Barry County. She also has experience conducting parenting workshops which focus upon the communication skills to help build a child's self-esteem. Pat has a great deal of experience working with parents, particularly parents of youth with substance use issues and Attention Deficit Disorder. Pat has a Masters degree in Social Work. She has been active in the Native community and lives with her husband in Southwest Michigan. Good acts done for the love of children become stories good for the ears ofpeople from other bands; they become as coveted things, and are placed side by side with the stories of war achievements. Social Tradition, Assiniboine March 7th: 5th Annual Native American Bowling Tournament. Lincoln Lanes Country Club. $1200.00 first place prize. Awards, reception, and banquet to follow. For more information call: 616-892-6267. March 11: Pancake Supper Fundraiser. Hosted by the Young Eagles Project. Lexington School Gym. For more information contact Renee at 616-458-4078. March 12: Coalition Meeting of Indian Programs and Services. 615 Turner NW. For more information contact: June Fletcher 616-336-7112. March 21 & 22: Red Road Traditonal Pow Wow. Dowagiac Union High School. For more information call: 616782-1142. March 26 & 28: Native American Critical Issues Conference. Sault Ste. Marie. �• 6 March 1998 March 27-29: University of Michigan Pow Wow. Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor. For more information contact: 1-313-64POW98. April 2-5: 4th Annual Anishinaabe Language Conference. Sault Ste. Marie, MI. For more information call 705-772-3543. April 9th: Symposium "Promoting a Healthy Circle," at Grand Valley State University Eberhard Center. Time 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.. For more information call: 616-336-4194. April 10: 10th Annual CMU Pow Wow. Mt. Pleasant, MI. For more information call 517774-2508. Talking With Your Child About Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Parents have an important role in discussing these issues with their children. Talking with your children may provide information they have never heard, reinforce things they have been taught in school or in other prevention programs, and let them know that their parents are informed and involved. It helps to prepare to talk effectively with your children about ATOD issues. The following suggestions are for preventive talk, which would be general discussions about ATOD before the problems exist. • To list your event in the Turtle Talk, please submit by the 10th of the prior month. Any questions please call: Hunter Genia at 616-458-4078. • Be well-informed. If parents can assist a child with information, peer influences are often less. Learn about the effects and the physical and emotional risks of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine/crack, and other drugs, and about adolescent substance use. You do not need to be an expert. You can find to complex answers questions along with your child. Knowing the facts will also help your child respect your judgment and rules. Examine your own attitudes and behavior regarding ATOD. These influence how you will discuss these issues with your child, and may come up when you talk. • Include alcohol and tobacco in your discussions. This is very important. Alcohol and tobacco are the most common drugs of abuse for young people. If you use these drugs, be ready to talk openly about your own use. • Understand family risks . Children are at a greater risk to develop alcoholism or other drug dependency if their parent or grandparent has an alcohol or other drug Share this problem. information with your children if it applies to them. • Listen to your child . Listening is often as important as talking. From time to time ask what your child knows about ATOD. Find out how much ATOD use occurs among people your child knows, and how this affects him or her. Ask general, non-threatening questions: "What have you learned about drugs?" ''What do your friends say about drugs?" "How much drinking or other drug use do you hear about?" "How much smoking goes on?" "What concerns you �• 7 March 1998 the most?" Listen without disputing or argumg. Most teens will talk if the questions are not threatening, especially if the issue is addressed early. Keep having the discussions every now and then. • • • Be prepared for challenges. The behavior you expect of your child may be challenged at some point by his or her friends . Peer acceptance is important to young people, and may threaten good judgment and family expectations. Show your child that you understand these pressures. Practice ways that your child can say, ''No" to inappropriate behavior and resist peer pressures. Discuss ways that they can avoid situations where problems may occur. Help them understand how to make wise decisions. Help your child learn to accept occasional negative feelings . Being sad, confused, frustrated, worried, or upset from time to time is a normal part of anyone's life. Discuss ways to manage feelings without using alcohol or some other drug. Establish clear rules and consequences about ATOD. With your spouse or other adults in your household, decide how you will handle ATOD issues and rules in the family. Make sure your child knows what you expect and what consequences will follow if rules are broken. • • Be aware of the message that you send if you choose to drink alcohol. Be sure that your own use is responsible and appropriate. Parents who drink excessively, who drink and drive, or who otherwise violate alcohol laws send the wrong message to their children. Talk with your child about adult alcohol use. Be honest about the reasons adults may use alcohol. Explain the difference between responsible adult use and the risks of use by young people. Help your child understand that alcohol is illegal for minors to protect their health and safety. Even if you choose to drink alcohol, do not allow underage youth to drink in your home or elsewhere. Communicate by your own example with other drugs. Use medications properly. If you use tobacco, seek help to quit. Do not use illegal drugs. It is obviously difficult for a parent who is using drugs to encourage children not to use them. • Be honest even if you once used an illegal drug yourself. Don't lie, but don't dwell on the subject either. Don't glamorize use or give a subtle message that since you survived, that use was okay. Stress that you would not want your child to make the same-mistake. • Send a message by your actions outside the family. Work with other parents and community members to create local community standards that encourage safe and healthy behavior and discourage ATOD use by young people. These actions can reinforce what you say in your talks with your child. e How to Talk With Your Kids About Sex Parents have the most important role in their children's lives when it comes to discussing sexual issues. Unfortunately, many parents don't know how to talk with their children about sexuality. They feel uncomfortable. They're not sure what to say or when to say it. �• 8 March 1998 If this sounds like you, read on! Talking to kids about sex doesn't mean teaching kids how to have sex. Sexuality involves many things: body image, relationships, feelings about oneself, and how sex fits into life. Your discussion about these matters will help your child make safe and healthy choices. Here are some guidelines for talking effectively with your children about sex. • • Get to know your children. It's hard to talk about sexuality with someone you seldom talk to. So if you're not having a good talk with your kids every day, start making time for it. Ask them about school, their activities, their friends, and their teachers. Tum off the television and find out what's going on in their world. If you start early and have regular talks with your ·children, ,., talking about sexuality will be more comfortable. It's important to listen too. Communication is a two way street. Let your children say what they feel. Every question is a good question. Let them question your beliefs. That way they'll know that they're to express allowed themselves, without fear of losing your love or feeling that they're doing something wrong. Try to understand where they're corning from • • and honestly listen to their feelings and concerns without being critical or judgmental. Begin early. If you think 14 or 15 is a good age to begin talking about these things, think again. The dramatic rise in teen pregnancy has revealed that many adolescents are having sex in their early teens (age 1214). Parents need to start talking to their children at an early age. Whatever age you think 1s right, the important thing is to start talking before your children become sexually active. Age guidelines for answering questions: 1. Ages 5-9: They usually want brief, direct answers . Questions are often about anatomy and how bodies function. 2. Ages 9-13: They usually want to know who, what, how, when, where, and why. They are most likely to ask difficultto-answer questions. 3. Ages 13-18: They need and want caring answers. They are usually reluctant to admit prior knowledge or need for further information. They want to know about • • appropriate behavior, birth control, love, and relationships. Talk, talk, talk. What do you say? How do you say it? It's not easy. But you can make it easier if you prepare for it. Ask yourself what you wanted to know when you were a kid. Write it down. Know what you want to say. Then set aside some time and talk one-onone in the kitchen, the living room, during a walk, in the car, or on the front steps feel wherever you comfortable. When the time comes to talk about sexual intercourse, stay away from "the birds and the bees" terminology. Use direct language. Call a penis a . . . pems, a vagma a vagma. Once your children know that you're concerned about their feelings, that you're willing to have an open, honest and non-judgmental conversation about sexuality, the dialogue will flow naturally. Get ready, get set, go! When your son or daughter begins to think about sex, it's important that you are ready, set, and prepared to go when it comes to answenng their questions and responding to their comments. When it comes to sex, there are a lot of things to think about, including signs of puberty, �• 9 March 1998 pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), HIVI AIDS, peer pressure, feelings, and values. As a parent, you are the best educator for your son or daughter. By keeping the lines of communication and trust open between parent and child, and by giving factual information geared to your child's age level, you can give your child good decision-making skills for when they encounter sexual pressures. Remember that practicing sexual abstinence is the best way for your teen to be healthy, happy, and free from the worry of pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, and the many other physical and emotional consequences of having sexual intercourse. If you need more information, contact the Michigan Abstinence Partnership at 1-800-626-4636. Sewing Circle Six week schedule This schedule is set up in two week intervals, so every other week we have a scheduled presenter. This will allow time for us to experience what we have learned from the week prior. By no means does this mean we can't go ahead with our other projects that may have already been started. The schedule will serve as a guideline to add consistency to our already successful group. If you have any other suggestions for lessons call Renee at 458-4078 . The following presentations are set up. We would like to thank Lorraine prior to her coming as the date she will be coming is prior to the Turtle Talk issue reaching homes. Nonetheless we are still inserting her presentor information. (Lorraine sharing at the Sewing Circle) 2-23-98: Lorraine (Punkin) Shananaquet will be sharing her wealth of knowledge concerning singing and dancing. If you haven't been coming to the sewing circle you won't want to miss this one. This will be a exciting time for every woman who wants to learn more about dancing and the significance of the drum and dance, pertaining to Native women. Have your questions ready for this champion dancer and member of our Native community. We will have the opportunity to practice with the drum circle (Owashtinong Chung-A-Ming) as they practice. 3-9-98: Jackie Pratt has found the time in her beading schedule to share and teach us specifically about beadwork. She will bring in her current projects and share her techniques. Even if you already know how to bead you still won't want to miss this presentation. This is a wonderful opportunity to share knowledge. Don't forget to bring what you have been working on to show Jackie and get some pointers through her methods. 3-23-98: Mae Ring will be offering us her valuable time for a presentation of weaving and textiles with natural fibre, and wool. Mae has been well known for her work in the Native community. She has offered her services to us for this one evening to see finger weaving, yam bag twining and a slide presentation of a mat weaving workshop she attended. 4-6-98: Birch bark containers have been an important part of the Three Fires People since before European contact. Renee Dillard will share with us how she constructs a mukak (birch syrup container) with all natural materials. You will have an opportunity to learn how she gathers porcupine quills and make a birch medallion with quill designs. All materials will be provided. 4-20-98: Shawl making is a important part of our regalia. We will share with each other all the knowledge we have about why women carry a shawl and how to construct one. Call the week prior to inquire about materials needed. �• I o March I 99 8 5-4-98 : We will have a talking circle to discuss what a traditional lifestyle means to us as individuals. Participants will come and share what they have been able to accomplish in the weeks previous, this way we can share our talents . with one another. Now is the time to give back what you've been able to learn. This is how we can keep the circle unbroken for future generations to learn about the beauty of our wonderful culture. Everyone is welcome!! YOUNG EAGLES 4-6 Grade March 4th, 1998 This is the first week of the next six week activity. We will be rehearsing our lines of what we are saying at the Pancake All You Can Eat Dinner. This will be the opportunity to have the youth educate the general public about what kind of activities we do here Native American Prevention Services/ Young Eagles program. Each youth will have a small part to memorize and recite at the event. This is the last time we will meet before the actual dinner. March 11, 1998 This is the event we have been planning for quite some time. Young Eagles need to show up for the fundraiser at Lexington School. We can work to set up the dining room at 45 Lexington NW. If you need a ride you must call at least the day before unless other arrangements have been made. We plan to have our youth Peer Educators "Da Native Thang" perform a Prevention based skit at 7:00pm while the public enjoys their dinner. The actual dinner is at 6:00pm to about 8:00pm. banner which states our commitment to staying alcohol, tobacco, and drug free. This is a cloth banner which requires much work in sewing on each letter that has been cut out of different cloth. We will be able to use this banner for many different events to let everyone know about the positive commitment we have each made in our lives to stay ATOD free. March 18, 1998 Not a lot of art and crafts stuff going on any more in our youth group lately, so its about time we get together and create something beautiful for some one we appreciate. It could be for our mom or dad, it could be for any other person we respect. We will be talking about respect and how different individuals have earned that gift from us. Then we will make a surprise project for that person. April 1, 1998 This is not an April fools joke. If all our plans went well then we will be leaving for Chicago. We will go over our project that we will teach the Chicago youth group, which is the medicine wheel making project. We will review the teachings about the four directions and the medicines that relate with each direction and the quality that it teaches. We will use this opportunity to continue working on the banner which states our commitment to staying drug and alcohol free. This is a cloth banner which requires much work in sewing on each letter that has been cut out of different colored cloth. We will be able to use this banner for many different events to let everyone know about the positive commitment we have each made in our lives to stay alcohol and tobacco and other drug free . March 25, 1998 We will continue working on the (Young Eagles working on a fun project at a recent meeting.) �• I I March I 99 8 WHAT THE PARENTS HAD TO SAY IN THE READERS POLL This month we did a reader' s poll on parenting to find out what our common parenting challenges and successes might be. The following is the responses that some parents, both male and female, single and couples, shared with us anonymously. As you can see some answers were close to identical, others were identical and therefore combined to one answer. A total of 20 readers were polled and one thing for sure, we are not alone in parenting' From the 20 readers, 5 were male, and 15 were female. "What is your biggest challenge in parenting?" *Economic security for my family. *Lead a lifestyle that they can understand and respect. *Health concerns of children. *Responsibility. *Instruction and safety. *Getting along with them. *To have them love me. *Discipline. *To raise them to be strong human being. *Doing it all by myself as a single parent. *Guiding teenagers throughout the adolescent years. *Letting them explore without prohibiting their spiritual learning. *As a working parent, having enough time for them. *Not prohibiting them from experiental learning. "What is your biggest fear in . parenting?" *Harm or endangerment. *Not being able to be there when they need you. *Peer pressure from adolescents. *Harm or medical concerns. *Lack of academic achievement. *Making unfixable mistakes. *Teenager years scare me. *That I wouldn 't be able to watch them grow. *I won ' t provide a foundation for good decisions. *They won 't tum out to be nice people. *I will give in to them. *Seeing them hurt. * "Responsible enough" to be out on their own. "What is your biggest joy?" *Children are good people. *Seeing them smile and hearing their laughter. *Family time. *Quality time. *Growing up to be a young adult, and accept people as they are. *Just being a parent is a joy. *I've never laughed as much as when I have been a parent. *My children' s success. *Seeing their accomplishments. "What advice do you have for other parents?" *Base good decisions on whether it's morally or physically wrong. *Be honest. *Listening skills *Set boundaries/safe sex. *Relax, take five, and bite your tongue. *Do the best you can. *Keep your children safe. *Consistency in discipline. *Make time for yourself. *Seek to understand before you can be understood. *Communication/ listening skills. *Don't get to excited at what kids do. *Your children are the best teachers for what they need. *Give them the chance to explore every aspect of growing up. *To love them through the hardest time. *Know as a parent when you need a time out. *Always have time for just them. We would like to thank those individuals that participated in the parenting poll. If you're a reader of Turtle Talk and would like to participate in future reader's polls, give us a call. Pancake All You Can Eat Fund raiser March I Ith at 6:00 p.m. at Lexington School Gymnasium. All proceeds benefit the Young Eagles for future projects and activities. For information on costs and donations please call: 616458-4078 and ask for Renee or Jennifer. �• 12 March 1998 RedCliff Wellness Curriculum Reaches Students In Area Schools! Native American Prevention Services just finished a six week Red Cliff series at Sibley Elementary school. Red Cliff, which was developed from the Red Cliff Ojibwa in Wisconsin, was purchased two years ago, in order to meet some of the alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention objectives in the N.A.P.S. program. However, it would be short changing the program to say it's just an alcohol, tobacco, and other drug program, because the promotion of social values from the Anishinabeg (Woodland Indigenous People) perspective are also shared. Some of the teachings and values are universal to most Native American tribes throughout North America. Grand Rapids Public Schools West Middle School (,JS Turner NW Grand Rapids, MI ~9SO~ The curriculum concentrates on teaching honesty, kindness, sharing, and respect while enhancing self esteem, in the classroom setting. Throughout the classroom lessons, students also learn to appreciate the culture and lifelong values of our people. The Red Cl!ff series has been well received, in part, because of the Full Circle Project which was initiated in Sibley School last year. Full Circle concentrates on tutoring and mentoring for Native American students attending Sibley School. Up until this article, the Red Cliff curriculum has been in the YMCA programs, St. Paul the Apostle School, Harrisson School, and Sibley School. Fountain Elementary will be receiving a six week session in the near future. Grand Valley State University Library Allendale Ml 49401 Evaluations have been very positive and the N.A.P.S . staff have also been flexible to meet the needs of the students in the classroom. Changes have also been implemented in program implementation which were learned from the on the road experience of teaching Red Cliff Individuals, parents, organizations, and school personnel who are interested in this program are encouraged to call us at 458-4078 . (Renee Dillard prepares to teach Red Cliff to Sibley students.) NON-PROFIT ORG l!S POSTAGE PAID Grand Rapids, Ml Permit No. J 19 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Native American Publication Collection Subject The topic of the resource Native Americans Indians of North America Anthropology Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Michigan Description An account of the resource Selected digital surrogates of published and unpublished materials from the Edward V. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Native American Prevention Services Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Genia, Hunter (Editor) Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/ed232d895474a25ee0d7126f743ce290.pdf 6737c0817ca6804ec63d33a716424252 PDF Text Text N E w s Turtle Talk Native American Prevention Services 615 Turner St. N.W., Lower Level Grand Rapids, MI 49504-6399 TELE: (616) 458-4078 FAX: (616) 458-2096 Mishikenh Geegadohawen L E T T E R January/February 1998 Jiiglt ligltts New Year's Resolution Suggestions to make it work for you! ................. J VOICES .................... 2 Michigan Career and Technical Institute ................. 3 Student wants school mascot name changed . . . .. . .. ......... 3 WINTER CAMP '97 .......... 4 K-3 Young Eagles ............ 5 Young Eagles go to Walmart! . .. 5 Cigars, is ii the new trend? ..... 5 January Birthdays . ......... . . 6 Turtk Ta/A Contributors: Hunter Genia Renee Dillard Jennifer Jones Turtle Ta/k's mission is to provide its readership with reports of local and national interest which may affect and impact our Native American community. Special emphasis will be placed on prevention information. Turtle Talk is published by Native American Prevention Services, in cooperation with the Kent County Health Department Turtle Talk due dates: Submissions to Turtle Talk must be received in our office by the first of each month for the upcoming month's issue. (Not all material submitted can be used.) Ifyou have a story or information you would like to share with Turtle Talk, please send ii with your name, address and phone number. You will be recognized by name in Turtle Talk ifyour article is used. February Birthdays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 "Nishnabe "M Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Calendar ofMeetings & Events ............... 7 Sewing Circle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 "New Years Eve - In Native Style!" . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Volunteer Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Logo Accomplishedfor Native American Prevention Services and Indian Family Resources . . . . . . 9 Parenting Series . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . JO Young Eagles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Pancake Dinner. ........................... J 2 New Years Resolution Suggestions to make it work for you! by Jennifer Jones What does ''Resolution" mean? It is a course of action determined or decided on. That's straight from Webster's dictionary. Do you notice how there is nothing in this definition that says, "drop something cold turkey", "totally cut something out of your life abruptly", or "now that you haven't exercised since last New Year's, go run a marathon, and suddenly starve yourself while you're at it!"? NO, nothing like that in this definition of "Resolution." The point here is "a course of action." So many of us make a New Year's resolution and get down on ourselves the second we break it. For some people, cutting something from their lives cold turkey is what works, but it doesn't work for all. For most of us ' we need to develop and focus on a "course of action". You know, set goals for ourselves but have an action plan in order to meet those goals. It's what we tell our kids, isn't it? So, here are some words of thought as we swing into the '98 new year. What "setting goals" may mean is to set small steps toward your goal or maybe just a few big steps. The trick is figuring out what works best for you! For example, if you are wanting to exercise more, eat better, and try to become healthier (this seems to be a popular one), maybe it would help to set small goals for yourself to get to where you want to be. If your body doesn't like to be shocked, don't shock it! You could start with walking and build up to something more, because sometimes what happens is people set themselves up for failure. What I mean is that they set things so high or ambitious that it turns out that they feel depressed or frustrated because they can't reach it. One suggestion is to set small goals for the immediate future and set aside some larger goals for down the road. As you reach your goals you can always pull out the large goals or make new ones. The key is to set yourself up to be successful. Whatever the case may be, you know what works for you, so don't be hard on yourself If you are having a tough time with that resolution ' (continued on pg. 2) �• 2january/February 1998 Native American Prevention Services Staff: Lora Church Program Director Hunter Genia Prevention Specialist/Educator Renee Dillard Prevention Specialist/Educator Jennifer Jones Prevention Specialist/Educator Wanda Blanco Office Services Coordinator The goal ofNative American Prevention Services is to deliver services and information that encourage healthy lifestyles while discouraging the use of alcohol and other drugs. Our program strives to ensure the information and services provided are culturally relevant and age-appropriate. We Provide: Information-relevant to the Native American lifestyle. Assistance and referrals-can be provided to community members as well as professionals about issues related to A.I.OD. (alcohol, tobacco, other drugs) Native American Youth Groups-are divided according to grade level and meet once a week throughout the year. Consultations and Presentations- can be provided to schools, organizations, community groups, including parents, on substance abuse prevention and/or culturally related topics. Special Programs and Activities- are provided to youth, parents and elders. break it down into a course of action! I would like to add that if you are thinking about stopping the use of substances such as alcohol, cigarettes, or other drugs, think about what your plan of action will be. Giving up these things can seem like an uphill battle every minute but yet can be won. Do you need to make a phone call to a family member, friend, elder, or a professional? Indian Family Resources can help you find the services and resources you need. If you feel you are ready, give them a call at 458-1641. We here at Native American Prevention Services and Indian Family Resources wish you and yours a safe and happy New Year. r I Ernest Loonsfoot- "I would like to quit smoking for good. My peers and will power will help me." VOICES Voices is about allowing the community to respond to recent happenings, issues, or topics that effect or could have an effect on the Anishinabe community. Olive Pigeon- "I would like to exercise for better health and I plan on joining a gym and treat it like work with a commitment." The Question: Now that the New Year is upon us, what is your New Year's Resolution? How do you plan to keep it? (Photo unavailable) Tony Hayes- "I would like to find a traveling pow wow partner and drive myself ifl have to, but will ask whoever is going to travel so we can go together." Tim Loonsfoot Sr.- ''Be a better parent and treat all women in life better and I plan on keeping it by working at it everyday and treating them with more respect." �rand Valley State • 3 January/February 1998 JAN 2 6 1998 "Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the road to spirituality. We feel that the road to technology... has led modern society to a damaged and seared earth. Could it be that the road to technology represents a rush to destruction, and the road to spirituality represents the slower path that the traditional native people have traveled and are now seeking again? The earth is not scorched on this trail. The grass is still growing there. " William Commanda, Mamiwinini, Canada, 1991 Michigan Career and Technical Institute Thank you for sending us Turtle Talk. I am sending you "approved" copy about our school, which I hope you will put in the next possible issue. Our school is one of only four which exist in the USA; it is a rare opportunity, please help those who might benefit from it, to find out about it. George Williston Michigan Career and Technical Institute 11611 W. Pine Lake Rd. Plainwell, MI 49080 (616) 664-9261 University Libra Michigan Career and Technical Institute - Plainwell, Michigan You may be eligible for free career and technical training at Michigan Career and Technical Institute. Michigan Career and Technical Institute (MCTI) is a very special school for special needs adults of the State of Michigan forty miles southeast of Grand Rapids on Pine Lake. MCTI offers job training programs in Auto Mechanics, Computer Programming, Personal Computers, Auto Cad Drafting, Dental Technology (making false teeth), Cabinetmaking and Furniture Manufacturing, Electronics, Printing, Upholstery, Culinary Arts, Machine Tool Technology, Wood Finishing, Office Machine Repair, Micro Mechanical (robots) and Custodial. MCTI is a residential school but you may commute. The training programs are from 20 weeks to two years. The school is designed to help people with disabilities gain employment. Many of the students there have learning disabilities. The school also serves people recovering from substance abuse problems. If you are having trouble getting a good job or are underemployed, you may qualify for this free training. If you are interested, call the school at 664-4461 or your local Michigan Rehabilitation Office in Grand Rapids at 242-6450. Aanii, my name is George Williston, and I'm also an instructor for the Cabinetmaking Department at MCTI, I'm looking for people to train for woodworking jobs in the Grand Rapids/Holland area. These jobs would either be in custom cabinetmaking or the furniture manufacturing industry. These industries employ almost as many women as men. The jobs start at around $8.00 an hour with full benefits. We have a very good and complete woodworking training shop. Please come and visit us. Migwech! Student wants school mascot name changed Highland, MI (AP) An American Indian student at Milford High School is campaigning to have the name of her school's mascot, the Redskins -- changed. "I don't think they meant any harm when the mascot name was first selected years ago, but today, Redskins is a derogatory name," said Jill Cadreau, who is Cherokee and Ojibwa. Ms. Cadreau, 18, says she is met with jeers of Indian war cries by other students. "Some students who don't want the name changed tell me I should leave and go to another school. But I was taught to face problems and not to run from them," she told The Detroit News. Ms. Cadreau, who transferred to Milford last year, has raised her concerns with the �• 4 January/February 1998 Huron Valley School District's Indian Education group, the high school principal and the board of education. The western Oakland County district has one of the largest Indian student populations in southeast Michigan, with 214 Indians among the more than 10,000 students in grades K-12. Beverly Smith, an anthropology and Native American history teacher at the University of Michigan-Flint, is one of Cadreau's most vocal supporters. "I'm very disturbed by the treatment Jill has received,'' Ms. Smith said. "She should be commended for what she is trying to do. ''Redskins is a horrible, racist anachronism,'' Ms. Smith said. "It is a hurtful name. You don't see other teams called the Whiteskins or the Blackskins." Other schools have changed their names, Ms. Smith said. Oak Park High School went from the Indians to the Knights, and Eastern Michigan University dropped the Hurons in favor of the Eagles. ''We don't have the Frito Bandito anymore, and you don't see any Little Black Sambo restaurants -- our vocabulary has to change as society becomes more knowledgeable about minorities,'' Smith said. Principal Bruce Gilbert refused to discuss the controversy at his school, where students are circulating a petition to keep the Redskins name. Winter Camp Pi.ctures (Is it the circus? No, it's the hard working stafffrom Winter Camp '97) (Hey it's Isaac, Kristy, Noni, and Ernest providing youth support for the staff at Winter Camp.) WINTER CAMP '97 I was off work for a month before we were scheduled to go to winter camp, so Jennifer did a lot of work before I stepped in. First I would like to offer everyone a sincere Migwech for helping us with the first winter camp hosted by our office. The kids had a great time and we were able to ensure their safety because of all the people who chose to get involved. Some of those people were from the Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council, we had four eager volunteers come forth and help us with the many activities we faced as campers. There were so many activities going on there wasn't any time for anyone to be bored. We had snowshoe races and broom ball games to making our own lunch in tinfoil outside in a fire. What we were all hoping for was some snow so we could go sledding. Of course we got plenty of snow the day we packed, oh well, there is always next year. So if you see one of the youth in our community wearing a WINTER CAMP 97 tee shirt that they designed themselves ask them how they liked it at camp. Those tee shirts were beautiful and all very uruque. (Despite no snow, twenty-three kids enjoy the first annual Winter Camp.) When the kids were making their saymaa pouches they were encouraged to use them throughout the camp. The question was asked if this was their medicine pouch and �• 5 January/February 1998 about half agreed. It gave us a teaching time to learn the differences between cigarettes and saymaa. It's nice to know that we have another handful of youth who understand this and will hopefully use it in the proper way in the future. Of course we all had our favorite moments and one of mine was when one of our kindergartners stood up to tell a story during our storytelling time with Larry Plamondon. You had to be there to get the humor but she definitely caught our attention with the "pow wow" story. The camp area was set up like a fort so the kids could go outside and play with a reasonable amount of safety. The little ones liked to play upstairs in the sleeping area too . All in all the kids and staff seemed to have a wonderful time. I thought the staff made a very good team and always seemed to back each other up in order to make the best of it for our children. We would like to host another winter camp in December of '98 and your involvement is welcome. Please give us a call at 458-4078 to ask any questions about volunteering for this or any other prevention event that is listed for the ' 98 year in this issue. The following parents and volunteers were equally responsible for making this camp so successful and we would like to acknowledge them in Turtle Talk: Francis Lawrence Trisha Trasky Tina Horne Julie Bennett ScottSaboo Diane Vries Ben Williams Karen Williams Becky Williams Noni Leo Kristy Dayson Isaac Dillard Ernest Loonsfoot Thank You St. Paul the Apostle school. Native American Prevention Services and Indian Family Resources has received a thoughtful and generous donation of winter clothing from the students of St. Paul the Apostle school. These items are brand new. If you or anyone you know is in need of hats, gloves, socks, shirts or a coat please call 4584078 or 458-1641 or you can stop by our offices. Again, thank you to St. Paul the Apostle school. K-3 Young Eagles Well, now that Winter Camp has come and gone, it's time to get back down to some Young Eagles Business! This six week session runs from January 5 through February 16. Come one, come all kindergarten through third graders! If you can't make it every Monday, that's okay, just come when you can. We would love to have new little ones! During these six weeks we are setting up for some fun times! We are learning parts of the Anishinabe language, T-shirt art, bowling, arts and crafts, and of course we'll have a pizza party at the end. Each night will also incorporate an activity lesson in regards to healthy lifestyles! Don't pass it up, come Mondays from 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. at West Middle School (NAPS office), 615 Turner entrance at Broadway. Any questions? Call Jennifer at 4584078. Young Eagles go to Walmart! I would like to say Kchi Migwech to the Grand Rapids Jaycees for organizing a huge shopping trip for the youth of not only Native American Prevention Service programs, but many other youth from other community organizations. Thanks to the Jaycees, kids from all over Grand Rapids got to purchase gifts for their family and friends . I saw lots of excited kids (tired parents), and great teamwork and dedication from the Grand Rapids Jaycees. Thanks for helping to make our community a better place! �• 6 January/February 1998 Cigars, is it the new trend? Did you know that since 1993 the number ofpeople who smoke cigars has increased by two million? People seem to believe that smoking cigars is safe. Michael Erickson from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated: "Tobacco smoke is tobacco smoke. There's no safe level of exposure to a carcinogen. " These are the facts: * A large cigar contains more tobacco than a whole pack of cigarettes. * Cigars contain nicotine - the addictive agent in cigarettes. * A standard half-ounce cigar can generate four times as much nicotine as a cigarette. *Most of the cancer-producing chemicals found in cigarettes are also in cigars. * People who smoke cigars have a death rate 3 5 percent higher than non-smokers. * Lung cancer death rates among cigar smokers are three times as high as they are for non-smokers. January Birthdays "Muna di bish ka win" Ron Barz Joseph Beebe Ruth Ann Chivis A'lilee Bah Church Sam Comer Manuel Contreras Carmen Corby Betty Davis John Davis Rhonda Davis Vivian Foster Timothy Carl Hatfield Virginia Herr Patti Ives Rosemary (Judson) Johnson Emily Elizabeth Kahgegab Joe King Paula King Carole Marble Barbara McDonald Felicity McSauby Merri Medawis Munsun Medawis Tenaya Medawis Bill Memberto Phil Memberto Robert Parkey Julia Petoskey Jesse Pigeon Leslie Pigeon Michael Pigeon Jr. Larry Romanelli Ray Saboo George Shagonaby Gary Sheahan Sarah Shomin Susan Smith February Birthdays "Muna di bish ka win" Luis Abella Shirley Bennett Percy Bird Camie Castanada Roderick Crampton Archie Evans Marilyn Geels Amy Genia Anthony Genia Melissa Harris Julia Leaureaux Richard Lewis Lyle Lett Tony Lett Gertude Malguen Linda Marshall James Mashka Loma McDonald Rebecca McDonald Lucille McSauby Henry Medawis Andy Pigeon Wanda Raphael Yusheka Raphael Terry Rasterhouse Sally Robinson Paul Ruekert Jeremy Sawmick Kristy Shananaquet Ben Shawa Kaine Shomin Pine Shomin Roberta Shriner Sheena Sotelo Mary Switzer Wag Wheeler Jamie Wilson Mathew Whip �• 7 January/February 1998 Calendar of Meetings & Events (If you would like your event listed, please submit by the 10th of the month prior to the month the issue is going out. Please read pg. 1 for detailed submission information) February 7-8: Muskegon Mall Pow Wow. For more info please contact: Mike Pearo at 1-888-8692433 . February 7-8: 20th Annual MidWinter Reunion Pow Wow. Location at Bay De Noc Community College in Escanaba, MI. Contact: Wally Blanc at 906428-9373 . February I 0: Native American Education Program Parent Committee meeting will be having a public hearing, where all parents ofNative American Students and the general public will have the opportunity to share their recommendations regarding programs and services to meet the needs of NA students in the GRPS . Meeting at Grand Rapids Public Schools Administration Bldg, 1331 Franklin. Time: 7:00 p.m. February 14&15: Michigan State University Pow Wow. As ofthis date no contact name. Suggest calling Patty Dyer-Deckrow (Office of Minority Student Affairs) 517-353-7745 . February 26-27: Career Expo of Saginaw Chippewa/CMU. Location at Central Michigan University. Contact: Martin Reinhardt at 517-774-2508 March 10: Native American Education Program-Title IX Meeting. West Middle School at 6:30 p.m. Rm# 241. March 12th: Coalition of Indian Programs for Kent County. Meeting at IFR/NAPS. 8:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. March 26-28: Native American Critical Issues Conference, Sault Ste. Marie. For more information contact: Paul Johnson - 1-517339-1069. Sewing Circle On Monday nights there is a group of people who come together to sew and help each other work on · their regalia, or whatever project they happen to be working on. These people have been instrumental to our youth by helping them get their regalia together. Shawls have been a good starting point for the ladies who want to start dancing, and center seam moccasins for others (such as men) who may be just getting started also . Whatever the project is, we are happy to have new people start with us and learn just what it takes to come out into the circle and dance. As you might suspect it takes a little more than desire. We also discuss pow-wow etiquette, responsibility, respect for our circle, and respecting our minds, bodies, and spirit. This has enabled us to teach our young and old beginners about "traditional" native values. We all have a real sense of accomplishment as we welcome in new dancers at the local pow-wows. The Owashtinong Chung A Ming (Grand River Singers) also meet on this night in the same room. So as we sew and learn from one another we are also learning songs to sing and back up the men singers. The drumming really sets the mood for everyone to get motivated and we even get to practice a few dance steps to the drum. If you're interested in learning how to start your regalia then you're encouraged to come. If you already know how to do this, then perhaps you can volunteer your time to help someone else. We spend this time on Monday evenings at the Multipurpose room of Native American Prevention Services. We start at 6:00 p.m. and finish anytime you want but usually no later than 8:30 p.m. Hope to see you soon and for more information you can contact Renee Dillard at 458-4078 . �• 8 January/February 1998 "New Years Eve - In Native Style!" - Nearly 200 people celebrate New Years Eve at the New Years Eve Sobriety Party! We also will remember the words spoken by John who encouraged us to remember our losses, learn from them and continue looking forward to a future filled with pronnse. (starting to gather around the drum to Ring In The New Year!) The 2nd Annual Anishinaabek New Years Eve Family Celebration held on Wednesday, December 31st, at the UAW Local 19 Hall in Grand Rapids was a huge success. The event was hosted and promoted by the Coalition oflndian Programs and Services. The Coalition is comprised of agencies and organizations that serve the Native American community in areas such as health, education, culture, employment, and substance abuse prevention and treatment. The Coalition was formed to respond to the many areas of need that our community has and to better network with each other for the benefit of all. After the blessing, which was given by John Bush, the evening began with a pot luck, which continued all night! !! We would like to thank all of those that were able to contribute their speciality dish for everyone's enjoyment. presentation in front of an audience. We look forward to future performances from this group. (Are they all in sync doing the Macarena?) (A few of the guys give it their best singing "Papa was a Rolling Stone.'') The remainder of the evening was filled by music, dancing, karaoke singing and raffles for door prizes. One of the many highlights of the evening was the kid's karaoke contest, which had our kids, ages 10 and under, competing for prizes while singing and dancing!!! The applause-o-meter could not determine a single winner, and declared a tie for first place by all the contestants. Prizes were awarded to all! !! Da Native Thang, made up of Native American students from the 7th grade on up, delivered a performance to remember on the issue of alcohol and teens. These students who have been working since their initial training in August touched many with their performance. This was the first time that they had done this Later ... . much later, we were treated by a command performance of the soon-to-befamous Three Fires Tuneless Temptations!!! Their unique rendition of ''Papa Was a Rollin' Stone", followed by a valiant attempt at ''Psychedelic Shack" (GONG), concluding with a mesmerizing Macarena (great choreography) prepared the audience for midnight! !! Thanks to Matt Blurnke, John Pigeon, Terry Chivis, Roger Williams, Bill Vandegriff, Hunter Genia and Courtney Biggs for leaving us with a lasting impression of 1997. The final moments of 1997 were spent gathered around the Owashtinong Chung A Ming while they brought the New Year in with songs of honor and renewal. The feeling of community was evident by the strength in our numbers (approximately 200 attended) and the healthy way we chose to �• 9 January/February 1998 celebrate the passing of the old year, and welcoming in the new. We were especially honored to have many of our elders in attendance. By recognizing that our strength is fortified by healthy environments and healthy activities, we will continue to prosper as our ancestors, and those that have gone before us, intended. We encourage more of you to get involved with the committee as they plan the '99 New Year's Party. A call to any one of the committee members as the time approaches (early fall) will be appreciated to let us know your availability to volunteer. Also, any feedback on ideas that could add to the next New Year's is very welcome. A special acknowledgment goes to the organizers of this event: Courtney Biggs, Matt Blumke, Mary Cody, Betty Davis, June Fletcher, Hunter Genia, Sally Kee, Debbie Muller, Joyce Robertson and Roger Williams. Keep your calendars clear for December 31, 1998!! Volunteer Opportunities Coalition of Indian Programs and Services. Contact: 336-7113. North American Indian Center. Volunteer applications available at their office. For more info: 336-4194 Family Resources. Valorie Gibbs was asked to do the logo and the following is the words that Valorie Gibbs, also known as Mukwaquay, translates the design as it means to her. Native American Prevention Services. Volunteer applications available at their office. For more info: 458-4078 Grand Rapids Public Schools Native American Activities Coordinator: Betty Davis 771-2189. Grand River Bands of Ottawa Indians. For volunteer information on the Three Fires Pow Wow call: 458-8759 Catholic Human Development Outreach - Native American Ministry. Contact Sharon Detz at 248-3030. Grand Valley American Indian Lodge. Contact Simon Francis at 459-6820. "This logo was designed to symbolize our capacity or ability to alter our future . Each new day is a gift. The Creator has answered all of our prayers by giving us another chance, another hope, and a new beginning with every sunrise and sunset. " Mukwaquay Indian Family Resources & Native American Prevention Services "Never doubt that a small group of thougtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. " --Margaret Mead Logo Accomplished for Native American Prevention Services and Indian Family Resources Recently we accomplished creating a logo for Native American Prevention Services and Indian Is now selling Coffee Mugs with their new logo on it. Price: $5 .00 each If you would like to buy one, please come by our office. If you have any questions, please call at 458-1641 or 458-4078. �• Io January/February 1998 Coming in March at NAPS/IFR Parenting Series Watch for flier or call for more information 458-4078 or 458-1641 4 parts Sessions will be 2 hours with Yi hour refreshment break 1st session title: "Nobody told me it was going to be like this! I" We will look at "what to expect from a 'normal' adolescent". The presentation will also explore how drugs and alcohol complicate matters for teens and their parents. Interaction between parents and with the presenter should reassure parents that they are not alone and that many families share similar 'normal' struggles in raising children throughout their teen years. 2nd session title: Tough love: Mean what you say. say what you mean! This is a difficult topic to deal with because we are dealing with our own children. We will look at discipline techniques and how to put them into place and keep them in place: Choosing the appropriate discipline and following through with it so that children learn respect. Parents need to have a clear idea about discipline once the session is over. 3rd session title: "Because I said so.... that's why" Helping your adolescent understand the limits .vou have set. Structure and consistency are the two best tools for parents to use in working with their teenagers. We will learn about these as well as how to parent specific children with their own personalities. We will also look at ways of reinforcing positive behaviors that happen. We will use role playing to practice the skills we've learned. 4th session title: Teaching Native Cultural values to your adolescent. This is all about the seven grandfathers and how to share them with your family. (Honesty, respect, love, truth, wisdom, humility, bravery). We will look at ways of sharing some of the inner meaning that life has for all of us within the family. Our young people learn in the early years by mimicking what they see the other children or adults doing. It is never too late to teach our young people about our Native culture and why we are so proud to be Native American. This session should include the teaching of the Medicine wheel and also a talking circle. �• 11 January/February 1998 Young Eagles 3 Week Schedule Every week when we come together as a group we first meet together with the older group to go through our language lesson (numbers, body parts, animals etc.). Smudging is offered to the youth as an option and not a requirement. Once we finish each youth group separates and does their scheduled activity. The following is a three week schedule for your knowledge. The Young Eagles is open to any Native American youth in the k-6th grades. Call Renee or Jennifer for more information on how to join. A new six week schedule will start March 2nd. January 28Collecting for the rummage sale in the spring and pricing the items. We will need a lot of help to go through the items for sale. We will be hosting the sale outside the school one weekend in the spring to help raise money for future activities. Families will be encouraged to box up sale items for donation to the Young Eagles group and plan on delivering them this week. February 4We will be making posters for the upcoming all you can eat pancake dinner at the elders kitchen area. A lot of advertisement in the form of posters and flyers is needed. At the dinner the youth will be serving the people. February 11y outh will be making Valentine's Day cards for parents. They may also work on a safety pin necklace for a gift. This should be creative and lots of fun making different kinds of designs. An activity surrounding sharing and kindness will coincide with this. Grand River Bands of Ottawa Indians We moved to 1251 Plainfield N.E., STE. B Mailing address & telephone numbers remain the same: P.O. Box 2937 Grand Rapids, MI 49501-2937 Telephone: 616-458-8759 Fax: 616-458-9039 "Nishnabe" AA Meeting Young Eagles Three Week Schedule for K-3rd Young Eagles. (New six week schedule will start on March 2nd.) January 26- Bowling Party February 2- Language: Learn your body parts in your Native Language, construct and decorate a paper body with learned parts. February 9- Valentine's Day Activity: Youth will be making cards for parents and other loved ones centering on Valentine's Day. People With A Desire To Stop Drinking Are Welcome Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. at West Middle School (615 Turner, enter off Broadway) in Rm# 35. And on Saturdays at 12:00 p.m. at SECOND CHANCE (Fulton near Lexington St.) Any questions call Gene 222-9626 Rm#534 or Sue at 363-9537. SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE, STRENGTH, AND CULTURE TO HELP EACH OTHER. �• 12 January/February 1998 Hosted by the Young Eagles K-6 grade At 45 Lexington N . W . • downstairs Pancakes all you can eat Grand Rapids. MI Three pieces of sausages Wednesday. March 11, 1998 Juice or coffee 6:00 p.m . :o 8:00 pm Bring your appetite and a small donation. Adults $3.50 Couples $6.00 Youth under 12 $2 .00 Come in and be seated while our youth groups bring you your supper. This event will fund the activities for the Native American Prevention Services youth groups. The youth have made a choice to have an Alcohol, Tobacco and Other ,Drug free life. You can support their decision by coming and making a small donation for our youth activities. Peer Educator Group ("Native Thang") to perform an A.T.O.D . 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Native American Prevention Services Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Genia, Hunter (Editor) Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/1b1c2543fe829c2d1338175d7fd1cbf5.pdf f00cdc95427ac738be7eb372da8d7f3c PDF Text Text N E w s Grand Valley State Turtle Talk Native American Prevention Services 615 Turner St. N.W., Lower Level Grand Rapids, MI 49504-6399 TELE: (616) 458-4078 FAX: (616) 458-2096 IJfC 18 1997 University Library Mnidoo Giisoonhs (Little Spirit Moon) Mishikenh Geegadohawen L E T T E R December 1997 JIiglf Uglf ts How American Indian children should be educated . ....... VOICES .................... Childrens Christmas Party ..... f'eterans Pow Wow Commillee Says Migwech! ........... Identity of Vetera n Portraits .... "Full Circle" ................ Circle ofLife ... . . ..... . ..... Title ff Native American Education I 2 2 2 3 3 3 Steps To Positive Parenting . .... .. ........ . .. 4 Working with Difficult People .............. . .. 5 5 A1embers of Youth Council Take Part in Communication Training! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 My Brother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Glimpse of The Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Learning Through Listening. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 "Muna di bish ka win" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 "Nishnabe" AA Meeting ... . . .. . . . . ......... 10 ................................... . . ll fouth WINTER CAMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 ........................ 4 Native American Parents Needed ........................ 4 Turtk Talk Contnbutors: Hunter Genia Renee Dillard Jennifer Jones Turtle Talk 's mission is lo provide its readership with reports of local and national interest which may a.!Jec/ and impact our Na tive American community. Special emphasis will be placed on prevention iriformalion. Turtle Talk is published by Native American Prevention Services, in cooperation with the Kent County Health Department Turtle Talk due dates: Submissions to Turtle Talk must be received in our office by the first of each month for the upcoming month 's issue. (Not all material submitted can be used.) Ifyou have a story or information you would like to share with Turtle Talk, please send it with your name, address and phone number. You will be recognized by name in Turtle Talk ifyour article is used. Opinion by Dr. Dean Chavers How American Indian children should be educated Back in April of 1997 I wrote in this space about how Special Education had become the growth industry of Indian Education. It is the wrong growth industry, in my opm1on. According to former Education Secretary Lauro Cavazos, some 46 percent of American Indian students nationally are enrolled m Special Education. This is the highest percentage for any ethnic group. It means that half of our American Indian children are being labeled by the schools as incompetent. This marks them for life. Their school records will follow them until they are 50 years old. Their chances are being very limited. That column prompted a lady named Sylvia Lambert to write to me. She had concerns about two things. One, American Indian children are being forced into English only instruction as soon as they enter school. She contends that American Indian students should be taught in their native language for the first five to seven years. She supports this contention with a chapter from the book "Multicultural Education" by Christine Bennett, which states that Cummins says "thinking skills developed in the first language will transfer to the second language. However, if the transfer from the first to second language occur prematurely, prior to the five to seven years typically required to reach the 'threshold level,' the child is 'likely to be cognitively retarded in both languages."' That struck a chord with me. In seven years of doing education evaluations, I found instance after instance of teachers and aides who said American Indian students were poor in both languages. They are being forced not to use their native language from their first day in school. They are supposed to learn English and forget their first language. But because the new English language is forced on them so early, they never really learn it well, either. In another chapter in another book which Ms. Lambert sent me a copy of, Dr. Jon Reyhner is quoted as saying "Children who are fluent in one language have no difficulty learning a second or third language, but children who do not (continued on pg. 2) �• 2 December 1997 Native American Prevention Services Staff Lora Church Program Director Hunter Genia Prevention Specialist/Educator Renee Dillard Prevention Specialist/Educator Jennifer Jones Prevention Specialist/Educator Wanda Blanco Office Services Coordinator Th e goal of Native American Prevention Services is to deliver services and information that encourage healthy lifestyles while discouraging the use of alcohol and other drugs. Our program strives to ensure the information and services provided are culturally relevant and age-appropriate. We Provide: Information-relevant to the Native American lifestyle. Assistance and referrals-can be provided to community members as well as professionals about issues related to A.T.O.D. Native American Youth Groups-are divided according to grade level and meet once a week throughout the year. Consultations and Presentations- an be provided to schools, organizations, community groups, including parents, on substance abuse prevention and/or culturally related topics. Special Programs and Activities- are Iprovided to vouth, parents and elders. model, which calls for five to seven years of instruction in the native language, then a transition to English in middle school. Instead, they get caught in the "submersion model," in which they either sink or swim. All instruction is in English only. Most American Indian students sink; way too few of them learn how to swim. About the only places I know where transitional bilingual education is taking place is at Rock Point, Ariz., and at the Akwesasne Freedom School in N .Y. Both of these schools teach in the native language only for six or eight years. All other American Indian bilingual programs I have seen or worked with start teaching English inn preschool or kindergarten. I doubt they are doing the right thing for students. According to Cummins and Dr. Reyhner, they are actually doing harm to students---handicapping them with a language defiency unnecessarily. 1&2 basically state that American Indian children should be taught in their appropriate first language for the first 5 to 7 years. Do you think Anishinabe youth in this area should be taught their first language in the schools? Do you think the public schools have a responsibility to help in this effort? Sharron Detz- "It is my opinion that if a total immersion school is offered to teach the Spanish language than why isn't our language offered to our own children. Our language is an ahnost forgotten tongue because we were punished severely for using it and therefore it is a lost "lost language" to many of our people. If for example, GRPS system will honor their mission statement, then they should allow for a total immersion school for Native Americans!" VOICES become fluent in a language before entering school are usually handicapped throughout their lives." These are the clearest statements I have seen yet for the "transitional model" of bilingual education. American Indian students rarely get taught in this Voices is about allowing the community to respond to recent happenings, issues, or topics that effect or could have an effect on the Anishinabe community. The Question: The article on pg. Jeanette St. Claire- "It would be good if the Indian children could be taught the language. If we have the resources the schools definitely have a responsibility to �• 3 December 1997 provide such a program to meet this particular need of our children." Trisha Trashky- "I feel every Anishinabe youth should have the opportunity to learn the Anishinabe language. But the teachers do not have the ability to even teach our culture other then at Thanksgiving time. How can they possibly teach the Anishinabe language. I also think the teachers can't be responsible to teach the Anishinabe language to our children. Learning the Anishinabe language can be a long process in order to be able to teach it correctly. If there were teachers willing to learn how to teach it then maybe we can have our youth learn it early enough to be good with it." Alcohol Kl/ls1 Choose a Better Path . · -·· ':: • :, . ' - Know !hf ~onsequences ot ·: alcohol and drug abuse Veterans Pow Wow Committee Says Migwech! Confirming Identity of Veteran Portraits The Veterans Pow Wow Committee wishes to acknowledge the Grand Rapids Anishinabek community for helping celebrate the Veterans both past and present who have earned a full measure of our respect. The continuining success to bring people together for this purpose is attributed to the valued old ways of the Anishinabe people. We honor our veterans in dance and song and have recently invited all veterans of all races and cultures to participate by inviting them to join our veterans in the circle. Originally this celebration and feast was initiated by the women of our people but today many hands are a part of the task of Pow Wow jobs and their help: Grand Rapids Community College; Grand Rapids Public Schools and Ottawa Hills High School and their multi-cultural programs especially Kathy Large, Syd Bailey, and Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Boyd; and the many others who's effort was needed and valued, the women who provided the feast and the dancers and drums that participated traditionally. We would like to highlight the young people of Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council and Young Eagles and their contributions both to the Pow-Wow and to the community in general as they pursue a road of health and service to the community. Migwech! The Public Museum of Grand Rapids is looking for someone who can confirm the identitv of two Veterans from their photograph portraits. The Veterans are believed to be Joseph Medacco Jr. and Chuck Sherman. One of these two Veterans is believed to have served in World War II, and the other around 1989. If you would recognized either of them, and if you'd be willing to take a look at these photos and confirm the identity of either one of these men, please contact Erik Alexander at 456-3526. Kchi Migwech! Kokoosh - Roger Williams "Full Circle" Grand Rapids Public Schools is providing tutoring services for Sibley Elementary school. If you have a Native American child attending Sibley, they can attend " Full Circle". The tutoring session has been going great. We service 2nd grade thru 6th, the tutors and students seem to have a good time. They enjoy each other' s company and look forward to each session. The program has 8 tutors for this first eight week session. People from the community are welcome to come and visit on Tuesday and Thursday from 4:00 p.m - 6:00 p.m .. During these two hours the tutors provide circle time, snack, tutoring, language, and activities. In the next issue of Turtle Talk there will be another update on the program and there will also be a picture of our tutors. Betty Davis - Coordinator Of Native American Action Plan. �• 4 December 1997 Circle of Life Breast Cancer Awareness and Education for Native American Women by Lora Church County Health Department Women's Network Services ' Cherry Street Health Services Westside Health Clinic, and YWCA - ENCOREplus. The American Cancer Society with the assistance of Native physicians and other Native health care professionals designed, wrote and evaluated the Circle of Life program. It highlights the importance of regular breast selfexamination and clinical breast mammography for the early detection of breast cancer. On behalf of the sponsoring organizations, I would like to share our gratitude to our Native health educators, Betty McBride, Amy Genia, and Wilma Kelly and to our sisters whom are the survivors of cancer, Jackie Pratt and Sally Olsen-Kee. Your kind participation is greatly appreciated! ! On Saturday, October 18, 1997, about 40 Native American women attended the Circle of Life Breast Cancer Awareness and Education program at Westside Complex. The 2 1/2 hour program included a presentation by Susan Radeky, MD; Native health educators explaining how to do selfexaminations; personal stories shared by two of our local Native women whom are survivors of breast cancer; and then closed with a give-away. Overall, I believe we achieved our goal of sharing information and education about the importance of caring for ourselves as Native women in a way that is respectful and that strengthens the true dignity of our womanhood . Child care services were provided by the Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council with activities planned with the assistance from the Grand Rapids Children's Museum. The event was sponsored by the following organizations: Indian Family Resources, Native American Prevention Services ' North American Indian Center ' American Cancer Society, Kent If you would like further information about breast cancer and/or locations of screening sites, please call our office at 458-1641. We will certainly work with you to find useful and meaningful information/services. Title IX Native American Education Parent Committee Meetings The Native American Parent Committee meets on the second Tuesday of every month. The next meeting will be on January 13, 1998 at West Middle School, 615 Turner NW, Rm. #241, at 6:30 p.m. If you are a parent of a Native American student, you are invited to participate. Native American Parents Needed Parents, the Native American Education - Title IX Program needs interested parents to become part of the Parent Committee. Title IX is set up to assist in educational support and cultural reinforcement of Native American students in Kent County. Title IX's efforts are to involve all Native American students and parents in Native American activities and programs; inform parents of community events; parent training programs; and when feasible, allow students to participate in tutorial programs. Any questions call 771-3318. The Parent Committee �• 5 December 1997 Steps To Positive Parenting 1. Show love and affection. 2. When necessary, take time to cool down. 3. Compliment your child 4. Set basic rules and limits. 5. Teach values. 6. Introduce your child to books. 7. Listen and talk to your child 8. Be the kind ofperson you want you child to be. 9. Offer guidance. Yearning to Learn Learning does not begin in school, it begins at birth. Studies show that children who are talked to and read to grow up to be readers. Talk to your baby sing; sing or recite nursery rhymes. Help your child to copy the sounds you make. Read early and read often. Children as young as six months can get pleasure from looking at picture books. Choose sturdy board books with bright colors, interesting graphics, and realistic pictures of familiar objects. Read with gusto, provide appropriate sound effects and movements. Don't be discouraged by your child's requests to hear the same book over and over. Your child learns much through repetition. When you are tired of it, try going through the book just talking about the pictures, instead of reading text. Take time in your busy day for reading, and let your child see you read. Let reading be a source of both information and pleasure, a useful skill and a shared joy. Working with Difficult People by Dot Yan die Whiners, prima donas, incompetents, ill-mannered boors! Keep your cool and learn to make problem personalities productive! We know them well, don't we? They come to work late, do sloppy work, spend too much time at the coffee machine or perching on the edge of a busy person's desk, take leisurely lunch breaks, then leave early to handle personal business. Or they come across as self satisfied, condencending jerks who think the world revolves around them, their careers, their accounts, their schedules, their immediate needs---and assume your time can't possibly be as valuable as theirs. Or they believe everyone has it in for them, the boss doesn't like them, and they get all the raw deals in life. They feel overworked, underpaid and unappreciated. They're always right--but always wronged. Or they have the_manners and social skills of cavedwellers ' chewing lunch or gum on the phone right into a customers ear, making obscene remarks or telling off-color stories to co-workers ' being generally offensive and somehow totally insensitive to the effect they have on other people. We could go on, but you get the drift. They are all the associates that--bad as you might feel about it--you try to avoid when you walk down the hall and inwardly cringe to see coming through your office door. You hope you won't end up on the same work team with them ' and--ifyou don't already supervise them--you pray you never will. Chances are, though, that you are already closely involved with one or more problem personalities in your workplace now. How you choose to work with them may have an impact not only on them by on your own future with the organization. What are your choices? Basically, you have three choices when you consider working with ornery personalities: 1. Bury your head in the sand, grit your teeth and try to work around them. 2. Confront each issue forthrightly and do your best to turn your problem personalities into productive members of the team. If the problem personality belongs to a boss or supervisor, option one may be your only choice; if you are not a manager yourself, with �• 6 December 1997 transfer and firing responsibilities, option two may not be viable. If you choose the third option and demonstrate your ability to handle the problems difficult employees create, while simultaneously making them more productive people, you will doubtless enhance your standing with your fellow workers as well as boost your career potential. Don't look the other way You' ve probably already discovered that sometimes you can adroitly work around the inconveniences difficult people cause, but that approach is temporary. In almost every case, it' s better to confront the problem than avoid it, allowing it to eat away at nerves, stress other productive staff members, annoy clients and customers, and generally cause you to dread the time you spend in your own workplace. The harrowing experience of dealing with difficult people-the ones who cause regular discord and aggravation day after day--can make good and valuable people resign from jobs they (otherwise) like and do well. That's a loss for the organization that many managers recognize. In a recent survey of CEO' s by he Robert Half International recruiting firm, eight percent named personality conflicts as the most common reason employees leave an organization. So confronting the problem, not ignoring it, is the step a person needs to take. Managing problems Once you face the matter, you can outline your strategy for managing it. You will often tell yourself that the best to have managed your problem personality would have been to avoid hiring him/her. There is truth in that. Of course, problems can be inherited, and they can develop after the hire is made. But careful screening and checking of earlier performance with former bosses before you hire can weed out a host of future headaches. Nipping aberrant behavior in the bud is another way to save a manager long term grief. The new employee who fails to meet deadlines, causes conflict or undermines morale with his/her negativity will benefit from early intervention. A quiet conversation may be all it takes. But personality problems are not created equal. While a talk and some time-management advice may work with a procrastinator who sandbags everyone else's schedule, tackling the lifelong habits of a whiner or a boor can become a challenge for the most gifted of managers. To change deep-seated behavior, a step-by-step strategy is in order (see exercise). And custom tailoring your strategy-recognizing that each person highly individual reasons for his/her behavior--is critical to success. In many cases, your ultimate handling of a situation will have to be balanced by concern for the person involved, your other employees, and the good of the organization. When the problem employee is also one of your most productive people, maybe a superego and super-salesman combined, your skill as a manager is put to the test. You can't allow a "legend in his own mind" to indulge in temper tantrums with secretaries and warehouse workers while simultaneously infuriating other colleagues with his overblown self-esteem. Yet keeping him in the organization may be important to the bottom line. Keep in mind that a big ego can bamboozle others into thinking he's something he really isn't. Before you spend time and energy on urging him to modify his behavior, look at his record carefully. He might not be worth the trouble he causes. In a recent exploration of what he calls prima donna behavior in the workplace (Fire me, I Dare You!, Inc. Magazine, 3/97), Peter Carbonara writes that some experts believe if you have too many prima donnas, you might need to take a look at your own workplace environment. "Swelled heads often come to the surface in a business that's making a transition from being a scrappy start-up to a more settled managerial culture,'' he wrote. But the smart boss treats the prima donna just like anyone else and expects him to follow the same rules. Says one consultant, "The �• 7 December 1997 cemetery is full of indispensable people, and once you start thinking that way about someone, you create all kinds of morale problems" and potential legal ones as well. That advice probably applies to most problem personalities. If the drain on a manager's time and energy is not justified by an employee's performance outside the problem area, it might be a favor to both parties to part sooner rather than later. 5 Members of Youth Council Take Part in Communication Training! The weekend ofNovember 21 thru 23, 1997, the Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council attended the United National Indian Tribal Youth in Communications training Madison, Wisconsin. The youth council members that attended were Heather Green, Tim Loonsfoot, Kristy Dayson, Amanda Pigeon, and Rebecca Williams. Hunter Genia, advisor for the youth council, was our chaperone, and we traveled and attended with members of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Youth Council. We went for communications training. First off on Friday we got to know the other councils who were attending the conference. We then learned how to communicate with Elders and other tribal officials. The former legislator Tracy Thundercloud from the Menominee Nation,gave us some communication tips on addressing councils and boards. On Saturday we learned how to present our youth councils to different kinds of people, then we worked on our new brochures. Sheila Reeves who is the journalism professor from University of Wisconsin-Madison, helped us design and write our brochure. Following this session we took a lunch break and went out t o a Mexican restaurant. We had a lot of fun besides leaving Hunter's burrito behind which forced him to eat burger and fries from Burger King that we had to pick-up on the way back. After lunch we had a session of media relations where we learned some interesting ways to get our information about our special events to the media. We learned how to work with the media and promote our youth councils. We also learned how to get a television station to cover our youth council events. The speaker was Patty Loew, who is Ojibway from Bad River, Wisconsin and is a broadcast journalist who has been in television over twenty years. Andy Hall from the Wisconsin State Journal gave us tips on newspapers and working with people from the press. He also interviewed a representative from each youth council. And finally on Saturday night we practiced working on our upcoming event "Junior Unity". We saw Santa Claus and got to sit on his lap when we visited the mall, however it· cost twenty-two dollars to have your picture taken with him, so we said forget it. On Sunday we learned when and how to release our press letter. Then we ended our weekend at Unity with the exchanges of addresses and telephone numbers. The other Anishinabek Youth Council members and I had a wonderful time. As part of our commitment to learning more about communications and how it impacts our youth council, the five that participated will be returning in the spring for part two of the training. respectfully submitted, Rebecca Williams My Brother November 10th is the day my brother will not forget . You see six years ago on that date he decided he had taken his last drink of alcohol. His life was a mess, his daughter was confused and his wife couldn't take it anymore. The one person who couldn't take it anymore was my brother. He hated what he had become, he had become an alcoholic. My brother took his first drink when he was nine years old and continued to drink until he was in his late twenties. My brother is a recovering alcoholic, and I'm not asham~d to say it, because you see when he drank I didn't like him very much. �• 8 December 1997 Now that he is in recovery and is a · still treasure everything he has to offer me. And to tell him "I'm so much better person to be around I love him dearly and I'm proud of very proud of you each and the choice he has made in his life. everyday, but most of all on Love your November 10th." Everytime I visit our reservation, I sister, Betty!! hear his name in good conversation. He is becoming one of the strong leaders in our community. Not only Glimpse of The do the elders respect him, but Future... (Take a journey as what's amazing is the youth respect him. He draws them near with his we look at Anishinabe youth who are taking life by the horns and music, his laughter, and most of all with his sincerity. making something of it.) He is the most beautiful person I've ever had the opportunity to spend time with. He !s quite a jokester, and he makes me laugh when I'm feeling down. You are probably wondering why am I writing this in Turtle Talk? Well it's because I know we have people in the community who have chosen not to drink, and I'm proud of your choice. I also would like to commend you all for your strength. I know just by watching my brother that this decision is a hard one, he has to live from day to day praying that he'll never drink again. His faith is great and I look to him for guidance because with everything he had gone through he is still living and is still smiling. My brother is younger that I, but I look to him for his words, I know that I can trust what he says because he has lived a much tougher life than I. I'm also wntmg in Turtle Talk because I would like my brother to see that even if we are miles apart, I Interview with Zeke Fletcher Q: What honors and achievements have you attained as a golfer? " I received first team all-state, allconference, all-area, and all-county honors. I placed 2nd at the class ''B" state finals in October. Q: Can you give the readers an idea of what it takes for someone to reach the level that you have? "An example would be the Eagle award that my golf coach put out for the hardest working team member. The criteria was 500 holes of golf and 4 tournaments. I played 1540 holes and played in 16 tournaments this summer. I would spend at least 2 to 3 hours a day working on my game." Q: What goals or future plans are you considering? "I plan to major in political science or maybe go into a pre-law program. I have some aspirations to become a public official." Q: Is there golf plans after high school in the works? Have you received letters or calls from Colleges or Universities interested in you? " I will definitely be playing golf in college. I'm not sure where. Some possibilities are Grand Valley, Spring Arbor, Liberty, and UNC-Charlotte." Q: Do you feel you've reached your potential as a golfer? If not what do you feel you need to improve on in order to reach that potential? "I have a long way to go to reach my potential, I have so many dreams that I don't think I'll reach them till I'm on the PGA tour. Reaching the PGA tour will be the most difficult of all. Those guys spend 7 hours a day and hit 1000 balls everyday." Q: Does your mom, dad, or other family members ever give you advice that has been helpful? "My parents have supported me through all my golf career. My parents are the main support and funding I have to play golf If I hadn't had the parents I have, I would not be where I am today. My mother really helped me calm down on the course if something would go wrong and both parents would tell me after a bad day of golf that there �• 9 December 1997 is always tomorrow." Q: What do you feel are your attributes that allows you to be good? "I'm a hard worker and I don't give up no matter how bad I'm doing." Q: What was the greatest highlight for you as a golfer? "It would be taking 2nd at the state tournament, which I actually tied for first, but lost to a birdie on the first playoff hole. Also receiving my all -state award at the all-state banquet." Q: What advice would you give to someone who is trying to be good at something? ''Never quit and stick with it. If you work hard enough at it you're going to succeed." Q: Is there a value or a teaching as a Anishinabe that has helped you as a person and a golfer? "Being Anishinabe has taught me that regardless of who I am I can achieve anything I want to . As a person I take great pride in my heritage and who I am, and I take every opportunity to let people know who I am." Q: What would be one of the most embarrassing moments as a golfer that you can remember? "I remember playing in a tournament and I bent over to mark my ball on the green and my pants ripped open. I had to play the rest of the round with a hole in my pants." Q: Lastly, it has been said that you could compete with Tiger Woods on the fairway, is that true Goking)? "I have a long way to go to even think about playing with Tiger Woods. Many great golfers have taken their entire life to accomplish what he has in 22 years." Do you know a young person who we should talk to and can share what it takes to be successful? Let us know! Learning Through Listening Wilfred Pelletier, an Odawa Anishinabe born in the village of Wikwimikong on Ontario's Manitoulin Island, Canada, wrote "Childhood in an Indian Village " for a Toronto magazine about 1966, while on the staff of the Institute for Indian Studies at Rochdale College in Toronto. I have been to numerous communities acrosss Canada and I still do not find where Indians teach. All young children wre allowed to grow, to develop, to learn. They didn't teach you that this was mommy, daddy, desk, ash tray, house, etc. We learned about these things by listening to the words adults spoke, what they said when they were talking, and built our own kind of relationship with the article. If you observe your children now you will see a child tum a chair over, cover it with a blanket and use it for a house. He can relate many ways to a chair. As we get older we have only one relationship and that is to stick our rear ends on that chair. It's for no other purpose, and, in fact, we tell our kids that that is what it is, and it belongs in a comer and don 't move it out of there. These things I remember very well . We were brought up to have a different relationship to a house and to all the things that surround us. That is, the values that adults placed on things in the community did not necessarily carry over nito their child and lead him to place the same values on them. Children discovered the values of these things on their own, and developed their own particular relationships to them. ' This is very closely related to the religion of the community, which centered entirely on man. One of the practiced ethics of the community was non-interference. No one interfered with us, and this way of living still exists today. If you go to an Indian home the kids don 't come up and bug you while you are talking to someone else. They might come and stand by you quietly, just as an adult might. If you observe Indians someplace, they will stand quietly, and only when they are acknowledged will they speak. If they get into a group session, they will act the same way. They will sit and listen to people talk, and when they get the opportunity they will speak, but they won't cut you off or interfere. There are some who do this not, but not very many. Most of them will just wait. And part of th reason our parents say so little ist that that' s their way. They don' t teach like white people. They let their children make their own decisions. The closest ever got to formal teaching was to tell stories. Let me give you an example. We had been out picking blueberries one time, and while sitting around this guy told us this story. The idea was taht he wanted to get us to wash up-- to wash our feet because we had been trampling through this brush all day long. He talked about a warrior who really had a beautiful body. He was very well built, and he used to grease himself and take care of his body. One day this warrior was out, and he ran into a group of other people whom he had never seen before. They started to chase him. He had no problem because he was in such good shape. He was fooling around playing with them because he was such a good �• I 0 December 1997 runner. He ran over hills and over rocks, teasing them. Then he ran into another group. The first group gave up the chase. But now he had to run away from this other group, and he was fooling around doing the same thing with them. All of a sudden he ran into a third group. He rean real hard and all of a sudden he fell. He tried to get up and he couldn't. He spoke to his fee and said, "What's worng with you? I'm goint to get killed if you don't get up and get going." They said, " That's alright. You can comb your hair and grease your bodyand look after your legs and arms but you never did anything for us. You never washed us or cleaned us or greased us or nothing." He promised to take better care of the feet if they would get up and run, and so they did. This is one of the stories we were told, and we went up and washed our feet right away and then went to bed. Maybe this happens among other ethnic groups, I don't know, but this is the kind oflearning we had. I will never forget the kinds of things we learned, because to me it all belongs to me. It isn't something that someone says is so; it's mine. I'd wanted to go hunting, and the guys would know I couldn't get across the stream because it was flooded, but they wouldn't say anything. They' d let me go, and they'd say O.K. knowing all the time I couldn' t get through. But they wouldn't tetll me that. They'd let me experience it. And I'm grateful to these people for allowing me to have this kind of exploration/learning situation. Secondly, of course, that fact sis taht maybe I could have gotten across where they couldn't, discovered something different, a method that was new. I think this kind of learning situation is one the . really important things that Indians have today and which could contribute to the society we have today. That is, a learning situation For people, instead of teaching or information g1vmg. November Birthdays "Muna di bish ka win" Harvey Anderson Sarah Andrews Derek Bailey John Bennett Sarah Bissell Matthew Boyer Isabel Campos Christopher Cuellar Comer Melissa Daniels Lanelle Ferrere Kathleen Floyd Trisha Genia Robin High Jenny Ives Michael Kelly Jerry King James Mataxagay Carrie Martinez Jeremy Merryweather Anna Nadowegesa Deb Pigeon Edmund Pigeon Alberta Popma Andrea Popma Joseph Raphael Richard Raphael Robin Raphael Dave Russell Billy Schrubbe Christine Shomin Joshua Shomin Cherish Skinner Shayna Skinner Tracy Wesaw "Nishnabe" AA Meeting WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL 615 TURNER, NW GRAND RAPIDS (use Broadway Entrance) People With A Desire To Stop Drinking Are Welcome Time 6:00 p.m. Also on Thursdays "Nishinabe" A.A. Meeting Saturdays 12 noon. At SECOND CHANCE on Fulton near Lexington St. Any questions call Gene 222-9626 Rm#534 or Sue at 363-9537. SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE, STRENGTH, AND CULTURE TO HELP EACH OTHER. �• I I December 1997 THE COALITION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS AND SERVICES INVITE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY TO~~~ i-11~ :2:11t1 tl1111lJC11 A11ist111abek Ne\\P Years Eve F a1nil-,,1 Celebr atio11!!! bring ·your s'\veetie, kids, moms, and dads ... your grandparents, aunts, uncles, everyonelll POTLlJ(~K BRING YOUR FAVORrfE DISH TO SHARE Ki\.Rl\OKE ~ riilJSI(~ , ~~J\JD Di\_t\J~(;ING .J J wrrH MASfE ROF CEREMONY ,', J MATT BLUIV1f<E 0\1:-llSHTINONG CHl.JNG A It'llNG VVILL BRING IN THE ~~EW YEAR gjJ.·tt4'~,.i _J_O__I-11--TH_E_f_iu_N_! ,_£JC1 W-1 EN: DEC9.i1BER31 , 1997 WE: 7:00 P.M. • l :00 AJ.A. W-IERE: LOCAL 19 UAW. HAll 1750 a..YDE PARK S.W. (BEl\l'vEEN BU RlON &. AND~ IC.AG()/ GRAN OVlllE) FOR MORE INFORMATION CAll: (616) 4~·407~ (NAPS') OR53~·9644 MARYOJDY (MIETS') §panscred by members of the . COALITION OF INDIAN PROCiRA.M§ AND SERVICES �• 12 December 1997 Native American Youth WINTER CAMP K-6th Grade We are happy and excited to inform all of you parents of K6th grade Native American Youth that Native American Prevention Services will be offering an opportunity to go to WINTER CAMP! We will be accepting registrations on a first come first serve basis. Activities will include sledding (If snow is provided!), snow shoe relays, outdoor cooking and fire tending, orienteering (learn to use a compass), and Traditional Native Story telling. We believe this camp will be lots of fun for the kids and they will learn a lot of things. If we get a lot of youth signing up and everything falls into place, we would like to make this an annual event. All that the kids need is their bedding, tooth brush and paste, towel and soap and shampoo, a plate, bowl, cup, and silverware, as well as plenty of warm coats, boots, socks, mittens, and hats for outdoor fun and games. The kids that attend will be staying in heated cabins with appropriate adult and junior volunteers. A small good faith fee of $10. 00 per family is required to ensure your children's space. We have limited funds and need help from the parents and other volunteers. All volunteers will be going through a mandatory training and orientation. Please call the NAPS office at 458-4078 for more information on volunteering. If you would like to help with transportation or know of a young person between the grades of K-6th who would like to have fun at our first ever Native American Youth Winter Camp, please call Jennifer or Renee at the Prevention office at 4584078. We plan on having fun and get to know each other a little better, so come join in the fun at the Native American Youth Winter Camp!! 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Native American Prevention Services Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Genia, Hunter (Editor) Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/60084bdef9cf17572a50772e4c6e3a31.pdf 597b056f6706861ccc35b36d47ed4897 PDF Text Text N TU rtl e Talk E w s GranCJ Valley Sfaf~ NOV 07 1997 University Library Native American Prevention Services 615 Turner St. N. W., Lower Level Grand Rapids, MI 49504-6399 TELE: (616) 458-4078 FAX: (616) 458-2096 Baashkaakodin Giizis (Freezing Moon) Mishikenh Geegadohawen L E T T E R NOVEMBER 1997 JI igij ligijts L.A. school district abandons American Indian mascot ... 1 VOICES .................... 2 Pow Wow & Events Calendar . .. 2 You 'II be glad you decided to quit smoking ................. 3 Smoking takes toll on American Indians . . ............... 3 Young Eagles 4-6 ............ 4 Great American Smokeout ..... 5 November Birthdays ... . ...... 6 New Staff on Board... . ........ 6 C'MonEverybodyJUMP! ..... 6 Dribble A Basketball Around The Turtl.e Talk Contributors: Hunter Genia Renee Dillard Jennifer Jones Turtle Ta/k's mission is to provide its readership with reports of local and national interest which may affect and impact our Native American community. Special emphasis will be placed on prevention information. Turtle Talk is published by Native American Prevention Services, in cooperation with the Kent County Health Department Turtle Talk due dates: Submissions to Turtle Talk must be received in our office by the first of each month for the upcoming month's issue. (Not all material submitted can be used.) Ifyou have a story or information you would like to share with Turtle Talk, please send it with your name, address and phone number. You will be recognized by name in Turtle Talk ifyour article is used. State .................. ............. ... .... "Nishnabe" AA Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THINKING ABOUT GOING TO MICHIGAN STATE ............. : . . .. ............... Debahjehmujig is coming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 7 7 8 L.A. school district abandons American Indian mascot Los Angel~s, Calif.--- In the city with more cameras to capture its moves than anywhere else, the Los Angeles Unified School District laid its American Indian mascots to rest Sept.8. It is the last of the Gardena Mohicans, the Birmingham Braves of Van Nuys, and the University High Warriors in the school district of670,000. American Indians groups are celebrating a visible victory "against institutional racism." Read page 2 for community members response to the American Indian mascot ruling in Los Angeles. "It's great news and it's a start," said American Indians in Film founder Sonny Sky Hawk, whose speech before the school board Sept. 2 prompted the move. "We've been fighting with the Washington Redskins, we've been fighting with the Atlanta Braves, and that's a bigger bite to take, but this is the second-largest school district in the United States." For 17 years, groups like American Indians in Film, the American Indian Education Commission, the American Indian Movement and others have taken the Los Angeles Unified School District to task on the mascot issue. Finally, a resolution by school board member George Kiriyama was introduced Sept.2 to end the use of American Indian images as mascots there. The board vote the following Monday, Sept.8 was unanimous, with an abstention by the board president, who lives in a district where some don't see the need for a change. The concession came after a strong speech to the board by Mr. Sky Hawk, Sicangu Lakota from Rosebud, S.D., who was also speaking for the Committee for Native An1erican Rights. "We find it to be reprehensible, repugnant and appalling to taxpayers, parents and children of all colors and races," he said. The mascots "reduce the American to the form of a carciture," he said. He also showed the board editorials from Indian Country Today that condemned the use of such mascots. And, Mr. Sky Hawk had threatened a lawsuit as a last resort. "Any taxpayer funded institution cannot discriminate against anyone," he told the board. The resolution to elinlinate the mascots said it is district policy "that institutional forms of racism be identified and challenged" and that the mascots can evoke "negative images that become deeply embedded in the minds of students, depicting American Indians in inaccurate, stereotypic, and often violent manners." It went on to admit that "inappropriate and insensitive" use of mascots "may prevent American Indian children from developing a strong positive self-image." The changeover is already underway and according to the resolution, should take place by the end of this school year, district communications spokesperson Shel Erlich said. (Cleveland Indians Mascot) �• 2 November 1997 Native American Prevention Services Staff: Lora Church Program Director Hunter Genia Prevention Specialist/Educator Renee Dillard Prevention Specialist/Educator Jennifer Jones Prevention Specialist/Educator Wanda Blanco Office Services Coordinator The goal of Native American Prevention Services is to deliver services and information that encourage healthy l~festyles while discouraging the use of alcohol and other drugs. Our program strives to ensure the information and services provided are culturally relevant and age-appropriate. We Provide: Information-relevant to the Native American lifestyle. Assistance and referrals-can be provided to community members as well as professionals about issues related to A.T.O.D. Native American Youth Groups-are divided according to grade level and meet once a week throughout the year. Consultations and Presentations- an be provided to schools, organizations, community groups, including parents, on substance abuse prevention and/or culturally related topics. Special Programs and Activities- are provided to youth, parents and elders. " We have prevailed, and now our children can look forward to a brighter tommrnw, free from the ridicule and demeaning stigma of racism and mascots," said Mr. Slqr Hawk. " Who knows how many American Indian children have suffered and been affocted by this injustice?" The fact that the school district is so large, and located in such a visible city won' t hurt the groups chances of opening eyes on the issue, Mr. Sky Hawk acknowledged. The school district is setting a positive example, he said. "We are putting all the other school districts throughout the nation on notice that we will be approaching them as to the insensitivity and the incorrectness of this," he said. "A lot of it is ignorance, a lot of it is unwillingness to change tradition. It's the same comments we've always heard, that they're honoring our people, but it's a simple fact that some of these people just don't get it." Mr. Sky Hawk said no one group could claim the victory alone. Other supporting organizations include the Rainbow Coalition, The American Jewish Congress, The National Hispanic Media Coalition, The NAACP, The National Congress of American Indians, The American Arab Anti-discrimination Committee, The Media Action Network for Asian American and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. VOICES Voices is about allowing the community to respond to recent happenings, issues, or topics that effect or could have an effect on the Anishinabe community. The Question: How do you feel about the recent ruling in Los Angeles that eliminates the use of American Indian mascots in schools? John Pigeon "How many of our Anishinabe people have endured this disrespectful, stereotypical image of our people? How long should this shameful practice continue at our public schools? Why should our children be subjected to this? Our strong united voice can answer all these questions." Pow Wow & Events Calendar November 1-2 2nd Annual Huron Potawatomi Pow Wow. Battle Creek, MI. Kellogg Arena. For more information call the Tribal Office at 616-729-5151 or Mon-ee Chivis at 616-729-9436. November 8 Lansing Community College Pow Wow. Lansing, MI. Lansing Community College Gymnasium. For more information call Eva Menefee at 517-483-1191. November 15 Veterans Pow Wow. Grand Rapids, MI. Ottawa Hills High School. (Rosewood & Burton). For more information call Grand River Bands of Ottawa Indians office at: (616) 458-8759. Derek Bailey "It's a positive step to bring more awareness about how negative stereotypical images can impact Native and non-Native youth and adults." Fall Conference. November 15 New Baltimore, MI. Anchor Bay High School, 48650 Sugarbush Road. Sponsored by American Indian Communities Leadership Council. For more information call Karen Gorman at 810-598-1222. �• 3 November 1997 5th Annual November 15-16 Native American Festival and Mini Pow Wow. Novi, MI. Novi Expo Center; I-96 & Novi/Wald Lake (exit 162). For more information call Metro Parent Magazine at 248352-0990. November 29-30 Toronto International Pow Wow. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. SkyDome Stadium, Indian Art-I-Crafts, 10 Woodway Trail, Brantford, Ontario N3R 5Z3 . For more information call 519-751-0040. You'll be glad you decided to quit smoking when you see these facts! * Cigarette smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals, and 200 of these chemicals are poisonous, such as: * On the average, smoking will take 4 to 8 years off your life. But maybe more importantly, it will reduce the quality of your life, leaving you with less money, less energy and more illness. * American Indians are twice as likely to die from smoking than any other addiction/disease! * American Indians have the lowest lung cancer survival rate for any ethnic group in the U.S. * Nearly all people who die oflung cancer, throat cancer or emphysema, are smokers. * Smoking causes the following types of cancer: -lung -bladder -stomach -larynx (throat) - cervix * Women who smoke when they are pregnant take a big risk. Their babies may be: - born very small - born prematurely - born with learning disabilities. - at high risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (crib death) * Children who are around tobacco smoke have more: - coughs and colds - middle ear infections - asthma and allergies - pneumonia and lung disease * Children learn by watching their parents and are more likely to smoke if their parents smoke. kids. It's your decision. 2. Tell your family and friends that you are quitting. Once you have told people you are going to quit, it will be harder for you to change your mind! 3. Make you home smoke-free. Don't let anyone smoke in your home. A small sign posted outside can help. 4. Get help! Ask someone to quit with you at the same time. Ask a friend or relative who doesn 't smoke to support you and to be there when you need someone to talk to . Planning to Quit Many of our Native people have quit smoking, and many of them did it without any help. They just made up their minds and said, "That's it - no more cigarettes I" Many of our Native people have quit smoking, and did it with a lot of help. But first they had to say, "I'm going to do it!" For most people it's a good idea to spend one or two days getting ready to quit. 1. Decide on a date when you will quit. The important thing is for you to pick the date - not your doctor not our famil not our Native American Children!! Winter Camp is Coming! Find out when in the next issue of Turtle Talk Gift Baskets Help a Friend This Holiday! The Youth Council will be asking for non-perishable food items between now and Thanksgiving! Gift Baskets will be made. Just drop off at Native American Prevention Services Office between 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. �• 4 November 1997 CURRENT UPDATE! Smoking takes toll on American Indians 39 percent of American Indians smoke By K. Marie Porterfield Indian Country Today ROCKVILLE, Md.-American Indians/ Alaska Native have the highest rates of tobacco use of any other group of people in the United States. According to information gathered in the 1993 National Health Interview Survey, 3 9 percent of American Indians smoke, compared to a 25 percent rate for smokers in the general population. "Preventing people from smoking and helping them to quit has become a primary concern because we see rising rates of chronic illnesses caused by smoking like heart disease and lung conditions," said Craig Vanderwagen, M .D., Indian Health Service director of clinical and preventative services. He applauds the recent decision by the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe to sue the tobacco companies for damages in order to recoup money spent on medical care for tribal members addicted to nicotine. ''We're especially concerned about young people and women," he said. "Young smokers are developing lifetime patterns, and women's rates of smoking-related illnesses are on the rise ." Heart disease is the number one killer of American Indian women, followed by lung cancer. According to information from the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, 3 3 percent of American Indian women smoke during pregnancy. Smoking has been related to lower birth weight babies, miscarriages, sudden infant death and premature births. Reversing the trend is not a job the IHS can do on its own, Dr. Vanderwagen said. "We need to work with Indian leadership to educate women and children to the effects of tobacco use," he said. Young Eagles 4-6 The Young Eagles have been doing great things during the last session. The youth have been making working hard on projects and we should have a full display at the upcoming Veterans pow-wow showing off all the past weeks hard work. We have been doing center seam moccasins which are very appropriate for the Woodland Area before European contact. The big lesson for the young people to learn about is, there wasn't anything that Anishnaabek needed, the European people only brought what was convenient. Mother Earth provided many gifts from the Creator. This concept has a positive influence on their self image. Many times our children are taught that Anishnaabek were lacking in civilization, when the truth is the Anishnaabek people were flourishing on this continent for thousands of years. Also we have been honored to have John Pigeon come and teach us the value of one particular gift from the Creator which is the black ash tree. He has been teaching the youth how to construct a basket and how we don't take things for granted but instead must show our respect for the things we use in order to construct these beautiful pieces of art. Most of the hard labor had been graciously done by John prior to coming such as we having prepared materials (splints) to work with. Megwetch to John and his family for sparing us from having to pound a log. The baskets are as beautiful as the young people constructing them. For the past few weeks the Youth Leadership Council has been joining us and the results have been wonderful. It has been a great joy for both Hunter and myself to see a community of young people sharing with one another. If you know of a young person who would like to become involved, please give us a call at 458-4078, we would be happy to make our circle of youth larger. WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY NATIVE AMERICAN STUDENT ORGANIZATION WELCOMES • INDIGENOUS COME CELEBRATE NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH AND GET DOWN TO THE RESERVATION BLUES SOUND OF THIS UP AND COMING TRIO SATURDAY NOV 22ND, 8:00 P.M. WEST BALLROOM, BERNHARD CENTER ADMISSION IS FREE, FOR MORE INFO CALL: 1-616-387-2279 �• 5 November 1997 Great American Smokeout is November 20th! Put away the Nicotine Traditional Use of Tobacco Daily Non-Traditional Use of Tobacco Risk of Cancer: None Risk of Cancer: Very high if you use chew, snuff, or smoke cigarettes. Type of Use: Benefits: Tobacco offering to the earth or a fire. It is held in the hand and is not smoked. Offered to a healer, elder, or other person as a sign of respect. Discipline Respect for the creator and all creation Understanding of Indian culture. Spiritual development towards being a good person. Special Notes: There are many traditional ways to use tobacco. It is smoked in some traditional ceremonies. However, it is generally used less than once a month. There is no risk of cancer when used this way. IC\ f°"; I /Ir l 'i Type of Use: Chewing tobacco in any form Using snuff in any form. Smoking cigarettes. Benefits: No benefits. Special Notes: Some people chew or smoke for relaxation, weight control, and to concentrate better. Other people do it to to be cool, for an image, or or to keep from being bored. In p\!('.)' ,.n~ ,n. ' ! !j ' J 1 ii 1 I Li J ! ! I I I/ /11 /~, r,,~ .llJ\ ~ ,,,t)'') ~ ulf'>../l•~,;!f:.• ~t; ~;J ,v"J.1 {/ LJ ,NI) ~~· ·~-- -->---,: "' ' •' .t'-. Some Ideas and Suggestions For Quitting The Smoking Habit: a. Substitute citrus juice for nicotine. An occasional glass of orange juice or lemonade helps to flush the nicotine from the system. b. Drink plenty of water during the day. c. Frequently practice oral hygiene to eliminate the taste of food that triggers the desire to smoke. d. Go for a short walk and practice deep breathing instead of having a cigarette. e. Take a warm shower or bath. f. Initially attempt to avoid coffee, liquor and other stimulants which trigger the desire for a smoke. g. Let members of your family know that you have quit smoking and encourage their help for you. h. Avoid idle time. It is dangerous to have nothing to do. Keep occupied in sports or a favorite hobby. I. Make a list of your reasons for quitting smoking, periodically read over it to reinforce your decision. j. Postpone smoking, for instance delay smoking after lunch for at least 15 minutes. Gradually increase * No single method of cessation works for every individual. These tips will only provide you an opportunity to do something other than light a cigarette. Be imaginative and develop your own ways to avoid smoking. Good luck! Remember, it took years to become a smoker, don't expect to become a nonsmoker overnight. Information provided by the American Lung Association of Michigan. For more information on how you can quit, call 336-3037. �• 6 November 1997 November Birthdays "Muna di bish ka win" Lilly Bennett Kathy Bowen Don Bower Jr. James Brown Dennis Bush Frosty Chandler Phillip Chippewa Jeff Davis Renee Dillard David Face Michelle Ferrerre Colby Genereaux Jr. James M. Genia Susan Ives Luke Jacko Georgia Jacobson Larry King Robin King Diane Leaureaux George McDonald Marie Medacco Toni Medawis Sara Nadowegesa John Pigeon Mary Pigeon Steve Pigeon A-dawa-qua Pontiac Pete Recollect CJ Rubinson Sally Rueckert Mary Sandoval Julie Shananaquet Erma Shriner Erica Smith Jessica Smith John Tadgerson Linda Wheeler JohnZakem New Staff on Board ... Mark Sanford - Senior Caseworker, Indian Family Resources For the past month that I have been working here, I have enjoyed getting acquainted with the staff and the people who drop in, as well as the other service providers in the area. It is exciting to learn about the services we are providing and I am interested in hearing from you ideas about services that are needed, particularly support groups, etc .. I have a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology and have been working the West Michigan area for the last ten years. Please stop by to say, "Hello," so I can meet you! Jennifer Jones - Prevention Specialist/Educator, Native American Prev{Jntion Services It has been my pleasure for the past month (And will be for many months!) working with the staff and getting to know the Native Community here at NAPS. I am currently a graduate student working on my Master's in Social Work at Grand Valley State University. I attended Central Michigan University where I received my Bachelor of Science with a psychology major and a biology minor. Nice mixture right! But, that's me, I enjo; working with people and I enjoy the outdoors and nature. I am currently working with the K-3rd grade Young Eagles group. If you have any questions or great ideas or advice, please give me a call, I would like to hear from you. C'Mon Everybody JUMP! The Jump Mentoring Program JUMP is a Juvenile Mentoring Program designed to increase the academic and social success of students residing on the westside of Grand Rapids. JUMP is currently recruiting mentors for students at Straight, Sibley, and Stocking Schools. A mentor is a reliable, caring adult who is willing to be a good listener and a friend to a child. Mentors Make A Difference! Quality time you spend with a child will have a positive impact on his/her life �• 7 November 1997 forever. JUMP Mentors will: * Attend a mentor training sess10n * Encourage students to be their best * Be a positive role-model * Meet one-on-one with their student at least 8 hours a month. * Participate in Special Activities and Fun Dates *Have Fun! There are currently eleven Native American children who are looking for a mentor. That someone could be you. Steve Yanni - Recreation Director at Bay Mills (906) 248-3204 or Noel Pingatore, ITC Field Health at (906) 635-4208. "Nishnabe" AA Meeting WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL 615 TURNER, N.W. GRAND RAPIDS (use Broadway Entrance) People With A Desire To Stop Drinking Are Welcome Time 6:00 p.m. Thursdays This is an excellent opportunity for anyone who enjoys working with children. If you or someone you know would like to enhance the life of a student by becoming a JUMP Mentor please call 771-2746. I look forward to the possibility of working with you. Danielle Hopson - JUMP Mentoring Coordinator Do You Know How To Dribble A Basketball Around The State Well not literally but there is an effort to start a mens and womens basketball (youth/adult) inter-tribal league. If you are interested you should contact either: Any questions call Gene 2229626 Rm#534 or Sue at 3639537. SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE, STRENGTH, AND CULTURE TO HELP EACH OTHER. THINKING ABOUT GOING ·TO MICHIGAN STA TE UNIVERSITY AFTER HIGH SCHOOL??? Greetings! My name is Kevin Leonard and I am the coordinator for Native American student recruitment at Michigan State University. I am pleased to announce an exciting scholarship opportunity for Native American students - The Michigan State University Native American Scholarship program. The Native American Scholarship is awarded to admitted Native American high school seniors who have achieved a 2.5 or higher grade point average and enroll at Michigan State University for the Summer or Fall Semester 1998. Scholarship recipients will receive a minimum award of $250 and may qualify for an additional scholarship stipend. Renewable scholarships ranging from $500-$1500 will be awarded based on high school curriculum, class rank, grade point average and the American College Test (ACT) or the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores. For Michigan State University Native American Scholarship consideration, students are required to submit a completed application for admission to Michigan State University no later than December 1.1997. In addition, the Native American Scholarship application must be received by January 1. 1998. Also, remind students to please enclose a photocopy of one of the following documents: their tribal card, Bureau of Indian Affairs letter, or tribal certification letter. Please contact Kevin Leonard at (517) 353-9266. �• 8 November 1997 Debajehmujig Theater Group is Coming! Debajehmujig meaning "storytelling in Cree and Ojibway" will be making a visit to Grand Valley State University on November 12th. Their appearance will mark the second time they've been to the Grand Rapids area (the other last August at the Native Youth Leadership Conference) to promote the arts, languages, and culture of the Anishinabek through theater. Debajehmujig will be making their performance at the Cook-Dewitt Center with a community reception at 6:00 p.m. and the performance starting at 7:00 p.m. on the Allendale campus of GrandValley State University. Two productions will be presented, Lost Warrior and The Broken Snowshoe Man. Lost Warrior is about a young man who runs away from home believing that being on his own will be a lot easier. However the reality of living on the streets becomes apparent as he struggles in life. He befriends an old street woman and through her stories, he has powerful dreams that enable him to come to understand bravery and respect. Broken Snowshoe Moon is about a young man returning to his reservation after both of his parents had died. While trying to figure out where he belongs and how to deal with his anger, he creates a bond with his grandmother. Come find out what happens on the evening of November 12th at Grand Valley State University. I . I SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15, 1997 For more information about the Veterans Pow Wow or how you may volunteer, you may call the Grand River Bands of Ottawa Indians at 616-458-8759. All Veterans and families are welcome regardless of race, creed, or gender. NON-PROFIT ORG US POSTAGE PAID Grand Rapids, Ml Permit No. J 19 Grand Rapids Public Schools West Middle School 615TurnerNW Grand Rapids, MI ~950~ • Grand Valley State University Library Allendale Ml 49401 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Native American Prevention Services Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Genia, Hunter (Editor) Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/12154c2b9ab2461cce1792614f772024.pdf 56af042bd1d43fda38ddd72e0a096fee PDF Text Text N w E s Grand Valley-Stafa American Prevention Services 6 15 Turner St N. W., Lower Level Grand Rapids, MI 49504-6399 TELE (6 16) 458-4078 FAX: (616) 458-2096 University liorary ----------- (Falling Leaves Moon) Natin~ OCT 1 s 1997 . 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Did l'ou /\.now ............... . ( '/RCIF OF UFA' . .~nwrica11 !11dia11 Artists 5 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 8 THE COPPER BOWL RAISING This was a special event that the Creator must have smiled about because the weather was fine and the teacher was great and the bowls turned out beautiful. ' It felt to me like an ancient scene with contemporary people. Our people have been meeting along these same river banks for thousands of years and I could not help but think that they were doing the same thing so many years ago . Ed Gray was gracious with the supplies and wi th his time. He has been putting on workshops for quite some time and al so has a studio in Hastings. We have ' been honored to have him come and teach us about the Michigan copper and how it has been traded and found in far away places. The fire was started m a traditional manner and was respected as any sacred fire would be. The individuals and families that attended seemed to have a great time sharing and helping each other. We each rstarted out with the same looking piece of copper, yet each bowl had signifiant differences. They were as individual as the people making them. Lunch was provided by Native American Prevention Services and was catered by D& W. The entertainment was provided by our peer educators group who did some pretty funny and informative skits. It was improv and difficult for beginners. Keep up the good work and keep presenting. If you are interested in becoming part of the peer educators group call Hunter Genia at 458-4078. If you would like to know what is coming up in the near future look for .our updates in Turtle Talk or give us a call at 458-4078 . enjoying the copper bowl event Hmmm .... l want this one and this one, umm can I have that one too, please .. .. �• 2 October· I 997 like to express our condolescenses to the Bush family in the loss of Frank Bush and Cornelius ''Corkey" Sierminski. Native American Prevention Services Staff Lora Church l' rogram Director Hunter Genia I're\ cn liPn Speciali st/Educator Renfr Dillard I're\ cnli l>n Spccialist/EJucalor Jcnnifcr Jones l'rc\'cn ti \n1 Speci ali st/Educator ATTENTION GRAND RAPIDS COMM UNITY COLLEGE NATIVE AMERICAN STUDENTS Wanda Blanco < >llicc S.:r\'iccs Coordinator NA TlVE AMERICAN STUDENT CIRCLE JS PORMING NOW! lh<' gou l of .\.alive . fo1 erica11 Prevelllion is lo ddiver services and i11(i)Jma1io11 1ha1 encourage healthy llf~'s tdes 11'hile discouraging th e use of ulcohnl and olher drngs. .\'en'ices PLEASE CALL LINZE R. VANBUSKIRK FOR MEETING Tll\1E AND LOCATION < )ur prugram strives to ensure the i 616-794-2964 inltnrnalilin am! scn·1ces prnYided are 1i OR culluralh n;Jcq nt and age-appropri ate. •j CEDRIC WARD We Prmidc: 1 771-4163 lnformation-rclernnt to the NatiYe I 1 I /\meri ca11 likst\'lc Non Native American GRCC Students are welcome to attend, please calll Assistance and referrals-can be provided lll Cl1111munit\ members as well as prnkssiunals abou t issues rel ated to /\T OD Nathc American Youth Groups-are di\ id.:d accordi ng to grade len:l and meet " ncc a \I 1.·. ck throughout the year. Consultations and Presentations- an be I pniYidcd tn schl)Ols, org.ani7.al1ons. C\\111111 uni1 1· groups. including. parent s, on substance abuse prc\'ention and/or culturall\' related lnptcs. . Senate Kills \Vaiver By Kay Humphrey Indian Cowwy Today 1 S pecial Programs and Acthities- are prU1 ided lo \outh, parents and elder-.; i 1 1 COMMUNITY SAYS PAA MAA Pll KOWAADMllN TO RESPECTED ELDERS Many gathered, many weeped, many smiled and many just said migwech . We from the Native American Prevention Services and Indian Family Resources would 1 Washington, D.C.- The US . Senate killed Slade Gorton' s iider to the 1998 appropriations bill which would have forced tribes to waive their sovereign immunity in order to receive federal funds . While senators voted against the measure Sept. 16, another rider for means testing remained in the budget plan. The waiver rider was to the Interior attached Department ' s budget proposal and would have required tribes to give up immunity in order to qualify for federal moneys they use to fund the lions share of their yearly budgets. Instead dropping the means testing provision, senators agreed to make changes in the language of the budget amendment. The money is used to fund tribal government programs and services for things such as roads, schools, and housing. Tribal members who lobbied against the rider said the measure would punish tribes for successful economic development efforts. U.S . Senator Tim Johnson, D-S.D., who was in Rapid City over the weekend, said he viewed the rider as yet another attempt to tax the tribes . "This is really a back door way of taxing American Indian enterprises," he said . Tribal leaders said the measure was pushed because of the misconception that tribes across the nation are growing rich from gammg. "There are relatively few tribes that are really doing that well. By and large almost all tribes have huge backlogs of infrastructure and job creation projects at hand," the senator said . "The whole notion of means testing ignores the reality of treaty obligations. The funding for tribes isn' t some other social program. It is compensation for land that was lost and treaty obligations. It can 't be treated in the same vain as other federal expenditures that are merely discretionary programs," he said. "That isn't consistent with treaty obligations," Sen. Johnson said �• 3 October I g97 Day Of Prayer For Water: "A Success." If the day of prayer for the water could be measured successful by critiquing it in terms of booths, JOIN THE UNPLUG NORTH ceremonies, statements, and all the AMERICA CAMPAIGN ON other miscellaneous stuff then it OCTOBER 13! This is a People's would get an A for excellent. If we measure it in terms of ' Campaign. Accept the challenge to UNPLUG on October 13th. the smiles, laughter, singing, food, and a beautiful day it would still get The U.S. is currently the largest an A. energy market in the world and right I have another suggestion behind Canada when it comes to per instead, we should be smiling in that capita consumption. Since 1940, we carried on something that will Americans alone have used up as get bigger, stronger, and bring more large a share of the earth's mineral people together to listen and resources as all previous generations experience a one day public put together. In the past 200 years gathering. We can smile in that we have lost 50% of our wetlands something was experienced in which ' 90% of our northwestern oldwe can thank our teachings from growth forests, 99% of our tallour culture to help remind ourselves grass prairie, 490 of our native and others that we have a plants and animals and put another responsibility to our Earth Mother. 9,000 at risk. The U.S. is the So, if your reading this and largest consumer of energy in the attended , volunteered or just world, using 5 times more than the thankful that the Anishinabek global average. Americans own inspired event took place and that more cars and drive longer distances we don ' t forget where we come from and what our teachings are, ' than anyone else in the world. The U.S . leads the world in the Migwech from, consumption of pre-packaged and i frozen foods. The U.S . produces Natfre American Prevention one-third of the world's paper and Sen•ices Americans consume 7 times more wood per capita than any other . industrialized country. The typical American discards nearly a ton of trash per year. 1 Everything we consume has an impact on the environment. Large scale, unnecessary consumption , strains our natural resources and causes our policy makers to allow unsustainable extraction, devastation, production, and contamination of our lands , water , and air. This addiction to maintain our fix on consumption is allowing Congress to cave-in to pressures to weaken federal environmental, conservation, and endangered species protection laws. UNPLUG on October 13th and learn to live simply. Use as little as you can and think about what you consume. Where does your power come from? Your paper? Your gas? What are the alternatives? Take time studying solar, wind, and conservation potentials. Take a day off and think about these things. We need to take action and save our resources. Our people - the human people - depend on it today and for the future generations to come. Achieving sustainability depends on changing both our ways of consumption and the way our products are manufactured , packaged, delivered, and disposed. In the meantime, here are a few simple things we can do today and eve1yday to preserve what we have and to help the eatih to restore herself. I. For one day - completely disconnect from using electricity or fossil fuels. Take the day off, close the shop and do something that is a earth-life-restoring activity. Plant trees, etc .. 2. Avoid buying things you don't need. 3. Recycle and reuse. Use products that contain recycled materials. (Continued on page ./) �• 4 October I q97 4 . Leave the fossil fuel burning vehicle at home. Walk, canoe, bike, skate, run, take public transit, etc .. connected and related . 5 · Cut down on toxic and dioxinproducing household products. Turn off the lights for the day , and use the sunlight. Acupuncture Detoxification 6. Ry Charo/tie Lewis ..\IS. C. ~ C. .-l o .c..,· 7 · . Use energy-efficient lighting, avoid styrofoam, use only recycled or tree-free paper produ~ts. · As a masters level certified addictions counselor, I have , combined the traditional western cou~~eling modalities with my own 8. Spend time at home or out in the traditional Adawa teachings to work ~ar~ or country educating yourself, , with _my clients. When by tam~ly, friends, or community about supervisor asked me if I would like envir?nment, health, energy, and an acupuncture to go to sustainable economies. detoxification training, I was skeptical, yet answered in the <) Spend time insulating and affirmative without hesitation. To weatherproofing your home or ' my benefit my supervisor did not otlice. make me aware that I would be sitting in a room on more than one 1O Cut off your engines and occasion with five needles celebrate your freedom from protruding from each of my ears. consumption The UNPLUG Campaign against co_nsL~mption must apply the 1 pnnciple of environmental justice that affirms the sacredness of Mother Earth, ecological unity and the interdependence of all species and the right to be free froi~ e c ological destruction . Environmental justice mandates the 1 right to ethical, balanced, and responsible uses of land and renewable resources in the interest of a sustainable planet for humans ' and other living things . ' 1 STOP USING AND THfNK ABOUT WHAT WE .RE LOSING! UNPLUG I l111lige 111ms F11viro11111e111al .\ 'er.rurk In the training I was pleased to learn that there are similarities between the Asian and Anishinaabek (Native people) cultures. Franzcine Caldwell of the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA) indicated that the Anishinaabek had used porcupine quills in their own acupuncture techniques . The similarities don' t end there. Eastern philosophy is based on a singular unified system of nature, the Tao. It holds that all life occurs within the circle of nature and all things are connected and dependent upon each oth~r: This reminded me of my own trad1t1onal beliefs that life is a circle, as represented by the medicine wheel teachings, where all things are Discord or disharmony in an area of life could promote or affect discord and disharmony in other life areas. Imbalance can be a result of physical, sexual, emotional abuse A commo~ and/or neglect. manifestation of abuse is substance abuse as self-medication and subsequently self-abuse. These similarities in culture aided me reach beyond my skepticism of acupuncture and realize that the treatment is non-discriminatory and can benefit those of any ethnicity or social class, regardless of the type of abuse or "hardship" that may have been experienced, if in fact any was experienced at all . Acupuncture detoxification is a treatment that involves insertino the filiform or fine needle one-eigh~h on an inch on five specific points to each ear, externally. The stainless steel needles are sterile and disposed of in a biohazard waste container after use. The five points of the ear are the ~hen-men , sympathetic, kidney, liver, and lung. Each point has corresponding emotions. Thus, the treatment assists in alleviatinn • • • t::> anxiety, 1mpat1ence, mood swings, fear/rage, depression, grief, and sadness, which are emotions that c~n be experienced during withdrawal and in early recovery from addiction t alcohol and/or other drugs. In 1_972, Dr. Wen, a neurosurgeon, realtzed acupuncture eliminated (Continued on page 5) �• 5 October 1997 withdrawal symptoms of heroin ' abstinence. patients while doing anesthesia acupuncture in Hong Kong. Since To have such a tool as acupuncture approximately 1974, Lincoln that could remove the desire for use Hospital in Bronx, New York, has could be the deciding factor used acupuncture for detoxification between an unhealthy and a healthy with positive results. lifestyle. One client called the treatment "the cleanest high" he The treatment has been beneficial ever had . A Native client made me regardless of the addictive aware that after a treatment, alcohol substance, such as heroin, did not taste good and that he was methadone, cocame, alcohol, nauseated while drinking. A staff nicotine, and other drngs. Many person related that with this courts are currently including technique, she was the most relaxed acupuncture as part of the she had ever been without wanting recommendations for those in the ' to go to sleep. criminal justice system due to higher recovery rates with the treatment Personally, have found I programs that utilize acupuncture acupuncture to leave me relaxed with an inner calm that is difficult to These treatments should be used in describe. I have also changed my conjunction with other traditional diet, because I found myself Western modalities such as group " craving" food that is healthy for and individual counseling and me . This is not to say that I have twelve-step programs. Also, diet · not eaten anything sweet since I and detox tea can be incorporated began the acupuncture program. into a recovery program . Drug However, it is very minimal, simply screens can be used to monitor the 1 because I just don 't want it. My 1 enerbiy level is higher and stabilized. progress of the client. One day after I woke up at 5:30 Acupuncture if effective in ' a .m. after having gone to sleep at alleviating withdrawal symptoms, 1 I :30 p.m. the previous evening, l tear, cravings, and denial as well. It realized that I did not require any can be most effective with the most more sleep. This was not a usual severe cases. This is a reason that it sleep pattern for me and throughout is popular with therapists and courts , the day I anticipated that 1 would as well. For example, if it alleviates " crash" and an overwhelming tiredness would come over my at rage and anger, which can normally any time. I was quite pleased and take considerable time, the substance abuse issue can be surprised that this never happened addressed sooner. It is also popular and I was able to almost eradicate in traditional Western counseling to my "things to do" list. address triggers of use, reasons for Before beginning treatment myself, past use, addiction process, and I was a caffeine drinker, even with recovery. However, this does not necessarily dispel the "desire" for the awareness that it wasn't good use, which can be a key in for me. Although I did not 1 1 1 1 1 consdously intend to abstain from caffeine, I began to crave water instead. I believe that the healthier I become, the healthier I want to be and that acupuncture detoxification is both a catalyst and a maintenance tool for me. Because the treatments can aid in relaxation, mental clarity, increased energy level, and "cravings" for anything that is healthy, it leads me to believe that these treatments are as good for staff as they are for clients. I am both pleased and grateful for having been asked to participate in the acupuncture training, which enabled me to become an acupuncture detoxification specialist, certified through NADA Now I am able to incorporate this form of traditional Chinese medicine, which has been used for over 3,000 years, as well as into my counseling practice to be of benefit to my clients and to the staff where I work . Pow Wow Events Calendar 4th Annual Land of October 18-19 Falling Waters Traditional PO\v Wo\\. Jackson County, MI. Location to be announced. For more information call Linda Cypert at 616-781-6409. 2nd Annual Huron November l c2 Potawatomi Pow Wow. Battle Creek MI. Kellogg Arena. For more infonnation call the Tribal Office at 616-729-515 l or Mon-ee. Chi vis at 616-729-9436. �• b October I q97 NO\ ember 8 5th Annual Great Lakes Anishnaabek Traditional Pow Wow. Gymnasium. Gannon Vo-Tech Bldg., Lansing Community College. For more information call EYa Menefee at 517.+83- I I<> I. No, ember 15 Fall Conference. Ne\\ Baltimore. MI. Anchor Bay High School. 48650 Sugarbush Road. Sponsored b\ American Indian Communities Leadership Council. For more infomrntion call Karen Gonnan at 810-5<)8-1222. PARENTS... 1 The multi-cultural office is offering tutoring twice a week for students attending Sibley Elementary. Last year's tutoring was such a success, that we decided to offer this experience again this year. For more information on the times and dates, please contact Betty Davis at 771-2016 or Courtney Biggs at 458-8432. (SL'e page 7j(Jr Veterans Pml! Wm1) ATTENTION.... NO\ember 15-16 5th Annual Nati\'e American Festival and Mini Po\\ Wow. NO\ i. Ml. NoYi Expo Center: 1-96 & NO\i/Wald Lake (exit 162). For more infom1ation call Metro Parent Magazine at 248-352-0990. Native American Youth in 7th -12th Grades.... Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council of Grand Rapids, WANTS YOU! 1 NO\ ember 29-30 Toronto International Pow Wow. Toronto. Ontario. Canada. SJ..~Dome Stadium, Indian Art-I-Crafts. 10 Woodway Trail. Brantford. Ontario N3R 5Z3. For more infomrntion call 519-751-0040. I The Youth Council is meeting on Wednesday evenings from 6: 00 p. m. - 8:00 p.m. at the Native American Prevention Services office, located at 615 Turner NW (West Middle School.) . NATIVE AMERICAN ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETING TWICE A WEEK! THURSDAYS AT 6:00 P.M. LOCATION: MULTI PURPOSE ROOM, NATIVE AMERICAN PREVENTION SERVICES. (West Middle School, 615 Turner) Contact: Gene Sal Gat @ 3364194 & 222-9626 (ask for the 5th floor Veterans Area) SATURDAYS AT 12:00 P.1\1. LOCATION: SECOND CHANCE 648 W. Fulton OPEN TO ALLI Contact: Sue or Kevin Ives at 363-9537. Language: The Four Seasons Pronunciations: oo-as in- ·'moon'" aa- as in- ''ah" i1 - as in - "niece" For more information please call Hunter Genia at 458-4078. Annual Anishinabek Ghost Supper Location: Lexington School Multi-Purpose Room (formerly the gym downstairs) Date: November 6, 1997 Time: 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Invocation: Joe John Main meat dish to be provided! Please bring a dish to share! 1 The ol<l Indian teaching was that it is wrong to tear loose from its place on the earth anything that may be growing there. It may be cut o.ff, but it should not be uprooted The trees and the grass have spirits. Whatever one of such growths may be destroyed by some good Indian, his act is done in sadness and with a prayer for forgiveness because of his necessities.... Wooden Leg - Cheyenne Ngo Kii noonwin - Four seasons Bboon - winter Mnookmi- spring Niibin- summer Dgwaagi- Autumn '•• < u~n �• 7 October I997 October Birthdays ""Muna di bish ka win" .Jonie Abella Suzanne Allman Chris Anderson .Jeremy Anderson Matt Anderson .Jesse Arizola Linda Bessey Dorothy Boda .James Bueschel Shirley Chamberlain Eugene Chisholm Lora Church J>avid Conrad .Jenn~fer Lynn Cuellar Amos ".Junebug" Day Tracy J>oughor(J' Anthony Emery Hunter Genia Ronnie .Judson .John King Terri Leaureaux J>iane Lett Rebecca Lett Robert Memberto .Jeanette Pierce AngiePigeon Art Pigeon Lorraine Pinero 1)nme Raphael Mari~)'n Rueckert Mark Rueckert Leesa Sams J>aniele Sheahan Robert Sheahan Stei•en L Sheahan Nanq She11e11ah Gary Shomin Mary Smith Paul Terpe1111ing Barbara Toothman Duane T. Wesaw .4. N. Wesaw I.inda »7heeler Robert Williams Sharon Winters Dm•id Yount New Book Release Red Earth, White Lies, Native Americans and the A1yth of Scient(fic Fact by Vine Deloria, Jr. Deloria' s primary objective is to challenge the scientific and cultural history of our continent, a history that often paints Native Americans in a negative light. Deloria takes issue with mainstream ideas such as Darwin's theory of evolution, the Bering Strait theory about the migrations of Native Americans and the "Pleistocene Overkill" theory, which ties the mysterious dealth of prehistoric mammals to American Indians. Furthermore, he warns future generations of scientists not to repeat the ethnocentric omissions and fallacies of the past by dismissing Native oral tradition as mere legends. Whether you agree or disagree with Vine Deloria, Jr., Red Earth, White Lies will make you stop and think about the meaning of scientific fact and the role it plays in our lives. Vine Deloria, Jr. is a leading Native American scholar and professor of history, law, religious studies and Polictical Science at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He is also the author of Custer Died for Your Sins, Behind the Trail (~f Broken Tears, and God f<; Red. To order: 1-800-992-2908 VETERANS POW WOW NOVEMBER 15, 1997 OTTAWA HILLS HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM (2055 Rosewood Ave SE, Grand Rapids, near Burton & Plymouth) Grand Entry @ 1 p.m. & 7p.m . Vendor information forthcoming by invitation only! For more information contact: Grand River Band of Ottawa Office 616-458-8759 "My children, you have forgotten the customs and traditions of your forefather. .. You bought guns, knives, kettles and blankets until you can no longer do without them, and what is worse you have drunk the poison firewater, which turns you into fools. Fling all these things away; live as your forefathers did before you .~ ' PONTIAC - Ottawa Chief, May 1763 �• 8 October 1997 Did You Know..... More deaths, illnesses, and disabilities can be attributed to substance abuse than any other preventable health condition. The impact of substance abuse is apparent in lost work time, criminal activity, violence, injuries, and increased expense of health care and treatment. This IS preventable. Starting at 5, Native American age Prevention Services can help you find out how alcohol, tobacco, and other drug prevention can work for you and your family. Call Hunter, Renee, or Jennifer at (616-458-4078) to find out how. "CIRCLE OF LIFE" Breast Cancer Education and Awareness Program for Native American Women October 18, 1997 Guest Speaker: Dr. Sandy B. Gladding, M.D. West Side Complex 215 Straight NW Grand Rapids, Michigan Free Lunch Child care will be provided by the Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council Giw Away For reservations call North American Indian Center - 3364194 Natin~ Ameri<.:an Prevention Services 458-4078 Call For American Indian Artists! American Indian Art Show and Auction Friday N ovem her 14, 1997 6:00 p.m. The BOB, 20 Monroe Avenue NW Grand Rapids For more information call: Levi A. Rickert - Potawatomi (616) 336-4194 or write North American Indian Center 215 Straight, NW Grand Rapids, MI 49504 NON-PROFIT ORG US POSTAGE PAID Grand Rapids, Ml Permit No. 319 Grand Rapids Public Schools West Middle School 615 Turner NW Grand Rapids, MI ~950~ Grand Valley State University Library Allendale Ml 49401 • � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Native American Prevention Services Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Genia, Hunter (Editor) Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/00e46325fb4ccfb4732f272d73db98ba.pdf b7dfdaf457c938a83e8bcce03672f0af PDF Text Text N E w s Turtle Talk Native American Prevention Services 615 Turner St. N. W., Lower Level Grand Rapids, MI 49504-6399 TELE: (616) 458-4078 FAX (616) 458-2096 Mishikenh Geegadohawen L E T T E R AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 1997 ARTIST~'> ' Highlight~ '11'11chi11g' ( Jf'f!te Seve11 ( ira11dfa!lwrs . . .. . . ... I . I /J. I J 01'/'l?. I Jf.R FOR OUR 11 : 1nR . .1 I ' I NI'.. \ ''IS .\/.11(/'.' . l ' I >//·N '.RF\'< '/'.' //\' J'Ol 'R s no.v. ('lfl/.I) !'.'/)( 'C.4 GET I \H JJ.1 '/JJ " ............ 3 l'i1111ill' /r,·flne.H Dav prese11ts, "( '«fehrari11g ( )ur Tradi1io11s .. 3 / ' u1r 11 ·,,11 · r:n•11/s ( 'a/e11dar . .3 ( '111/ ,., ,,. . I.\ llcR/( '. I .V /.\DH\' . lf'PLIC.· ITIOXS FOR · fl :..JIXER MEADOW - RETIREA !ENT COMA/UNITY .vmr BOOK REIE4SE All-SO<>-CAV-N.-lH-NAH by Si111011 0110 ........ .... ....... . .. . 117wr a 7J1011glir ... F.11'1/Lf TIME The Spirit of Com . .. . .. .. ........ .-lugust Birthdays " .\11111<1 di bish ka win .. T<'e11s In f,ove: Tee11s /11 Danger 4 4 4 4 5 6 6 .\ lulli-( 'ultural (~(/ice is looking for tutors . /1'0111<'11 's Resource Center .\'01\TR-WITIONAL OCCUPATIONS ORIEVTA TIO.I\/ FOR WOMEN . .V. I rn r,· . LI fERICAN ALCOHOLICS .4,\ 'O.VJ.\ f()( 'S Alh:ETING .. . ........ . . Sep/ember Rir!hdavs '':\/1111<1 di hish ka win" Xatil'e routh f,eadcrship Conference Turtle Talk Contnbutors: I lu11t«r Ge11ia l?e11<;<' I Jil/ard 7 7 7 8 8 .!e11111/«r .!011es " C/R('!Ji' OVUFE" l urtle talk '.1 mi.1sim1is10 pm1·ide ifs readership with rcpor/s r~f local a11d 1wlio11al i11lert'.\1 ll'hich may i!{fect a11d i11/j){/c/ our \'a/in• .. lmerica11 co1111111111ir1·. Special emphasis 1rill he placed m1 preve111io11 i1!/iJrn1a1io11. Tun!« Talk is puhlished by .\ 11/ive . lmericm1 Preve111io11 Ser1 ·iccs. i11 cuoperatio11 with 1he ""'11 ( 'm111ty Heal1h l.Jeparlme11/ Turrie Talk due dates: Suh111issim1s lo Turtle Talk must he receil'erl i11 our riffice by the .firs/ o/'ea ch 111rm1hfor !he 11pcomi11g mo11lh 's issue. !Nol all 111a1erial submilled can be uw d I If 1·011 have a s/On' or i11fo rn111ii;m 1·011 would like to sl;are ll'ith iurtle Talk. please se11d ii with wmr 11ame. address 1111d plllJ/11' 1i1111d'<'r. ro11 will bl' rec11g11ized hi' 11a111e in T11rile Talk ifyour article is 11sed. 1 I Breas/ Cancer Ed11ca1io11 and Awareness Program fur ,\ 'alive American Wom en Co11gra111lalio11s ....................... .-l 1'i111 F'a111ilv .lc1ivily . . . . ... .. .. . ...... , . l/'ORDS FRO\! LEON..JRD PELTIER THI!. MEDICINE WHEEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\ '.-1Tll1:.' CODE OF ETHICS . . . . . . . . . 9 9 JO 10 II fl Teachings Of The Seven Grandfathers told by Dominic Eshkakogan We have to take care of the earth or we will not have a home. We all share in this responsibility. The key word here is "responsibility." We need to make sure that the earth will always be here for future generations. Each morning let us remember to greet our grandmothers and grandfathers, whose spirits are in the many glories that surround us. They taught us, as they had been taught by their elders, how to take care of the earth. We are staying away from the teachings given to us. Our young people do not pray and give thanksgiving. Our priorities are all messed up. We need to know the teachings of our grandmothers and grandfathers to give us direction and balance. Our leaders are young; they also need to listen and learn. We need their participation. To take care of the earth and the community of life we need to remember the teachings of the First Elder, who has handed on the gifts of knowledge that he received from the Seven Grandfathers when he was just a boy. Each grandfather gave him a great gift. One gave him the gift of Wisdom, and he learned to use that wisdom for his people. Another gave the gift of Love so that he would love his brother and sister and share with them. The third offered the gift of Respect, so that the First Elder would respect everyone, all human persons and all the things that are created . Bravery was the next gift, bravery to do things even in the most difficult of times. One grandfather gave the boy Honesty so that he would be honest in every action and provide good (Continued on page 2) �• 2 August/September 1997 .---------------~ : Grandfathers told him, "Be true in Native American Prevention Services Slaff: Lora Church l'nigram l)iredor Hunter Genia l'ren:ntion SpecialisUEducator Renee Dillard I're\' en ti un Speci aIi st/Educ ator Jennifer Jones l'reYenlion Specialist/Educator Bett~ Dnis l\mtracted l'ren~ntion Specialist/Educator Wanda Blanco Ollicc Sc1Tices Coordinator everything that you do. Be true to yourself and true to your fellow man. Always speak the truth." They told him, "Each of these teachings must be used with the rest; you cannot have wisdom without love, respect, bravery, honesty, humility and truth. You can not be honest if you use only one of two of these, or if you leave out one. And to leave out one is to embrace the opposite of what that teaching is." If each one of the seven gifts is not used together with the others, we cannot function . Today we should live by these seven teachings even though we need to work hard to < >ur program stri\'es to ensure the embrace them. Sometimes it is hard information and services pro\'ided are to respect someone who has hurt culturalh rekYant and age-appropriate you. If we don't practice honesty, We PrO\ide: we cheat. If we don't practice Information-relevant to the Native truth, we will lie. We must go back ./\mcncan lifost\k. to the knowledge that the Seven Assistance and referrals-can be prmided I Grandfathers taught the First Elder, Ill cummunitY members as "ell as prnkssi(1nals about 1s;;ues related to i who passed the teachings on to 1 other generations. AT<>D !he poal of .\"ative American Prevention .\en-ices is 111 deliver services and i11/i)Jma1w11 1hat encourag<' healthy 11/i's(vles while discouraging the use of alcohol and of her drugs. . NatiYC American Youth Groups-are JI\ ided according to grade level and med once a "eek throughout the vear. And we must teach our children when they are young to value the Consultations and Presentations- an he medicines and healing practices of to schools, organizations, pro\ided their grandmothers and cornmunitv groups, including parents. on substance abuse prc\·ention and/or culturally grandfathers, and to appreciate the related topics. . role of the medicine people and the Special Programs and Acth·ities- are ' ceremonies that were held at various prnYideJ to \'outh, parents and elders. I times of the year. All these teachings will give us direction and balance. One feelings in his heart. grandfather gave the boy Humility, The teachings of the Medicine to teach the boy to know that he Wheel are important, too. The was equal to everyone else, no circle of the Medicine Wheel better or no less, just the same as represents harmony with nature and anybody else. The last gift that he with all of our relatives. The earth received was Truth. The turns in a circle, and the birds make their nests in circles; the Anishinabe dance in a circle, and the four seasons of life, childhood, youth, middle age and elderhood, form the circle of life. The circle of the Wheel stands for the sun and the moon, and for all round things in Creation. It should remind us that we may do nothing that may harm the children, for they are the ones who must care for Mother Earth tomorrow, and for the generations to come. Each of us is responsible for taking care of the children and of Mother Earth; each .of us is responsible for teaching others to do the same . Congratulations to our Program Director, Lora Church, and her husband Casey Church on the birth of t~eir baby girl, Nizoni Moon Church! She was born on August 19, 1997 at 10:51 p.m., weighing 8 lbs. 3 oz. Please let us know if you have any additions to your family as well and we can publish them in Turtle Talk! �• 3 August/September 1997 A DAY OF PRAYER FOR Ol 'R \X'ATER PARENTS, MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR CHILD'S EDUCATION, GET INVOLVED!! W\· rl'<.jUl'sl the pleasure of your company al an event lwnoring .. Our Motlier Earth's Life Blood .. The Native American Advisory Council is looking for parents who are willing to help our Native American youth become successful and to help them achieve their goals. Salnnlay,:3cpkmber 27th from Sunrisl' lo Sunset. Ah-Nah-Awen Park, Grand Rapids, MI. * Pr,1yl'fS fn 1111 sunrise un ti] sunset .,. Environ111cnlal education hool11s * Cl1ildrens lm1lthfu] aclivily lenl ' Pr,1yt'r circles * :\ ,1 liVl' [, \1 id hot> th * :3 pl'<l kl' rs 1 We as Native adults need to be role models, we need to be involved in decisions that affect the future of Native American children. ' The Native American Advisory Council needs parents and Pipt' Cl'rcnwnics will be offered by: community members who are Frank Busli, Jack Chamhcrs, anJ committed and dedicated in helping J11c Mitchell with the education of children. our In the past year accomplishments include: * Senior Day held at Central High School (on Senior day, we 1.l'atl :::-pon5llr: Native i\n1erica11 invited students who were seniors to I \·c.'vt·n l ic. ~ c.·rvil·es. l . . {l- ~pl lJl~Or~; come in and receive information on \X ' l'5l /\ \ id1iga11 I '. nvironmental Action financial aide). Coum·il, ln5liluk for Global Education, * Spring gathering held at l~rnml \ 'u liey :3tate l ;niwrsity \X'a ter Sibley Elementary. (The full circle l\csourcc5, Calvin College program performed for their I :nvir<>11mt•nt.1I Steward::l1ip Coalition classmates and guests. They also "f 1mliun ~ 1 rog rams aml Scrvi1:e::, The had an exhibit set-up with their l-(,1 ll'ri Cirdcs, Tl1e Gram! l\apids crafts). C, >nmnmily Colil'ge for Environmenlul * Senior Banquet held at ::=:tmli,·;, Tl1e \alive Ameril'an Student , Union High School (Our Native ,\;w,·i,1 lilln ,,[ O.\'.S.l '. ' American seniors were honored for their achievements). lhin~ Y<'ur l3L111kel; Or Clidir:< ;\11J Get * Mentor/Tutor Training l 'cim forldble held at Lexington (Twenty-five I ;,,r 111ore i11forn1,ilion l ' dlJ 458-4078. To Native American community ,.,. [ up ,111 inf1>rni.1lio11dl hootb, pleMe call members attended this training). Jcff at -15-1-16-12. H,11wr Snngs hy the Owashlinong Clnmg-A-Ming drum. )l) 1 I '. \ '<'T)'Olll' j,. Wl'lni111c to come dnJ join u~ll The council is inviting you as a parent of a child at Grand Rapids (GRPS) Public Schools to part1c1pate, to get involved, to volunteer, no special skills needed, just concerned parents so that this year can be more successful than last year. But, without your continued . support and help we cannot achieve this goal. If you are interested in becoming a member of our council . and would like more information, please call Trisha Trasky at 784-5001 or Betty Davis at 771-2189. Thank you, Trisha Trasky, Council Member lF'amily VVellness D&y presents, "Celebrating Our Traditions" September 13th along the Owashfowug at Ri'\·ersid<" Parlk Pavilion. Nati'\'<' i\m<>rican Prevention Services is proud aml honored to bring you a very welJ known teacher and artis{: Edward Gray Uikiwc~ Join us as we all will have the opportunity to raise a copper howl, traditionally. This event is for ail Native American Families. ~re will host breakfast, lunch, and dinner. JPlease call the pt't'wntion office Al 458--11078 and let un know how man y will att .. nJ so we can pldn appropriatel y. No Drugs or Alcobol Tl.is event is free! �• 4 August;September 1997 Pow Wow Events Calendar Sept. I 3-14th 8th Traditional Pow Wow. Holton. MI at Holton County Fairgrounds. For more info: 616-7738312. Sept. 20-21 7th Annual Zog Da Wah Traditional Indian Pow Wow. A usable. ML Children ·s Park For more info call : 517-739-1994. Sept. 20-21 Maple River Gathering. St. Johns. ML Uncle John's Cider Mill. For more info call : 517-339-3443. Sept. 26-28. Mich. Ind. Day Celebration. 15th Annual Pow Wow. Detroit ML For more info call: 313535-2%6. October 4-5 5th Annual Wind. Rain, & Fire Traditional Pow Wow. Idaville, Indiana. Sponsored by Miller·s Tree Farm. 11197 East 700 N. For more infonnation call Buffalo Heart at 219278- 702 I. October 18-19 4th Annual Land of Falling Waters Traditional Pow Wow. Jackson County, ML Location to be announced. For more information call Linda Cypert at 616-781-6409. Call For AMERICAN INDIAN ARTISTS! AMERICAN INDIAN Art Show and Auction Friday November 14, 1997 6:00 p.m. The BOB, 20 Monroe Avenue NW Grand Rapids FOR MORE INFQRM_ATIQN_CAL.1: Levi A Rickert--Potawatomi (616)336-4194 or write North American Indian Center 215 Straight, NW Grand Rapids, MI 49504 NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR WALKER MEADOW RETIREMENT COMMUNITY Low Income Apartments for Seniors ANNUAL INCOME REQUIRMENTS: Single Household $16,600 Two Person Household $18,950 Call 949-4191 OPERA TED BY PORTER HILLS PRESBYTERIAN VILLAGE What a Thought .... "Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape qf all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy." *NEW BOOK RELEASE* AH-SOO-CAN-NAH-NAH by Simon Otto Translated it means, STORYTELLER The book contains legends and stories from the past. The author remembers them from childhood days. Some stories were heard from the elders and wise ones, some have never been told before. This is the third book written by Simon Otto. He has written other books. Available are: *WALK IN PEACE *GRANDMOTHER MOON SPEAKS *AU-BE-NAH-BING For more information you may write: Simon Otto 3267 N. Club Rd. Indian River, MI 49749 or call (616)238-7728 Black Elk (Black Elk Speaks, told through John G. Neihardt, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1961) "Often in the stillness of the night, when all nature seems asleep about me, there comes a gentle rapping at the door qf my heart. I open it; and a voice inquires, "Pokagon, what ofyour people? What will their future be?" My answer is: "Mortal man has not the power to draw aside the veil qf unborn time to tell the.future of his race. That gift belongs of the Divine alone. But it is given to him to closely judge the.future by the present, and the past. " Simon Pokagon (1830-1899) Potawatomie �Grand Valley State • 5 August/September 1997 FAMILY TIME SEP 18 1997 The Spirit of Corn University Libra(J (CONTINUED FROM LAST MONTHS ISSUE) The elder was sad and promised to hurry back to the village and tell the others how the Spirit of the Corn has .m.fferetl He told the others about the sad way he had found the good Spirit of the Corn and how their greed and carelessness had caused all their problems. ,\'omehow the people sun•il'ed that winter and when spring came, they found what little corn was left and planted it and took good care of their friend the com from that day on. Native American Prevention Services Septempeter 1997 1997 MON DAT SUNDAY TUESDAY I Pm Educaton Httting 5:30 - 7:00 p.m.. 1 8 14 Young Eagles 4-6 6:00p.m. -8:00 p.m. 16 17 12 23 Pttr Educator Httting 5:30 -7:00 p.m. Young Eagles k-J 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. 5ewingCircl• 6:il0 -8:00 p.m. 28 f 29 Young Eagles k-l 6:00 -7:00 p.m. 24 Young Eagl•s 4-6 6:00 • 8:00 p.m. 6 II 12, 13 The Copper Bowl Raising EventRiverside Park Call 458-4078 for more info. 18 19 25 26 20 Native American Cultural ATOD Program 6:00 -8:00 p.m. Sewing Circl• 6:00 -8:00 p.m. 2l 5 Native Am•rican Cultural ATOD Program 6:il0 -8:00 p.m. Young Eagles 4-6 6:00 p.m .• 8:00 p.m. Pttr Educator Httting 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. SATURDAY FRIDAY 4 Native Am•rican Cultural ATOD Program 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. 10 9 15 Young Eagles k-J 6:00 -7:00 p.m. l Young Eagl•s 4-6 6:00p.m .. -8:00 p.m. Pttr Educator Httting S:JO -7:00 p.m. Young Eagl•s k-l 6:00 -7:00p.m. THURSDAY . WEDNESDAY 2 1997 • Native American Cultural ATOD Program 6:00. 8:00 p.m. 30 Pttr Educator Httting 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. lowing Circl• 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. 27 Day of Prayer for Our Water Ah-Nab-Awen Park. Sunrise to Sunset Call 4584078 for info. ~.l }I\. .)"1,1 \···· F ·'···.· .,,,,., • Plme call Hunter Genia for Youd1 Council Group Htttings. Anishinabe Youth between 7th-12th grades who i.n interuted plrue call 458-4078. �• 6 August/Se ptember 1997 August Birthdays "Muna di bisb ka win" Taylor A. Hatfield James McCann Rob Stone Elizabeth Marshall Jim Foster Et/die Pigeon Martin Wesaw Jeanette St. Clair Cl~fford Bailey Con1in Emery Francis Peters Easrl Schoenborn Jenna Pigeon Rose Hunt Michael Pigeon.I~ Maudeline McDonald Johnny Day Toni Kozar Jim Genia Sherri Mamagona Doris Allerding Nikki Schoen Sally Schoen Neegon Fox Debra Gibbs Brendan R. Pierce Michael J. Pierce Kelly Skinner Wayne Loonsfoot Sr. Annie Detz Jim Kelly Teens In Love; Teens In Danger !Jy /,ori Leatherman, RAT .E Falling in love is every girl's dream during her teeange years. Meeting Mr. Right, going to Friday night football games, or "hanging out" on Saturday night are meant to be fun and exciting during the high school years as teens begin to date. Unfortunately, for 1 out of 3 teenage relationships, instead of hugs and kisses, one of the partners is receiving punches and bruises; instead of being encouraged to do their best, they are told that they will never amount to anything in life; and instead of having the freedom to spend time with other friends and family, they are isolated from them and told that family and friends are the enemy. This is teenage relationship abuse, and it 1s wrong. Relationship abuse can consist of emotional, physical, and/or sexual abuse. Regardless of the form, however, it leaves the victim feeling worthless, isolated, and confused. Desperate to "fix" the relationship and make the abuser happy once again, the victim goes out of her way to do and say things that will please the abuser. Of course, she never will please the abuser because his abusive behavior is never a result of her actions or behaviors. Rather, they are a result of his need to have power and control over her, who she talks to, who she sees, and how she dresses. Her attempts to please the abuser only perpetuates the cycle of violence. In effect, she is encouraging him to continue his abusive tactics by showing him that she will obey his commands and do as he says. Let's look at the abuser for a minute. Statistics show that although abuse does occur to males, a majority of the abuse (90-95%) is directed at females . Furthermore, the abuse that -occurs to males is much less severe (pinching, scratching) than the abuse that occurs to females (punching, kicking, choking). His need to abuse often stems from the apparent lack of control he has felt in his life. The typical abuser often is raised in a home where little genuine affection or love exist between the parents and their children; violence may have been modeled for him by his parents in settling differences in the home; or he may have been a vicitim of abuse himself. Often abusers are not taught as children to see the value they have in themselves, but rather, are taught that they are nobody special. As a result, abusers tend to spend a great deal of time and energy regaining (or acquiring for the first time) the control in their lives which gives them a perceived sense of value that they had been denied during childhood. Although this may help us understand why an abuser chooses to abuse his partner, he needs to be told this behavior is wrong, and it must not be tolerated. Victims need to be told over and over again that the abuse is never their fault and that they are a good person who deserves to be treated with respect. Because of the intimate bond that is created between an abuser and his victim in a relationship, it is very · difficult for the victim to free herself from his control and leave the relationship. Fear, guilt, or (Continued on page 7) �• 7 August/September 1997 misinterpreted feelings of love continually pull her back into the unhealthy relationship while the abuse continues to push her away. She needs to be reassured of her decision to leave the relationship, and she needs to be surrounded by support and care as she attempts to break the bond that has held her to him. As parents, we need to provide that support and care. There are a variety of resources locally that teens and families experiencing the tragedy of teenage dating violence can access . Videos and reading materials which can help members of your family understand teenage dating abuse are available through R.A.V .E. of West Michigan (940-1144). Counseling services are available for victims and their families through the YWCA (459-4652) or Arbor Circle (458-7434). Multi-Cultural Office is looking for tutors to help with the "Full Circle" afterschool program. This program assists Native American children at Sibley Elementary, two afternoons a week . We are also looking for tutors to help with our high school students, especially in the areas of Algebra, Geometry, and English. If you are interested and would like more information on becoming a tutor, please contact Betty Davis at 771-2189. Women's Resource Center Center offers: NONTRADITIONAL OCCUPATIONS ORIENTATION FOR WOMEN Tuesday, September 23, 1997 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. No charge; pre-registration requested A free informational session focused on higher-wage careers that are "nontraditional" for women such as carpentry, heavy equipment operation, tool & die, fire fighting, and machining to name just a few. Includes a video, a wide variety of resource materials, and discussion of relevant issues. Location: Women's Resource Center 25 Sheldon SE, Suite 220 Grand Rapids, MI 49503 To register or for more information, call Chris Belding, Coordinator, at 458-5443 . NATIVE AMERICAN ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETING SATURDAYS AT 12:00 P.M. LOCATION: SECOND CHANCE 648 W. F1JLTON OPEN TO ALL ANY QUESTIONS: CALL SUE OR KEVIN IVES AT 363-9537. Young Eagles 4-6 Grade Schedule 1st Week: 9-3-97 Introduction to Meditation 2nd Week: 9-10-97 Community Responsibility Part i 3rd Week: 9-17-97 Community Responsibility Part 2 4th Week: 9-24-97 Crafts ancl Traditional Lessons Part 1 5th Week: 10-1-97 Crafts and Traditional Lessons Part 2 6th Week: 10-8-97 Parent Nite We are not scheduling Young Eagles for the next two weeks ( 1015-97 and 10-22-97). This gives us a chance to plan for the next six week session and catch up on other events in the community. We will start meeting again and get a new schedule on 10-29-97. We hope this helps you in planning around other family activities. �• 8 August;September 1997 September Birthdays ''Muna di bish ka win" Jollie Mackey Jacob Medura Loretta Youllt Rob Herr Louis Wesaw Jimmy Bush Jr. JohllllY Noah Seam Winters Dorothy Medacco Karell M. Boda Tom Herr Faroll Bowell Nicholas Cavasos Gary Rueckert Harold Shaw Jellnie Pigeon H elell Hillmall Melissa Shomin Rachelle Hillman Kevill Ives Jr. Loraine "Olive" Pigeon Robert Comer Jr. Grace Peters Darcy Cramptoll Tanya Rapheal H elell Chippewa Salldra Sanchez Toni Vande Voren Brian Pierce Paula Pierce John Kozar Colleen Floyd Bart Gibbs Kath~vn Kahgegab Jeremy Atwood Kiana Atwood Jacob "Nebi11an" Mackey Native Youth Leadership Collferellce The sixth annual Native Youth Leadership Conference convened in Grand Rapids, MI with forty youth representing nearly every federally recognized tribe plus several urban areas. The August 18-22nd conference gathered in order to help the youth tap into their leadership ability and potential as Anishinabe youth. The conference was coordinated by Native American Prevention Services of Grand Rapids which is currently a program of the Inter-Tribal Council of MI. Youth were challenged to work on the growing of their own leadership by engaging in many hands on initiatives that included games, challenge courses, communication through theater, and team building exercises. Healthy lifestyle areas focused on alcohol use/abuse, healthy relationships, and HIVI AIDS prevention as well as reinforcing cultural values. A highlight of the conference included De-Ba-Jeh-Mu-Jig Theater Group from Wikwemikong, Ontario who presented an entertammg performance one of the evenings and followed it up with a one day training the following afternoon. De-ba-jeh-mu-jig "meaning storytellers in Ojibway and Cree" is a professional group of Anishinabe performers that have traveled extensively and is committed to the vitalization of the Anishinabeg culture, language and traditions through education and original creative expression. The youth of the conference worked closely in small groups with a facilitator from the group and worked on communication, team-building, and expression of youth issues through theater. Debajehmujig Pose! Strong healthy lifestyle messages were given by Thurman Bear (Medicine Bear Academy of Detroit), Sharla Smith (intern with Inter-Tribal Council of MI) and Harry Simpson (AIDS Speakers Bureau from the Michigan State Medical Society). All expressed abstinence as a choice to help stop the cycle of unhealthy lifestyles. The youth were also put to the test by participating in the challenge course · at Camp O'Malley which included a low team building initiative, high ropes course, and a climbing wall. Cultural warrior games also seemed to be a favorite of the youth as it spoke to honor and respect values from our teachings. Jack Chambers from the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewas and (Continued on page 9) �• 9 August/September 1997 Renee Dillard from the Grand River Bands of Ottawas spoke to the meaning of a warrior through their own experience and also teachings from our culture. American Cancer Society, North American Indian Center of Grand Rapids, [ndian Family Resources and Native American Prevention Services, Family Independence Agency - Indian Outreach Program, Kent County Health Department- Women 's Health Network, Cheny Street Health Services - Westside Health Center, YWCA -EncorePlus Welcome you to the ... "CIRCLE OF LIFE" Lastly, a commitment ceremony concluded the conference in which those youth who were ready to make a commitment to leadership and healthy lifestyles shared their vision of what that commitment entails for their own personal lives. Each one that committed were given a saymaa pouch with a medicine wheel attached as a symbol of their commitment. The conference in 1998 will again be in August with a sight unannounced at this time. Information will be mailed out in the spring and all youth who are interested are encouraged to contact their youth program coordinator or tribe for more information. Breast Cancer Education and Awareness Program for Native American Women October 18, 1997 11 :00 - 11 :30 AM Registration 11 :30 AM Program & Lunch Guest Speaker: Dr. Sandy B. Gladding, M .D . West Side Complex 215 Straight NW Grand Rapids, Michigan Free Lunch Child care will be provided by the Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council Give Away For reservations call North American Indian Center 336-4194 Native American Prevention Services - 458-4078 Native Youth Peer Educators Getting Ready "Great Spirit, Great Spirit, my Grandfather, all over the earth the faces of living things are all alike .... Look upon these faces of children without number and with children in their arms, that they may face the winds and walk the good road to the day of quiet. " Black Elk (1863-1950) Eight youth came together for a project just getting off the ground in our office. These youth participated in a four day training concentrating in four areas: alcohol, healthy relationships, conflict resolution, and culture and traditions. They are currently meeting once a week by their request and ambition to moYe forward with the project and work on presentations using drama, role plays, and culture as a means of communication to other youth. Individuals from our own community and the broad community with expertise in certain fields will be and or have been contacted to help provide better insight into different areas youth have expressed an interest in spreading positive and healthy messages against. These youth will eventually be using cultural values and teachings as a means to also educate the broad population of youth about our culture and how our culture helps us stay on a healthy path. We kindly and respectfully ask your support for these youth as they have made a one year commitment as a peer educator to practice the messages they spread ..... thank you. Hunter Genia Chow Time.... Say "Cheese!" �• I 0 August/September 1997 Ankle, Ankles Bakwaakgonaagan, Bakwaakgonaaganan Foot, Feet Toe, Toes **A Fun Family Activity!!** These letters sound like this: oo - as in- "moon" aa - as in - "ah" Before you go to sleep at night, go over with your family the body pai1s in the Eastern Ojibway Language .. Head - Dip - Shtigwaan Body - Wiiyaw Arm, Arms - Nik, Nikan Elbow, Elbows - Dooskon, Doosknan Hand, Hands - Ninch, Ninjiin Finder, Fingers - Ninjiinhs, Niijiinsan Shoulder, Shoulders Dinmaangan, Dinmaagnan Leg, Legs - Kaat, Kaadan Hip, Hips - Noogan, Nooganan Knee, Knees - Gidik, Gidikgoon - Zit, Zidan - Zidenhs, Zidensan Eye, Eyes - Shkiinhzhik, Shkiinzhgoon Ear, Ears - Taway, Tawgan Mouth -Doon Nose - Jaanhsh Hair - Miinjizan, Miinzisan If your family practices these vocabulary words repeadedly, before you know it, you will know your body parts in Eastern Ojibwayl WORDS FROM LEONARD PELTIER Excerpts from Statement of Leonard Peltier, From Spirit of Crazy Horse ) Official Newsletter for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee) June/July 1997. On October 21st and 22nd I ask ' that everyone who can travel to Washington, DC, make the effort to join our Lobby Campaign. We need people to walk the halls of Congress and the Senate, to speak with elected officials and to distribute information. There will be a briefing session prior to the office visits, so be prepared to take notes and learn the most important historical facts and up to date information on my case from my lobbyist and a member of my lead counsel. A press conference will be held as well. Let them know that to get to the facts, oversight hearings as proposed by Senators Ben Nighthorse Campbell and Daniel Inouye are in order. Start taking action NOW. Call your Senators and Congress people and educate them. Ask them to contact Senators Campbell and Inouye to voice their support for intervention in my case. If you do not know who your representatives are or how to get in touch with them, please call Lisa at the LPDC and she will give you information accessed from the Congressional Directory. Help us raise the fund we need to ensure our success with this project Send donations to the LPDC right away. Leanord Peltier Defense Committee (LPDC) P.O. Box 588 Lawrence, KS 66044 Phone: 913/842-5774 Fax: 913/842-5796 Home Page: www.unicom.net/peltier/index.html Submitted by Leonard Peltier Support Group (LPSG)/West Michigan 7063 Brewer NE Rockford, MI 49341 616/866-4963 e-mail: ac.jazz@loLshareworld.com �• I I August/September 1997 }rom "The Sacred Tree ", Produced Collaboratively by: Judie Bopp, Michael Bopp, Lee Brown and Phil Lane THE MEDICINE WHEEL This is an ancient symbol used by almost all the Native people of North and South America. There are many different ways that this basic concept is expressed : the four grandfathers, the four winds, the four cardinal directions, and many other relationships that can be expressed in sets of four. Just like a mirror can be used to see things not normally visible, the medicine wheel can be used to help us see or understand things we can ' t quite see or understand because they are ideas and not physical objects. The medicine wheel teaches us that the four symbolic races are all part of the same human family. All are brothers and sisters living on the same Mother Earth The medicine wheel teaches us that the four elements, each so distinctive and powerful, are all part of the physical world All must be respected equally for their gift of life. The medicine wheel also teaches us that we have four aspects to our nature the physical, the mental, the emotional, and the spiritual. Each of these aspects must be equally developed in a healthy, well-balanced individual through the development and use of volition (i .e. will) . NATIVE CODE OF ETHICS From "Teachings of the A1edicine Wheel"; .E,aited by },lnestine Buswa & Jean Shawana l . Each morning upon rising, and each evening before sleeping, give thanks for the life within you and for all life, for the good things the Creator has given you and others, and for the opportunity to grow a little more each day. Consider your thoughts and actions of the past day and seek for the courage and strength to be a better person. Seek for those things that will benefit everyone. 2 . Respect. Respect means to ' feel or show honour or esteem for someone or something; to consider the well-being of, or to treat someone or something with deference or courtesy.' Showing respect is a basic law of life. someone else (especially sacred objects) without permission, or an understanding between you. - Respect the privacy of every person. Never intrude on a person's quiet moments or personal space. - Never walk between people who are conversing. - Never interrupt people who are conversing. - Speak in a soft voice, especially when you are in the presence of Elders, strangers or others to whom special respect is due. - Do not speak unless invited to do so at gatherings where Elders are present (except to ask what is expected of you, should you be in doubt) . - Never speak about others in a negative way, whether they are present or not. - Treat the earth and all her aspects as your mother. Show deep respect for the mineral world, the plant world, and the animal world. - Treat every person from the tiniest child to the oldest Elder with respect at all times. - Show deep respect for the beliefs and religions of others. - Special respect should be given to Elders, parents, teachers and community Elders. - Listen with courtesy to what others say, even if you feel that what they are saying is worthless. Listen with your heart. - No person should be made to feel 'put down' by you; avoid hurting other hearts as you would avoid a deadly poison. - Touch nothing that belongs to 3. Respect the wisdom of the people in council. Once you give an idea to a council or a meeting it no longer belongs to (Continued on page 12) �• 12 August/Se ptem ber 1997 you . It belongs t9 the people. 4 . Be truthful at all times, and under all conditions. 5. Always treat your guests with honour and consideration. Give your best food, your best blankets, the best part of your house and your best service to your guests. 6. The hurt of one is the hurt of all , the honour of one is the honour of all. 7. Receive strangers and outsiders with a loving heart and as members of the human famil y. 8. To the races and tribes in the world are like the different coloured flowers of one meadow. All are beautiful. As children of the Creator they must all be respected . 9 . To serve others, to be of some use to family, community, nation or the world, is one of the main purposes for which human beings have been created. Do not fill yourself with your own affairs and forget your most important task. True happiness comes only to those who dedicate their lives to the service of others. 10. Observe moderation and balance in all things. I I . Know those things that lead to your well-being, and those things that lead to your destruction. Grand Rapids Public Schools West Middle School 615TurnerNW Grand Rapids, MI -'950-' 12. Listen to and follow the guidance given to your heart . Please exq1se the lateness of . this Turtle Talk issue. Thank you for your patience, continue to provide us input on how we can improve your newsletter, and enjoy the upcoming fall season. 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U.\"JTY Conference Inspires Youth To "TA KE A 1 Our new address is: 615 Turner NW Grand Rapids, MI 49504 Our telophone numbers remain the same: NAPS (616) 458-4078 and IFR (616) 458-1641. This move was imperative due to two reasons: ( 1) The Grand Rapids Public Schools scheduled major construction at our previous program siteLexington School. This began on June 23rd; (2) Once the renovation is completed, the Lexington School will ' then serve as the location for the Academia de Espanol Elementary. This decision was recommedned by the Interim Superintendant, Kevin O'Neill and approved by the GRPS Board Members with a 5-2 vote on June 6th. Previous to these dates, we, along with other Lexington School building occupants had meetings and shared our concerns about the impact of such a recommendation. We met with school administrators, attended and participated in the school board meetings and attended a community meeting. Our issues revolved around continuing to provide services at a site where, historically, for over 20 years Native American services were provided. Also at that point in time, our two programs did not have an alternative site available that which was conducive to providing health and human services. The Academia offered to keep our Prevention Services there, yet wanted to have Indian Family Resources relocated. We did not accept this proposal, being that we want to continue to provide services where individuals and/or families can 1 receive a full range of wellness services 1 at one location. As we review the j entire situation, it is my opinion that I many "stakeholders" were not brought into a process for consideration. As of recent, GRPS recognizes the impact of I this and have since looked at ways to I assist us as we proceed into another I phase of operation. I I Our short-term goal is to continue I offering services at the West Middle I School location with at long-term goal I I �• 2 July 1997 Native American Prevention Services Staff: Lora Church Prot-1rnm Director Hunter Genia PreYention Specialist/Educator Renee Dillard Pn:vention Specialist/Educator Bett~· Da,·is Contracted Prevention Specialist/Educator Wanda Blanco Office Services Coordinator The goal of Xative American Prevelllion Services is to deliver se1vices and infonnation that encourage healthy lifestyles while discouraging the use of alcohol and other drugs. Our prot,>ram strives to ensure the inf<.mnation and services provided arc culturally relevant and ageappropriate We Provide: Information-relevant to the Native American lifostYle. Assistance and referrals-can he provided to community members as \\'di as professionals ahout issues related to A.T.O.D. Nath·e American Youth Groups-are divided according to grade level mid meet once a week throughout the year. Consultations and Presentationsan he provided to schools, organizations, community groups, including parents, on suhstance ahuse prevention and/or culturally related topics. Special Programs and Activitiesarc proYided to youth, parents and ciders. As \Ve move forward in this process, we request for your continued understanding, patience and support . If you happen to be in the area, stop by and see us. Once the dust settles, we plan to have an Open House in the near • future! Hope to see you then, if not sooner!! Lora M. Church, Program Director MICHIGAN'S TRIBES IN COMPLIANCE ON CASINOS Michigan's 19 casinos are in compliance with all federal gaming regulations a federal report says. The report from the National Indian Gaming Commission was a turnaround from a report released in January which found 18 of the 19 casinos failing to meet at least one of the federal requirements. The head of the gaming commission for the Saginaw Chippewa, said June 5th report is proof the operations are well run. Poetry by Linda Bessey Oh, Mother Earth I hear you talking tome. You are telling me to walk Beauty to be wise of everything around me. Sit still for a moment and hear the animals talking to me. You tell me to walk tall just like the trees around me. You Mother Earth give them strength. When I am tired you say to me, "Keep going, I will give you strength to go on too. " I will show others too how beautiful you are Mother Earth. I love you Mother Earth. When I am walking you say to me. "Be proud of what you are, a Native American Indian, just like the chiefs before you, Chief Red Cloud Chief Sitting Bull Chief Joseph too. When it's time I will let your spirit soara like the eagle in the sky. You are with me forever my little one... " Love Mother Earth! Young Eagles 4-6 The Young Eagles program at the new location seems to be coming along just fine. We went to the Elders retirement village again this session and the kids help the elders with their scheduled activity. We help them make macaroni necklaces and most of the got to make one for themselves also. Last session we made potpourri and homemade cards to say thanks for letting us come in and help. I believe the elder people like the gifts, and just overall enjoyed seeing the youngsters come and visiting. We will be working with another �l • 3 July 1997 beautify a park that is still in the planning stages. This park is located under the Wealthy street entrance ramp to U.S . 131. The Young Eagles contribution will be cedar trees to offer shade to the area. Our kids are planting the trees this session. Our move has been hard on the staff as well as some of the parents. But now as everything settles down we are ready to go again. If you know of a young person who would like to enjoy their summer with us have them call us at 458-4078 . See you at the youth group . Sobriety Walk is remembered as a success Nati\c American Prevention Services and Indian Family Resource hosted a meaningful community eYent for its second year. The Sobriety Walk started at the Sixth Street Bridge Park early Saturday morning June 14th 1997, which ended at the Three Fires Pow-wow grounds (2.5 miles). The following is how this cYent \\ill be remembered by one conmmnity member. 1 I' I Boozhoo, my name is Scott Saboo, I'm from Grand Rapids NE side. I was asked if I would give my thoughts and \\Titc them about the recently held NatiYe American Sobriety Walk on June 14th. that I and many others attended. My thoughts and feelings of this event are so overwhelming that it will be hard to out them on paper and have it accurately describe how I was feeling that daY. I first read about the event in Fridays June 13th Grand Rapids press. I immediately knew I would be there. I asked my 6 yr. old and 9 yr. old daughters, Rachel and Rosemary along with their mother Julie, if they would like to join me. They all encouragingly said yes. I am a recovering alcoholic just in the beginning of my recovery for 9 months now. My mother Margaret died in May of 1994 of complications due to an alcohol addiction. So my desire to be involved with this sobriety walk was a way for myself to show support for our Native American Community, and also a very individual and personal healing process. The sobriety walk was helping the healing for before I set foot on the Sixth Street Bridge Park. My family showed eager support and surprisingly my brother Sam called that morning and said he would be there to support also. All through the walk my spirit was growing and my family was enjoying it. For those 2 Yz hours I can honestly say that I could not think of any other place on Earth I would rather be. We walked the route with stops for water, donuts and raffles with Renee repeatedly driving by to smudge the path. As we approached the Pow-Wow grounds at Riverside Park I could hear the announcer addressing the crowd that the Native American Sobriety walkers were approaching, and asking them if they would line the sidewalk and welcome & congratulate us. As we walked that sidewalk to the PowWow grounds people were lined up waiting to greet & cheer us . My daughters were happily receiving the attention, their mother was crying tears of many emotions. As for my self when I was walking in carrying my Native American flag and seeing the The walk was all I imagined it would be, from the sign in, getting a T-shirt, to Hunter and his drum group starting things to the three speakers. One speaker whose name I have forgotten (Bill Dunlap) spoke close to my heart. He talked of how one day something or someone lifted the burden of alcohol from him. Native Elders lined up shaking my hand and patting me on the back. I was overwhelmed with emotion knowing my Mother and her Spirit were saying ''I'm proud of you Son." This is also very true of me also. To think of how alcohol controlled my life and my farnilys life for so long, how much I consumed and how frequent I used, and on September 29th 1996 I just knew I had to stop. I have not needed alcohol in my life since that day. God, The Great Spirit, and my late mother must have all came together and agreed that it was time foe me to start healing and to be the man and father that can be proud to be sober. Miigwetch Scott Saboo I'll be there the next Native American Sobriety Walk to continue to heal. I hope to see you also. �• 4 July 1997 FAMILY TIME The Spirit of Corn Once many years ago ;n our v;/lage, the people had grown a great crop of corn. Instead of giving thanks, the people thought they must be very special and great gardeners to have grown so much corn. They became 11 aste.f111. Some ate so much corn they became sick. Others let the extra corn rot or gave it to the dogs. The children used the cornstalks as st;cks to fight one another and threw them in the mud when they were done. 1 When much of the corn was gone, the village began to send more hunters to hunt the deer, elk, and moose that were so abundant. But soon the hunters found that something had changed Even the finest hunters could not kill a single animal. The people began to grow hungry and they worried about what they had done to to <?ffend the animals and how they might correct it. They called on their leaders to find the solution. As time passed, the people grew more hungry and the hunters continued to fail to bring food to the village . .~; ' a ': ' ' i~ One day, an e Ider was walking alone near the village, wondering what was to become of the people. As he walked, he came upon a clearing in the woods. He saw a grassy meadow with a mound in the center and on the mound stood a birch bark lodge. When he approached the lodge he heard cries and groans coming from within. When he walked in, he saw a sickly and miserable looking man stretched out on a dirty and worn hide. The man spoke to him, "See what a terrible condition you have placed me in. The people have insulted me, their best friend, in the most ungrateful manner. They dragged me about in the mud and dirt. They allowed the dogs to tear my clothing. They ill-treated me in every possible wcry. This is the cause of their own misfortune and their present want. What the people do to the rest of us in this creation comes back to them. I am glad you have come and seen me in this terrible condition. I have no water, no cloths, not even a leaf to protect me .fi'om the cold Weeds and ·wild plants grow in my garden. Tell the people this. " (THE SPIRIT OF CORN STORY TO CONTINUE IN NEXT MONTHS ISSUE) �• 5 Ju!y 1997 July Birthdays "Muna di bish ka win" \ Christopher Abella Russell Alex Betty Anderson Erika Anderson Trina Atwood Marie Bailey Mark Bowen Carren Cady Linell Crampton Robert Cuellar III Sylvia Contreras Alice Gorney Melody Harris Eva Hinmon Kevin Ives Sr. Robert Ives Dakota Jacko Culver Judson Wilma Kelly lnarlie Korn Don Leaureaux Robin Mashka Dorothy McCann Mike McSauby Steve Medacco Tim Medallo Steve Parsons Adam Pigeon Amanda Pigeon Michelle Priest Deborah Raphael Fred Raphael Peggy Raphael Mellena Sams Twyla Shomin Richard Sprague Marcia Sutherlan Jamie Taylor Dennis Two Crow Lulu Two Crow Pam Wesaw Jennie Whitepigeon Wicker Kim Yates Andrea Yount ASpecial Megwetch To Sobriety Walk Volunteers The Native American Prevention Services & Indian Family Resources, would like to give thanks to these individuals for their help in the Sobriety Walk. Migwech ... Stephanie Norton Corey Lardar James Genia Timothy Loonsfoot Sr. Casey Church Roger Dressler Thomas J. Botham Ashly Botham Jason Botham Mary Church Isaac G. Dillard Trisha Trasky Kristy Dayson Lorna Vantil Betty Davis Renee Dillard Joe John Bill Dunlap Owashtinong Chungaming Under the Influence of Alcohol and Other Drugs, Sexual Behavior Puts You Even More At Risk! Alcohol and other drug use is linked to risky sexual behavior and poses significant threats to the health of adolescents. Substance abuse may impair adolescents' ability to make judgements about sex and contraception, placing them at increased risk for unplanned pregnancy, sexual assault, or becoming infected with a sexually transmitted disease (STD), including HIV/AIDS. We know the AIDS virus can be transmitted through sharing hypodermic needles. Less is known about the dangerous role of alcohol and other drugs in sexual behavior that may lead to STDs and HIV/AIDS. To compound matters, there is also considerable evidence that alcohol and other drugs weaken the immune system, thereby increasing susceptibility to infection and disease. Consider the following statistics: * The use of alcohol and other drugs can effect judgement and lead to taking serious sexual risks. There were 18,540 cases of AIDS among 13 to 24 year olds reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by the end of 1994. * About 75 percent of high �• 6 July 1997 school seniors have had sexual intercourse at least once in their lives: about 20 percent have had more than four sexual partners by their senior year. drug abuse must be a top priority. Danny Glover ( actor from The Color Purple, Predator II, Lethal Weapon) also spoke but what impressed me was that he asked to be at the conference. He wanted be a part of our growth, and felt that UNITY is important for all of us no matter what race. * Studies show that adolescents are less likely to use condoms when having sex after drinking alcohol than when sober. This places them at even higher risk f(n· HIV infection, STDs, and 1m11·anted pregnancy. * A survey of high school students found that 18 percent of females and 39 percent of males say it is acceptable for a boy to force sex if the girl is stoned or drunk. * According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HIVI AIDS has been the sixth leading cause of death among 15 to 20 year old in the United States for over three years. One in five of the new AIDS cases diagnosed is in the 20 to 29 year age group, meaning that HIV transmission occurred during the teen years. Additionally, more than half of new cases of HIV infection in 1994 were related to drug use. There is still much to be learned about the relationship between alcohol and other drugs and sexual behavior. During the past decade, teens reported higher levels of sexual activity at earlier ages, experienced more unplanned pregnancies, and suffered higher rates of these problems in the future, prevention of alcohol and other is 10%. UNITY Conference Inspires Youth To "TAKE A STAND" For the second year in a row, youth from the Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council attended the National UNITY Conference which was held in Phoenix, AZ Over 1,400 American Indian youth from all over country attended this conference. One of our conference participants Isaac Dillard, a Grand River Band Ottawa, will share his thoughts with you. Attitude: There were a lot of great speakers like: Mac Newton, who presented and shared about attitude. He shared his life story with us and how he got really far in his life and a lot of it had to do with shaping his life through attitude. A quote that he had for youth was, "like yourself, never quit, never give up and you will always win." This was important to me because attitude is 90% and life Howard Rainer was another speaker that I liked because he spoke about "Taking A Stand Character, Commitment, and Courage." He explained that these are good qualities of leadership. If there was a speaker that I would like to be like, it would be Howard Rainer and Mac Newton. When the speakers talked it made me think more about people and their attitudes. People with positive attitudes are going to be more successful in life than someone who doesn't care. It helped me realize how important it was and helps me better understand leadership roles in life. Ifl was going to speak and have a negative attitude then it gives people the wrong impression. So it's important to have a positive attitude. During our free time, one of the funned things I did was go to the water park with the youth council from Mt. Pleasant and riding horses in the mountains surrounding Phoenix. I also ordered the biggest steak (porterhouse) in the restaurant �• 7 July 1997 and ate it all. This was a steakhouse that was located on the horse trail. Riding the horses brought back memories of when I rode horses when I was smaller. I also saw a roadrunner when we were riding. A message for youth and others: I' 11 repeat a message which I said earlier and that is, "like yourself, never quit, never give up and you will always win. I feel that this message goes out to anyone who is reading this." A Special Migwech: I would like to say thank you to all the people and organizations who supported us and gave us an opportunity to learn, share, and to help us take a stand for ourselves and community. This stand was against any negative influences of life. Statewide Native Youth Leadership Conference August 18-22 The 5th Annual Statewide Native Youth Leadership Conference will be held August 18-22 at Camp O' Malley. The previous location was held at the Kettunen Center in Tustin, MI. We moved this years location in order to offer the participants new experiences that Camp O'Malley has to offer such as the high ropes experience. This conference will allow forty youth, who went through an application process including two letters of recommendation, to experience a week full of leadership experiences and opportunities. Anishinabek facilitators have also been hand chosen from around the Great Lakes who have experience in youth leadership development. The purpose of this experience is to engage youth in hands on experiential learning that will allow them to grow and gain experiences to assist them reaching more of their leadership potential. Some of these areas include cultural, wellness, communication, and team building areas. It doesn't stop there however, what they do with the information is just as important. The youth will have an opportunity to develop action steps to combat these issues in their own communities. What type of young person attends this experience. There isn't any one definition that describes the type of person who attends but in general they come from all walks of life and experiences. However, one thing that most of them have had in common in the past is the sincere concern of the future for our people. It's not to late ifyour interested. ... We will definitely fill all forty slots but if we get more than forty then we go through a selection process or perhaps add more youth to the experience. We only have a few slots left but their going fast... If you want more information on the Statewide Youth Leadership Conference please call me AS.AP at 616-458-4078. Migwech Hunter. NEW STAFFON BOARD! My name is Wanda Blanco and I am the new Office Services Coordinator for Indian Family Resource and Native American Prevention Services. I've been working for IFR and NAPS for about 3 months now and I've been enjoying it since then. Everyone at the office is very warm and very nice to me. I've been living in Grand Rapids for about 13 years now. I was born and raised in Puerto Rico and my family and I lived there before we moved to Grand Rapids. I graduated from City High School in Grand Rapids and I attended a small �• 8 July 1997 private college in Puerto Rico for the year of 95-96 so I can improve my Spanish. In the fall of' 96, I attended Michigan State University majoring in Social Work. At the moment my major is Social Work, but might take computers as well. I would like to finish college and receive a bachelor' s and masters in Social Work. I love shopping and also I like traveling. What is very interesting about me, is that I'm not Native American, but I am Hispanic and I speak two languages, Spanish and English and .also I'm only 20 years old. There are two things that I'm proud of and that is my accomplishments that I've made in life and the encouragement and support that my parents have gave me throughout the years. Meet Robert Memberto (Robert was placed here through MIETS summer youth employment program.) My name is Robert Memberto and I'm 16 years old. I'm in 11th grade and attend Rogers High School. I'm part of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band Potawatomi. One of my hobbies is playing basketball. For fun I play basketball and go out with my friends. I also like to go to Pow Wow' s, I sing with both Odawa NationSwirling Wind Singers and Owashtinong Chungaming. Now I'm working at the Indian Family Resources and Native American Prevention Services. On the worksite I help unpack things, I type for the staff, and help assist with upcoming events. (Robert was to shy to give us a picture, but he did say boozho to everyone.) 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Native American Prevention Services Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Genia, Hunter (Editor) Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/b448161901f5ea2485c2136c1ecdd7a6.pdf 19e38405c040969d2ceb977e2b0ca3d0 PDF Text Text N E ·--- ·- s W ·- - - - - - Gfam\-~a\le.'LSta\e Turtle Talk -~-jii~~i () \991 Native American Prevention Services 45 Lexington NW Grand Rapids, MI 49504-6399 TELE: (616) 458-4078 FAX: (616) 458-2096 -tJn\vetS\ti \.ibiaN1 L Ode'imin Giizis (Strawberry Moon) Mishikenh Geegadohawen E ·T T E R JUNE 1997 Highlight~ <;rad11ates . . . . ..... 1 ( ;ra11d I ·alley Stale Cniversily Summer .-lrclweology Project .1 .\ lichiga11 lndia11 Employme/I/ & Trai11i11g Services. /11c . ..... 1 Gra11d Rapids Civic Theater To ( 'olla borate On Theatrical Production 1 To Live The Trw IVay . ... 1 F . l .\IILr T/ ,\IE ... ./ The Four Hills of Life . . . ./ ".\ !1111<1 Di bish ka win " .. 5 .\lore Pow-Wows ... 5 C11ity Summer Yowh Co11fere11ce . ..... - . . . . . . . . . 5 Young Eagles K-3 .Yew Time ...... _.. _......... _.. . . ___ 6 Look ff7wt The ./th-6th You11g Eagles Group ls Doing :Vow/I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .... _ _ _ 6 "DiaryofTee11 .\!othersandFathers " .. __ . _. __ 6 C.-ILLI:VG ALL NA TJTE AAIERJCAN YOUTH 7 .'vf11skego11 Wins Basketball Championship! ........ . _.. .. . _ 7 .-IN!SHIN.-IBEK YOUTH LEADERSHJP COUNCIL WOl:LD LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU ... _. . 7 ./th Annual Anishinaabe Family Language Camp ........................ 8 111d .-l111111al Native American Walk For Sobriety' ............. . 8 Three Fires Pow Wow .... _. . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Turtle Talk flul/fer Genia - Editor Renee Dillard - Co-Editor T11rtl1! Talk 's mission is to provide its readership with rl!ports of local a11d 11atio11al i111aest which may affect and impact our Vative American co11m11111ity. Special emphasis H"ill be placed 011 pn've11tio11 i11formatio11. Turtle Talk is published by .\'aiil'I! American Preventio11 Services. in cooperatio11 with the Kent ( '01111ty Health Department Turtle Tulk due dates: S11bmissio11s to Turtle Talk must be receil•ed i11 our office by the .first of each month for the upcoming month 's issue. r?l'ot all material submitted can be 11sl!d. i lfyou have a story or i11/'omwtio11 \IOI/ would like to sl~are with Turtle Talk. please se11d it with vour name. address a11d pho11e ,;umber. You will be rl!cog11ized by name in Turtle Talk ifyo11r article is used. Graduates ' Stacia Marie Collins, the grand daughter of Steve and Luella Collins, attends Westbridge Academy. Stacia likes to play volleyball and relaxes by reading. She intends to enroll at Grand Rapids Community College in the fall. She thankfully acknowledges "My Grandparents for helping me with my whole life when my parents weren't around and Ron Yob for making it possible for me to get back in school" William Lucy is the son of Rebecca Marks and Tony Lucy and Jim Dayle (stepfather) and is graduating from Ottawa Hills. He had received recognition for above average scores on standardized testing and a letter for choir. William plans on attending Aquinas College to pursue his musical interests. In his spare time he enjoys playing in his band called "Thunder-Chicken". William would like to thank God, and his parents for all their support. Leona Parney is graduating from Ottawa Hills High School. She belongs to the Huron Potawatomi Tribe. Leona plans on attending Grand Rapids Community College in the fall of 1997. She is interested in becoming a preschool teacher. Leona loves children, enjoys crocheting and raises rabbits in her spare time. Vernita Bixler is the daughter of Mary Lou Bixler and Bernard Bixler and has completed her high school education at West Middle. Vernita plans on attending Grand Rapids Community College to pursue a career as a professional health paramedic. Also she enjoys taking care of children. Vernita would like to thank Ron Yob and Jim Botts for all of their suppport. ........................... (continued on pg.2) �• 2June 1997 Grand Valley State University Summer Archaeology Project Native American Prevention Services Staff: Lora Church Program Director Hunter Genia I>n:\'enlion Specialist/Educator Renee Dillard I'rc,·cntion Specialist/Educator /'he goal of .\'alive :llllerican l'rewlllicm Serl'ices is to deliver ser\'ices and i1!forlllatio11 that e11c1111rage healtl~i' f!(estyles while discouraging the use of alcohol and uther drugs. l )ur prngram strives to ensure the inllmnation and serYices provided arc wlturally rdevant and agcappropriate. We Pro\'ide: lnformation-rdcYant to the Native American litl:stvle. Assistance and referrals-can be prn\'idcd to community members as \\ell as proll:ssionals about issues related lo A.T .O.D. Natiw American Youth Groups-arc di\'ided according to grade lc\'d and meet once a week throughout the year. Consultations and Presentationsan he prn,·idcd to schools, oqwnizations. community groups, in,·luding parents, on substance abuse prcYcntion and/or culturally rdntcd topics. Special Pro~rams and Activitiesan: proYided to youth, parents and ddcrs. 1 1 Grand Valley State University is offering a summer opportunity for area Native American High School Students. The students will learn techniques of archaeological excavation and cultural history. Grand Valley students will serve as mentors and facilitators for the high school students. The students will participate in one week sessions. There will be 4 sessions, beginning the week of June 23rd and ending the week of July 14. Class size is limited and students will be chosen based on their applications. For more information or an application contact; Ron Yob at the Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians 307 Michigan Ave. N.E. P.O. Box 2937 Grand Rapids, MI 49501-2937 Michigan Indian Employment & Training Services, Inc. Summer Youth program Our summer youth program is for students between the ages of 1417. It runs for a 6 week time , period during the summer months. We (M.E.I.T.S .) Place the students with a non-profit organization to work the 6 week time period. The rate of pay is $4 .25, and the students are paid by 1 M.l.E.T.S. The maximum hours i allowed is 32 although less than 32 is also fine . This program enables the youth to develop basic working skills and 1 provide job training in specific areas. To be eligibility for the program you must; 1. Be a resident of the MJ.E.T.S. service area. (Kent county) 2. Be at least one-quarter blood quantum North American Indian. 3. Be at least one of the following; A Unemployed for the sevenday period prior to applying for the program. B . Working part-time, but seeking full-time employment. C. Have a family income that meets the income guidelines established by the United States Dept. of Labor. For more information call Grand Rapids (616) 538-9644 or Muskegon (616) 722-7769. Grand Rapids Ch ic Theater To Collaborate On Theatrical Production 1 Arts Council of Grand Rapids provides first funding for phase one of the project: research and playwright Dale Hull of the Grand Rapids Civic Theater along with Derek Bailey and Hunter Genia have come together to initiate the Anishinabe, Native American Theater Project. Funded in part by the Arts Council of Greater Grand Rapids, this project is being developed specifically to give a contemporary voice to the rich cultural and historical spirit of the Native American community of Michigan. A staged theatrical event created from st01ies and actual events of the Anishinabe people will be the end result of �• 3 June 1997 collaborative efforts on the part of the Civic Theater, which has engaged local playwright Jean Reed Bahle, and yet to be formed members of the Anishinabe community. The originators of the project (still in its formative stages) are seeking a' writer/storyteller/interpreter from the Anishinabek tribes to collaborate in bringing material from storyteIJing to stage. This collaborator should have the following qualifications: 1. Have ties to/be a part of the Anishinabe people. 2. Have an interest in Native American history and a facility with the Anishinabe language. 3. Work well with a range of age-groups in gathering primary source material. 4. Work well in collaborating with a playwright and other theater-related artists. Those interested may send a brief resume plus a two paragraph explanation of their interest in this project, by July 1, 1997, to : Dale Hull, Development Director Grand Rapids Civic Theater 30 N. Division Grand Rapids, MI 49503 To Live The True Way By Kristy Dayson Inside the Circle we get ready to dance. The drum starts to beat and I hear the Jingle of the cones. My father was sick and Aplastic Anemia (the bone marrow doesn't produce blood constantly). He was striving to live and was receiving blood transplants about twice a week. This dance was dedicated to him and he felt better after the dance. But, it was his time to go through the Western door. This is the story behind the jingle dress; long ago our people went through a time of sickness. One night a young lady asked the Creator to help the people. So the Creator sent her a dream of a dress that had cones on it. And the dream was that each day of sickness, she would put on another cone and with each cone she would pray. She prayed for her people to get better as she danced in this dress. The people did get better as she went from village to village. I dance the jingle dress dance because I want to give back to my community and help those like my dad and others that may be sick. I want to help them with my prayers through those times when they feel weak and helpless, and give them the strength to fight their disease, including the disease of drug and alcohol abuse. A jingle dress dancer is highly respected in her community because of her healing powers and with this comes a lot of responsibility. It takes a lot to carry around 365 metal cones. When you are dancing though, it seems that it doesn't matter - I feel as light as a feather and I feel myself getting stronger and more spiritual as I dance. The thing that matters most to me is to bring good medicine to the people. The offering of tobacco to a dancer to pray for the loved one that is sick and wave the feather fan in the air to send those prayers makes this a spiritual dance. I learned late in my life by what the elders taught in my community and I will not let my children learn as late as I did. I will continue to go to pow-wows and bring good medicines to the community and teach the next generation the same. This is what I learned and this is what I will always live by. to White Pine Mine Dead! On Thursday afternoon, May 29, the Copper Range Corporation withdrew its permit for acid solution mining at the White Pine copper mine in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. U.S. environmental protection agency phoned Chippewa tribal chairs to inform them of their decision. Midwest Treaty Network spokesperson Walter Bressette (Calvin College presentation, March 25) hailed the company move as a major victory for grassroots environmental organizing and traditional Native American activism. "The death of the White Pine mine shows that mining companies are now on the run in our region. We anticipate the company withdrawal to begin a domino effect across the North Country. For more background on the White Pine mine, call Walter Bressette at the Midwest Treaty Network at (715) 779-5071. �11 4 June 1997 FAMILY TIME The Four Hills of Life (Continued from last month) Mishomis said, "Finally, I began to climb the fourth hill, I was an old man and had lived a long time. Although I had grown wise in all these years, my body was tired and I could not move as fast as I did on the other hills. was guided on my way by wisdom, which shown like a bright light around me." "As I reached the top of the hill, it took great effort for me to walk, but I felt peaceful and happy as I looked back over the hills of my life. Before I reached the bottom of the fourth hill, I fell to the ground and my body became part of the earth and all that I had taken from the earth was given back." A) Which of the four hills are you on? B.) When grandpa saw himself on the fourth hill, he saw a bright light shining around himself that guided him on his way. He said it was his "wisdom." How do grandparents and other elders become wise? C.) Can you think of a time when an older person taught you something or showed you how to do something? Describe it. D .) When grandpa saw himself on the fourth hill, he also said his body was tired and he could not walk very fast anymore. When you are old you think you will be able to run, play, or ride a bike the way you can now? Why? E.) Draw a picture of yourself on the hill you think you are on now. Then draw a picture of what you think you will look like when you are on the fourth hill. What are the differences? �• 5 June 1997 Birthdays "'l\'luna Di bish ka win" Amy Anderson Paul Shomin Brandi Shomin Douglas Martin Shomin Anthony Sams Melinda Hinmon Marcus Russell Virgil King Cullen Kelly Mable Ramos Jessica Valdez Shawn Day Ronald A. Boda Ollie Pierce Andrea Kaye Priest Rita Blumke Rose Shomin Jeff Gibbs Billie Jo Russell Bill Schrubbe David Sams Cathy Rotan Mari Comer Kayle Crampton Karen Taylor Sue Maturkanich Fred Bell .John Hart Joe Memberto Connie Cady Anna Ward Lisa Brummitt Kay Shagonaby Roseanne Martell Vicki Upton Terry Chivis William Chivis William Jones Elizabeth Gibbs Dennis J. Rickert Phyllis Sprague Loretta Castaneda Chaun Castaneda Nebin Floyd Jamie Whitehead Ashleigh Day Martine Sanchez Jennifer Cantu Jamie Hubbard Brian Lett More Pow-Wows 1st Annual Hesperia Traditional Pow-Wow June 28 and 29 Honoring all Nations Trader information call; (616) 821-0051 or (616) 652-2534 20th Annual Lansing Indian Center Contest Pow-wow June 7 and 8th for more information call; (517) 487-5409 or (517) 482-0051 Day of The Eagle Pow-Wow June 7th & 8th East Jordan, Michigan Boswell Field on M-32 for more information contact Doug Sineway at;(616) 536- 3465 Annual Homecoming of the Three Fires Pow-Wow Grand Rapids MI. June 14 & 15 at Riverside Park. Co sponsored by Grand Rinr Band Of Ottawa Indians and the Cih· Of Grand Rapids. For more i~fo (616) 458-8759 Th Annual ••Honoring our Veterans" Pow-Wow Brimley, Michigan June 14 and 15 Sponsored in whole by the Bay Mills Indian Community. For more Information call Sara at; (906) 2-'8-3700 or Angie at: (906) 248-5524 Sault Ste. Marie Tribal National Assembly, 15th Annual Traditional Pow-Wow and Spiritual Conference July 4th-6th At the Sault Ste, Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians Reservation on Shunk road. ·Spiritual Gathering July 2-3, Pow-Wow July 4-7. For more information; (906) 635-6050 Unity Summer Youth Confere nee Scheduled in Phoenix Oklahoma City- The United National Indian Tribal Youth Inc.(Unity), has announced its 1997 youth conference will be held June 27- July 1 at the Crown Plaza Hotel in downtown Phoenix, AZ. Operating under the theme of"Challenge '97:Take a Stand," the conference will focus on three attributes of successful leadership, character, commitment and courage. The conference is for Native American youth ages 15-24 who are interested in developing leadership skills and contributino 0 to a positive future for Native America. All events and workshops are designed to provide youth with skills they need to take charge of their lives. Workshops will be offered on how to developed better communication skills, set goals, develop a healthy self esteem, and improve problem solving and organizational skills. Conference registration fee is paid by May 30 is $65 per youth or advisors. For more information contact UNITY at (405) 424-3010 or P.O . Box 25042, Oklahoma City, Ok 73125 . �• 6 June 1997 Young Eagles K-3 New Time Young Eagles (K-3) youth group is still going on at Lexinbrton the building. We've changed the night to Monday until further notice. Renee Dillard is the new instructor. If you would like to sign up your young person call 458-4078 for information. Look What The 4th6th Young Eagles Group Is Doing Now!! The passing cars and police honked and waved with encouragement as we cleaned two square blocks for a total of eight bags of trash. The neighborhood folks came out to offer a thank-you as well . With all this community activity and these young people taking such a active role, they sure felt good about themselves, and rightfully so. If you know of a young person in our youth group give them a word of encouragement. It may make a big difference in their life. If you know someone who would like to join any of the youth groups.please call us at 458-4078 . By Renee Dillard The 4-6 grade Young Eagles Youth group is progressing very fine. We went to a Elder retirement home located on Leonard, to visit and help the elders on activities night . Thanks to Kevin 0 Hare from the Gerontology Network, the youth were prepared for what they would be encountering at the home. All had a good time and the youth look forward to visiting again June 25th. Also the active young people were out picking up trash in the West Side neighborhood . The·older youth group came out to show their support for cleaning up our Mother Earth. We picked up local children along the way who just wanted to be part of something so positive. Think Before You Act "Diary of Teen Mothers and Fathers" My name is Rhiannon Siow, I am 18 years old and am a teenage parent. I have a s.o n whose name is Cedric and he just recently turned a year old. Being a teen parent is very liard work, especially if your not ready to settle down. I was not ready to handle the responsibility of having and taking care of a child. As reality set in and my son was here, I really realized how hard it was. All my hopes, dreams, and goals were set aside. I have raised my son the best way I know how with a little help and tons of support from my family made it a little easier. But it is mainly my responsibility to provide and support for my son. Right now I a~ depending on my parents to support and provide for us, until I get financially stable. I just recently started college and am continuing to further my education. It took me a whole year to get my life back in gear. If you aren't ready to put an end to your fun and if you aren't ready to go through sleeplessnights, I would HIGHLY recommend using protection when you are having sex. All I have to say to some girls who want to have a baby is to take this advice from someone whose already gone through it, and knows really how hard it is to raise a child. If you don't believe me or want to listen to me or other teen parents then you'll find out when its you telling other girls YOUR story. Rhiannon K. Siow Being a teenage father and being it is my senior year in high school I never thought it would happen to me. Until it did! Now I have a wonderful son " Elijah Xavier" and my caring & loving girlfriend. Elijah & Tara are the greatest thing that's happened to me. That is not the whole thing about being a teen parent. Their is so much work in it. Before I graduated my Mother and Father and Tara's Mother were supporting us. And to me it felt like we were just using them, but I plan to pay them back. But now that we've �• 7 June 1997 taken some steps in parenthood all the burden has mostly dropped. I love my family very much, so guys if you read this; Any guy can make a baby, but it takes a real father to raise one. Author Unknown Age19 CALLING ALL NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH If you are between the grades of 8-12, you are invited to attend the GVSU King/ChavezJPark College Day Program. It will be on the GVSU campus July 22nd IT'S FREEi All you have to do is fill out the application, have your parents approve and sign it, then turn it in to Native American Prevention Services at 45 Lexington N.W. by July 8, 1997 . This will give you a chance to experience campus life. There will be a science classroom experience, a mini pow \IVOW and learning from Native American people who believe education is the key to our futures. Plus there will be opportunities for fieldhouse recreation. You will be chaperoned by caring adults and college staff Transportation will be provided from Lexington School o Tuesday, July 22nd, to Grand Valley State University and back again on Thursday . If you have any questions, please contact June Mamagona Fletcher at 336-7113, Betty Davis at 771-2189, or Hunter Genia at 458-4078. Muskegon Wins Basketball Championship! How's that for a headline. The 2nd Annual Grand Rapids Anishinabe Basketball Tournament was an exciting one to say the least. With Bay Mills bowing out early on Sunday it came down to a championship match between defending champ Gun Lake and the surpriser, Muskegon. The game wouldn't be decided until the end with Muskegon pulling it out to take the championship. Congratulations to Jamie Wilson and his team and congratulations also to Gun Lake for a valiant effort! We also want to take some time to thank the volunteers who continually come out to support events which promote wellness in our community and especially our tournament. Chi Migwech to the following: Ruth Sprague, Dolores Laban, Angie Shinos, Bob Stone, Toni Medawis, Tim Loonsfoot, Char Campbell, Wassia Kiogima, Wendy (GVSU), Dewayne Moore (YMCA) and Debbie Muller. A Migwech to our Anishinaabe brothers from Wisconsin, Tom Kenote and Jay Jackson for wanting to be a part of this again. Oh yeah, and my tag team partner Derek Bailey for a gqod tournament. ANISHINABEK YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE COMMUNITY! On May 14th, many of you came out to support our youth council by attending the spaghetti fundraiser in which over $200.00 was raised, many of you also supported our concession at the basketball tournament. We would like to say Migwech because without your support then the UNITY trip to Phoenix would not be possible. We would also like to acknowledge our "Coming Through In The Clutch Awards": John Hutchinson (MBA Printing), Sue Maturkanich (GREA), Three Fires Pow Wow Committee, North American Indian Center, Lora Church, Florence & Wayne Loonsfoot, John & Olive Pigeon . This recognition given to them for coming through in the clutch. Migwech from the Youth Council. �• 8 June 1997 You are Invited to the 4th Annual Anishinaabe Family Language Camp June 27,28,29 1997 Alden, Michigan East of Traverse City West of Kalkaska (M-72) Bring your tents, sleeping bags, lawn chairs, camping gear, ect.. . No Registration fee, Meals are provided. Language workshops begin Friday p.m. for all ages. Sponsored by the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of the Anishinaabe Nation For more information and to register please call Kenny Pheasant at 1- 800- 216 -7081 2nd Annual Native American Walk For Sobriety! Three Fires Pow Wow June 14 & 15 Comstock Riverside Park No matter your story or purpose the walk will be a chance for all of us to reflect on what does sobriety mean to us. Grand Entry: Saturday 1:00 p.m.&7:00p.m. Sunday 1:00 p.m. We hope you will join us either m presence or prayers. Drummers and Dancers must register by 1:00 p.m.! Registration: 9:00 - 10:00 a.m Blessing: 10:00 a.m. Speakers: 10: 10 - 10:25 a.m. Honor Song: 10:25 a.m. Walk: 10:30 a.m. Destination: Three Fires Pow Wow (distance: 2.5 miles), water stations, transportation assistance along the walk available. This event is sponsored by: Homecoming Of The Three Fires Pow Wow Committee, City Of Grand Rapids, Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians, Inc., and Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs. Pledge Forms available at the Native American Prevention Services office, person who collects the most pledges with $ turned in, receives a pendleton blanket. Proceeds benefits future prevention and wellness programs. For more info: 458-4078 - Lora Church. Grand Rapids Public Schools Lexington School 45 Lexington NW Grand Rapids, Ml 49504 For more information please contact: The Grand River Band of Ottawa Indians, Inc. (616) 458-8759. NON-PROFIT ORO US POST AGE PATD Grand Rapids, Mf Permit No. 3 19 state Uni"ersiW Grand \Ja\\e'/ Ubrar'/ M\ 4940~ ,A..\\enda\e, � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Native American Prevention Services Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Genia, Hunter (Editor) Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3f9827786457f11858aa0a6cf6781a80.pdf 59fcfc6c0cb6e7ecbe755da843b558db PDF Text Text Wabigoni Giizis (Budding Moon) -·- --MAY 0 8 1997 ____ ~ Druversifl l..ibnq Native American Prevention Services 45 Lexington NW Grand Rapids, MI 49504-6399 TELE: (616) 458-4078 FAX: (616) 458-2096 Mishikenh Geegadohawen L E T T E R May 1997 Highlights Pilcher. grass dancer. educator ................. ....... I American Indian Symposium ·97 ....................... I Alo/her 's Day Celebralion ..... I Anishinabe Baske1ball Plavers Se/ 'f'o Hil The Hardwood! ... :. 2 "Keepers of 1he Waler" ....... 2 Sniffing1Huf]ing Jnhala11ts Ki Ifs I ...................... .. 2 H71y Consider ..lpp(vingfor the l'eer Leardership Training? ........................ 3 .Valive American Peer Educators ls 711e Goal! ............... 3 Turtle Talk lhmter Genia - Editor R.e11ee Dillard - Co-Editor Tur/le Talk 's mission is lo provide its readership with reports of local and 11ational interes/ which may affect and impact our Native America11 comm11nity. Special emphasis will be placed on prevention infomwtion. Turtle Talk is published by Native American Prevention Services. i11 cooperation with 1he Kent Coullty Health Department Turtle Talk due dates: S11bmissio11s lo Turtle Talk must be received in our office by the first of each month for the 11pcomi11g mo11th 's issue. (Not all material submitted can be used.) lfyou have a story or in{rJmiation vou would like to siwre with Turtle Talk. please send it with your name, address a11d phone ;,umber. You will be recognized by name in Turtle Talk ifyour article is used. UNBOUNDED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FAA11LYTJM"b.' .... .. ... . .................. THE FOUR HILLS OF UFE .............. "Muna Di bish ka win " . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A4innesola Regional Unity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council ofGrand Rapids -- Moving Ahead! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ten Reasons To Prevent Child Abuse . . . . . . . . . . Calendar ofEvents & Pow Wows: . . . . . . . . . . . . . WE HAVE UPDATED OUR MAJUNG LIST . . . . "Spaghetti Fundraiser Set" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grand Rapids Second Annual Anishinaabe Basketball Tournament ...................................... 3 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 7 8 (fourth place at the ~nte 61eska UniVersity founders Day Pow Wow) and throwing abaseball through atire in his brother's backyard. ADartmouth UniVersity graduate, he works Off· season for the Rosebud Tribal Education Department. Besides working in classrooms, he does presentations on healtlly IWestyles and positive choices. Amrrican lndiin Symposium 'q7 "Kttpin: Our Youth In Tht Cirdt" 8 May20, 1qq7, &:~o a.m.·BO p.m An Updur on likon Sioux lob lrnnm pist pitchtr fOr tht Wtst ftichiiin Whitmps, now onr ltvtl fi'om tht ftijors! Pitchtr, gms danm, rducator Applied Technology Center 6rand Rapids Community College ft;turtl Ktp1tt bf (/flt ltlltr11n, l/1ti1n;/ lirtftlr fir tht Allltrian /nli;n H1rt11tnt by Candy Hamilton Rosebud, ~uth Dakota (HRC) Contact laii A. Rickert at bib-nb-41q4 fOr more information. Bob Bennett joined the Oa~and Athletic'sAM Pacific Coast league I's Edmonton team when spring practice started March 7. That'! apromotion for the Rosebud Lakota pitcher, who pitched last year for the Huntsville ~rs. When the letter came tdling him about his promotion, he hesitated to open It, dreading it m~ht be his rdease papers. Instead, at ageib, he moved one stepcloser to his dream Of pla~ng in major leagues. Edmonton is on~ one step below the majors. last season Bennett had avery tough time on the mound for athree-week stretch. Then he recouped, and his EM went from the h~h ]'s to 5.27 as his fastball increased therdore improving his EM. otr season he stays in condition by grass dancing Mother's Day Celebration Dinner & Karoake When: May 10, 1997 Where: West Side Complex Time: 2:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Please bring a dish to share. For more information call: Debra K. Muller at 336-4194. �• 2 May 1997 Turtle Talk Native American Prevention Services Staff Lora Church Program Director Hunter Genia Prevention Specialist/Educator Renee Dillard Prevention Specialist/Educator The goal of Native American Prevention Services is to deliver se1vices and information that encourage healthy lifestyles while discouraging the use of alcohol and other drugs. Our program strives to ensure the info1mation and services provided are culturally relevant and ageappropriate. We Provide: Information-relevant to the Native American lifestyle. Assistance and referrals-can be provided to community members as well as professionals about issues related to A.T.O.D. Native American Youth Groups-are divided according to grade level and meet once a week throughout the year. Consultations and Presentations- can be provided to schools, organizations, community groups, including parents, on substance abuse prevention and/or culturally related topics. Special Programs and Activities- are provided to youth, parents and ciders. Anishinabe Basketball Players Set To Hit The Hardwood! The 2nd Annual Grand Rapids Basketball Tournament is set for May 17 & 18 at Union High School. Volunteers are needed. For more information please contact: Derek Bailey@ 616-458-1641. Food Volunteers call Ruth Sprague at 4588383. Migwech! "Keepen of the Water" Video to document the ongoing struggle of Native Americans to protect the environment and their homeland. About the video: Northern Wisconsin is home to the Sokaogon Mole Lake Chippewa Tribe. Exxon and Rio Algom are proposing a metallic sulfide mine near Wolf River. This would destroy the river and the traditional wild rice beds on the Sokaogon Chippewa. This video documents the ongoing struggle of Native and environmental groups to protect the water of Wisconsin. This same process has destroyed the White Pine River in Northern Michigan and should be a concern of all of us. Video Showing: May 28th @ 6:30 p.m. at Lexington School. For more information contact Renee Dillard at 458-4078. Sniffing/Huffing/Inhalants Kills! There are over 600 common household products that youth sniff or "huff'. Over the past ten years there has been a rise in inhalant use. Middle school students age 12-13 "huff' inhalants more fhan any other age group. In the past serveral years, at least three high school students have died and many others rushed to the emergency room in West Michigan as a result of inhalant use. Parents, teachers, and other adults who have contact with children or adolescents should be alert for clues or warning signs that inhalant use is a problem. Short term effect/symptoms may include: rashes, headaches, dizziness, nausea, mood swings, rapid pulse, red/glassy eyes, and slurred speech. Long term effects include: brain damage, memory loss, liver damage, blindness, and even death. For more information about inhalants or other drugs call the Kent County Health Department at 336-3804 or Native American Prevention Services at 458-4078. Why Consider Applying for the Peer Leardership Training? Why should you apply for the peer leadership training is probably what your wondering. If I was your age I would be feeling hesitant, a little frightened at the thought about presenting in front of others. I encourage you to take a risk because there are benefits participating in this training First, you will have the opportunity to interact wlfh other youth your age or younger who could benefit from the knowledge or experience that you have or gained. Second, there are youth who at different times in their adolescence will contemplate: using alcohol or other drugs, sexual activity, �• 3 May 1997 Turtle Talk use violence as a tool to communicate their anger, and much more that we could go on about. Third, many youth are influenced by their peers and friends, when that influence is negative then If could spell trouble. You will have the chance to work wlfh other youth in the traimng who are concerned hke you and will explore the issues that youth your age are faong today. Through you exploration you will develop skits, presentations, and messages which you feel is appropriate. Experts from our own community and supporting programs will give you valuable knowledge and information to help. You will have staff and volunteers who will be there always to give you support. So, seriously think about participating and as a result you could be helping someone else. Migwech for your time! Native American Peer Educators Is The Goal! Training to train Native American Youth between 7th -12th grade. *Youth completing the total training will have an opportunity to share positive healthy values with friends and present cultural and educational programs to youth, schools, and community. For more information: Contact the Prevention Office at 458-4078 for more information, application packet and questions you may have. *Our young people are our greatest natural resource* Hunter Genia UNBOUNDED Nicole Jackson Says Paa Maa Pii! She didn 't stay with us long at the prevention program but she did learn one word during her short visit, paa maa pii (later). Nicole left to fulfill her ambition to be a teacher which is what her education background is in . Nicole who is originally from Flint took a position in Detroit. The staff here at Native American Prevention Services wishes her good luck in her future endeavors. June 16-July 3, 1997 A UNIQUE 3 WEEK SUMMER PROGRAM IS BEING OFFERED FREE TO NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH - GRADES 7-12 Has your child ever wanted to learn to sail, take a 3-day canoe trip, learn about music, learn about astronomy, participate in a sport and be a better student, then this is the program for them. UNBOUNDED is a fun summer program filled with both individual instruction in their area of need and fun activities. Students will live at Cornerstone College, at 1001 E .Beltline in Grand Rapids from M-F and return home on the weekends for a three week period. Meals will be served in the college cafeteria. Transportation to be determined at a later date. This wonderful enrichment opportunity is being offered FREE and made possible by area donors who care about Native American youth. Cornerstone College has offered their facilities with many teachers and professors. Volunteers are helping to make these three weeks a success. The Program Director, Randy Cresswell, is a science, math, and physics professor. . Randy has a broad background m diversity having lived in 40 countries and speaks 10 languages. He studied Native American culture under William Thatcher. If interested in having your child attend this 3 week program and they are committed, please contact Randy Cresswell at 4542512 or Tim Crosby at 949-5300 at Cornerstone College to reserve a spot. Deadline is June 6, 1997. If you have any questions, you can also contact Betty Davis at 7712189 or Sally Kee at 771-3318. �• 4 May 1997 Turtle Talk FAMILY TIME THE FOUR HILLS OF LIFE One morning Mishomis (grandfather) woke from his dream, and was so excited about it, the children asked him to share the dream with them. Mishomis said, "I would be happy to . In my dream I was walking far from the village and came upon a valley. I looked out over this deep, wide valley and I saw four great hills in the distance. As I walked closer, I could see the first hill." Mishomis continued, "On the first hill, I saw many babies and small children. They were climbing the hill and as they climbed to the top and down the other side, they grew older until, at the foot of the second hill, they were young boys and girls about 8 or 9 years old. I saw myself on the hill as I was when I was a baby and young boy. I climbed in silence with only a few cries from the babies, who were tired or hungry. As we grew older, we played games chasing and running as we climbed. As I began the second hill, I was a boy about 10 years old." " On the second hill there were many children about my age. As we climbed, we played games of racing, wrestling, swimming, and worked carrying wood, picking berries, hunting , and fishing. The girls and boys were happy as they climbed to the top and down the other side. Once again, as we climbed we grew older. When I started to climb the third hill, I was a young man. // ;::? /~_:• "As I climbed the third hill, I did not hear as much laughter and the other men and women, climbing with me, worked as they climbed. We moved forward hunting, fishing, and making·tools, cooking and making clothing and medicines. Sometimes people would argue or become sick. As I climbed down the hill, I walked slowly because I was becoming an old man." "Finally, I began to climb the fourth hill, I was an old man and had lived a long time. Although I had grown wise in all these years, my body was tired and I could not move as fast as I did on the other hills. I was guided on my way by my wisdom, which shown like a bright light around me." issue.) (Four Hills Story will continue next �• 5 May 1997 Turtle Talk May Birthdays "Muna Di bish ka win" Charles Anderson Sue Barz Jimmy Braddock Jimmy Bush Jr. Sha'ndiin Church John Crampton Gus Day Leah Denhof MikeDenhof Dave Fox Misheka Floyd Selina Gibbs Paul Hart Tashia Hillman Linda Holt Paul Jackson Dolores Laban Toni Leaureaux Roger Martell Jr. Isaac McCann Thomas McDonald Kitt Pigeon Dennis Resterhouse Rocky Russell Billie Jean Sams Dave Shananaquet Larry Shananaquet Jr. Mary Shananaquet William Shananaquet Edward Sherman Jr. Chris Shomin Jordan Shomin Paul Shomin Kari Sprague Denise Skorka Ivanna Swainston Rita Wemigwans Liz Wesaw Minnesota Regional Unity "The Journey" by Kristy Dayson At the end of January and beginning of February three local Native American youth were picked by the other youth in Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council of Grand Rapids to represent them at the Unity Regional. The three youth who were able to go were: Tim Loonsfoot, Wayne Loonsfoot, and I, Kristy Dayson. We left early one Thursday morning and arrived in Williamsburg. Upon arriving in Williamsburg we met other youth from Traverse City and East Jordan. After a short introduction and smudge we were off to Minnesota. On the way we saw many different sites, talked, laughed and listened to music. When we got to Iron Mountain we all stayed at the Comfort Inn. All of us went swimming before going to bed. We also had a short meeting with all the youth and advisors, Michael Jarvis (Grand Traverse Band Staff) told us a story. Then we went back to our rooms or went into the pool room. In the girls rooms we had it rough because we had five people in one room with only one bathroom. We started out early that day and we were on the road by 7:30 a.m., but before leaving the hotel we had a short morning ceremony to start our journey right. With droopy and tired faces we entered Wisconsin at an early 8:25 a.m. on Friday morning. There wasn't much to do in the van but talk, laugh, listen to music, and get to know each other better. After a long time of sitting in a crowded van we finally entered Minnesota at 2:39 p.m. Friday afternoon. It wasn't long after that until we were shopping in the Mall of America. There was a lot of huge stores, a roller coaster, and much much more that we didn't get to see. After walking through the mall for about 1 Yi hours we went back to the hotel. At the hotel we got to meet the rest of the Native Youth from around Minnesota. There were youth councils from: Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Arizona. After getting to know the youth a little better we went back to our rooms to go to bed. On Saturday we did some action planning on how to get youth participation in our groups . After hearing all the other youth groups action plans we did some activities Saturday night and eventually went back to the mall. After a long three hours of walking around a huge mall we went back to the hotel. �• 6 May 1997 Turtle Talk When we arrived at the hotel we wandered around a little and then ordered pizza and then to bed. Sunday morning we said our good byes and saw a play by the Kinomo Ogichigaad Players from Minnesota who did presentations on HIV/AID's. By Sunday afternoon we were on our way home and we stayed the night again in Iron Mountain. This hotel had a hot tub and a pool. Monday morning we left for Williamsburg and we said our final good bye's, see ya laters, and anything else. Tears were shed, hugs were given, and promises to stay on a good road made. We arrived in Grand Rapids again late Monday evening. After going to the Mall of America, learning all the great information and making friendships we will have friendships that will last a lifetime. All we have now are memories. We now wait until June to see who will be going on the National Unity Trip to Arizona. Until the next time were together, we have memories that will last forever. Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council of Grand Rapids -Moving Ahead! The Youth Council (formerly known as Vision Seekers) is working hard on projects which will be implemented in the near future. As an advisor, facilitator (when needed), friend of the Youth Council I'm very impressed to say the least about the work that they have been putting into their projects. What impresses me even more is that they are working on projects which puts other's first rather than themselves, while in the process gaining valuable leadership skills. Many are learning to work together, voice their feelings on issues, value other people's feelings, action planning skills, and create a product in the end that will benefit someone or something else. The particular projects the youth have chosen to deal with are issues or concerns centering around alcohol use and teens, cultural & heritage, environmental awareness, and a community service initiative which I'm sure will be beneficial to the committees that are sponsoring upcoming Native American events (the sponsoring groups just don't know it yet). As in prior articles and updates, the youth council invites you to come and learn what they are doing, to support their efforts, and provide valuable input. This is your invitation as you don't need a written invite or a phone call because you are always more than welcome. We meet on Wednesday evenings from 6:00 p.m. until 8: 00 p. m.. You are encouraged to call prior to the night you might visit, in case we are meeting off location. Also please support any upcoming fundraisers we might be sponsoring because our youth are raising money to attend the National United Indian Tribal Youth Conference in Phoenix, AZ, in late June. Ten Reasons To Prevent Child Abuse (The following article by Dr. Deborah Daro, Director of Research for the National Committee for the prevention of Child Abuse and author of " Confronting Child Abuse: Research for Effective Program Design ," powerfully outlines why preventing abuse and neglect before it begins is so essential.) I. Child abuse can be fatal For t11e last two years, nearly four children a day have been reported as fatal victims of maltreatment. The vast majority of these children are under the age one. 2. Child abuse stymies a child's normal growth and development The emotional and physical damage children suffer from abuse and neglect is extensive. Documented consequences of abuse include chronic health problems, cognitive and language disorders, and socioemotional problems, such as low selfesteem, lack of trust, and poor relationships with adults and peers. 3. Child Abuse is costly for many social institutions. Repudiating the immediate consequences of serious physical abuse alone costs child welfare agencies, hospitals, and rehabilitation facilities more than $500 million �• 7 May 1997 Turtle Talk annually. 4. Child abuse costs continue to multiply over time. For example, children killed as a result of parental abuse and neglect never have the opportunity to contribute to society. In 1986 and 1987 alone, these deaths cost over 1.2 million in lost futw-e productivity. 5. Child abuse victims often repeat the violent acts that they experienced, on their own children. Although some victims can overcome the scars of their abuse, child abuse Yictims are six times more likely to become abusive parents than nonabused children. efforts consistently result in increased knowledge for children about safety rules and what the should do if they are being abused. Further, the programs create an environment where children can more easily disclose prior or ongoing maltreatment. 9. Child abuse prevention efforts serve as a way to combat other social problems of concern to the public and to policy makers. Research has found strong correlation between a history of abuse and a variety of adult problems, including substance abuse, juvenile and adult crime, and poor social adjustment. The consistent expansion of prevention programs may well lead to the reduction of these problems. 6. Treatment services, while critical, are often ineffective in permanently altering parental beha,·iors. 10. Child abuse prevention creates a more compassionate society, one which places high value on the welfare of children. Program evaluations have found that even sophisicated clinical demonstration projects, often consisting of weekly contact for 12 to 18 months, eliminate the future likelihood for physical abuse or neglect in less than half their clients. Insuring the safe and secure rearing of the next generation requires the efforts of all policy makers and all citizens. To the extent all are involved in the battle to prevent child abuser, all are made aware of the need to nurture human potential in all that we do. 7. Prevention programs targeted at parents before they become abusive or neglectful reduce the likelihood for future treatment Parenting education, support groups, and home visitor programs have consistently demonstrated positive outcomes. Specific gains include improved mother-infant bonding, enhanced parenting skills, and more consistent use of health care services also have demonstrated a reduced rate of child abuse when compared to comparable groups of parents not rece1Ymg services. 8. Prevention programs targeted at children can improve a child's awareness of how best to avoid child abuse and other unsafe practices. A recent review of 25 evaluations of these programs indicate that such Calendar of Events & Pow Wows: May 16 "Survival Walk" Belleville, Ml. For more info: 313-537-7463. May 17-18th. 2nd Annual Grand Rapids Anishinabe Basketball Tournament. For more info: 616-458-4078. May 17-18 Victory Through Survival Traditional Pow Wow. Belleville, Ml. For more info call: 313-721-3603. May 20 American Indian Symposium "Keeping Our Youth In The Circle", Grand Rapids, Ml. For more info: 616336-9194. May 24-25 Morning Star Traditional Pow Wow. Muskegon, Ml For more info call: 616-773-8312, traders call: 616-798-1510. May 24-25 7th Annual GISSIWAS CREEK Indian Pow Wow. Marion, Ml For more info: 616-281-3640 or 616-878-9443. June 7-8th 20th Annual Lansing Indian Center Contest Pow Wow. Lansing, Ml For more info: 517-4875409 or 517-482-0051. June 7-8th Day of the Eagle Pow Wow. East Jordan, Ml 616-536-3456. June 14-15th. 6th Annual "Honoring Our Veterans" Pow Wow. Brimley, Ml. For more info: 906-248-5524. June 14-15. Annual Homecoming of the Three Fires Pow Wow. Grand Rapids, Ml. For more info: 616-4588759. June 14th. "Sohriety Walk" 2nd Annual Grand Rapids, Ml. Preceding Three Fires Pow Wow. For more info: 616458-4078. WE HAVE UPDATED OUR MAILING LIST If you have been mistakenly taken off or know someone who has been please contact our office to be put back on. If you have been taken off this was not intentional. From time to time we have noticed people with the same names living at two different addresses. In order to keep mailing cost down we are trying to maintain accuracy with addresses. Sorry for any errors or inconvenience. �• 8 May 1997 Turtle Talk Support the Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council.. .. "Spaghetti Fundraiser Set" 6rud ~pids Stcond Annuil Anishiniibt lukrtbill Toumimtnt Hay 17 81&, 1qq7 union Hl6H SCHOOL 6RAllD RAPIDS, HI Where: Lexington School Gym Purpose: This attivity is to bring the Anishinaabe people together in arnvironment which promotes wellness and healthy lifestyles. This is acompetitive tournament but also atime for good sportsmanship and fellowship. Please send registrations to: When:Wednesday,l\1.ay14 Time: 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. Cost: 1\1.onetary Donation llitiYt Amtrian Prmntion St!Yicn (U.P.S.) c/o Hunttr lltnia ** Raffles/Silent Auction** R.S. V.P. (by 1\1.ay 6 appreciated), but not required! For more info: 458-4078 45Lai~n1M 6rand P.a~dl. Ml 4qso4 for more information on the tournament, pleaie call H.A.PJ at (b1b) 458-4078 and a1k for /Jerei BaUeyor Hunter, or call John /Jayat either (bib) 45b-bn3 or * Proceeds support youth conference trip* 45b-1bo1 ~pon1artd by Native A~rican Pmention ~rvim and Indian fami~ Rt!Ourm. P.S. Wt DWI JOlunttm for scorrktt~"· if inttmttd ~t~t all llAPS, if you an donatt i dhh to fttd PirtiCil!inn ~t~t Cill 458-8383 ind ~k for Ruth! 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Native American Prevention Services Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Genia, Hunter (Editor) Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/f985d99610f112bfde84eed45c14a136.pdf 22e5b8d3faef2de0b0f51c8acdc74705 PDF Text Text N E w s Qrand Valley State APR 7 1997 University Library Turtle Talk Native American Prevention Services 45 Lexington NW Grand Rapids, MI 49504-6399 TELE: (616) 458-4078 FAX: (616) 458-2096 Ishki Gamizige Giiz (Sap Running Moon) Mishikenh Geegadohawen 'L E T T E R April 1997 Highlights Graduating Seniors!. . . . . . . . . 1 Reader Responds to Article! ... 1 Indian Outreach Worker Gets Assistant! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER .... .................. 3 April Birthdays "Muna Di bish ka win" . . . 3 Peer Leadership Training for Native American Youth ... 3 FAMILY TIME ............ . 4 Turtle Talk Hunter Genia - Staff Lora Church - Staff Renee Dillard - Staff Karena Brown - Staff Turtle Ta/k's mission is to provide its readership with reports of local and national interest which may affect and impact our Native American community. Special emphasis will be placed on prevention information. Turtle Talk is published by Native American Prevention Services, in cooperation with the Kent County Health Department Turtle Talk due dates: Submissions to Turtle Talk must be received in our office by the first of each month for the upcoming month 's issue. (Not all material submitted can be used.) Ifyou have a story or information you would like to share with Turtle Talk. please send it with your name, address and phone number. You will be recognized by name in Turtle Talk ifyour article is used. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! ..... .. ............ Bowling with Young Eagles ....... . ......... Full Circle Program Update . ....... ........ Good Turnout for Mentor Tutor Training . . . . . . . Native American Elders in Grand Rapids Tell Grand Rapids Public Schools "We Want To Stay"! . . . . . . . . . . .... ...... ... 5 5 6 7 coach of the Lansing Capitals. 7 Ojibwe Language Calendars ............ 7 Relaxation and Stress Reduction Circle . . . . 8 Graduating Seniors! The Multi-Cultural Office, the Native American Advisory Council, and GVSU would like to acknowledge our Native American Seniors for their achievements. To show our support, we will be featuring our Seniors in Turtle Talk: Peter Mamagona, the son of Dave and Sherri Mamagona, attends Creston High School. He is pleased to be involved in debate and as an avid sports enthusiast, he enjoys baseball and hockey. He particularly finds teaching hockey very satisfying. He will attend Grand Valley seeking a career in teaching. He wishes to express thanks to Jeff Laing-- head Joshua Q. Ahsoak the son of Diane Baum and Carl Taalak Ahsoak attends Ottawa Hills high School. Joshua has received "Super Junior" awarded by Grand Rapids Foundation, and Order of the Arrow (Boy Scouts). Joshua was also involved in Varsity Tennis. In his leisure time, he likes to ride his Ninja (motorcycle). Joshua would like to thank his Grandfather and his family for all their support. He has hopes of continuing his education at the University of Michigan to study law. He's been known to say, "There are two rules: 1. Don't sweat the small stuff. 2. Its all small stuff." Reader Responds to Article! Aanii my grandmothers and grandfathers and brothers and sisters the Anishinabeg. I would like to say Chi-Migwech to Renee Dillard for sharing her story of addiction with us in the February issue of Turtle Talk. As I read that story, I thought how honorable it was for this Anishinabequay �2 April 1997 to share this part of her past with us. Why? I thought and knew it was because she loves her people so much that she doesn't want our young ones and others to chase that bad medicine. It has inspired me to share a little of my story. I started using marijuana at about age 12 and drank alcohol soon afterwards. I believe I was an alcoholic from that first drink on. I could never get enough and had to drink until I passed out every time. This led to a complete disinterest in school or any authority. I soon found myself in a whole lot of trouble. The next fourteen years of my life was one of confusion and turmoil. I spent some eight years incarcerated starting with foster homes, then juvenile lock ups, in jail and ultimately prison. I've been in most of the prisons in the state and seen a lot of what you only see in the prison movies. But in my case it was no movie it was real. Along that road, I came across many Anishinabe men and always our stories were the same: booze, drugs, and prison. We spoke of our ancestors; of how special a people we are and how hard life is. We also spoke of how we'd like to be as strong, proud, and free as those grandfathers were. I received my spiritual or real name while in prison from an old pipe carrier who came in to pray with us. Nimkeeka Ah Shew (Thundering Mountain) was the name given to me and at that point I began to know who I was but not quite yet. Some years and another prison later, I found my family and Fran He Ila of New Day Treatment Center. It worked and they let me go to this program. Turtle Talk I was hard headed as always and thought I knew it all but they believed in me even when I didn't and while at the center I was able to spend time involved in pipe and sweat lodge ceremonies. This changed my life forever and the Midewiwin people showed me how the creator could and would heal me. How when we sweat it is not for us but for the people and community. This is the old way and the people are first and you are last. In this way, you can find healing, strength and peace. The songs we sang spoke to my heart and they said Mishomis (grandfather rocks) have waited many years to be here with me to heal me and my life. I say Chi-Migwech for the medicine people at Baraga for helping me onto the red road. I have met many strong people over the past four years of my recovery and have been blessed to help others and their families to come and know our ways. If you need help, don't be afraid to ask our people because we are always ready to help our red brothers and sisters. Our family lives in the Newaygo area and we hold ceremonies and meetings regularly. If you would like to join us, we'd be more than grateful to have you. Remember the red road is a hard one. but it is also a very good one. Migwetch, Jonathon Ogemaw Kegedo (Grand Traverse Band) Indian Outreach Worker Gets Assistant! Submitted by Fran Compo On January 6, 1997, Chris Hakeem joined the Indian Outreach Program in Kent County through the AmeriCorps program. AmeriCorps is a national service movement that engages thousands of Americans of all ages and backgrounds in a domestic Peace Corps - getting things done across America by meeting our education, public safety, environmental and human needs. In exchange for a year of service, AmeriCorps Members earn educational awards to help pay back student loans, finance college, graduate school, or vocational training. Chris will share health care information with the Native American community in Kent County. She will promote healthy lifestyles by providing information/education on immunizations, WIC, health screenings, Medicaid programs and managed care. Chris will also assist individuals to overcome barriers to treatment by making referrals or transporting and providing follow-up regarding care received. On a more personal note, Chris has shared the following information about herself. Chris is of Michigan Indian ancestry. She has a five year old son, Brandon. Chris graduated from East Kentwood High School, attended Ferris State University for three years taking health related classes and completed EMTParamedic training at Davenport College. She enjoys volunteer work with Hospice, AIDS Resource Center, Humane Society and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). �3 April 1997 Individuals desiring more information about services provided by the Indian Outreach Program may call me at 616-247-6038. If you would like more information or need assistance regarding health issues, feel free to call Chris direct at 616247-6112. Chris will be assisting for a one year period ending in early January of 1998. * Program requirement: Must be a resident of Kent County. (Note: It is not necessary that individuals receive other FIA assistance such as FIP formerly ADC, Food Stamps, or Medicaid, to receive Indian Outreach Services.) WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER Services focused on career planning, employment, training, and personal development for women. For almost 24 years, the Women's Resource Center (WRC) located at 25 Sheldon SE has been helping women move toward economic selfsufficiency through offering a variety of programs and services. If you are interested in learning more about our overall services, call 458-5443. During the past three years there has been a special focus on educating women about higher-wage nontraditional occupations such as · electrician, plumber, carpenter, tool & diemaker, heavy equipment operator, and welder, to name just a few. Many women are attracted to these occupations because income potential is higher and typically there Turtle Talk is a path for education and advancement. Each month a free Non-traditional Occupations for Women Orientation is offered at WRC. This is an informal, enjoyable way to get more information and resources about job options. The next offering is Tuesday, April 8th from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. To register or for more information, call 458-5443 . April Birthdays "Muna Di bish ka win" April Blumke Jesse L. Boda Doug Bohjanen Misty Bowen Don Bowen Sr. Dawn Bush Casey Church Michael Corby Levi Albert Crampton Robin Ensley JoAnne Fox John Hart Charlene Hatfield Edna Kenoshmeg Denise Kimble Micky Kiogima Robin Korn April Marie Leaureaux Mary Ann Mashka Roseanne Moore Madelyn Nadowegesa Isabela Nadowegesa-Benavides Cindy Pigeon Sam W. Pigeon Josie Sams Judy Shriner Patricia Silverthorn Pam Smith April Wesaw Susan Wesaw Sandy Whiteman Peer Leadership Training for Native American Youth Wanted: Native American Youth between 7th -12th grade. What: *A Peer Leadership Training designed for Native American youth who are interested in obtaining information and skills in the learning of: *NONVIOLENCE PREVENTION *HEALTHY SELF IMAGE *PREVENTION OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO and OTHER DRUGS *CUL TUREIREGALIA LEARNING and EDUCATION *Youth completing the total training will have an opportunity to share positive healthy values with friends and present cultural and educational programs to youth, schools, and community. Why: *Primary source of information for youth is youth. *Gain Self-Confidence *Build Character *Learn invaluable information about health and culture. For more information: Contact the Prevention Office at 4584078 for more information, application packet and questions you may have. *Our young people are our greatest natural resource* �4 April 1997 Turtle Talk FAMILY TIME THE DOOR WITHOUT A LOCK Many years ago when we were children, when our family went away from home to visit friends or relatives or to work, my father would always put a stick against our door to let the other people in the village know we were not home. Everyone in the village did this when their whole family was going away. When a stick was laid against a door, we all knew that people were not home and we did not stop to see them. ·· ·-- ·- -------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - · -----~H \\\\ \~\. II \/; \\ l' I - -- - - - - - -- - - 1 I~ I I / I I \ I ; ./ I // I I/ \ .I " I ' I ----- ---/ /·~-~ ~ .-/\\1 '/ I \ / / · -1 No one' s house had a lock on the door. Everyone knew that you should not go into someone's house when they are not home. We never had to worry about someone stealing things while we were gone. It just didn't happen. Even if someone in the village tried to steal, they would have been caught right away because someone would have seen them. People in the village helped each other and looked after each other. Today we live in a big city rather than the village we grew up in. We lock our doors when we are away from home and when we are home. We even have an extra lock on the door. Sometimes I feel sad that people cannot trust one another anymore. Maybe if we all try to live the way our elders did, we will all be happier and safer. Questions: 1. 2. 3. 4. In this story what was placed on the door and why? What were the young people in the village taught about honesty and why? In your neighborhood or town, do people lock their doors? Why or why not? Do you think it would be possible for people to live without locks on their doors today? Why or why not? "This story provides a good example of how we all benefit when everyone is honest and we can trust others." �Turtle Talk 5 April 1997 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! A Call to Action • The rate of alcoholism among Native Americans is six times greater than that of the general population of the United States. • Native American infants are 20 times more likely to be born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome than other U.S. infants. • An estimated one in six Native American teens has attempted suicide. The death rate from suicide for Native American adolescents is 2.6 times that of adolescents of other racial and ethnic backgrounds. It is estimated that 80% of suicides among Native Americans are alcoholrelated. Even though statistics paint a devastating picture, they in no wc:ry measure the true destruction caused by alcohol abuse -- broken homes, grief guilt, shame, lowered self-respect, sexual abuse, depression, automobile accidents, violence, hungry children. . . . As Native Americans, we 've all been affected by this destructive force. Enough is enough! American Indian and Alaska Native youth face tremendous pressures to drink alcoholic products. The pressure is made worse by the alcohol beverage industry which spends billions of dollars for advertising and marketing to promote the consumption of alcoholic beverages. The message is very clear -- to be "in" or "cool" and to have fun with your friends, you must drink their alcoholic products. We can't just blame the problems on outsiders. Internal forces are also at work. Social activities at some of our favorite events contribute to alcohol abuse. Unfortunately, consumption of alcohol is expected and accepted at basketball and softball tournaments, rodeos and 49s. If any army from another country wiped out thousands of our people, would we just stand by and watch the slaughter? Of course not! We would attack the enemy to stop the killing. Then why do we let alcohol abuse continue to destroy us? We must decide . .. Is alcohol going to conquer us, or are we going to conquer alcohol? The Alkali Lake tribal community in British Columbia conquered alcohol. Seven year old Ivy Chelsea influenced her parents to stop drinking and they, in turn, led their tribe from being 100% alcoholic to 95% sober. If they could do it, then so can the rest of us. Our youth offer the best hope for positive change. They have continually identified alcohol abuse as their number one concern In response to their outcry, United National Indian Tribal Youth, Inc., has declared war against alcohol abuse. We are calling for a united, national effort to help our youth combat this destructive enemy. Our youth can't win this war alone .. For their sake and that of future generations, we must use all the resources the Creator has given us and work in a spirit of unity. Together, we will win the war against alcohol abuse. For information to fight the war against alcohol abuse please contact the UNITY office at 405-424-3010 or the Native American Prevention Services office at 616-458-4078. Bowling with Young Eagles Once again the Young Eagles went on another field trip. This should catch them up for a while. We had a good time learning about sharing, and keeping our tempers in check . . I am very pleased to have such a well-mannered group of young people. Everyone was on their best behavior, and I'm sure it helped to have another parent help guide the youth. Thanks to Dorothy McCann for helping our event go smoothly and successfully. Without parent involvement, we would not be able to do half the activities planned out. It is very important that the kids �Turtle Talk 6 April 1997 understand that the parents are interested and supportive of what they are doing. Our youth have been learning about how to control themselves when it comes to difficult emotions. We've been learning that it is harder to take back some hurtful words then it is to say them. So we must think about what we say before we say it. We also have been reviewing some traditional uses for saymaa (tobacco). They understand it is a very powerful drug that effects our mind when it is abused, and that saymaa is a very powerful tool that also effects the spirit. With this teaching, the youth will be armed with the knowledge they need to say "No" to smoking and chewing tobacco when it is offered. We also have been learning our numbers in the Native Language up to ten. Just ask any of your children and I'm sure they would like to show you what they have learned so far. Also we have been reviewing our body parts in the Language as well. Its lots offun and rewarding as well. I would like to invite you to Parents Night. Come and see what your kids have been doing. I have been video taping some of their activities, and will be showing that video on Parents Night, March 26th. The youth would like you to experience their evening with Young Eagles. Please consider coming and encourage your young person to continue to fight drugs and alcohol abuse with education. Any time that parents or community members would like to stop in and see what we are doing or want to help, just stop in or leave me a message at 4584078. I look forward to hearing from you. Wasson Full Circle Program Update By Renee Dillard The Full Circle Program is still in operation and gaining more students right along. For those of you who haven't heard, we have an exciting new program sponsored by the Grand Rapids Public Schools Multi-cultural services This new program is hosted at Sibley Elementary and has been implemented to help Native American students regarding their academics and self-esteem. I am very proud of the positive attitude the students are showing as we are learning about our culture and building some traditional items for dance regalia. Currently, we have been working with 4th, 5th and 6th grade students, and are now expanding to 2nd and 3rd grade students. We are putting into action the second phase of the program which is the academic tutoring. This important portion of the program is possible through the guidance and direction provided by Ms. Betty Davis, G.R.P.S. Multi-cultural Services, Native American Action Plan Coordinator. Many of our Native students are in need of tutoring and we can still use more volunteers to assist. We must help our young people become more successful academically so the Fult Circle can continue and expand to other schools. The volunteers at the Monday Night Sewing Circle are still meeting at the Lexington School in Room 4. These people are learning how to make shawls and other regalia items for family members and/or helping with the "Full Circle" sewing that can't be done at the Sibley School. It has been refreshing to have so many volunteers come and spend time working toward the same goal of helping our young people gain more self-confidence. This last week we invited the elders to come and see some of the projects they have made so far. John Pigeon came and showed the children how to make a black ashe basket which they took home. The Owashtinong Chung A Ming Singers (Grand River Drum) came and shared knowledge about the drum, it's meaning and purpose, plus some hands on inter-tribal dancing. We had a wonderful time and enjoyed refreshments compliments of Multi-Cultural Services. �7 April 1997 There is nothing more rewarding than helping our future generation become the very best they can be. On behalf of all the children, I would like to extend a "chimegwetch" to all who have helped and continue to help this program prosper. Good Turnout for Mentor Tutor Training The Multi-Cultural Services would like to thank all the people who attended the Mentor/Tutor training with Cathy Ross, Consultant for Learning Styles of Native American Students. According to our evaluations, the training was a success and twenty people participated in the training. For these people who attended and would like to practice your skills, you are more than welcome to attend our "Full Circle" after school program on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:00-6:00 p.m. at Sibley Elementary. The Multicultural Services office will be mailing out certificates to all who attended the training. If you should have any questions or concerns, please call Betty Davis/Coor, Native American Action Plan. 771-2189 Native American Elders in Grand Rapids Tell Grand Rapids Public Schools "We Want To Stay"! Mr. Kevin O'Neill Superintendent of GRPS 1331 Franklin St SE Turtle Talk Grand Rapids, MI 49507 March 13, 1997 Dear Mr. O'Neill: The news of the Native American elders losing their gathering site (Lexington School) for elders lunches was a great surprise to us. We received this information three weeks ago through the grape vine. No one contacted the Reverend Miller nor did anyone come to explain what was in the planning to the elders. We have occupied this building for nineteen years coming together twice a week (Tuesday and Thursday) to have a meal and socialize. Some of us are transported to this sight by the church van and some of us drive, while several of us are within walking distance. The Lexington building has been a gathering spot for the Native American community for the past twenty years. Two Native American programs still lease offices out of this building. What consideration was given to the Native Americans when this decision was being made? When Grand Rapids Inter-Tribal Council had to close their doors, Kendra Simon continued to allow the elders to meet twice a week. With th.e church not being handicap accessible, there is no chance at this time to transfer to the church. Also, for those elders that are within walking distance, the church would have to put on extra miles on an already old van. We have had as many as fifty elders at one time. On the day we heard of the plan there were twenty-six elders at the luncheon. At that time, a vote was taken of who wanted to stay in Lexington School and the vote was twentysix vote to zero to remain in the old familiar site. Mr. O'Neill we are asking that other options for the Spanish Immersion Language Program be looked at to allow our elder program to continue. Thank you for your time, if you have any questions please feel free to contact Reverend Tim Miller at the Pa-Wa-Ting Ma-Ged-Win Methodist Church, 364-6445, or stop and talk to our elders at Lexington on Tuesday or Thursday at 11:30 a.m.! Sincerely, The Native American Elders Ojibwe Language Calendars You can own an Ojibwe language calendar developed and written by Helen Roy. The cost is $8.00 and they are available for purchase at Native American Prevention Services. A Great Gift Idea! �Turtle Talk 8 April 1997 .... ....u "'oO .... "' co c.:> ~ Q) - Ol c c u 0 Ol 0 ·u; .~ Q) .... ::3 Cl) Cl) c: Q) 0 0 Q 5 .., D:: E ~ ""1::1' <.:> C'IJ c "' Q) E Ol 0 o_ .E :£:Ol 0 ·c: u. I]) c: c '6 ..!: 0 0 c 0 E Q) .... c c ::J "' u Cl) 0 c "ai :t:: :s ""1::1' Qi! 'l :;; c 0 e"':l .... "'0 :f 30 .s en en w D:: .,., I- Ol c "() ::J u ~ "'°'°' .,.., '20.. «'. .. = ..c: ~ ~ ' ::::: zc s ""c ";;! 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Native American Prevention Services Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Genia, Hunter (Editor) Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3889cef39262180c9431c5b36ac87917.pdf 389ffe5052f3b9c1c4081f104e57103d PDF Text Text N E w s Turtle Talk Native American Prevention Services 45 Lexington NW Grand Rapids, MI 49504-6399 TELE: (616) 458-4078 FAX: (616) 458-2096 Onabini Giizis (Moon of the Crust on the Snow) Mishikenh Geegadohawen L E T T E R March 1997 Highlights Graduating Seniors! . .... . Blockbuster Won't Let Me Work With Long Hair ....... . . Full Circle Project . . . . . . . . . . Peer Leadership Training for Native American Youth . . . YOUNG EAGLES at CHUCK E. CHEESE . ... ... ..... .. Changes in Young Eagles Youth Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Turtle Talk Hunter Genia - Staff Lora Church - Staff Renee Dillard - Staff Nicole Jackson - Staff Karena Brown - Staff Turtle Ta/k 's mission is to provide its readership with reports of local and national interest which may affect and impact our Native American community. Special emphasis will be placed on prevention information. Turtle Talk is published by Native American Prevention Services, in cooperation with the Kent County Health Department Turtle Talk due dates: Submissions to Turtle Talk must be received in our office by the first of each month for the upcoming month's issue. (Not all material submitted can be used.) Ifyou have a story or information you would like to share with Turtle Talk, please send it with your name, address and phone number. You 'will be recognized by name in Turtle Talk ifyour article is used. 2 2 FAMILY TIME ... ...... . ................. March Birthdays "Muna Di bish ka win" ............ . .... March ls Parenting Awareness Month.. . PARENT'S OPTIONS WHEN KIDS QUARREL . INDIANnet! .................... .. . . ..... 4 6 6 7 7 3 3 4 Graduating Seniors! The Multi-Cultural Office, the Native American Advisory Council, and GVSU would like to acknowledge our Native American Seniors for their achievements. To show or support, we will be featuring our Seniors in Turtle Talk: Ben Williams is the son of Roger and Karen Williams. He attends Ottawa Hills High School. Ben hopes to attend GRCC or MSU in the fall, he will be taking classes to become a veterinarian. Ben now works part-time in a veterinarian hospital. Ben enjoys billiards, orchestra, and volunteering. During his high school years he's been active in extra-curricular activities and has received awards for his efforts. The activities he participated in were N and varsity Football, volleyball, golf, and Native American Advisory Council. He won awards in Varsity Football, 1996 City League Champs, the honor roll, and Volunteer Award. Carla Wesaw, a member of the National Honor Society at Grand Rapids Central, is the daughter of Carl and Kelly Wesaw. She likes volleyball and swimming and especially finds swimming to be gratifying as a method of relaxation. Carla is a busy young lady with interest in the school yearbook, the schools' newspaper, drama, and the Science Olympiad. Her career aspiration is medicine with the goal of attending the University of North Dakota or MSU. Autum McDonald is the daughter of Eric and Shirley McDonald. She attends Creston High School with future plans to attend Bay Mills or GRCC, majoring in Horticulture. Autum has won awards for completion in landscape design and greenhouse management. She finds making floral arrangements and growing plants an entertaining diversion. She likes �Turtle Talk 2 March 1997 to practice her trumpet and performing in the high school band and quotes, "Money can't buy good music." Autum is grateful for the support and wishes to thank her Mom, Dad, and brothers. Good Luck! Blockbuster Won't Let Me Work With Long Hair On October 26th 1996, I, Eddie Tellez, Yaqui Tribe enrolled member, went to my scheduled job interview at Blockbuster Video in Tucson, Arizona. I met the manager, Patty, at one of the counters in the store. I introduced myself and stated my reason for being there. She was congenial and asked me to follow her. We entered a room which was for employees only. She asked me to tell her a little about myself and why I chose to apply at Blockbuster Video. I told Patty that I considered myself an amateur writer and worked with Native American motive art work. During the interview, which I felt very good about, Patty asked me a couple of times if I was able to work the holidays and if my availability still remained the same. I answered yes both times without hesitation. I also stated that I chose Blockbuster Video because it was close to where I'm staying at the Pascua Yaqui Tribe Reservation. She mentioned to me that they require drug testing, which I had no problem in doing. Patty also mentioned that Blockbuster Video had a dress code and that long hair was not permitted and the hair must be worn shoulder length by employees. She (Patty) did not specify gender. I told Patty I wore my hair long because of my beliefs and that it was a Native American tradition and not a fashion statement or otherwise. Patty said that Blockbuster Video had a strict dress code and mentioned that fact that female employees were not allowed to wear too much make-up and/ or loop earrings. I was silent for a few seconds thinking that those would be fashion statements, but not my long hair. After a brief silence, Patty asked me ifl would consider cutting my hair. I said no without hesitation. I was feeling very good about the job interview up until Patty and I came to that part of the interview. I mentioned to Patty that the hair issue might be against the law. Patty said no it was not, it was just a company policy. I knew at that point that I was not to be employed by Blockbuster Video. I told Patty that the corporation would not understand about the length of my hair and the traditions behind it. It was funny I felt she did agree. She apologized as I left and so did I. I felt discriminated against. I personally don't want center stage or any financial gain. But I will consider legal action if this matter is not carefully dealt with. This policy affects many people. So I asked Blockbuster Video to take all aspects into consideration and modify/change this particular policy. Thank you Eddie Tellez. Full Circle Project In January a pilot program was started and is being hosted at the Sibley Elementary School. This is an exciting project funded through the Grand Rapids Public Schools' Multi-cultural Services. The main goal is to help Native youth increase their academic level, as well as learn more about traditions in their culture. These youth will be building a beginning to their regalia and get some training on proper pow-wow etiquette. Many volunteers have donated hours of planning and work toward this goal. All of the smiles on the children's faces tell me that all the work will be worth it in the end. We are meeting twice a week with Native students after school in the library for traditional teachings, as well as tutoring. We are focusing on the traditions right now, learning about the four sacred medicines and why Native people smudge, as well as some Native Language. There are many areas to cover before and during the tutoring part of the program begins. Recently, some women have begun to meet at the Lexington School to get some help or lend a hand to others who may be interested in creating regalia. As these women meet, they help with the more technical sewing that the kids can't do at school. These are just a few of the volunteers who have come out to support this program. If you are interested in this program or want more information, come join us at 45 Lexington on Monday nights at 6:00. The more the merrier, we really are having fun while we learn. If you have any questions you can contact me at 458-4078 or Betty Davis at Multi cultural services office at 771-2189. Megwetch for your Renee Dillard support. �Turtle Talk 3 March 1997 Peer Leadership Training for Native American Youth Wanted: Native American Youth between 7th -12th grade. What: *A Peer Leadership Training designed for Native American youth who are interested in obtaining information and skills in the learning of: *NON-VIOLENCE PREVENTION *HEALTHY SELF-IMAGE *PREVENTION OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO and OTHER DRUGS *CULTURE/REGALIA LEARNING AND EDUCATION *Youth completing the total training will have an opportunity to share positive healthy values with friends and present cultural and educational programs to youth, schools, and community. Why: *Primary source of information for youth is youth. *Gain Self-Confidence *Build Character *Learn invaluable information about health and culture. For more information: Contact the Prevention Office at 458-4078 for more information, application packet and questions you may have. YOUNG EAGLES at CHUCK E. CHEESE The young eagles had a special outing in January Wednesday 29. They have been learning about the dangers of tobacco abuse and the traditional use of this sacred medicine. Also, they learned proper behavior respect and kindness in public situations. I am very proud to say, we had respectful young people at the Chuck E Cheese restaurant, whose behavior was outstanding. It was a good time to get to know your children outside of the class room. There was sharing and friendship going on everywhere. A special Megwetch to Barb Shenoskey for volunteering to drive some of o.ur youth to the restaurant. It is great to have parents' support! If you would like to volunteer some time for our young people, feel free to call the Native American Prevention Office at 458-4078. Or maybe you would like to stop in and see what is going on, please do so. Renee Dillard Changes in Young Eagles Youth Groups # 1- The programs will be on a six week schedule and then a two week break! # 2- Parent Night- we are inviting parents to come on the sixth session to join their childrens' activities! ( P.N. represents parent night) 1st S~~SiQn February February March March March March- (P.N.) April-break April-break 2nd Session 19 26 5 12 19 26 2 9 April April April May May May- (P.N.) May-break June-break 16 23 30 7 14 21 28 4 �Tur.tie Talk 4 March 1997 FAMILY TIME THE FIRST SNOWSHOES This is another story the elders in our village told us when we were children. This is a love story. When we love someone we always try to be kind and helpful. Long ago in our village, there was beautiful young woman named Laughing Eyes. She was the daughter of a wise, respected man. There were two young men who loved her and they both wanted to marry her. Her father didn't know at first how he would decide which young man he would present his daughter to. Finally, after much thought, he told the village, "I will send a message to the village far to the north, and when the message is prepared, both young men will start out at the same time. The one who delivers the message and returns first will win her affection." When Laughing Eyes heard this, she was very worried because the young man she loved, Ozawa, wasn't as strong as the other young man. That night she had a dream. In her dream it was winter and there was deep zohkpoh (snow) on the ground. She saw birds of every kind walking around in the zohkpoh. Some of the birds were sinking deeply into the zohkpoh and had great difficulty walking. Others, like the duck with it's webbed feet, could walk right on top of the zohkpoh. When she woke the next morning, she thought about what her dream was telling her. The next day she went out in the woods and cut some small trees and brought them back. One of the trees was an ironwood tree. She bent the ironwood into the shape of the snowshoe that we see today. She took the other branches and wove them in and out between the outer edges. When she was done, she went to see Ozawa and gave these shoes to him. She said, "I want you to try these when you come to deep zohkpoh on your journey. You won't sink into the zohkpoh and you won't have difficulty walking." Ozawa wasn't too excited about these new shoes. He thought to himself, "They look like very strange moccasins." But since they were a gift, he accepted them and promised to try them out in the deep zohkpoh. When the day of the journey came, Ozawa put the snowshoes on his back and started out. He didn't use them at first, but soon he came to an area where the zohkpoh was very deep. Ozawa took the snowshoes from his back and put them on. He started out over the zohkpoh and found he could walk right on top of it. He was able to move almost as fast as he could in the spring with these new shoes. As a result, he arrived at the northern village in only two days, rather than four or five days, which it often took to travel this distance in the winter. The other young man was far behind still sinking into the zohkpoh with every step. Ozawa delivered the message to the village and the people were all excited about the new shoes he was wearing. The women looked at them carefully and went home to make these shoes for everyone. When Ozawa's rival arrived at the village the people told him that Ozawa had already been there three days before and he was wearing wings �Turtle Talk 5 March 1997 on his feet. Ozawa was first to return to our village and he was able to marry Laughing Eyes. All the people in the village joined in celebrating at the wedding and feast. Discuss the following questions: a) What problem did Laughing Eyes' father face? b) What was his solution? c) Why did Laughing Eyes make the snowshoes? d) What did the people in the northern village think when they saw Ozawa' s snowshoes? What did they call them? e) Who ~enefited from Laughing Eye's kindness? f) How did the village benefit? This is the story of the first snowshoes. But it also shows us how being kind to the persons you love and doing kind things for them is a good thing that brings joy to both people and others. In this case, it brought the snowshoes to Indian people. 0 Pow Wow Season is Heating Up ... to get your copy of the calendar contact the Michigan Commission on Indian Affairs at 517/373-0654 . . " " �Turtle Talk 6 March 1997 March Birthdays "Muna Di bish ka win" Amanda Abella Charles V. Allman Mary Cody Destry Contreras Darcy Emert Maryanne Fasburg Lillian Garcia Cherri Gibbs Ed Gillis Joe John Tammy Leaureaux Craig Lett Julius Lewis Jonnie "Wa' s" Mackey Henry Mark Kyle McSauby Paul Morrison Norman Pigeon Pat Pigeon Elsie Raphael Al Recollect Tina Sams Will Shananaquet Gary Shawa Richard Shenoskey, Jr. Lance Shirley Bret Shomin I Bret Shomin II George Shomin Joe Shomin Linda Shomin Edna Shriner Grace Shriner Daisy Sprague Taneasha Stevenson Tawas Thomas Steve Waukazoo James Wesaw JimmyWesaw Wanda Wesaw March Is Parenting Awareness Month 10 Steps To Positive Parenting l . Show love and affection. 2. When necessary, take time to cool down. 3. Compliment your child. 4. Set basic rules and limits. 5. Teach values. 6. Introduce your child to books. ' 7. Listen and talk to your child. 8. Be the kind of person you want your child to be. 9. Offer guidance. 10. Michigan Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse 1-800-62-MCPCA 10 Steps To Teach A Child Discipline 1. Teach self-control. 2. Set routines for bedtime, meals, and chores. 3. Explain reasons for your rules. 4. Let your child help make rules. 5. Let your child help decide consequences for broken rules. 6. Try to understand your child's feeling. 7. If your child breaks a rule, control your anger. 8. If you lash out, apologize. 9. Compliment your child often. l 0. Michigan Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse 1-800-62-MCPCA 10 Steps To Cool Down 1. Take a deep breath. And another. Then remember you are the adult. 2. Close your eyes and imagine you ' re hearing what your child is about to hear. 3. Press your lips together and 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. count to ten. Or better yet, to 20. · Exercise to release tension. Phone a friend. If someone can watch your child, go outside and take a walk. Take a hot bath or splash cold water on your face. Tum on some music, maybe even sing along. Drink a glass of cold water. Michigan Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse 1-800-62-MCPCA PARENT'S OPTIONS WHEN KIDS QUARREL When children quarrel, parents have five options. They can ignore the quarreling, restructure the environment, direct the children's behavior, offer choices, or help children negotiate. IGNORE UNDESIREABLE BEHAVIOR How to ignore: Ignoring is most effective when you both ignore the offending behavior and give attention to desireable behaviors. A person ignores a behavior by acting as though the undesireable behavior does not exist. Often people find it easier to ignore annoying behavior if they concentrate on some pleasant thoughts. When to ignore: Ignoring is appropriate when children are fighting for attention and when the fighting is not physically or emotionally harmful to either child. �Turtle Talk 7 March 1997 RESTRUCTURE THE ENVIRONMENT How to restructure the environment: Look for ways the quarreling can be reduce by removing things, adding things, or changing the way things are arranged. For example, if an older preschooler is upset because a toddler always gets into his books, the books could be stored up high or in older child's room. When to restructure: Restructuring the environment is appropriate when the conflict can be eliminated or reduced by changing the environment. DIRECT CHILDREN'S BEHAVIOR How to direct: Decide specifically what you want the child to do in place of what they are doing. For example, "Don't hit your sister" is unclear, while "Touch gently" is specific. Further, tell the child what you want in a way that makes it clear you like her, while making it equally clear that she needs to change her behavior. For example, "Sarah, when you want to hit Ruth come and tell me. I will help you figure out what to do." (This would be a time to help problem-solve a better solution with the child) When directing is appropriate: Directing behavior is appropriate when the situation is unsafe, children have few social skills, or the parent is too tired to offer choices or help children negotiate. It is also appropriate when children need "howto" information or are too tired to make reasonable decisions. OFFER CHOICES How to offer choices: Decide what the child can do instead of what he is doing. The choice may be between two desirable options, or between the desired behavior and the consequence of not doing it. For example: "You can pleasantly or play in your room." Offer only choices you are willing for the child to accept. If you are not going to throw away the toys, do not offer the choice "Pick up your toys, or I will throw them away." When to offer choices: Offer choices is appropriate when the situation is safe and the parent has the time to offer choices. Simple choices like, "Give Mark the truck or I will give it to him" can be offered to non-verbal children. ENCOURAGE PROBLEM SOLVING How to encourage problem solving: Adults can help children negotiate by asking them to identify their problem, generate alternatives, to predict consequences of the alternatives and to make a decision. When to encourage problem solving: Encouraging problem solving is appropriate when children have had experience with making decisions and have the background skill needed (listening, idea generation, and idea evaluation). Materials provided by the Dispute Resolution Center of West Michigan. Taken from Kids Can. Cooperate by Elizabeth Crary. INDIAN net! For All You Anishinabek Out There Who Happen to Have Computers, You May Be Interested In INDIANnet! INDIANnet is for tribal development on the information superhighway. INDIANnet is an Indian-owned and operated business established to provide affordable public access, computerized information, and Internet services for American Indians and Alaska Natives. INDIANnet's basic services are free and accessible to everyone through dial-in to INDIANnet; in addition a website is available via the Internet at http://indiannet.indian.com. You visit NAPT's (Native American Public Telecommunications) homepage on the web through INDIANnet or at http://www. indian.m onterey .edu/napt. INDIANnet provides the following on-line services to the Tribal community: *Designing websites (homepages and full-scale websites on the World Wide Web); *Hosting websites; *Setting up file servers (web storage for data backup or file server hosting for your organization); *Job posting (website space for advertising native and non-native jobs); *Posting and announcements (news of interest to Indian Country); *Newsletter posting (put your tribal/organizational newsletter on the INDIANnet website); and *Classifieds (list professional services or advertise your business). INDIANnet also offers a discount on membership to the Small Business Ball Park, a database of practical information and assistance for small business owners and entrepreneurs. For price information, questions about INDIANnet, or questions about posting information, contact NAPT via email at inet@unlinfo.unl.edu. INDIANnet can be reached via modem at 605-348-2840 (type indiannet at the prompt), or see INDIANnet's website at http://indiannet.indian.com. Posting information on INDIANnet is open to tribal governments and other entities, native-controlled businesses, nonprofit organizations, and community service groups. �Turtle Talk 8 March 1997 Building SuccessfulFutures 4th Annual Native American Bowling Tournament Westgate Bowl, 4486 Alpine NW, Grand Rapids A beautifully diverse student population needs a diverse workforce to reinforce the value of diversity. March 8, 1997 Shifts: * 2 shifs available 11 :00 a.m. & 2:00 p.m. * 1st Shift Only Bonus - $100 Strike Pot * 50150 Raffle * Door Prizes Cost: * $ 25.00 per bowler ($100 per team) * US currency only - no checks! Teams: * Must be Native American or married to Native Amer. * Must be at least 18 years of age * l member of opposite sex must be on team of 4 · * Cash once with same team. Change 2 team members to cash twice. *Awards Reception to follow at Westgate* $1200 1st Place based on 70 teams For more info: Roderick Crampton 616-892-6267 11028 Radcliff Dr. Allendale, MI 49401 The Grand Rapids Public Schools is recruiting for diversity. You can help us recruit TEACHERS who can "connect" with our urban, diverse student population: • enrnurage young people to enter the enh•loyment field of education. • r..fe.- certified teachers and educators .you I.now to c:pply and send a resume to the Teach~r Recruitment Office, Human Resources, Grand Rapids Public Schools, P.O. Box 117, Grand Rapids Ml 49501-0117. ! Professional applications and reference forms may be obtained at our administrative offices located at 1331 Franklin S.E., third floor. "ft takes a whok rillage to diversify the workforce." Hon-Profit Org. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Native American Prevention Services Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Genia, Hunter (Editor) Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3210221327c0ab945c4973dd3d8db777.pdf 7c21197d6a09f7925684b45ba5a9412b PDF Text Text N E w s Grand Valley State FEB 13 1997 Turtle Talk Native American Prevention Services 45 Lexington NW Grand Rapids, MI 49504-6399 TELE: (616) 458-4078 FAX: (616) 458-2096 Namebini Giizis (Sucker Spawning Moon) Mishikenh Geegadohawen L E Upiverfiij @6raft February 1997 NINE ARRESTED IN SALE OF EAGLE AND HAWK PARTS.. .... ............. LET US HEAR FROM YOU . MENTOR/TUTOR TRAINING . . YOUNG EAGLES NOTICE ...... ........ ... Highlights SNOW REMOVAL MEET OUR NEW STAFF FIRST AMERICAN PREVENTION CENTER MIETS . . . . . . MARIJUANA ........ FAMILY TIME February Birthdays "Muna Di bish ka win" . . . MARIJUANA AWARENESS . . POEM.............. 2 2 3 4 Turtle Talk Hunter Genia - Staff Lora Church - Staff Derek Bailey - Staff Karena Ordway - Staff Turtle Talk 's mission is to provide its readership with reports of local and national interest which may affect and impact our Native American community. Special emphasis will be placed on prevention information. Turtle Talk is published by Native American Prevention Services, in cooperation with the Kent County Health Department Turtle Talk due dates: Submissions to Turtle Talk must be received in our office by the first of each month for the upcoming month 's issue. (Not all material submitted can be used.) Ifyou have a story or information you would like to share with Turtle Talk, please send it with your name, address and phone number. You will be recognized by name in Turtle Talk ifyour article is used. 6 6 6 7 7 7 8 SNOW REMOVAL Gray Wind recently purchased industrial snow removal equipment and is providing free driveway cleaning for Native American Elders and Disabled, whom have no other constant means of assistance in Newaygo, West Montcalm and Kent Counties. Compliments of Greg and Wendy Leon to the community a Hearty Chi Megwitch for a very successful year. Inquiries may call (616) 285-1001 in Grand Rapids, 652-1000 in Newaygo or 1-800-216-3177 access code 5001380. --- ~ If:""'·~~·""'''~ ......_;;;._.,...· ·;·~.;;.. ·. ~,.,.. """"'°' '-'='"'""'"•N _··_ - .:N MEET OUR NEW STAFF My name is Nicole Jackson and I am one of the new Prevention Specialist/Educators at Native American Prevention Services. I graduated from Western Michigan University with a Bachelors of Science degree in Health Education. Besides doing education programs, I will be in charge of the Kindergarten through third grade youth group. I am originally from the Flint area and have recently moved to Grand Rapids. I like to play tennis, snow ski, read books, and go to movies. I am very excited to get to know everyone. ;;:.········· a Aanii, my name is Renee Dillard and I am real excited to inform you that I have gained part-time employment at the prevention office. I am half Odawa of both the Grand River and Grand Traverse Bands. I have been living in the Grand Rapids area most of my life. My husband of 16 years and I have a 15 year old who attends East Kentwood High School. Also, I personally have been in recovery from drug abuse for several years now. I hope to lend my first had knowledge to my position as Prevention Specialist/Educator. I am looking forward to meeting new people and �• 2 February 1996 Turtle Talk seeing old friends. If I can be any help to anyone concerning prevention, please feel free to call me at the Prevention Office. Thank you for your support. FIRST AMERICAN PREVENTION CENTER The First American Prevention Center announces an upcoming conference. The Indian Institute on Diplomacy, to be held in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in the Spring of 1997. The dates of March 1 through March 5 have been selected to present this high profile, most important conference which targets contemporary and future Tribal Leaders. The conference keynotes include well known Tribal Diplomats, Oren Lyon and Billy Frank. Other presenters include Ernie Stevens, Wynona LaDuke, Eugene Begay and roger Jordain. Conference concurrent sessions include discussions on Tribal Sovereignty and Self-Determination, Jurisdictional Issues, Treaty Rights Protection, and Diplomatic Negotiations. The concurrent sessions will be facilitated by Indian people schooled in Law and the keynote presenters for the day. This conference will balance the serious nature of diplomacy and the need for fun by hosting evening entertainment. One night of story telling, one night of comedy and one night of music. Tribal people are being recruited to provide the entertainment. Fund raising activities are presently occurring in hopes of offering this conference at a reduced registration fee. Therefore, the registration rate may change. At present, the registration fee is $530.00 per person. This fee will cover all conference costs including; lodging, access to all plenary sessions, concurrent sessions, breaks, continental breakfasts, luncheon, banquet, and all evening entertainment. Evening entertainment will include snacks and refreshments. There are limited accommodations so the first 200 persons to preregister will have priority. A preregistration fee is required. (If we are successful with our fundraising, the difference in the amount will be refunded.) If the conference is cancelled, your registration deposit will also be refunded. For more information call The First American Prevention Center at 800-634-9912 (outside Wisconsin) and (715) 779-3755 (in Wisconsin). MIETS MICHIGAN INDIAN EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING SERVICES, is a state-wide agency whose purpose is to assist Native Americans in their efforts to obtain gainful employment and become economically selfsufficient through: Employment, job referral, career guidance, resume writing. WORK EXPERIENCE PROGRAM: A short-term employment program for adults and youth ( 14 and over) to develop basic working skills and provide job training in specific areas. Participant is paid $4.75 per hour through MIETS. Hours vary from 10 to 40 hours a week, depending on employer and participant needs. CLASSROOM TRAINING PROGRAM: GED stipend paid of $150.00 to participant enrolled in program upon completion of GED; $3.00 per hour paid to enrolled participants attending College or Vocational Training; Assistance with tuition waiver. ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES: (1) Be a resident of MIETS' service area. (2) Be at least onequarter blood quantum North American Indian. (3) Economically disadvantaged OR unemployed at least 7 days. �• 3 February 1996 . , Turtle Talk ALL PROGRAMS ARE CURRENTLY OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT. For more information contact Mary Cody at (616)538-9644, Mon-Fri 9:005:00. MARIJUANA Taken from Michigan Substance Abuse Information ClearinghouseLansing, MI How Can Marijuana Affect Young People? In addition to the physical effects to describe later, a very real danger in marijuna use of its possible interference with growing up. As research shows, the effect of marijuna can interfere with learning by impairing thinking, reading comprehension, and verbal and arithmetic skills. Clinicians also believe that the drug may interfere with the development of adequate social skills and may encourage a kind of psychological escapism. Young people need to learn how to make decisions, handle success, cope with failure, and form their own beliefs and values. By providing an escape from "growing pains" drugs can prevent young people from learning to become mature, independent, and responsible. How does marijuna affect women's reproductive system? One recent study of marijuna use and human female endocrine functioning, with 26 women using street marijuna for 6 months or more, found they had defective menstrual cycles three times more frequently than a similar group of nonusers. These defective cycles involved either a failure to ovulate or a shortened period of fertility-findings which suggest that regular marijuna use may reduce fertility in women. Many female animal studies have been completed and show that marijuna influences levels of estrogen, the principal female sex hormone; progesterone, another reproductive hormone; and growth hormone from the pituitary. These studies suggest that marijuna use should be avoided by adolescent girls. that chronic marijuna users had lower levels of testosterone (the principal male sex hormone) than nonusers and that abstention from marijuna after heavy use produced a reversal of this condition. Other research has shown that the sperm · count in young adult males diminishes as marijuna use increases. Still other studies have shown that some of the sperm of chronic marijuna users are defective and nonfunctional. On the basis of these findings, scientist feel that those with marginal fertility or endocrine functioning also suggest that marijuna may be especially harmful during adolescence, a period of rapid physical and sexual development. Can marijuna affect pregnancy? How does marijuna affect driving? Research on women is limited because of possible risks to the unborn child. But laboratory test using female monkeys, whose reproductive systems are very similar to humans, have found that THC- treated monkeys were four times more likely than untreated monkeys to abort or have stillborn infants. And males born of the THC-treated monkeys weighed less than average at birth. Scientist believe that marijuna, which crosses the placental barrier in the pregnant mother's womb, may have a toxic effect on embryos and fetuses. Using marijuna during pregnancy is taking an unnecessary risk. Research has shown that social doses of marijuna can impair driving ability. Actual driving experiments reveal that the drug has a significant effect on judgement, caution, and concentration. Marijuna also affects the driver's perceptual and motor abilities. A recent study of 300 drivers responsible for fatal accidents in Boston showed that 39 percent were intoxicated with alcohol and 16 percent were under the influence of marijuna at the time of the fatal crash, according to interviews with witnesses. With its increased use among the general population, marijuna presents a definite danger on the road. How does marijuna affect men's reproductive systems? Studies of adult males have found �• 4 February 1996 Turtle Talk FAMILY TIME SHIME This is another story that our elders told us when we were children. This story taught us to be kind to one another. In the springtime, the people in our village made maple sugar, just as we still do today. Each year the people would begin by thanking the Great Spirit and the earth for the maple sugar. They gave thanks to the Great Spirit and the earth for all the food and other things that they needed to live. Maple sugar time was a busy time. The people in our village moved from the village to the place where they harvested the sap from the maple trees and boiled it into syrup and sugar. The place where they lived during maple sugar time was called the sugar camp or sugar bush. The whole family lived there in the woods so they could be close to the trees. This was a happy time for the people because the weather was turning warm after the long winter. When the family was living in the sugar camp, the parents told the children not to go too far into the woods because they might get lost. The children helped make the maple sugar and worked along with the whole family; parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles. But the children also had some time for playing. One day one of the little boys wandered off into the woods and was lost. When his older brother noticed that he was gone from where he had been playing, he went to look for him. He looked all over for a long time, but he couldn't find his little brother. Finally, he climbed up a tree so he could see around him for a greater distance. When he got to the top of the tree he called out, Shime' ! Shime' ! Where are you? (Shime'. meaning younger brother or younger sister.) There was no answer. He had searched all afternoon and looked everywhere he could think of, but still he had not found his little brother. The Great Spirit was watching this boy as he searched, and as he watched he felt sorry for �• 5 February 1996 Turtle Talk him because he was so sad and worried. Because the Great Spirit is kind and compassionate, he decided to change the boy into a bird so he could fly from place to place looking for his little brother. In the springtime you can hear this bird. He has a sad call as he continues to look for his brother. You can hear him whistling, Shime' Shime"." When you hear this bird, remember the boy who sadly searches for his little brother and think about how fortunate you are to have a brother or sister. WORKSHEET 1. What happened to Shime? 2. Who went to find him? 3. What did the great Spirit do when he saw the boy so sad because he could not find his brother? 4. Have any of you ever heard this bird in the spring time? 5. How do you think you would feel of your little brother or sister were lost? 6. Are you always kind to your brothers and sisters? �• 6 February 1996 Turtle Talk February Birthdays "Muna Di bish ka win" Luis Abella, Jr. Marcia Barber Shirley Bennett Percy Bird Camie Castanada Roderick Crampton Archie Evans Marilyn Geels Amy Genia Anthony Genia Melissa Harris Julia Leaureaux Lyle Lett Tony Lett Richard Lewis Gertrude Malguen Linda Marshal James Mashka Lorna McDonald Rebecca McDonald Lucille McSauby Henry Medawis Andy Pigeon Wanda Raphael Yusheka Raphael Terry Rasterhouse Sally Robinson Paul Ruekert Jeremy Sawmick Kristy Shananaquet Ben Shawa Kaine Shomin Pine Shomin Roberta Shrinner Sheena Sotelo Mary Switzer Wag Wheeler Mathew Whip Jamie Wilson MARIJUANA AWARENESS My Experience -Renee DillardI heard what everyone told me about using drugs and all the horror stories about addiction. But, I never believed it would happen to me. This is a true story about my personal recovery from a dnig that is not always thought to be dangerous. Marijuana in my opinion is very risky because it steals away ambition. My first exposure was when I was a junior in high school. From that point forward, my grades were not my priority and instead began chasing a little baggy, trying to find that first high again. My family had hopes of me finishing high school and going on to college. I could care less about any of that. Instead, all I could think about was how to cover up the guilt I was feeling from using the drug to begin with. Lies are a big part of addiction, the more I used the more I had to cover up and lie. I knew it was wrong to lie, so the guilt was always a conflict. Another important part of this sneaky drug is my first one was free, and it was an introduction to all those "drugy" type people. And, I can tell you now that Marijuana was an introduction to a whole different society of people. Some were quite advanced in their addiction and · others might just be starting. These were the folks who gave me my first high on speed and co came. The Elders tell us when we use we chase our Spirit away. I believe what takes its place is a different Spirit, that is the Spirit of addiction. I spent many years trying to shake it out, starve it out, exhaust it out, but I wasn't strong enough to get rid of it alone. So, I asked for my friends and family to help me stay off drugs, and that didn't even work. Only the Creator made me a whole human again. Only the Creator was strong enough to rig out the infestation of addiction and help my spirit to trust me once again, that it trust me enough to come back. The wind carries my secrets, The earth holds my heritage, The river carries my tears, The flowers hold my happiness, Mother Earth carries my beliefs. As the sun rises and sets My life goes on My beliefs grow stronger I learn more about myself I hear more about my past And speak about my future I will always remember my heritage. -Jessica Emery- �• 7 February 1996 Turtle Talk NINE ARRESTED IN SALE OF EAGLE AND HAWK PARTS Dead Eagles, hawks and owls serve as evidence against nine American Indians accused of trapping and killing the endangered animals to sell on an increasingly lucrative black market for bird parts. Scores of the birds were killed, authorities say - many shot or lured to leg traps by fresh meat. A two-year investigation ended November 21, as U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents made eight arrests: five Jemez Pueblos from northern New Mexico and three Navajo from Arizona. A warrant was issued for ninth suspect, and Indian trader in New Mexico. Those arrested face prison time and thousands of dollars in fines if convicted of selling migratory birds and other counts. Wade said about 24 businesses also were implicated and will be given a ticket. Feathers from the dead birds were sold to make Indian-style crafts like fans or dolls, which were then sold to businesses, collectors, tourists and people participating in pow wows. The crafts were made with feathers from at least 25 different species, including eagles, hawks, kestrels, magpies, flickers, scissor-tail flycatchers and anhingas - all protected by law. The bald eagle is a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The price of an intact golden eagle tail, which has 12 feathers, is $400, about four times the price eight years ago, agents said. A single golden eagle feather could sell for $100, a red-tail hawk peyote fan could go for $150 and an anhinga tail fan could sell for $300. Agents posing as traders in Indian artifacts said they found whole eagles and hawks, as well as wings, tails and bones being sold in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. Some eagles were offered at $850 to $1,000 each. At one pueblo last year, agents were told, more than 60 eagles were shot or caught in leg traps baited with meat. At the Jemez Reservation north of Albuquerque, agents said they saw steel traps on the carcass of a dead cow left as bait. One of the men later arrested said he sat on trapped eagles and put his thumb in their mouths until they suffocated, according to affidavits. Under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, it is illegal for most people to possess, trade or sell almost any bird or bird part. The law applies to more then 1,000 species. LET US HEAR FROM YOU What do you think Girl Scouting has to offer your daughter? We want to hear from you. Come out and share your thoughts and concerns, ask questions, and see for yourself the many opportunities and adventures that await your daughter(s). What? A Girl Scout Information Night with activities for adults and girls. Who should attend? Parents and girls ages 5-17. When? Thursday, February 27, 1997, 6:30-8:00 pm Refreshments will be sesrved beginning at 6:30 to allow time to meet staff, 7:00 program will begin. Where? Lexington School, 45 Lexington NW Questions? Call Mimi Wood at 784-3341, Michigan Trails Girl Scout Council. MENTORffUTOR TRAINING The Multi-Cultural Office will be providing two separate Mentor/Tutor training sessions. There will be a two-day session for all Native American adults who are interested in becoming a Mentor/Tutor for Native American children in the Grand Rapids area. There will be a one-day session for all Native American high school students who are interested in becoming a Mentor/Tutor for Native American children in the Grand Rapids area. The training is free of charge to the public. This training will take place at Lexington School the end of February. If you are interested in attending, please contact Betty Davis, Coordinator Native American Action Plan at 7712189. I will need you phone number and address for you to receive all the information for this session. �• 8 February 1996 Turtle Talk Native American Women's Circle A support group open to any Anishinabequay. You are welcome to bring your arts/crafts to work on. DAY: Every Other Tuesday TIME: 5:30 pm LOCATION: Grand River Band's Office (458-8759) 307 Michigan NE FACILITATOR: Charlotte Campbell i Jgg~tfa::::~.~~:~;f YOUNG EAGLES NOTICE Our K-3 youth group will now meet every Wednesday, 6:00-7:00 pm beginning February 5th i: questions.) ; ····························································································.,.-,...............................,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.............................................,.•.•.,.,,..,.,.,.•.,.,.,.,.,...•.,.,.,.•. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Native American Prevention Services Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Genia, Hunter (Editor) Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/663a864e0ee8d41854a45bd7466a4f91.pdf 532a4f066108395c6801004a21fc9488 PDF Text Text N E w s Turtle Talk Native American Prevention Services 45 Lexington NW Grand Rapids, MI 49504-6399 TELE: (616) 458-40'fitand Va lley FAX: (616) 458-2096 L E T T E R January 1997 Highlights Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver Program Moves to Inter-tribal Council . . . . . . . . 1 Snow Removal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Attention Attention .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2 Calvin College Hosts "South Eagle Woman" ... . ................... 2 Multi-cultural Presentation . . . . . . . . . . 2 First American Prevention Center . . . . 2 Condolences .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3 Children ....................... 3 Native American Community Kicks Off The New Year in Fashion! .......... 3 FAMILY TIM E ........ . .. .. . 4 Turtle Talk Hunter Genia - Staff Lora Church - Staff Derek Bailey - Staff Karena Ordway - Staff Turtle Ta/k's mission is to provide its readership with reports of local and national interest which may affect and impact our Native American community. Special emphasis will be placed on prevention information. Turtle Talk is published by Native American Prevention Services, in cooperation with the Kent County Health Department Turtle Talk due dates: Submissions to Turtle Talk must be received in our office by the first of each month for the upcoming month 's issue. (Not all material submitted can be used.) Ifyou have a story or information you would like to share with Turtle Talk, please send it with your name, address and phone number. You will be recognized by name in Turtle Talk ifyour article is used. Gitchie Manido Gizizon (Great Spirit Moon) State Mishikenh Geegadohawen 19W University Library January Birthdays"Muna Di Bish Ka Win" ........ . ... . .. Michigan Vows To Build Prison on Mound .. . ... ..... ... . Standing Rock Doesn't Have Custody Rights ...... . . ..... Russell Means to Co-direct Crazy Horse Beer Movie . .. . . .. 6 6 6 7 MICHIGAN INDIAN TUITION WAIVER PROGRAM MOVES TO INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan - The InterTribal Council of Michigan has assumed responsibility for certain administrative functions related to the Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver Program. The Waiver Program, which had been run by the Michigan Commission on Indian Affairs since its inception, fell victim to recent state cutbacks. These cutbacks eliminated funding necessary for maintaining a successful program operation. With this in mind, Michigan's federally recognized tribes came to the rescue. Tribal leaders have designated the program to the Inter-Tribal Council, a non-profit agency that currently administers programs for the state' s federally recognized tribes. The change will bring instant stability to the waiver program, as its survival has been in question for the past couple of years. The move is crucial, as this program benefits Native American people statewide. Inter-Tribal Council views the tribes' decision as one that purely looks out for the best interest of all Native people in Michigan. Though the Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver Program will be administered by Inter-Tribal Council, participation will virtually remain the same. The program will continue to equally services all eligible Native Americans residing in Michigan, including those not living on or near the reservation. The Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan, in taking this action, reaffirms its commitment to enhance access to higher education opportunities for native peoples. For more information on the program or to initiate a verification letter to Michigan' s public colleges and universities, please contact: Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan, MITWP, 405 E. Easterday Avenue, Sault Ste. farie , MI 49783, (906)632-6896 or fax (906)632- 1366. SNOW REMOVAL Gray Wind recently purchased industrial snow removal equipment and is providing free driveway cleaning for Native American Elders and Disabled, whom have no other constant means of assistance in Newaygo, West Montcalm and Kent Counties. Compliments of Greg and Wendy Leon to the community a Hearty Chi Megwitch for a very successful year. Inquiries may call (616) 285-1001 in Grand Rapids, 652-1000 in Newaygo or 1-800-216-3177 access code 5001380. �• 2 December 1996 Turtle Talk ATTENTION ATTENTION This is to notify everyone in our community that Silk Stone Studios was robbed on Christmas Eve. Among the objects taken were several Large Steel Blade Hand Made Knives signed Lone Wolf. These are not toys. Sue and Lori are concerned that these items are out on the streets. Over $2,500 worth of merchandise was taken, including a Squash Blossom necklace, several styles of Turquoise necklaces with and without fetishes, hand-made bead necklaces (beads made at Silk Stone), hand-made chain "Y" necklaces with Silk Stone boxes and labels, several pairs of earrings (mostly pierced in stone drop style) and other miscellaneous items. If you are approached by someone about these things, please call the Walker Police Department or contact Silk Stone Studios at (616)363-2090. CALVIN COLLEGE HOSTS "SOUTH EAGLE WOMAN" The Calvin College Center Art Gallery is pleased to present "South Eagle Woman - Sally Thielen" from Thursday. January 9 through Saturday, February 1, 1997. Thielen is known both nationally and internationally for her raku-fired porcelain masks and dolls, handmade paper "shields" embedded with fibrous plants, and woodland tribal bead work inspired by her Chippewa ancestry. The Davison Michigan artist creates three-dimensional sculptures which balance traditional and contemporary ideas. Conceived as portraits of specific Native American people, her masks are painted and decorated with such natural materials as animal furs, antlers, and feathers, while the dolls are her interpretation of artifacts from archaeological digs. The barrier-free Center Art Gallery, located in the William Spoelhof College Center, is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday through Friday, and noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday. There is no admission charge. For more information call Virginia Bullock, Director of Exhibitions, at (616)9576326. MULTI-CULTURAL PRESENTATION Anita Chisholm will be here on January 29, 1997. Ms. Chisholm will be discussing ways to help develop a cultural curriculum for Native American students. I hope that you can attend the presentation, this will be our last presenter for this school year. Babysitting and dinner will be provided for all who attend. The presentation will be held on Wednesday; January 29 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Lexington Schooi. Happy New Year and hope to see you there! Betty Davis, Coordinator Native American Action Plan FIRST AMERICAN PREVENTION CENTER The First American Prevention Center announces an upcoming conference. The Indian Institute on Diplomacy, to be held in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in the Spring of 1997. The dates of March 1 through March 5 have been selected to present this high profile, most important conference which targets contemporary and future Tribal Leaders. The conference keynotes include well known Tribal Diplomats, Oren Lyon and Billy Frank. Other presenters include Ernie Stevens, Wynona LaDuke, Eugene Begay and roger Jordain. Conference concurrent sessions include discussions on Tribal Sovereignty and SelfDeterm ination, Jurisdictional Issues, Treaty Rights Protection, and Diplomatic Negotiations. The concurrent sessions will be facilitated by Indian people schooled in Law and the keynote presenters for the day. This conference will balance the serious nature of diplomacy and the need for fun by hosting evening entertainment. One night of story telling, one night of comedy and one night of music. Tribal people are being recruited to provide the entertainment. Fund raising activities are presently occurring in hopes of offering this conference at a reduced registration fee. Therefore, the registration rate may change. At present, the registration fee is $530.00 per person. This fee will cover all conference costs including; lodging, access to all �• 3 December 1996 Turtle Talk plenary sessions, concurrent sessions, breaks, continental breakfasts, luncheon, banquet, and all evening entertainment. Evening entertainment wilt include snacks and refreshments. There are limited accommodations so the first 200 persons to preregister will have priority. A preregistration fee is required. (If we are successful with our fundraising, the difference in the amount will be refunded.) If the conference is cancelled, your registration deposit will also be refunded. For more information call The First American Prevention Center at 800634-9912 (outside Wisconsin) and (715) 779-3755 (in Wisconsin). Condolenses Condolenses to the Rosie Holmberg family. Rosie, 44 years of age, passed away on January 2nd due to complications related to a stroke. Rosie was of Ojibwa and Ottawa heritage and was integral part of Indian affairs in the Muskegon area as well as Grand Rapids. She was known as a person committed to the Indian community, preservation of culture and heritage, her children and nature. She will be missed by many. "being good" and tell him or her what you notice about their behavior that pleases you. * Keep simple routines. Children feel secure and shift more easily from one activity to another when they "know the drill." * Know what to expect. Learn what tasks and behaviors are appropriate for a child at each age and help him or her set realistic goals to achieve success. *Laugh a little---or a lot! Remember today's calamity may be tomorrow's precious memory. Take good care of the caretaker---you! Parenting is easier and more rewarding when you are healthy, content and feeling good about yourself. Information from Watch me Grow: Healthy, Happy and Strong! Native American Community Kicks Off The New Year In Fashion! Whether you like the Blues, R&B, Rock-n-Roll, Oldies, Country, oh and I can't forget Disco, the New Years Eve Party had just about something for everyone. CHILDREN If you ' re a parent, your heart's in the right place. The first thing parents realize is that children don't come with directions. Just remember to keep your heart full of love and your head full of a few tried and true tips: * Praise children often and enthusiastically! Catch your child The first annual (people are already mentioning next years) New Years Eve Celebration wasn't quite Star Search for the karoake but people from all ages found enough "oh, what the heck attitude" and got up there and gave it their best shot. If you didn't get your fill with music, then there were plenty of door prizes to give away and money to be won with the 50/50 raffie. If that wasn't enough, an auction was also arranged with items displayed and going to the highest bidder. The hall was nearly full with about 100 or more people who showed up and filled their appetites with lots of food. Our brothers and sisters came from places like Wayland, Athens, Kalamazoo, Holland, and Lansing and it was good to see it all happen for the first time in a long time. It was also great to see all the young people and adults who were there to help, shared laughs and got up on stage to sing. The Owashtinong Chung-a-ming drum helped bring in the new year with three songs concluding with a two step to get everyone wondering why they ate so much earlier in the evening. A ChiMigwech to everyone who helped make this happen, who came and supported this activity, to those who said let's do it again next year, those that took a chance and wondered if they were going to have a good time or not (hopefully you did), and to those who wanted to celebrate in style. Well, Happy New Year Everyone and May Your Future Path That You Lay Be A Healthy and Honorable One! �• 4 December 1996 Turtle Talk FAMILY TIME Waweshkesh Many years ago, before the coming of the Europeans, an Anisinabe man was out hunting Waweshkesh (deer) with this bow and arrow in the woods. He was very tired so he sat down next to a tree and fell asleep. When he woke up he saw two Waweshkesh standing very close to him. He tried to pick up his bow and arrow but he could not move his arms. Just then one of the Waweshkesh said, "Come with us." He wondered why he could understand what the deer said. The Waweshkesh walked over to a nearby creek. The man was able to get up and walk over to the creek close to the Waweshkesh. When he looked down into his reflection in the water he saw that he had changed into a Waweshkesh. So he went with them. He went through the life of the Waweshkesh, through hard winters, and happy summers. He was the father of young Waweshkesh. He listened to the council of the Waweshkesh elders and attended ceremonies with the Waweshkesh. Sometimes the Waweshkesh would be killed by Indians and they would feel bad to lose their family members or friends, but they also realized that they died to feed the Indian people who hunted them. It is all part of the great laws of nature. When an animal is killed to help feed another, and tobacco is offered, its spirit is born again and life goes on. After many years among the Waweshkesh, one of his children, a Waweshkesh, was killed. But his spirit did not live on. The Indian who had killed the young Waweshkesh did not give thanks to the Great Spirit as was the custom. When he realized this, the Waweshkesh felt bad and went out into the woods and laid down and cried and cried. As he cried he fell asleep. When he woke he saw two Indians, he was going to get up to run away before they shot him, but before he could get up one of the Indians said, "Who are you? Where are you going?" He wondered how he could understand the humans. He looked down and saw that he was a human again. He went back to the village with those who found him and he told them that he had been a Waweshkesh. He had lived with them and had learned many things. He learned how the animals, the fish, the beaver, the Waweshkesh, the moose, and others feel when we kill them. They die for us so we can live. The Great Spirit gave the Indian something the animals do not have, tobacco. When the life of an animal is taken, tobacco should be given so that the animal's spirit is thanked and will live on. Nothing is wasted. Every part of the animal is to be used. He told them all of these things. He then taught them different Waweshkesh dances and ceremonies, so they could learn to give thanks for all things that they have. WORKSHEET 1. What are some of the things that the man did when he became a Waweshkesh? • 2. According to the story, what happens when an animal is killed? 3. Why did the spirit of the young Waweshkesh in the story not live on? 4. How did the father of this young Waweshkesh feel? What did he do? 5. How did the Waweshkesh become a man again? �• 5 December 1996 Turtle Talk 5. How did the Waweshkesh become a man again? 6. What did the man who became a Waweshkesh learn from the Waweshkesh? List two things. 7. What have you learned from this story? ************************************************************************************** Let's Color A Picture �• 6'December 1996 Turtle Talk January Birthdays "Muna Di bish ka win" Ron Barz Joseph Beebe Ruth Ann Chivis A'lilee Bah Church Sam Comer Manuel Contreras Carmen Corby Rhonda Davis Vivian Foster Timothy Carl Hatfield Virginia Herr Patty Ives Joe John Rosemary (Judson) Johnson Emily Elizabeth Kahgegab Joe King Paula King Carole Marble Barbara McDonald Felicity McSauby Merri Medawis Munsun Medawis Tenaya Medawis Bill Memberto Phil Memberto Robert Parkey Julia Petoskey Jesse Pigeon Leslie Pigeon Michael Pigeon Jr. Larry Romanelli Ray Saboo George Shagonaby Gary Sheahan Susan Smith MICHIGAN VOWS TO BUILD PRISON ON MOUND Webber Township, Michigan (AP) - The state Corrections Department plans to clear the way for a maximum security prison for teenagers on land that opponents believe may contain a Native American burial mound, a spokesman said. Members of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians during November asked the state Natural Resources Commission not to sell the 140acre parcel in Lake County's Webber Township until an archaeological survey is completed. The mound is about 30 feet long, I 5 feet wide and about 3 Yi feet high at its peak, Jay Sam, a spokesperson for the Manisteebased Little River Band, told the Ludington Daily News. The band wants the state to guarantee that the site will not be "damaged, destroyed or altered" if the survey proves it is a burial mound, he said. "We aren't here to block the prison, merely to protect the mound site," Sam said. "It has to be left as it is, as much as is practical, and provision has to be made that it will remain as it is." The state intends to sell the land to a private developer that would build the Michigan Youth Correctional Facility, a 480-bed facility for teenagers convicted of violent felonies. "As far as we are concerned, this is going to be the site, regardless of whether this may be an Indian burial ground," Corrections Department spokesman Warren Williams told the Daily News . "If it is proved conclusively, we could cordon off and build around it. We don't anticipate this will be a problem ." The Indians' request for a survey of the site was supported by archaeologist Wesley Andrews, who said he and tribe members located five similar mounds in the area earlier this month. "Two mounds were partially destroyed in the 1940s by a road going through them, and area residents remembered human remains and artifacts were taken out at that time," Andrews said. STANDING ROCK DOESN'T HAVE CUSTODY RIGHTS The interests of a teenager must take precedence in the swirling legal battle among Indian law, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Kentucky child custody procedures, the Kentucky Supreme Court said Thursday. The court said Kayla American Horse may have been born to Indian parents, but has had little contact with the tribe and it, in turn, showed little interest in her until a custody fight between her foster parents. The ruling will likely not be the last word on the matter. Both sides expect to take the question about the role of tribal courts in child custody cases under a federal law that is designed to encourage Indian children to retain their Indian heritage. The Kentucky court, in a 6- I ruling written by Justice Donald Wintersheimer, said the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 is not designed to disturb family situations where a child has never really been integrated into a tribe. �• 7 December 1996 Turtle Talk "Here, there was never an existing Indian family," Wintersheimer said. The case pits Loni Rye Burchett, of Manchester, Ohio, against the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, whose reservation straddles North Dakota and South Dakota. Burchett said she is one-quarter Indian, with Cherokee and Choctaw ancestors. Her former husband, Kim Weasel, is a Standing Rock Sioux and the girl's uncle. With the approval of the tribal court, the couple took custody of Kayla when she was eight months old after the natural mother, who was alcoholic, gave her up. The natural father is unknown. When Burchett and Weasel separated in 1993, the tribal court reasserted its jurisdiction and demanded Kayla's return. Tribal Judge Mike Swallow said the Sioux feared Kayla, without her uncle, would have no American Indian influence in her life. Wintersheimer said Kayla has never known an Indian life. And he noted that the tribe refused to provide any financial assistance when Kayla faced open-heart surgery. "The child has grown up in a nonlndian environment involving public schools and religious faith, as well as complete integration into the community," Wintersheimer said. "She does not speak the Sioux language and does not practice its religion or customs." Kayla, who was 13 and in the courtroom when her custody was debated in September, has her own opinions about her fate. "I should be here because I have all my family that I Jove here," on the reservation. Burchett said November 21 she will continue to fight to keep custody of Kayla. RUSSELL MEANS TO CO-DIRECT CRAZY HORSE BEER MOVIE Rapid City, S.D. (AP) - An American Indian leader will codirect a film about a controversy over the name of Lakota warrior Crazy Horse being used on a former Wisconsin brewer's product. Russell Means, who was part of a 1973 standoff with federal agents at Wounded Knee, said using the Crazy Horse name to sell beer "epitomizes the institutional racism against American Indians in the United States." G. Heileman Brewing Co. Of La Crosse, Wisconsin, received label approval for the beer in February 1992 from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Heileman was acquired earlier this year by Stroh Brewery Co. of Detroit. "American Indians and nonlndians are deeply offended at this continuous blatant racisl slap in the face." Mr. Means said. He will team up with Craig Rice to direct the feature-length documentary. Mr. Rice has worked on commercials and music videos with C&H Productions in Minneapolis and Dix & Associates in Chicago. Filming begins in South Dakota, Minnesota and New York in March, with proceeds from sales of the film to help fund the legal battle against the maker of The Original Crazy Horse Malt Liquor. Hornell began selling it in March 1992. The malt liquor comes in a 40-ounce bottle and is sold in about 40 states. In a statement, Mr. Big Crow said Crazy Horse's names has been stolen. "We need to uphold our traditional right to protect the names of our ancestors, our traditions, customs and everything we hold sacred," he said. In October 1992, Congress passed a law banning the use of the Crazy Horse name on alcoholic beverages. Two months later, Hornell filed a federal lawsuit alleging the Jaw infringed on its First Amendment Right of Freedom of Speech. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled in 1993 against the ban on use of the Crazy Horse name on the beer. Mr. Big Crow filed suit against the beer promoters later that year, but in October 1994, Tribal Judge Stan Whiting dismissed the Big Crow lawsuit, ruling the tribal court had no jurisdiction over the issue. A tribal appeals court overruled Judge Whiting in May 1995. This July, Hornell took the jurisdictional issue to federal court. In October, the firm asked for an order to stop any trial until the main issue is decided. �• 8 December 1996 Turtle Talk Native American Women's Circle A support group open to any Anishinabequay. You are welcome to bring your arts/crafts to work on. llui/dln1SuccsssmlFulurss A beautifully diverse student population needs a diverse workforce to reinforce the value of diversity. DAY: Every Other Tuesday TIME: 5:30 pm LOCATION: Grand River Band' s Office (458-8759) 307 Michigan NE FACILITATOR: Charlotte Campbell Project Rehab Phone: 458-8521 (Please call for exact dates of meetings and if you have any questions.) The Grand Rapids Public Schools i• recruiting for diversity. You can help us recruit TEACHERS who can •connect• with our urban, diverse student population: • • encuurage young people to enter the ern1•ioyment field of education. r•fer certified teachers and educators .you ~now to ~pply and send a resume to the Teacher Recruitment Office, Human Re~ources, Grand Rapids Public Schools, P.O . Box 117, Grand Rapids Ml 49501·0117. Professional applications and reference forms may be obtained at our administra· tive offices located at 1331 Franklin S.E., third floor . PARENTING EDUCATION & SUPPORT GROUP This group will provide parents with support and enable them to understand the patterns and problems of parenting, normal developmental issues, and issues specific to Native American families. " ft takes a •·hole rillage to diversify tire workforce. " r..1 ______ ""~h·•·-~-.,.,,._,~_., . . . . .-. z;)i§JffliSI . Day: Tuesday - Beginning on January 14, 1997 or 6 weeks Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Location: United Methodist Church 441 Knapp NE, Grand Rapids Please contact the Indian Family Resources office to sign up for this group on or before January 6 at (616)458-1641. Child care will be provided. ·.·.....· ,.·:·:· .......... . • Grand Rapids Public Schools Lexington School 45 Lexington NW Grand Rapids, MI 49504 NON-PROFIT ORG US POSTAGE PAID Grand Rapids, MI Permit No. 319 Library Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI 4940 I l � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Native American Publication Collection Subject The topic of the resource Native Americans Indians of North America Anthropology Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Michigan Description An account of the resource Selected digital surrogates of published and unpublished materials from the Edward V. 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Prevention Services · 45 Lexmgton NW Grand Rapids, MI 49504-6399 TELE: (616) 458-4078 FAX: (616) 458-2096 DEC 9 1996 L E T T E l8ve::ily Mishikenh Geegadohawen Libra' y December 1996 Highlights Non-Perishable Food Items ................ I Job Announcement.. .......................... I Spaghetti Dinner................................ 1 Native American Selflmage ............. 2 Holiday Baskets ................................ .3 Snow Removal ................................... 3 December Birthdays ......................... .3 Tips For Teaching Children Personal Safety .............................. .3 FAMILYPAGE .............................................................. 4 The Woodpecker ............................................................ 4 The Woodpecker Worksheet. ......................................... 5 Energy Word Search Game ............................................ 5 Messages From Our Elders ............................................ 6 Community Members Give Their Time to Youth ......... 6 Social Security Benefits Changing for 1997 ................. 6 Building Successful Futures .......................................... 7 Spaghetti Benefit Dinner A Success .............................. 7 Veteran's Pow Wow Committee Says Thank You ........ 7 Native American Women's Circle ................................. 8 Par~n~ing Education & Support Group ......................... 8 Amshmaabek Community Event---- New Year's Eve Celebration .......................................................... 8 Answers to Energy Word Search Game ........................ 8 Turtle Talk Hunter Genia - Staff Lora Church - Staff Derek Bailey - Staff Karena Ordway - Staff Turtle Talk 's mission is to provide its readership with reports of local and national interest which may affect and impact our Native American community. Special emphasis will be placed on prevention information. Turtle Talk is published by Native American Prevention Services, in cooperation with the Kent County Health Department Turtle Talk due dates: Submissions to Turtle Talk must be received in our office by the first of each month for the upcoming month's issue. (Not all material submitted can be used.) Ifyou have a story or information you would like to share with Turtle Talk, please send it with your name, address and phone number. You will be recognized by name in Turtle Talk ifyour article is used. Bring those Non-Perishable Food Items In Help us make others happy! If you have non-perishable food items that you would like to donate to the youth groups, they will in turn make holiday baskets for the Elders. At this time of year the weather turns colder, costs more to warm our homes and we could use the money to buy clothes for the kids or grandkids. You have the opportunity to warm the hearts of our community elders. Just bring in the nonperishable food items to the Native American Prevention Services office and our youth will do the rest. If you have any questions just call us at 458-4078. JOB ANNOUNCEMENT Prevention Specialist/Educator For Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan, Inc., Grand Rapids-based office. B.A. or B.S. in Education, School/Health Education, Human Services or equivalent related experience. The prevention specialist needs an understanding of prevention theory practices, exhibit a working knowledge and/or exhibit a willingness to learn about Native American culture and community. Skills in planning, developing and delivering community-based substance abuse prevention programs, with public speaking and/or teaching experience. Good organizational skills with attention to detail and ability to work well within a team environment. Send resume with three (3) Letters of Reference to Anita McKerchie, ITC Personnel Coordinator, 405 E. Easterday Avenue, Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783. Closing date is December 11, 1996. EEO agency. Inquiries call (906) 635-4208 Char M. Hewitt, ITC Health Services Director or (616) 458-4078 Lora Church, Native American Prevention Services Program Director. SPAGHETTI DINNER There will be a spaghetti dinner on December 19th, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. at Lexington School. For information contact Ann Bush 363- 6833 or Barb Seifried 792-9650. �• 2 December 1996 Turtle Talk NATIVE AMERICAN SELF IMAGE -Sally Olson Kee, Ojibwa- These are the words of author, teacher, photographer and motivational speaker Howard T. Rainer. Rainer, a Taos Pueblo/Creek Indian who grew up in New Mexico, now serves as Program Administrator of the Native American Educational Outreach Program at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Rainer was brought to Grand Rapids on November 7, 1996, by the MultiCultural Department of the Grand Rapids Public Schools, to speak to area Native American youth, their parents and teachers. Rainer met with local Native American youth at New Hope Baptist Church and asked them the question, "Why are you proud to be a Native American?'', which drew a silence from the 36 students present. So he began to tell them why they should be proud. He told them WHO they are, that they come from a mighty family tree connected to a history, connected to the land, connected to people who are connected to their beliefs, such as harmony with mother earth. Rainer then told them WHAT they can do ... change their attitudes and he said, "remember your ancestors knew the land and how to live off it for thousands of years, which makes you descendants of a long line of survivors." He reminded them of their talents, their humor and their strong spirit that comes from their strong Native culture. He said, "you have great minds, use them." He told them that NOW is the time to change and start thinking, "I want to" instead of "I have to", as he explained to them that how we talk is how people perceive us. Rainer told the students to make their presence known in the schools in a positive way. He told them straight out, "you either have a great future or you're doomed." As Rainer spoke, you could see the posture change in the students. Instead of leaning over begrudging being there, they began to sit up straighter and look up into the eyes of this stranger who knew so much about them, this man who was helping them understand who they are. The students left with a new image and a new perspective of who they are, where they come from and what they are capable of accomplishing, and most importantly, they left being proud to be a Native American. Rainer met with the teachers in the afternoon and acquainted them with the thought that Indians are important because America is still trying to deal with them! He told them that Native Americans bring culture, history, customs and language to the classroom and that "most Native American youth hit a wall when they reach high school where their values, their tradition, their culture is challenged." So at this pivotal piont in their lives, most Native Americans appear to be passive, quiet, invisible and at risk. He told the teachers that they have the power to love, validate, inspire, and give hope. When you give hope, you give purpose. He said that teachers "can see all students as having potential and possibilities". As teachers, they have the power to make a student by giving positive strokes and that it didn't take much to give positive strokes to any student. So he reminded them that they have a responsibility to not only learn about the Native Americans in their area, but to present the truth about what they contributed to the greatness of this country. Make them relevant. Indians want fairness. When he met with the parents in the evening, Rainer told them that they too had to become visible. He said, "Indians can no longer remain victims, they need to be seen, heard, and recognized. We have to stop living in the past." Rainer went on to say, "how can we teach our youth to be proud of who they are, if we aren't proud of who we are. We are more than a Pow wow. Be visible!" He warned parents that they need to unite as a community and work together or lose the Indian programs they have and lose their sons and daughters to drugs and alcohol. They need to stand behind the people who are making changes with their young people, work with them and support them before it's to late. �• 3 December 1996 Turtle Talk Rainer explained to all the groups the major issues facing Native Americans today and in the future: states vs. Tribes; land and water rights; and their young people. He reminded the audiences that they cannot change the past, but they can change attitudes and change the future, and they have to start today. As the saying goes, "all experts live at least a 100 miles away!" Sometimes it takes an outsider to come in and create an atmosphere of openness necessary for new insights and growth. Howard Rainer left an awakened spirit in this community examining their own self image. He left Michigan to speak to the Nez Perce Tribe and the Seminole Tribe in Oklahoma. HOLIDAY BASKETS If you know any low income people who would like to apply for a holiday basket, they can apply now. Anyone on assistance would have received this information with their checks. You can remind them. Any food pantry will have applications. The Other Way being the closest to Lexington School. For more information you can call 222-5001. Fran Compo SNOW REMOVAL Gray Wind recently purchased industrial snow removal equipment and is providing free driveway cleaning for Native American Elders and Disabled, whom have no other constant means of assistance in Newaygo, West Montcalm and Kent Counties. Compliments of Greg and Wendy Leon to the community a Hearty Chi Megwitch for a very successful year. Inquiries may call (616) 285-1001 in Grand Rapids, 6521000 in Newaygo or 1-800-2163177 access code 5001380. December Birthdays "Muna Di bish ka win" Harvey Anderson Sarah Andrews Derek Bailey John Bennett Matthew Boyer Isabel Campos Christopher Cuellar Comer Melissa Daniels Lanelle Ferrere Kathleen Floyd Trisha Genia Robin High Jenny Ives Jerry King Carrie Martinez James Mataxagay Jeremy Merryweather Deb Pigeon Edmund Pigeon Alberta Popma Andrea Popma Joseph Raphael Richard Raphael Dave Russell Billy Schrubbe Christina Shomin Joshua Shomin Cherish Skinner Shayna Skinner Tracy Wesaw TIPS FOR TEACHING CHILDREN PERSONAL SAFETY Do not put a child's name in a highly visible place such as the front of a jacket or on a backpack. Someone could see the name and assume a familiarity with the child that could put the child in danger. Teach children how to use body language. Have them practice standing tall and saying "NO" in a loud, strong voice. Help them develop good eye contact. Have a written list of people who the child knows it is O.K. to go with. Share the list with the child's school, day care center and baby sitter. Also, develop a "password" known only to you and the child. If the child is approached by a person, known or unknown, the child should not leave with him or her unless the person knows the "password". EA1U_Y 0\1'\0LER.5 �• 4 December 1996 Turtle Talk FAMILY PAGE THE WOODPECKER In the days of long ago, Wenabozho often walked over all of North America. He listened to the troubles of the people and liked to help them whenever he could. One day he went to a wigwam where an old woman lived. Now because Wenabozho had unusual power, he could change himself so that he looked like a very old man. He had long, white hair. He was weak and old. Of course the old woman did not know him. "I am very hungry. I have fasted for many days," said Wenabozho to the old woman. "Will you give me some food? I cannot stand any longer; I must sit down," he seated himself by the fire. The old woman got corn that had been pounded into meal. She made a tiny case and put it on the fire. "You can have the cake if you will wait until it bakes," she replied. The old man said, "I will gladly wait for I am very hungry." In a few minutes, the cake was baked. When the old woman saw it she was very surprised. "I thought it would be a little one," she said to herself. "I will not give him such a big cake." She put the cake away. Then she turned to the old man and said, "I will have to bake another cake. You may have it if you care to wait until it is baked." "I will wait," said Wenabozho again. The old woman took a still smaller portion of meal and stirred up another cake. When that cake was baked, it was even bigger than the first one. "It is so large that I shall keep it for the Ceremonial Feast," the old woman thought to herself. "I will not give you this cake, but if you will wait, I will bake you another one." "I will wait," replied Wenabozho. Then the old woman took a still smaller portion of meal. In fact, the amount scarcely covered the palm of her hand. When she took this cake from the fire, it was the largest one that she had baked. The old woman did not know that Wenabozho's magic had made each cake larger then the others. She couldn't understand why the last cake should be so very large. "I shall not give away the largest cake I have ever baked," she said to herself. Then she said to her guest, "I have no food for you. Go find it in the forest. You can find it in the bark of the trees." Wenabozho was angry when he heard the old woman's words. Rising to his feet, he said with great earnestness, "An old woman should be good and kind, but you are cruel, selfish and greedy. From now on you must go out into the forest and hunt for food in the bark of the trees." Then Wenabozho stamped his foot and snapped his fingers. The old woman grew smaller and smaller. Finally she looked like a little bird. Her dress was changed into glossy black feathers. Her apron became white feathers that covered the underpart of her body. Wenabozho gave her a hat of red feathers for her head and neck. Soon black wings sprouted on each side of her body. Then with a flutter of her wings, she arose from the earth and flew away into the woods. Ever since, she has lived in the forest. All day long, she must run up and down the trunks of the trees in search of food. Because of her stip, spiny tail feathers, she can climb or rest on the trunk. With her chisel-like beak, she pecks and drills into the hard bark for insects. If you listen, you can still hear the selfish old woman. Tap, tap, tap. Today we call her the red-headed woodpecker. �• 5 December 1996 Turtle Talk WOODPECKER WORKSHEET 1. Why did the woman not give the com cakes to Wenabozho? 2. What happened to the woman when she told Wenabozho to go into the forest to find food? 3. What can we learn about sharing from this story? ************************************************************************************** ENERGY WORD SEARCH GAME By RECYCLING steel for one year, enough energy is saved to light the entire city of Los Angeles for 8 years. Almost 50% of the total energy consumed in the U.S. goes into MANUFACTURING ordinary household products and personal items. The annual ENERGY bill for the "average" COMMERCIAL building is $15,000. The U.S. imports 12% of their NATURAL gas from Canada. The Northeast and Pacific Coast regions import more than one-third of their natural gas from Canada. There are approximately 1,000 WOOD POWERED plants currently operating in the U.S. A third of these plants offer ELECTRICITY for sale. RENEWABLE energy sources account for more than 10% of total U.S. electricity CONSUMPTION. F R E c y c L I N G y p N L F L u 0 R E N I N E L E I T w z L 0 0 I E T D p z 0 s c c T w E N R I T c 0 s I E R E D A B T u y G R B G N N p u u T H s R R A s c z R A E p B R M E c p y 0 M M E R c I A L N 0 I D E 0 A 0 T u E u s N p E z I N F u c 0 w F L A H I s s A N R N L D F B 0 c G A E R E N E y 0 R E I 0 A T 0 c 0 u w R N F 0 v L F y A B L E T c N T L T c R B H M p N z N A R E T w 0 s TRANSPORTATION accounts for 65% of U.S. OIL consumption. 64% of U.S. coal is produced by surface MINING, virtually all in the western states. Households can REDUCE their total use of electricity for lighting by one-third if they switch from standard bulbs to FLUORESCENTS for lights used more than four hours each day. U.S. Department of Energy (Answers on p. 8) �• 6 December 1996 Turtle Talk office. All proceeds help support the Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council and the 4th - 6th grade Young Eagles. MESSAGES FROM OUR ELDERS ~~ 11 If a family member or friend becomes dependent on Alcohol or Other Drugs Remember: ~~~~~~;;:~r~:~~;er !I 1997 II Taken from Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service EXCHANGE Fall Issue I · @You Can Learn to Cope And Seek Help For Yourself SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS CHANGING FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN IN Community Members Give Their Time To Youth Group! Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council of Grand Rapids (Vision Seekers) wishes to express it's thanks to community members: Jackie Chivis Pratt, Renee Wasson Dillard, James McCann for helping to make the youth veterans powwow booth a success. Jackie and Renee spent at least four meetings with our youth council to work on building the youths awareness of working with their hands by completing projects. These projects included: beaded earrings, dreamcatchers, tobacco pouches and all were displayed at the Veterans Pow Wow. Jamie McCann was very instrumental in the design, which were on last years t-shirts, and putting them on sweatshirts this year. We still have these items for sale and all would make a nice gift for someone this holiday season. They can be seen at the Native American Prevention Services Q. Could you tell me if there have been any recent changes in Social Security laws? A. Yes, there have been changes to Title I (Social Security Disability Insurance/SSDI) and Title II (Supplemental Security Income/ SSI). People who receive SSDI and SSI benefits because of Drug Addiction or Alcoholism (DAA) will no longer be eligible. The first change came earlier this year with the enactment of the contract with America Advancement Act. This law affects individuals who receive SSDI and SSI benefits because of DAA. The second change came just recently when the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 was enacted. Q. What are the effects of the Contract with America Advancement Act? A. This law eliminates drug addiction and alcoholism as a basis for disability in both SSDI and SSI disability programs. If drug addiction or alcoholism is a "contributing factor material to their disability," then the inidivual will no longer be eligible for social security benefits. This law, also known as the welfare reform bill, will drmatically reduce children's eligibility for SSL Q. When will these benefits stop and may an individual appeal their ineligibility? A. These benefits will terminate as of January 1, 1997. Individuals identified as disabled by the Social Security Administration (SSA), as defined in DAA, should have received a notice of termination in June 1996. They may appeal the termination if they believe they have a disability, even if they stopped using drugs and/or alcohol; or if they believe SSA's identification of them as a drug addict or alcoholic is incorrect. Q. If an individual did not file an appeal, when would their benefits terminate? A. Again, any individual who received a notice of termination will continue to receive benefits until January 1, 1997, even if they did not appeal the notice. Q. How does SSA determine the materiality of drug addiction and alcoholism to an individual's disability? . A. The materiality determination is a three-step process: l) whether the individual is disabled; 2) if disabled, whether there is medical evidence of DAA that is credible and establishes the existence of a substance use disorder; and 3) if disabled and has medical evidence ofDAA, then whether the individual would be disabled if he or she stopped using durgs or alcohol. Q. Approximately how many individuals were affected by this change? A. It has been estimated that SSA sent termination notices to approximately 150,000 SSI and 50,000 SSDI beneficiaries. Q. What are the effects of the new welfare reform law? A. This law affects children with disabilities currently receiving �• 7 December 1996 Turtle Talk SSL Under the new law, these children will have to meet a much narrower definition of childhood disability. Basically, this law imposes on children a set of conditions, called medical listings. It eliminates the use of individual assessments and it eliminates reference to maladaptive behavior when evaluating for amental impairment. Q. What is the new definition for childhood disabilty? A. The new definition requires a child to have a "medically determinable physical or mental impairment which results in marked and severe funtional limitations" of substantial duration. Again, this change forces SSA to rely on a medical listing when determining the severity of a child's disability as opposed to an individual functional assessment. This creates the possibilty for children with a combination of impairments to have more difficulty in qualifying for SSI if no single impairment matches one of the medical listings. Q. Approximately, how many children in Michigan are expected to be affected by these changes? A. These changes are expected to have major consequences for children with serious mental, emotinal, and behavioral disorders. According to the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Michigan currently has approximately 40,000 children receiving SSI benefits. The Center estimates that 15,000 children will be assessed under the new definition. Building Succs.ssFu/ Fulur•s A beaulifully diverse studenl population needs a d;verse workforce lo reinforce the value of diversity. The Grand Rapids Public Schools is r•cruiting for diversity. You can help us recru it TEACHERS who can "connect" with our urban, diverse sludent population : • • encourage young peopl~ to enter the employment field o~ "''!o. C4•;un. refer certified te.11.:hers and educators you know to apply and st.nd ii resume to the Teacher Recruitment Office, Human Re!'ources, Grand P. ;:i~,iUs Public Schools, P.O. 80)( 117, Gr;ir.~ f:.;pids Ml 49501-0117. Professional app!:cz.1:· ·H ;:ind reference forms may be ohtai.·t."~ al our adminislrative offices located at 1331 Franklin S.E., third floor. "It tabs a it·ho~ rillngr to dii'rrsify /lit 1<'Qrkforcr." ---- ............ ·-~~ .. Spaghetti Benefit Dinner A Success Grand River Singers Veterans Pow Wow Committee Says Thank You! The veterans powwow committee would like to express it's appreciation to all the people who made this years gathering a success. The volunteers, singers, dancers, veterans, vendors and community all were a part of making this happen. A ChiMigwech to the Veterans Pow Wow Committee for their countless hours of work and dedication for seeing this through. Aho, Many enjoy their meal at the benefit. The Anishinabek Youth Leadership Council of Grand Rapids and the Young Eagles (4th - 6th grade) chose for their community service project to sponsor a Spaghetti Benefit Dinner to help with the Veterans Pow Wow. The youth wanted to express their appreciation to the Veterans and in doing so raised over $400.00 dollars for the Veterans Pow Wow gathering which was hosted in the Welsh Auditorium. The youth would like to say thank you to the community for coming out and supporting their project and for supporting the veterans. Roger Williams Veterans Pow Wow Committee Member �• 8 December 1996 Turtle Talk Anishinaabek Community Event Native American Women's Circle A support group open to any Anishinabequay. You are welcome to bring your arts/crafts to work on. DAY: Every Other Tuesday TIME: 5:30 pm LOCATION: Grand River Band's Office (458-8759) 307 Michigan NE FACILITATOR: Charlotte Campbell Project Rehab Phone: 458-8521 (Please call for exact dates of meetings and if you have any questions.) Rew Year's Eve eelebration The Celebration for Native American Families The Celebration begins at 8:00 p.m. and goes until 1:00 a.m.! Also, our "own " Grand Ri11cr Singers will help bring in tile New Year with the dnrm. PARENTING EDUCATION &SUPPORT GROUP For more info mwtion on location anrl activities, please call (6 16) .JSB-1641 or 458-4078! This group will provide parents with support and enable them to understand the patterns and problems of parenting, nonnal developmental issues, and issues specific to Native American families. 100% Pi.lcohol and Drug-free 'f\7ening Day: Tuesday - Beginning on January 14, 1997 or 6 weeks Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Location: United Methodist Church 441 Knapp NE, Grand Rapids Sponsored by the Kent County Coalition of Indian Programs and Services. Plan on attending and watch for more news ... lm Please contact the Indian Family Resources office to sign up for this group on or before January 6 at (616)458-1641. Child care will be provided. Grand Rapids Public Schools Lexington School 45 Lexington NW Grand Rapids, MI 49504 ·\ 0 T "'F L A u H E I w L R 0 L 'v F y T A Y.1 U . 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Native American Prevention Services Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Genia, Hunter (Editor) Subject The topic of the resource Indians of North America -- Michigan -- Periodicals Indians of North America Michigan Michigan -- Grand Rapids Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/220d90db2eade561132bce9f63470372.pdf 7a225bf47023d47afb93217a65cdbfd9 PDF Text Text E W S Grand Valley Stafe OCT 3 1 1996 Dniversify Libra~ Turtle Talk Native American Prevention Services 45 Lexington NW Grand Rapids, MI 49504-6399 TELE: (616) 458-4078 FAX: (616) 458-2096 Gashkadino Giizis (Ice Flowing Moon) Mishikenh Geegadohawen L E T T E R November 1996 Highlights Warning Signs of Nutritional Risk .... .. ........... ... ... ..... I Holiday Baskets ......... .................. ... I Congratulations ......... .................. ....2 Four Main Medicines .......... ....... .....2 Native American Indian Artists ....... 2 Native American Wisdom .... .... ....... 2 Veterans Pow Wow '96 Volunteers Needed ....... ......... ....2 Different Ways Tobacco is Used Spiritually ..... ......... .... ..2 Adults with Funds in Trust... ...... ..... ..... .. .. ...... ............... .. .3 November Birthdays .. ...... ... ..... ....... ....... ... .. ... ... .... .... ....... .3 The Tobacco Word Search Game .... .......... .. ................. .... 4 Wenabozho and the Bulrushes ..... ....... ....... ............. ......... 5 Determine Your Nutritional Health .............. ......... ........... 6 Native American Experience Through Indian Eyes ..... ....6 Native Vote ' 96 .......... ........................ ... .. ...... .................. .6 Ghost Suppers ... ............................. ......... .... ..... ... ............. 7 Calendar ofEvents ............... .... ...... .......... ........... ............. 7 Anishnawbe AA Meeting .. .. ..... ....... ....... ............... .... ...... .8 Native American Women's Circle ..... ..... .. .. ............... ...... 8 Word Search Game Answers ....... ... ...... .... ... ....... ...... ....... 8 Turtle Talk Hunter Genia - Staff Lora Church - Staff Derek Bailey - Staff Karena Ordway - Staff Turtle Ta/k's mission is to provide its readership with reports of local and national interest which may affect and impact our Native American community. Special emphasis will be placed on prevention information. Turtle Talk is published by Native American Prevention Services, in cooperation with the Kent County Health Department Turtle Talk due dates: Submissions to Turtle Talk must be received in our office by the first of each month for the upcoming month's issue. (Not all material submitted can be used.) Ifyou have a story or information you would like to share with Turtle Talk, please send it with your name, address and phone number. You will be recognized by name in Turtle Talk ifyour article is used. WARNING SIGNS OF NUTRITIONAL RISK The Nutrition Checklist is based on the Warning Signs described below. Remember these signs that spell out the word DETERMINE. Determine your own nutritional risk regularly. DISEASE Any disease, illness or chronic condition that changes the way you eat or makes it hard for you to eat puts you at nutritional risk. If you feel depressed or confused, you can experience a change in appetite, energy level, digestion, weight and your overall well-being. EATING POORLY Eating too little or too much both lead to poor health. Eating the same foods day after day or not eating fruit, vegetables and milk products can cause poor nutritional health. Many health problems become worse if you drink more than one or two alcoholic beverages daily. TOOTH LOSS AND MOUTH PAIN Missing, loose or diseased teeth, or dentures that don't fit well or cause mouth sores make it hard and unpleasant to eat. ECONOMIC ·HARDSHIP If you have less than $30 a week to spend on food, you will find it very hard to get the foods you need to stay healthy. REDUCED SOCIAL CONTACT Being with people daily can boost your morale. Find a friend to share meals or take your meals at a senior nutrition center. MANY MEDICINES You may take one or more medications for your health problems. The more medicines you take, the greater the chance for changes in your appetite and variations in terms of what tastes good. Alert your doctor to all medicines you take. INVOLUNTARY WEIGHT LOSS OR GAIN Alert your doctor if you lose or gain a lot of weight without trying. Either condition, being overweight or underweight, increases your chance of poor health. NEED HELP IN DAILY TASKS If you need help in walking, shopping or buying and cooking food, you may be too exhausted to eat; perhaps you do not even have food available. Get help from your Area Agency on Aging. ELDER YEARS ABOVE AGE 80 As age increases, risks of frailty and health problems increase. It is a good idea to check your nutritional health regularly. HOLIDAY BASKETS If you know any low income people who would like to apply for a holiday basket, they can apply now. Anyone on assistance would have received this information with their checks. You can remind them. Any food pantry will have applications. The Other Way being the closest to Lexington School. For more information you can call 222-5001. Fran Compo �• 2 November 1996 Turtle Talk CONGRATULATIONS David "Rocky" Russell was Super Citizen of Harrison Park Elementary for September. He also received a Perfect Attendance A ward. From his Proud Grandma Congratulations to Jonie Mackey. for making the cheerleading squad at Westbridge. From her Proud Mom and Aunt Jonie FOUR MAIN MEDICINES (niiwjn kchi mshkikiin) ,, y // ' ~ Cedar (Giizhik) Can be used to make tea. Used in lodges, medicinal purposes, only good things will come through it. It is a purifier. Often called a women's medicine. Sage (Mshkodewashk) Purification of thoughts. Mostly found out West, but also some grows here in the North. Used as a medicine and in ceremonies. NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN ARTISTS!! The North American Indian Center of Grand Rapids will host: AMERICAN INDIAN Art Show and Auction: Celebrating Great Lakes Native Art Kent Career/Technical Center, 1655 East Beltline, NE, Grand Rapids (Wiingaashk) Usually found in moist areas. Won't be able to find it if your mind is not clear. Used to purify thoughts. Tobacco (Semaa) Used to give thanks to Mother Earth. Always good to keep with you, never know when you will need it. When smoked or burned it carries our prayers to the other side - the spirit world. Out of the Indian approach to life there come o great freedom -- on intense and absorbing love for nature; o respect for life; enriching faith in o Supreme Power; and principles of truth, honest1,1, generosit1,1, equit1,1, and brotherhood as o guide to mundane relations. Luther Standing Bear ( l 868?-1939) Oglala Sioux Chief Veterans Pow Wow '96 Volunteers Needed! November 18, 1996 - 7 - 9 p.m. Sweetgrass fxcerpt from Native Rmerican Wisdom FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL: Levi A. Rickert -- Potawatomi (616) 451-8937 or write North American Indian Center 96 Monroe Center, Suite # 105 Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503 The 1996 Veteran's Pow Wow found a new location for this year at the Welsh Auditorium in the Grand Center. However, the need for volunteers hasn't changed. The pow wow committee is seeking volunteers to help out with this year's gathering which will be held Saturday, November 9th. Anyone interested in volunteering should contact Ann Bush at (616) 792-9650. Anyone wanting to bring a dish should bring their dish to Welsh Auditorium-Kent Room at 4:00 p.m. with dinner being served at 5:00 p.m. For more information contact Deb Muller at 243-1046. (Food to feed the participants.) DIFFERENT WAYS TOBACCO IS USED SPIRITUALLY Tobacco is one of the gifts from Mother Earth. It too must be respected and used the proper way. �• 3 November 1996 Turtle Talk ADULTS WITH FUNDS IN TRUST .. .WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN ~ .. ... . ' ~i- Pray with or as a sign of blessing Offered as a sign of respect To give thanks Tobacco is sacred to the Indian (Anishnabe) people. It provides spiritual strength, guidance, discipline, and protection. Ceremonial use of tobacco pledges sincerity of the heart and mind. It is used to carry our thoughts. Tobacco is a sacred plant; but it is we, as human beings, that abuse it. The Michigan Bureau of Indian Affairs, Michigan Agency, IIM Department provided the following list of adult Potawatomi descendants or members who have funds in trust. Do you know where any of these people may be contacted? Name ANEWISHKI, Beatrice H. BROWN, Kyle L. CLOUD, Dalton J. CLOUD, Jerry L. CLOUD, Marsha M. FOX, Audra R. GANNON, Debra S. HINES, William D., IV LEWIS, Timothy J. MACCREADY, David T. Mc FADYEN, Jenny A. Mc KINLEY, Stephen E. MESHIGAUD, Dennis M . OLIY ARRI, Tanya R. SPRINGER, Terrie C. TANNER, Christopher J. TOP ASH, Todd S. WALTERS, Jose E. WESA W, Kristina A. WILLIAMS, Tamara ZIMMERMAN, Wendi L. DOB 2/14/14 3129169 1/1 /66 1/1/68 1/ 1/64 3/23/71 4/20/57 6/24/72 4/ 10/74 2/23/72 2/16/72 3/ 17/72 9/10/45 8/22/70 2/28/77 6/27/72 7/22/72 12/10/65 316172 5/11/71 5/1/751 If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of any of the people listed above, please contact the IIM Department Qf the Bureau of Indian Affairs at: Printed with permission by: Bureau oflndian Affairs Michigan Agency Attention: IIM Marlene Predmore 2901.5 I-75 Business Spur Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783 (906) 632-6809 Ext. 3124 N ovem her Birthdays "Muna Di bish ka win" Lilly Bennett Kathy Bowen Don Bower Jr. James Brown Dennis Bush Frosty Chandler Phillip Chippewa Michelle Ferrere Colby Genereaux Jr. James M. Genia Susan Ives Georgia Jacobson Larry King Robin King Diane Leaureaux George McDonald Marie Medacco Toni Medawis JohnZakem John Pigeon Mary Pigeon Steve Pigeon A-Dawa-qua Ponita Pete Recollect CJ Robinson Sally Rueckert Mary Sandoval Julie Shananaquet Erma Shriner Erica Smith Jessica Smith John Tadgerson Linda Wheeler Anyone interested in submitting an application to be considered for appointment to the Michigan Indian Commission on Indian Affairs may contact Bill LeBlanc at 517/373-0655. �• 4 November 1996 Turtle Talk THE TOBACCO WORD SEARCH GAME Below are a few statements on the negative effects the abuse of tobacco causes. Find the CAPITALIZED words underlined in the word search below. Smoking causes: SHORTNESS of breath. Makes the HEART beat faster. Blood vessels CONSTRICT (narrow) causing the blood flow to decrease. BLOOD PRESSURE slightly rises. The smoke IRRITATES the eyes of both the smoker and anyone nearby. TAR builds up on the lining of the LUNGS. Cigarette smoking is the main cause of lung cancer in smokers. A report from the Surgeon General of the U.S. reports that non-smokers also run the risk of getting lung cancer as a result of second-hand smoke. TOBACCO smoke contains about 4,000 chemicals. Every time a person smokes, poisons such as benzene, formaldehyde and carbon monoxide are released into the AIR. Not only is the smoker inhaling them but so is everyone else around him/her. Carbon monoxide robs the blood of OXYGEN. NICOTINE is a drug found in tobacco. At low doses, nicotine can stimulate certain NERVE CELLS. It has a powerful effect on the BRAIN and the central NERVOUS SYSTEM. Within SEVEN seconds the nicotine has gone through the bloodstream and reached the brain. When a woman is pregnant and smokes or uses SMOKELESS tobacco, so does her unborn BABY. Smokers take in poisons such as nicotine and CARBON MONOXIDE. (2 words split up in the word search) These POISONS get into the placenta (which is the tissue that connects the mother and the baby before it is born) and keeps the unborn baby from getting the food and oxygen needed to grow. Breathing in clear air, free from harmful, irritating tobacco smoke is a serious issue for everyone. T u c c 0 N s T R I c T p x 0 s E v E N A c F G p A R G N B p H T H c c R T u s L 0 D B p A B 0 0 B A R E E R x y z A s s u R x A s s c c R E y E N F 0 A N T c T I R R I T A T E s I N N K p E N T 0 I L L I R N s s c v N K I E E N 0 s s E L E K A F y G p p N E R v s y s T E 0 I y T E R v 0 x s s p F y c E s u s s A G G E y B 0 0 y M z N y s R E E M p N s B u R N D I A L A M Q x F R A K J I M B 0 L G u c A R B 0 N B A I p L L M 0 N 0 x I D E H A N Compliments of Inter Tribal Council of Michigan (Answers on p. 8) �• 5 November 1996 Turtle Talk WENABOZHO AND THE BULRUSHES ~ ,,_---, ,::.7 Many years ago, Wenabozho walked over all -}? of North America. One evening just before >-.,. ~ At· dark, as he walked through the woods, he saw ...,:> a group of Anishinabek dancing near the <;:r<2 shore of a beautiful lake. So he walked over p ~ to them. It was dark by the time he arrived, ..:.:. ~ sci he could not see very clearly. He asked them where they were from and what their names were. But they wouldn't answer him. So Wenabozho started dancing along with them. He danced and danced. "You think you are a good dancer," he said, "I'm Wenabozho and am the best dancer anywhere," but they still said nothing. So Wenabozho said, "I'll tell you what, let's have a contest, we 're going to see who ' s really best." They started dancing harder and harder, bending and moving in ways Wenabozho could not. Wenabozho danced and danced but he couldn't keep up with them. He finally fell over and went to sleep. He just couldn't figure out why he couldn't dance faster and longer then the others. When he woke up it was daylight, he looked around and saw that he had been dancing with bulrushes. Those tall slender plants that grow along the ·lake and the wind that blew them, were the dancers who out danced him. Wenabozho learned something from this. He found he bragged too much, he bragged about himself. Sometimes we think we 're so great, we brag so much that we look very foolish. •' 7 -~ 1. If you were dancing and someone came up to you and said, "I'm Wenabozho and I'm the best dancer anywhere," how would you feel? What would you think of Wenabozho or anyone else who said this? 2. Why couldn't Wenabozho keep up with the other dancers? 3. What can we learn from this story? Taken from the Red Cliff Curriculum �• 6 November 1996 Turtle Talk DETERMINE YOUR NUTRITIONAL HEALTH Use this checklist to find out if you are at nutritional risk. Warning signs of poor nutritional health are often overlooked. Read the following statements. Circle the number in the YES column for those that apply to you. Total the score and see how you are doing. Read "Warning Signs of Nutritional Risk" to learn more about signs of poor nutritional health. NUTRITION CHECKLIST YES I have an illness or condition that made me change the kind and/or amount of food I eat. 2 I eat fewer than two meals a day. 3 I eat few fruits or vegetables, or milk products. 2 I have three or more drinks of beer, liquor or w ine almost every day. 2 I have tooth or mouth problems that make it hard for me to .eat. 2 I do not always have enough money to by the food I need . 4 I eat alone most of the time. 1 I take three or more different prescribed or over-the-counter drugs a day. I Without wanting to, I have lost or gained 10 pounds in the last six months. 2 I am not always physically able to shop, cook and/or feed myself. 2 Educational Issues. This is a presentation of Grand Rapids Public Schools Multicultural Services. November 7, 6-8pm Howard Rainer, Native American Self Image TOTAL TOTAL YOUR NUTRITIONAL SCORE. IF IT IS ..... 0-2 GOOD! Recheck your nutritional score in 6 months. 3-5 YOU ARE AT MODERATE NUTRITIONAL RISK. See how you can improve your eating habits and other daily habits. Your local Area Agency on Aging, senior nutrition program or health department can help you. Recheck your nutritional score in 3 months. 6 or more YOU ARE AT HIGH NUTRITIONAL RISK. Bring this checklist the next time you see your doctor, registered dietitian or other qualified health or social service professional. Ask for help to improve your nutritional health. January 9, 6:30-8pm Gwendalle Cooper, Now, and Where We Want To Go January 29, 6:30-8pm Anita Chisholm, Cultural Curriculum Development Dinner and babysitting services will be provided. If you have questions, contact Betty Davis at 771-2016. NnTIVE VOTE '96 Vote on November 5. Your vote COUNTS II Remember that these warning signs suggest risk. These signs do not diagnose you with any condition. NATIVE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE THROUGH INDIAN EYES Please join us for a Native American Gathering at Lexington Community Education. There will be a series of Native American speakers providing information on let Native American voices be heard in the national election. �• 7 Novembe r 1996 Turtle Talk GHOST SUPPERS Iii 0 12:J The following is a list of sheduled Ghost Suppers: November 2nd 6:00pm - ? Nancy Ortiz (Dayson) 1517 College A venue NE Grand Rapids 6:00pm-? November 7th 6-8:00 pm Elders Lexington School 45 Lexington, NW Grand Rapids (Bring a dish to pass) § ::;0. - 0 .-e: l'J -l l'Ja ,.._ Cl -""' ,..l') U N N zo <fl(/) ._ 15. 0 :::( > 0. rJJ (.0 m m 0 <fl 0 c0-;:; -- " i£ {; E .w ID c ~ 5 ·c ~ ~ g - 0 -0 g5 ~ m ({) (Y) .........-! N 0 (Y) E .--! 0. 0::8 6 § l'J.:; ~ -c'E -0 lE Grand Valley American Indian Lodge Westside Complex 215 Straight, NW Grand Rapids November 3rd 6:00pm - ? Billi Jo Russell 1134 McReynolds Grand Rapids/831-2027 0. Vi >-. 8 gi u --c L..{) .--I -< ·a .........-! z Q; E :J Q) <fl .!:::::?: m N N N E 0. 0. 0. 0 VJ ::l ::i 0. 0::8 0 0 H (1) ,..Q s (1) ~- 0 z November 10th 6:00pm - ? Renee Dillard 109 Jonquil Grand Rapids -:?" L..{) N m .........-! .........-! ({) -(J)u N :;:: 0 c .!:: .-e: rJJ~ >-. November 13th 6:00pm - ? Frank & Anne Bush Directions: US 131 South to Braley/Hopkins exit. Chief Noonday Road-tum left. Look for Bradley Indian Mission sign at 128th Avenue tum right, go to first road, tum right 2nd house on the left. ~c a; c 0 ::;:: (.0 ~ m m - - @) .-e: 0 -0 - 0 r- .s- ti:J ~ ._ -0 ..... """" .........-! CX) .........-! .........-! ~-< DIS U0 L..{) N .--! >-. 0 -0 c ::l rJJ ~ <fl Q3 ~CD ~ §: :J ,g--- ::l 0. 0. :J o:: rJJ E ..2. en a. O iii l'l U:i r--l d!!l'JU:i (Y) '°'~g Cl r.n E &""@g c .-e: 0 C".........-! ~ N CALENDAR OF EVENTS Veterans Pow Wow Downtown Grand Center - Welsh Auditorium Grand Rapids, MI - For Info (616) 247-6358 Nov. 16-17 Fourth Annual Anishinaabe Artists Cultural Show and Gathering Frandor Center, Lansing, MI. For More Info: Lansing Community College Native American Leadership Program (517)483-9803 Nov.16 Fourth Native American Festival Novi Expo Center, Novi, MI. For More Info: (810) 352-0990 �• 8 November 1996 Turtle Talk ~~~~\\\\~ of Veterans d//tl' \a~~ and Fr!e11td' Veterans POWWOW Saturday November 9, 1996 Native American Women's Circle A support group open to any Anishinabequay. You are welcome to bring your arts/crafts to work on. Honoring Tiit Forgotten Warrior ... 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