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NOTICES Aquarium Joins Hatfield Marine Science Center in Partnership Official designation by Coastal America advances goal of involving public in protecting coastal ecosystems and likewise, our lives impact the coast no matter where we live. The food we eat, water we drink, showers we take, rubbish we discard, products we manufacture, fields we harvest, fish we eat, vacations we enjoy - all of these things are closely tied to our coasts. Unfortunately, many of our activities harm the coasts and oceans. The best way to protect these areas is to learn about them, which is the task Oregon State *\ì ï Hatfield k mn uith undertaken by the Coastal Eco system Learning Center. The Hatfield Marine Science Center The Hatfield Marine Science Center is OSU’s coastal campus for marine sci and the Oregon Coast Aquarium recently signed a memorandum of understanding ence research and instruction, serving more than 150,000 visitors and 12,000 to collaborate on research, education, and outreach in an effort to boost the public’s schoolchildren annually through its pub “ocean literacy.” The co-partnership des lic wing and marine science education ignation by Coastal America will com programs managed by Oregon Sea Grant. With five federal and state agencies bine the resources of the two facilities to create a larger Coastal Ecosystem Learn located on site, the HMSC is one of the nation’s premier marine labs for collabo ing Center. In 1996, the Coastal America Part rative research and education in ocean and nership established the network of coastal sciences. Coastal Ecosystem Learning Centers (CELCs). The network com bines the resources of federal agencies with marine educa tional centers. This means that the CELCs have access to things that they would not normally have. The Oregon Coast Aquarium is a pri Thanks to the partnership with the fed vate, non-profit educational facility that eral agencies, each center has unique ac offers people a fun way to understand cess to expert speakers, exhibit informa Oregon’s unique coastal resources. The tion, educational publications, teaching materials, field trip sites, and scientific facility is designed to be accessible to learners of all ages, ability levels, and data from around the country. The continued success of the program learning styles. In addition to offering public exhib is helping to teach citizens and empower them about what each of us can do to help its, the aquarium serves nearly 50,000 schoolchildren annually, opening doors to protect our valuable coastal ecosystems. Coastal America notes that even if we new interests and introducing science in don’t live on the coast, it impacts our lives a meaningful way. NEWPORT, Ore. - Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center and the Oregon Coast Aquarium recently signed an agreement to become co-partners in an expanded Coastal Ecosystem Learning Center. The goal of the center is to educate and involve the public in protecting our nation’s coastal ecosystems. 2005 Standing Committee Vacancies Deadline for consideration for 2005 committees is Aug. 31,2005 Any tribal member interested in serving on a committee for a term ending February 2006 must fill out the following form and return it to the address below prior to Aug. 31,2005, to be considered. Please mail or fax your application to Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indi ans, Attn: Executive Secretary to Tribal Council. P.O. Box 549, Siletz, OR 97380-0549; Fax: 541-444-8325. Name: Roll No: Address:__________________________________________________ _ State:ZIP City: Telephone: Day ( ) Evening ( ) Choose the first, second, and third choice of committees you are request ing by numbering your preference 1, 2, 3 in the space provided. If you only want to request one committee, please indicate this by inserting the number 1. Housing Committee Health Committee Budget Committee Tribal Council will review applications and approve appointments at the Regular Tribal Council meeting in September 2005. If you have any questions, please call Tami Miner or Marci Garrett at 1-800-922-1399 or 541-444-2532. OREGON COAST AQUARIUM Emma’s Project to Hold Garage Sale to Raise Funds Emma’s Project would like to say thank you to the Lincoln County com munity for its support. We made more than $500 between our previ ous garage sale and fund raiser so far. This will help us buy school supplies for Lincoln County school children in the 2005-06 school year. We are planning another garage sale for Labor Day weekend. We are accepting donations for a raffle that we plan to conduct at the garage sale. We also are always taking dona tions of garage sale items as well as 12 • Siletz News • school supplies. You can contact us at 541-994-6652. Items can be dropped off at Napa Auto Parts, 1221 SW Highway 101 (across from the Tanger Outlet Center) or you can call the number listed above. We recently received our federal Tax ID number so we can write tax receipts for individuals and companies that may need them. Thank you again for your support and we look forward to being able to continue to provide school supplies to those individuals who need them. August 2005 Tohono O’odham Nation Incurring Hugh Costs from Undocumented Immigrants WASHINGTON - The substandard and overcrowded homes on the Tohono O’odham Nation’s land in the dry south western Arizona desert are deplorable to begin with. Add to that a decade-long surge of undocumented immigrants who have ravaged the tribe’s sacred homeland by vandalizing homes, smuggling drugs, and committing violent crimes. This bottleneck of immigration costs the tribe an estimated $3 million plus a year. The National American Indian Hous ing Council recently led a congressional tour of tribal lands in southern Arizona, where congressional staffers got a first hand look. The conditions on the Tohono O’odham Nation, near the border with Mexico, were a sight that no one ex pected, including NAIHC Executive Director Gary L. Gordon. “It was enlightening,” said Gordon. “Enlightening in the sense that people don’t realize what these tribal members are dealing with there. They’re facing a lifestyle that no American should have to deal with, including ravaged homes, theft, and assaults. Because of the flow of ille gal immigrants from south of the border, tribal members do not feel secure in their own homes.” These conditions are a direct result of the government's 1993 border protec tion policy implementation known as Operation Gatekeeper. It focused on ports of entry such as the Arizona towns of Douglas, Yuma, and Nogales, leaving an open expanse with undetected entry in to the U.S. via the Tohono O’odham Nation. With nothing more than a cattle guard to separate the U.S. from Mexico, undocu mented immigrants began pouring in. “The undocumented aliens were al ready sitting under our porches when we moved into our new homes in July 2001,” said Harriet Toro, executive assistant to Tohono O’odham Nation Chairwoman Vivian Juan-Saunders. Even with the 2002 expansion of the government border protection policy’s National Homeland Security Reorganiza tion Plan, the Tohono O’odham Nation has not received direct funding for its homeland security expenditures. “The majority of their housing block grant has been eaten up by having to re pair damage from an unsecure border and they’ve received no direct funding from Homeland Security,” said NAIHC Gov ernmental Affairs Director Ross B. Bell. “This should be a wake-up call to the U.S government. Aside from the need of a more secure border for the safety of all Americans, Native Americans deserve much better conditions than what the Tohono O’odham people are facing.” “The peace and serenity of our home land as spoken by our grandparents no longer exists,” said Toro.
