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Trains, aquariums, libraries and parks on horizon for Head Start students By Lori Jay-Linstrom, Parent Involve ment Coordinator April is a busy month for Head Start. Families who live in the Portland and Salem areas and have children who will be going to kindergarten have attended what is called a Kindergarten Roundup. This is the perfect opportunity for families to visit the school their child will attend, register them for the upcoming school year and meet the principals and kindergarten teachers. In April and May, all of our Head Start centers will participate in seed planting activities with Sharia Robinson with the Tribal Healthy Traditions project. Sharia will show students how to take care of the plants. They will plant snap peas, sunflowers and edible flowers. They will be able to watch them grow when they take the plantings home. Siletz and Tenas Head Start class rooms will go to the train station in Toledo. The classes have been studying Courtesy photo by Alissa Lane grains and transportation - what a great Children from the Head Start morning class in Siletz and the Tenas Illahee class visit the Newport Airport on March 3. way to tie everything together. Lincoln City will go to the Oregon Coast Aquarium in April and during the guest artist Ken Walker will come to the students have really learned so many new If you would like to purchase tickets, last two weeks will have their swim les classroom and help students make paper. things this year. please contact any Head Start staff. Par sons on Monday-Thursday. April 22 will On April 28, the class will go on a field ents can stop in at your local Head Start be an added class day, which also will be trip to the Mt. Hood Community College Raffle tickets available classroom or the Tribal administration an Easter egg hunt for them. Lincoln City fish hatcheries for a tour and picnic lunch. We are now selling tickets for our building. Drawing will be held in May by staff and students are looking forward to Salem will study space, weather, ecol annual Head Start raffle; we will sell tick the Siletz Tribal Head Start Policy Council. a new student joining their classroom. ogy and plants for the next several weeks. ets through April and up until the drawing. Head Start always accepts applica Portland will go on a special field trip The classes will take a field trip to a local One of our two grand prizes is a dinner to the local city library for a picnic lunch tions; our new applications for the 2011- park and McDonald’s. Salem staff encour for two, show tickets for two and a night’s during story time with Librarian Joan, ages families to attend the field trips or stay at Chinook Winds Casino Resort. Our 2012 school year now are available. We whom staff and students just love as she just come and have fun in the classroom. have Head Start locations in Siletz, Salem, other grand prize is a Pendleton blanket is very good to our program. On April 13, Teacher Jayne and Debbie say that their donated by the Siletz Tribal Council. Portland and Lincoln City. NCAI honors Indian Country Leadership Award recipients at winter session WASHINGTON - The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) recently announced the recipients of the organization’s prestigious Indian Country Leadership Awards. Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI), chair man of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and longtime Tribal leader and advocate Billy Frank Jr. were honored Feb. 28 for their outstanding contributions to Indian Country. Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation who passed away in 2010, was recognized posthu mously among the 2011 recipients. NCAI will honor her by naming the organiza tion’s fellowship program in her honor. “Unwavering leadership is an impor tant quality of a hero in Indian Country; each of the awardees have proven their commitment through actions, chang ing Indian Country for generations to come,” said Jefferson Keel, president of NCAI and lieutenant governor of the bilities to Indian Tribes. Chairman Akaka Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma. “It is a personal honor to be able to posthumously recognize the lasting legacy of Wilma Mankiller. Her example as a Tribal citizen and Tribal leader is a standard that will live forever.” NCAI, the nation’s oldest, largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization, presented the awards during an award reception held in conjunction with its Executive Council Winter Session. has been the lead sponsor of the Native Hawaiian Reorganization Act, which would restore self-government to the indigenous people of Hawaii. This year he became chairman of the Senate Com mittee on Indian Affairs by virtue of his seniority and long-standing commitment to Indian issues. Congressional Leadership Award Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii Sen. Akaka is the only indigenous member of the Senate and has served as a member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs since 1991. He has a demonstrated long-standing interest in supporting Tribal self-determination and honoring federal trust and treaty responsi- How to use mail order pharmacy11 How to order your refills after hours and on weekends: Please call 7-10 days before you need your refills. This allows us time to contact your provider, if necessary, and for mailing. Call 800-648-0449 Enter 1624 as soon as the clinic’s message begins - you’ll be transferred to the refill line. • • Or, call the refill line direct - 541-444-9624. ■ 4 * ---------------------------------------------------------- r Siletz News * April 2011 Native American Leadership Award Billy Frank Jr. Billy Frank Jr. is a peerless advo cate of Tribal treaty rights and natural resources. In the 1960s and ’70s, Frank was arrested more than 50 times defend ing the Tribes’ established treaty rights to fish, hunt and gather shellfish. His courage resulted in “the Boldt Deci sion,” a federal case re-affirming Tribal rights and establishing Tribes in Western Washington as co-managers of salmon resources. As the long-time chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commis sion, he continues to advocate tirelessly for the protection of American Indian and Alaska Native natural resources for the benefit of all peoples. Governmental Leadership Award Tom Perrelli Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli has made public safety in Indian Country a priority since day one. His commitment has resulted in concrete improvements in law and policy, includ ing enactment of the Tribal Law & Order Act, institution of a streamlined DOJ Tribal grant solicitation, creation of a new federal/Tribal domestic violence pros ecution task force, creation of the Tribal Nations Advisory Council and the hiring of additional assistant U.S. attorneys to prosecute crime in Indian Country across the nation. Public Sector Leadership Award Annie E. Casey Foundation The Annie E. Casey Foundation has worked over many years to support American Indian and Alaska Native families through grant-making and direct services. The foundation has been a leader in the philanthropic community, providing critical resources to support programs and initiatives for Native chil dren. The foundation’s investments have filled an important gap in providing criti cal data on Native children and supporting Native institutions that inform effective policy making at the national, state and Tribal level. Special Recognition Award Wilma Mankiller In honor of the outstanding contribu tion of Wilma Pearl Mankiller to Indian Country and Tribal relations with other sovereign nations, the National Congress of American Indians will name its fellow ship program in honor of her legacy. It will henceforth be known as the “Wilma Mankiller Fellowship Program for Tribal Policy and Governance.”
