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Honor, merit rolls announced at WCCS
Jun 6, 2022
Warren County Christian School has announced its honor rolls for the fourth quarter of the 2021-2022 school year.
On the Principal’s List (GPA 3.5 to 4.0) were:
Third grade — Nathan Arroyo and Annika Landin; fourth grade — Noah Campbell and Joshua Chamberlain; fifth grade — Emma Hughes; sixth grade — Jacee Eastman and Claire Munsee; seventh grade — Abella Fisher; and tenth grade — Evan Hughes.
On the Merit List (GPA 3.0 to 3.49) were:
Second grade — Case Benedict and Micah Campbell; third grade — Isaiah Clark, Braxton Maynard, and Adalyn Munsee; seventh grade — Marilyn Emery; ninth grade — Samantha Hoover; and eleventh grade — Lillyana Little.
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April 1, 2020: I never find all my gear in time for opening day of trout season. Usually, I don’t find trout either. My annual list of rationalizations is familiar: cold water, heavy runoff, spring debris, few insects, angler error. This year, my stream thermometer has gone missing since I packed it away last fall, so I can’t take a reading. The water is clear and looks cold. Mist hangs in the air, clings to the stony trail.
The Beaver Kill laughs as it rushes to join the Esopus Creek in the broad valley nine miles below. Occasional shafts of afternoon sunlight break from behind low hanging clouds. Birch branches wait for their buds to emerge. Unseen forest birds call to their mates. Streamside boulders, the handiwork of a glacial finger that stretched south down the narrow gorge, sit quietly counting the centuries. Another spring day unfolds in the storied Catskill Mountain trout stream of Mink Hollow.
The Munsee band of the Esopus tribe, part of the Algonquin-speaking nation, once traversed Mink Hollow through a notch between the two mountains presently known as Plateau and Sugarloaf. Their footpath led south to fertile cornfields in the Esopus Valley and north to a verdant plain the Mohawk people called Schoharie. I start up the old Munsee trail just before noon. All winter, this day has occupied my mind. Last year, I did not see a single fish in Mink Hollow. I’m seriously concerned about the health of the trout — not to mention the planet.
I tie on a Red Quill, the harbinger of spring, given to me by my neighbor Nick who has plied these waters for six decades. Just after noon at the First Pool, I spy a black fly crawling up a rock in search of sunlight…
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NEW PALTZ – Historic Huguenot Street presents “Soul of A Nation: Tribal Sovereignty and the American Revolution,” an online presentation with Heather Bruegl and Chief Mark Peters at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 10.
The presentation will examine how Indigenous groups, like the Munsee and the Mohicans, were either inspired or persuaded to take sides in the conflict, and explain how such decisions would go on to impact the course of their communities’ histories forever.
Bruegl is a member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and first line descendent Stockbridge-Munsee. Peters is chief of the Munsee-Delaware Nation in Southwestern Ontario, Canada and historian for their community for the past 30 years. General admission, $8.
Discounted Admission $5 (For HHS members, seniors, students, active military members, and veterans)
Learn more and register at https://www.huguenotstreet.org/calendar-of-events/2022/3/10/soul-of-a-nation.
Revolutionary graves being researched
NEW LEBANON – A new consortium of workers and the members of the Cemetery of the Evergreens board have joined to identify and honor veterans in the graveyard, many of whom helped establish the town over 200 years ago.
Current New Lebanon Town Historian Elizabeth Sheffer-Winig, who is also a Hendrick Hudson Daughters of the American Revolution Chapter member, said the project will “identify, catalog, and honor those who served in the American Revolution. The oldest part of the cemetery, called Cypress Hill, is where the earliest burials occurred, including possibly three dozen Revolutionary War veterans, according to the chapter.
The intention is to restore the stones, research the lives and military service of the patriots buried there, and produce a booklet about them, the chapter said. The project’s culmination will be a grave-marking…
Native American tribes in Wisconsin are fighting to protect the natural resources on which they rely while advocating for accurate representations of their culture and Native-centered approaches to health care and social services.
These are just some of the issues President Shannon Holsey, of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, raised during the 18th annual State of the Tribes Address on Tuesday.
Speaking in front of legislators at the state Capitol, Holsey expressed concern about the plans to reroute the Enbridge gas pipeline 5 through the Bad River watershed. She criticized the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources for what she — and many residents — feel was an inadequate environmental analysis of the plan.
“Both the plan and the environmental review did not factor in the hazards this proposal creates for the surrounding communities, including the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, as well as the ecosystems of the surrounding rivers and the local drinking water,” Holsey said.
According to Holsey, the pipeline’s proposed route would cross 280 rivers and streams that all find their way to the Great Lakes, which provide drinking water for 40 million people.
Much like the recent efforts to protect the gray wolf, Holsey said safeguarding natural resources is about maintaining Native culture and connection to the natural world — to preserve it for the generations to come.
“The goal of securing rights to nature is to secure the highest level of environmental protection under which an ecosystem can thrive,” Holsey said.
Representing Native history and identity
Woven throughout Holsey’s address was a thread of Native history. She said that the genocide, forced removal and assimilationist policies endured by Native peoples aren’t easy to share. But they are essential to acknowledge in order to fully understand…
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MADISON, Wis. — The biggest issues and concerns facing Wisconsin’s 11 federally recognized tribes were front and center Tuesday as lawmakers gathered for the annual State of the Tribes address.
What You Need To Know
- Lawmakers heard about the biggest issues impacting Wisconsin’s 11 federally recognized tribes during Tuesday’s State of the Tribes Address
- This year’s speech was delivered by Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians President Shannon Holsey
- Each year, the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council chooses a different member to give the address
- The address has been given annually since 2005
From the pandemic response to participation in democracy, the president of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians, Shannon Holsey, called for less division from lawmakers as tribal nations struggle with infrastructure, discrimination, and civic participation.
Holsey told a joint session of the legislature she learned many lessons from the pandemic.
“I will no longer accept the things I cannot change,” Holsey said. “I will change the things I cannot accept.”
Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians President Shannon Holsey delivers 2022 State of the Tribes address. (Spectrum News/Anthony DaBruzzi)
One of the things Holsey made clear she was unwilling to accept was Republican-backed legislation that would change the state’s election process. Holsey said tribes want to help America heal, possibly referring to former President Donald Trump’s unwillingness to accept defeat in the 2020 election.
“The loss of the right to vote is the loss of the voice in the democratic process,” Holsey said. She went on to tell lawmakers that democracy cannot be defeated.
During last year’s address, tribal leaders called for more mental health resources as many issues were exacerbated by the pandemic. This year, Holsey praised tribes for how seriously they have taken COVID-19 and the challenges they…
Recent attention to the country’s meatpacking plants has illustrated that when the four dominant companies face disruptions to processing, smaller, independent operations don’t have adequate capacity to pick up the slack.
That’s part of the reason the federal government has decided to invest in upgrades to some of those local shops. Plus, when those smaller businesses are federally inspected, producers will be able to market their own branded meat products across state lines.
Still, it will be a tall order to compete in the marketplace, which several senators allege is already not operating in a transparent and consistently fair way.
The White House has put out a comprehensive plan to improve competition in the meat sector, specifically naming as priorities increasing and diversifying processing capacity, improving farmer and rancher income, and promoting state, tribal and private investment. USDA already has awarded $32 million from its Meat and Poultry Inspection Readiness Grant (MPIRG) program, intended to help meat and poultry processing businesses expand, improve or update their abilities.
“It’s big providing the dollars. It’s not a small action, it’s a big action,” Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., told Agri-Pulse. “We also need to make sure that folks aren’t violating the antitrust laws that we have in this country.” Tester said industry consolidation that has led to the four large companies controlling about 85% of the beef market is devastating small farms and ranches. “I’ve got cow-calf operators that are going broke because of that consolidation.”
Tester, one of the few farmers in Congress, joined Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Deb Fischer, R-Neb., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., in sponsoring the Cattle Market Transparency Act with the goal of improving price discovery and ensuring transparency so the large companies are held accountable. That could mean better prices at…
The Department of the Interior is now seeking public comment surrounding the word “squaw”
February 24, 2022 6:36 am
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland
LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — The Department of the Interior is now collecting name replacements for more than 660 geographic features that use the word squaw.
Leaders called it a historically “offensive ethnic, racial, and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women,” in a new report by NPR.
They say it originated from the Algonquian word for “woman” but has been twisted by white people for centuries.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland adds, “Words matter, particularly in our work to make our nation’s public lands and waters accessible and welcoming to people of all backgrounds. Consideration of these replacements is a big step forward in our efforts to remove derogatory terms whose expiration dates are long overdue.”
Here in Nebraska we have several bodies of water that include the word squaw in addition to a mountain peak and a lodge.
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