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Boil water advisory extended for Chippewas of the Thames, Munsee-Delaware – London

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Post date January 15, 2022
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Residents in Chippewas of the Thames First Nation near London, Ont., as well as a number of people and businesses in Munsee-Delaware Nation, continue to be under a boil advisory that’s been in effect since last month.

The precautionary boil water advisory was first issued on Dec. 14, 2021, and asked residents to conserve their water usage.

On Thursday, officials with Chippewas of the Thames announced the advisory is being extended “until further notice” and will impact all of its residents, along with “29 properties and 6 commercial businesses” in Munsee-Delaware.

“No water concerns have been reported, nor are water quality concerns suspected,” officials said in the latest advisory.

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“This is a precautionary measure due to capacity concerns.”

Please be advised the precautionary Boil Water Advisory for Chippewas of the Thames First Nation and Munsee-Delaware Nation is continuing. This letter is also available on the Members Section of the COTTFN website. pic.twitter.com/hHjpB7WlxT

— Chippewas of the Thames First Nation (@OfficialCottfn) January 14, 2022

Chippewas of the Thames officials added that the First Nation’s water department continues to treat, sample and test local water to confirm whether it’s safe to drink.

New sheriff Zerfoss replaces Munsee in Clarion County

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Post date January 6, 2022
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Clarion County is starting a new year with a new sheriff for the first time in 12 years.

Former Clarion Borough police officer Shawn Zerfoss was sworn in as sheriff Tuesday by Judge Sara Seidle-Patton.

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Corry to crack down on vaping in new year

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Post date January 4, 2022
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Corry Area Middle-High School is looking to eliminate the use of e-cigarettes by students on campus, especially in bathrooms.

E-cigarettes are electronic devices that heat a liquid typically containing nicotine and produce an aerosol or a mix of small particles in the air, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The use of e-cigarettes is commonly referred to as “vaping.”

Corry Area School Board member Amy Allen brought up students vaping in bathrooms during a Nov. 22 school board meeting.

Allen was in attendance at the high school’s Pennsylvania Business Week and said she enjoyed the opportunity to speak with students and staff about concerns they had.

“I heard there’s some issues of kids vaping in bathrooms. I had a couple teachers come up to me. Apparently they have done research about devices that can get put into restrooms that will alert us if kids are vaping in bathrooms and we can respond to it,” Allen said during the meeting.

Corry Area School District Director of Buildings and Grounds Mike Munsee said they are aware of the problem and have also researched the so-called “vape detectors,” which operate similarly to a smoke detector but do not emit an audible sound.

“Instead of it going off like a smoke detector, it alerts through the school network to a work station with somebody,” Munsee told The Corry Journal.

If the device detects the use of e-cigarettes, then it will transmit a notification to school officials, such as a principal, who will investigate the situation.

The school district has ordered vape detectors and plans to install them in every student-accessible bathroom in the middle-high school, according to Munsee.

“They are on order. I’m just waiting for them to come in,” Munsee said. “They work pretty well from what I understand.”

The use of e-cigarettes is prohibited on school…

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‘Manteo’su00a0World’ is a treasure trove of information on how the first Americans lived in N.C.

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Post date January 1, 2022
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Ben Steelman | StarNews Correspondent

We know pathetically little about the Cape Fear Indians, who inhabited the Wilmington area until the early 1700s. We’re not sure what they called themselves (possibly “Daw-Hee”) or what they spoke (probably a Siouan language, similar to the Plains Indians).

A fair idea of how they lived, however, can be gleaned from “Manteo’s World: Native American Life in Carolina’s Sound Country Before and After the Lost Colony” by retired Old Dominion University anthropologist Helen C. Rountree.

Rountree writes about the Croatoans, the Roanokes and the other Algonquian-speaking peoples whom Sir Walter Raleigh’s expeditions encountered in and around Roanoke Island beginning in 1584.

We know rather more about them thanks to the accounts of explorers such as Thomas Hariot, John Lawson (who came along later, in the early 1700s) and particularly the many drawings by John White, the governor of what would come to be known as “the Lost Colony.”

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Manteo, for those who forgot, was the young Croatoan man who traveled back to England with the first explorers and later became an interpreter and diplomat for the English settlers.

These first Americans lived a Stone Age existence. They had only small amounts of copper, acquired by trade, which they used mainly for jewelry. Nevertheless, they had a self-sufficient, mostly comfortable existence.

It wasn’t Eden. Women — who were expected to farm corn, beans and squash; root for tubers in the marshes; cook; tan hides; make baskets and perform other chores — often developed arthritis as early as their 30s.

Men hunted and fished. It was exhausting work, chasing wounded deer for miles, then lugging the carcasses for miles back to the village or camp. English visitors often saw men lying around between hunts — which, Rountree thinks, led…

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Munsee retires with mission accomplished

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Post date December 29, 2021
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CLARION – On Jan. 4, for the first time in almost 40 years, Rex Munsee will not be carrying a badge. When Sheriff-elect Shawn Zerfoss is sworn in, Munsee will be a civilian.

“I guess I got my love of law enforcement from my great-grandfather. Back in the 1930s, he was a special deputy for Erie County,” Munsee said.

That love of the law continues with Munsee’s children – his daughter is a Clarion attorney and his son followed in his father’s footsteps as a Pennsylvania State Police trooper.

Munsee began his career in law enforcement as a state trooper and rose to the rank of corporal. He served one year at the Punxsutawney barracks, and the balance of his 27-year state police career in Shippenville.

“As a trooper I couldn’t be political, but the day after I retired I announced that I was a candidate for Clarion County sheriff,” he said. It’s a post in which he has served three terms.

“It’s time to go,” he said. “I accomplished all that I wanted to do. It is time for someone else to step in. I am not regretting my decision not to run.”

Munsee said his greatest accomplishment was to “re-invigorate” the employees.

“It seemed the office had shrunk,” he said. “We were only doing court security and prisoner transports. Now we do more public relations things. We do speeches, public programs and we do security at various events. We also support the PSP at some events.

“We aren’t the lead agency, but perform a supporting role. We also serve warrants for the magistrates. I think more people are aware of the department now.”

One of the changes Munsee has seen over the years is the lack of applicants for the position of deputy.

“The pool of potential deputies has shriveled up,” he said. “When I…

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Cape Cod’s Squaw Island prompts debate over cultural reclamation, interpretation of words

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Post date December 28, 2021
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HYANNISPORT — For centuries, the lush, green spit of Hyannisport marshland has been locally called Squaw Island, with legends surrounding a “squaw,” or a Wampanoag woman, who waited on the island for her husband to return from war.

But U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland recently designated the word “squaw” a racial slur and has moved to ban the word from federal lands. Haaland, an enrolled citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna Native American tribe in New Mexico, is the first Native American to hold a Cabinet post.

Along with Haaland’s designation is the creation of a task force that will evaluate 650 locations and rename streams, valleys, lakes, creeks, street signs and parks across the country that contain the word “squaw,” including Squaw Island in Hyannisport.

But Camille Madison, of the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project in Mashpee, said the designation is a call to “look back on history,” and “reconnect to the origins of the Algonquian language.”

“Squaw is a word or what’s called a morpheme — a meaningful morphological unit of a language. It refers to the female character of a woman and it’s used to create words that mean woman, or little girl, or good girl,” said Madison, who is a member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah). “I want to respect that people feel offended by the use of that word. Western tribal people didn’t know that this is a morpheme in our language. But what does that say to us as Algonquian people? This (Haaland’s designation) contributes and perpetuates our erasure. That’s a part of my sacred language. That’s who I am.”

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About 12 tribal nations throughout the Eastern Woodlands territory of the indigenous people of North America use the sound or morpheme “squaw” as part of the Algonquian language family, according to Madison.

In a…

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WOODS TO WRITING DESK: An escape from the holiday crush

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Post date December 25, 2021
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The mayhem of the holiday season is here: bumper to bumper traffic, surges of COVID-19, last minute shopping, and — for Santa — the final touches before he makes his annual journey around the world.

With all of the old and new traditions compounding on each other, the holiday season can be a lot.

But there is one place where I find all of those stresses disappear, at least for a little while.

Hidden along Grover Street in Beverly, the 62-acre Alt Reservation hosts a few miles of trails to get wonderfully lost in or catch your breath after a marathon of cookie decorating.

While now surrounded by the epitome of suburbia, the reservation holds onto a history of the Algonquian-speaking people known as the Naumkeag.

According to Essex County Greenbelt, the ponds and swamps in the reservation were important to these people.

“To the Algonquians, cedar was and is one of the four sacred plants used in ceremonies and cures,” the Greenbelt wrote on its website, ecga.org. “The other sacred plants are sage, sweetgrass, and tobacco. The people gathered blueberries here and caught turtles in the pond. Turtle shells were used as bowls or fashioned into rattles used in curing ceremonies. Beaver Pond marks the headwaters of the Miles River, an Ipswich River tributary.”

This oasis has great trails that bring any explorer into a wooded expanse that is perfect for any lunch break, brisk walk, or a post present-opening respite.

Where is your sacred hiding place this holiday season? Mine is the woods.

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Munsee: ‘I accomplished all that I wanted to do’ as sheriff

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Post date December 18, 2021
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On Jan. 4, for the first time in almost 40 years, Rex Munsee will not be carrying a badge. When Sheriff-elect Shawn Zerfoss is sworn in, Munsee will be a civilian.

“I guess I got my love of law enforcement from my great-grandfather. Back in the 1930s, he was a special deputy for Erie County,” Munsee said.

That love of the law continues with Munsee’s children — his daughter is a Clarion attorney and his son followed in his father’s footsteps as a Pennsylvania State Police trooper.

“As a trooper I couldn’t be political, but the day after I retired I announced that I was a candidate for Clarion County sheriff,” he said. It’s a post in which he has served three terms.

“It’s time to go,” he said. “I accomplished all that I wanted to do. It is time for someone else to step in. I am not regretting my decision not to run.”

Munsee said his greatest accomplishment was to “re-invigorate” the employees.

“We aren’t the lead agency, but perform a supporting role. We also serve warrants for the magistrates. I think more people are aware of the department now.”

‘Lack of manpower’

One of the changes Munsee has seen over the years is the lack of applicants for the position of deputy.

“The pool of potential deputies has shriveled up,” he said. “When I…

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Chippewas of the Thames and Munsee-Delaware under boil water advisory – London

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Post date December 16, 2021
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Residents of Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, as well as Munsee-Delaware Nation, are being asked to boil their water after it was deemed unsafe to drink.

A precautionary boil water advisory was issued at 4 p.m. Wednesday and officials are also asking residents to conserve their water usage while the advisory is in effect.

“Any water being used for cooking, drinking, brushing teeth, making beverages, washing babies, and washing fruit and vegetables should be boiled for one minute and cooled before use,” the advisory stated.

“If anyone in your household drinks the water and becomes ill — seek medical care as soon as possible.”

Munsee Leaving as Sheriff for New Role as Licensed Private Detective

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Post date December 14, 2021
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CLARION, Pa. (EYT) – Clarion County Sheriff Rex Munsee always wanted to be a private detective, and he’ll get his wish in January when he leaves his post after three four-year terms as sheriff and becomes a private citizen.

As a young boy, Munsee built a lifelong appreciation for comic books, but his Number One hero was Batman, “the world’s greatest detective.” The deductive reasoning employed by Bruce Wayne’s alter ego and the adventures of Sherlock Holmes stuck with Munsee throughout his career.

The experiences he gained as a 27-year state police trooper and another 12 years as sheriff did not lessen his desire to be a detective, but they were good years for him.

“The second-best job I’ve ever had is Clarion County Sheriff, and the best job I’ve ever had is with the Pennsylvania State Police,” Munsee said.

A graduate of the state police academy in 1981, he was assigned to the Shippenville barracks of the PSP. As a native of Erie County, the assignment was a surprise, and he wasn’t quite sure where Shippenville was located. Twenty-seven years later, and he knew it was home.

Rex is also opening his new detective office in his daughter’s Munsee Law Office building on the corner of Liberty Street and Fifth Avenue in the shadow of the Clarion County Courthouse.

Cassandra started her own practice, Munsee Law LLC, and specializes in Family Law. She also practices Criminal Law and Personal Injury.

Asked if he encouraged his daughter to become a lawyer, Rex offered an enthusiastic “yes.”

“She always wanted to argue all the time,” Rex said. “There’s no sense that she was arguing for free. If you’re going to argue as much with me, you might as well become an attorney and get paid to do it. So she took me…

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