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The Pawnee Nation has hosted a children’s summer camp as long as Mike Ortiz can remember. He decided last week to cancel the camp for the second straight year amid a resurgence of COVID-19 infections in Pawnee County and across Oklahoma.

“We don’t want to be a hindrance health-wise,” said Ortiz, who noted the back-to-school camp is for children between the ages of 6 and 18, meaning half cannot yet receive COVID-19 vaccines.

Medical experts say the disease is spreading quickly across the U.S. because of a highly contagious variant that now accounts for most new cases. The rapid return of COVID-19 prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to reinstate its face mask recommendation for all people in crowded settings. 

Leaders of many Oklahoma tribes are reupping safety measures and redoubling vaccination efforts to stem the spread within Indigenous communities, which suffered outsized losses during earlier waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. The recent steps include closing some tribal headquarters to the public and canceling annual events that organizers had hoped to bring back this year. 

“We are hearing from the experts and epidemiologists that the infection is spreading so rapidly that it’s more important now than ever that people are taking personal protection measures,” said Mark Rogers, executive director of the Absentee Shawnee Tribal Health System. The tribe has clinics in Shawnee and Norman, as well as a 24-hour coronavirus hotline that is answering more and more calls.

Rogers said COVID-19 cases are increasing among the health care system’s more than 22,000 patients. Most who have tested positive in recent weeks had not received a COVID-19 vaccine. Many are in their 20s, 30s and 40s. Some have been hospitalized. 

“It is a second pandemic of the unvaccinated,” said Rogers, who is Cherokee. 

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Curtis Zunigha remembers shedding tears when he heard the age of one Native American whose remains were part of a reburial ceremony in Ohio several years ago.

It was a girl, 11 when she died. Her young age, which reminded Zunigha of his granddaughter, along with the girl’s inclusion among the many Indigenous people throughout U.S. history who experienced indignities such as being moved from their homelands, left him shaken.

“I was emotionally distressed,” he said during a recent telephone interview.

Zunigha, cultural director of the Delaware Tribe of Indians, said the experience illustrates the long-lasting effects of the country’s history and the ongoing importance of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA, which was passed in 1990. The law mandates that institutions receiving federal funding return Native American remains and cultural items to tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations.

The Delaware Tribe of Indians expects the remains of nearly 200 ancestors to be reburied at the Pennsbury Manor near Philadelphia in the fall and thousands of belongings to be returned.

Nationally, there are almost 200,000 human remains of Native Americans that have been identified under the law, according to the National Parks Service. Remains have been uncovered in all 50 states and are now on display in museums, in university labs for anthropology research and tucked away in boxes in the back of closets across the country.

The Department of the Interior in July announced new proposed regulations for the protection and repatriation law to clarify the process as well as take the burden off tribes to initiate and complete the required steps. The federal government is consulting tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations about the new proposals and will open them for public comment in October.

The Delaware tribe has been working for…

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POUGHKEEPSIE – Vassar College’s Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center presents a summer of art with exhibitions ranging from Robert Rauschenberg’s news-inspired screen prints and a related photo display, drawings by sculptor Harry Roseman, and a poignant commemoration of Juneteenth.

The Loeb Art Center also returns to regular public hours, every day (except Monday) from 11am to 5pm. As always, admission is free. For more information about accessing the Vassar campus, please refer to VassarTogether.

Summer exhibitions include:

Time Capsule, 1970: Rauschenberg’s Currents, an in-depth look at avant-garde artist Robert Rauschenberg’s famous 1970 series of politically charged screen prints, is on view from June 26 – September 19, 2021. In 1970 Rauschenberg superimposed stories, headlines, advertisements, and images clipped from newspapers and tabloids to produce Surface Series from Currents: eighteen large-scale screen prints that reflected the strident social and political change of the period. The series is both a technical feat of modernist printmaking and a chance to peer inside Rauschenberg’s time capsule and witness the cacophony of violence, warfare, and political backlash that defined world events of the time.

Organized by guest curator Calvin Brown, the exhibition also features two original collages on loan from the Rauschenberg Foundation as well as sixteen related works from the Loeb’s collection

Photo Currents: Media, Circulation, Spectacle, is on view upstairs in the Hoene Hoy Photography Gallery from July 10 – October 10, 2021. In light of the radical transformation of popular media with the rise of the internet, citizen journalism, and social media, this exhibition considers photography’s role as a mediator of collective experiences and memories of historical events.

Tilled Fields, a solo show by New York sculptor Harry Roseman, who taught at Vassar for 40 years, is featured in the Project and Focus galleries from July 3 – September 12, 2021. The exhibition engages viewers with eighteen striking…

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CATOOSA, Okla. — Native American art is taking center stage in Catoosa this weekend.

50 Native artists are showcasing their skills as part of the new Route 66 Native Arts Alliance. The group is bringing the community together to support Native artists during the pandemic.

“All joining arms to make this community really a special place for the artists,” said Betsy Swimmer, vice president of the Route 66 Native Arts Alliance. “And also, for Route 66, an authentic experience with Native artists.”

The events kicked off Thursday night with an art show and gala at the Bella Donna Event Center. Artists showed off their paintings, jewelry and even furniture. The furniture pieces featured are designed by Cray Bauxmont-Flynn, a member of Cherokee Nation and the Delaware Tribe who is the founder and creative director of Amatoya. He said his pieces are inspired by his Native roots.

“We keep on evolving from our heritage and our cultural essence into a new art form that takes you to the next level,” Bauxmont-Flynn said.

The weekend is also launching “Destination Catoosa.” It’s an effort to make the city a hub for Native art in the region.

You can hear Bartlesville Native and Cherokee Citizen singer-songwriter Becky Hobbs perform a song she wrote for the event, appropriately called “Destination Catoosa,” as a tribute to the city.

“It’s the redbud trees,” Hobbs said. “The birds sing. It’s the Verdigris River. The Blue Whale. I even got the Blue Whale in there. So I had lots of fun writing it.”

Friday’s events include a concert from Hobbs as well as a Native art show all at the Bella Donna.

The festivities continue in downtown Catoosa on Saturday with a street fair. Booths will line Cherokee Street and feature even more Native American artists. There will also be live music and food trucks.

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Lower.com CEO Dan Snyder talks about the stadium naming rights

Video: Lower.com CEO Dan Snyder says the Crew stadium naming rights came about from a sales call.

Doral Chenoweth, The Columbus Dispatch

Saturday evening brings the grand opening of the Crew’s new stadium. A sellout crowd and a national television audience will get its first look as the third and final jewel of the Arena District, which rates as one of the most beautiful sports complexes of its kind in the United States. 

Is that an overstatement? No, it is not.  

About a quarter mile, or 440 yards, separates the east plaza of the soccer stadium. Lower.com Field, from the west plaza of Nationwide Arena. In between is Huntington Park, home of the Triple-A Clippers. 

Nothing quite like it

There are cities with notable clusters of at least three sports facilities. Detroit has done a wonderful job reinventing itself this way; Pittsburgh’s venues are lovely, especially the football and baseball stadiums that stand beside the confluence of the Allegheny and Ohio rivers; Cleveland deserves mention in this conversation, as do Denver and Minneapolis, among others. 

Unlike these cities, Columbus does not have three major-league teams.  

More: Columbus Crew’s new stadium cements Arena District’s evolution into sports destination

What Columbus does have, as of today, is a parcel of three pro-sports facilities of architectural beauty, tightly compacted in a downtown…

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Finding themselves in a 4-0 hole after just two innings, the Delaware Tribe 13U softball squad mounted an impressive comeback win over the Delaware Express Glanden for an 8-5 USSSA championship-clinching performance on Sunday, June 27, at the Lower Sussex Little League Complex.

It was the second straight USSSA state title for this particular group, which won the 12U title last year. This one came in a higher division — against older teams — but, more importantly, came while the team was battling some adversity with key members of the team out due to injuries.

“It was fun, and we hit the ball well all weekend,” Tribe head coach Dennis Scurci said of his team’s effort. “We played a couple clean games with no errors, and we went long a couple times as well. Ryleigh Smith had her first two travel-ball home runs. She had a grand slam on Saturday, and then another one on Sunday.

“We had a tough game in the finals against the Delaware Express Glanden, found ourselves behind, and then came back to win it in the end. It was a great weekend. We were in the toughest bracket. The Delaware Vipers are probably the No. 1 team in the state, and the Express Glanden are probably No. 2 in the state, and we beat both of them so all in all a great weekend.”

A great weekend, indeed.

The Tribe went 5-0 for the weekend, having won three games on Saturday and two more on Sunday. They scored 41 runs over those five games, while allowing just 11.

In the championship finale, the Tribe got multiple-hit efforts from five different batters, with Sophie Scurci, Ava Snelsire, Ava Calciano, Ashlynn Ullman and Katelyn Murray all collecting two hits. Scurci and Snelsire each scored twice. Ashlynn Ullman smashed a three-run bomb for…

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In September 1839, a group of Cherokees convened in Tahlequah to frame a new constitution. Today, two Cherokee tribes exist in Tahlequah: the Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians.

As it stands today, the UKB asserts it is a “successor in interest” to the historical Cherokee Nation. Meanwhile, the Cherokee Nation – also known as the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma – claims it remains the tribe for which the 1839 Constitution was created, and has repeatedly insisted the UKB’s claim to be a successor in interest is false.

“My argument is they changed their name from Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma to Cherokee Nation as a cosmetic ruse so people would think they are the same entity,” said David Cornsilk, a dual-enrolled member of both tribes, genealogist and historian. Cornsilk, a former journalist, believes the tribe known as the Cherokee Nation today is not the same as the one from 1839.

In 1975, Principal Chief Ross Swimmer led an effort to create a new constitution, for which the title read “the Constitution of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.” Then, the tribe drafted a new constitution in 1999 and ratified it in 2003, leaving the “of Oklahoma” portion out.

Chad Smith, who served as principal chief at the time, said the name has always been “Cherokee Nation,” though.

“There wasn’t an Oklahoma when Cherokees came to Indian Territory,” Smith said. “So when the federal acts for allotment occurred, it was always the ‘Cherokee Nation’. It was in 1975 that Ross Swimmer … led the effort to update the constitution. If you look at the text of the constitution, it never changes the name. The only place the name is [changed] is in the printer’s title.”

In 1970, Congress passed the Five Tribes Principal Chiefs Act, allowing citizens and descendants of the Five Tribes to popularly select…

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Terrence George “Terry” Parks, 73, of California, MD passed away on June 4, 2021 at Calvert Health Medical Center. Born November 28, 1947 in San Diego, CA, he was the son of the late Clarence George Parks and Peggy Marie (White) Parks. Terry graduated from Fremont High School, Sunnyvale, CA in 1966 and from San Jose State University, San Jose, CA in 1974. Terry is a member of the Lenape Tribe, also known as the Delaware Tribe of Indians in Bartlesville, OK. His Lenape name is Nishakexen, Two Paths.

In 1966 Terry was recruited and signed with the Mets as a left-handed pitcher. He was a “Bonus Baby”. In 1967 he received a gold watch for being the MVP. In 1968 he was traded to the Oakland A’s where he played until he started having difficulty with his pitching arm due to a previous injury. 1969 was the last year Terry played professional baseball, but he continued with sports. He was a bull dogger in the Rodeo with his horse Shad. Terry owned a boarding stable until 1973 and then became a Finance Manager in the Auto Industry. He returned to Oklahoma in 1983 to help his parents. Terry met Andrea in 1987 and they were wed on March 29, 1988 in Las Vegas, NV. In 1993 Terry had a career change. He began working as the Director of Education for the Osage Nation. In 1997 Terry’s only son, Terrence George Dakota Parks, his pride and joy, was born. In 1998 Terry went to work for the Federal Government as the Division Chief of Self Determination for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He retired from his position on December 31, 2020. For twenty two years Terry fought for the rights of the American Indian. He and his family moved to Calvert…

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