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KanèharêØkye 2018

Skaru:ręØ Monthly, March 2018

Volume 9, Issue 3

March 2018 Haudenosaunee Grand Council

Tuscarora Council of Chiefs and

Clanmothers

HAUDENOSAUNEE ENVIRONMENTAL

TASK FORCE (HETF)

Oren Lyons, Political Co-Chair

Henry Lickers, Scientific Co-Chair

David Arquette, HETF Director

TUSCARORA ENVIRONMENT

PROGRAM (TEP)

Rene Rickard, TEP Director [email protected]

Bryan Printup, GIS/Planning [email protected]

Bradley Thomas, Env. Technician

[email protected]

Taylor Hummel, Env. Technician

Following the United Nations Earth

Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the

Haudenosaunee held a Grand Council to

discuss the environmental degradation of

our communities. In accordance with the

Great Law of Peace, the Grand Council

passed and agreed, based on

Haudenosaunee protocols and cultural

beliefs, to establish the Haudenosaunee

Environmental Task Force (HETF).

The SKARU:RE MONTHLY is the

official publication of the Tuscarora

Environment Program. You can submit

articles, artwork, photographs, editorials

and letters of love and happiness to:

SKARU:RE MONTHLY

c/o: Tuscarora Environment

5226E Walmore Road

Tuscarora Nation

Lewiston, NY 14092

#716.264.6011

www.tuscaroraenvironment.org

or our Facebook page

“Tuscarora Environment”

March 17, 2018 - Skarù:rę Rez Life Event, Tuscarora Nation House,

Tuscarora Nation.. 12pm - 5pm. Join them for the 2nd annual Skaru:re Rez

Life event intended to build a greater understanding of Skaru:re history

together. This event is FREE and open to the public. Cultural and

Historical displays, lunch will be for sale; speakers from the community

throughout the day. FMI: #716.264.6011, or Facebook page “Tuscarora

History Society.”

March 29, 2018 - Indigenous Languages Day, Six Nations Polytechnic,

Fourth Line Road, Six Nations reserve. 9am - 2pm. Lunch will be

provided, and every person who registers by March 22nd will receive a

free t-shirt. Hosted by the Six Nations Language Commission. Join them

for the day to celebrate the work that is being done in the community to

revitalize our languages. FMI: snpolytechnic.com/languagesday,

#519.445.0023.

April 7, 2018 - 4th Annual Six Nations Seedkeepers Gathering, Greenhouses at 993, Hwy 54, Ohsweken, ON. 10am - 2pm. Mohawk

Seedkeeper Gardens invites you to their gathering. Seed exchange at 1pm.

The day includes sharing circles with Terrylynn Brant, Steve McComber,

Janis Brant and Pat Kozowyk, Baba Link Farm. Bring your own organic,

heritage seeds to exchange. Please package and label. FMI:

[email protected].

April 10-12, 2018 - 8th Tribal Land Staff National Conference, Hard

Rock Hotel & Casino, Tulsa, OK. This year’s theme is “Adapting Land

Management Practices in a Changing Environment.” Some of the topics

include Land Planning; Mapping Indian Country; Economic Development;

and more. Sponsored by the National Tribal Land Association and the

Indian Land Tenure Foundation. FMI: www.ntla.info, [email protected].

April 15, 2018 - Tuscarora Spring Boutique, Tuscarora Nation House,

Tuscarora Nation. FREE. 12pm - 6pm. Craft and food vendors will be

available all day. The kitchen will be selling food to fundraise for the 2018

Great Law of Peace recital. FMI: If you’re interested in being a craft/food

vendor please contact Kehala Smith, 716-523-6282 or Gahadineh Greene,

716-990-8724. The fee is $25/per table, due by the day of the event.

April 30, 2018 - 2018 Sustainability Movie Series: “Taken For a Ride”,

305 Capen (inside Silverman Library), University at Buffalo, North

Campus, Amherst, NY. The movie, directed by Jim Klein (1996, 55min,

documentary), will be preceded by a brief introduction and then a

discussion after the movie will be led by Jim Gordon, chair of UB’s

Professional Staff Alternative Transportation Subcommittee. FMI:

calendar.buffalo.edu.

Coming up ...

Spring is coming (the vernal equinox is

actually March 20, 2018) and the

young shoots of life are bursting

through the blanket of snow. Chew

Road, habitat restoration field.


Ancient swamps are a source of fossil fuel coal.

Coal is formed from plants that died millions of

years ago. The plant matter settled in layers at the

bottom of swamps, where lack of oxygen kept it

from decaying completely. In the U.S. filling or

draining swamps was an accepted practice. Almost

half of U.S. wetlands were destroyed before

environmental protections were enacted during the

1970s. *www.nationalgeographic.org

Right now there are between 6,000 and 7,000

spoken languages in the world. Many studies

estimate that this will be reduced by more than 50%

by 2100 or earlier. It is estimated that one language

dies out every 14 days. There are over 600

languages in India, alone, that are endangered to be

extinct right now. *www.bilingua.io

Did You Know . . .

There is only one species in the snipe family that is

native to North America, the Wilson’s Snipe

(Gallinago delicate). The other types of snipes are

all vagrants. The snipes are hardy birds, often found

in northern regions and sometimes endure complete

winters where there is a wet area or bog that

remains unfrozen. *birds-of-north-america.net

TUSKY TALKS PODCAST

EPISODE 2: Tusky Talks Lacrosse, The Barn, and

The Tuscarora Influence on the sport

with Dorothy Chew.

I’m confident to say that most if not everyone growing up on

Tuscarora has had an experience with the game of lacrosse

whether it be watching family members play to playing in the

backyard or playing/coaching at all levels of the sport from the

Minor to Junior to Professional.

For me that experience early on was watching my Gram,

Dorothy Chew, bring home a box full of unstrung lacrosse

heads to string and then would sit and weave until the box was

full of Game-Ready Lacrosse heads that were then brought

back to the barn and shipped all over the world.

All I really remember as young kid is the smell and piles of the

leathers and nylon strings that made up the traditional pockets

so it was really cool to sit down and talk about the bigger

picture of how weaving sticks for the Barn, traveling and how

the late Wes Patterson (Founder of Tuskewe Krafts, “The

Barn”, legendary player and coach) had a larger impact on the

sport worldwide.

-Brad

Check out the Podcast at:

www.tuskytalkspodcast.wordpress.com

And follow us on Facebook at:

“TuskyTalks Podcast”.


Residential Well Water & Septic System ONE-DAY TRAINING

Saturday, March 24, 2018

9 am - 3 pm

Tuscarora Health and Community Center

Community Room

REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Open to Tuscarora Residents Only LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED

The training presentations will help you understand how our residential wells

work; learn about how water treatment systems and septic systems work; and

gain some knowledge from the experts who work in this field.

Training Schedule 9:00 - 9:30 - Opening and Introductions 9:30 - 10:30 - Geology at Tuscarora by Bill Kappel, U.S. Geological Survey 10:30 - 10:45 - Break 10:45—11:45 - Components of a Groundwater Well by Candace Balmer, Water Resource Specialist RCAP Solutions, Inc. 11:45 - 12:30 - Lunch provided 12:30 - 1:30 - Water Treatment Options for Wells By Tia Hastings, Indian Health Service 1:30 - 1:45 - Break 1:45 - 2:45 - Understand a Residential Septic System By Candace Balmer, Water Resource Specialist RCAP Solutions, Inc. 2:45 - 3:00 - Wrap up and closing

Benefits provided to only those attending are: FREE residential well sampling; FREE

individualized site visit by the Indian Health Service Sanitation Department inspector;

FREE well sanitization; and FREE residential septic tank pumping.

There are limited seats available to receive the FREE benefits. If you are interested,

please give our Office a call and get on the list. You only receive the benefits if you

attend the entire day of presentations. The seats are first come, first serve. Call us at

the Tuscarora Environment Office #716.264.6011.


You and your family have been stuck in

the house all winter. Notice anything that

needs to change? Maybe you want to

paint the kitchen or install new

cupboards. Maybe you want to get crazy

and build an addition! Well, here’s a list

of words you might use while you’re

working on the house after watching too

much DIY television:

Neyeʔneʔθahkhwaʔ - Pencil

Waʔktukaraʔnir – I sharpened it

Unaʔcuhkweh - Helmet

Ranehsiyuhthaʔ - He builds an addition on the house

Uhskarehah – Handkerchief

Yehskweyahcrihrakhwaʔ - Level (tool)

Yuʔnehkaru·re - Paneling

Rahkaruc - He panels it

Uhθuhkweh - Paint

Yehθuhahs – She paints

Rakwehnakyewahs – He wipes off rust

Raretahste :nih - He hews trees

Uhwe ʔkhareh – Wood plank

Yehsewaʔraʔihθhe :wahs – She pulls out nails

Yutkaraʔwe - It is rough

Yehsewatihthaʔ - Smoothing plane

Uhsaʔkeʔneh – Knife

Yeretahstenyaʔthaʔ - Broad ax

Raʔnare :wawehs – He plasters

Haʔ nyuʔnare :war – Ceiling

Yeʔtye :ʔneh – She measures it

Uhsi:reh – Rope

Yehweʔkharakwahnahkhwaʔ - Saw

Uʔθriʔcreh - Saw dust

Ucihkweh – Hammer

Rahsewaʔraʔnihc - He hammers

Utiʔθreh – Shelf

Yehrarakthaʔ - Auger

Yakehrakahthaʔ - Pick ax

Uterhyaʔcreh – Shovel

Yetke ʔθeh – She examines it

BTW: Here is the pronunciation key to help you with the letters. A good suggestion is to say letters and words out loud to help your ear become accustomed to the Tuscarora sounds. Tuscarora Pronunciation Key:*

/a/ law; /e/ hat; /i/ pizza; /u/ tune; /e/ hint; /c/juice; /ch/cheese; /h/ hoe; /m/ mother; /s/ same; /t/ do; /th/

too; /k/ gale; /kh/ kale; /n/ inhale; /r/ hiss (before a

consonant or word final), run (trilled elsewhere); /w/ cuff (before a consonant other than y or word-

final), way (elsewhere); /y/ you ; /sy/ fish; /θ/

thing; /Ø/ uh-oh; /:/ long vowel, /ˊ/high pitch; /`/low

pitch. *Adapted from Blair A. Rudes, Tuscarora-English.

Tuscarora Word List:

FIXER-UPPER

2018 TUSCARORA ROADSIDE CLEANUP

We will ONLY accept Roadside Cleanup garbage.

The dumpsters CANNOT accept any electronics, household hazardous waste, and motor oil (a complete

list of what’s not allowed will be posted at the dumpster site and our website, tuscaroraenvironment.org.)

TIRES WILL BE ACCEPTED BUT IN A SEPARATE BIN. LIMITED NUMBER OF FURNITURE

WILL BE ACCEPTED FOR DISPOSAL (IE. COUCHES, CHAIRS, END TABLES.)

Gloves, bags, and smiles will be available during Cleanup courtesy of the Tuscarora Temperance Society.

FREE t-shirts will be given to those who help with Cleanup, courtesy of our Office (while supplies last.)

FMI: Jeremy Printup, Tuscarora Temperance, #228-5898; or TEP Office, #264-6011.

Saturday, April 21, 2018, 8AM - 12PM

Nation House parking lot

Potluck Lunch provided at 12pm

Nation House community room


Back by Popular Demand!

We will be accepting a limited number of refrigerators,

freezers, air conditioners, dehumidifiers & appliances.

NO TIRES, but we accept them at Roadside Cleanup

HOUSEHOLD

HAZARDOUS WASTE LIST

Aerosols

Batteries

Antifreeze

Cleaners

Driveway Sealer

Fluorescent (including CFL) Bulbs

Gasoline

Herbicides

Latex Paint

Lead-Acid Batteries

Motor Oil

Oil-Based Paint

Pesticides

Pool Chemicals

Propane Tanks

Spray Cans

Thermometers

Waste Oil

And more!

ELECTRONIC

RECYCLING LIST Computers (Desktops & Laptops)

Printers (Ink or Toner)

Ink/Toner Cartridges

Computer Accessories (Mice,

Keyboards, Webcams, Speakers,

Microphones etc.)

Computer Monitors (CRT, LCD/LED)

Televisions (CRT, Projection, LCD,

LED, Plasma, please check with TEP

Office.)

Microwave Ovens (Non PCB)

Copiers/Fax Machines

Telephones

Cell Phones & Chargers

GPS Units

Pagers

Tablets

Answering Machines

MP3 Players

Scanners

ELECTRONIC

RECYCLING LIST Continued

Radios/Boomboxes/CD Players etc.

Storage Devices (External Hard

Drives, Solid State Drives, SD Cards,

Memory Cards, Card Readers, etc.)

Audio Equipment (Speakers,

Microphones, DJ Equipment,

Receivers, Recording Devices,

Headphones, etc.)

Video Equipment (Cameras, Video

Cameras, Web Cams, Recording

Devices, etc.)

Circuit Boards

Cables, Wires, Power Cords, Power

Strips

Rechargeable Dry Cell Batteries

(Nickel Cadmium – NiCad, Nickel

Metal Hydride – NiMH, Lithium Ion –

Li-ion)

Anything else with a circuit

board or a cord!

QUESTIONS? Or a list of

materials we DON’T accept?

Call Tuscarora Environment

Program at 716.264.6011 or visit

www.hazmanusa.com

ACCEPTABLE MATERIALS

(Rain or Shine)—Please do not drop items off before or after the event time.

OPEN TO TUSCARORA RESIDENTS

By Bryan Printup

ABOVE: February 7, 1943, (l-r): Truman Johnson and

Headsel Garlow. Courtesy of T. Clause.


Ballston Spa Daily Journal Saturday, January 12, 1929

INDIAN WAR PATH ON FARM PESTS

Information Service New York State College of

Agriculture at Cornell University

Ithaca, N.Y. - The members of the six nations are rising

to war against the invading hordes of plant and animal

diseases destroying their crops and cattle. As a result of

an Indian agriculture school held at Cornell University

in December, 41 Indians who met there are starting the

new year by putting into practice the plans agreed upon

at the convention. These Indians from the seven

reservations in New York are specializing on the farm

products for which each region is perularly adopted.

Indians Keep Bees

The farmers from the Tuscarora reservation are

interested in bee culture. Because of the number of fruit

trees which they have been planting even since the state

college made a survey there five years ago, and decided

that orcharding would be their most profitable industry,

the problem of pollenization has arisen. In 1925 there

were only 350 trees; now there are 7200. Bee furnish a

way to get the trees properly cross-pollinated. As far as

is known, this is the first time that Indians in New York

State have been interested in bee culture.

The Indians of the Alleghany reservation are planning

road-side markets for selling their vegetables and

poultry. The new state road to the Alleghany state park,

running through twenty miles of Indian reservation,

gives them an opportunity to sell their goods to the

tourists and campers. These roadside markets are to be

made in the shape of log cabins and are to carry, as a

side line, Indian basketry and fancy work.

The Indians of the St. Regis reservation near Malone

are going to develop their dairying resources. Already

they have organized themselves into a branch of the

Dairymen’s League, and thus have established at their

branch of the League, the first all Indian cooperative

organization in the world.

ABOVE: Pomaroy Hewitt. Courtesy of T. Clause.

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