The Buzz - Issue #2

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Kimberly Florence, Ph.D. Community Resources Coordinator, CEDI

Student Worker, CEDI & NSSA Senator

OF E L B A T NTS CONTE Honoring Our Native People

Native Peoples of NV

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Beverly & Norm Harry Interview

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Remembering Norman Oliver Harry

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Great Basin Water Protectors

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Student Highlights Community Partner Highlight

Moee Turbin Student Worker, CEDI

Dear Community Partners,

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American Indian Reservations & Colonies in NV

Lizbeth VegaSantiago

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I am thrilled to introduce you to the second edition of "The Buzz."

This newsletter is a labor of love. Working alongside my two talented student workers Lizbeth Vega-Santiago and Moee Turbin, we developed an informative, creative, and interactive newsletter for your enjoyment. Welcome to the Scorpion Family! Please take a moment to review our student highlights along with the various initiatives and events happening at Nevada State College. They are all the buzz these days!

Kind Regards, Dr. Florence

SCORPION FAMILY Dear Community Partners,

Pao Vue, Ph.D Director of The Office of Community Engagement & Diversity Initiatives

As the Director for the Office of Community Engagement and Diversity Initiatives (CEDI) at Nevada State College (NSC), I’d like to share with you our vision and mission. Guided by NSC’s commitment to inclusion and social justice, we seek to build a better, more equitable future for our campus, greater community and state of Nevada. The mission for CEDI is to support a culture in which all students, faculty, and staff can thrive and succeed at NSC. Through collaborations with both campus and community partners, CEDI aims to empower all to be change agents in a diverse global society. We hope to engage with you, our valued community partners, through The Buzz Newsletter and highlight just some of what we are doing to advance our mission and vision. Our ultimate goal is to continue to build our relationships throughout the community to create stronger bridges to lay pathways for equity, excellence and innovation. We hope that you enjoy this newsletter.

INDIAN POPULATIONS SARAH WINNEMUCCA GERONIMO

HONORING OUR NATIVE PEOPLE Written By Moee Turbin According to the Oxford Dictionary, indigenous means "originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native."

We often refer to indigenous people as those who came from the land; those whose ancestors trace back to that very place; those whose families have respected the land, utilized the resources and raised children in these spaces for generations.

Unfortunately, many of whom belong to Native tribes have

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survived colonization, starvation, abuse, disease, and murder of

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up the population today compared to the 16th century. In

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their people, among other tragedies.

Because of America's long and torrid history with Native Americans, there is a small percentage of Natives who help make addition to this, you will rarely find more than a few outside reservations. Reservations are lands designated to Native peoples to amend for hardships imposed by the U.S. Federal Government. Moreover, they also serve as a form of control.

Despite the history, Natives remained unified and prideful in their culture, and we celebrate the beauty of this very culture today and always.

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INDIAN RESERVATIONS & COLONIES IN NEVADA There are at least 32 reservations and colonies across the state of Nevada that are home to Native Americans. Each tribe that exists shares its customs and languages, but Natives as a whole believe in similar faiths and spiritual beliefs as well as practice some of the same rituals. Many of these cultural traditions have existed amongst these tribes for centuries.

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Duck Valley Indian Reservation Duckwater Indian Reservation Ely Indian Colony Fallon Indian Colony Fallon Indian Reservation Ft. McDermitt Indian Reservation Ft. Mojave Indian Reservation Goshute Indian Reservation Las Vegas Indian Reservation Las Vegas Indian Colony Lovelock Indian Colony Moapa River Indian Reservation Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation Hungry Valley Community Reno-Sparks Indian Colony Summit Lake Indian Reservation

Te-Moak Shoshone Tribe Battle Mountain Indian Colony Elko Indiaan Colony South Fork Indian Colony Wells Indian Colony Timbisha-Shoshone Tribe Walker River Indian Reservation Washoe Tribe of Nevada & California Carson Indian Colony Dresslerville Indian Colony Stewart Indian Community Winnemucca Indian Colony Yerington Indian Colony Yomba Indian Reservation

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SARAH WINNEMUCCA 1844 - October 17th, 1891 Fields of Work: Politics (Lecturer/Activist), Education

(School Organizer), & Literature (Author)

Sarah Winnemucca, also known as "Thocmetony", meaning "Shell Flower," was born sometime in 1844. The exact date is unknown. At the time of her birth, Northern Paiutes and Washos were the sole inhabitants of the land that is now Western Nevada.

"I was born somewhere near 1844, but am not sure of the precise time. I was a very small child when the first white people came into our country. They came like a lion, yes, like a roaring lion, and have continued so ever since, and I have never forgotten their first coming�

- Sarah Winnemucca Sarah fluently spoke five languages by the time she was 14, including three Indian dialects, English and Spanish. Winnemucca, and her sister, were educated in a convent school in San Jose, California, at the request of her grandfather, Chief Truckee. At 16 years old, this was her final immersion within white culture. Unfortunately, the two were never fully admitted to the school but attended for several weeks where they learned and experienced more about the culture. As Sarah matured, whites continued to move west and further encroached on the Paiute territory. Eventually, they forced all Indians out and permanently moved them onto reservations.

Initially, Natives traveled to the Pyramid Lake Reservation in Nevada, then the Malheur Indian Reservation in Oregon, and ended in Yakima, Washington. By this point, the days of freedom to hunt and gather as they pleased were long gone. When Sarah was 27, she began working as an interpreter for the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Fort McDermitt on the Oregon border in 1871. In later years, Sarah prepared for a trip to Washington D.C. to speak out against the conditions on the reservation but was unable to once she ended up supporting U.S. troops in the Bannock War of 1878. Winnemucca worked within the Army as both an interpreter and scout. She also ended up saving her father, whose lodge had been surrounded by hostile Indians, by traveling 200+ miles in 2 days over treacherous Idaho terrain without any sleep.

Throughout her life, she dedicated her time to standing up for her people and demanding more for them. She believed in the power of education and spent time teaching Paiute children when she opened a school for Indian children called the Peabody Indian School, near Lovelock, Nevada. By the time Sarah died in 1891, she had delivered at least 400 speeches seeking support for Paiutes and was considered the "Passionate voice of the Paiute Indians."

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SITTING BULL 1831 - 1890 Sitting Bull, also known as Jumping Badger , was born in 1831 in what is now considered South Dakota. Jumping Badger was named by his father, “Returns Again” , a wellrespected Sioux warrior. Early on, he was considered slow and in an effort to rise above this label, he killed his first buffalo at the age of 10 years old. At 14, he joined his father and uncle to raid a Crow camp. Because of his bravery as a young boy, his father renamed him “Tatanka Yotanka” , or Sitting Bull (“A large bull/buffalo at rest”).

Sitting Bull soon joined the Strong Heart warrior society as well as the Silent Eaters, a group that ensured the welfare of the tribe. He led the expansion of Sioux hunting grounds west, which before was home to the Assiniboine, Crow, and Shoshone tribes, and by 1850, he came to be the leader of the Strong Heart Warrior Society.

By 1863, Sitting Bull had experienced his first violent encounter with the American army.

Anglo settlers invaded the Santee Sioux territory in the Minnesota Valley for almost half a century, and pressure from the government eventually forced the Indians to relocate to smaller reservations along the Minnesota River. During this time, the Santee Sioux Indians had not received their usual kickback payments, and to make matters worse, federal agents were withholding food from the Sioux tribe who lived on reservations. To seek revenge, many of the Santee Sioux Indians retaliated by killing Anglo settlers and taking women as hostages. Members of the U.S. Army led by General Henry H. Sibley finally defeated the main body of Santee warriors at Wood Lake. At this point, most of the Sioux Indians surrendered by force, thereby saving the Anglo hostages.

The following year, Sitting Bull fought U.S. soldiers once more at the Battle of Killdeer Mountain, and in 1865 he led an attack on Fort Rice in present-day North Dakota. By 1868, he had earned the title of Chief for the Lakota nation. By the mid-1870s, soldiers discovered gold in the Black Hills, a sacred area to Native Americans, which only increased the tension between U.S. soldiers and Native Americans. The Black Hill is seen as native land after the Fort Laramie Treaty made in 1868.

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GERONIMO 1829-1909 Geronimo , also known as Goyathlay or Goyahkla

was a part of Bedonkohe Apache, the smallest band within the Chiricahua Tribe. He was born in NoDoyohn Canyon, Mexico, in 1829 and was considered a naturally gifted hunter from birth. His given name, Goyahkla means, “The One Who Yawns” until he earned the title Geronimo for being a leader against white colonization.

Being 1 of about 8,000 tribe members, other tribes such as The Navajo and The Comanches, as well as Mexican citizens, were enemies of the Apaches. These groups often went on raids to invade the homes and villages of their enemies and loot their livestock and food. By 17, Geronimo had been the leader of 4 successful raids. The Mexican government responded by placing bounties of $25 on the heads of Apaches. Mexican soldiers attacked Geronimo’s camp while he was amidst a training mission in the town of Janos, where they slaughtered Geronimo’s entire family, including his mother, wife, and three children, alongside many other tribe members. In the tradition of the Apache, he burned the belongings of his family and bereaved their deaths in the wilderness. It was said this is where he allegedly received the message, “No gun will ever kill you. I will take the bullets from the guns of the Mexicans…” He internalized this message and used the next 10 years to seek revenge against the Mexican government. One of his first actions He organized a group of 200 men trained to hunt and kill.

He fought Mexican soldiers for the majority of his life, and after running from the authorities for decades and escaping from reservations, he eventually surrendered to U.S. troops in 1886. Geronimo later died from Pneumonia in 1909.

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BEVERLY & NORM HARRY

Beverly & Norm Harry have spent a majority of their lives advocating for Indigenous people, and have had the opportunity to work with all 27 tribes in the state of Nevada over the course of their lifetime. The two have spent a good portion of their lives serving as the voice of native people in the Great Basin territory.

What has been your involvement with the recognition of Indigenous Peoples' Day?

What environmental issues have you seen as a concern among native tribes?

My family’s vision has always been to empower native communities. As all of the main indigenous people from the Western Shoshone (Newe), Northern Paiute (Numu), Washoe (Waťiťiw ), Goshutes (Newe), and Southern Nevada (Nuwuvi) become more visible , we strategize continuously to fight against colonialism. We continue to fight for clean air, water and land.

Endangered and threatened species, mining justice, dewatering landscapes, mismanagement of the lands, water pollution, over development, water pipelines, desecration of burial grounds, nuclear waste, and military expansions.

What are some challenges indigenous people have had to fight against within their culture?

The challenges that Indigenous communities face to connect with their traditions is the path to survival. Primarily, it is the impacts of colonial structure and practices that brings us to these intersections. Today, I work to broadcast the Native Voice in rural communities where racism and prejudice continues to thrive. I work to build a positive existence with our communities but first working on healing from historical trauma.

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What are some of the main issues indigenous people face?

Throughout Nevada, there is a captivating history of indigenous people who have been failed by Western education, we need to celebrate their histories and cultures. Norm and I have worked on water issues as well as mining justice issues together. The challenges that Indigenous communities face to connect with their traditions is the path to survival. Primarily, it is the impacts of colonial structure and practices that brings us to these intersections. Today, I work to broadcast the Native Voice in rural communities where racism and prejudice continues to thrive. I work to build a positive existence with our communities but first working on healing from historical trauma.

Beverly Harry is a Native Community Organizer, a member of the Navajo tribe within the Four Corners Region.

She began working with PLAN NV in 2016 during the election and served as a volunteer for previous events. Beverly and Norm were also recently recognized for their contribution to better the community with the CEDI certificate for community advocacy.

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NORMAN OLIVER HARRY

OCTOBER 20TH, 1954 - NOVEMBER 3RD, 2020 Norman "Norm" Oliver Harry was born on October 20th, 1954 and raised on the Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation by his parents, Floyd and Charlotte Harry. During Norm's upbringing, he spent countless times on the Walker River Paiute Reservation with his paternal grandparents, Bridget and Oliver Harry along with the rest of his family. Norm attended Fernley High School where he was a part of the basketball team as well as a member of the rodeo club. As he grew up he remained involved with the rodeo as both a team roper and rodeo photographer.

Norm was considered tactful, wise, and authentic getting along with essentially anyone he came across and known to many as indelible for his consistent good character and leadership. Norm was thought of as kind through and through; a man possessing a great deal of integrity and consideration for others. He served as a protector for his wife and children; once being stabbed 29 times by an intruder who entered their home while trying to prevent them from hurting his family.

Norm was a selfless leader who believed in justice, equity and tribal rights. For more than 30 years, Norm worked to resolve historic water settlement issues and managing Tribal government programs. Norm was heavily known for his work in the environmental and Tribal leadership fields and received several awards in this area over the course of his lifetime. He served numerous terms as Chair and Vice Chair of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe. He quieted decades of litigation between the parties in the Truckee Meadows Region by negotiating the Truckee River Operating agreement, a crucial piece of the Pyramid Lake/Truckee-Carson Water Rights Settlement Act.

THE GREAT BASIN WATER PROTECTORS

For more than half a decade, natives have fought to protect the water and combat a threat to their land. For years, natives and non-natives alike have protested against The Dakota Access Pipeline; the pipeline spans over four states and nearly 1,200 miles, from the Bakken oil fields in northwestern North Dakota through South Dakota, Iowa, and down to a terminal in Illinois. The concerns associated with running the pipeline under a Missouri River reservoir called Lake Oahe, tribe members say, would jeopardize the primary water source for the reservation. Not to mention, the construction would continue damaging sacred sites near the lake, violating tribal treaty rights.

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STUDENT HIGHLIGHT

Major: Double Major in Psychology & Communications with Emphasis In Media Current Nevada State Student Alliance (NSSA) President, Suman Randhawa, is as active as she can be regardless of being in a virtual setting. Suman is a Senior student at Nevada State College (NSC) and is a double major in Psychology and Communication with an emphasis in media studies and minoring in social justice. Suman has loved her experience at NSC and is highly active on campus. “[NSC] has a unique vibe. Everyone is supportive and wants you to succeed. If something is missing on campus, you better believe someone is already on it and implementing a strategic plan. I believe that resources, opportunities, and a good support system are tools to be successful, and at Nevada State, I have that and more.” Suman’s role as NSSA President includes the abilities to be a part of committees, task forces and overall represent the student body and share questions and concerns that pertain to and affect the student population.

Suman Randhawa

NSSA President Senior Student, NSC

Apart from being in NSSA, Suman is a member of the national Psi Chi Honor Society and a founding member and president of the Ignite National NSC chapter, a group of women that empower one another to step into their political power. Suman is passionate about higher education and sees herself impacting her community by “Continu[ing] to push the status-quo in efforts to create a more inclusive society by changing policies that affect the members in the community.”

As a first-generation, Indian college student, Suman prides herself on time-management, perseverance, and her ability to connect with people from all walks of life. She enjoys hiking, reading, spending time with family and friends, and traveling. She hopes to continue onto grad school, become a life/health coach, and eventually run for office.

STUDENT HIGHLIGHT

Major: Double Major in Secondary Education & History Mr. Andrew Valdez is a Senior at Nevada State College (NSC) majoring in Secondary Education and History. Andrew is the Executive Vice President for the Nevada State Student Alliance (NSSA) and also works with the Involvement Committee and is part of the African American Student Support Task Force. He additionally is currently working with the Sustainability committee to further establish NSC’s smoking policy so that NSC will be considered the largest Nevada 100% smoke-free Institute of Higher Education. Andrew describes NSSS as being, “... devoted to making the NSC student experience the best it can be. We throw events, dispense information, and also serve as advocates for students.”

Andrew Valdez

NSSA Senior Senator, Executive Secretary Senior Student, NSC

Andrew’s experience at NSC is described as being fantastic. He feels comfortable with being involved on campus and believes NSC provides a safe and open environment that allows him to flourish as a leader. A quote that Andrew lives by is, "never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” He enjoys seeking out and being part of these groups because he wants to be a part of building and shaping the future. Andrew’s career aspiration is to become a teacher, and that is one way in which he hopes to impact his community.

He describes himself as an optimistic person and gives credit to his family, significant other, his dog Lucky, and the faculty and staff at NSC for supporting him throughout his academic journey. Andrew is proud of himself and his peers for adjusting to the remote setting and praises everyone for getting through this rough patch of time.

Besides dedicating time to his studies and NSSA, Andrew enjoys going hiking with his dog, Lucky, watching UFC, and rooting for the abysmal Vikings.

COMMUNITY PARTNER HIGHLIGHT Linda Madril, Financial Well-Being Coach

Linda Madril is the Financial Well-Being Coach at Operation HOPE, an organization that focuses on expanding economic opportunity in underserved communities through financial education and empowerment. Operation HOPE offers a variety of programs and services that have a ripple effect on the Las Vegas community. The department of Community Engagement & Diversity Initiatives (CEDI) at Nevada State College has partnered with Operation HOPE to provide Nevada State College students, faculty, and staff financial literacy workshops. Linda Madril believes that providing these services to our NSC community will allow them to become bankable and partake in the American Dream.

By having Operation HOPE offer these services and by having our NSC community participate, it draws public attention to societal issues related to the need for financial literacy.

To learn more about Operation HOPE please visit, https://operationhope.org/.

Linda Madril Financial Well-Being Coach

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