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Don Mason, Jr., a tribal member and attorney, will be starting a divorce clinic. Those who have a Delaware roll number and reside in Tulsa, Washington, Nowata or Rogers County may apply.

The clinic is open to those Delaware seeking an UNCONTESTED divorce with NO issues (custody, support, debt division, asset division) left to be litigated. Feel free to contact Mr. Mason at 918-344-7828. Each application will be evaluated for acceptance on a case-by-case basis.

Attention Class of 2012!!

The Gates Millennium Scholar Program will select 1,000 talented students each year to receive a good-through-graduation scholarship to use at any college or university of their choice. Gates Millennium Scholars are provided with personal and professional development through our leadership programs along with academic support throughout their college career.

Gates Millennium Scholar Program Eligibility

The 2011-12 GMS Application period is now closed. Please review the following information for eligibility criteria and visit www.gmsp.org in September 2011 for the 2012-13 application.

Students are eligible to be considered for a GMS Scholarship if they:

• Are African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian or Pacific Islander American, or Hispanic American.
• Are a citizen, national or legal permanent resident of the United States.
• Have attained a cumulative high school GPA of 3.3 on a 4.0 scale (unweighted) or have earned a GED.
• Will be enrolling for the first time at a U.S. accredited college or university as a full time, degree-seeking, first year student in fall 2012.
• Have demonstrated leadership abilities through participation in community service, extracurricular or other activities.
• Meet the federal Pell Grant eligibility criteria.
• Have completed and submitted all three required forms (Nominee Personal Information Form, Nominator Form, and Recommender Form) by the deadline.

If you are Native American, you will be asked to provide proof of tribal enrollment or certificate of descent from a state or federally recognized tribe if selected as a GMS Candidate.

To be eligible for the GMS Scholarship, the student must matriculate at a college or university that is accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education. The following are accreditation resources: Accredited Institutions of Postsecondary Education Programs Candidates; American Council of Education published in consultation with the Council for Higher Education Accreditation; Higher Education Directory published by Higher Education Publications, Inc.

Attention! Native Graduate Students!

The American Indian Graduate Center, Inc. announces the availability of fellowships and loans for service to American Indian and Alaska Native undergraduate and graduate students.

To find out more information and eligibility requirements about various programs, please visit www.aigc.com to view programs listed under scholarships and fellowships.

Some of the fellowships include:

• Elizabeth Furbur Fellowship: Graduate fellowship for women studying the creative fine arts, visual works, crafts, music, performing, dance, literacy, creative writing and poetry.
• Dr. George Blue Spruce Fellowship: Dr. Blue Spruce created the fellowship as a step toward increasing the very low number of American Indian dentists.
• Gerald Peet Fellowship: Priority to medical students or health-related fields.
• Grace Wall Barreda Memorial Fellowship: Graduate fellowship for students seeking advanced degrees in environmental studies or public health.
• Jeanette Elmer Scholarship/Graduate Fellowship: AIGC was granted authority to accept administration of the trust fund monies of the Jeanette Elmer estate. This fund is designated to provide scholarships to students who have completed their bachelor’s degree and are enrolled in a graduate or professional degree program at an accredited institution and who are members of Wisconsin, New Mexico or Arizona tribes.
• Katrin Lamon Fund: For Native American graduate students majoring in literature, journalism and communications or a related field.
• Ruth Muskrat Bronson Scholarship Fund: Priority to nursing, or health-related fields if the nursing pool is non-existent. One or two graduate students per year.

In addition, there are links to other scholarships on the site.

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• Annette Ketchum, left, and Mary Watters participate in an OK Mozart Festival showcase event, “American Indian Storytelling” on June 14, 2011 at the Bartlesville Community Center. Oklahoma Community Center. Oklahoma Indian Summer and Bartlesville Indian Women’s Club storytellers shared stories passed down through generations. Photo courtesy of Becky Burch, Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise.

These videos are provided to give a taste of the presentations at the first NAGPRA Summit in May 2011. This summit, part of NAGPRA-sponsored project aimed at further repatriation efforts, was held at the Delaware Community Center in Bartlesville, OK, and was attended by over 50 tribal members and guests.

Video Excerpt: Eric Hollinger

This is a 2-minute excerpt of the presentation given by Eric Hollinger at the first NAGPRA Summit on May 27, 2011, in Bartlesville, OK. The full video is available at the tribe’s Historic Preservation Office in Emporia, KS.

Overview of Delaware Repatriations from the Delaware Water Gap Region

Copyright 2011, Eric Hollinger. All rights reserved.

Eric Hollinger is a Repatriation Case Officer in the Repatriation Office of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, who facilitated the recent repatriation of Delaware burials for reburial at the Delaware Water Gap in 2009. He formerly worked in the Repatriation Department of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, one of the three museums that the Tribe is currently consulting for the repatriation of Delaware burials from several locations in New Jersey.

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Video Excerpt: James Jackson

This is a 2-minute excerpt of the presentation given by James Jackson at the first NAGPRA Summit on May 27, 2011, in Bartlesville, OK. The full video is available at the tribe’s Historic Preservation Office in Emporia, KS.

Delaware Burial Customs

Copyright 2011, James Jackson. All rights reserved.

James Jackson is a Delaware tribal elder. He has participated in numerous Delaware funerals, and served as one of the tribal representatives for the reburial at the Delaware Water Gap in 2009.

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Video Excerpt: Dustin Cushman

This is a 2-minute excerpt of the presentation given by Dustin Cushman at the first NAGPRA Summit on May 27, 2011, in Bartlesville, OK. The full video is available at the tribe’s Historic Preservation Office in Emporia, KS.

Tokens Of Love: The Use Of Burial Ritual In Reinforcing Delaware Identity and Community

Copyright 2011, Dustin Cushman. All rights reserved.

Dustin Cushman is completing his doctorate at Temple University, where he specializes in Delaware archaeology. His dissertation will focus on Delaware mortuary customs in the Late Woodland and Historic periods.

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Video Excerpt: Titus Frenchman

This is a 2-minute excerpt of the presentation given by Titus Frenchman at the first NAGPRA Summit on May 27, 2011, in Bartlesville, OK. The full video is available at the tribe’s Historic Preservation Office in Emporia, KS.

Delaware Burial Customs

Copyright 2011, Titus Frenchman. All rights reserved.

Titus Frenchman is President of the Council of Lenape Elders. He has his B.S. degree from the University of California at Davis, Davis, California in Applied Behavioral Science, with emphasis in Native American Studies. He is a full-blood Delaware, from the Frenchman and Beaver families. He served as one of the tribal representatives for the reburial at the Delaware Water Gap in 2009. His presentation was focused on his experiences conducting and attending Delaware funerals over the course of his lifetime.

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Video Excerpt: Jay Custer

This is a 2-minute excerpt of the presentation given by Jay Custer at the first NAGPRA Summit on May 27, 2011, in Bartlesville, OK. The full video is available at the tribe’s Historic Preservation Office in Emporia, KS.

Rethinking Pit Features and Grave Offerings from the Delmarva Peninsula

Copyright 2011, Jay Custer. All rights reserved.

Jay Custer was born and raised in southeastern Pennsylvania. He has taught in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Delaware since 1979 and has been Director of the Center for Archaeological Research since its founding in 1983. His research interests have focused on the archaeological and anthropological study of the past and present indigenous people of the Middle Atlantic region with a focus on southeastern Pennsylvania and the Delmarva Peninsula.

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Oklahoma Wesleyan University in Bartlesville has established the Ketchum Institute of American Indian Studies, which will be directed by Chief Dee Ketchum. The purpose of the Institute is to further the development of American Indian Studies at the University.

The newly-established curriculum at Oklahoma Wesleyan will begin in the fall of 2011 with Ketchum teaching a course entitled Introduction to American Indian Culture. This three-hour course will feature the Delaware, Cherokee and Osage Tribes. Additional courses will be taught by OKWU instructors.

Dee Ketchum, former chief of the Delaware Tribe, is excited about the potential educational impact that the Institute will have on Indian and non-Indian students seeking a degree in American Indian Studies. The Institute will raise interest in the diversity of Indian tribes and will provide exposure, information and accuracy in the field.

Anyone interested in making contributions to the OKWU Ketchum Institute may acquire further information at www.OKWU.edu or by calling 918-335-6225.

Plans are underway for setting in place an American Indian Museum at LaQuinta Mansion on the OKWU campus. The collections to be displayed will be on loan from individuals and other museums. Anyone interested in participating by placing artifacts in the museum may contact Oklahoma Wesleyan University (www.OKWU.edu).

In July 2011, the Historic Preservation Office was awarded a Tribal Historic Preservation Grant by the National Park Service. Funding from this 18-month grant will support much-needed archaeological research on the early 19th century Delaware villages in southwestern Missouri. The grant will also support the travel for tribal members who would like to volunteer to participate in the field work that will be carried out in the Fall of 2011 by the Center for Archaeological Research at Missouri State University (CAR-MSU). The results of this archaeological field work will allow us to better document the Delaware settlements and cemeteries in southwest Missouri and nominate them for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.

Please contact our office (bobermeyer@delawaretribe.org) if you would like to volunteer.

The NSCDA (Colonial Dames), an organization that is much like the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), sponsors a scholarship for $1,000 per semester, and is available for the semester in nursing school, not for basic nursing, for any Indian student of any tribe. The Delaware nursing candidates have not been applying for this scholarship and we would like to have our students take advantage of the scholarship.

The requirements are: tribal membership card, 1/4 blood quantum, sometimes less will be accepted, resident of any state and must have evidence of enrollment in a nursing school. To get the application for this scholarship, email gaegey@aol.com. Reference NSCDA, American Indian Nurse Scholarship.

A member of the Colonial Dames, Gail Kane of Bartlesville, is the director of this program for NSCDA. She would like to see the Delaware take advantage of this scholarship program. Ms. Kane must have your application and all accompanying information by December 1 for Second Semester and by July 1 for First Semester, of any year the application is submitted. If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Kane at the above E-mail address.

Delaware Tribe of Indians Chief Paula Pechonick will be attending the 2010 White House Tribal Nations Summit.

Scheduled for Dec. 16, President Obama wlll host the Summit. The Summit invites one representative from each of the 565 federally recognized trtbes and give them an opportunity to interact directly with the president and representatives from the highest levels of his administration.

The goals of this year’s summit are to continue the meaningful discussion between tribal leadership and the administration and to continue to strengthen the nation-to-nation relationship between the U.S. and Indian Nations.

The Obama Administration hosted the first Tribal Nations Summit last November at the Interior Department. President Obama addressed the attendees, who’d come from all over the country, including Alaska.

Since President Obama’s first Tribal Nations Summit, the federal government has increased the number and scope of tribal consultations, passed lhe Tribal Law and Order Act with bipartisan support and made permanent the Indian Health Care Improvement  Act. The opening session and the closing session will be broadcast at www.whitehouse.gov/live.

Pechonlck was elected in November as the first female chief of the tribe. headquartered in Bartlesville. The Delaware Tribe regained federal recognition In 2009, yet it is a landless tribe.

While in Washington, Pechonick will urge the administration to protect the interest of landless tribes. The tribe intends to maintain a more active role in Indian affairs both state and nationwide.

Originally published in the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, December 10, 2010