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The September 2019 issue of the Delaware Indian News is now available online. To view the newspaper, click the link below:

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Effective September 15 2019 the LIHEAP Cooling Assistance session has closed. The LIHEAP Heating session will open October 15, 2019. For further information or to prevent a disconnection please contact the Delaware Tribe of Indians LIHEAP program at (918) 337-6590.

Three young Delaware women represented at the Intertribal Indian Club Of Tulsa Pow Wow on August 11, 2019. From L-R: Minnie Dombrovski, Oklahoma Indian Summer Princess; Quay Hosey, Miss Native America NSU; Anna Pechonick Pate, Delaware Pow Wow Princess.

NOTICE: REVIEW OF ENROLLMENT FILES

As some of you may know, the Enrollment Department has undergone some changes recently. The new Enrollment Director is Mitzi Houser and the Enrollment Clerk is Angela Jeffers. I have asked them to conduct a thorough review of our enrollment files. In doing so, they may find some documentation may be missing or incomplete. So over the next several weeks, we are asking that you please be patient and understanding if we ask you for additional or replacement documents to make your file complete. Our goal is to have a complete, stable, and accurate Enrollment Department. Thank you for your understanding.

The Delaware Tribe of Indians, Education Committee have met and awarded our Tribal Council’s two $5,000, 2019 Spring semester scholarships The recipients are Krystal Ernst and Tristen Tucker. Congratulations! 35 applications were received and reviewed by the Committee. All of the applicants demonstrated the excellent qualities the Committee looked for: Academic Accomplishments, Community Service, References, and Personal Essay. We appreciate the involvement of our Tribal students from all over the country and look forward to their future participation.

Funds made available for our Tribe’s Community Services and Education Assistance programs come from the Delaware Tribe’s Investment income our Trust Board has invested with the Tribe’s Money Management Firm. Unfortunately, after the January Trust Board meeting it was learned that no investment income had been realized from the previous year. This affects all of our Trust Board committee’s funding by these lack of earnings. So, the Community services and Education committee met and has taken the following action: No Trust Fund Scholarships will be awarded for the Spring Semester of 2019.  This includes our other Education assistance programs, Vo-Tech, Athletic, Driver’s Ed., School Supplies and Academic awards.

The Community Service benefits will be reduced as follows: Burial assistance $375.00 , Elder Prescriptions $75.00 maximum per year, Medical assistance $120.00  and Emergency assistance $25.00. Dental, Elder Optical, Student Optical and Rental assistance benefits have been eliminated.  Should funds become available, further notification will be provided to our social media and updated in our April issue of the Delaware Indian News.

Join the team! We’re now hiring at all of our locations, apply at http://www.delawarechild.org/careers

The January issue of the Delaware Indian News is now available online. To view the newspaper, click the link below:

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The Cultural Resources Department is seeking Delaware Tribal members who are artists or individuals certified by the Tribe as artists. We wish to accept applications for commissioned artwork for the newly remodeled tribal headquarters building and cultural center building.

Applicant should send all contact information and show examples of their current artwork in any style of media. The commissioned works will present Delaware/Lenape culture, history, and community for permanent display at tribal facilities. Apply between September 1 and November 1, 2018.

For more information contact:

Curtis Zunigha – Director, Cultural Resources Department

Delaware Tribe of Indians delawaretribe.org

5100 Tuxedo Blvd, Bartlesville OK 74006

Phone: 918-337-6541 Email: czunigha@delawaretribe.org