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Tribal members learn about camas plants & Shoshone language
By LORI ANN EDMO
Sho-Ban News
FORT HALL — Community members were educated about camas and the Shoshone language March 20 at Sho-Ban Jr./Sr. High School.
Shoshone-Bannock Language and Culture Preservation Department staff hosted the event to acknowledge the arrival of spring.
A meal of chili, fruit, corn bread and frybread Veldina Tissidmit prepared was served prior to a Nomiakwainde Nuhi (traveling from place to place) game Bailey Dann and Nolan Brown learned from the Comanches at the National Indian Education Association conference. (cont.)
In other news...
By LORI ANN EDMO
Sho-Ban News
FORT HALL — Participants scraped chokecherry wood and attached elk antler for the handle at the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Language and Culture Preservation Department Poto (digging stick) workshop March 21 at the Shoshone-Bannock Jr./Sr. High School.
Nolan Brown, LCPD Original Territories manager, said they were just teaching the basics in making the digging sticks. Because of warm weather participants were able to sit outside to debark the chokecherry wood. They used knives and hatchets to scrape the wood off. (cont.)
By MICHAEL STEELE
Tribal Policy Analyst
WASHINGTON D.C. — Fort Hall Business Council Chairwoman Donna Thompson traveled to Washington D.C. from March 17-18 to testify on behalf of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes during Native American Witness Days hosted by the House Interior and Environment Subcommittee on Appropriations, chaired by Congressman Mike Simpson.
During her testimony, Thompson continued her advocacy to increase funding and staffing for the Indian Health Service (IHS) and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Thompson explained, “Funding for IHS should be made fully mandatory to truly uphold the federal Treaty and Trust responsibility.” She also offered, “With a 35% vacancy rate, it is critical that IHS fix the broken hiring process…” and requested congressional oversight to ensure IHS focuses on improving health care services. (cont.)
