Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary seeks teacher assistants

Douglas Shook, Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary Principal and Malory Simpson, Youth Services/ Education School Advocate.

Principal’s Message:

Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary families and Tulalip community members,

Hello! We have had a great start of the school year with our students and families.  A big part of this great start is the support we receive from our partnership with the Tulalip Tribes, our families, and Tulalip community members. Seeing our community members and families during the day at QCT is a treasure for our students. They look forward to seeing you and ask when you will come back! Our kiddos are so proud to show what they are learning and how they are growing their brain to all of our caring adults at QCT.

The bond with our students and their learning is strongest when they see the same caring adults working with them during the school day and seeing them when school is out. Seeing us at their football and basketball games cheering them on and participating in community events like the Back-to-School Backpack distribution and Salmon Ceremony, shows our students from Kindergarten to 5th grade that we are interested in their lives and we are there for them.

One way to strengthen this bond is having community members working on our staff. We currently have multiple openings at QCT, specifically for para-educators/teacher assistants who help our students in their learning Math and Reading, while helping to supervise during lunch and recess. These positions are the backbone of our school as they work closely with all of our students from Kindergarten to 5th grade.

I welcome our families and community members to apply for our open positions and join us in growing all of our students to prepare them for middle school and beyond. We start at $18 an hour for our teacher assistant positions in the Marysville School District. Links to apply to our positions are on the MSD home page (www.msd25.org), towards the bottom of the page is the link “Apply for a Job”.  

Interested applicants must have an Associate’s degree or HS diploma/GED with a skills assessment test. If you only have a free day during the school week, we’re always in need for substitute teacher aides, too. Being part of our QCT team is a great way to help our students and invest in their future.

If you need help with applying or have questions, please stop by the school or call us at (360) 965-3100. We’re always looking to partner with our families and Tulalip community members to provide the best for our students and their success!

Principal Douglas Shook, Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary

Tulalip Police Department working to build strong community relations

Mission Highlands resident Ms. Smith talks with Tulalip police officers, Powers and Nelson.   Photo by Joe Dyer.

Submitted by Joseph G. Dyer

Last Friday (10-12-18) Tulalip Police Department (TPD) officers canvassed the Mission Highlands neighborhood to listen to community members and hear whatever feedback they had to offer. Officers were met with community members in a casual setting and learned how they can help meet the needs of the community.

While going door-to-door, TPD officers passed out contact information and gave children badge stickers and refrigerator magnets.

Ms. Henry speaks with SGT. Arroyos. Photo by Joe Dyer.

TPD would like to start a conversation with the community and to help residents feel like their needs are being addressed. Meeting community members in their own neighborhoods is the beginning to that goal. TPD will be visiting other neighborhoods to further that goal and to foster that relationship.

National Congress of American Indians and Native American Rights Fund Oppose the Nomination of Eric Miller to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

 

Source: NCAI Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. | Today, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) Executive Committee adopted an emergency resolution opposing the nomination of Eric Miller to the  U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. NCAI and the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) had previously sent a joint letter to the Chair and Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee expressing their grave concerns about Mr. Miller’s nomination.

“Our concern is that [Miller] chose to build a law practice on mounting repeated challenges to tribal sovereignty, lands, religious freedom, and the core attribute of federal recognition of tribal existence. His advocacy has focused on undermining the rights of Indian tribes, often taking extreme positions and using pejorative language to denigrate tribal rights. Indeed, his law firm website touts his record, with over half his private practice achievements coming at the expense of tribal governments,” said NCAI and NARF leadership.

Today’s emergency resolution immediately responds to reports that the Senate leadership will proceed with Miller’s nomination hearing during the Congressional recess next week.

“We are gravely concerned that the Committee is planning to consider this nominee at a time when members of Congress are not in D.C. and will not be able to fully examine his record on Indian law issues,” said NCAI President Jefferson Keel. “This is not how a lifetime appointment to a federal court with jurisdiction over 427 federally recognized Indian tribes should be handled.”

Both NCAI and NARF are committed to protecting the rights of tribal governments. For nearly two decades, NCAI and NARF have jointly advocated for the nomination and confirmation of federal judges who, along with their commitment to uphold the Constitution, are committed to the principles of tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, and the federal trust responsibility enshrined within it. Mr. Miller’s record reflects hostility toward tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, and the federal trust responsibility, or their role in the Constitution and federal law.

Read the full NCAI Resolution #DEN-18-042 here<http://www.ncai.org/resolutions/DEN-18-042_Resolution_Text.pdf> along with the joint letter NCAI and NARF<http://www.ncai.org/policy-issues/tribal-governance/legal-judicial/NCAI_NARF_Re_Eric_Miller_9th_Circuit.pdf> sent to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on August 21, 2018 on questions and concerns regarding Eric Miller’s nomination.

Annual Color Run celebrates life

By Kalvin Valdillez, Tulalip News 

Three years ago, Tulalip Youth Services and the Marysville School District teamed up to bring Unity Month to the community during the month of October. Jam-packed with exciting activities like movie nights, field trips to the corn maze and the pumpkin patch, school assemblies and pumpkin carving, Unity Month successfully sparked a lot of community involvement which afforded Youth Services the opportunity to talk about serious issues that are prevalent in many modern day Native communities. 

Youth Services and the school district decided to plan each week of the month with trainings and presentations focused on four issues that the youth of Native America are struggling with in today’s society; suicide, bullying domestic violence and substance abuse. Due to tremendous success, Tulalip Youth Services continues to celebrate Unity Month annually, adding new improvements each year. 

While spreading awareness and providing prevention tools for serious topics, Youth Services also brings a positive outlook to each of these issues by celebrating life, promoting kindness and healthy relationships as well as participating in National Red Ribbon Week, an alcohol, drug and violence prevention campaign. With each week comes a new trendy hashtag for participants to use when posting photos and videos to social media while attending Unity Month events. 

This October began with #LifeisSacred week, kids learned that their lives matter and that they’re needed here by their families and friends. Youth Services partnered once again with the Community Health Department to bring QPR trainings to the community. QPR is an acronym for question, persuade and refer, the three actions you must take if someone is showing suicidal tendencies. Question if they are planning to harm themselves, persuade them to seek help and refer them to the appropriate resource. The class also teaches participants how to recognize the warning signs a person contemplating suicide may be exemplifying. Tulalip leader, Verna Hill, also spoke to the kids at Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary about how sacred they are to the future of Tulalip. 

The suicide rate continues to escalate throughout Native communities every year. Eighteen states agreed to participate in a report conducted by the United States Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That report showed that there are 21.5 suicides per every 1,000 Native Americans, over three and a half times higher than the national average. And according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the US with 45,965 suicides each year. Suicide is also the eighth leading cause of death in the state of Washington where on average one person dies by suicie every eight hours. Native communities see significantly more lives taken by suicide than any other race in America which is why it’s important to openly discuss this issue, especially with the youth. 

Tulalip Youth Services ended #LifeisSacred week in colorful fashion with the extremely popular annual Say Something Color Run. A little rain didn’t stop the community from showing out and ending their Friday with a mile run from the Tulalip Community Health Department to the Kenny Moses Building on the afternoon of October 5. With stylish, protective eyewear and clothes they didn’t mind getting dirty, the community ran through multiple checkpoints along Marine Drive where they were blasted with colorful chalk, resulting in tie-dyed runners reaching the finish line. 

“It’s a fun time to celebrate living and it’s for a good cause,” says Tulalip Youth Services Executive Assistant, Danielle Fryberg. “The Say Something Color Run is part of the Sandy Hook Promise, which is preventing gun violence, suicide and just bringing awareness. If you know someone whose struggling, we ask that you speak up and say something, even if you’re just reaching out to say hello. We want to help our community, our youth and adults who are struggling and let them know there’s always somewhere they can go and someone they can talk to.”

Youth Services has more fun, educational events planned for the Tulalip community for the remainder of Unity Month, including cultural events each week and Halloween-inspired activities. To view the entire Unity Month events and activities schedule, be sure to check out the Tulalip Youth Services Facebook page.