Category: Tulalip News

Seeking Safety Drop In Group

Family Services offers Seeking Safety as a Drop-In Group twice a week. 
All are welcome to attend.
 
Seeking Safety covers a range of important topics and safe coping skills, such as:
 
·         PTSD: Taking back your power
·         Grounding
·         When substances control you
·         Asking for help
·         Taking good care of yourself
·         Compassion
·         Honesty
·         Red and green flags
·         Recovery thinking
·         Commitment
·         Setting boundaries in relationships
·         Getting others to support your recovery
·         Coping with triggers
·         Healthy relationships
·         Self-nurturing
·         Healing from anger
·         And other topics
 
Join us on Mondays 3pm-4pm and Thursdays Noon-1pm.
 
Questions?
Contact: Rosemary Hill: 360-716-4336 or Jeremy Franklin: 360-716-4377
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Food Handlers Class at Tulalip, January 16

Anyone preparing or serving food on the reservation is required to have a current food worker card.  Upon completion of the class and a passing test score, a food worker card will be issued which will be valid for three years from the test date.  This card is valid for employment on the reservation only.  
 
Please see the attached flyer for the address and further details.
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Indian Education Parent Committee Meeting, January 15

 

The first Indian Education Parent Committee Meeting of 2014 will be held January 15th in the Totem Middle School library. Dinner will be at 5pm and the meeting will start at 5:30pm

All parents of Native children in grades K-12th are encouraged to attend!

Some items to be discussed:

– Liaison/Advocate updates

– Current/upcoming youth programs

– Totem Middle School report, Principal Tarra Patrick

– Upcoming Events

– Information on the upcoming IEPC Board Elections that will be held at the next IEPC meeting on April 23, 2014.

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Hibulb Lecture Series – Lushootseed Calendar

 

Photo By Mike Sarich
Photo By Mike Sarich

By Mike Sarich Tulalip News

TULALIP, Wash- On Thursday evening, as part of the Hibulb Cultural Center & Natural History Preserve’s Lecture Series, staff from the Tulalip Lushootseed Language Department provided a presentation on the “Lushootseed Calendar”. Natosha Gobin and Michelle Myles, Lushootseed language teachers, explained how Coast Salish people kept track of time by observing weather and nature.

Today our lives are dictated by the calendar. Our agendas are arranged by what day, week, or month it is. Not too long ago, native people of this area did not think of days as Tuesday or Wednesday, or if it was February 3rd or the 4th, rather they witnessed the conditions in their surroundings, or environment, which would indicate what tasks need to be done, or what events need to be prepared for.

“We don’t have an exact translation for each of the months,” Natosha Gobin explains. “But what we have is each particular thing that happens around that time.“ For example, for what we know as April, one thing that happens is slihibus, or the time when the swans/cranes migrate, referring to the time you would see large white birds migrating back to the area. This was a reminder that the weather is starting to get warmer; the “season” is changing.

 For more information on the Lushootseed Calendar, or the Lushootseed Language department, log on to  www.tulaliplushootseed.com call (360) 716-4495.