To: ASCOCC
From: COCC Native American Program, Cody Yeager, program coordinator
Subject: Request for funding through student fees 2007-2008
APPLICATION
ASCOCC shall represent and serve all students by providing effective governance, advocacy, services, and programs that will contribute to the individual student's success, enhance the college experience and benefit the cOl1ununity.
According to eligibility criteria, we believe the Native American program at COCC is eligible to apply for student fee funding:
1. We are an active official program of COCC and have been in existence at the college for more than·twenty~years. We provide speakers to classes both on and off campus, dance performances, academic advising and tutoring, cultural enrichment classes (open to all students!) such as moccasin making and drum making, medicine bag weaving, etc. Each year, we attend the world's largest pow wow in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and we hold a large spring event. In addition, this year we are planning a small but very interesting field trip to Fort Rock Cave, with a guided tour.
2. Name and title of program coordinator: Cody Yeager, ext. 3787, cyea£er@cocc.edu
3. Names and addresses of four current students: Marie McKeeman, Val Steenburg, Matt Fidler, Patrick Boyd, Shauna Queahpama. Addresses will follow on separate sheet.
4. We would like to request help for two different events:
On February 24, we will host a moccasin making class in the multicultural center. Our instructor will be Mercy Miller from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. The class will last from lOAM until 4PM (approximately). Instructor fee: $200. Lunch will be provided from the NA program funds, as will the instructor fee. As the class is open to all COCC students, in an effort to promote cross cultural respect and understanding, we would respectfully request funds in the sum of $150 to pay for the cost of soft buckskin, the primary material needed for construction of mocs. We have offered this class last year and it is enormously popular. Please consider our request for funding for this project.
Second event:
Each spring, we provide Bend and the college community with a major spring event. Last year.
we held a pow wow, the year before that we had a festival welcoming spring. This spring, our students are excited to offer a Native American law symposium, featuring the following topics and current issues:
Indian Mascots in sports teams Fishing rights, including the Sohappy case on the Columbia River Indigenous languages' preservation.
Casino rights Limited tribal sovereignty: what it really means We are inviting speakers from University of Oregon law school and Lewis & Clark law school, tribal judges and lawyers, tribal law firms, and law students.
We will have some panel discussions on the above topics, and one or two relevant short films, including THE DAVID SOHAPPY CASE and IN WHOSE HONOR? COCC owns both these films, so there is no cost involved for them.
Robert Greygrass, Lakota activist and speaker, will return to COCC during this event for an evening performance of GHOSTLANDS: LEGENDS OF AN URBAN INDIAN. ASCOCC helped us fund a recognizing racism workshop with Robert in October, 06.
The event will culminate in a free salmon feast for all, as is traditional. The salmon will be cooked by Native American elders, in our own salmon pit on campus.
We aggressively market our spring event at the Gathering of Nations pow wow in Albuquerque.
Last year, we had Seminoles travel from Florida and Aleuts fly down from Alaska. This is a major event in the COCC calendar.
We would like to request funding help in the following ways:
Cooks' fees~including supplies for feast: $300 Two panel speaker honoraria: $200 each, plus hotel expenses. A night's lodging at the Phoenix Inn downtown is approximately $165 each. We are currently checking out other hotels for a better deal, so the actual amount may be less. Overall, for this event, we are requesting funds not to exceed the amount of $1,300.
Therefore, we are requesting $150 for a moccasin making class and $1,300, itemized above, for a spring NA law symposium, the first of its kind in Central Oregon.
Total requested for both events: $1,450.
I, along with student members of our program, will look forward to meeting with ASCOCC to discuss this request during public hearings, to be held Feb. 1-15, in the ASCOCC office.
Thank you in advance for your kind consideration!
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