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Newsletter 2019:
Issue 4

Four Winds of Indian Education, Inc.

How the butterflies came to be
(Papago-Southwest)
Long ago, not long after Earth-Maker Shaped the world out of dirt and sweat he scraped from his skin, Iitoi, our Elder Brother, was walking about. It was just after the time of year when the rains come. There were flowers blooming all around him as he walked. The leaves of the trees were green and bright. He came to a village and there he saw the children playing. It made his heart good to see the children happy and playing. Then he became sad. He thought of how those children would grow old and weaken and die. That was the way it was made to be. The red and yellow and white and blue of the flowers would fade. The leave would fall from the trees. The days would grow short and the nights would be cold. A wind brushed past elder brother, making some fallen yellow leaves dance in the sunlight. Then an idea came to him. “I will make something,” Elder Brother said. “It will make the hearts of the children dance and it will make my own heart glad again. Then Iitoi took a bag and placed it in the bright colored flowers and the fallen leaves. He placed many things in that bag. He placed yellow pollen and white cornmeal and green pine needles in that bag and caught some of the shining gold of the sunlight and placed it in there, as well. There were birds singing around him and he took some of their songs and put them into that bag, too. “Come here,” Elder Brother called to the children, “come here. I have something here for you.” The children came to him and he handed them his bag. “Open this,” he said. The children opened Elder Brother’s bag and out of it flew the first butterflies. Their winds were bright as sunlight and held all of the colors of the flowers and the leaves, the cornmeal, the pollen and the green pine needles. They were red and gold and black and yellow, and blue and green and white. They looked like flowers, dancing in the wind. They flew about the heads of the children and the children laughed. As those first butterflies flew, they sang, and the children listened. But as the children listened to the singing butterflies, the songbirds came to Elder Brother. “Iitoi,” the songbird said, “those songs were given to us. It is fine that you have given these new creatures all the brightest colors, but it is not right that they should also have our songs.” “Ah,” Elder Brother said, “you speak truly. The songs belong to you and not to the butterflies.” So, it is to this day. Though they dance as they fly, the butterflies are silent. But still, when the children see them brightly dancing in the wind, their hearts are glad. That is how Elder Brother meant it to be.

Inside this issue:

Community Events	2
Calendar	3
Basket/Beading Class Schedule	4

Four Winds of Indian Education Center
Staff Contact numbers
Phone: 530-895-4212
Fax: 530-895-4310
Directory:
Irma Amaro-Interim Executive Director:
Ext. 110
Darcel Cernas-Coyote Program Coordinator/Program Specialist
Ext. 109
Laurence Gammell-Education Specialist:
Ext. 106
Shane Noel-Fiscal Analyst:
Ext. 101
Nathan Heck- NSP Program Director
Ext. 103

For more information contact: (707)-826-3672 or
email: hsuitepp@humboldt.edu

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Thursday Night Market
The 23rd Season of the Thursday Night Market will kick off on April 4th, 2019!
Dates: April – September 2019
Time: 6-9 pm
Diversity Days
Butte College Diversity Days is a four-day event focused on hosting workshops and activities that are key to our campus strategic initiative to enhance a culture of inclusiveness. The overall intent is to inform and inspire current and future actions by offering sessions that provide attendees with knowledge, training, and inspiration.
Dates: Monday April 8th-11th, 2019
*For Diversity Committee or Diversity Days
questions, please contact :
Nena Anguiano
(530)879-4301
anguianone@butte.edu Diversity Committee or Diversity Days questions, please
Chico Walks for Autism 2019
Date: Sat, April 13, 2019 Time:8:30 am-11:30 am
Location: Bidwell Park One-Mile Tickets: $10-$15
The Yellow Door hosts the 8th Annual Chico Walks for Autism. This event includes a 3-mile walk, music, complimentary BBQ (to be confirmed), and a family carnival and vendor fair hosted in partnership with Little Red Hen!
Please reach out via email to theyellowdoorchico@gmail.com if you have any questions.
Spring carnival
Complete with food trucks, face painting, carnival games, and bounce houses. This is sure to be a fun family event!
Admission is free. Tickets are 4 for $1, or participants may purchase a carnival fun pass for $20. Individual tickets available at the carnival. Fun Passes include wrist band for unlimited games and bounce house use and one face painting for one participant.
Date: April 27th, 2019 Time: 3-6pm
Location: Chico Creek Nature Center
1968 E.8th St. Chico, CA. 95928

April 2019

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
	1 / Computer lab 9-4 / Asp 3-6	2 / Computer lab 9-4 / Asp 3-6	3 / Computer lab 9-4 / Asp 3-6	4 Computer lab 9-4 / Basket/Beading Class / ASP 3-6	5 / Computer lab 9-4 / Asp 3-6	6
7	8 / Computer lab 9-4 / Asp 3-6	9 / Computer lab 9-4 / Asp 3-6	10 / Computer lab 9-4 / Asp 3-6	11 Computer lab 9-4 / Basket/Beading Class / ASP 3-6	12 / Computer lab 9-4 / Asp 3-6	13
14	15 / Computer lab 9-4 / Asp 3-6	16 / Computer lab 9-4 / Asp 3-6	17 / Computer lab 9-4 / Asp 3-6	18 Computer lab 9-4 / Basket/Beading Class / ASP 3-6	19 / Computer lab 9-4 / Asp 3-6	20
21	22 Computer lab 9-4 / STEP-UP/ LEAD / NO SCHOOL TRAVEL DAY	23 / Computer lab 9-4 / Asp 3-6	24 / Computer lab 9-4 / Asp 3-6	25 Computer lab 9-4 / Basket/Beading Class / ASP 3-6	26 / Computer lab 9-4 / Asp 3-6	27
28	29 / Computer lab 9-4 / Asp 3-6	30 / Computer lab 9-4 / Asp 3-6
Keep Tobacco Use Sacred

ASP: After School Program
Lunch: 12-1pm
Computer Lab: GED Preparation, Resume Development, etc.

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Basketry/ Beading Class
Location: Four Winds of Indian Education
2345 Fair Street, Chico, Ca.
(Step Up Academy Gym)
Time: 6:00 p.m.– 9:00 p.m.

Schedule
April: 4, 11, 18, 25
May: 2, 9, 16(To be confirmed)
Gathering times will be on the weekends and seasonal.
Open to students 12 years or older and must be accompanied by an adult.
For more information contact:
Irma Amaro: 895-4212 X 110
Darcel Cernas: 895-4212 X 109

Four Winds of Education, Inc.

2345 Fair Street
Chico, CA 95928

Four Winds of Indian Education, Inc. is a commercial tobacco-free facility. Only traditional use of tobacco is permitted in/on the premises.

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