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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1962)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN 12 A C A D E M IC H IG H LIG H T S SPEECH IMPROVEMENT IS STRESSED We are trying hard to improve At the beginning of the school year we learned several poems. We are trying hard to get ready for the speech contest that is coming in April. One of our classmates, Arthur Ahkinga, won in the speech con gest last year. He got to attend the Navajo Youth Conference in Ship rock, New Mexico, this fall. Raphael Noratak ou :1 speech. ALASKAN REPORTS ON IVORY I brought a walrus tusk to school and talked about it. The tusks ade used for the ivory. We carve something like polar bears, rings, necklaces, crosses, and sometimes a man with a dbg team. Sometimes we dig up old ivory. It is the best ivory to use, but when we kill a walrus, we u^e the ivory too. Albert Killigouk SCIENCE LEARNED THROUGH ACTIVITIES Our teacher, Miss Kringlee, and the class were doing science. We were studying about magnets and how they work. One of the girls made a magnet frlom a nail. John Jorgenson ■' * ' ;* - * Last Friday we had a snowfall. It was very cold outside, so we put the thermometer outside. It was 28 degrees above zero. Joseph James HOW DOES IT TASTE? We read that Argentina, Uru guay, and Paraguay raise mate. Mrs. Grape brought some mate. It is the leaf of a tree cut into little pieces. We got to taste it. This is what some of the students had to say about it: Virginia said, “It tasted like tea and smelled like tobacco.” . Donna said, “Some Navajos have a Wild tea. It tasted something like that.” “It smelled like when you take the saddle off a sweating horse,” said Kee. Louise said, “I liked it, but it tasted no good.” Dolly Calamity PET PARADE In our class we were leading about the children who took their pets to school. We wanted to do the same, so we drew our own pets on paper. On Friday afternoon we had our pet parade. We stood in front of the class and held up the picture of our pet. We talked about our pet. We told what its name is, what color it is, how small it is, what it eats, apd how we take care of it. M.te. Johnston and Mrs. Brannon were the judges. They picked the best talks and pictures. Students on the right side talked first. Next t he students on the left side talked. From the first group the first prize went to John Blackhorse, and the second prize Went to Julia Dale. From the other group, Irene Billy won first prize and Kee Yazzie Bab bitt won the second pifize. Mrs. Addison put our pictures on the bulletin board. Katherine Haney MRS. MATT’S CLASS GETS SURPRISE When we went to P.E. on Wed nesday morning, we had a surprise. The men are fixing the stage in the gym, Edgar and I helped Mr. Bartlett carry the boards from the stage; We helped stack them. It was fun to put the boards together', but there were nails in the boards, and we had to be careful with the nails. , McDonald Boyd TEXTURE WORDS ADDED TO VOCABULARY We have made very attractive monograms from scraps of differ ent kinds of paper which Mrs. Jo- hannaber saved. Each one in our class designed his or her own, and used paper of two oh three tex tures for it. They are very inter esting to look at. I made my first and last initials, S and W, out of gold metalized pa per. My middlé initial, A, is made from slick white paper. My mono gram is mounted on a background of green fibrous paper. We have learned many words about texture, like itough, smooth, slick, pebbled, coated, waxed, lea- therized, metalized, yelvetized, and corrugated. Susie Weyauvanna CLASSES VISIT INTERESTING PLACES Mr. Reimer, Mr. Oetirtger and Mrs. Cordell’s classes went to see the O-tegon State Capitol, the Sa lem City Library, and the place where the newspaper is printed. The trip was interesting and worthwhile. We learned about many things. Mina Sage At the newspaper company a guide showed us around. We saw the electronic machine that prints pictures sent in from other places. We saw President Kennedy’s pic ture there. Lillieth Ballot There was a teletype that types news coming from far away places. I couldn’t imagine how it works, but it was really tapping away, writing news from other places. May Barr We saw the printing press print ing the, newspaper. They use big Polls of paper. When the newspaper comes out it is folded and ready to be read. Josephine Deacon In the rotunda of the capitol we saw the Seal of Oregon. There are thirty-three stars abound the seal. This shows that Oregon was the thirty-third state to be admitted. It was admitted in 1859. There are other symbols in the seal which have interesting meanings. Gladys Angnboogok ASSEMBLIES SHOW CLASS WORK We have an academic assembly about every two weeks. Mr. Cahill’s class gave a pro gram about the states which they had Studied so far. $ In Mrs: Johannaber’s class, half of us said poems we had learned, and the whole class yyent up on the stage to sing and say choral read ings. The program given by Mrs. Wil liams’ class was .about the tele phone. The students gave their talks while we were looking at the pictures which they had drawn. Mrs. Hudson’s class talked about the month of February. Some of the talks were about Washington and Lincoln. The class sang the Na tional Anthem and “America, the Beautiful.” Several of the girls said poems. Katherine Jones
