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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1963)
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES SPOKEN AT CHEMAWA . It is interesting to hear differ ent kinds of languages spoken at Chemawa. Some of the Alaskan students can nut" understand each ether. Why? Toe many »students come from different villages in Alaska. The Navaj o students can under- stand each other. Ella Weyapuk FUN IN OUR ROOM In our room we have lots of fun. There are three of us girls who live together. There are two Navajos and one Alaskan. She looks like a Navajo because she is Athabascan. She talks like us. We have fun talk ing to her in Navajo. She under stands us. She talks to us in Atha bascan and we understand her, too. There are just a few words that are different in the languages. She moved into our room in Oc tober when we had that storm. Her room was damaged. She is still staying in our room until her room is all fixed. Your know what? She doesn’t want to go back to her room because we have so much fun. Nancy Yazzie CHURCH IN SALEM I went to the church in Salem two weeks ago. There were few boys and girls that are in Russian Orthodox who went to a church service in Salem. After we had church services we played games, and after we played games we had refreshments. We ate cookies and drank juice. Glela Olick AUTO SHOP This is our second year in the auto shop and we like it fine. Our first year in auto shop was hard for us. It was hard to get the right tools or to work on a car. Most of us students were> new in the shop and we had to learn all the differ ent kinds of tools and the different parts of a car. We had to learn how to change tires and how to patch them. We learned how to balance wheels. Sometimes we have a customer’s car to wash, lubricate, change plugs or do some repair work on. We are glad that we have learned about cars and have had a chance to work on them. Harrison Zohnnie, Bert Foxglove, Charles Alexie. 9 FORMER STUDENTS WRITE SATURDAY JOBS ENJOYED We here at Chemawa, are always happy to< hear from former stu dents. We were happy to hear from Johnny Davis and to get his nice Christmas card. Johnny is a senior at Anadarko, Oklahoma. We are happy to learn that Lu cille Brown, Class 1961, is doing well at the Health Center where she is recuperating from surgery. Former students who visited dur ing the Christmas Holiday, include Paul Benally, Leroy Isaac, Tom Horse, Aloysius Crane, Alex Koze- nekoff, Lee Hosteen, Daniel Bur bank, John Tony Lee, Albert Vent and Esther John and Francis Chi- koyak. Saturday I went to work for Mr. Hays. He lives in West Salem. He let me clean the hog house and barn. When I first went inside the hog house it was the kind of work that I do not like but after about an hour I got used to it. After I finish ed cleaning the hog house I started to clean the barn. I swept it and moved the machinery out of the way. That was the work that I did on my Saturday job. Collins Sheldon * * * SUNDAY EVENING ACTIVITY Every Sunday evening the girls go to the auditorium for programs and sometimes the staff speaks. Each unit takes a turn in giving a little skit or display. We also see some films and sing. Marie Jensen WORK WITH FUN A couple of weeks ago my buddy Melvin and I worked for my teach er, Miss Feldkerschner. Eventually we all had a little fun. There was another teacher with us named Miss Kringlee. We used Miss Kringlee’s car to move Miss Feldkerschner’s stuff to a new place. After we got there, we are starting getting the things inside. It surely is a nice apart ment. When we got the things in side we started to put up the bed. We all helped but the bed didn’t seem strong enough. It squeaked or something. My teacher said, “I’ll have to report it, for it might fall down sometime about midnight.” When we got the mattress on, the bed was quiet. It seemed all right then. We put everything away. We started to get ready to go back to Chemawa. My teacher and Miss Kringlee were trying to lock the door but it wouldn’t lock. The back door was different than the front door for it had no key hole and no one knew how to lock that door. We all tried and tried. We were about to give up, then -Miss' Kring lee had an idea, she pulled the knob out and turned it a little and the door locked. So we said, “It’s a new way of locking a door, what magic!” My buddy and I were so happy to be out of the dormitory for awhile and have a little fun with grown up folks, instead of our own little friends in the dormitory. Jerry Scott SATURDAY JOB Six wpeks ago, Mrs. Hauser gave me a Saturday job. My employer’s name is Mrs. Anderson. That first day I tried to do my best at my work. The following Saturday she wanted me back. That day she in troduced me t o . her friend, Mrs. Lau Horn, and now I have two em ployers to work for every other Saturday. That’s if I keep my job with good work. Lila Foxglove MY SATURDAY JOB Last Friday, after school, when we went to the dorm we saw our names on the Saturday job list. Cy- ruse Savetilik, Leslie Sagonna, Clarence Savetilik and Frankie Johnson were the names On the list. We worked for Sheriff Young in Salem. Leslie and Clarence rak ed the leaves. Cyrus and Frankie helped Mr. Young cut trees. We worked for seven hours and we made six dollars each. It was good to have money again. Frankie Johnson Clarence Savetilik NUT PICKING Most of Winona Hall girls went nut picking on Saturday. We all put on our warm clothes so that we would not get cold. It reminded me of Alaska, when we got dressed up. It was the first time that I have even gone nut picking. There were lots of nuts. We all enjoyed pick ing them. I hope that we get to go again. Marion Ames One Saturday man named Mr. helping him cut with a saw. The them down. I worked for a Anderson. I was down some trees wind had blown Peter Kippi
