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'Help Close The Gap'
“ Older generation~we need help!”
So the younger generation cries out.
All over America today we hear this
cry among our Indian people. It’s
coming from the younger generation.
But how many of the older people
hear the cry? We, the younger people,
need your help. We have to know your
problems, and most of all, you must
know ours.
We are looked down on because we
act differently than our mothers and
fathers did when they were young.
We are looked down upon for the
simple reason that we have a great
communication gap between the older
generation and the younger generation.
This not only holds true with the In
dian people, but with all the different
races there are in our world todav.
We, the younger people, feel that we
are being pushed out to face our pro
blems by ourselves, and the biggest
problem we have now is that our older
generation is not really trying to help
us solve our problems.
We still have yet to learn all there
is in life and you can help us up the
steps as we move along.
Yes, we have problems, but they are
problems that can be solved if you
work with us.
Ask yourself this—have I ever had
to face a problem by myself? Or did
my mother and father help me with it?
Yes, some of you had to face your
problems by yourselves,but still there
were some you needed help with.
So now we are crying out for help,
not only for ourselves, but for you as
well as us. You have your problems
now and w'e have ours. By working
together we can solve not just one
problem, but two. And they are the
problems you and we are having. They
are the communication gaps between
us.
Joe T ells How He
A lm ost M ade A Drum
ed. note: Reporter Joe Nomee, a
member of the N.I.C.E. club, recently
tried to make an Indian drum from
scratch for the club to use during its
performances. He found out that it’s
not as easy as it seems. Here is his
advice for anyone else who wants to
try it.
First you get a hide. You soak it
for a period of days, and then you take
it out and you start scraping the hair
off. After you scrape the hair off,
you stretch it out and try to stretch it
over the frame that you are going to
use for the drum. It’s not easy.
You shouldn’t soak the hide for
more than five days, because if you
do, something is bound to happen to
your hide. Either it will rot, or a dog
or something will get ahold of it and
drag it off.
You have to have a certain type of
tool to scrape the hair off the hide. I
found out that you have to have some
thing to lay the hide on, and then you
get something to scrape it with. You
have' to make sure of the way the hide
lays - that the way the hair faces up
toward the top of where you are scrap
ing.
The best kinds of hide for making a
drum are deerskin, yearling calf hide,
and sometimes elk hide. If at first
your drum doesn’t come out, keep try
ing. It takes about four or five tries
before you get it right.
THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Published by the joint efforts of the
Business Education Department and
the Journalism class.
Reporters:
D. J. Taylor, Daryle
Marchand, Frances Demmert, Chris
Nickoli, Bertha Passamika, Patty
Phair, Regina Jerry, Pam Stanger,
Joe Nomee, Leah Revey, Joanne
Laducer.
Printing:
Graphic Arts classes
Staff Advisors:
Mr. Dashney
Herbert McIntyre receives the Most Valuable Member Award of Explorer Post
Mrs. Sturgeon
123 Search and Rescue at the annual dinner of Post 123 and Post 18 at the Principal:
William J. Tucker
King’s Table restaurant in Salem. Herbert is Quartermaster of Post 123.
Superintendent: Gordon W. Gunderson
M erry Christmas, C hem aw a-