Chemawa A rt Show Scheduled
K a th y K i t k a ’ s m u ral d e c o ra te s th e
end o f th e M u s ic T r a i l e r . T h e d e s ig n
is from th e T l i n g i t s .
During Chemawa’s birthday cele
bration there will be an art exhibit
Friday, March 2, in the basement
of Hawley Hall. Saturday the 3rd,
there will be another art exhibit in
the gym in the afternoon.
Student drawings, paintings, and
wood carving will be displayed.
Some of the students’ work will be
for sale and some will just be dis
played. The art show will be opened
to students and staff and the public.
The art students have been doing
such projects as drawing murals and
displaying them around campus.Each
mural represents a traditional tribal
design, each telling a tribal story
behind the picture.
Marlene Moses did a contemporary
mural of the Northwest Coast Indians.
Terry Hurst did a painting of an un-
known artist. She did a Haida de
sign, which represents a sea monster
in the form of a wolf, carrying two
whales. She also did a Haida design
which was taken from the Eskimo
tribe, that represents birds in wo
men’s faces. Kathy Kitka did a
Tlingit design which represents a
“ Shirt with Thunderbird.”
Ailene Samuels did a Haida design
representing the fabulous sea mon
ster. Right before you enter the art
room you will see a painting of an
Eskimo Hunter design, which was
done by Clara Kowunna and Pikok
Kubanyi.
One of the Art Department’s big
gest project is to get a mural on all
the trailers and other places on cam
pus.
CHEMAWA AMERICAN
- Voi. 69, No. 4
Chemawa Indian School, Salem, OR 96303
February 8, 1973
Freeze H its
Ouchi to Go?
The money for our new school has
been temporarily frozen. The plans
are now finished.
The next step
would be the designing and constru-
tion.
The plans show that the new sch
ool will cost around 11 million dol
lars. The reason for the money being
frozen temporarily is due to the 28
million dollars cut from the Bureau of
Indian Affairs budget.
Virginia Brown of Muckleshoot,
Washington, Chairman of, the Chema
wa Advisory School Board, and Olney
Patt of Warm Springs, Oregon,another
Board member, went to Washington,
D.C. recently to look into the matter
of the new school.
Superintendent Albert Ouchi may
be leaving us soon if he gets a pos
ition in Washington, D. C. with the
Bureau of Land Management, as the
head of the Equal Employment Oppor
tunity Office.
Mr. Ouchi had been offered the pos
ition quite some time ago, but he
wasn’t sure if he would accept it or
not. Now that he has, it will have to
go through the Secretary of Interior,
so it is not positive but sufficiently
firm that he will be going to D. C.
Mr. Ouchi said he has liked work
ing at Chemawa very much, and he
feels he has served the school the
best he can.
“ I would like to feel that I’ve left
the school in a little better shape,’’
Mr. Ouchi said.
He feels very confident that all the
staff and students will be able to
carry on.
He has seen a lot of progress
since the time he has been here.
Mr. Ouchi isn’t deserting us; he
has served the school to the best of
his ability, and now he sees a job in
which he may serve again.
He will know for sure if he is
leaving by the next week or so, and
then, if he will be leaving, he will be
gone from Chemawa by next month.
Albert Y. Ouchi
B irth d ay E vents Planned
Chemawa’s 93rd birthday will be
celebrated March 2, 3, and 4. It will
start off with an assembly in the gym
Mr. Ouchi and possibly Governor
McCall and members of the Oregon
State Senate will be here to speak.
Friday evening there will be a
dance in the gym to crown the Prin
cess and Brave. Saturday morning
there will be three basketball games
and a wrestling tournament, and in
the afternoon a picnic and a contin-
uation of the tournament and basket
ball games. The choir will also sing
in the afternoon. Possibly there will
b< stick games, and from 7 to 11 p.m.
there will be the powwow.
Sunday afternoon will be the wrap-
up of Chemawa’s birthday with the
showing of Indian films in the audi
torium.
The birthday committee needs don
ations for prizes or raffles,preferably
handmade.