CH EM AW A AMERICAN
Volume 70, No. .3
Chemawa Indian School, Salem, OR 97303
November 30, 1973
SCHOOL REPORT
Salem Design
Firm Chosen
Homecoming—and the bonfire s ilh o u e tte s groups of students aga in s t the dark
ness. Roy Aishanna caught th is action on the night before the big game. For
more Homecoming actio n see pages 4, 5 & 7 in s id e .
L o n e fig h t Now New Super
Mr. Ed Lonefight 34, has been
chosen as Chemawa’s 31st superin
tendent. He is a Mandan-Hidatsa
Indian from North Dakota.
Mr. Lonefight was a superinten
dent for two years at Riverside
Indian School in Anadarko, Okla
homa. He worked as an academic
counselor here at Chemawa in 1970-
71.
He said, “ The superintendent
oversees the total operation of the
school. He also breaks the budget
apart and sets the policy.”
He said that the biggest problem
he has run across as a superinten
dent is not getting an adequate
budget.
“ The first thing I noticed when I
came back was the walkway across
the tracks,” he said. He thinks this
change was a good idea. He added
that the students seem to be open,
polite and friendly.
One advantage to Riverside, ne
said, was that it has a cottage
system instead of big dorms. He
would very much like to see this
here at Chemawa.
He added that he came back to
Chemawa because he likes to work
with Northwest Indians, and he likes
green things.
A r t D e p a r t m e n t S c h e d u le s
The Chemawa Art Department is
sponsoring an art show and sale which
will be held December 9 from 12 to
4 pm in the gymnasium.
Some of the items being sold and
and shown are drawings, painting,
pottery, beadwork, woodcarving and
artifacts. The work has been done by
students from the art department, in
dividuals from the dorm and faculty
members.
Sunday
Winona Hall and the home economics
classes will sell fried bread and baked
goodies at the sale. An Eskimo parka
and some Eskimo masks and moccasins
will be sold, but the sale consists
mostly of Northwest Indian items.
Mr. Robert Morrow will display a
painted skin which is a rare collector’s
item and worth over $2500. A large
collection of arrowheads belonging
The Payne, Settecase & Smith
architectural firm from Salem has
been awarded the contract to design
Chemawa’s new school. They will
visit the school to talk with the
students and staff about the new
school.
On the north side of the campus,
across Chemawa Road where the
white duplex was located, the State
of Oregon had traded some land with
Chemawa because the new freeway
exit would be built there. For that
piece of land the State gave Chema
wa some land located on the east
edge of the campus.
The State also agreed to replace
the duplex with a new house, which
is being built north of the Haysville
Park,halfway between Chemawa and
99E. The new house, when finished,
will be assigned to somebody. Act
ing Superintendent Y. T. Wither
spoon said it would probably be for
the new superintendent.
Some of the schools that Payne,
Settecase & Smith have designed
are the Mount Angel Elementary
School, an addition to Kennedy
High in Mount Angel and a P. E.
building, food service building and
several dormitories at Oregon Col
lege of Education. Most of Willam
ette University since 1949 had been
designed by this firm. They are
now working on two more buildings
at Willamette.
Payne, Settecase & Smith have
also designed what is now the
Salem Civic Center.
Show
and
S a le
to Mr. Harlan Pigsley will also be
shown. (These items are not for sale.)
Coach Ben Lawver will display and
sell beaded belts made of hard leather,
and Mr. Jesse Matt and Mr. Trent Hen-
dren will have displays of photographs.
This year’s show will be bigger
than last year’s and promises to be
very good, says Ms Kathy Huffman,
Art Director.