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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1976)
q * 3 7 1 .9 7 $ v .7 2 n o . 5 SALEM INDIAN SCHOOL, CHEMAWA, OREGON Chem awa A m e r ic a n Oregon Concettai OREGON STATE UBRARX 7 1976 I AMERICAN Chemawa In d ia n School Voi 72 No» 5 OR 97303 F eb ru ary 6 , 1976 Have Your Soy Do you think we should get the money for the new school? One way to help is write to your Senator or one of thé Senator’s on the Appro priation Committee. You can write to any of the Senators at this ad dress. Senate Office Bldg. Washington, D.C. 20515 Mike Gravel Ted Stevens Alaska Mark Hatfield Bob Packwood Oregon Henry Jackson Warren Magnuson Washington James A. McClure Frank Church Idaho Members of the Senate Appro- priations Committee are: Chairman: John L. McClellan, Arkansas. Democrats: Warren G. Magnuson, John C. Stennis, John 0. Pastore Robert C. Byrd Republicans: Milton R. Young Mark Hatfield Edward W. Brooke Romand L. Hruska Washington M ississippi Rhode Island West Virginia North Dakota Oregon Massachusetts Nebraska Help Chemawa stay open. Write a letter - or several letters. Let them know how you feel! By Donna Penn United We Stand I I Divided, We Fall Chemawa Indian School’s enroll ment has dropped from 699 in 1971- 1972 to 250. We are in danger of being closed down because of the lack of students. In this article we are asking for help. Chemawa is the oldest contin uously running boarding school in the United States. We have edu cated thousands of young Native Americans here, and we can keep on educating them with your help. There is nc w a possibility of, another reduction in forces. This % time, we would lose 53 staff mem bers. - It does not seem likely that I Chemawa can run very well with only 63 staff members left on cam- | pus. Don’t think that we are not doing 1 anything about it. Now the Che mawa students are constructing a poster to send to all the reservations ’ in the Northwest to encourage Indian 2 youth to come here. When we go home we try to encourage our friends and relatives to join us. If Chemawa is too stay open, we we need more students. We are 1 pulling at our end, so give us a hand at yours. Student Council considers petitions among its I I I , I I I I I ■ | I | I ■ I | I ■ other busi ness ----------------------------------------------- Petitions Circulated Student Council is circulating petitions. One of the petitions is to get sup- port from the students to help keep our school open. Delphinia Pevo and E lsie Mooney are getting sig- natures. The other one is 4 petitioning Sgai nst the Clinic being closed at at night. If you haven’t signed the one, get hold of Vicki Penn. If enough students support these petitions, Student Council hopes that it will ¿id in keeping Chemawa open and possibly the Clinic will return to its usual hours.
