▼ ✁✂❆❨✱ ▼❆❨ ✄☎✱ ✄☎✶✾
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and a shortage of bikes. Children
normally ride their own bikes to
Willow but this year it was discov-
ered late in the week that some
children did not have bikes to ride
or helmets so parents from other
families stepped forward to pro-
vide extra bicycles.
“It was pretty cool, (the way)
the parents got things rolling,”
Ogburn said.
Ogburn said the program has
been a success in recent years
in large part because of the help
she has received from Wagner.
“She has been wonderful,” Og-
burn said.
Ogburn has long urged her
students to write their letters in
cursive, something many are not
very familiar with. She said it is
good for children to write cur-
sive because it takes more time,
which results in more thoughtful
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This comic series was
dubbed Abtuss and follows
Miller on a heroic jour-
ney as he explores TeTe’s
home — a purple planet
called Spinder — and learns
of the aliens’ customs and
struggles, some that are
very similar to the problems
faced by humankind.
Chris Jennings, co-
owner of hq, has helped
Miller compile his Abtuss
comics into a special edi-
tion graphic novel, “The
Knowledge of Spinder,”
which will be on sale at the
gallery opening May 24.
Jennings said his mis-
sion of bringing art in its
various forms to down-
town La Grande is fur-
thered by this gallery
installation, which was
completed in part due to
a $500 grant the venue
received from the Union
letters being written.
“It makes them think,” Og-
burn said.
The third-grade teacher also
noted it helps children develop
better signatures.
Ogburn smiles when recall-
ing how students’ writing often
write in cursive.
“It sometimes looks like hiero-
glyphics,” she said.
The students are also taught
how to fold letters, address en-
velopes, attach proper postage
and mail them.
Ogburn is moved every year at
how excited students get when they
receive a letter from their pen pal.
“It is as if they are getting un-
opened Christmas presents,” she
said.
Students in their letters nor-
mally share basic information
about themselves. Ogburn said
there have been a number of in-
stances in which pen pals have
County Arts and Cultural
Coalition.
“In terms of the retail
downtown, small niche
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ent business have tried
little walls to try and keep
❡❢❞❡ ➥❵❧q❦➟ ❡❢❥❵♣➟❢r ♦♣❡
there’s not a lot of op-
portunity to show art,” he
said. “The mission behind
hq holding a space is to
create a gateway for stu-
dent artists, regional art-
ists and traveling artists
to have one more place to
show and engage with an
audience.”
Once Miller’s exhibit
retires in July, Jennings
plans to feature work from
a new artist. He wrote in a
press release that the ro-
tating exhibits will create
“an additional avenue for
community engagement”
and “give people one more
reason to attend an event”
at the venue, which regu-
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a single group with a min-
ute break between each.
Participants are judged on
many things including pos-
ture, rhythm and whether
or not they overstep, which
dancers lose points for. Be-
gay said overstepping oc-
curs when a dancer does
not come to a complete stop
when a song ends.
“You have to know the
song,” he said.
Begay always enjoys par-
ticipating in Native American
dance competitions and the
atmosphere of pow wow’s
like the annual event at EOU.
“It is fun,” he said. “That is
why I’m here.”
The public address an-
nouncer for the pow wow was
Mackie Begay, of the Con-
federated Tribes of Warm
Springs and a relative of Rod
Begay. Mackie Begay said the
EOU Spring Pow Wow is one
of at least four conducted on
university and college cam-
puses in the state. Oregon
campuses where pow wows
are also conducted include
Blue Mountain Community
College, Portland State Uni-
versity and Oregon State
University.
There are many other
pow wows not conducted
on college campuses, in-
cluding ones in Pendleton
at the Wildhorse Resort and
Casino and in Joseph. Be-
gay said pow wows on col-
➢❞❡❣♥ q❦ ❡❢❣ ❣➡❣❦❡r ❵➯♠q❞❴❴❤
titled the EOU Indian Arts
Festival Spring Pow Wow &
Friendship Feast. The Native
Americans who attended the
pow wow on Friday and Sat-
urday were primarily from
the Confederated Tribes of
the Umatilla Indian Reser-
vation, the Warm Springs
Indian Reservation and the
Yakima Indian Reservation.
Other tribes represented
included the Chippewa, of
which Elysa Nason, a stu-
dent at the Oregon Health
Science University School
of Nursing at EOU, is a
member. Nason, like Rus-
sell, said the drumbeats
heard throughout the pow
wow are integral to the cul-
ture of Native Americans.
“The drumbeat is our
heart,” said Nason, who is
originally from Minnesota.
The drums are an inte-
gral part of Native American
dances, which are always cir-
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the cycle of life, for we all
eventually return to the earth
we came from and then the
process starts anew.
Native Americans who
participated in the weekend’s
dancing competition includ-
ed Rod Begay, a member
of the Yakima and Navajo
tribes. Begay said dances can
be taxing.
“(Native American danc-
ing) is pretty physical,” he
said.
In most competitions
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the La Grande School District.
During the many years Og-
burn has operated her program,
there have been students in the
participating pen pal classes who
do not know how to ride a bike.
Ogburn and Wagner have spent
time each school year teaching
these children how to ride.
Central Elementary School Prin-
cipal Suzy Mayes has helped Og-
burn run her program since becom-
ing Central’s principal four years
ago. She said watching her teach
children to ride bikes is a delight.
“The joy on the students’ faces
as they learn to ride is so reward-
ing, and it is most certainly a
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The members of Bad Soul
were among about 100 Na-
tive Americans who partici-
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LOCAL
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gone on to become good friends.
Ogburn began her Pen Pal-
Biking program early in her ca-
reer, when she taught fourth grade
at Willow Elementary School and
set up a pen pal exchange with Is-
land City Elementary.
larly features live music
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“We’re going to do a big
opening reception,” Jen-
nings said of the Abtuss
exhibit. “Charles will be
here to sign books, and
there will be beer and
wine. We’ll have time as
a community to look at
art and talk about art and
have conversations and re-
ally make it fun,” he said.
“Hq is a great platform for
opportunity.”
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❡❢❣
➟❞❴❴❣❥❤➨❜
✐❥❜❡
exhibit, Miller’s science-
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be accompanied by works
of art based on experiences
he’s had with “people who
have been dead for years.”
One of these spectral
visitors is Joe Son, a Quak-
er who lived in the South
during Civil War times.
Although he was not a sol-
dier, Miller said, the young
man told him he bought a
rebel uniform to go un-
lege and university campus-
es tend to be smaller than
regular pow wows because
those putting them on have
fewer resources.
Begay reminded Native
Americans entering Quinn
Coliseum to be careful not
to let any of the eagle feath-
❣❥❜ q❦ ❡❢❣q❥ ❥❣➟❞❴q❞ ➳❞❴❴ ❵➠✉
He gives such warnings be-
cause only Native Americans
are allowed to possess eagle
feathers in the United States
and they take this privilege
seriously.
He said whenever a eagle
feather falls to the ground, a
short Native American cer-
emony is conducted before
it is picked up. The feather
is then sent back to the
tribe of the individual from
whom it fell.
The EOU Spring Pow
Wow has been put on each
of the past 49 years by Speel
Ya, EOU’s Native American
club. The club’s advisers
are Katie Harris, Eastern’s
Native American Program
coordinator and a member
of the Confederated Tribes
of the Umatilla Indian Res-
ervation, and Linda Reed-
Jerofke, a professor of an-
thropology at EOU.
Jerofke said the pow wow
is a wonderful event because
it is family friendly and gives
outsiders an opportunity to
learn about Naive American
activities.
Nason said former Speel
Ya advisers will be recog-
Ogburn was transferred to Cen-
tral Elementary in 2006, where she
continued the program and kept
the Island City connection. The sta-
tus of the program today is now un-
certain because Ogburn will retire
in June after a 40-year career with
Mayes, who attended Friday’s
meeting of pen pals, is also a big
fan of Ogburn’s program.
“It is a very special event and
most certainly (creates) memories
that last a lifetime. This program
is extremely rewarding to watch
in action,” the principal said.
dercover and speak with do,” he said. “People say, or dreams are the inspira-
Confederate soldiers for a ‘You can’t read and write, tion, art has always been
book he was writing.
how can you do all this Miller’s refuge, a way he
Before Joe could publish art?’ and it makes me feel can truly express himself
his manuscript, however, bad. I want to show people and his encounters. The
his sister threw it away. I’m intelligent and I can do hq gallery is just one way
for him to share his mind
Miller said Joe told him this work.”
she threw it out because it
Whether aliens, ghosts with the world.
was “too messy looking.”
So, Joe appeared, with
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his little dog Lit, to Miller,
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hoping the artist could tell
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his tale.
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know what his story was,”
said Miller, who painted
a black and white photo-
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Because Miller lives with
a disability impairing his
ability to read and write,
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he couldn’t tell Joe’s story
❈✜✢✢✣✤❈✥✦✧
through the written word
— but he was able to cap-
èéêë ìí îéïðñ îé òëë
ture the young man’s spirit
through a visual medium.
óéô ôë õðí òëö÷ë ñéøù
“I want people to know
the wonderful art I can
nized at the 2020 pow wow,
which will be the 50th. The
late Jackie Grant, who
♥q❣♥ ✐➡❣ ❤❣❞❥❜ ❞➟❵r ❧q❴❴ ♦❣
among those saluted.
“She loved Speel Ya,” Na-
son said. “It wasn’t just a club
for her, it was her family.”
Nason said she had such
high regard for Grant that
she named her daughter
after her.
Plans are also being
made to install teepees on
campus for the 2020 pow
wow, said Bennie Moses-
Mesubed, EOU’s director
of student diversity and
inclusion. This will be done
to give the public a better
look at Native Americans
culture.
Moses credits the longev-
ity of EOU’s pow wow to
the dedicated members of
Speel Ya, all of whom un-
derstand the importance of
the annual event.
“It gives Native American
students a chance to show-
case their culture,” Moses-
Mesubed said.
Sponsors of the Indian
Arts Festival Spring Pow
Wow include EOU, the
Wildhorse
Foundation,
the Union County Cultural
Coalition, Blue Mountain
Graphics, the Confederated
Tribes of the Umatilla In-
dian Reservation, Elkhorn
Media Group, the Jerofke
family, Pepsi, Safeway, So-
dexo, Stangel Livestock LLC
and Starbucks.
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▲❀❁❂❃❃❄ ❀♦♥❅❇ ❂♥❇ ❀❈❅❉❂❊❅❇ ❢❀❉ ❀❋❅❉ ❡● ❄❅❂❉s
îïðñòó ôõñòó öõ÷øùúðû
ü ýþÿ ❈ þ ✁ ✂✄☎✆✝✞ þ ✟ ✠✡☛☛✝✡❈☞ þ ý ✡ ÿþ ✌✍☎
ü ✠✡✝P ✡P✁ ✎✏✑✆✒✄✑ ✑✡P✡✓ þ ✑ þ P✒
ü ✠✡☛☛✝✡❈☞ þ ✔ ✕ ÿ ✡P☎✝❈✄P✡☛ ✟ ✌ þ ☎✆✝✒ þ ý ✡ ÿþ
ü ✎❙✝☛☛ þ ✁ ✍✖ ÿ ☎✝P✓ ☎ þÿ ☞✝✞ þ ☎
ü ✠✕✔ ✗✕ ✟ ✎✆ þþ ✞✘ ✕✘ þÿ ✡✆✝ þ ☎
ü ▲✝✞ þ P☎ þ ✁ ý ☛✝P✝✞✡☛ ✎✄✞✝✡☛ ✙✄ ÿ ❙ þÿ ☎
ü ý ✍✚✛☎ ✜✄ ÿ ✆ þÿ ☎✄P✡☛ ✞✡ ÿþ
ü ý ✡ ÿþ ✓✝☞ þÿ ✒ þ ✡✞✘✝P✓ ✡P✁ ☎✖✆✆✄ ÿ ✒
ü ✎✆✝ ÿ ✝✒✖✡☛ ý ✡ ÿþ ý ✄✄ ÿ ✁✝P✡✒✄ ÿ
ü ✂✄☎✆✝✞ þ ❍✄☛✖P✒ þþÿ ☎
ü ❇ þÿþ ✡☞ þ ✑ þ P✒ ✎ þÿ ☞✝✞ þ ☎
ü ❏✄✝P✒ ý ✄✑✑✝☎☎✝✄P ✡✞✞ ÿþ ✁✝✒ þ ✁
ü ▼ þ ✁✝✞✡ ÿþ ✢▼ þ ✁✝✞✡✝✁ ✞ þÿ ❈ þ ✁
✣✤✥✦✧✦★✩✥★ ✪✫✬✭✮✯✰✧✥✥✧✥✱ ✪✱✩✥✲✳✴
❚✵✩ ✶✷✸✹ ✥✤★✯✺✤✭ ✻✭✤✼★ ✧✥ ★✵✩ ✬✭✩✬✴
❚✤ ✽✩✬✭✥ ✾✤✭✩ ✬✿✤❀★ ❁❂❃ ❃✤✾✩ ✣✬✭✩ ❄✩✭❅✧✲✩✦❆
➼➼➼➽➾➚➪➶➚➹➘➴➚➷➬➮➶➴➱➚✃➶➽❐➮❒
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