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NOTICES The National Center for Cooperative Education in Natural Resources (NCCE) at Haskell Indian Nations University offers a program to develop American Indian and Alaska Native natural resource professionals by helping students achieve their educational and career goals. Students accepted into the program receive tuition assistance ($5,000/year), summer employment, and non-competitive conversion to BIA or tribal positions upon graduation. Requirements include: I* • • • • Completed federal employment form OF612 - available at www.opm.gov - or resume, which must include all informa tion requested on form OF612. • • • Have finished freshman year in col lege in good academic standing Pursuing, at minimum, a bachelor's degree Majoring in a natural resources field, i.e., forestry, soil conservation, range management, geographic information systems (GIS), wildlife management, watershed/hydrology, fisheries man agement, or civil engineering. Interest in a career working with tribes, the BIA, or other natural re sources agencies The Association of American Indian Physicians (AA1P) is now accepting ap plications for the 8,h annual National Na tive American Youth Initiative (NNAYI), which will be held June 18-26, 2005, in Washington, D.C. More than 60 Native American high school students age 16-18 will be awarded scholarships to attend this weeklong in tensive academic enrichment program held each summer in the nation’s capitol. “NNAYI is a tremendous op portunity for Native high school students in- terested in pur suing a career in health,” says Marga ret Knight, AAIP’s ex ecutive direc tor. “NNAYI’s curriculum is strate gically designed to prepare students for admission to college and professional schools, as well as for careers in health and biomedical research." During interactive workshops, stu dents increase their skills in leadership, communication, studying and testing, assertiveness, networking, professional behavior, interactive learning, and time management. AAIP member physicians and health professionals serve as role models for the students and offer insights into their re spective health fields, including medicine, 12 How to Apply • Siletz News • • • Completed “Verification of Indian Preference for Employment" - BIA Form 4432 Letter of application that includes your perception of your academic and applied strengths and a description of your career goals and objectives Proof of enrollment or acceptance into a college forestry or natural re sources program Transcript and current class schedule Letter of support from tribal or BIA area or agency natural resources staff (optional but helpful) Send application package to: Doug Eifler, Natural Resources Liaison Office Haskell Indian Nations University 155 Indian Ave., Box 5018 Lawrence, KS 66046 pharmacy, dentistry, public and allied health, veterinary medicine, biomedical research, and more. Students also learn about opportunities for mentoring and shadowing with AAIP member physicians. Native American high school students age 16-18 who have an interest in pursuing a health profession are eligible to apply. Students must have a minimum cumula tive 2.5 GPA (A = 4.0). Lodging, meals, and travel expenses are provided for each student accepted into the program. To accompany the students dur ing the program, NNAYI is currently accept ing applications for 12 counse lors to serve as chaper ones during the visit to Washington, D.C. Native American college students age 21 and older who cur rently are enrolled in health programs are encouraged to apply. Counselors receive all expenses paid, as well as a stipend at the end of the program. Application deadline is May 13,2005. For more information, contact Russ Tall Chief at the Association of Ameri can Indian Physicians at 405-946-7072, or e-mail aaip@aaip.com. Applications can be downloaded from the AAIP Web site at www. aaip.com/student/nnayi.html. April 2005 Diane O'Leary’s “The Living Waters of Tillamook Bay" Aquarium Opens Passages of the Deep for Art Exhibit NEWPORT, Ore. - The Oregon Coast Aquarium is doing something it has never done before. For the first time in its history, the aquarium is hosting a travel ing art exhibit. “The Living Waters of Tillamook Bay,” opened near the Passages of the Deep exhibit in March. This collection of brilliantly colored collages by artist Diane O’Leary is clearly an expression of love for a critically threatened estuary. O’Leary’s life is a fascinating story. She has become an innovator in every field she has endeavored and now, as one of the nation’s most distinguished artists, she has turned her attention to the estua rine environment of Tillamook Bay. Her interest in the bay goes beyond the ability to depict the fish and habitat. She studied the bay for a year, reading every report written about it since 1890. “I spent a year on research and it took me one weekend to write the report." she said. “I saw what was wrong.” O'Leary says one-third of the habitat was missing and the bay was in terrible condition. The thing that makes this en vironment unique is that it's fed by five rivers. So everything that goes into the streams winds up in the rivers and even tually the bay. “Fish are like people,” she says. “When their habitat becomes unliv able, they move out.” That is why she created these mag nificent works. “I wish I could inspire people to think about what they're doing to their immediate personal environment.” She says she knows that nobody can save the world on their own, “but we can all do a lot to our yard, our stream, and our immediate environment. We can change the way we do things.” O'Leary's creative gifts came natu rally. “I always drew,” she says of her childhood, spent in Texas and Missouri. “I'm a depression kid - so I grew up weaving, sewing, and quilting. We made everything - the men were ironworkers and glassblowers. You would stand out side in the winter with your hands freez ing while you made soap and candles.” Music was a big part of life in those days. “Everyone had a piano in the house,” she says. “We would get together and have political and philosophical discussions and then everybody would sing hymns.” In spite of her celebrated virtuosity on the piano, her father told her if she were planning to go to college, she had better learn a trade, so she studied nurs ing. As a nurse, she would stand on a box and draw what she saw in surgery. But she saw beyond the strengths and frailties of the human body. She envi sioned improved technology for the sur geons and her vision led to improvements on the technology being used. Her vision became valued in the field of physics. Her work in physics led her to New Mexico, where she decided she would check out the local art scene. When she saw what was happening, she says, “I voted with my feet!” She left her career in physics to study art. She found herself in the midst of an art community that included the likes of Emil Bistram, Eric Gibbard, and Georgia O’Keefe. They were the “Taos Founders" - a group of New Mexican artists devoted to the creation of art forms with univer sal meaning. O'Leary painted traditional Indian art and at first devoted her work to the cre ation of images of the lives of Native American women as they must have been in the past. O'Leary moved to the Oregon coast in 1989 and began a second creative career, making art quilts, two of which have been published by the Smithsonian. Recently, her interest in environmental issues, especially those of Tillamook Bay, have inspired her to return to painting, print making, and paper-making techniques. These have all been combined to produce “The Living Waters of Tillamook Bay.” All of O'Leary’s depictions are ana tomically accurate, using wild colors and patterns to create glorious undersea im ages of fish and invertebrates that inhabit - or once inhabited - the bay. “The Living Waters of Tillamook Bay” will be on view in the area of Pas sages of the Deep from March 19, 2005. through March 19, 2006. For more details, visit the aquarium’s Web site at www.aquarium.org or call 541-867-FISH.
