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NOTICES Lakota Oyate Ki 21st Annual Yard Pow-Wow Aug. 20, 2005 The Lakota Oyate Ki Circle here at the Oregon State Penitentiary invites you to come to our gathering. It starts at 7:30 a.m. and ends at 3 p.m. We will be dancing, singing, and making presentations to acknowledge our supporters who have stood for us and by us throughout the years. Breakfast and traditional foods will be served throughout the day. We will have a giveaway. These giveaways are crafted by our Lakota Brothers. No one leaves empty-handed! Things to Know • Dress appropriately. • No denim clothing. Native rapper Litefoot performs before a crowd at Siletz Valley School in June. • Everyone must bring photo ID, minors included. The tribal Prevention Program invited him to Siletz to help with efforts to keep • You must pass through a metal detector. kids away from alcohol, drugs, and delinquent behaviors. • If you are a dancer or a singer, please let us know in advance so that we can cover guidelines for coming in with your regalia/drums and get these items N.M. State Monuments Releases New Book The New Mexico State Monuments recently released a capsulated chronology of the state’s history that dates back to the 13,h century through its exhibitions and programs at Jemez, Coronado, Lin coln, Fort Sumner, Fort Selden, and the El Camino Real. The Bosque Redondo Memorial opened June 4, 2005, and the El Camino Real International Heritage Center will open in November 2005. Eliza Wells Smith features each of these unique historic sites in a new book released by New Mexico State Monuments, A Bridge to the Past, The New Mexico State Monuments, with a foreword by Gov. Bill Richardson and introduction by José Cisneros, director of state monuments. Many little-known facts about New Mexico history are included in the 80- page book. Throughout the condensed histories are some 50 historic and con temporary photographs and maps from the Museum of New Mexico’s photo ar chives and state monuments to enhance the reader’s appreciation and understand ing of the state’s complex history. New Mexico’s complex history pre dates the greater United States. By the time the first English settlement was founded in Jamestown in 1607, the Span ish had been in the Americas for more than 100 years. The first European exploration in the New Mexico Territory in 1540 by Francisco Vasquez de Coronado took place only a few decades after the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus. In 1598, Juan de Onate explored and settled New Mexico, establishing the first capital near present-day San Juan Pueblo before moving it to Santa Fe in 1610 in the Palace of the Governors. As English pilgrims attempted to es tablish Jamestown two thousand miles to the west, the Spanish had begun to harvest the riches of a new territory that extended north from New Spain/Mexico. Gov. Richardson writes in the fore word: “The New Mexico State Monu ments embrace the complex history of our state in its most heroic and dramatic times. The Monuments present early Native American history, the arrival of the Span ish on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Catholic missionaries, the Pueblo Revolt. American military forts built to protect settlers from Native American determination to protect their homelands and hunting grounds, the Civil War, the relocation and incarceration of the Navajo and the Mescalero Apache onto the Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation, the last push by Geronimo, the boyhood home of General Douglas MacArthur, and the bullet-riddled Lincoln County War with Billy the Kid.” Cost is $16 (includes tax). Bridges to the Past will be available in Museum of New Mexico shops and at state monu ments, or by sending payment to NM State Monuments, P.O. Box 2087, Santa Fe, NM 87504. Proceeds from the book will go to the Museum of New Mexico State Monuments. For more information, visit www. nmmonuments.org or call 505-476-1150. Author Eliza Wells Smith is director of special projects, Marketing and Public Relations Department, Museum Services Division, Department of Cultural Affairs. She is a former photo editor for Vanity' Fair and The New York Times. Smith moved to Santa Fe in 1994 as a photographer for the paper and also worked here with the Santa Fe Photo Workshops, photography books, and projects as a master printer for Magnum Photos in New York. Smith graduated from the Rhode Is land School of Design with a bachelor of fine arts in photography. She is an avid student of history, cultural anthropology, and the arts. approved through the OSP staff. If you are interested in coming in or have further questions, please contact Ray Austin, Lakota Oyate Ki staff advisor, at 503-378-2289 or fax 503-373-1008. Our deadline date is Aug. 10, 2005, in order to be cleared by OSP to attend the pow-wow. All drum groups and dancers are welcome. First Statewide HIV/AIDS Hotline Goes Online PORTLAND, Ore - Cascade AIDS Project (CAP) and the Oregon Depart ment of Human Services (DHS) recently launched the state’s first comprehensive HIV/AIDS online hotline. Since 1987, CAP has operated the state’s HIV/AIDS telephone hotline, funded in part by DHS, and has been the primary HIV/AIDS resource available to the public. The new hotline adds an Internet component that further expands the reach of the hotline. The online hotline data base link can be found on the front page of Cascade AIDS Project’s Web site - www.cascadeaids.org. According to CAP Ex ecutive Director Thomas Bruner, “Since it started, the telephone hotline has served over 150,000 people. Going online allows us to help so many more people all around Oregon with the information they need for support, referral, and resources. If someone has an HIV/AIDS-related ques tion in Roseburg, Medford, LaGrande, or Coos Bay, yet are afraid to pick up the phone, they now have the means to con fidentially obtain an immediate and po tentially life-saving response any time of the day or night, 365 days a year.” Dr. Mel Kohn, state epidemiologist for DHS, agrees. “HIV/AIDS affects people all over Oregon - rural and urban, rich and poor, black and white, male and female. We are pleased to be providing funding to Cas cade AIDS Project for this important work.” The online database is a user-friendly system that allows searching by county or statewide for HIV educational infor mation and all types of HIV-related ser vice resources. The listings range from financial, housing, and medical to sup port groups, advocacy links, and social organizations. Web links to all providers have been incorporated, as well as a screen to submit written questions directly to the hotline. The system is rich with information pertaining to the general public, people living with HIV and those close to them, as well as so cial workers and service de livery professionals. The launch came on the heels of the Center for Disease Control & Prevention’s (CDC) announcement in June that more than I million people in the U.S. are now HIV-positive - the highest number ever recorded in the country - and that 25 percent of those people do not know that they have HIV because they have never been tested. In Oregon currently, approximately 5,500 people are estimated to be living with the HIV virus. Since 1980, 3,032 Oregonians have died from AIDS. Cascade AIDS Project August 2005 • Siletz News • 11
