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NOTICES Congratulations to SVS Students of the Month Siletz Valley Charter Schools an nounced the students of the month for May 2007 at our last assembly for this year. Our students K-12 are recognized for academic achievements, citizen ship, and positive behavior. As a reward, we raffle various items that local community vendors have given us for our students. Please thank our local vendors such as Noel’s Market, Little Chief. Wilkison Video. Siletz Gas & Mini-Mart, and the Siletz. Tribal office for their monthly donations of goodies. Based on performance, teachers nominated the following students: Kindergarten, Ms. Douglas: Jayden Blacketer, Keionni Goodell Is1 Grade, Ms. Butler: Brendan Lal, Macon Thompson 2nd Grade, Ms. Colvin: Shaunde’ Goodell, Taylor Sinsel 3rd Grade, Ms. Bowen: Chazlynne Goodell, Kateri Whitehead 4,h Grade, Ms. Perkins: Morgan Crawford, Windy Hill 5,h Grade. Ms. Rogers: CJ Perkins, Will Johns 6"' Grade, Mr. Scott: Jesse Jodoin, Tif fany Stokes 7th Grade, Ms. Rajput: Ashley Bisson, Darian Dorman 8,h Grade, Ms. McGraw: Casee Case, Roni Gerttula High School Mr. Akiyama, Language Arts: Spencer Hatch, Raeloni Belgarde Mr. Baker, Math: Tasha Killscrow, Kelsey Warren Ms. Craven, Social Studies: Brittany Mooney, Racheal Croucher Ms. Haxel, Science: Kandi Barker, Jake LJeland Special Award At the end of each school year, we recognized those students with no more than one absence. As a reward, the stu dents received money donated by Van Peters and books donated by the Siletz Tribal office. They are as follows: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Cheyenne Roberts - Kindergarten Julia Trachsel — I'1 Grade Anthony Butler — 2nd Grade Joanna Lindstrom - 2nd Grade Daniel Lindstrom - 3rd Grade Morgan Crawford - 4,h Grade Sierra Gerttula - 4* Grade Cheyenne Maldonado - 4"’ Grade Jennelle Potter - 4th Grade Analisa Walton - 4,h Grade Jordan Young - 7lh Grade Christopher Crawford - 8,h Grade Kayla Stokes - 8lh Grade Timothy Lindstrom - 9,h Grade Matthew Sharpe - IIth Grade Back Row: Savanna Rilatas, Frankie Rilatas, Clarinda Black. Kateri Whitehead, Chazlynne Goodell, Makiah Woodruff, Kassidy Sinsel. Middle Row: Analisa Walton, April Seid, Kaitlyn Bayya, Taylor Sinsel, Raydar Taylor, Tehya Woodruff, Morgan Crawford, Leslie Brown. Thanks to Our Volunteers Front Row: Shania Driver, Joshua Leckie, Jennelle Potter, Britany We are very fortunate to have the amount of help that we receive from our community throughout the school. Thank you to all of you who continue to give your time and love to our school and students. The following volunteers gave more than 100 hours of service: Robertson, I Ileana Blacketer, Alexis Fisher, Shaunde' Goodell. • • • • • • • • Gigi Bliss Jeff Christman Wade Newbegin Mary Parker Tammy Pullam Christy Simpson Candy Spelbrink Kris Whitehead Well, we made it through another year and our first year as a high school. Yeah! We had many successes and we are looking forward to next year. It's because of our wonderful volunteers, parents, and staff that we have had a great first year. Thank you for all of the love and support you all continue to give our children. We want you to know we will miss you all! We hope you have a won derful summer and are ready to start a new year in September. Not Pictured: Chance Jones, Coach - Cava St. Onge, Assistants - Frank Aspria and Cynthia Urbach Baton Team Completes Successful First Year by Cova Sr. Onge The Siletz. Valley School (SVS) Baton Team began practicing in Janu ary to perform at the school talent show on June 5. Of the 22 students who joined in the fun. 14 followed all the way through to the end performance clad in a red and white uniform, burst ing at the seams with pride. The baton team was funded 100 percent with a donation from the Siletz Tribal Charitable Contribution Fund. All second- through fifth-grade students interested in learning to twirl received everything needed to partici pate and were recognized for their efforts to develop a new talent at the final SVS Awards Ceremony. After receiving their certificates and ribbons at the ceremony, all par- ticipating students were treated to pizza, pop, and cupcakes to conclude the 2006-07 school year baton team. All 22 smiles were from ear to ear. I coached the SVS Baton Team, with assistance from Frank Aspria and Cynthia Urbach. Thank you to every one who helped make the baton team happen. It wouldn’t have been so suc cessful without you. Thank you to all the kids for doing such a great job. And a special thank you to the Siletz Tribal Charitable Contri bution Fund for making it all possible. For those interested (many already are asking), you can look for the SVS Baton Team to begin again next school year, TBA. Happy Twirling! PSU Offers Native Studies Program bv Tini Garrison, Director of Native American Studies Portland State University initiated its Native Studies Program in 2004 and currently offers a minor in Native American Studies. The minor requires 32 credit hours. Students are able to choose courses that focus on Native issues from across the university. Affiliated faculty, many of whom are national experts in their field, offer Native-focused courses in such disciplines as history, literature, poetry, film, communications, psychol ogy, art. music, and anthropology. Portland State is particularly proud of its cooperative internship require ment. which enables students to apply the knowledge acquired in their courses in a public internship with a Native 16 • Siletz News • tribal or community organization. This spring, Siletz Tribal member Cliff Higgins and Theresa Smith (Bostrom) worked with the Portland Area Siletz Education Program two days a week. The Native American Studies Pro gram does more than simply offer aca demic courses. As director of this program. I have been able to present lectures, panel discussions, and other events for the Native community and the public at large. In recent months, this included talks by Robert Miller, distinguished profes sor of American Indian law at Lewis and Clark Law School; Donald Fixico, noted historian; Robert Warrior, author of Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee’, and most July 2007 recently during this last spring term a panel series on Native archeological issues. My vision for the program is to bring into classrooms as many Native elders, tribal leaders, and artists as I can. I sin cerely believe that our students can appreciate the value of American Indian history, culture, ideas, and issues only if they have the opportunity to learn from our treasured Native human resources. Raising money for this endeavor has been difficult, yet I remain determined to make sure that appropriate hono raria and travel expenses to those who are kind enough to honor our students with their time and wisdom are given. The long-term viability of the pro gram is our first concern. Long-term goals include establishing a major for this program. This goal, however, re quires considerable funding and as di rector, my most important undertaking for the future will be finding support to enable PSU to hire the faculty and acquire the other resources needed to build the major. For a list of courses offered by NAS and affiliated faculty, and for informa tion about the requirements for the minor, please see our Web site at www.nas.pdx.edu. If you have any questions or input about Native American Studies at Port land State, or if you simply want to say “hello,” you can contact me at garrisont@pdx.edu or 503-725-3978.
