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:
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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.
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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
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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.