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For college-bound Tribal seniors ... May • • • • • • This is the deadline for final decisions for universities. Send letter of intent to registrar. Line up a summer job. Attend your Senior Awards Night. Review any award letters and be sure you understand the terms and condi- tions that accompany each type of aid. If necessary, arrange for housing and a meal plan (at school). • Send thank you notes to any person/ committee from which you received a scholarship. June • • • • Tribal higher education and adult vocational training applications are due June 30! Attend graduation – congratulations! Arrange for your final grades to be sent to colleges and universities. Good luck! Solve the Mystery … at 4-H camp! Is your child looking for some excitement during this summer vacation? 4-H has the perfect opportunity for your fourth- through eighth-grader! Linn, Benton, Lincoln and Tillamook County 4-H programs will host the week- long LBLT 4-H Summer Camp in the foothills of West Salem on June 26-July 1. This year’s theme is Solve the Mystery with activities planned to tempt all ages. Camp is open to 4-H and non 4-H youth. The week will include outdoor activities like canoeing, archery, swimming and sports. Crafts, games and nature studies will bring the fun indoors too, followed by evening campfires under the stars. Registration is open through June 3 for the 2016 Linn-Benton-Lincoln-Tillamook 4-H Camp. The cost is $235. For more information, contact the Lincoln County OSU Extension Office at 541-574-6534, visit/extension.oregonstate.edu/lincoln/linn-benton-lincoln-tillamook- 4-h-camp or email heather.tower@oregonstate.edu. Scholarships Wilson-Hooper Veterinary Medicine Assistance Program Deadline: May 13 Duane Heglie and the Nez Perce Trail Foundation Scholarship Deadline: June 30 The Wilson-Hooper Veterinary Medi- cine Assistance Program, in memory of Jane Wilson Hooper and Col. Philip L. Hooper, provides scholarships to stu- dents pursuing veterinary medicine and veterinary technician degrees. If you love animals and possess the desire to pursue a degree at an accredited college or uni- versity, you may qualify for funding from this program. Awards are merit based and there is opportunity for multi-year funding. Two scholarships of $500 will be awarded to two American Indians at the Tamkaliks Celebration & Friendship Feast this summer. American Indian College Fund Scholarships Deadline: May 31 This scholarship provides support to each Tribal college and university and administers several scholarship programs to American Indian and Alaska Native undergraduate and graduates students attending Tribal colleges and state and private universities. We hope that these scholarships will help further our cause of promoting cultural understanding, appreciation, pride, educa- tion, scholarly advancement and success. NCAI Scholarships Deadline: Various The National Congress of American Indians is committed to investing in the next generation of leaders to protect and enhance Tribal sovereignty for generations to come. Young Native leaders are invited to apply for our Fall 2016 Internship, which has a rolling application process. If you have any questions or would like more information, contact Jamie Gomez at JGomez@ncai.org. Come to EOU’s Indian Arts Festival, additional events LA GRANDE, Ore. (EOU) – The annual Indian Arts Festival and Spring Pow-Wow at Eastern Oregon University marks its 46 th year on May 6-7. Grand Entries are at 7 p.m. on May 6 and 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. on May 7 at Quinn Coliseum. A traditional Friendship Feast, arts and crafts vendors, a wellness event and donation raffle are also part of the gather- ing. All activities are family-friendly, free and open to the public. “Last year’s event was a major suc- cess, doubling the amount of dancers from the previous year,” said Shoshoni Walker, coordinator of EOU’s Rural and Native American Program. “We hope to continue the growth and bring in more drums, dancers, vendors and community members. This is a great opportunity to participate in and learn about the culture and traditions native to this region.” Coinciding with the pow-wow this year is the 16 th Annual Rita Monahan Wellness Event from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 7 at Dorion Park at the corner of Sixth Street and H Avenue on campus. It includes a 5K walk/run, health-related booths, live music, raffle items, health screenings and fitness demonstrations. EOU’s Wellness Program and the OHSU School of Nursing in La Grande are partnering on the event, which raises scholarship funds to help graduating nurs- ing students pay for their RN licensure examination. On May 7, the Friendship Feast will precede the Grand Entry with food served in the auxiliary gym at Quinn beginning at 5 p.m. Arts and crafts vendors will be set up both days with a variety of wares, includ- ing American Indian-style flutes, and beaded and wire-wrapped jewelry. Vendors can register at eou.edu/powwow. In addition to the regular lineup of social and competitive dancing will be Men’s Slick Style, Women’s Short Fringe and Traditional, along with a hand drum contest offering opportunities for partici- pants to earn extra cash prizes. There is no dancer fee. Serving as host drum this year is Enhallimen from Lapwai, Idaho. Thomas Morning Owl (Umatilla) is the emcee The Speel-Ya Native American Stu- dent Council, Associated Students of EOU and many in-kind donations support this event. For more information, visit eou.edu/ powwow, call 541-962-3588 or email walkerss@eou.edu. VMM announces online Native Media Archives Guide available to public LINCOLN, Neb. – Vision Maker Media announce on April 12 its online Native Media Archives Guide for Tribes and individuals who are interested in car- ing for their media collections. “The Native Media Archives Guide shares important steps that can be made toward keeping media safe from the ele- ments,” explained Shirley K. Sneve (Rose- bud Sioux), executive director of Vision Maker Media. “We created this document for those who want to know how to begin preserving their media assets. Developing a professional archive storage system can be expensive, but we wanted to show that there are basic inexpensive steps to take to save this important material. The guide also demonstrates written information that should be kept in a database that describes the recordings for future generations.” Thanks to the launch of the Vision Maker Media Native Media Archives website (nativemediaarchives.wordpress. com), American Indian collection holders and Tribes can search and locate archival media in three local collections. The website hosts a search tool to locate archival collections at Vision Maker Media, the University of Nebraska- Lincoln (UNL) and the Nebraska State Historical Society (NSHS). It provides public access to a wide variety of archival materials, including video, audio, print and photographs. The three contributor sources include Vision Maker Media’s entire documen- tary programming produced for public television since 1976 alongside UNL’s and NSHS’s interviews with numerous American Indian elders in Nebraska his- tory as recorded by the Junior League of Lincoln and by Paul A. Olson. A grant from the National Endow- ment for the Arts helped Vision Maker Media develop the initial work including cataloguing and digitizing. Funds from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians is allowing Vision Maker Media to continue archival efforts to collaborate with indigenous media holders and media makers to develop a fully functional and accessible archival database. This brings together indigenous media collections so audiences can access collections, contribute content, view films and share stories. Alana Stone (Rosebud Sioux) was hired in January as Vision Maker Media’s archives assistant (astone@netad.unl.edu) to continue implementation of the plan. Vision Maker Media, a nonprofit 501(c)3, empowers and engages Native people to tell stories. We envision a world changed and healed by understanding Native stories and the public conversations they generate. Founded in 1977, Vision Maker Media is your premier source for quality American Indian and Alaska Native edu- cational and home videos. All aspects of our programs encourage the involvement of young people to learn more about careers in the media-to be the next genera- tion of storytellers. For more information, visit vision- makermedia.org. Siletz Community Dental Clinic Contact the Siletz Community Dental Clinic if you experience dental pain or a dental emergency. The staff will do everything it can to see you as soon as reasonably possible. Morning check-in time is Monday- Thursday from 8:30-9 a.m. and Fri- day from 10-10:30 a.m. Afternoon check-in time is Monday-Friday from 1-1:30 p.m. May 2016 • Siletz News • 15
