For college-bound Tribal seniors ...
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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).
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Send thank you notes to any person/
committee from which you received
a scholarship.
June
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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.
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