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C HALLENGING P EOPLE TO S HAPE A B ETTER F UTURE N OW
Tribe
Settles
with Feds
BIG
DAY OF
PLAY
Yakama Nation sued
over DOJ searches
on tribal lands
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
Isaac, 2, gets fitted for a free bicycle
helmet provided by Seattle Children’s
Hospital during the Big Day of Play,
Saturday, Aug. 24, at Magnuson Park.
Seattle Parks and Recreation and many
community partners including PCC
Natural Markets, CLIF Kid, and Pemco
Insurance sponsored the event, which
gave children and their parents an
opportunity to participate in a huge
variety of recreational activities. In
addition to soccer, basketball, and
football, kids could try water activities like
stand up paddle boards and kayaking;
play chess on a giant chess board; learn
golf from PGA Northwest; and listen to live
music performances by Recess Monkey
and School of Rock.
Computer Games + Math = Fun
Revolutionary tools help kids learn algebra and more, faster
By Katherine Long
The Seattle Times
SEATTLE (AP) — Washing-
ton teacher Tammie Schrader is
so enthusiastic about computer
games in education that she
thinks they can be used to teach
programming skills that lead to
college — starting in middle
school.
Canadian teacher Justin Hol-
laday wrote a few simple,
tablet-based games to help his
students practice math skills,
and when they caught on, he
started his own company to cre-
ate more of them.
And the University of Wash-
ington’s Zoran Popovic got
more than 4,000 Washington
students to master linear equa-
tions this spring by playing a
computer game for just a few
hours.
The growing availability of
inexpensive tablet computers
and a new generation of young
teachers who grew up playing
on a computer has spurred inter-
est in games for serious purpos-
es. This week, Schrader,
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Holladay and Popovic were
among those who gathered in
Redmond to talk about the
future of educational games at a
four-day ``Serious Play’’ con-
ference at DigiPen Institute of
Technology.
“Six or seven years ago, sell-
ing games to schools was bru-
tal,’’ said David Martz, of
Muzzy Lane Software, a Boston
company that produces games
for publishers such as McGraw-
Hill. Now, he said, schools are
interested in the promise of
games — perhaps because gam-
ing is so much more main-
stream.
One of the most successful
examples, for adults and stu-
dents alike, is the UW Center
for Game Science’s Foldit,
which challenges users to help
uncover the structures of bio-
logically important proteins.
Players around the world have
made a number of important
discoveries about the structures
of proteins just by playing the
game.
The UW lab has recently
See GAME on page 3
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — The U.S.
Department of Justice has agreed to notify
Yakama Nation police before executing
warrants against tribal members on tribal
land.
The agreement stems from a Feb. 16,
2011, federal raid on King Mountain Tobac-
co, which is owned and operated by a Yaka-
ma tribal member in White Swan.
Federal authorities took computers and
documents from the business without
informing tribal leaders and blocked tribal
police from entering the property during the
raid.
The tribe sued the Justice Department a
month later for allowing the FBI to execute
the raid without notifying tribal authorities.
``It’s historical from the standpoint that
there is not another agreement like this with
any other tribe and the U.S. Department of
Justice,’’ Tribal Council Chairman Harry
Smiskin told the Yakima Herald-Republic
about Monday’s agreement.
The lawsuit also named sheriff’s offices in
Yakima and Benton counties and govern-
ment agencies in Virginia and Mississippi
for participating in the raid.
Delbert Wheeler, King Mountain owner,
is accused of avoiding state cigarette taxes
in those states. He has claimed that ciga-
rettes manufactured on tribal land are not
subject to federal taxes.
Similar agreements were reached with
Yakima and Benton counties and Virginia
and Mississippi authorities, and the case
subsequently was dismissed.
Smiskin said the agreements reaffirm the
tribe’s self-governance and establish proce-
dures for outside agencies seeking to arrest
tribal members on tribal land.
Benton and Yakima counties have agreed
to not only allow a tribal police officer to be
present when executing such warrants, but
also to book tribal suspects into the tribe’s
jail and go through an extradition process.
However, those arresting procedures may
not apply to federal authorities who often
See YAKAMA on page 3
Life Sentence for Bales Angers Afghans
Victims brought all the way from Middle East for court case
By Gene Johnson
The Associated Press
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD,
Wash. (AP) — The villagers traveled near-
ly 7,000 miles to learn the fate of the Amer-
ican soldier who gunned down their
children, siblings and parents, who set their
lifeless bodies afire with a kerosene lantern.
And when the news came, it came in a sim-
ple gesture: a thumb’s up from their inter-
preter.
A military jury sentenced Staff Sgt.
Robert Bales, 40, to life in prison without
the possibility of release Friday. It was the
most severe sentence possible. The villagers
expressed gratitude for that, but they were
nevertheless deeply unsatisfied that Bales
lived at all.
``We wanted this murderer to be execut-
ed,’’ said Hajji Mohammad Wazir, who lost
11 family members in the attack by Bales.
``We were brought all the way from
Afghanistan to see if justice would be
served. Not our way — justice was served
the American way.’’
Bales pleaded guilty in June in a deal to
avoid the death penalty for his March 11,
See BALES on page 3