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OCTOBER 12, 2016 Portland and Seattle Volume XXXIX No. 2 25 CENTS News .............................. 3,8-10 A & E .....................................6-7 Opinion ...................................2 World News Briefs ........10 Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classiieds ....................11 CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW PHOTO BY CACOPHONY (GNU FREE DOCUMEN- TATION LICENSE) VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY The Portland City Council voted 3-1 Wednesday to accept the city’s contract with the Portland Police Association, in a closed conference room that excluded the public. Council voted in closed meeting to accept controversial agreement By The Skanner News Staf T he Portland City Council voted Wednesday to approve a contract between the Portland Police Bu- reau and its union — despite calls from activists to postpone the vote un- til Mayor-elect Ted Wheeler steps into oice. Commissioners Amanda Fritz and Nick Fish both voted aye on the con- tract, as did Mayor Charlie Hales. Com- See POLICE on page 3 PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED Council Approves New Police Contract Tayna Dowers joined several hundred Native Americans and other Seattleites in a celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day Monday with a march from Westlake Park to City Hall where the celebration continued with traditional drumming, singing and dance performances, a few words from local politicians and a speech by author Sherman Alexie. Thelma Johnson Streat Mural Finds a Permanent Home Artist’s work will be displayed in African American history museum By Arashi Young Of The Skanner News AP PHOTO/REBECCA BLACKWELL) I A woman looks up as a worker uses salvaged sheets of mangled metal, full of holes, to create a makeshift roof atop her home damaged by Hurricane Matthew, in Port-a-Piment, Haiti, Oct. 10. Nearly a week after the storm smashed into southwestern Haiti, some communities along the southern coast have yet to receive any assistance, leaving residents who have lost their homes and belongings struggling to ind shelter and water. Haiti Recovery Efort page 9 ‘Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise’ Movie Review page 6 f not for the dedication of her family, Thelma Johnson Streat’s artistic legacy would have been lost to history. Now her work is a permanent ix- ture in the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian pur- chased Streat’s “Medicine and Transportation Mu- ral” to be a part of their permanent collection for the African American Museum of History and Culture in Washington D.C. The work hangs near famed American visual artists Romare Beardon and Jacob Lawrence. Carlene Jackson, Streat’s niece, lew to attend the museum preview last month to honor her late aunt’s contribution. Jack- son said the visit was an emotional one for her. “It was wonderful to see it there. I even got a little teary eyed thinking about my aunt and how proud she would have been,” Jack- son said. The mural was part of a series of paintings Streat made in the 1940s. These murals were made to ed- ucate children on the his- torical accomplishments of African Americans. Jackson believes the “Med- icine and Transportation Mural” was painted some- where between 1942 and 1944. Streat was born in 1911 in Yakima, Washington and moved to the Portland area when she was a child. She lived with her parents in four siblings near Benson High School in Northeast Portland and graduated from Washington High School. Jackson said that Streat took some art classes in Portland through the Port- land Art Museum School, but her interest in art pre- dated any formal training. Jackson attributes this interest to Streat’s father, who was an artist as well. “She really started at a very young age -- recogniz- ing that this was her talent, this was her calling,” Jack- See STREAT on page 3 Judge Extends Voter Registration in Battleground Florida Voter registration extended until Oct. 18 due to disruption caused by Hurricane Matthew By Gary Fineout Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A federal judge on Wednesday extended voter registration until Oct. 18 in the bat- tleground state of Florida, due to the disruption and damage from Hurri- cane Matthew. During a hearing Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Mark Walker agreed to extend the deadline for six more days. He had already extended the Oct. 11 deadline one day, ater the Florida Democratic Party iled a lawsuit last weekend, following the hurricane’s brush with Florida’s east coast. Walker said in an order issued shortly aterward that he acted swit- ly because “no right is more precious than having a voice in our democra- cy.” See VOTERS on page 3 President Barack Obama waves as he walks from Marine One helicopter on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington Tuesday after a day trip to North Carolina. Obama told Miami radio station WHQT on Wednesday Florida voters have “no excuse” for failing to register to vote after a federal judge extended the deadline by six days, to next Tuesday.
