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HEALING: Husted’s conviction that writing should be shared has grown stronger
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and what to do now,” she said.
“All Coyote’s Children” tells the
story of the Fallon family — Jack,
Annie and their teenage son, Riley.
The family’s peaceful life is thrown
into disarray when, because of a sin-
gle mistake, Riley enters rehab and
Jack, a professor of Native Amer-
ican history, disappears into the
wilderness.
Annie returns to Jack’s fam-
ily ranch, on land surrounded by
the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
The story follows Annie and Riley
as they deal with Jack’s disappear-
ance, develop a close friendship
with a neighboring Umatilla-Cayuse
woman and learn about the history of
the land they live on.
Though the story is told in the
voices of Annie and Riley, both white
characters, Native Americans figure
heavily into the story’s fabric.
“It’s tricky,” Husted said. “You
have that issue of appropriation. I’m
very aware of it as a teacher of Native
lit, and just as a person, to try not to
do that.”
Husted said she wanted to depict
the rapid dissolution that Native
American tribes suffered, but on a
more personal scale.
“In almost every tribal culture, but
Cover photo courtesy Oregon State Press
certainly in the Cayuse, Umatilla and
Walla Walla cultures, the huge cata-
strophic changes landed on them in
a generation or less. It was 13 years
from the time the Whitmans came to
half the Cayuse were dead, and the
rest were being hunted down by mili-
tias,” she said.
Husted’s story explores the fallout
from those actions.
“Practically overnight, the roof
falls in on their happiness,” she said.
Husted also had a friend, a former
student who is Native American, read
the manuscript for passages where
of Husted’s work, a subject she’s
been compelled to learn about since
her childhood.
Husted grew up in Orofino, Idaho,
above the Clearwater River.
She came to Eastern Oregon in
1973 to teach, and has been in Pend-
leton since 1989. By teaching writ-
ing, American literature, Oregon
literature and Native American liter-
ature, she said she found the written
word was an often overlooked way to
achieve honesty.
“You ask yourself, how power-
ful is writing?” she said. “Stories get
a bad rap in general. In schools, right
now the big push is STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering and Math).
Nothing wrong with that.”
But she cautioned against the dis-
missal of the humanities.
“A lot of time you can get to the
truth through fiction or poetry in a
way you can’t necessarily through
analysis or measurement,” she said.
Much of Husted’s development
as an author has come from writer’s
groups and workshops, both local and
regional.
She has long been involved with
Fishtrap, a Wallowa County-based
nonprofit that hosts writers work-
shops. Through these gatherings, she
got to know authors such as Ursula
LeGuin, Molly Gloss, Grace Paley
she might be overstepping.
“She told me, I think, six places
where she said, ‘You’re telling too
much,’” Husted said. “And I took
those out.”
The friend wrote a letter to
Husted’s publisher, Oregon State
University Press, endorsing the book.
“I resent it when people write
about me — not me personally, but
social class issues, Western women.
When they come in and look at us for
a week and a half and then write about
us, I think, ‘No, people would not do
that,’ or ‘Western men aren’t all that
bad,’ that sort of thing,” Husted said.
“I certainly didn’t want to be guilty of
that.”
But she said while it must be done
carefully, writers should be able to
tell stories that acknowledge other
cultures.
“If you can’t write a story about
Native and non-Native people who
live together, that’s another kind of
silencing of the story. That’s one of
the things I objected to,” she said.
“We have so successfully almost
erased many peoples’ consciousness
of Native people. They think they’re
gone, or relics of the past, instead of
who they are, which is multifaceted,
just like any other culture.”
Native American history and cul-
ture are prominent elements in much
and Lucille Clifton.
She also helps others share their
voices as one of the organizers for the
First Draft Writer’s Series, a monthly
event at the Pendleton Center for the
Arts. Featured authors have spanned
all genres, and many different cultural
backgrounds.
Husted’s conviction that writ-
ing should be shared has only grown
stronger.
“One thing I used to tell my stu-
dents — did you ever write a note
and pass it across the aisle? You’d
risk any amount of detention to get
that note across. Do you have some-
thing to say? Yes you do, and it mat-
ters to you.”
Though she’s not sure what her
next project is, Husted said she would
love to write another novel. She has
been consistently writing poetry, and
continues to write a monthly column
for this newspaper.
“I know I will always write,” she
said. “I have to, it’s my lifeline.”
At one of her recent workshops,
Husted said she was challenged by
an assignment to write something
“unabashedly joyful.”
“My poems tend to be very seri-
ous,” she said with a laugh. “But the
purpose is not to pull people down
into darkness, but look squarely at
darkness and walk toward the light.”
FINICUM: Shawna Cox filed lawsuit one day before deadline expired
Sullivan also questioned
why U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden,
D-Oregon, and former U.S.
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nevada,
are among the defendants.
“Well, either get them
served or get them dis-
missed,” she said.
Likewise, Sullivan noted
she did not know why the
suit includes the Center for
Biological Diversity in Port-
land. David Campbell, Port-
land attorney for the center,
said “I agree, your honor.”
Philpot said he would
get the judge the report and
added next week’s sched-
uled criminal trial of FBI
agent W. Joseph Astarita in
Portland could yield more
names for the defendant list.
Astarita faces federal
charges of making false
statements and obstruction
of justice. The government
alleges Astarita lied about
firing at Finicum moments
before state police shot him
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Attorney Morgan Philpot
of Utah represents the Fin-
icums and told the court all
of the defendants have been
served.
But attorney Thomas F.
Armosino of Medford said
he represents Harney County
and its officials. He said
none of his clients received
notices of the suit. And Leah
Taylor with the U.S. Depart-
ment of Justice said defen-
dant Greg Bretzing, former
head of the FBI in Oregon,
has also not received notice.
Philpot stressed his side
has met the legal obliga-
tion to serve the defen-
dants. Sullivan said he had
15 days starting Wednesday
to deliver documentation of
that service and she would
not grant him one day more.
“Just give me a report,”
she told Philpot.
dead on Jan. 26, 2016, when
he bolted from a pickup at a
roadblock on Highway 395
in Harney County.
The trial might not be
such a boon to the Finicum
side. James Smith, with the
Oregon Department of Jus-
tice, represents the state and
its interests. He said law
enforcement officials testi-
fying during the trial will use
pseudonyms out of concern
for their safety. That will
make them difficult to serve
notice to at the trial, he said.
Sullivan said she will
handle pretrial matters,
motions and expected dis-
covery — the gathering of
documents, evidence and
facts — to start this year and
last into 2019.
She told the lawyers she
will hold future hearings in
Portland to make it easier for
them to attend.
But nothing gets moving
until parties receive notice
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about the lawsuit. The dead-
line for that report is Aug. 3.
Sullivan also dealt with
a separate lawsuit seeking
millions of dollars in dam-
ages from Astarita, Gov.
Brown and others for the
events that led up to Fini-
cum’s death. Shawna Cox of
Utah filed the lawsuit pro se
— that is, for herself — on
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just as the window to sue
was closing. Cox later added
Ryan Payne, Victoria Sharp
and Ryan Bundy as pro se
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“Well, either get
them served
or get them
dismissed.”
and amended the complaint
because “the first had a lot of
flaws.”
Since then, Cox and
Bundy sought to withdraw
from the case. Sullivan grant
that and denied a motion to
file an amended suit.
“To me this is a pretty
straight forward legal rule
— a pro se plaintiff can’t
sign for other pro se plain-
tiffs,” she said.
Roots said there are cases
addressing the purpose of
such rules. Sullivan told him
to “dig into it” and file an
objection to convince her.
Roots has until Aug. 20 to
provide that, and the defen-
dants have until Sept. 4 to
respond.
plaintiffs.
Sullivan said Cox is not a
lawyer and cannot add any-
one else to a complaint. And
no one, she said, signed the
original complaint itself.
Instead, they signed other
documents and included
those with the lawsuit. Sul-
livan even held up the last
page of the complaint to
show it was bereft of any
signatures.
Attorney Roger Roots
of Rhode Island represents
the plaintiffs in this case.
He said Cox, Bundy, Sharp
and Payne agreed to sue, and
Cox rushed to file the com-
plaint before the deadline
expired.
He joined the case later
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