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Saturday, April 23, 2022
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CTUIR:
IF YOU GO
Through the rest of the
week, educational events
that are open to the public
will be held on the Whit-
man College campus.
Speakers will talk on sev-
eral topics relating to the
local land and its native
people.
More details can be found
at bit.ly/longtentwhitman.
The events all lead up to a
closing ceremony Sunday,
April 24. Details of the
closing ceremony have
not yet been announced.
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Whitman alum Roger
Amerman, who also is a
member of the Choctaw
Nation, helped bring the tribes
and college together.
A kwalk ineet is not seen
off a reservation very often,
let alone at a college campus.
In fact, organizers are saying
this is the fi rst time such a
structure has been built at a
college or university.
Sampson said he hopes the
experience is educational and
helps students at Whitman
learn more about the land on
which they attend school.
Andy Porte/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, File
Patrick Brennan, a “living history restorer” with the 10th
Cavalry Regiment, talks with Harold King and Terry Drinnon
in 2017 about the regiment’s role in the Spanish-American
War during a “Welcome Home to Historic Walla Walla VA” job
and information fair at the Jonathan M. Wainwright Memori-
al VA Medical Center. The Department of Veterans Aff airs in
March 2022 released a report proposing to make the center
an outpatient clinic.
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History of the
Oblisk of Athena said that’s
kwalk ineet
how he uses the Walla Walla
The long tent is a struc-
VA now.
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“The change wouldn’t
ture used by Plateau Native
aff ect me,” he said. “They just
American tribes. While they
the residential rehabilitation expanded dental services and
are made from canvas today,
Greg Lehman/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
treatment program housed eyeglasses there. They put up
historically they were made Don Sampson, executive director of the Confederated
there to Spokane, where such a whole new building.”
from tule — or bullrush — Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, addresses the
gathering Monday, April 18, 2022, at the opening ceremo-
mats.
a program doesn’t exist.
And if he needed surgery,
According to Walla Walla the VA would send him to
Sampson said the kwalk ny of a weeklong Plateau Long Tent event on Whitman Col-
VA Medical Center Public Portland or pay for it at St.
ineet is a very important part lege’s Ankeny Field, Walla Walla.
Aff airs Offi cer Linda Wondra, Anthony Hospital, Pendle-
of the native people’s history
the proposed changes to Walla ton, or Providence St. Mary
used for the season around a history in the area.
in this region.
Walla will not lead to any Medical Center, Walla Walla.
“This is the lodge where food to be gathered.”
“The Walla Walla Valley
changes at the local level in La
“I wouldn’t want to
While they are not often was our homeland long before
families gathered and lived
Grande, which has provided undergo surgery at the Walla
for many years,” he said.
used for permanent living any non-natives came here,”
services to veterans from as Walla VA,” he said.
Such structures have had structures today, Sampson Sampson said. “That was
far away as Pendleton.
A statement from the
many uses throughout history. said, their use for ceremonial our homeland, and it still is
“At the current time, Walla Walla VA stated the
Larger tents, such as the one gatherings remain.
today … I always hear people
we have no knowledge or proposals are strictly recom-
at Whitman, provided a place
They also have an educa- say, ‘Oh, I’m a fi fth-gener-
to gather.
tional use, showing what life ation farmer.’ I say, ‘Well,
concern that the La Grande mendations, with nothing set
clinic will be aff ected in any in stone to date. Any potential
“It’s a place where fami- was like for people here many you know, I’ve been here for
way,” Wondra said. “All our changes to the infrastructure
lies live, where teachings are generations ago.
about 10,000 generations. So
sites of care are expected to of health care within Veterans
conducted, where the life-
the place where you live is the
Whitman’s
continue providing care as Aff airs could be several years
style of the people occurred,”
place that is my home.’”
Long Tent project
before.”
away, depending on congres-
he said. “These larger ones
Still, he said the ceremony
Per the Spokane paper, sional decision making.
The project at Whitman April 18 would not be about
were also used for ceremo-
relocating ser vices to
The Walla Walla VA
nial gatherings. When there College began Monday, scolding people and would
Spokane and Richland would is continuing efforts to
were feasts, when there were April 18, with an opening instead be about reconcilia-
serve a larger number of veter- strengthen its regional health
namings, when there were ceremony.
tion and unity.
ans than the Walla Walla area, care services in areas with a
memorial services or funer-
Sampson, Amerman and
This held true.
the VA report says. Accord- high volume of veterans, such
als. These were all conducted leaders of nearby tribes took
“I think it’s important to
ing to an assessment of VA’s as Richland and Yakima.
part.
acknowledge our people who
inside of these.”
Inland Northwest market, Moving forward, the Asset
Long tents were of great
Several hundred people — came from this land here for
about 5,000 veterans enrolled and Infrastructure Review
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“I was watching TV about
people in Ukraine being
invaded,” he said. “And I got
to thinking, ‘You know, it
wasn’t that long ago that our
people saw that same thing
happen to them. It was a diffi -
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here today. You can see us.’”
Other speakers at the
opening ceremony included
Amerman, other native lead-
ers and representatives from
Whitman College.
“As I stand before the long
tent today, I am fi lled with a
sense of wonder and thank-
fulness,” outgoing Whitman
President Kathy Murray said.
“Increasing our campus’s
connection to the Walla Walla
Valley’s past present and
future has been a real priority
for me.”
Sampson told the U-B he
thinks an ongoing relation-
ship between the Confeder-
ated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation and the
college can be a good thing,
both for the college and for the
tribes.
“None of our kids can
aff ord to go to school there,
and now they may offer
scholarships,” Sampson said.
“That’s a gesture of reconcil-
iation, and we are grateful for
that.”
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Gillian Frew confi rmed to
the U-B that the college is
working with CTUIR on
scholarships for students
from local tribes.
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