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relaxation and what feels best
with their outfi t selections for
anyone coming.
“Be comfortable and
watch the weather because
you know it’s Northeast Ore-
gon and it can change in a
minute,” he said.
And the cowboy attire
obviously isn’t something
that’s uncommon for the
rodeo, Hanigan also wears a
similar type of get-up.
“I usually wear a cowboy
hat, I have my gun, I have my
Levi’s, my cowboy boots.
That’s how my normal dress
is,” Hanigan said, “It’s sum-
mertime; I’m cooling down.”
Tickner thinks the weather
this year could cause more
people to dress diff erently,
but she enjoys the cultural
attire of the event.
“I think it’s supposed to
be pretty hot this year, so
maybe just something more
comfortable for them. But it
is always fun to have spec-
tators enjoying the Western
activities in full dress,” she
said.
When it comes to posi-
tioning herself within Har-
tinent by obtaining responses
from local leaders, women,
youths and elders.
“I’m gathering how they
view the experience and the
expression of peace in their
daily lives … then from
the bottom we go to the top
and we make policies out of
how people really view what
peace means in their life,” he
said.
For some people it can be
as simple as playing sports,
getting water and going
to church. But these prac-
tices can help communities
achieve peace, which is why
he wants to update the data-
base not with stats, but by
making sure these processes
of peace are being imple-
mented by Africans.
“Instead of just getting
new data all the time, it’s
more like how do we make
sure that it is always recycled
into the people who off er it
so that they own it and there
is action coming from it,”
Kinzie said.
Joseph and Africa have
quite diff erent circum-
stances, and Kinzie feels that
in Joseph he can be with his
own thoughts more than he
can in some of the vibrant
communities he works in on
the other side of the globe.
“Africa kind of wears you
out a little bit,” he said, “I’m
able to relax a little more here
(in Joseph) and recharge.”
When he’s in Joseph,
Kinzie and his friend Ezekiel
Hale run a web-development
business called Develop
Easy. He is also a pianist,
who composes music with
diff erent groups and by him-
self, and teaches piano les-
sons on the side. He spends
time doing information tech-
nology for the Josephy Cen-
ter for Arts and Culture so he
can pay the bills while doing
his peacework.
He is going back to Africa
in October to present his
fi ndings, as he hopes to get
$250,000 a year for an ini-
tial fi ve-year period to start
the project. If he secures
funding, Kinzie hopes to
keep traveling between Ore-
gon and Africa and help
spread peace for the next few
decades.
“I would love a future
where I get to go back to
Africa a little bit every year,
stay in touch with the proj-
ect, help it out, but kind of
let it fl ow away on its own
wings. That sounds like a
cool life,” he said.
ley Tucker Memorial Arena,
Hanigan and her fi ancé pre-
fer to sit on the south side of
the arena up on top to avoid
the sun shining directly in
their eyes.
“Underneath the awning
we’re covered and we try to
get up high. I think we’re in
the second row (as) close to
center as possible,” Hanigan
said.
Ticker thinks people tend
to prefer a diff erent spot to
stay out of the sun when
there is general admission to
the rodeo on Wednesday and
Thursday.
“Most of the time that’s
the north side under the cov-
ered seating, so they’re out of
the sun or weather if we have
any,” she said.
For food, Hanigan doesn’t
have much preference where
she chooses to dine at the
event, and likes to mix it up.
“I try a little bit of every-
thing every year, and try to
try something diff erent,” she
said. “So I don’t get the same
thing all the time.”
She also brings a water
bottle to make sure she stays
hydrated in the hot summer-
time conditions.
Fair food classics are
all the rave at Chief Joseph
Days, and Tickner explained
that there are a few specifi c
foods people prefer.
“The curly fries and ele-
phant ears ... that’s always
a fun one to get at rodeos,”
Tickner said.
When deciding which
days to attend, it can really
depend on what excites you
the most about the festivi-
ties. Some families might
prefer Friday for the Grand
Parade, and those who are
more focused on the rodeo
action might want to priori-
tize the PRCA rodeo on Sat-
urday night.
For an event that’s fun for
everyone, Tickner recom-
mends the Bucking Horse
Stampede on Tuesday in
which they run the horses
that take part in the parade
down Main Street.
“People can watch them
come all the way down,” she
said. “It’s pretty fun, it can
get a little wild sometimes,
but it is fun to watch.”
Hanigan likes to go on
Saturday night for the main
rodeo, but she goes on
Wednesday night for a rea-
son that’s closer to her heart.
“My fi ancé’s grandson
rides the sheep (on Wednes-
day night), and they come all
the way from Idaho to do just
that,” Hangian said.
“THERE’S 55
COUNTRIES (AND)
WITHIN EACH
COUNTRY YOU CAN
HAVE UP TO 100
LANGUAGES. EACH
LANGUAGE IS ITS
OWN CULTURE.”
— Seth Kinzie
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A spiritual side
Most events opened
with a prayer to the Creator,
off ering thanks and ask-
ing for guidance. One of the
more spiritual ceremonies
was when a native name
was conferred on a tribal
member.
Armand Menthorne, a
member of the Umatilla
Tribe who is in charge of the
longhouse at the Homeland
Project, emphasized that
the Creator brought those
in attendance together for
a reason. That was exem-
plifi ed in the presence of a
woman from South Korea
— Mystic Voice — and a
man from Africa — Jona-
than Azis.
The ceremony may have
been spiritual, but it was far
from dour.
In introducing and wel-
coming Mystic Voice, Men-
thorne said, “That’s what
she wants to be called by, but
in Indian humor we can call
her anything we want.”
The room erupted with
laughter.
“We have to welcome
one another,” he said. “The
Creator made a plan for her
to be here and she’s here. …
Maybe she’ll come again
and bring some of her fam-
ily — or maybe she’ll pay
for all of us to go to South
Korea.”
That sparked another
round of laughter.
She said she was glad
to be there and empha-
sized some similarities
between her people and the
Nez Perce. She told how
she lived on an island off
the Korean coast that once
was independent. Her peo-
ple — like the Nimiipuu —
had become known as horse
breeders. In the Korean case,
they bred horses for the
Mongol Empire. Also like
the Nez Perce, her people’s
land had become occupied.
Bill Bradshaw/
Wallowa County Chieftain
Dancers of all ages were out
in their fi nest regalia in the
dance arbor Saturday, July 23,
2022, during the 30th annual
Tamkaliks Celebration.
“You’re the people of the
Wallowas and of horses,”
she said to the crowd. “We
like you to share your wis-
dom with our nation and the
world to live in harmony
with nations.”
The past
Tamkaliks — which
in Nimiipuu means “from
where you can see the moun-
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tains” — has been going on
since 1990 when Taz Con-
ner and Terry and Nancy
Crenshaw organized the fi rst
such event. According to the
Homeland website, in 1989,
Conner, a descendant of Old
Chief Joseph, Tuekakas,
was invited by the city of
Wallowa to help them plan
some kind of Native Amer-
ican festival in Wallowa. It
was decided that a friend-
ship potluck and powwow
would be the most appropri-
ate event.
The fi rst Tamkaliks took
place in 1990 in the Wallowa
High School gymnasium.
Once the tribe purchased
the 160-acres site where the
Homeland Project now is
— in 1997 — the powwow
and potluck was renamed
Tamkaliks.
Now, Tamkaliks takes
place (usually) on the third
weekend of July, the week-
end before Chief Joseph
Days in Joseph.
“Part of the reason we
do that is some people like
to come and camp through
both,” Crenshaw said.
Next year’s Tamkaliks is
already scheduled for July
21-23, 2023.
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While living in Africa
he’s noticed a lot of factors
which have stifl ed peaceful
relationships between vari-
ous groups. One being that
even though you see some
Pan-African unity, the divide
between diff erent commu-
nities and countries can be
extreme.
“There’s 55 countries
(and) within each country
you can have up to 100 lan-
guages. Each language is its
own culture,” he said.
In Uganda, which accord-
ing to Kinzie is the same size
as Oregon with 10 times as
many people, the overpopu-
lation of youths, especially
men, has created a lack of
job opportunities.
“A lot of men you’ll see
will just be on the side of
the road doing nothing, just
hanging out with their buds,”
Kinzie said, “Basically
everybody’s 15.”
So in 2021, looking for
the opportunity to become an
even greater agent for peace,
he applied for a Rotary Peace
Fellowship in Africa with the
help of the Rotary Club of
Wallowa County. After get-
ting accepted, he became
one of three Americans to
embark on a yearlong pro-
gram at Makerere University
in Kampala, Uganda.
As a part of this fellow-
ship, Kinzie went to Uganda
for 10 weeks to study peace
and confl ict from a com-
munity perspective. After
studying he went to Ethio-
pia, Malawi, Somalia and
Botswana where he laid
down the framework for his
fellowship project, an Afri-
can Peacemaking Database.
The idea behind the
database was to fi ll a void.
There are many interna-
tional indexes that show how
peaceful a country is based
on factors like the number of
weapons, economy, wars and
corruption. But even though
these indexes inform about
how peaceful a place is, how
can people look at any of this
data and improve peacemak-
ing in their day to day lives?
So in collaboration with
the African Union, Kinzie
laid out a 15-year project to
fi gure out the best practices
of peace throughout the con-
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