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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1976)
AUGUST 2», 1976 WARM SPRINGS, OREGON PAGE» • Huckleberries DIRECTOR KEITH MERRILL begins the try- the middle and horse trainer Jim Prine at right, outs for the stand-in for the lead role in “The Photo by Cynthia D. Stowell Warriors.” Director at left, star Kiko Soto in A variety of activities • "Warriors" (Continued from Page 1) Susan Moses, Ellen Squiemphen, Matilda Mitchell, and Nettie Showoway were cast as village ladies in the film. Selected as “friend of the grandfather,” No. 1 (a speaking part) was Avex Miller, and friend No. 2 ( a non-speaking part) went to Andrew David. In the downpour on Huckle berry Feast weekend, crews were doggedly hammering away on new structures, haul ing old wrecked cars around, and erecting fences and board walks. Amazingly, in one short week, three new houses and a storefront havez been set up in the vicinity of the church. Byron Patt has been cho sen to portray the father of the The grandfather’s house boy; Bill (Buck Jones) John (the one next to the church) „will be the leather craftsman; has been furnished and looks Jacob Frank is head wrangler ; as it has been lived in for and the part of the mechanic years. Some of the items in the has gone to Nathan Jim Sr. house, beaded blankets and harnesses, were loaned by Riders include Tony Mit local people and are insured chell (son of Art Mitchell), and carefully taken care of. Manny Jim (son of Wilfred It has been learned that Jim), Daniel Greene (son of Perry Greene), and Max Jim there is a definite possibility (son of Nathan Jim Sr.). Fan that at least one scene will be tasy Films has indicated that filmed at Alice’s Restaurant. others will be hired as the Also, a “wild horse stampede” will be shot around the 10th of need arises. September near the northern portion of the reservation. In the wake of prepara tions for filming, the appear ance of Simnasho has changed Behind The Scenes: Everybody wants to be a considerably. Construction crews, under the direction of star and in that sense the Cy Katchia, have been working people who showed up for the practically day and night,to try-outs at the Community Cen finish up in time for the ter August 5, were no different from you and me. But these August 19th starting date. people now have a taste of what is involved in casting and a select few will actually ap pear in “The Warriors.” Keith Merrill had wonder ful rapport with the aspiring extras and did his best to make even the shy ones com fortable. His technique of in terviewing giggly sisters was to converse casually with them and then coax them to try a few lines, spoken and shouted, and to express different emo tions. In choosing the stand-in for Kiko, Merrill was more in terested in physical attributes than acting potential. He asked each boy to stand side-by-side and back-to-back with Kiko, shirtless. Questions about age, weight and riding ability sup plemented Merrill’s visual comparison. But a decision was not made until the boys had demonstrated their horse manship the next day. Commenting on the selec tion of extras, Merrill said the difficulty comes not in casting, but in actually working with people who have never acted before. But he said of the Warm Springs hopefuls, “They’re all excellent. We’ll have to re-write the script to include a mob scene.” Extension Notes Deer meat cutting: All interested persons can learn how to cut deer meat for drying on Tuesday, August 24th, 7 p.m. at the Community Center Park. Deer meat cutting will be demonstrated by Iris and Mary Smith. It is sponsored by the Extension Service. For more information, call the Warm Springs Extension Office at 553-1161, Ext. 46. Check the Price Before Buying Hay Good quality alfalfa hay is going from $55-75 dollars a ton. Grass hay $45-60 dollars a ton and grass straw $30-40 dollars a ton. If you buy hay or straw by the bail make sure you know how much your paying. For instance: (Continued from Page 1) proceeded to shake the hand of each and every person in the longhouse. Then began the long cere mony of distributing the food. In their traditional order —- Salmon, deer meat, roots and berries — morsels of the food were deposited on each plate, along with a bit of water. With a special prayer these foods were partaken of and the bulk of the meal was brought out. The salmon and deer meat were each carried by three men; three women carried each kind of root; and the ber ries were distributed last by three women. Special thanks were again given and the meal began. The food seemed to taste especially good not only be cause of the great anticipation but also because time had been given to consider the value and meaning of what earth had provided. Price per bail $4.00 $3.00 $2.00 $4.00 $3.00 $2.00 $4.00 $3.00 $2.00 wt. of bail 60 60,5 60 80 80 80 100 100 100 Then price you are paying for above per ton is: $130.00 $100.00 $67.00 $100.00 $75.00 $50.00 $80.00 $60.00 $40.00 Check that Bail Before You Buy We’ve just come through two weeks of rain when 50-60 percent of the second cutting of alfalfa, grass hay and grass straw was down on the ground. This means that a lot of hay and straw will be lower in quality and may even be hot, wet or moldy. A good way to check the type of hay you are buying is to stick your hand down into 5 or 6 bails and pull out sorhe from the center of the bail. Good hay and straw is green, leafy, fine stemed and dry in the center. If the hay or straw is tan, brown or yellow it was left on the ground to long before bailing. Tan, brown or yellow hay has less protein and vitamins than green leafy hay and buyers should pay less for this type of hay or straw. The Huckleberry Feast is a gathering of people; and where people gather, fun is to be had. Dancing was not as popu lar as in past years. But stick games went on till late at night. And the rodeo was a happy occasion despite the rain both days. On the more somber side, a memorial service was held the week prior to the feast to honor the late Nathan Heath. As befitting royalty, the Heath family had a generous give away and Robert Heath re ceived his Indian name. HeHe the site of “happy times” The site for the Huckle berry Feast has not always been at HeHe. And this was only the second feast in that particular longhouse. The pre vious building' burned in 1975 after being used for 20 or so years. It was rebuilt almost immediately, testifying to the strong desire to maintain the HeHe tradition. The first huckleberry feasts that people can remember were held at Seekseequa and Badger Creek. They were gala affairs with long encampments and such activities as bone games, ball games, horse races and pow-wows. The feast was later centra lized on privately-owned land in Simnasho which was a center of population at the time. The encampment tradition continu ed despite the fact that water had to be hauled up from Bea ver Creek. Around 1938 the location was changed to tribally-owned land at HeHe, the traditional site of camus barbeucing. The feast was held in a canvas and wood longhouse until the first fully wooden structure was built around 1950. The huckle berry feast to Labor Day en campment lost popularity se veral years ago and now people generaly stay about a week. But the festive mood re mains, and HeHe, which means laughter or happy times, con tinues to be a treasured» spot 4 for the blessing of the huckle berry. Moldy, wet or hot hay or * Fascinating fives. straw is caused by bailing the These are terms often used hay to wet. This is not good to label behavior of children at feed for horses or cattle and it certain ages. But anyone who can cause health problems. So has worked or lived with child don’t buy wet, moldy or hot ren knows how misleading hay. these terms can be, says Mar Dried Fruit: Delicious, Diverse celle Straatman, Extension hu Home dried fruits can be man development specialist at used in a variety of ways. Oregon State University. Susan Gangler, Extension Are they really “terrible” food and nutrition specialist at at two? Not when they wash Oregon State University, says their hands or brush their that many persons like dried teeth as you do, or imitate fruit as a.snack at home, or in your dancing, your tender a sack lunch. Dried fruits also handling of a kitten, or stirring can be reconstituted and incor in the kitchen. But it’s not porated into favorite recipes. fun-and-games when Suzie To reconstitute dried fruit clings or whines or keeps get add water just to cover. Add ting out of bed. She is saying, more water later if needed. “I need you now because I am One to eight hours are re afraid, lonely, or wet.” quired to reconstitute most How “trusting” are three- fruits. The time varies with the year-olds? Sometimes they kind of fruit, the size of the have a pack of worries. They pieces and the temperature of worry about' dogs, about the water (hot water takes less “other” people hurting them, time). Oversoaking will pro or why they are made dif duce a loss of flavor, she ferently than brother or sister. cautions. Children’s worries are big, One cup of dried fruit re Mrs. Straatman says. Three- constitutes to about 1% cups of year-olds are fun. they like fruit. Serve the reconstituted favorite stories and nursery fruit in favorite recipes for rhymes read over and over. breads, gelatin salads, omelets, They talk to make-believe stuffing, milkshakes, home playmates and animals. made ice cream, and cooked Sometimes at four a cereals. Any liquid remaining youngster can be “frustrating.” after soaking can be used as “No” and “I won’t” get a little part of the liquid needed in the tiresome as do little lies, ali recipe. bis, and bossiness. It’s part of For further information, development as all the Billies EC 899’ “Drying Fruits and and Suzies talk more, listen Vegetables” is now available more, and try to explain them at the Warm Springs Extension selves more. They are inter Office, 2nd floor, old girl’s ested in how things work, in dorm; 553-1161, Ext. 46. being involved. They enjoy imitating people in their family Labeling Your Child? Don't! or those they see in the com Terrible twos . . . Trusting munity or on television. threes ... Frustrating fours ...
