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JANUARY 13, 1978 PAGE 3 Counselor Position Filled by Roger Stwyer You don’t know where you’re going unless you know who and w here you are and where you come from. With th at p hrase in mind, Sm all-Fire Hawk, who will be the new counselor a t M adras High School, has made it one of his goals to get as many Iridian students to rem ain Indian and yet learn to live with their con temporary every day surround ings. Originally from Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, Small-Fire Hawk sta rte d as U.S. History teacher at Madras in the school year 1976-77. Effective January 23, Hawk will be the new Indian Here he chats with student Fox Leonard (right). counselor, a position left vacant for the p ast eight weeks. A graduate from the University of California a t Berkeley, 32 year old Sm all-Fire has four years experience in counseling ; two years in Bishop, California and two years in Hoopa, California. Moreover, Hawk has taught So ciology, Psychology, Indian His CDS Photo tory, and has coached football, basketball, and track. He is cur rently assistant varsity coach in basketball, football, and track at Madras. At the p resent tim e, Hawk isn’t certain as to Whether or not he will be the Indian Club advisor but m entioned th at he would like to be. As for the Indian students, Sm all-Fire would help their needs and get them in a position to help themselves educationally and socially. But attendance has been and alw ays will be a problem a t MHS. “ A lot of the students don’t care because they have no reason to c a re ,” says Hawk of the attendance prob lem. Hawk wants to give them a reason to care. Separatism has always been in public schools. Wherever you go, the Indians will be in one group, and the white people will be in another. Small Fire Hawk sees two sides of this ; “Good in a group because they (the In dians) can keep up their tr a ditions, bad because people wonder why we do the things we do.” Hawk continued, “We wear his (white m a n ’s) clothes, his shoes, his h ats, we drive his cars, we know a lot about their culture, but they know nothing of ours.” Hawk had no immedi ate solutions to this problem which, for m any, c a n ’t be sol ved. “ I like it, I like counseling,” stated Small-Fire Hawk. Counselor Has New Year's Baby The first baby born in J e f ferson County in 1978 belongs to the new Warm Springs grade school counselor Bill Bailey and his wife Cathy. Alison Jean Bailey was born at M ountain View Hospital at 1:00 p.m . Ja n u a ry 5, 1978. She weighed 7 lbs. 7 oz. Alison is the Baileys’ second child. They also have a son Joshua who is 3 years old. Brands Should Be Registered All brands th a t a re not registered with the Tribes or the State m ust be brought to the Natural Resources Departirient before M arch 31, said brand inspector Gordon Scott. This would include any. brands th at have changed or have been tra n sfe rre d to new owners. The brand, along with the owner’s name, and address and the d istric t in which the live stock will be run, should be brought in or sent to the Natural Resources Department as soon as possible for registration. Talent Show on Again Murder Suspect in Custody made by the Oregon State Police Crime Lab on January 4. Colwash’s half clothed body was discovered by off-duty Warm Springs police officer Cliff Jenkins Sunday evening D ecem ber 18,1977 on the P101 In custody a t Rocky Butte road behind Alice’s Restaurant. Ja il in P ortland is M erlin Roy Colwash had been shot nine B ranham , 19, a resident of times in the head. Warm Springs and a tribal As described in a complaint m em ber. B ranham , who was filed with the U.S. A ttorney’s arrested January 4 at the Tribal office, B ranham was seen in Jail, was indicted by the grand possession of the m urder wea jury January 11 on a charge of pon early on the 18th at a Warm Springs home where a party was first degree murder. going on. Branham allegedly left The FBI investigation lead the p arty with the victim at ing to the arrest of the suspect around 5 a.m . The gun was revealed that the bullets causing returned to the site of the party Colwash’s death were from a on the following day. stolen 22 caliber revolver that, B ranham was a rre ste d at was in Branham’s possession a t' the Tribal Police Station by Bob the time of the iricident. Positive Mannix of the FBI in Bend and identification of the weapon was charged with the murder. Rising tension in the Warm Springs community in the after- math of the December shooting of 16 y ear old Ja re e n Colwash has been somewhat stemmed by the arrest of a suspect. February 16 is the new date selected for the annual Talent show to be held at 7 p.m. at the Warm Springs Community Cen ter. So for those who got their act together for the December show (which was postponed), there is ample time to refine and polish. P roceeds from the event, which is open to anyone in the C entral Oregon a re a , will go toward the community Fourth of July celebration. Any type of Paglaing commented that it was his first time witnessing such an event. One inm ate recalled a pow-wow he went to in White Swan, Washington, he said that he had never seen anything like it. The Warm Springs.people who went to Salem include N athan Jim and his fam ily, Sammy and Millie Colwash, Perry and Verbena Greene, Ber nice Mitchell, Rodney Mitchell, and Wiggy Sooksoit. There were also people from other tribes. A contest to see who would be Princess of the Wanata Club was challenged to the girls who were in attendance. Locals Alice Jim and Annette Jim entered Second place will receive $40 and a trophy, th ird place wins $30 and a trophy, and fourth and fifth will g a rn e r $20 and $10 respectively. There will also be a Lions Club raffle featuring four draw ings for a quartered steer. Admission charges will be $2 for adults, $1.50 for students 12-18, and $1.00 for grade school age and younger. For further information or details contact Uren Leonard or Elton Greeley at 553-1161. Second Annual Employee Banquet The Confederated Tribes will be having their second Annual Awards banquet at Kah-Nee-Ta lodge February 3. The commemorative event will get underway at 6:30 with a no host cocktail hour and the m eal is a t 7:30. The M aster of Ceremonies for this year’s ban- Wanata Club Holds Row-Wow by Roger Stwyer A very seldom heard of club, the W anata Club, has been holding two socials (pow-wows) a year and nobody has known it. The Wanata Club is the In dian Club of the Oregon State Correctional Institute in Salem, Oregon. Bobby P a g la in g , Apache, is presently the chief of the club and he also h as a sub chief and medicine man. Wanata Club m eetings a re held bi weekly on Fridays. At a recent pow-wow at the Correctional Institute, a group of Warm Springs people travel ed over to participate and have religious ceremonies before the pow-wow got underw ay. Chief talent is welcome. Rehearsal time has been set for February 13 at 7:10 p.m., full dress rehearsal is February 15 at 7:10 p.m ., and the Talent Show itself will be at 7 p.m. on February 16 at the Community Center, Door prizes will be d istri buted between acts, and special features designed to delight the audience are being planned. For the first place winner the prize is $50 and a trophy. but a student from Salem reign ed as P rincess. According to activities supervisor, Wayne E atherly, first first nam e was C arla, but he didn’t catch the last name. Activities supervisor, Eath erly, her first name was Carla, but he didn’t catch the last name. Activities supervisor, Eath erly, stated that he would like to get the club members into mak ing costumes and dancing. The residents of vocational training in cooking prepared a huge cake for the guests in a totem pole shape. Eatherly esti mated the cake to be six feet by two feet. quet will be Mr. Cliff Y arnell. An added a ttra c tio n for this year’s occasion is there will be a guest (comedian) speaker which should brighten things up a bit. His nam e is Mr. Roy Craft, former editor of the Skamania County Pioneer who was also a publicity agent for Marilyn Mon roe. Craft has appeared at sev eral gatherings throughout the West Coast bringing sm iles to many faces. The Spilyay Tymoo staff had the opportunity to see Craft in action at the Northwest Indian news sem inar about a year ago in Spokane. In addition to the guest speaker there will be door prizes. There will be two, the big one being a weekend for two at some lodge in Washington or Oregon. These a re the lodges that work in conjunction with Kah-Nee-Ta in the form of an exchange basis. The other prize will be a dinner for two a t the lodge. T here will be several other door prizes draw n a t in tervals during the ceremonies. Guests of honor will include the tribal council members and their spouses, Dan Myles, Persh Andrews, Jim Cornett, and re tired Tribal employee’s. There will be a special table for these guests. The purpose of this banquet is for the Confederated Tribes to recognize th eir em ployees for their years of service and also to mention those who have just joined the T ribal em ploym ent rolls. It was stated by several la st y e a r th a t the reason they didn’t atten d the banquet was because they thought it was for those who had achieved Certain goals. But this is not so. This is for every Tribal employee, as the Confederated Tribes a re the “Host.” A spokesman said that there would be two drink tokens given to each trib a l employee which can be used any time during the evening. The m eal will be served buffet style with a v ariety of dishes of turkey, ham, meatloaf, etc. After the dinner and award ceremonies there will be a live band for your relaxation and dancing. All Tribal employees should be there.
