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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (June 17, 1983)
PAG^E 2 JUNE 17,1983 ' ; //]j SPILYÀY TYMOO Tickets, tickets and more tickets... . Four girls selected for queen candidates Lena Ike Rowena Begay The annual Pi-Ume-Sha T r e a ty D a y s P ow w ow committee has chosen four local young ladies to serve on the Pi-Ume-Sha court. The four selected to seek the queen’s title are Rowena Begay, Lena Ike, Lillie Van Pelt and Dorothy Yahtin. The queen and three princesses will reign during the three-day celebra tion. Rowena Begay, age 17, is the daughter of Tom and Fern Begay of Simnasho. She is a graduating senior of Madras High School this year. She has been active in high school Indian Club serving as the treasurer and a member of the Future Business Leaders of America. Rowena enjoys reading, dancing and traveling to th e m any d if f e r e n t powwows, making friends during her travels. She is an enrolled m em ber of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and of Warm Springs and Navajo descent. She plans to attend Mt. Hood Commu nity College this fall and major in the field of business. Rowena is granddaughter of the late S p ily a y T y m o o 1 ilk — * * * * * * * A * Spilyay Tymoo S ta ff* * * * * * * * MANAGING EDITOR ................................... . . . . Sid Miller ASSISTANT EDITOR ..................... .......... Donna Behrend Darkroom/Writer Reporter Typesetter Marsha Shewczyk Pat Leno Priscilla Squiemphen FOUNDED IN MARCH OF 1976 Published bi-weekly by the jnfederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon. Warm Springs, Oregon 97761. Located in the Old Administration Building. Any written material to Spilyay Tymoo should be addressed to: Spilyay Tymoo P.O. Box 735 Warm Springs, Oregon 97761 Phone 553-1644 or 553-1161, Ext. 274, 285 and The Darkroom ext. 286 Subscription Rate: $6.00 per year Lillie VanPelt Hartman and Edith Queah- pama of Simnasho and the late John and Ruth Begay of Shiprock, New Mexico. Lena Kim Ike. whose Indian name is Bi-yow-nish, is the daughter of Daisy Mae Ike of Warm Springs and Fred Ike, Sr. of Yakima, Washington. Theh 18-year-old Lena is attending Chemawa All-Indian school Salem, Oregon where she will be a senior next fall. She is a “B” average student and active in the school’s varsity cheerleader squad, a volleyball player, assistant manager for the student snack bar, Jr. class treasu rer, assistant kayaking teacher for 1982, dorm president, Indian Club and powwow committee member. She lists as her hobbies and special interests: beading; cooking; powwow tr a v e lin g an d d a n c in g ; attending concerts and movies; and shopping for clothes. Lena is of Warm Springs, Wasco and Rock Creek descent. She expressed thanks for those people who have purchased tickets from her, for each sale will help to make the Pi-Ume- Sha powwow a success. Lillie VanPelt, age 18, of the “Class of 83” at Madras High School is the daughter of Eliza Brown and the late Chester Van Pelt, Sr.. Being a part of the Pi-Ume-Sha court will give Lillie a chance to meet people and represent her tribe-.. .-She expressed that she has had a great interest in Indian dancing but due to deaths in her family has not always been able to participate. She has received a great deal of encouragement from her grandmother Lizzie Rhoan and feels this may be a new start for her. Lillie was active in the high school Indian Club as secretary and a representative for the Title IV education committee. She enjoys beadwork and sketching as hobbies. She is. the granddaughter of the late Tom and Sadie Brown of Simnasho, Oregon and the late Dorothy George and Levi Van Pelt of Umatilla, Oregon. Dorothy Yahtin, age 16, of Warm Springs is the daughter of Chesley and Ameila Yahtin and the granddaughter of Wilfred Yallup of Yakima, Washington and Hazel Tewee of Warm Springs. She attends Madras High School and is a so p h o m o re . D o ro th y is presently active in the high school Indian Club. She has Resort robbed A Kah-Nee-Ta employee reported to the Warm Springs P o lic e D e p a rtm e n t last Saturday morning that an unidentified person holding a gun robbed the Kah-Nee-Ta village entrance gate of $200. Night auditor Dave Pischke called the police department at 12:10 a.m. reporting the robbery. The dispatcher in turn contacted special agency officer Jerome Main who, along with tribal officers responded to the call and conducted a thorough search of the area. The search turned up nothing. Pischke could not give a description of the armed robber nor the type of car in held the Miss Celilo Wy-am for 1979-80 and 1982-83. She is currently the 1983 Jr. Miss W a rm S pFi ng s i ♦p r i n cess. Dorothy enjoys meeting new people, . traveling -to different powwows and making friends. This summer shp hopes to attend .powwows , in - Utah, A riz o n a ,. New M ex ico , Colora.ilo, South, Dakota -and Idaho. ■’ The young ladies will be in the community selling tickets for raffles which will be held d u rin g the P i-U m e-S ha celebration. This • year,- the powwow will feature the 14th annual individual and team c h a m p io n s h ip d a n c e s. A traditional dress parade will be held on Saturday, June 25 at 10 a.m. Indian stick games will start on Friday,June 24. A stick game tournament will be held at the Pi-Ume-Sha grounds. A ladies and men’s slow pitch softball tournament sponsored by the Inter-Tribal Sports Shop will be held during the weekend of the powwow. Two runs, a six-and-one-half and a two-point-two, will also be held on S a tu r d a y , J u n e 25 beginning at 8 a.m. $200 which he was traveling. Pischke said he was instructed not to turn around, but to just hand over the money. The only thing he saw, according to Main, was the barrel of a gun, which is thought to be a small- caliber pistol. The incident is still under investigation.
