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SPILYAY TYMOO PAGE 8 JUNE 17,1983 Continued from page 1 Dance, little girl’s Round dance seven to eleven years of age and the little boy’s, age seven to 11 War Dance. Concluding the dance competition Friday will be the Men’s and Women’s individual contests. Five semi finalist will be chosen out of the men’s and women’s individual contests during each session. Activities starting as early as 8 a.m. Saturday, will include the Pi-Ume-Sha Treaty Days fun Run, Pi-Ume-Sha Rodeo, Fried Bread Golf tournament, Ladies and Men’s Slow Pitch Softball tournament, Tradi tional Indian Dress Parade and a stickgame tournament. Participants for the fourth annual dress parade will congregate and assemble at the Warm Springs Elementary at 8:30 p.m., with the parade starting at 10 a.m.. Traditional Indian Regalia will be worn and displayed during the parade. Categories include Men, Women, Boys and Girls walkers, mounted horses, drummer, floats, vans, pickups and floats with traditional Indian themes will be judged. Grand Marshal for the parade will be Herb Stwyer Sr., one of Warm Springs elders. Ribbons for first, second third places, as well as cash prizes, will be awarded in each category. Runners in the Fun Run should be lined up and ready to take off at the Community center at 8 a.m., Saturday, running either the 2.2 mile run o r th e 5.3 m ile ru n . Registration forms can be picked up at the Intertribal Sports Store or at the Realty office from Jerry Sampson, coordinator of the Fun Run. Any questions about the tun can be answered by Jerry. Registration deadline for the run is the day of the race. There is a $7.00 fee which includes a T-shirt and number. Prizes for the winners in the 5.3 mile run include a vinyl bag for the first place over-all runner with champion and the Pi-Ume-Sha logo displayed. The oldest and youngest runners will each receive a nylon bag, while first place finisher in each group will receive running shorts. The powwow entry begins at 1 p.m., Saturday for the afternoon session. During this session contests will include teen girl’s Round Dance, teen boy’s Fancy Dance, with two special contests, the “Kussa” Round Dance, 50 years and older and the “Old Warrior War Dance, 50 years and older. An open give-away will begin following the last contest of the afternoon. Also beginning at 1 p.m. will be the eighth annual stickgame tournament with $1,000 and championship satin jackets for the first place winners. Entry fees will be $75 and will cover a five-man team. Teams are expected from Nevada and Utah as well as all over the Northwest and Canada. For more information contact Liz Rhoan at 553-1224 or Adeline Miller at 553-1631. The S atu rd ay evening session will begin with grand entry at 7 p.m. and continue with the G irl’s Buckskin Graceful War Dance (16 years and under) Boy’s Straight Dance (16 years and under) and Women’s Team Round Dance. Ending the Saturday compe titions will be the Men’s Open Team Dance Competition. Grand entry Sunday will begin at 2 p.m. which will begin the finals of the Men’s Straight Dance, Women’s Individual Straight War Dance, Men’s F ancy W ar D ance and Women’s Fancy Shawl Dance. All these categories will be open to Men and Women aged 17 years and older. Special ceremonies will be held Friday morning before the Pi-Ume-Sha Treaty Days in honor of Ray Meanus who passed away in July of 1982. Meanus believed in the traditional way of life and his sister Beatrice Winishut will honor his traditional belief by conducting the ceremony. He also made all of his own outfits and participated in p o w w o w , w in n in g th e champioship Men’s Fancy War Dance during Pi-Ume-Sha last year. Europeans tour reservation by Marsha Shewczyk The diversity of American forests intrigued 99 Bavarian foresters to join a two week tour of Pacific Northwest forests. An overnight stay at Kah-Nee-Ta introduced them to the trees of this region along with giving them a taste ol native American culture. The foresters expressed an interested in American culture, particularly native American culture as they enjoyed baked salmon and Indian dancing. The main reason for their tour, however, was to learn more about America’s forests and American silva-culture. As in the United States, forests are valuable to Europeans both commercially and for recreation. Even though 33 percent of Bavarian land is covered with forests and 29 percent of Germany is forested, only five species of trees exist naturally. They are Norway spruce, white oak, silver fir, scotch pine and beech. With over 100 species of trees growing naturally in the United States Europeans show great interest in their growth, management and possible adaptation in Europe. Douglas Fir has been transplanted to those countries, adapting well. Ten percent of land in G erm any will soon be growing Douglas Fir. Americans visiting Europe prior to this visit by Bavarian foresters learned much from their tour. Europeans, they found, have a great concern p p u y u y a y m u u p ip n u u y a n o p rczy * with safety, called Ergonomics, says U.S. forest service deputy European foresters visiting Kah-Nee-Ta found native American chief Bob Buckman. He culture o f great interest. M any were busy with cameras taking emphasized, “We’ve borrowed photos o f salmon being prepared and Indian dancers. heavily from the Europeans”in the area of safety, especially in infestations have been brought redwood forests of California. work with chain saws. All species of trees are of Americans visiting Europe over from Europe. Exchanges interest including the stands of of this nature enable foresters observed techniques of steep juniper found in this area. The include logging. They also to work on ridding the forests ju n ip e r added a special picked up pointers on reducing of such problems. The tour, which began in background to the native the conflict between logging American culture enjoyed by practices and recreational use. Vancouver, British Columbia, the foresters at Kah-Nee-Ta as will continue south through the Some disease and insect they visit America, Heath named new personnel assistant department that Heath would like to see incorporated is employee interviews. “Once the With the retirement of department catches up, we assistant personnel director would like to conduct all Mark Massey last month came interviews (of prospective the promotion of Benson employees). We could ease “ B ennv” H eath to th at other department’s work loads position. Heath had worked by doing these interviews. since 1977 as assistant CETA Right now, we’re not equipped director. to handle that. But in most As a ssista n t personnel corporations, the personnel d irecto r, H eath will be department does the hiring.” responsible for hiring all non- By doing this, says Heath, the salaried personnel at WSPFI tribal personnel department and reviewing employment could “get in line” with other paperwork. “About 15 percent corporations nation-wide. of my time is spent on WSFPI If time and money allows, employment. The rest of my especially time, the personnel time is spent in reviewing manual will be worked on. p e r s o n n e l a c tio n s an d “ Some sections may need employee advice forms,” says revision, updating and possibly Heath. deletion,” says Heath. Heath says that he hopes to The 36-year old tribal improve the operations of the member stated that there will personnel department and to not be much change in increase the departm ent’s WSFPI hiring. The most function. “One of the key areas important change, effective we’re looking into is the impact immediately, is that only tribal of the personnel manual and members will be hired for what is was originally intended operations at the mill based on to do. Many departments are the date of their application. abusing the manual and getting Another stipulation, according a ro u n d the e sta b lis h e d to a memo released June 7 is policies.” One example he gave Assistant personnal manager-Benson Heath th a t “ afte r seven trib al was job evaluations. Many members have been hired a s u p e r v is o r s g iv e t h e i r evaluating their job descrip- increases, Another function of the person who is married to a em ployees raises by re tions rather than through merit by Donna Behrend tribal member will be hired, based on the d ate of application. After another seven tribal members have been hired, the next one hired will be a person who is married to a tribal member.” Heath stated there are 329 non-salariéd employees at the mill. Of those, 103 are tribal members, 16 are married into the tribe, 11 are Indians of another affiliation and 199 are non-Indians. Tribal member employment represents a total of 31 percent of the work force at the mill. Heath says he has gotten a “lot of feedback” because he is the first tribal member in the assistant personnel manager’s position. “I know more people on a more personnel basis,” says Heath. “This makes them more accessible to some degree.” While he is not working, Heath enjoys golf, hunting, fishing, bowling and working with cattle. He is involved with Longhouse activities and serves as the reservation whipman, a position he shared jointly with Andrew David until David’s retirement last year from Longhouse activities.
