SPILYAY TYMOO
PAGE 8 JUNE 17,1983
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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.