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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1984)
O* Page 2 July 2 0 ,1 9 8 4 Spilyay Tymoo Indian journalists gather at Penn State SpU yty Tymoo p hoto by Behreiut Indian journalists from the United States and Canada gathered at Penn State University in June to discuss formulating the Native American,Press Association. (NAPA). by Donna Behrend Communicating to non- Indians accurate and factual information about the Indian community surfaced as one of the most important aspects of Indian jo u rnalism at the o rganizational m eeting of N a tiv e A m e ric a n P re ss A ssociation (N A PA ). The three-day meeting, co-funded participants. And there’s a by the Gannett Foundation definite lack of knowledge and Penn State University, about Indians. “Either the was held at Penn State in State Indian is romanticized as the College, Pennsylvania and was nobel red man or he is made attended by approximately 30 out to be a howling savage,” e d i t o r s , r e p o r t e r s a n d said Tim Giago, publisher of publishers from throughout the Lakota Times of Martin, the United States and Canada. South Dakota. “We want Indians have been stereo people to understand that we typed, said many of the can live in houses, drive cars, love our families, like everyone else.” The importance of Indian m edia o u tle ts; especially n e w s p a p e r s , c a n n o t be overstated. A paper can influence congressional actions in Washington, D.C. and can also influence towns bordering reservations, change tribal thinking and policies. One conference attendee stated that newspapers should “stay away from the negative things and feature the positive. We should pick up on the achievers— establish role models for young people.” Not only could NAPA improve Indian/non-Indian communications, but NAPA could also provide an Indian news service, educational services and mutual support. An ultimate goal of NAPA is to establish a network news system, possibly a wire service, to disseminate information on various tribes throughout the United States and Canada and at the same time maintain high professional standards. Participants were asked to define the purpose of NAPA. Three large blackboards were filled with recommendations ranging from serving as a “watchdog” group^ presenting a w a rd s a n d re c o g n iz in g achievements, establish a data bank of information, defining legal rights and responsibilities and identify and clarify native- related issues. All recommen dations will be catagorized so that a constitution and by laws, code of ethics, business lan and plan of operation can e formulated. The question of Canadian m em bership arose. Some p a r t i c i p a n t s f e lt t h a t Canadians should be allowed membership, but that the membership be held at the associate level for fear that federal funding would be jeopardized if Canadians were allowed an active, voting membership. A 13-m em ber steering committee was formulated at the first-annual meeting. The committee’s duties will be to “think together” and make NAPA “happen.” They Will meet in August in Tuskahoma, O klahom a to colate the recommendations. The idea of a nation-wide n a tiv e A m e ric a n p re ss association is not new—there h a v e b e e n o th e r such, organizations. However, with more and more electronic media available to people, a n e w -fo u n d a s s o c ia tio n specifically for the native American press will be very useful, if not essential. Resort offering rafting Huckleberry Feast Sunday, August 5 He He Longhouse Noon Time Picnic planned The Warm Springs chapter of Serenity Lane alumni is hosting a picnic for alumni and their families. The picnic will be held at Dry Creek Camp ground on Sunday, July 29, beginning at noon. Eugene alum ni will be spending the weekend at Kah- Nee-Ta and all local alumni are invited and encouraged to attend. S p ily a y T ym oo * * * * * * * e Spilyay Tymoo S ta ff* Kah-Nee-Ta resort is now offering Deschutes River rafting to their guests. * * * * * * * M ANA G ING EDITOR ........ ......................Sid Miller ASSISTANT EDITOR ....................................Donne Behrend Dark'room/Writer Reporter Typesetter Marsha Shewczyk pat Leno Priscilla Squiemphen FO U N D E D IN M A RC H O F 1976 Published bi-weekly by the Confederated 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 by Donna Behrend Rafting—it’s a way for some to relax. For others, it’s an exhilerating and exciting challenge. For Kah-Nee-Ta, it’s a way, hopefully, to attract more people to the resort and to enhance business as well as offer resort guests something special and different to do. In October of last year. Tribal Council and the Kah— Nee-Ta Board of Directors approved to allow Hunter Expeditions of Bend to be the concessionaire providing raft trips for guests of Kah-Nee-Ta. Through the Couftcil and Board action, the old Hiram Smith residence can be used to put in, as well as Dry Creek C am p g ro u n d . They also approved the takeout point as being at Moody’S, which the Tribe purchased in 1981. The rafting trips can be run seven days a week, but guests take advantage of the trips mostly on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. The mini expeditions run from Dry Creek Campground to the ta k e o u t p o in t ju s t past Moody’s, on tribal land. The trip takes about three hours and costs $20 for adults and $15 for children 12 and under. The half-day "trip, which runs from the Maupin City park to the sandy' beach five miles downstream, takes about four to fo ur-and-one-half hours and costs $46 per person, including lunch. There is also an all-day trip that runs from th re e m iles above Maupin down to the sandy beach five m iles below Maupin. Cost for the all-day trip is $54 per person. Brad Hunter, owner of Hunter Expedition, says that business has been fairly busy this season. However, it could be better, “It’s always slow the first year,” says Hunter. When Hunter first started the raft trips, there was some confusion on the part of the W a rm S p r i n g s P o lic e Department if Hunter had authorization to takeout on tribal lands. “There was some m isc o m m u n ic a tio n ,” says Hunter. But once everything was straightend. out, things have run sm oothly. “ We haven’t had any trouble,” says Hunter. “Tribal members have been very cordial.”
